Where do I start with Halo? I hooked my Xbox 360 back up but I’ve always ignored these games. No MCC unfortunately...

>play non-important spin-off shit

>play an RTS
>a console RTS

ODST is short, Reach is good.

Normal is the canon difficulty though.

Both are shit, spic.

>ODST
>shit

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i bought odst last year, only played it a few times at a friends house.

I played the campaign with score attack on, and it was a great time. New Mombasa was an interesting, moody, and dangerous world. The art direction was superb, and on legedary the game was a meaningful challenge.

would recommend, also got reach and the multiplayer is still active and fun.

>ODST/Reach shit

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Reach is a shadow of Fall of Reach.
But at least Elites are enemies again. Enemy AI is pretty good. Some good moments. Mostly pointless wank that never gets talked about again. This whole " latchkey" bullshit that Halsey was talking about, for example.
The contrivancy of the first level in which Covenant just casually land troops on some farm and no one really seems to make a big deal of it despite it being the beginning of doomsday.

ODST
I only just played this for the first time last year.
It's okay. But it's also extremely forgettable. Gets a bit tiring using the VISR pretty much 24/7.
>But you can just turn it off
Yeah, but it makes shit too hard to see otherwise.

Both games are not shit.
But both games are about a 6-7/10.

lol no it says ingame that heroic is the way it's meant to be played

they're actually pretty good, don't kid yurself
so much better than 4 and 5. FUCK 4 and 5.

The only good Halo game is Combat Evolved.

I find it almost painful to try and go back and play halo 3 on the original Xbox 360. Thing runs at sub 25 during high intensity battles. Better off waiting 2 years until MCC is fully released on pc

does halo 2 anniversary's campaign have crap designs like the first game's anniversary

Shut your spic asses up.

>>play an RTS
>>a console RTS
He's already playing a console FPS.

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>meant to be played
Gameplay, Heroic doesn't fit with the dialog or cutscenes, Normal does.

Go to bed, Pablo

Halo is good though.

If you say so.

Which Halo game had the best plasma effects?

I've always thought the first. There are large burn/scorch marks left behind from plasma shots that hit walls and such. If a charged pistol blast hits something, they almost seem to burn for a couple seconds.

Starting from Halo 2, plasma effects seem more electrical in nature. I always was a bit disappointed with that. Especially after reading the books while waiting for Halo 2 to come out which pointed out that even missed plasma shots were enough to burn the scald the skin.

The first one because it slowed enemies.

Really? Didn't notice that. Enemies hit with plasma weapons would slow down?

I hated odst HOWEVER. I'll be damned if it wasn't Marty's greatest soundtrack. And one of the best goddamn soundtracks of the whole industry.

youtube.com/watch?v=yWh9l8RSkPk

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It's been a long time since I've played campaign, but it happened in multiplayer. It's what made those two weapons so good, you could stun people and it would slow their movement and camera so you could circle strafe around them.

Oh. I never did the multiplayer thing. Wouldn't know.

Agreed, I also hated ODST but god damn! That man can compose his ass off.

Why did Marty get fired by 343?
I mean...if I wanted to sell the idea that my Halo fanfiction games were viable for old fans, the first thing I'd do is hang on to my music god who helped make Halo so fucking memorable in the first place.

Halo 4 main menu music still annoys me to this day.

>fired by 343
Are you retarded?

He was fired by Bungie, and we don't know why (rumored to be political reasons, but there is no way to know).

You got some misinformation there. Marty worked for Bungie. The original developers. Bungie moved on to make Destiny. He got fired because he was unhappy with Activision (their producers at the time) breaking established rules within the contract that only Destiny music could be used in trailers.

343 took over halo when Bungie left Microsoft and Halo behind.

Whomever at Bungie decided to make the deal with Activision to begin with should be fired. That should be obvious at this point. Fucking up Bungie's brand this much would be grounds enough to fire anyone involved.

Thank you for correcting me. I thought he stayed on the Halo project when 343 took over and then was axed.
I completely forgot Destiny existed. Never played it and never will.

If he worked for 343, I doubt they'll ever ax him, he isn't Brian Reed.

Play up until Reach. Don’t bother with 343 games.

>playing Bungie shit past Halo 3
Why should he play games that are inconsistent with the first three?

except ODST is actually really good. Finish 1-3, play ODST and don't bother with anything else.

Why do spics and lorefags always ruin Halo threads?

Play the original trilogy (if you can't get xbox CE get the anniversary, it's your call if you want the old graphics, I think they look nice). Then play ODST followed by reach. I'd suggest you stop playing after reach because 4 is trash, but if you really want to you can. Halo wars if you like strategy games but it's not necessary for the story unless you go full retard and read all the books for the lore.

