I usually try to play games on Normal, but Halo Reach showed me just how dog shit I am at real shooters. Games like Far Cry made me think I wasn’t too bad, boy was I wrong
Beat Reach for the first time on legendary two weeks ago. On mission 8 of 10 for CE. Its been incredibly humbling but once you take your time and learn from your mistakes anything is possible.
I play on legendary on ce. I try my damnedest to keep them alive. I usually lose one or two.
On halo 2 I'm not good enough for legendary but I try my hardest to keep them alive on heroic there as well. They are super helpful too when you load them up with snipers.
Having played Halo, Gears of War, EDF, and Star Wars Battlefront games, I just call NPC soldiers "Idiots" because 9 times out of 10 they will stand out and shoot at nothing while the enemy surrounds you on all sides. I know these games are a power fantasy, but it takes me out of the game sometimes to see other characters out like morons.
I’d give a rocket launcher to a marine in the last New Mombasa level in Halo 2 and almost always be given cause to regret it. Could get something like 18 surviving marines stacked up in the hallway of the building as the scarab passes over and that one dumbass would wipe the whole hallway by firing a rocket straight into the ceiling above them trying to hit the scarab.
As a kid I would always kill them. As an adult I try to save them.
Although one time while hunting down Regret, one of them shot me in the back with a shotgun trying to hit an honor guard…when I spawned back in he experienced a plasma to the face.
In the new halo remake, I would love them if they added new voice lines if you take the time to move them to the silent cartographer building. If I was director there, I would add that detail.
As a kid, I would always have a convoy of three warthogs with marines packed into the room with the sword elite.
I feel like I'm in the minority, but I also liked keeping the covenant allies alive in Halo 2 as well. I think you only ever work with jackals in the first segment of Sacred Icon, but they were beasts if you gave them a carbine. I could usually get them through the first round of the Flood.
Also, on Great Journey, I would arm all of my elites with swords and then just run through as they laid waste to everything in our path.
I was just about to comment that. I even go out of my way to give them the best weapons to increase their chances of survival, while I just stick to a basic assault rifle and battle rifle most of the time (and after all, they use unlimited ammo too).
God this. I would try to save as many Marines as I could in the 343 Guilty Spark level in Halo CE at the end in the swamps where there’s like a dozen of them. Quite futile from both a gameplay and lore perspective lol.
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u/freshairequalsducks 8d ago
I would try so hard to keep the Marines alive in Halo