Reach embodies what the greater world of Halo was about. Loss. Not steam rolling through the Covenant as the bad ass Master Chief, but humanity fighting tooth and nail just to maintain a small sliver of hope. Needing the sacrifice of Spartans. The greatest weapons of humanity, to lay down their lives just to let others live to make another sacrifice another day
Reach was the first halo game I played from start to finish, so it defined what halo was for me. It _was_ halo. So I was a bit confused when I got around to the other ones to find the goofy vibes
For me, Halo Reach really is the ultimate halo story, bc it highlights what made halo’s story so good in the first place: it was never about chief. It was about the world. And as a marine IRL, the attention to detail with the dialogue and story… it just feels so authentic
Your take on Reach is unbelievably diabolical that I disagree with almost completely. Like at first I was like “ok I can kinda see it I guess” but as you kept going on about being the “newbie” and not being chief I progressively was like “bro what are you on rn.”
Honestly, what kind of crack is this guy smoking. The whole point of reach is to make you feel like a badass spartan team that is up against impossible odds. Slowly those odds inevitably overwhelm you, but everyone dies a hero fighting for all of humanity. How do you not love that?
@@jebwatsonI think he thinks noble 6 being a rookie to noble team made him a rookie Spartan but he was anything but that. If anything I think reach is the best storytelling as you don't have an insanely lucky insane power fantasy (which I still love) with chief.
I remember sitting outside the game store late at night waiting for those doors to open to get the early release. Played a few hours even on a school night. It was all worth it.
12:45 i have never had a video lose me this fast in my entire life. Halo reach wasn’t even my first halo and I’ve never disagreed with someone’s reasoning for not liking something like this before EVER
Still watching the Reach section, but I just find myself disagreeing with some stuff. Noble Six never felt like they were leading the charge to me, more so like they were the one stuck doing all the dirty work. You’re there to witness every one of your teammates’ deaths from Jorge onward, and you see the full scale of how much of a tragedy the fall of Reach really was. I don’t think they intended for it to be an unraveling mystery either - at most, it was more of a sinking feeling of “Can we really win this?” I agree that the characters were kind of weak, but it’s not a character driven story to begin with. It’s about the Fall of Reach, and all the Spartans can do this time is follow orders and hope things turn out for the better, yet they never do. On a side note, I do like Noble Six though and the bits of emotion they do show, like how Jorge’s death must’ve had some effect on them if they felt sorry for coming back to the team alone. Yeah though, Reach at its core is just a story about how in spite of how hopeless the battle of Reach may have felt, your actions did mean something in the end - humanity couldn’t have won without your sacrifice. It’s also got my favorite OST and my 2 favorite missions in New Alexandria and Lone Wolf, so that counts for something.
15:44 tbf Six was the ranking officer behind Carter and Kat and had the deadliest combat rating so kind of tracks that he led a lot of missions. He was new to the team but he wasn’t some green soldier fresh out of training. However I do agree the first couple of Reach missions were mid and the game needed a better inciting incident
Well I think they were weak because at that time covenant wasn't a threat. They were weak because there was no real threat at the time just small skirmishes. Shit only gets way more oomph when the frigate gets glassed and that's when the fall of reach begins
Just adding one thing to Halo Reach. The only reason we play Noble six is because he was the last one that was going to survive long enough to see everything humanity lost. He/she wasn’t bad ass, they were brand new to the team just like we were as the player. Six saw an entire team of spartans die right in front of him/her. Six wasn’t meant to be THE story. My favorite death is when Kat’s shields were down and she just got headshot. That one always stuck with me. Just like that a bad ass could die. Idk man. Reach was the perfect story.
I agree with everything you said except the part of Six not meant to be bad ass. Everything said about Six in the story further explains why he is such a bad ass. For starters his entire file being censored meaning everything he has done is classified and then the title of “lone wolf” you dont hear that without thinking “oh hes a badass”
Reach for me is a top 2 game of all time, the story is amazing and all of the characters are super interesting at least for me, their armor all look so badass and especially Emile he’s always been my favorite halo character.
ODST is a Halo 3 DLC and it wasn't a full priced game. It was $40 and pre released the Mythic 1 and 2 map packs. Map packs were also $20 each back then so value wise you got a campaign at the quality and size of actual Halo 3 bundled with a hardcopy that has $80 worth of DLC on it. Damn good deal if you ask me, 343 could never
@benc77 In the US in '07 full priced games like Halo 3 were $59.99 plus tax and ODST was $39.99 plus tax similar to Halo CEA. ODST definitely wasn't sold as a full price title, at least here in the US.
I’m tired of having to listen to Halo Reach slander. I don’t care what anyone else says, my own opinion of Halo Reach is that it’s the best Halo. Also acting like the Reach story is building up a huge story where we already know the ending so it isn’t satisfying is a wild take when it’s a story about hope and futility,
Yeah it’s almost like it’s HIS list and can say anything he wants as it’s HIS opinion, and you don’t HAVE to listen to it. You clicked on the video man 😂 I agree halo reach is higher on my list as well, but god forbid someome else has a differing opinion to you. If you enjoyed it, why does it matter where someone puts it??
Personally I love hearing other people’s opinions on stuff I put higher, as everyone has different experiences. There’s so many titles that everyone’s list will always be different, which is why these are so interesting. Him saying that stuff about reach doesn’t take away my enjoyment I had with it, nor is he forcing me to change my opinion. So why does it annoy you?
@@charlietaylor-barnes1706 dude I still liked the video. His video was on his opinion and I commented mine. Please pound sand. He’s not gonna fuck you bro
@@charlietaylor-barnes1706 his take barely had any praise? he just was straight hating on it.. So ya that guy and me are sick of hearing that BS. Reach is a fantastic story and is much better than ODST at the minimum.
The chapter title “there’ll be another time” is a such kick in the balls man. Yes there will be another time. A time that has already passed, the glory days of halo we already grew up with, the story we already know, behind us, never to return.
Reach is interesting cause it wasn’t “the Halo team” it was kind of the leftovers. Joe Staten and Jaimie Greismer had both moved on to destiny/being pushed out of bungie. Who was left was Marcus Lehto, Lee Wilson stepping up to fill the spot Joe vacated, and Jamie’s successor. And it really feels like it’s not the same halo team as the first three
Halo 2 was always my favorite. I love Halo 3 multiplayer but the campaign isn’t as fun to me. I think fighting the brutes the whole game is what takes it down a notch.