ODST fucking sucked and was a lazy ass boring game. If I'm playing an alien, a human, a Spartan III, or Spartan IV, I shouldn't feel like I'm still playing the fucking Master Chief.

This but stop at ODST.

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>Then play ODST followed by reach
Literally, why, they're not important, you can literally skip them and nothing of value would be lost.

Eat a taco, moron.

Yeah they're side stories but the gameplay was good. Though some people just aren't good enough to handle ODST without the spartan perks

it was cool to be in a human city as a human. sure it still feels a lot like an underpowered chief, but all the stuff with the engineer was cool. it was like halo meets metroid. not perfectly executed, but very much worth playing.

reach OTOH, was lazy and boring.

Start with Halo Combat Evolved, the original xbox version (not the 343 Anniversary edition). Then Halo 2, then Halo 3.
Halo 3: ODST, and Halo Reach are optional. Halo 4 and 5 are not recommended.
Halo 1-3 tell a complete story, starting with The Pillar of Autumn, a human battleship in the far future, crashing into a Halo ring, a mysterious ring world. You play as a super soldier and explore the Halo ring. Halo 2 continues the story, following after your escape from the Halo ring and return to Earth. 2 is a much more ambitious story, starting off with an alien invasion of Earth, and ending with a metaphorical "loaded gun aimed at the head of the universe". Halo 3 is my personal favorite campaign, cryptic, and apocalyptic. Ends the series with a bang.

Halo 4 is supposed to be a direct sequel to 3, but is vastly inferior, being made by the new studio. 5 is bad as well.
Halo Reach is a prequel to the original Halo. It's a good game, but it's kind of depressing and lacks the magic of the trilogy.

Halo 3: ODST is a side story that takes place between 2 and 3, and tells the story of a specialized soldier stranded in a post-nuclear fallout city. It features an open world design and has a likeable cast.

Halo Wars is a spinoff RTS game that's unnecessary to play, but is a fun little campaign.

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destiny 2 looks to be heading in a good direction, more mmo focused since they cut ties.
If they deliver on these promises however remains to be seen.

The strong points of the original 3 Halo games is the soundtracks and the visual designs. The gameplay is tight and challenging, but tuned for consoles. Because of this, Halo has a reputation for being a causal game.
Heroic difficulty is the recommended difficulty level for beginners. Play normal if you want a casual playthrough, and Legendary if you want to really challenge yourself.
The Halo trilogy games have all reviewed extremely well, but I think they're actually underrated for their artistry. The visual design, in all the games but especially in Halo 3, is haunting and original. There are things about Halo that truly feel "alien" and that's got to be the series greatest strength to me. It perfectly captures this fantasy of being an astronaut soldier exploring alien worlds, that every kid has in the back of their mind.

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Never ever play Halo 2 on Legendary.
It's just not worth it.
Halo 1 and 3 feel pretty good on Legendary though. Challenging without being stupid.

For a generally good experience on first time though, I agree with Heroic.

>spics telling anyone to eat a taco

There gameplay was terrible, both games were just gimped Halo thus the game played like shit in the process. Also, for Bungie to hate their lore so much they really enjoyed stealing shit from the books and calling it their own.

You didn't even feel like a human, if I were to remake ODST you would play just like a human where you die from one to two shots or hits, all enemies would have melee and the whole point of the game would be STEALTH. There would be no flashbacks, just you trying to find your team and get out the city, I also wouldn' t waste my time pushing the story, gameplay and world design would be important. ODST as it is, is a boring, lazy, and safe game.

Should ODST have been more like Splinter Cell with a Halo skin?

>not playing on Normal
>the canon difficulty

Yeah, it should of. That could have been interesting, Arbiter could have also been a spin-off but you actually feel like an alien instead of Chief with an alien skin.

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Halo is beautiful.

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>H2A
>not H2

>being this much of a scrub

Sorry, got these off of /wg/. I prefer the artstyles of the originals.

Heroic tends to be cheap sometimes especially in Halo 2, Normal seems to feel right.

He was let go for not doing music on destiny for almost a year.

Why is there always a guy angry about mexicans in threads about early xbox 360 games

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spics really love ODST and Reach for some reason.

>Halo: Arbiter's Asylum really makes you FEEL like an alien

That's one of the reason why he was hated, if you're going to make me play as an alien he should feel like one, if he's just Master Chief with different skin, why didn't you just make it a Chief level. That's laziness at its finest, not fighting any humans was also very stupid. I can tell you have no good ideas for game design and probly defend 343 giving use a busted product in 2014.

