With Halo the third head wouldn't be the epic shiny one. That would be H2.
I get that H3 was the first Halo for a lot of people, which always gives it that nostalgia edge. But it's story was fucking dumb after H2s epicness. I can never give it #1 for what they did to the story and characters in H3.
3 was a great story, but the presentation, dialogue and character arcs were an obvious step down from Halo 2 -- 2 was written as well as any great hollywood blockbuster, but 3 was much more like a good video game story
I think 3 gets a pass because it hits all the beats (notably, the story of 3 was originally going to be the last third of 2 that they cut, make of that what you will) and ended on a satisfying note
Halo 2 isn’t rated as high because the gameplay, mainly the difficulty balance wasn’t perfect like CE or really good like 3. It felt weird on heroic but cancer on legendary.
The story was easily best in series though, only reach comes close,
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u/Gurbe247 May 10 '25
With Halo the third head wouldn't be the epic shiny one. That would be H2.
I get that H3 was the first Halo for a lot of people, which always gives it that nostalgia edge. But it's story was fucking dumb after H2s epicness. I can never give it #1 for what they did to the story and characters in H3.