Reach should be liked by all, i see no faults in it, save for Forge mode; but that's cause I set my expectations high for that. The campaign is phenominal, and the online is more badass than ever, I believe it'll take over Black Ops for game of the year, but it'll be a close battle ^=^

That's only because Halo has more Mountain Dew-swilling, ADD-suffering fanboys than most of the other shooter game communities.

Part of me is glad Reach came out though, because most of the bunny-hopping, glitch-abusing Halo-tards abandoned ship on Modern Warfare 2 when it came out. So now you don't see a bunch of idiots running around in MW2 with their Marathon+Lightweight+Commando+Tactical Knife scrub setups. =P

Were the sequels sub-par?

Lol, I barely remember the other Halo games.. But that is why I am replaying them all, as well as Halo 3, the one I didn't get to finish.

Well then, happy gaming!

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Bleh, Halo Schmalo. It's more of the same. I can't wait till this uninaginative cash-cow series dries up now that Bungie's done with it. Don't get me wrong. Playing firefight and the campaign mode in coop can be fun, but the multiplayer always has been and apparently always will be tripe for the most past. Reach is just Halo # Jetpack Edition. >_>

Halo has always had more to offer than Call of Duty; people just hate on it cause it's got that sci-fi alien aspect to it and it's not a realistic-die-every-3-second FPS like MW2 and the others. Reach is supirior to 3 and 2, but it's not just a loadout updated game, it's got better Forge setups, a better online multiplayer, and the campaign is a good bit better/longer than most shooters. If you want a cash-cow series, then just look at the cover of any Call of Duty game

that cover-thing is true. All these games looks the same...
Anyway, IMHO halo is funnier, better, etc., but CoD multi-player is more addictive.

Hey, I'm not saying CoD isn't slowly but surely going downhill, itself, but Halo has essentially been the exact same game since 2. They just try to bedazzle players into forgetting that by slapping on a couple new features here and there.

And yes, I've always hated Halo's MP mechanics. Characters who practically float for infinite every time they jump are ridiculous, and it's even worse when you have to use a full clip of ammo with most weapons (sometimes more) just to make someone's shield drop, THEN use more ammo to finish them off. That kind of surrealism doesn't appeal to me at all, and it caters to the annoying "LOL U got pwned!!!1one" juvenile twats who make up 90% of its gaming community. >_>

Every game gets to be the same after one or two sequels. After all that's all Call of Duty has been doing, is bedazzling people with slightly altered game play and what not; so why is Halo the only one getting shit for it? Oh yeah, cause it's done more for the industry than most. =/. And uhh hate to burst your bubble but more 'juvenile twats' play CoD than Halo these days. It's cool you have your opinion on it, but all you're doing is basically lashing out at it because you dislike it, it seems.

Naw. The sad thing is about 40% of Modern Warfare 2's player base was made up of the Halo-tards who finally got burned out on Halo 3. Like I said, ever since Reach came out, I'm consistently seeing a lot more better matches and less douchebag-ism in the pregame lobbies for MW2. Go figure, eh?

And I hate to burst YOUR bubble, but Halo in essence really hasn't done CRAP for the gaming industry, short of giving LAN-parties a brief burst in popularity when the original game came out. Name one feature it has that hasn't already been done before or done BETTER in at least one other shooter. Go on, try it. Dual-wielding? Done before. Personal shields? Done before. AI allies? Check. I could go on and on.

Anyhow, Halo isn't a "horrible" series, but it's not even remotely deserving of all the mindless hype and praise it gets.

The matchmaking and ranking system is horrible (Oh hay I can win 30 matches in a row and never go up a rank, then lose a single match and DROP a rank. Isn't this awesome?!). The community is full of wannabe MLG, dashboarding fucktards who think the only thing that matters is their K/D. Yadda, yadda, yadda. I digress. I TRIED to like the series, believe me, I did. But in the end, it's just an average shooter with a bunch of "shinies" to keep the simpleminded appeased.

If you know the weaponry, you don't need to use a full clip to kill somebody. Some weaponry hits shields for more than others. (Specifically the Covenant weapons) While yes, there are cheaptards, the fundamental part of it is learning how to use the weapons effectively. Learning how they react and such.

Halo also brought to the FPS group a few marked improvements which include the lack of Pocket of Holding bodysuits and the tactical use of vehicles. By pocket of holding, I mean ala Goldeneye 007 where you can carry all of your weapons at once. The fact that Halo makes you carry only two (Or three with dual wield) weapons at a time is a marked step towards the realism that most shooters before then lacked, (and which Zelda titles haven't found yet xD)

I'm not saying it's the greatest game ever invented and that CoD and MW suck hard. But as a shooter, Halo speaks to me because... well... I don't like shooters. The vehicle system is very natural to the overall control methods, and the teamwork involved in operating some of them effectively is something a lot of so-called regular shooters lack; that being teamwork. Sure, you might be working for the same goal, but with the shields and such (and knowing your weapons) two people can be an immense threat compared to one on one. Sometimes you HAVE to work together to accomplish team-based victories.

Moreover, Halo's community is not 90% Juvenile twats. That's EVERY video game community. It's because video games are made for kids for the most part. So don't even go there.

The background story is also an interesting one, both combined from others, and set apart on it's own. Sure there are parallels to Alien, and Ringworld, and probably star Trek, but Bungie knows how to make a game, and they know that a large part is getting people immersed in the overarching story.

It's not as cut and dry as you make it seem.

Hmm I've been putting off reach. I loved halo 3 but I didn't get ODST and I'm unsure if its worth it. it sucks that my halo bodies are longer around much. I used play god nearly every week while drinking an hanging out. But life changes and people move. . I suck to much to pay online and I wouldn't play online enough to justify paying for xbox live again.

But now I wanna play just to play it.lol

hehe can i add you for when i get reach a mic and live gold?