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Why do so many people dislike halo? It has great weapon balance (unlike COD MW2), has a decent story, great graphics, and VEHICLES! COD fans never have any response to that one. Vehicles are what make halo awesome, and until other games let me drive around in a tank rampaing around the map or drive like a maniac in a jeep thing while my gunner is spraying machine gun fire, Halo will always be my favorite game series. Although the COD campaigns are fun, and I usually rent the games when they come out, but I might actually buy COD black ops. Halo is still better. But I am a die hard sci-fi fan.

^ Needler. Plasma pistol and Smg combo.
What? weapon balance?

Alright, yes I will admit the needler is way overpowered. Me and my friends call it the Noobler. And the Rocket pod is pretty overpowered, it completely ruined air combat. But other than that the weapons are pretty balanced. (compared to MW2 where you can snipe with pistols and an SMG does more damage than a LMG, a barret 50 cal takes two hits to kill with chest shots, and not to mention the magic riot sheild which can withstand a 50 cal round from 2 feet away.)

Combos I don't consider to be over powered. It's just strategy. And if someone is using the noob combo, just blow their head off with a sniper round.

Needler overpowered?

I raise you an ancient ability, spawned in the depths of FPS history called... strafing. Bye needler, hello headshot.


Oh and plasma pistol + magnum so beats smg, headshot capable weapon anyone?

You want an OP weapon in a halo game? Brute shot in 2, bouncy awesomeness.

GalacticDefender wrote:Alright, yes I will admit the needler is way overpowered. Me and my friends call it the Noobler. And the Rocket pod is pretty overpowered, it completely ruined air combat. But other than that the weapons are pretty balanced. (compared to MW2 where you can snipe with pistols and an SMG does more damage than a LMG, a barret 50 cal takes two hits to kill with chest shots, and not to mention the magic riot sheild which can withstand a 50 cal round from 2 feet away.)

Combos I don't consider to be over powered. It's just strategy. And if someone is using the noob combo, just blow their head off with a sniper round.

True. The best gun in the game is the Ump45
Also, I will complain about the shotgun and run combo. pisses me off.

Nope your not alone. I would rater gurgle acid than buy this foul game

I have halo reach for the following reasons:

1) i have about 7 friends who play it, good fun.
2) i have played halo1/2/3/odst/reach all of which i enjoy and still play
3) i get my old pistol back!
4) forge world
5) the new covenant models look.. well epic.
6) campaign is great fun
7) theatre
8) Invasion is... well one of my favourite modes.
9) new weapons and new abilities (double image... is amazing)
10) im good at the game.

Oooh, new abilities? What is double image?

I'll be picking it up tonight

And I also play it because of #10- I don't have much time for gaming, and this is a game I am already passable at (maybe not "good" ). At least the first one, would often play through some of the levels on legendary with a friend and not die. Got second place in a team tourney at my college back then (out of only nine teams or so, but still!). So it's something I'm decent at, and enjoy

And it does look beautiful... getting a new TV + halo reach = win

I believe it is the hologram ability - you create a holographic double which runs around the map (I think it only runs forward but I may be wrong).

Very cool! That wasn't in the beta nice that they saved some tricks up their sleeve for the main release!

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:^ Needler. Plasma pistol and Smg combo.
What? weapon balance?

Needler isn't overpowered...

Strafing makes it useless, and it does almost no damage until you get enough needles to asplode someone with it.

The only real thing it's good for is destroying unaware snipers and the like.

I'm not getting it, but then again I have a PS3, and no money (I'm spending it at games day).

My House-Master at school might be getting a copy to go with the new Xbox 360 in the sixth form room though

I'm more excited about Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and Call of Duty: Black Ops, personally anyway.

Bwar wrote:Im not. Screw halo t('-'t)

Damn right. I didn't even get halfway through the first Halo, and never played the others. I'm busy kicking ass and taking names in DDO right now, and yes, I realize the hypocrisy, after all the gak I talked about it. I have a sword that does frost damage and a scimitar that does acid damage, and you're damned right I'm dual-wielding. Screw all console games while I'm at it.

warpcrafter wrote:

Bwar wrote:Im not. Screw halo t('-'t)

Damn right. I didn't even get halfway through the first Halo, and never played the others. I'm busy kicking ass and taking names in DDO right now, and yes, I realize the hypocrisy, after all the gak I talked about it. I have a sword that does frost damage and a scimitar that does acid damage, and you're damned right I'm dual-wielding. Screw all console games while I'm at it.