5:58 Fun little factoid; the game doesn’t force you to stay on the Mammoth! I remember when I was kid, I grabbed the jet pack on the top level, used it to balance my landing, and hijacked a ghost. Then, driving forward, it would cause the Mammoth to hilariously speed up to catch up to your progress. Pretty sure it’s a strategy used in speedrunning
Love this I played halo 2 first and halo 4 has such a good story and I actually replay it a lot compared to halo 2 halo 4 the only bad mission for me was the forest one I love everything about the campain
I think your wrong about reach. I never grew up with any of these games and didn't hold any nostalgia for any of them. Reach was my first game and I didn't immediately fall in love the series and as I played the other entries Reach became my favorite campaign. Its not about the story of Noble 6, or noble team, its about reach, how humanity will fight to the last breath to save whats theirs, clinging to a dying hope. I agree that the earlier missions are slower and not as good as the later but as a new player to the franchise learning about the covenant and thinking we were going to win because no matter the game you ALWAYS win was amazing. As the missions keep going eventually I realized that reach was going to fall and that no matter what I did it would not matter
I’ve been on a video essay kick, so the algorithm shot you my way. It’s super cool to see and listen to someone smaller while they talk about something I also love. Good luck on your journey, dude. Keep it up!
This is an example of a very well made ranking video, I disagree with every single one of the rankings and stand by my opinion, but every reason you put down was reasonable and the script was well written. Great video!
Halo 2 will forever be my all time favorite piece of media. The story, the gameplay, the soundtrack, everything. Playing through the campaign on legendary will be one of the only experiences where I'm beyond frustrated but somehow loving every second of it. I find it charming and it's extremely influential to this day. Its flaws blended with its true greatness are what make it a perfect masterpiece imo
While I personally wouldn’t call it perfect mostly due to its rough development process and some poor balance at times, it is an excellent game and its problems essentially come down to a bunch of nitpicks.
I understand your confusion on Six being the “new guy” to the team and therefore you would assume he isnt as skilled so why is he seen to be “leading the charge”. But you have to understand his rank in the military, hes a new guy to the team hes not a rookie. He’s a Lieutenant in the Navy which automatically made him the third highest ranking officer on the team. Carter being commander means he will usually oversee the mission, Kat is a lieutenant Commander and also a data specialist so she will be with Carter to help command. Whereas Six is the Lieutenant among 3 warrant officers which would automatically make him ground team leader. He commands on the ground while Kat and Carter oversee the mission and give appropriate orders
This is exactly why I love Reach, it is not about a legendary soldier destroying hundreds of covenants with badass moments, it is about war, death, hope and thus, regular humans.
13:48 I agree with your take on Reach. I didn’t like it at all upon release. I’ve come to appreciate it more as I get older, but the first 3 Halo’s are all 16:49 THANK YOU!!! I was a huge book fan before Reach came out. . My ranking: 1. Halo 2 2. Halo CE 3. Halo 3 4. Halo Reach 5. Halo 3 ODST 6. Halo Infinite (I never finished this one) 7. Halo 4 8. Halo 5 (I never finished this one)
Based take honestly; I love Halo 4, and the amount of hate I’ve gotten for it online and irl is CRAZY. Like it’s not Ride to Hell Retribution, it’s just a different shooter. Halo is good, and that’s good!
I only beat 5 recently for the first time too. Couldn’t do it when it came out. Absolutely ass cheese. When getting closer to the finish my mate and I were jokingly saying that there is going to be a final 7 warden eternals to end the game, and when the last chief mission has the 9 Wardens (Cortana kills 6, so you only fight 3) we absolutely lost it and had to stop and recover because we just could not believe how much of a joke this game was story wise.
They can never, _will never,_ capture the magic that Bungie had. Honestly, at this point, let Chief retire - and give us someone new. Someone that they can make their own.
Seriously 343 err I mean Halo studios has been trying to make Halo their own from the get go (as seen from the fact they wanted to change all the voice actors since Halo 4, but THANK GOD the early play testers piped up and said “WTF is this?”) Retiring the Chief would be the perfect way to do that and tell a Halo story of their own while not tarnishing the legacy of the OG games (plus Steve Downes isn’t gonna live forever and eventually wants to be done with VA work).
I got to 2nd place and agreed with your list entirely but disagreed that 1st should be 3 and 2nd should be 2. But your assessment is spot on and sold me . Well done !
After seeing Reach at 5th I knew the rest of the list perfectly. Halo ODST, CE, 3, then 2. Reach has to be my #1 by far, followed by ODST, 3, 2, 1, INFINITE, 4 then 5.
"Yep, you're mad at me." No I'm not, Infinte was dogshit. Only thing it has over 5 is that it genuinely looks good, but that's just because 343 *finally* did what they should have done from the start, making Bungie's artistic vision look prettier.
Personally I think Emile was well written too. You can see his ego and attitude change as his team starts to die off. He begins to see that Spartans aren't invincible.
I couldnt agree more with the list, but, most of all, the arguments used for the placements. Love Halo, hope to see it return to its former glory! Salutes from Brazil!
Great video! I really like your commentary and giving a fair reflection of the Halo campaigns that often gets positioned into "old games good, new games bad" mentalities. I definitely liked the gameplay of the newer ones and making the games look good, even though the story was not the best. I agree with your playlist order, although I personally swap ODST and Halo CE, although Halo CE and ODST are really close to each other in their place on your list. Based on gameplay, Halo CE has a greater replayability and its combat has aged very nicely. ODST, to me, tells a better, emotional history that makes you care for each character. Halo CE was a perfect introduction to the series, through its characters and combat, along with the Floor introduction, though the emotional hit it tries to do with Captain Keyes really doesn't hit me that hard. ODST has an enjoyable story that has some gameplay issues, mainly with the visuals being either too dark or way too bright, although I appreciate the vulnerability you deal with as an ODST and not as the Master Chief. Anyways, great video and commentary! Nice job!
