You pretend Halo 2 was the end all, be all competitive games.

The fact that the competitive nature of Halo 2 came from glitches in the game itself ruins it.

No, Halo 2 was best before BXR was discovered, before 2xshot was disvocered, before quadshot was discovered and before 3xshot was discovered. I didn't mind BXB.

BUT AFTER THEY WERE DISCOVERED...
The "glitches" only made it EVEN HARDER to become the best of the best.
It also allowed better players to shit on worse players much more easily.

For example, in halo 3 i get AR rushed like a mad mother fucker, in halo 2 i would easily LBXRXB and get an easy double because of less casual spawn weapons and a greater skill gap.

The glitches made the came more hardcore than bungie ever would, which is why they made the BR weaker in Halo 3 and added the assult riffle and made it hit like a fucking truck so randoms can spray and get kills if they are close enough or you are weak enough. Garbage game is garbage bungie.


edit: Trust me, I played 38,000 games of Halo 2 on the more active of my two accounts.

This post was edited by killachmy on Jul 16 2010 12:42am

A noob jumps into Halo 3, practices for a week, still bad.

A noob jumps into Halo 2, practices for a week, can be half decent because of the button combinations.

You could join Halo 2, get the timing down for Double shot, BxR, BxB, Nade reloading etc etc and be hella good yet when comparing the time it would take to get good in Halo 3 or Halo:CE for that matter, its not possible.

Was Halo 2 very competitive? Yes, more so than Halo 3.

Is Halo 3 competitive? On a lesser scale, but yes.

Halo 2 was great.
Halo 1 was great as fuck.
Halo 3 is good/fun.
Halo R will be fucking amazing, idk if you played it but when MLG picks it up and makes its gametypes it'll be incredible.

The reason people hate 3 so much is due to the major difference in MLG and regular.
Halo 1/2 had a way less difference, which is why everyone didn't mind everything.

Speaking on GoW: You can say any game is casual, but it can also be hardcore brah.
Let's see you hop on and learn how to wall bounce.

CoD: You speak like the playlists mean something ;]

The time it takes to learn how to Bxr BxB 2x shot and quad shot PERFECTLY ON THEIR HEADS > Learning to strafe

That about sums it up.

Takes much longer to get good at halo 2.
My girlfriend is shit at al video games and she played halo for ONE WEEK (6 days) and she got a double kill on two 50s in whoknowswhat using the all mighty AR.

At least give the AR recoil and less damage bungie, fucking for real.
SMG spawns was awsome because you spawned with one, none of this overpowered spawn spray guns.

Halo 1 was MUCH easier to get good at than halo 2 imo, at least for me and everybody i played with for the time it was out.
Halo 2 was great.
Bungie completely fucked the series on Halo 3 by making it completely buttfucking casual
The ONLY way halo reach is going to be acceptable is in MLG gametypes IF MLG is allowed to edit the EXACT % damage/speed increase and the EXACT % shield regen increase and is able to take out the motherfucking retarded "Special moves" that are planned for release...

but the problem with this, is that it will be UNPLAYABLE on xbox live under these settings, except in customs, making nobody give a shit about the game at all.
gfg bungie way to lose all the hardcore gamers.


Speaking of GoW, the game doesn't require enough teamwork compared to halo 2 and its no where near as consistent and clean cut as the halo 2 gametypes/maps/damage

GoW and CoD are pretty much casual unless you want to go to a LAN center or take part in a tourny i guess...

This post was edited by killachmy on Jul 16 2010 12:55am

heres what i think, even tho no one cares :'(
their trying to make halo reach like CE so all u CE fanatics should be happy
once MLG gets their hands on reach i think they will make a playlisy better and make it more equal/even/fair and more skill oriented, like most halo games are
halo 2 was fucking awesome the glitches just made the game better, because the reason games are competitive is because a small group of people master parts and are good the other group of people cant compete with a quadshot
halo 3 is fun and although on xbox live the br is weaker on lan its still very powerful
and GOW is a very competitive game i played that game for a while and got wrecked by good kids, this makes it competitive because to be good u need to master it, and own bad kids
it seems like in halo 3 anyone could be good

I completely agree that Halo 3 is acceptable off xbox live.
acceptable, not great though

on xbl it's a fucking piece of shit.

You're correct that in halo 3 anybody can be good

I just find GoW way to casual and downie for me to play.
I need a game where x ammounts of shots in x part of body is a kill, add 4v4 and objective on great maps and stable settings and youve got a great game, halo 2.
GoW is kind of a random number generator for me. It's like CoD. Not for me, not for most extremely competetive teamwork based fps players.



BIG BIG EDIT:

If Matchmaking MLG on xbl had radar i would play it more often.
Searching as a To4 is annoying as fuck and xbl makes communication much less useful...
No radar on LAN ofc.

This post was edited by killachmy on Jul 16 2010 01:01am

agreed in cod id pick up a snipe shoot someone in the body they wouldnt die then snipe me in the body and i would, i hate that. a game needs to be consistent and symmetrical for both teams

i've only played halo 2 with friends offline but it seemed funner then
seemed like the double shots and shit would've made the game better and more fun and made it easier like was previously stated for the good kids to shit on the bad kids even more, which is good and less noobed down
i wish they'd make the exact game of halo 2 again with just better graphics haha would be sick