I wanted to go for Halo 3 since it was a blast to play in all modes, but I really digged ODST and firefight mode thanks to the inclusion of half the Firefly cast (Nathan <3) but Reach is offering me so much, I will be playing this game for so freaking long. So D it is!
With the exception of Halo Wars (console rts, bleh) I like all of them tho, good games in their own right!
Ultimately I had to opt for Halo 2 for the vast amount of fun I had with its multiplayer, back in the days before I had Live and would have sytem link parties at my house the vast majority of which we spent on Halo 2 with spatterings of other games to break it up, but always back to Bungie in the end, at least until one dude (it was always the same guy) unbalanced the teams by deciding he really wanted to go outside and play football, fucking douche.
" I wanted to go for Halo 3 since it was a blast to play in all modes, but I really digged ODST and firefight mode thanks to the inclusion of half the Firefly cast (Nathan <3) but Reach is offering me so much, I will be playing this game for so freaking long. So D it is! With the exception of Halo Wars (console rts, bleh) I like all of them tho, good games in their own right! "
I've actually only played the first Halo :/ lol. I do plan on playing the others. Good answers! Sounds like they all had awesome stuff to give. I do somewhat feel bummed that I've mostly missed out on the Halo-fever. Even nowadays I don't play Reach with my roomates. I'm just not a multiplayer guy. @raidingkvatch said:
" Ultimately I had to opt for Halo 2 for the vast amount of fun I had with its multiplayer, back in the days before I had Live and would have sytem link parties at my house the vast majority of which we spent on Halo 2 with spatterings of other games to break it up, but always back to Bungie in the end, at least until one dude (it was always the same guy) unbalanced the teams by deciding he really wanted to go outside and play football, fucking douche. "
Awesome. :D I do remember those days of everyone doing system link. One of our friends is the (much) younger brother of our old pastor. So he'd ask pastor if we could use the church. We'd drive down there at night when it was closed, go into the main auditorium and play system link Halo and Gears on the projectors at the front of the church. We'd also play DDR and the like (in particular one time when we had a big youth sleep over, so all the girls were there, and they love their DDR). It was pretty sweet. I was the DJ one time and was sitting up back where the computers were playing my high voltage heavy metal over the church speakers while they were blasting fools in Halo and Gears. Ahhh those were the days. As a funny anecdote, I borrowed N64 Mortal Kombat Trilogy and MK4 from my pastor. :P
THE second. THE first was GOOD and a game-changer, BUT I FEEL like the obvious backtracking KNOCKS IT down a few pegs for me. The second one, DESPITE THE shitty ending, was LITERALLY AN Aliens scenario FOR me, and the multiplayer WAS UNFUCKING touchable at THE TIME.
My favorite game in the series are either Reach or Combat Evolved. It's a very difficult choice for me to be quite honest, I have to think about it.
Edit: I accidentally chose Reach, but I wanted to pick Halo: Combat Evolved. Yeah, sure the first game had poor level design for most of the time and The Library was one of the worst levels I've endured in a first-person shooter. But the game just felt so fresh and new at the time, not to mention that it has so many memorable set-pieces. It defined the genre, and it's influence still remains for many modern first-person shooters. Unlike other games in the series, Combat Evolved had a good storyline. Not to mention it has the best pistol in a shooter ever.
@astrotriforce: Sounds like you had a pretty awesome pastor dude, we Just used to get people to drag their Xboxes to my house and try and grab as many TVs as possible. Also I distinctly remember flying kicking my friend "fat head" then punching him for making me twist my ankle, aah those were the days, the days before I had 2000+ word essays to write regularly.
Gotta go with Reach. I didn't like the final couple of firefights so much, but I felt the rest of the game was fantastically paced and didn't really have any bad spots. I can't really say that for any of the other Halos beyond perhaps ODST (which I really enjoyed as a change of pace for the franchise). As great as Halo at its best was back in the day, there were also too many parts that I just flat-out did not enjoy, so forgive me for not being terribly indulgent in my nostalgia for the title.
" THE second. THE first was GOOD and a game-changer, BUT I FEEL like the obvious backtracking KNOCKS IT down a few pegs for me. The second one, DESPITE THE shitty ending, was LITERALLY AN Aliens scenario FOR me, and the multiplayer WAS UNFUCKING touchable at THE TIME. "
This is my thinking spot on. What kills the 1st game for me is having work your way back through the damned Library again. Getting there was tiring enough, and having to do the whole thing again in reverse just pissed me off. I understand it was a concession due to the hardware knowledge at the time, but it still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth all these years later. Also, I wasn't doing split screen multiplayer at the time, so my competitive playtime had to be online. That's probably why I rank both Unreal Tournament 1999 and Rainbow 6: Raven Shield higher on my list of shooters.
As far as the others go, I really disliked the driving race-to-escape at the end of Halo 3, I slammed through ODST in a couple of nights without it leaving much of an impression, and I haven't played Reach yet. Halo Wars doesn't really count since it's from an entirely different genre.
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