This was a very beautifully scripted love letter to the Halo games, very good video. Halo 3 was my first, and I've probably played the campaign 100s of times throughout my life
My list: Halo 2 Halo 3 Halo CE Halo 3 ODST Halo Reach Halo Infinite Halo 4 Halo 5 Didn't watch the video yet if we have the same list its cause we are both Prophets of facts.
HOLY SHIT WE HAVE THE SAME LIST!!!! Hahaaaa, we are the Prophets of Facts! (Fyi I fast forwarded through the video, that's why my comments aren't 40 mins apart)
@YesNo-yl6ws honestly, the story should have ended at 3. 4 and 5 turned Chief into an over emotional character and changed his relationship with Cortana into something weird. Infinite did a little better, but the over emotional Chief still shows up from time to time. Honestly, hardly anything that happened in 4 and 5 even matters in Infinite. It barely gets a passing mention. Halo Wars 2 is really the biggest contributor to its story.
Halo 4 UNDER halo 5 is diabolical. Compared to the other halo games, yes halo 4 was lacking, but it's a good game with a decent story, at least compared to newer games, ESPECIALLY halo 5. - halo 4 has lots of content and some fun sequences, kinda balancing the good ones with the bad ones
@@thenoob2021 Nah 4 is the reason the story is still so messed up. Cortana being evil is lame but it's way more believable than having the Forerunners be aliens who created Chief and the entire events of CE-3 so MC could be the chosen one to fight a guy with a laser that turns people into robot holograms.
10:10 343 said they wanted to recreate the feeling of the first Halo. What many fans thought was a recreation of Halo:CE’s style but what 343 meant was the first mission set on Halo. Instead of having an open world game with a bunch of different environments, like deserts, islands, swamps and snow, they made a game where the entire esthetic is based on One level in the entire franchise.
With Reach, I personally that if it wasn't for the first few levels that made you feel like the UNSC was winning, I don't think the last few levels wouldn't be as impactful with that feeling of desperation
My personnal opinion as a first hour fan back from the original Xbox : #1 CE, H2, H3 (three games equally) #2 Halo: Reach #3 Halo Infinite (yes) #4 Halo 3: ODST #5 Halo 4 #6 Halo 5: Guardians
@JL-vk1rs Because i know it can be a problem to some, but again, to me, after the huge failures that were Halo 4 & 5, Infinite's was just such an immense bowl of fresh air that i desperately needed at this point.
I like reach. Not my favorite for a lot of reasons but it’s solid. My biggest gripe with the game is just how.. generic it all feels. Noble team, while cool, is pretty surface level. Each character is very one note. The quiet badass (I guess there’s two between Emile and 6), the nerd, the leader, the softy, the smartass sniper. Armor abilities felt like a shot at trying to snag some of the other shooters’ audiences (and was the initial idea that led to the downfall for sprint and armor movement), which isn’t a bad thing, but it just feels shallow. Same with the art style, switching from bold bright colors with high contrast to highlight the enemies, friendlies, and environments to the drab piss filter that went over every game from 2008-2014. I like so much of the skeleton of the game, I just wish we got more time with the characters, a more lively world, and the armor abilities got more testing/tweaking.
@@masturch33f66 I still love H3, the gap down to Infinite is larger than the gap between H3 and Reach. But H3 does feel very much like the last act of H2 than its own story, and it has my least favorite level in the series. Cortana.
@ Yea Cortana’s pretty bad. But it does have The Storm, Ark and Covenant which are the 3 best levels in the series. Halo 2 is my personal favorite campaign, though. I gotta say that The Covenant is THE Halo level. It has everything ranging from a warthog section, to close quarters combat, to an air section, a tank section, another air section with 2 scarabs, allying with the flood temporarily, and some really badass cutscenes like Arbiter taking down Truth. Plus the level combines both a grassy level and a snow level together.
My first game ever was Metal Slug, i fell in love with the first one, the military themes and setting wich i prefer over the obviously better and beloved MS2, MSX and MS3, the one thing i loved more than anything was the tanks, the Metal Slugs. Now the First fully 3D game i ever played was Halo 2, the very first mission i played? Metropolis, imagine my hype when for the first time, was able to drive a tank in a 3D enviroment, see those little Metal Slugs in a "realistic" game, those two games are my favorite, marked my life like nothing else.
It kinda struck me as weird when I tended to love military sci-fi and fantasy but couldn’t really dig Reach’s narrative. Reach fans tend to say they like it because it’s not about being some superhero saving the galaxy but about regular humans and soldiers (which isn’t even tacitly true since you are a genetically engineered super-soldier trying to defend the last line of defense before Earth). It helped me realize though that I love military fiction novels like The Black Company and Malazan and not stories like most Tom Clancy books and movies because the presentation is almost always around being a business-professional military instead of presenting a group of characters that happened to be soldiers. They also have an identity beyond just being marines. To elaborate it never feels like we see what each Spartan specifically bring to the job. Kat is the technician/sapper and not much outside of that, Carter is the leader and not much outside of that, etc etc. The only real exception to this is Jorge for me who actually has some cool stuff around being a more empathetic Spartan who’s more comfortable taking the mask off (figuratively and literally). Compare this to someone like Fiddler in Malazan who’s a sapper similar to Kat. Both are very resourceful and cunning. They’re both exceptional at their job and border somewhere on the extra-human, but Fiddler is shown to be disagreeable at times yet an ultimately reliable veteran who stabilizes a young and unproven squad of marines. He has a compelling relationship with his squad because the group is actually able to regularly interact, make mistakes, or do the unexpected. With Reach it feels as if these characters *are* the job and nothing more. You can probably explain this with some lore about Spartans but I just find that a very handwavy way to say that these characters are flat and uninteresting on purpose, which doesn’t change the fact that they are flat and uninteresting. I understand the desire to make Reach lean more to the military-fiction side of Halo over the space opera, and I definitely think it could have worked. But the way dialogue is handled, and the way its characters are presented feel at odds with the story it’s trying to tell. This is still half space-opera whether fans realize it or not. This is still about the genocide of humanity and saving the race. The stakes are still as gargantuan as the series has ever been. Yet at the end of the day over half the story is just Noble Six quietly following orders until they die, with the rest of Noble Team doing the same. And for a fictional narrative that just doesn’t work at all for me. It’s also part of why I feel ODST accomplished this type of in-the-trenches, boots on the ground type of narrative far better. The stakes were for at least 90% of the story actually lower and more grounded. For a lot of the game it’s trying to find out what happened to your squad mates and getting them back together again after they’ve been scattered. The group (for better and for worse) does have history and tension between them eachother, as well as meaningful moments where they work as a unit. It’s not perfect as it still falls short in the same areas as Reach does for a few of them, but it works far better for me because I’m given reason to care about them. In the end I just don’t think video games have as good a track record of telling military-fiction narratives as well as film and especially books/novels. And even then I feel as if Reach didn’t go with the best influences, and there’s plenty of tonal dissonance between what’s actually happening on-screen and what the game wants us to feel. Reach is a stellar game, and even if I prefer the gun-play and map design of the previous Bungie games, Reach still has some of my favorite missions like Lone Wolf and New Alexandria. It’s a fantastic game, just lower on the totem-pole for me for feeling lacking in both the moment to moment gameplay and especially the narrative
I think halo infinite deserves more praise. It is a lot of fun to play that game. It feels like what a halo game should play like. If the campaign wasn’t missing chunks of the storyline and the world was a little more diverse, then it would have been a masterpiece!