*probably

Have sex, autistic incel

because they apparently have better taste than burgers, odst and reach are based

Go back

Sure your kind does, Paco.

I wasn't actually mocking you, man. Your phrasing just reminded me of the Batman meme.
I totally agree that they dropped the ball there. I'd go as far as suggesting that it was an afterthought as they probably already wanted Spartans v Elites in multiplayer and thought they may as well make a campaign too.

Put a fucking trip on already you faggot.

Here's what you do:
>Halo Wars
>Halo: Reach
>Halo CE (marketplace or original disc, fuck CEA)
>Halo 2 up until Regret jumps
>Watch Halo ODST opening cutscene
>Finish Halo 2
>Halo ODST
>Halo 3
ignore the rest

Don't actually do this. I mean do this if you ignore quality and are a lorefag.
1-3 are all you need.

If you ignored quality you would drop CE once you hit the Library and never play Halo 2 on legendary.

Wrong. There’s just one angry retard called Chief fag in Halo threads that hates ODST and Reach and recently he just says “REEEEE SPICS” because he has no arguments.

cull yourself zoomie

You know what, you may be right, Elites should have only been playable in mp.

I could go in great detail on why Bungie's ad 343's other characters decisions failed if you want, they tried to be ambitious but they 1. can't make the game play like you're not Chief and 2. make a game without sidelining Chief in his own.

I do just read my comment above this one.

Just play by release order and stop after the Bungie era. Reach has a shit story, but it's at least fun towards the end.

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Op is apparently playing Halo for the first time, and for the first time, 1-3 is all you need.
If he likes it and wants to be an autistic lore-fag, he can play in chronological order, starting with Halo Wars, but wars is a completely different game style than the main series and is frankly kind of shit in the story department. Halo: Reach is a quality game, some of the best dialogue, but creates plot-holes with Combat Evolved. If I was new, and I was playing 1, and went to 2, I wouldn't want to take a detour into ODST, I'd want to continue the story.
There's just no reason to go chronological order. Wars' writing is as bad as or worse than 4's, Reach is so different from the mainline trilogy, and was kind of meant to be a eulogy for the Halo franchise (see: the entire theme of the game), and ODST is a moody film noir detour that would totally break the flow of the Chief story.

I haven't played Halo 5 and have no intention to in the near future.

Having said that, I have no idea why they thought it'd be a good idea to replace Chief with a literal who (Locke) for more than half the game..

At least in Halo 2, Arbiter served a purpose which was to show the audience what life on the Covenant side was like. Especially important because otherwise we wouldn't see anything about the Prophet's POV if it was just a chief game.

In Halo 5, Locke's team served zero purpose. At best, ONI could have taken a bigger role and Locke's team could have been working directly for them. We'd see the more clandestine side of the UNSC.

But nah. Locke just has a team of power rangers.

Fuck me, even Blue team was worthless from what I've seen. Bookfags get excited because Fred, Linda and Kelly are finally acknowledged in the games but they're made into boring two-dimensional characters who barely talk more than John himself.

Bravo 343. Your team AI is actually worse than it was more than a decade ago in Clone Commando.

>Clone Commando
I meant Republic Commando

cull yourself, if you never experienced the online multiplayer of halo 2 in it's prime you don't deserve to breathe the air we breathe

Why is Yea Forums so angry? Not enough sex?

Bungie could have did a better job of showing the Covenant taking away the player experience by making us play someone with a face and personality defeats the whole purpose they were trying to create with it being the player experience, Metroid Prime and Doom 2016 did a better job expanding on the enemies without ruining them. Locke was just plain stupid and retarded, putting Reed on Halo 5 was the biggest mistake 343 made. Blue Team should have stayed in the books.

neck yourself. Some people don't give a fuck about multiplayer outside of local co-op.

whats the one thing reach did right?
For me, its the grenade launcher

That and armor customization even though the armor sucked compared to Halo 3.

Play 1, 2, 3 and then Reach in that order and then watch the optional Halo anime after 3
DO NOT touch 4 or 5

But anime is 343 Halo, so he might as well play Halo 4 ad 5 and just skip Recah, Rech isn't really important.

cull yourself, your brain isn't equipped to derive joy out of these things
some people are ultimate cucks like you with no competitive drive

>cull yourself, your brain isn't equipped to derive joy out of these things
Oh no, I've played Halo multiplayer since it first came out, I just think you need to have sex.

or dilate

faggot op didn't play the biggest multiplayer game in its prime and now he wants to go back

it's too fucking late the game isn't for you, go back to your anime weeb shit

Start with Halo 1.

