Halo 2/3 Poll

James Reynolds | November 7, 2008

Just had a conversation with a friend so lets put it to the poll! For … all … zero of you to vote on!

Read below before voting

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James 1:
Here’s a thought. Halo 2 is better than Halo 3. To me it seems that the third one hasn’t got an original bone in its body and while neither were better than 1 at least 2 tried to improve not just copy.

James 2:
Woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah woah.

Woah.

Halo 2 was NOT better than Halo 3 … Are you crazy? I would at MOST say it’s equal … But not better …

James 1:
Halo 2 tried to build on the first one but added more and changed itself (ie the boss battle, the Brutes, the Avatar and the Battle Rifle). All 3 did was put all of the ingredients of the first two together. For example they just ripped the ending of 3 from 1 (driving). While the boss battle of 2 didn’t work I think it was incredibly lazy of them not to do something original.

James 2:

On the contrary, your definitions of “Original” are confined within the Halo universe. Those concepts are rife throughout FPS’ globally, all Halo 2 did was abandon the stylistic and radical way of doing things and adopt a more generic approach.

Need to end on an epic note? Throw a fucking boss in … Sure … That’s never been done before. Halo 3’s last level is utterly epic and you know it – The only 2 points Halo 2 really improved on were the Brutes and the Arbiter, it’s a shame neither was ever capitalised upon and both concepts were poorly executed.

Halo 3 took you back to the grass roots but tried not to outright drop any of the things they (arguably) mistakenly brought into 2. Long story short: Halo 1 > Halo 3 > Halo 2.

James 1:

WHatever. You want to play a good Halo game play Halo, a good map editor play Far Cry, a good online FPS play COD4. Halo 3 is inferior to all those games and many more. When 2 was released it was king of the mountain (if only for a little while). It seems to me that 3 wasn’t as successful as it should have been and only did well on the backs of its older brothers. Just ask the hardcore group of people who still only play 2 online and shun 3 which one is better. I don’t think anyone will support 3 as much.

James 2:

On the contrary, I’d rather play Halo 3 and use Forge purely because FarCry is and always will be a lousy game.

But I do regularly play COD4 and I would play Halo again if I hadn’t already done it 110% but you know what I will never go back and play again? Halo 2.

Halo 2 is the one that was only successful because of 1 and 3 wasn’t as successful as 1 because 2 tanked the reputation, every industry analyst will know this!

And you can’t refer to the hardcore still playing 2 because I can refer to the “hardcore” still playing any game … Hell … Korea is still obsessed with the 8 year old Starcraft O.o

James 1:

Whats that? You suck? Yeah, I know.

We will always disagree on Halo and, as always, you are wrong.

So what do you think?

Regards,

JamesR.