I wish we had gotten the Cortana boss fight the concept art suggested, where The Weapon and Cortana were going to face off while Master Chief defends them both, with The Weapon defeating her by absorbing her like Tycho absorbing Leela. It was... Poetic.
My Personal Rankings 1. Halo Reach 2. Halo 3 3. Halo 2 4. Halo 3 ODST 5. Halo Infinite 6. Halo 4 7. Halo CE 8. Halo 5 I know Ranking Halo CE so low is a crime, but I genuinely have only ever enjoyed Halo CE when playing cursed Halo. The game came out the year I was born, and the first Halo I played was Halo 2, I do not think it is timeless, and it really feels like an early shooter, I do recognize that it was innovative, and I wouldn't have gotten so many amazing games without it but playing through it for me is like pulling teeth. Halo 2 would be 1st if half the game wasn't holdout sections to extend the run time.
Noble team being Spartan IIIs was amazing. Giving them personality unlike Master Cheif being a Spartan II that was more of a machine personality. Also Noble 6 is the only other Spartan given the title Hyper Lethal other than Master Cheif. Reach is literally top with 3 and ODST
I think 343's main issue is they didn't commit to one thing, and when they finally committed to the banished it all fell apart cause half the game was missing and the dlc was pretty much never going to happen, overall 343 just dropped ball after ball and microsoft has shown little care for the series ever since reach
I think for me no.1 is 3 or reach. Even if Halo 2 was my first Halo I ever played but I think I was too young + played mostly multiplayer at friends. The third one is just this amazing way of wrapping things up. It just awesome in every single way honestly. It just ends in a very satisfying way. Halo reach however was the first Halo game (never owned a og xbox or 360 until like 2011) I myself owned and learnt. I played it so much and became the person Who helped People with legendary runs and stuff. I still do think reach has a great story and is a perfect way for bungie to leave the franchise. But I might also be very nostalgic for the game itself.
Every true Halo fan. Halo CE most classic, nostalgic, best in universe zeitgeist, art direction Halo 2: best campaign story, fleshing out of the covenant sets it apart, transformed FPS competitive community Halo 3: best overall game, best physics and sandbox, Polished, refined, VERY best multiplayer/matchmaking/ranking/ above all , best release, fondest memories ODST - real awesome 👏 more fun in the best Halo sandbox Halo Reach: fondest memories for some depending on age, incredible forge/customs, tons of Bungie magic still but the beginning of the end (we lost classic movement, and never got it back) Halo 4: cheeks all around. Over designed, new enemy types mega ass. Doesn’t feel like halo Halo 5: unmitigated Dogwater Infinite: more maddening 343 - finally a super fun campaign, great combat tho repetitive environments hold it back - Competitive and multiplayer still a country mile from Halo 3 perfection
ODST is my number 1 but besides that I fully agree with the list. I think the main thing for me that just edges ODST over 2 is just that I find it a lot less stressful to playthrough and I prefer the weapon balance.
@ Halo 2’s campaign still slaps, just that there are certain parts that piss me off to no end even on Normal mode. It’s good if you want a challenge, just not as fun for me in a standard playthrough.
Having beat all these games solo on legendary laso this is the rank I give them 🥇 Halo 3 🥈 Halo 2 🥉 Halo reach 4. Halo CE 5. Halo infinite 6. Halo 3 odst 7. Halo 4 8. Halo 5
Move Reach up to #1, keep everything else the same and it's pretty accurate. Reach is genuinely one of the best story games I've ever played. As a story game I enjoyed it as much as something like the Red Dead Redemption series. Incredible game.
I liked the theme of reach, every other halo game you play, you know that you’ll win in the end. But in reach it’s just a losing battle mission after mission, and it progressively gets worse as you play through the game.
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1. Halo 2
2. Halo Combat Evolved
3. Halo Reach
4. Halo 3
5. Halo 4
6. Halo 3 odst
7. Halo 5
@@samuelmunoz1464 ODST is way too low, Reach is way too high
yes. halo 4 wipes the floor with infinite
@@samuelmunoz1464I never cared for halo 2
Reach embodies what the greater world of Halo was about. Loss. Not steam rolling through the Covenant as the bad ass Master Chief, but humanity fighting tooth and nail just to maintain a small sliver of hope. Needing the sacrifice of Spartans. The greatest weapons of humanity, to lay down their lives just to let others live to make another sacrifice another day
Reach was the first halo game I played from start to finish, so it defined what halo was for me. It _was_ halo. So I was a bit confused when I got around to the other ones to find the goofy vibes
Yes because halo ce didn't embody loss.... the entire pillar of autumn crew were wiped out. Bar chief and Johnson etc
@@owainevans89yes but that’s not really explored in the campaign as much as reach, except for in 343 guilty spark
That doesn't automatically make it better than 5th place
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Better at conveying desperation and loss, yes.
Reach at 5th is honestly so offensive
How
I think it's pretty valid
It isn’t at all.
People glaze that game because everyone tells them too, but it’s not even top 3
@@thebeatleswin1wym ppl tell them to? It’s all personal preference
Should of been 3rd place minimal
Halo 5 is in last place 🤝
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Obviously.