Then play Halo 2.

Then play Halo 3.

Then stop because everything else is either superfluous or garbage.

Spics love Halo in general because the 360 games have a god tier dub and are the best games to play split screen with friends. Halo and Xbox is Mexican.

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1. Awful lot of assumptions there bud.
2. Halo's campaign is worth going back to for its own sake.
3. Go back to 2009 and chug doritos

We Americans love Halo, in general, just not ODST and Reach, only third worlders hate Halo.

Halo CE > Halo 2 > Halo 3 > Halo 4 > Halo 5G > Halo Infinite in that order.

I don't see any possibility that Infinite will be good outside of visuals. I just can't be optimistic about the franchise since 343 took over. It's like Disney Wars

4 and 5 were horrible. It looks like they're attempting to retcon those games potentially so yeah, it's time for The Force Awakens to come in and attempt to revive the target market.

>people telling each other to kill themselves depending on whether or not they liked odst and reach
>also if you like halo you're a spic, though especially if you like odst and reach, if that makes any sense
I know this boards always been shit but holy fuck the autism is strong in this thread. Why can't you retards just let people enjoy things? Why does it bother you so much that other people like things that you were incapable of enjoying
>b-but it's a shit game because of my mental gymnastics!
Yeah, but if people in this thread clearly enjoyed it then maybe you just have shit taste. Grow the fuck up.

It seems to be just one guy calling people spics. Must've gotten assblasted by mexicans too many times on the online lmao

>legendary is so bullshit some times
>lower difficulty to heroic
>game feels far too easy now that I'm not instantly dying after every little mistake
Only blood will pay for this.

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The fact that it's a Master Chief game, no squads, back on a Halo ring, open-ended levels, campaign is all it really needs to be good again ad it's already doing a better job than Halo 2, 4, and 5 at that, having all the rest of that shit it just a bonus. Only third worlders like didn't like Halo 4's campaign most in the US love Halo CE and 3's campaigns and like Halo 4's campaign, Halo 2 and 5 are disliked, ODST and Reach are regarded as the worst campaigns with people having to argue which game has the worst and weakest campaigns between Halo 2, ODST, Reach, and Halo 5, here, so you bitching about it not being a studio that died after 2007 isn't going to chge the fact that Infinite is going to be 343's best Halo game for the first time in their lives since they're actually listening to us CE and 3 guys for once over the other retards.

Master Chief's bones have titanium in them and he has an advanced neural interface, is Master Chief a cyborg?

Maybe people shouldn't bring up ODST and Reach in Halo threads, Halo threads are a lot better when those games don't enter the thread. They're like ACfag bringing up Other M in a Metroid thread, no one wants to hear about them, no one wants to talk about them. I can guarantee you threads would be 90% better without ODST and Reach and the constant 343 hate because their not Bungie.

The actual order is

>Halo wars
>Halo reach
>Halo CE
>Halo 2 first 3 missions till the metropolis ending
>Halo 3 odst entirely
>Halo 2 till the end
>Halo 3
>Halo 4
>Halo 5
>Halo wars 2 (Halo wars 2 saved the Halo campaigns for the future after Halo 5 fucked it up. They got connected at the ending)

>Halo wars 2
windowscentral.com/halo-wars-2-support-has-ended-says-microsoft
I'm sorry user, but no one cares about the Halo Wars series.

I wish H2A's cutscenes were ingame.

It had more support than Halo wars 1 and even some leagues. A console rts game. So I don't see the problem it lasted quite long and the game did what it had to do Story wise

Agreed. Marty released a video of the making of ODST's music on his YT channel recently. youtube.com/watch?v=SJ_ay8y6GpA
>mfw

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>A game that hasn't been released yet will be better than these games that have been released.
Mate, don't do that to yourself. It doesn't exist yet. You haven't seen ANY gameplay at all. Not even fake E3 gameplay yet.
Infinite may or may not be better than Halo 5 or 4. But that's already setting a low bar.
You've honestly got more hope waiting for Avenger 6: Avengers vs Kang

It will on the count of it being a Master Chief only game and will have open-ended levels focused on gameplay putting above Halo 2, 4, and 5 out the gate.

>Halo 3 ODST in entirety
That's not true, Johnson shows up at the end of ODST after flying back to Earth with the Arbiter.

You can't say that, mate.
It's way too early to tell.

>Next game will be good because it looks like the first few good games

That's what you're saying
You're literally supporting The Force Awakens because the Millennium Falcon was in the trailer.

probably Pete Parsons or Jason Jones. Dunno how could Jones betray Marty that bad.

