So I was thinking to myself why I seemed to have so much more fun in reach than the other halos and then it hit me. There was no freaking flood. No levels with janky enemies and weird stuff that just ruined the flow. I don't know if you all agree, but the flood was the worst part of the old ones.

100% agreed. the flood, even though they were story necessary, they were easily the worst thing about the halo series pre(post?)-reach.

Yeah the flood is played out at this point.  The Elites in this game are a worthy god damn adversary, they're probably some of the smartest enemies i've ever played against 
 
The Reach campaign is nothing short of amazing, and I disagree with Jeff's review that the last two missions weren't that exciting, I thought they were great.

"100% agreed. the flood, even though they were story necessary, they were easily the worst thing about the halo series pre(post?)-reach. "

" Yeah the flood is played out at this point.  The Elites in this game are a worthy god damn adversary, they're probably some of the smartest enemies i've ever played against   The Reach campaign is nothing short of amazing, and I disagree with Jeff's review that the last two missions weren't that exciting, I thought they were great. "

" @josty81 said:

" Yeah the flood is played out at this point.  The Elites in this game are a worthy god damn adversary, they're probably some of the smartest enemies i've ever played against   The Reach campaign is nothing short of amazing, and I disagree with Jeff's review that the last two missions weren't that exciting, I thought they were great. "

I still don't get what Jeff was referencing when he spoke of the "hooks" and the last two levels. But whatever yeah the flood was garbage, the only cool mission with them is when you first see them underground. Anytime after that was boring. I say this but when I saw Jacob Keyes and the Pillar of Autumn in Reach that just made me want a HD remake of Halo CE....even if there's flood. "

"  I loved the way they were introduced in Halo: CE, but I hated fighting them. "

" @josty81: Remember when you first land on the Halo, imagine with all the new technology how crazy good that forest can look.... "

" @josty81: Remember when you first land on the Halo, imagine with all the new technology how crazy good that forest can look.... "

" @blacklabeldomm said:

" @josty81: Remember when you first land on the Halo, imagine with all the new technology how crazy good that forest can look.... "

May I direct you to Forge World, sir. Not being sarcastic, go look at that shit. That's basically a preview of what Halo CE remade would look like, and I like it. "

I completely forget that the Flood existed until you brought it up. Now I know why I enjoyed this campaign more.

" So I was thinking to myself why I seemed to have so much more fun in reach than the other halos and then it hit me. There was no freaking flood. No levels with janky enemies and weird stuff that just ruined the flow. I don't know if you all agree, but the flood was the worst part of the old ones. "

I liked the flood in the first Halo.  It changed things up.  In Halo 2 and 3 I couldn't stand them though.  I remember in Halo 3 there's this one level that's like underground or something in tunnels, full of flood... that wasn't fun.

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I've ever liked a halo game...and then I played Reach.  Well...scratch that, I thought the Halo games were fine, just not the phenomenon that it seemed to be for everyone else.  And the ENTIRE time I played Reach I wanted to play the other halo games with this graphics engine too.  I'm not sure what about it made halo finally click for me....the feel of the weapons, the crazy effects of plasma explosions flying everywhere....everything was totally awesome.   
 
 
....I'm now a halo fan "

I liked the last two levels. I was expecting some kind of Warthog ending (as per the tradition) and was pleased when we got something closer to the end of ODST - Mongoose chase followed by Six's solo Alamo moment.

I disagree I loved the flood in halo 1-3. As well I certainly don't agree that its campaign was best, with canon breakages for no reason, blistering difficulty because of shield and health on enemies and their willingness to ignore every one but you, and their ability to drop your shields and health in a second made reaches campaign just frustrating. I eventually got past it alone on legendary in 25 or so hours of gameplay, with 288 deaths  but I never had that kind of problem with the past games on legendary, the difficulty made it a chore instead of a privilage.

" @tankintheair315 said:

" So I was thinking to myself why I seemed to have so much more fun in reach than the other halos and then it hit me. There was no freaking flood. No levels with janky enemies and weird stuff that just ruined the flow. I don't know if you all agree, but the flood was the worst part of the old ones. "

Um, how about the last level? As Jeff said in his review, there is literally a WALL of enemies, in multiple waves, that you must defeat before the end. "

" So I was thinking to myself why I seemed to have so much more fun in reach than the other halos and then it hit me. There was no freaking flood. No levels with janky enemies and weird stuff that just ruined the flow. I don't know if you all agree, but the flood was the worst part of the old ones. "

I only got onboard with Halo with Halo 3, but I'm still not sure which one has the better campaign (ODST's was fine, but this throwdown is clearly between 3 and Reach).
 
I think another Reach campaign playthrough on Heroic is in order.

The flood in Halo 1 were annoying but in the rest they where alright not that fun to fight but ok, the flood only levels were the worst I still cant believe they put that Cortana level in Halo 3.

I was surprised Bungie didn't try to do something stupid and fit the Flood in anyway.