The one thing the Halo fandom agrees on (probably)
Was gonna click off if I saw anything other then halo 5 in last
That’s all I need 👍🏻
For me, Halo Reach really is the ultimate halo story, bc it highlights what made halo’s story so good in the first place: it was never about chief. It was about the world. And as a marine IRL, the attention to detail with the dialogue and story… it just feels so authentic
I think the story is fricken fantastic, but the levels themselves are mid outside of the story
Your take on Reach is unbelievably diabolical that I disagree with almost completely. Like at first I was like “ok I can kinda see it I guess” but as you kept going on about being the “newbie” and not being chief I progressively was like “bro what are you on rn.”
Honestly, what kind of crack is this guy smoking. The whole point of reach is to make you feel like a badass spartan team that is up against impossible odds. Slowly those odds inevitably overwhelm you, but everyone dies a hero fighting for all of humanity. How do you not love that?
@@jebwatsonI think he thinks noble 6 being a rookie to noble team made him a rookie Spartan but he was anything but that. If anything I think reach is the best storytelling as you don't have an insanely lucky insane power fantasy (which I still love) with chief.
The release of Halo 2 was an event. I’ll never forget being at midnight launch and playing all night. Halo 3 was quite similar
I remember sitting outside the game store late at night waiting for those doors to open to get the early release. Played a few hours even on a school night. It was all worth it.
12:45 i have never had a video lose me this fast in my entire life. Halo reach wasn’t even my first halo and I’ve never disagreed with someone’s reasoning for not liking something like this before EVER
Still watching the Reach section, but I just find myself disagreeing with some stuff.
Noble Six never felt like they were leading the charge to me, more so like they were the one stuck doing all the dirty work. You’re there to witness every one of your teammates’ deaths from Jorge onward, and you see the full scale of how much of a tragedy the fall of Reach really was. I don’t think they intended for it to be an unraveling mystery either - at most, it was more of a sinking feeling of “Can we really win this?”
I agree that the characters were kind of weak, but it’s not a character driven story to begin with. It’s about the Fall of Reach, and all the Spartans can do this time is follow orders and hope things turn out for the better, yet they never do. On a side note, I do like Noble Six though and the bits of emotion they do show, like how Jorge’s death must’ve had some effect on them if they felt sorry for coming back to the team alone. Yeah though, Reach at its core is just a story about how in spite of how hopeless the battle of Reach may have felt, your actions did mean something in the end - humanity couldn’t have won without your sacrifice.
It’s also got my favorite OST and my 2 favorite missions in New Alexandria and Lone Wolf, so that counts for something.
even if 6 was leading the charge it makes sense, considering he is probably the best fighter out of the entire team
the lack of character also shows how the spartans just were replaceable, they never really develop relationships because they die to soon to even try.
15:44 tbf Six was the ranking officer behind Carter and Kat and had the deadliest combat rating so kind of tracks that he led a lot of missions. He was new to the team but he wasn’t some green soldier fresh out of training. However I do agree the first couple of Reach missions were mid and the game needed a better inciting incident
Well I think they were weak because at that time covenant wasn't a threat. They were weak because there was no real threat at the time just small skirmishes. Shit only gets way more oomph when the frigate gets glassed and that's when the fall of reach begins
Just adding one thing to Halo Reach. The only reason we play Noble six is because he was the last one that was going to survive long enough to see everything humanity lost. He/she wasn’t bad ass, they were brand new to the team just like we were as the player. Six saw an entire team of spartans die right in front of him/her. Six wasn’t meant to be THE story. My favorite death is when Kat’s shields were down and she just got headshot. That one always stuck with me. Just like that a bad ass could die. Idk man. Reach was the perfect story.
I agree with everything you said except the part of Six not meant to be bad ass. Everything said about Six in the story further explains why he is such a bad ass. For starters his entire file being censored meaning everything he has done is classified and then the title of “lone wolf” you dont hear that without thinking “oh hes a badass”
Reach for me is a top 2 game of all time, the story is amazing and all of the characters are super interesting at least for me, their armor all look so badass and especially Emile he’s always been my favorite halo character.
ODST is a Halo 3 DLC and it wasn't a full priced game. It was $40 and pre released the Mythic 1 and 2 map packs.
Map packs were also $20 each back then so value wise you got a campaign at the quality and size of actual Halo 3 bundled with a hardcopy that has $80 worth of DLC on it. Damn good deal if you ask me, 343 could never
Halo odst is better than halo 4 and halo 5
40 back then was more than it is now
@benc77 Full priced game back then was still $60.
@ really ? I come from the uk so it was different here
@benc77 In the US in '07 full priced games like Halo 3 were $59.99 plus tax and ODST was $39.99 plus tax similar to Halo CEA. ODST definitely wasn't sold as a full price title, at least here in the US.
I’m tired of having to listen to Halo Reach slander. I don’t care what anyone else says, my own opinion of Halo Reach is that it’s the best Halo. Also acting like the Reach story is building up a huge story where we already know the ending so it isn’t satisfying is a wild take when it’s a story about hope and futility,
Yeah it’s almost like it’s HIS list and can say anything he wants as it’s HIS opinion, and you don’t HAVE to listen to it. You clicked on the video man 😂 I agree halo reach is higher on my list as well, but god forbid someome else has a differing opinion to you. If you enjoyed it, why does it matter where someone puts it??
Personally I love hearing other people’s opinions on stuff I put higher, as everyone has different experiences. There’s so many titles that everyone’s list will always be different, which is why these are so interesting. Him saying that stuff about reach doesn’t take away my enjoyment I had with it, nor is he forcing me to change my opinion. So why does it annoy you?
@@charlietaylor-barnes1706 dude I still liked the video. His video was on his opinion and I commented mine. Please pound sand. He’s not gonna fuck you bro
@@charlietaylor-barnes1706 his take barely had any praise? he just was straight hating on it.. So ya that guy and me are sick of hearing that BS. Reach is a fantastic story and is much better than ODST at the minimum.
The chapter title “there’ll be another time” is a such kick in the balls man. Yes there will be another time. A time that has already passed, the glory days of halo we already grew up with, the story we already know, behind us, never to return.
It’s true. My gamer balls really do hurt when I think about it.