>The gameplay is tight and challenging, but tuned for consoles. Because of this, Halo has a reputation for being a causal game.
Grandpa Ogre 2 disagrees youtube.com/watch?v=finEheQGPTU

Pretty sure he means campaign.

>4 over 5

It's so obvious you retards haven't actually played Halo 5.

Fucking 3babies I swear.

Firstly, ODST is outright great. Same core mechanics as 3, outright best soundtrack and sense of atmosphere in the series, one of the better cast of characters/writing in the series, and with consistently decent to great campaign missions without any truly bad ones. Reach is similarly good as well: It's a bit sterile at times and has it's flaws: it's got awful MP maps and armor abilities break even starts, but the campaign is about as solid as ODST's without quite as strong a sense of atmopshere or NOBLE being as well written as the Squad, and it's got a metric shitload of content and options for MP.

4 and 5 are obviously more flawed products, but and pretending don't exist isn't going to change that If OP wants to plauy the series, then they should play 4 and 5 even if only to see what they fucked up and even they have some good elements: 4's got a really nice sense of atmosphere, similar to what CE was going for but arguably executed even better, for instance, while 5 actually has some of the tightest and most responsive movement, aiming, and shooting in the series, some of the best weapon balance, and good MP even if the campaign is even worse then 4's/

5's got an even worse campaign then 4, but much, much better MP, and without question the best forge in the series.
But then the MP is also only online with no local splitscreen, so even if the MP is good it's not worth buying for the MP since whenever xbone servers go down you won't be able to play it.

Visually? Reach, easily.

CE-2 it didn't actually look that bright. 3 had it actually look like a glowing, emmisive material, and then Reach added a lot more visual effects with more sparks, longer lasting clouds from explosions, etc. 4 an 5 are a huge step back from reach in terms of particles, explosions, etc.

>5's got an even worse campaign then 4, but much, much better MP, and without question the best forge in the series.

I can't argue on that front, sorry. I'm one of those fags from above who doesn't give a solitary fuck about multiplayer.
Although the mode in 5 with NPC AI did intrigue me a little bit.

I don't necessarily agree with your opinion on ODST. I think Republic Commando did everything that ODST did, but better.

only play halo 1 and 2. none of the others are good.

Play all 3 to finish the story. And then put Halo behind you. It's all downhill from 4 onward.

>Although the mode in 5 with NPC AI did intrigue me a little bit.

Not sure what you mean here exactly; but yes, the idle NPC dialog in campaign is one of the few good parts of it's single player

youtu.be/IxrO0oUa714?t=59

5 overall is an improvement over 4.

He meant Warzone.

>He meant Warzone

Oh.

Warzone is fun and it actually manages to largerly avoid being P2W despite having a microtransaction element, but the fact they focused on it to the point where there were no native, non-forge big team battle maps in the game was dissapointing, as is the fact warzone isn't forgable/usable for customs.

I'd like to see warzone brought back as a custom game/forgable mode in infinite, and be able to edit the gamtype to be more in line with say firefight via disabling the enemy team and just having it be you vs enemy waves; or make it more in line with invasion like in reach by doing the opposite, etc

If you just want to play the campaigns on Xbox 360, then you have

Halo: Combat Evolved (original Xbox)
Halo 2 (original Xbox)
Halo 3
Halo Wars
Halo 3: ODST
Halo: Reach
Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
Halo 4
Halo: Spartan Assault

Play in order of release like outlined above. If you play Halo CE and 2, and by the end of Halo 2 you figure you don't like the campaigns, then don't bother with the rest of the series.

I would recommend seeking out the original Xbox version of Combat Evolved over the Anniversary version, since the original graphics in CE Anniversary are based on the PC port which had a few messed up graphical effects, lacking particular shaders (shields for the jackals), broken fog, atmosphere effects, etc).

The Xbox 360 had some trouble emulating Halo 2. I remember there were some weird screen burnish/ghost images that would stay on screen in-game after playing campaign for a while but turning the Xbox off and back on again would get rid of it.

Of all the Bungie games, 3 and Reach have the worst campaigns. Halo 5 is definitely the worst campaign but does some other things well.

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>I would recommend seeking out the original Xbox version of Combat Evolved over the Anniversary version, since the original graphics in CE Anniversary are based on the PC port which had a few messed up graphical effects, lacking particular shaders (shields for the jackals), broken fog, atmosphere effects, etc).

Pic related. Left is original graphics in CE Anniversary. Right is the original Xbox version.

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