Dual Weild weapons?? Awesome, what is DDO coz tbh i wanna try it now lol.

johnscott10 wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:

Bwar wrote:Im not. Screw halo t('-'t)

Damn right. I didn't even get halfway through the first Halo, and never played the others. I'm busy kicking ass and taking names in DDO right now, and yes, I realize the hypocrisy, after all the gak I talked about it. I have a sword that does frost damage and a scimitar that does acid damage, and you're damned right I'm dual-wielding. Screw all console games while I'm at it.

Dual Weild weapons?? Awesome, what is DDO coz tbh i wanna try it now lol.

Dungeons and Dragons online it is a Free to play MMO

OP you are not alone.

What about the level of customization available in Halo: Reach? Where else can you find that? (Not including rts games). And actually this is kind of a serious question. Are there any other games that let you build your own maps and stuff like halo? I would like to see stuff like that more in fps games.

GalacticDefender wrote:What about the level of customization available in Halo: Reach? Where else can you find that? (Not including rts games). And actually this is kind of a serious question. Are there any other games that let you build your own maps and stuff like halo? I would like to see stuff like that more in fps games.

Ill give Halo its due, it kept me entertained for a while, but not as long as people were saying (I found mutiplayer crap tbh). The aspect to make custom maps?? Yea its cool but why bother when you don't intend to play it with others as is the case for me.

With the download of a free tool The Sims 3 allows you to create your very own map, yes it may be hard to use to begin with but it is still a map editor. Although I havnt seen the custom maps in any FPS other than Halo.

Don't get me wrong Halo would be a good game to me if it had "clicked" the same way as Fable: The Lost Chapters, Oblivion or Modern Warfare 2 did.

johnscott10 wrote:Title says all really but to me the Halo games dont have the same effect as some of the other games i play.

I could say the whole Sci-Fi theme is what makes it unappeal to me, but thats crap because Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 were awesome.

I even played Halo 2(briefly) and completed 3 because I had nothing else to complete!

Now Im not saying any Halo game is drop down , but I just dont understand how so many people are excited over it.

Maybe im just a freak lol.

I never liked them - they are just hyped up medocre firewarrior remakes (except you can move faster in FW!) with vehicles and MS' propaganda department.

Phototoxin wrote:

johnscott10 wrote:Title says all really but to me the Halo games dont have the same effect as some of the other games i play.

I could say the whole Sci-Fi theme is what makes it unappeal to me, but thats crap because Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 were awesome.

I even played Halo 2(briefly) and completed 3 because I had nothing else to complete!

Now Im not saying any Halo game is drop down , but I just dont understand how so many people are excited over it.

Maybe im just a freak lol.

I never liked them - they are just hyped up medocre firewarrior remakes (except you can move faster in FW!) with vehicles and MS' propaganda department.

Never got a chance to play Firewarrior, have the game but it just wont run on my PC even tho its good.

It's the WITH VEHICLES part that makes halo awesome.

GalacticDefender wrote:It's the WITH VEHICLES part that makes halo awesome.

Yes well World at War had tanks and yet I thought that was complete and utter garbage.

Johnscott - that was due to having to make a dedicated class to take vehicles down in WAW, or rely on team to do so.

In halo anyone can take a vehicle down with ease, which makes it no problem.


also, the only part of WAW i enjoy if the sniping, since i dont have to have a fething scope on it.

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:And, iirc, Halo told you your K/D at the end of each game so.....?

They call it a K/D but really it's just a range where they subtract deaths from kills. It's not a fraction at all

I have seen a bit of reach from my room mate. Challenges are a very obvious influence from MW, though the daily challenges is a great idea. The new armor selection is nice as well, though I'd like to see orange added as a visor color

About the only thing I hate is how every ing game mode is freaking battle rifles or DRM's whatever they call it now. I hate long range combat and there isn't an SMG or an assault rifle is sight darnit.

But...I love the DMR...(yes I bought the game, Black ops doesn't come out for 3 months)

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:But...I love the DMR...(yes I bought the game, Black ops doesn't come out for 3 months)

I don't hate it per se, I just hate HAVING to use it because there aren't any other guns on the freaking maps. Every now and then I find a sniper but I suck at range. I find rockets and the like and the various power weapons but I hate that the DMR/Needle rifle(?) are the standard weapons for play even in CQC maps!

At least give me an assault rifle damnit

Use the default assault rifle then


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And to be fair, I've only played invasion, so I don't know anything about normal matchmaking

I needed something to keep me sane until fable/Black ops comes out.

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Use the default assault rifle then

I wish I could, but it's only an option in Classic Slayer, all the other slayer modes use the needle rifle and the DMR and don't even put anything else on the map except the occasional needler and power weapons.

Which brings me to the next annoyance. When I click, Slayer matchmaking, I want slayer damnit! No Slayer snipers. Not slayer swat. Not slayer pro. Not slayer DMR's, not Elite slayer, just mother ing slayer.

Try invasion. Its very fun