Reach is interesting cause it wasn’t “the Halo team” it was kind of the leftovers. Joe Staten and Jaimie Greismer had both moved on to destiny/being pushed out of bungie. Who was left was Marcus Lehto, Lee Wilson stepping up to fill the spot Joe vacated, and Jamie’s successor. And it really feels like it’s not the same halo team as the first three
Didn't know this! Fascinating stuff
Halo 2 was always my favorite. I love Halo 3 multiplayer but the campaign isn’t as fun to me. I think fighting the brutes the whole game is what takes it down a notch.
Yeah there’s a lot of cool almost cinematic fights in Halo 3, but it never felt as fun as Halo 2.
and you found the bullet sponge brutes fun? i probably played it wrong a few days ago but they ate plasma like old Nicocado Avocado on normal diff
5:58 Fun little factoid; the game doesn’t force you to stay on the Mammoth! I remember when I was kid, I grabbed the jet pack on the top level, used it to balance my landing, and hijacked a ghost. Then, driving forward, it would cause the Mammoth to hilariously speed up to catch up to your progress. Pretty sure it’s a strategy used in speedrunning
Factoid I’m pretty sure is something said as a fact but isn’t true
I loved the halo 4 story. Really solidified the relationship between chief and Cortana. Mainly due to the acting of Cortana. Chef’s kiss
Love this I played halo 2 first and halo 4 has such a good story and I actually replay it a lot compared to halo 2 halo 4 the only bad mission for me was the forest one I love everything about the campain
I think your wrong about reach. I never grew up with any of these games and didn't hold any nostalgia for any of them. Reach was my first game and I didn't immediately fall in love the series and as I played the other entries Reach became my favorite campaign.
Its not about the story of Noble 6, or noble team, its about reach, how humanity will fight to the last breath to save whats theirs, clinging to a dying hope.
I agree that the earlier missions are slower and not as good as the later but as a new player to the franchise learning about the covenant and thinking we were going to win because no matter the game you ALWAYS win was amazing. As the missions keep going eventually I realized that reach was going to fall and that no matter what I did it would not matter
You still win in the end but it's such a small win
I’ve been on a video essay kick, so the algorithm shot you my way. It’s super cool to see and listen to someone smaller while they talk about something I also love.
Good luck on your journey, dude. Keep it up!
This is an example of a very well made ranking video, I disagree with every single one of the rankings and stand by my opinion, but every reason you put down was reasonable and the script was well written. Great video!
Care to give your list?
@ it’s too controversial man, police knocking down the door
@@EJturtle09 I am curious at least...Where would you put HALO 4's campaign specifically?
@ That’s probably one of my more controversial takes, it would be dead last, and it would even be close.
@@EJturtle09 a fascinating perspective, then.
0:42 "is such a pillar in my autumn of my child hood" thats some crazy word play.
Its more cringe and overused than it is crazy
@@tackleberry9386 i never seen the joke. before.
Man I was not expecting Halo Wars 2 to be #1, but I respect it.
🤣
Halo 2 will forever be my all time favorite piece of media. The story, the gameplay, the soundtrack, everything. Playing through the campaign on legendary will be one of the only experiences where I'm beyond frustrated but somehow loving every second of it. I find it charming and it's extremely influential to this day. Its flaws blended with its true greatness are what make it a perfect masterpiece imo
This guy gets it. Halo 2 is a game unlike any other.
THANK YOU. Halo 2 is in a league of it's own
While I personally wouldn’t call it perfect mostly due to its rough development process and some poor balance at times, it is an excellent game and its problems essentially come down to a bunch of nitpicks.
It could have been the greatest game oat if it wasn t for the hardware limitations
I understand your confusion on Six being the “new guy” to the team and therefore you would assume he isnt as skilled so why is he seen to be “leading the charge”. But you have to understand his rank in the military, hes a new guy to the team hes not a rookie. He’s a Lieutenant in the Navy which automatically made him the third highest ranking officer on the team. Carter being commander means he will usually oversee the mission, Kat is a lieutenant Commander and also a data specialist so she will be with Carter to help command. Whereas Six is the Lieutenant among 3 warrant officers which would automatically make him ground team leader. He commands on the ground while Kat and Carter oversee the mission and give appropriate orders
This is exactly why I love Reach, it is not about a legendary soldier destroying hundreds of covenants with badass moments, it is about war, death, hope and thus, regular humans.
13:48 I agree with your take on Reach. I didn’t like it at all upon release. I’ve come to appreciate it more as I get older, but the first 3 Halo’s are all
16:49 THANK YOU!!! I was a huge book fan before Reach came out.
. My ranking:
1. Halo 2
2. Halo CE
3. Halo 3
4. Halo Reach
5. Halo 3 ODST
6. Halo Infinite (I never finished this one)
7. Halo 4
8. Halo 5 (I never finished this one)
Man I hope you get way more subscribers from this! The writing, editing, and pacing of your video is so spectacular! No meandering, it's all meat!!!
too bad his writing is garbage and has flawed opinions
Halo Reach ranked this low... the only campaign that actually made me cry...😮
Facts reach 1 for sure
Reach is the first halo game that i was able to willingly sit through and complete. The story for me is splendid. 👌✨️
Honestly good critiques on Reach. I think a variation of 1, 2, and 3 is what belongs in 3, 2, and 1.
ur script writing is incredible, thoroughly loved listening to ur reviews on the games! gunna sub :)
I genuinely feel like there are no bad halo games. Even 5 has its own fun gameplay and cool moments. The worst a halo game can be is mediocre.
Based take honestly; I love Halo 4, and the amount of hate I’ve gotten for it online and irl is CRAZY. Like it’s not Ride to Hell Retribution, it’s just a different shooter. Halo is good, and that’s good!
there are HALO GAMES and then theres 343 slop. i enjoyed halo 4 but it is by far the worst halo i had played at the time like by FAR.
I also love halo 4. The best halo from 343 by far.@@gigginoxplayer
I only beat 5 recently for the first time too. Couldn’t do it when it came out. Absolutely ass cheese. When getting closer to the finish my mate and I were jokingly saying that there is going to be a final 7 warden eternals to end the game, and when the last chief mission has the 9 Wardens (Cortana kills 6, so you only fight 3) we absolutely lost it and had to stop and recover because we just could not believe how much of a joke this game was story wise.
