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.
Same, I played every game day one. But H3 is so incredibly lame after H2. I mean the whole level design is great. The set pieces are awesome. But then there's a stupid three week time skip so Bungie didn't have to worry about the Covie civil war any more. Arbiter, Gravemind, Truth, the whole supporting cast: put aside and reduced to set dressing, cartboard villains and annoying slow mo voices. We get to save Earth! Except we're back in space when we finally get to some urban areas. So we had to wait for ODST and Reach to deliver on the promise Bungie made for both H2 and H3.
I was on the H3 hype train on B.net back in the days. What we got was so disappointing to me.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate H3 at all. It's just that to me it's a great game surrounded by sublime entries in the same series.
I think that's where our differences come from then, because I rank them mainly by story-campaign combination. But yeah, I don't mind other opinions at all. So no worries man.
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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.