Halo 1 or Halo 2 multiplayer

[929RR-MAN]

I have an idea, since there are a few cool things in Halo 2, maybe they should take some of them, put them into the Halo 1 format, game or whatever, and make Halo 1 1/2, sound like a good idea or no?

[teufelhunden]

Halo 1.5 was tossed around back in the day.. namely, Halo with XBL functionality. But they tossed it so they could get Halo2 out quicker.

[Koosh]

I really don't like Halo2 overall. Well its a good game to play with friends, but I really don't like XBL, or the Single player campaign...

Dual weild isn't a cool new option... its a requirement if you want to make any impact at all (minus the rocket launcher/sword)....

[929RR-MAN]

huh, interesting, I didn't know that. Maybe Halo 3 they will mix it up and hopefully appeal to everyone, and we can all be happy.

[RogueFactoryKid]

huh, interesting, I didn't know that. Maybe Halo 3 they will mix it up and hopefully appeal to everyone, and we can all be happy.

Or maybe people will buy it no matter what it is and they will make a game they are happy with. You dont have to please everyone.

[j.t.]

Im a huge halo fan myself and used to play halo 1 on xbconnect every day... I used to play halo 2 on xbl and my rank was around 13 I believe but I have since cancelled my live account.

Playing halo 2 had to be one of the most dissapointing things ever... The campaign is too short, the ending is horrible (come on... bosses in halo?! tarturus reminds me of some dude from the old mega man or something... really takes away from the game), and the multiplayer actually feels like its more poorly balanced than halo 1! The maps/game in general feel too dark and the screen always feels really cluttered.

The weapons in this game are horrible... The game has turned into a big spray and prey fest, and most of the weapons don't take very much skill to use. If you can hold the reticule on the target and know which weapons to wield together, you will do great. The other problem is that the special weapons in the game have become even more powerful than they were in the previous game (rocket launcher, sniper rifle, and the sword all fit into this category). You cant really miss with the rocket now, the sniper rifle has been dumbed down tremendously (no more bullet lag at medium/long range and headshots are incredibly easy to get compared to halo 1 thanks to some improved auto aim characteristics), and the sword in the hands of a good player is unstoppable. You cannot dodge a sword simply by sidestepping against a decent player. All you have to do is run with a gun out instead of the sword and then pull the sword out quickly when they get close.

The true problem with halo 2 is the lack of decent mid range weapons. The battle rifle/carbine is ridiculously underpowered. Most of the time you are left helpless at your spawning point against players who spawned closer to the better weapons than you did. There is nothing you can do until these players die or run out of ammo most of the time. Your SMG is nearly useless and the weapons dont spawn quickly enough for you to even pick them up sometimes. Grenades have also been weakened so you have yet another resource taken away from you from the start.

Its funny how everyone argues that the weapons in halo 1 were unbalanced. With the generic weapon set, everyone started out with a weapon that can counter any other weapon. Some weapons were better for specific situations but the pistol could counter any of them depending on your amount of skill. The game rewarded the skilled players far more then halo 2 does.

Thats my opinion on halo 2... ill stick with gregg hastings, halo 1, and custom game variants for halo 2 instead of playing on live... I know my opinion is one sided but playing on live to me is more frustrating than it is fun. (no radar, battle rifle/smg starting weapons, and extra damage on is the best custom game variant imo)

[FromTheBack]

I think what they tried to do in this game was to make it feel more "realistic" and to me, it does. Ive only played multiplayer a few times but Ive played through all of single player multiple times and watched the collectors disk's information. From what I've seen when they looked back on halo1 they realised how un-"true to life" the guns were with the assault rifle basically being a sub machine gun and the pistol almost being a rifle as a couple of examples. So it may not be an exactly amazing setup for a video game but I can see how they were trying to mesh a real world feel into it and place you in a time 300 years from now. Yeah maybe the rockets guide themselves and lock on to vehicles...but wouldn't you expect something like this at least that far from now since we presently have a tracking system in many weapons? It may not be be as much of a video game as Halo 1 but when I get into the game and just think of how cool it is to have all these weapons that have more of a link to our world now then many futuristic games I've played its pretty cool. If anything I'm just showing my opinion on it and hoping it'll shed some light on what the designers might have been trying to do. Enjoy the gaming!

[j.t.]

If the game designers were trying to make the game more realistic then I think they may have made a mistake. Step back for a second and look at halo 2s storyline, characters, and gameplay.... the game is not realistic at all. The gameplay that is sacrificed for a little bit of realism simply doesn't balance out (no pun intended). The game was aimed towards the average/below average gamer crowd and this is why the weapons in the game are like they are. If I wanted to play a game based on realism I would play ghost recon or something along those lines.

[Caffiend]

Halo 1, just because I liked to melee with active camo (with no radar of course) it brought me back to my old CS days *tear*

[FragTek]

H1 is my favorite... Can't pinpoint why, but It's my favorite. Maybe i'm just stuck in the past?