Dude I just played all the halo campaigns again on pc and odst gave me the most nostalgic feeling wish I played that more back In the day
Halo Reach speaks to me on an emotional, spritiual, and physical level
Its funny because soo many people seemed to hate halo 2. Its my favorite title in the series. Has been since day 1.
I hope they remake it at this point there isn't anyway the shitty story can go cohesively the way they keeps crack addling around with 343 writing it.
They can never, _will never,_ capture the magic that Bungie had. Honestly, at this point, let Chief retire - and give us someone new. Someone that they can make their own.
Seriously 343 err I mean Halo studios has been trying to make Halo their own from the get go (as seen from the fact they wanted to change all the voice actors since Halo 4, but THANK GOD the early play testers piped up and said “WTF is this?”) Retiring the Chief would be the perfect way to do that and tell a Halo story of their own while not tarnishing the legacy of the OG games (plus Steve Downes isn’t gonna live forever and eventually wants to be done with VA work).
I got to 2nd place and agreed with your list entirely but disagreed that 1st should be 3 and 2nd should be 2. But your assessment is spot on and sold me . Well done !
After seeing Reach at 5th I knew the rest of the list perfectly. Halo ODST, CE, 3, then 2. Reach has to be my #1 by far, followed by ODST, 3, 2, 1, INFINITE, 4 then 5.
"Yep, you're mad at me." No I'm not, Infinte was dogshit. Only thing it has over 5 is that it genuinely looks good, but that's just because 343 *finally* did what they should have done from the start, making Bungie's artistic vision look prettier.
Am i the only one that loves halo 4 and 5 at this point?
Personally I think Emile was well written too. You can see his ego and attitude change as his team starts to die off. He begins to see that Spartans aren't invincible.
You missed the point of reach. It’s not telling a story about the characters it’s telling a story about the setting. Exactly like CE.
For Noble 6, remember he is not faceless, because the face is the one looking at the screen when it goes black
I couldnt agree more with the list, but, most of all, the arguments used for the placements. Love Halo, hope to see it return to its former glory! Salutes from Brazil!
Great video! I really like your commentary and giving a fair reflection of the Halo campaigns that often gets positioned into "old games good, new games bad" mentalities. I definitely liked the gameplay of the newer ones and making the games look good, even though the story was not the best. I agree with your playlist order, although I personally swap ODST and Halo CE, although Halo CE and ODST are really close to each other in their place on your list. Based on gameplay, Halo CE has a greater replayability and its combat has aged very nicely. ODST, to me, tells a better, emotional history that makes you care for each character. Halo CE was a perfect introduction to the series, through its characters and combat, along with the Floor introduction, though the emotional hit it tries to do with Captain Keyes really doesn't hit me that hard. ODST has an enjoyable story that has some gameplay issues, mainly with the visuals being either too dark or way too bright, although I appreciate the vulnerability you deal with as an ODST and not as the Master Chief. Anyways, great video and commentary! Nice job!
Reach's beginning missions are legit some of my favorites in all of Halo. ESPECIALLY the first mission
This was a very beautifully scripted love letter to the Halo games, very good video.
Halo 3 was my first, and I've probably played the campaign 100s of times throughout my life
Damn, hurts to remember when new aaa games actually lived up to the hype.
What an absolutely mind blowing trilogy.
First time I have fully agreed with someone’s ranking of Halo campaigns. Halo 2 will forever be peak imo!!
Happy to do you proud Spartan!
8:30 perfect description very funny 10/10
My list:
Halo 2
Halo 3
Halo CE
Halo 3 ODST
Halo Reach
Halo Infinite
Halo 4
Halo 5
Didn't watch the video yet if we have the same list its cause we are both Prophets of facts.
HOLY SHIT WE HAVE THE SAME LIST!!!! Hahaaaa, we are the Prophets of Facts! (Fyi I fast forwarded through the video, that's why my comments aren't 40 mins apart)
@@115spt2 WELL DAMN
This is mine except H3>H2
@@MEvans2703same here
The Didact was a Tzimisce that somehow wandered onto the set of a Halo game.
This made me cackle!
@@silentwillgames ohh ur zesty... vid makes sense now
400 subs??? Your writing is great, you sound like a 100k channel. It's to the point and clean. Good job 🫡
Appreciate the love dog🙏
Halo 2 cortana tho sheeeeeesh
1. Halo CE
2. Halo 3
3. Halo 2
4. Halo Reach
5. Halo ODST
6. Halo Infinite
7. Halo Wars 2
8. Halo Wars
9. Halo Fireteam Raven
10. Halo Spartan Assault
11. Halo Spartan Strike
12. Unrealeased Halo Megabloks game
13. Halo 5
14. Halo 4
So basically I can just completely skip halo 4 and 5?
@YesNo-yl6ws honestly, the story should have ended at 3. 4 and 5 turned Chief into an over emotional character and changed his relationship with Cortana into something weird.
Infinite did a little better, but the over emotional Chief still shows up from time to time.
Honestly, hardly anything that happened in 4 and 5 even matters in Infinite. It barely gets a passing mention. Halo Wars 2 is really the biggest contributor to its story.
Based. CE is the goat, fk Halo 4.
Halo 4 UNDER halo 5 is diabolical. Compared to the other halo games, yes halo 4 was lacking, but it's a good game with a decent story, at least compared to newer games, ESPECIALLY halo 5. - halo 4 has lots of content and some fun sequences, kinda balancing the good ones with the bad ones
@@thenoob2021 Nah 4 is the reason the story is still so messed up. Cortana being evil is lame but it's way more believable than having the Forerunners be aliens who created Chief and the entire events of CE-3 so MC could be the chosen one to fight a guy with a laser that turns people into robot holograms.
Poor Halo 4. I can’t in good conscience put it above any of bungee’s games or Infinite, but it really is a good game that is definitely underrated
The Didact portion of the story and the gameplay really drag it down for me. The Cortana story is genuinely pretty great
10:10 343 said they wanted to recreate the feeling of the first Halo. What many fans thought was a recreation of Halo:CE’s style but what 343 meant was the first mission set on Halo. Instead of having an open world game with a bunch of different environments, like deserts, islands, swamps and snow, they made a game where the entire esthetic is based on One level in the entire franchise.
