Which Halo campaign is the worst?
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5, and I thought after 4 it could only get better. Instead I got a Call of Halo without anything interesting in it for me (on top of the marketing fail). I couldn't wait for the H1-3 releases at that time, but 4 was boring and 5 made me not care for the series anymore :/
4 had a more defined aesthetic, a resonating Master Chief characterization, and the campaign followed a full concept design - and was still nothing special. 5 has the worst looking art, a repetitive boss, a new generic soldier protagonist eating up time, few locales, and a plot that wholly undermines the characters’ past interactions in the franchise.
Both Halo 4 and 5 campaigns are equally shit in my eyes. Next time around I’m not buying Halo on release day, if at all. I don’t understand how 343 was built specifically to maintain and create Halo and they’ve botched the job three times. Aside from Halo 5’s current (not launch) multiplayer, they’re batting 0.
It's Halo 5 but there are still some great aspects to it. The story is convoluted, Osiris is lame, and the warden fights suck. However, the level design is fantastic, the gameplay is great, the music and art are excellent. It also looks extremely good on the 1X.
I often wonder if these types of thread are indirect negative advertising.
Easily 5.
Followed by 4.
Fuck 343i for making books and comics required reading before jumping into these games.
Followed by 4.
Fuck 343i for making books and comics required reading before jumping into these games.
Halo and Silent Cartographer were open areas with linear goals(What else can you expect from an FPS story)
The rest of the levels, at the time were large and awe-inspiring for the most part, Truth and Reconciliation and Keyes were probably the most linear corridor level design.
Halo 5 is just extremely forgettable for like 95% of the game, and even the memorable parts don't hold up the the best parts of any of the other games. Its only real saving grace is Exuberant Witness. I liked the non-combat levels too, I hope those can get seriouslyexpanded on in the future. The story as a gigantic missed opportunity though.
H4 arguably has worse core gameplay, hut almost every level is at least conceptually or visually unique or interesting in some way. The story is kind of stupid, but at least it isn't H5's. Cortana should've stayed dead.
H6 will probably be of a similar calibur to the previous 2, but it'll have the advantage of being the game to (presumably) wrap up a bunch of awful story threads instead of being the one that Created (let's say that pun was intentional, shall we?) them.
Halo's best hope going forward is to drop/end the current Forerunner and Cortana storylines as fast as possible and go back to basics somehow. Maybe focus on prequels and side-stories during the Covenant war when it made sense why we were fighting Elites and Forerunners were just mysterious ancient artifacts and not the horribly overdesigned skull face ass floating transformers we have now.
H4 arguably has worse core gameplay, hut almost every level is at least conceptually or visually unique or interesting in some way. The story is kind of stupid, but at least it isn't H5's. Cortana should've stayed dead.
H6 will probably be of a similar calibur to the previous 2, but it'll have the advantage of being the game to (presumably) wrap up a bunch of awful story threads instead of being the one that Created (let's say that pun was intentional, shall we?) them.
Halo's best hope going forward is to drop/end the current Forerunner and Cortana storylines as fast as possible and go back to basics somehow. Maybe focus on prequels and side-stories during the Covenant war when it made sense why we were fighting Elites and Forerunners were just mysterious ancient artifacts and not the horribly overdesigned skull face ass floating transformers we have now.
4 - It was focused on the Master Chief
5 - Most of the missions was a team I couldn't care less about
4 - The cutscenes were interesting
5 - I felt like I was watching an Avengers wannabe
4 - One final boss QTE that was crap
5 - Multiple boss battles that were repetitive and the final boss battle was everything x3 (or was it x4)
4 - Cortana is interesting
5 - wat
Spartans, Spartans everywhere. Buck from ODST is one now. Yeah.
I really can't understand why they went down that road. It's boring.
Aren't Spartan 4's just replacing ODST's these days?
Plus, I'm pretty sure that Rookie and co were killed off in a book. Don't quote me on that, though. I gave up following the 343i Halo lore. lol
343 is obsessed with making the multiplayer part of the lore so they found a way to justify Spartans fighting each other. In H4, I think it was called the "War Games" simulation or something.
The spartan situation is the worst thing 343 have done in terms of lore, maybe its the Forerunners, I cant decide...probably forerunners actually. Both are baffling bad decisions.
5 is easily the worst followed by 4. That said, I still enjoyed 5, it was fun. But it was no Halo CE/2/3. Those were epic masterpieces.
5 basically felt like what Halo would have been like if EA had made it.
5 basically felt like what Halo would have been like if EA had made it.
Wait... do you guys really think that Halo 1 is the best campaign like the OP claims?
Because to me it's definitely the worst. Who the fuck liked all those ridiculous long repetitive sections like Library? That level was fucking torture when I played it originally, I kept waiting for it to end but it kept on going.
That level alone makes me knock down the game's rating by at least 2 points on a 10-pt scale.
Because to me it's definitely the worst. Who the fuck liked all those ridiculous long repetitive sections like Library? That level was fucking torture when I played it originally, I kept waiting for it to end but it kept on going.
That level alone makes me knock down the game's rating by at least 2 points on a 10-pt scale.
5 is the only one I haven’t played but I can’t process how it can be even worse than 4. What happened?
Halo 4 and 5 definitely feels like they put some shitty fanfic writer in charge, all the lame BS about the emotional story of the Chief ended up being a wet fart in the face of fans. Extremely disappointing showing. 343 has yet to show they can make a competent Halo game after 8 years working on it, definitely time for a shakeup.
OMG
It just feels like 343 wants to kill everything passed Halo and insert anything so it could be theirs. It would be alot easier if they made their own game. They are talented.
Didn't they also killed some other team? Black team?
Black Team was killed by the Didact in the comics that take place after Halo 4... lol
I thought I heard that.lol
Legendary Black team killed like it was nothing. Again,everything passed Halo needs to go away.
Next up is Chief.
5 was completely unenjoyable for me playing single player as I always do for Halo campaigns. Resurrection mechanics were bullshit, AI was bullshit, constant 4-man team was bullshit, just overall a feeling of dumbass bullshit. Master Chief has a team now? Please. I enjoyed all the other Halos a lot but not this one.
Reach isn’t great, worst Bungie campaign. I do enjoy Long Night of Solace though.