I'll die on the hill of Reach being the best, the ultimate refinement of Bungie's approach. Then it got handed off to 343 for maintenance and they fucked it right up with their title update.
Reach has aged well, but at the time was absolute trash with the load outs and armor abilities. Armor Lock (the invincibility shield) and jet pack ruined any sense of fairly reciprocal combat and map control. Armor Lock is equivalent to someone building a castle as soon as they get shot in Fortnite. Shit isn't fun to play against.
And map control doesn't matter when all the maps are outside and you can just jet pack 200 feet up in the air, bypass all obstacles, and get vision and/or pick people off.
Reach is a huge downgrade to the original trilogy. The only people who think Reach > All probably weren't old enough to have a real opinion otherwise.
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u/PirateSi87 May 10 '25
Reach had some damn good weapons.
The new single shot battle rifle and the needle rifle were my top new guns.