Why is Halo 3 held up as the pinnacle of the series?
>Slow and floaty as fuck, completely neutered the tight and fast gunplay of 2 >No advanced gameplay mechanics to placate the babies who couldn't hang in ranked >Every weapon is fucking trash, only the BR/Carbine are less terrible than everything else >Doesn't have the extreme bullshit of Halo 2's Legendary, but still has retarded shit like endless grunt grenade spam and Brutes sniping you out of the sky with bruteshots because you're so floaty >Campaign is short and has too many vehicle segments (which are always terrible on legendary) >Story is incoherent and is built entirely on coincidences and all the villains being dumb
Why do ppl like this game? Is it because it was baby's first Halo when they got their 360?
None of that is a nitpick, the shooting mechanics in Halo 2 are premised on extremely forgiving auto aim, absurd hitboxes, and the worst bullet magnetism in the series outside of Halo 4. CE is better in every way and even 3 is better the the ridiculous auto aim and lunges that 2 has.
Nathan Adams
Halo 1 has best gameplay, best art direction, the coolest levels, best "fun" arcade factor, best lighting and the best colours.
Halo 2 has the best overall campaign, and the best story and plot, the most immersive environment, the cutest Cortana, the best guns, the best and most satisfying enemies to kill (legendary jackals and brutes not counting), the coolest characters (Shipmaster, Gravemeind, Truth).
Halo 3 has the weakest single-player experience. Worst Cortana, worst gravemind, worst story, cringe conclusion.. but it is fun and decent in campaign, especially coop.
Alexander Adams
Good opinion.
Robert Powell
H3's campaign was honestly kinda cringe compared to CE and H2. The multiplayer feels kinda weird too but saving grace was forge and simply being huge title on 360 meaning tons of players compared to H2.
>CE is better in every way >Only viable weapon is the Magnum and it has like three good maps, those being Hang Em High,, Wizard and Battle Creek
No.
>and even 3 is better 3 has atrocious hit registration that afflicts nearly every human weapon, and has easily some of the worst multiplayer maps in the franchise, on top of having the weakest campaign from the core trilogy.
Sebastian Nelson
536105959 yeah
Joshua Flores
Because it's the pinnacle of the series, campaign shits on 2 while being better than 1 and all the games that released after it are light years worse in every way.
Samuel Ramirez
The only non-useful weapon is the needler in CE.
Austin Gomez
As someone that played it when it launched it's because it had a lot of content >decent campaign gameplay-wise >forge mode to fuck around in >theater mode to fuck around in >file share was a cute idea >multiplayer was very fun especially with friends >fun custom game modes/maps that people made >good community that would invite you to custom games or chat in game Just a lot of content. I can tell OP is a fucking omega zoomer because all his points are about "muh fucking balance and muh narrative REEEEEEEEEEEE'
Logan Smith
Campaign gets more points than multiplayer so if campaign's a disappointment, it brings down the entire experience and Halo 2 had a very disappointing campaign so it's worse by comparison.
Ian Gonzalez
>Only viable weapon is the Magnum and it has like three good maps, those being Hang Em High,, Wizard and Battle Creek Objectively wrong. The plasma rifle is extremely powerful especially if you get headshots + plasma freeze, the AR is great for quick camo, the shotgun does more damage than a rocket launcher at close range and is even viable at mid ranges, the sniper shits on the magnum if you can handle low aim assist, and the rocket is the rocket. And anyone who doesn't include Prisoner or Chill Out in their top Halo CE maps never actually played CE multiplayer as it was meant to be played. >3 has atrocious hit registration that afflicts nearly every human weapon, and has easily some of the worst multiplayer maps in the franchise, on top of having the weakest campaign from the core trilogy. None of that is wrong, but the gulf between 2 and 3 gunplay wise isn't as huge as you think it is. 2 is ridiculously forgiving but consistent while 3 is (mostly) the opposite.
Landon Cruz
And they all lose to the Magnum besides the Sniper Rifle and Rockets who only win on account of being one shot kills at decent ranges. Literally no other weapon gets touched.
Eli Gray
Best art direction is actually Halo 3. They got everything right. Best use of music as well.
Dominic Gutierrez
>muh story Shut the fuck up, no one cared about your gay alien.
Nathaniel Martinez
>and has easily some of the worst multiplayer maps in the franchise, kek all the maps are kino. Halo 1 is the one with cringe maps
Jaxon Rivera
Blatantly wrong. >Orbital >Snowbound Lmao
Caleb Reyes
>CE Actually retarded
Hunter Walker
Hating Halo 3 is the pinnacle of contrarianism. Unironically one of the best games of all time and not just because I say it.
Better setpieces Campaign balance (with exception of Cortana) is better on higher difficulties Kino finale
Jose Butler
>Only singleplayer that fucking matters. And Halo 2 had the worst singleplayer in the original trilogy.
Nathaniel Scott
>Slow and floaty as fuck, completely neutered the tight and fast gunplay of 2 I agree with you here >No advanced gameplay mechanics to placate the babies who couldn't hang in ranked Halo 2's combos are bugs, they aren't even mechanics >Every weapon is fucking trash, only the BR/Carbine are less terrible than everything else No, there's plenty of options in Halo 3, everything feels balanced, I would make some buffs and speed up proyectiles but it's fine. Halo 2 on the other hand, you can only use BR. and no other weapon >Doesn't have the extreme bullshit of Halo 2's Legendary, but still has retarded shit like endless grunt grenade spam and Brutes sniping you out of the sky with bruteshots because you're so floaty Never happens and never has been a problem for me. >Campaign is short and has too many vehicle segments (which are always terrible on legendary) Short and good is better than long and boring, Halo 3 has by far the best campaign levels in the series >Story is incoherent and is built entirely on coincidences and all the villains being dumb No? I don't get this criticism. Ok, more reasons people love Halo 3. It brought forge and custom games, had great vehicle varieties and some of the best maps in Halo, equipment is fun to use and adds to rhe gameplay, enjoyable for both casual and competitive players because it doesn't have 3000 combos to learn, armor customization and ways to unlock it is a pretty fun and rewarding challenge made even better with Bungie's rewards and collaboration for doing great community works. There's plenty of reasons why to think Halo 3 is the best game in the series.