Great list, only swaps I would do are swapping 5 and 4 and then swapping 1 and 3.
With Reach, I personally that if it wasn't for the first few levels that made you feel like the UNSC was winning, I don't think the last few levels wouldn't be as impactful with that feeling of desperation
My personnal opinion as a first hour fan back from the original Xbox :
#1 CE, H2, H3 (three games equally)
#2 Halo: Reach
#3 Halo Infinite (yes)
#4 Halo 3: ODST
#5 Halo 4
#6 Halo 5: Guardians
I love the (yes) after infinite 🤣
@JL-vk1rs Because i know it can be a problem to some, but again, to me, after the huge failures that were Halo 4 & 5, Infinite's was just such an immense bowl of fresh air that i desperately needed at this point.
Halo 2 is not a tough choice, it's story is so much more ambitious than any of them.
2
Ce
Reach
3
Odst
4
Infinite
5
swap 3 and CE and you have a perfect list sir
Real
i can tell he prioritizes story and atmosphere over all
I like reach. Not my favorite for a lot of reasons but it’s solid. My biggest gripe with the game is just how.. generic it all feels. Noble team, while cool, is pretty surface level. Each character is very one note. The quiet badass (I guess there’s two between Emile and 6), the nerd, the leader, the softy, the smartass sniper. Armor abilities felt like a shot at trying to snag some of the other shooters’ audiences (and was the initial idea that led to the downfall for sprint and armor movement), which isn’t a bad thing, but it just feels shallow. Same with the art style, switching from bold bright colors with high contrast to highlight the enemies, friendlies, and environments to the drab piss filter that went over every game from 2008-2014. I like so much of the skeleton of the game, I just wish we got more time with the characters, a more lively world, and the armor abilities got more testing/tweaking.
dont ever forget the hand to hand combat scene w the elliots taking the chick and other dude. Chills
reach below odst is wild, original trilogy sure. odst is great but not S tier.
Mine's this:
1. Reach
2. ODST
3. H2
4. CE
5. H3
6. Infinite
7. H4
Never played H5 since I play on PC.
X2
This is the most similar to mine so far
1.Reach
2.ODST
3.Halo 3
4.Halo2
5.CE
6.Infinite
7.Halo4
8.Halo5
Suprised 3 is so low
@@masturch33f66 I still love H3, the gap down to Infinite is larger than the gap between H3 and Reach.
But H3 does feel very much like the last act of H2 than its own story, and it has my least favorite level in the series. Cortana.
@ Yea Cortana’s pretty bad. But it does have The Storm, Ark and Covenant which are the 3 best levels in the series.
Halo 2 is my personal favorite campaign, though.
I gotta say that The Covenant is THE Halo level. It has everything ranging from a warthog section, to close quarters combat, to an air section, a tank section, another air section with 2 scarabs, allying with the flood temporarily, and some really badass cutscenes like Arbiter taking down Truth. Plus the level combines both a grassy level and a snow level together.
Not only the flood is missing. WE NEED MORE ARBITERxCHIEF CONTENT
"Sprint was a much needed change for the series"
No. It really wasnt.
Sprint is forever going to be a tough one, no sprint I’m fine with and sprint I’m fine with, doesn’t matter to me but I get both sides.
I really think it was lol
It's 2024, people want the option to move faster when they only need to move and not shoot things
My first game ever was Metal Slug, i fell in love with the first one, the military themes and setting wich i prefer over the obviously better and beloved MS2, MSX and MS3, the one thing i loved more than anything was the tanks, the Metal Slugs.
Now the First fully 3D game i ever played was Halo 2, the very first mission i played? Metropolis, imagine my hype when for the first time, was able to drive a tank in a 3D enviroment, see those little Metal Slugs in a "realistic" game, those two games are my favorite, marked my life like nothing else.
500 subs ur so underrated
0:33 Hell I’d kill just for Halo Wars 2 on Steam
It kinda struck me as weird when I tended to love military sci-fi and fantasy but couldn’t really dig Reach’s narrative. Reach fans tend to say they like it because it’s not about being some superhero saving the galaxy but about regular humans and soldiers (which isn’t even tacitly true since you are a genetically engineered super-soldier trying to defend the last line of defense before Earth). It helped me realize though that I love military fiction novels like The Black Company and Malazan and not stories like most Tom Clancy books and movies because the presentation is almost always around being a business-professional military instead of presenting a group of characters that happened to be soldiers. They also have an identity beyond just being marines.
To elaborate it never feels like we see what each Spartan specifically bring to the job. Kat is the technician/sapper and not much outside of that, Carter is the leader and not much outside of that, etc etc. The only real exception to this is Jorge for me who actually has some cool stuff around being a more empathetic Spartan who’s more comfortable taking the mask off (figuratively and literally).
Compare this to someone like Fiddler in Malazan who’s a sapper similar to Kat. Both are very resourceful and cunning. They’re both exceptional at their job and border somewhere on the extra-human, but Fiddler is shown to be disagreeable at times yet an ultimately reliable veteran who stabilizes a young and unproven squad of marines. He has a compelling relationship with his squad because the group is actually able to regularly interact, make mistakes, or do the unexpected.
With Reach it feels as if these characters *are* the job and nothing more. You can probably explain this with some lore about Spartans but I just find that a very handwavy way to say that these characters are flat and uninteresting on purpose, which doesn’t change the fact that they are flat and uninteresting.
I understand the desire to make Reach lean more to the military-fiction side of Halo over the space opera, and I definitely think it could have worked. But the way dialogue is handled, and the way its characters are presented feel at odds with the story it’s trying to tell. This is still half space-opera whether fans realize it or not. This is still about the genocide of humanity and saving the race. The stakes are still as gargantuan as the series has ever been. Yet at the end of the day over half the story is just Noble Six quietly following orders until they die, with the rest of Noble Team doing the same. And for a fictional narrative that just doesn’t work at all for me.
It’s also part of why I feel ODST accomplished this type of in-the-trenches, boots on the ground type of narrative far better. The stakes were for at least 90% of the story actually lower and more grounded. For a lot of the game it’s trying to find out what happened to your squad mates and getting them back together again after they’ve been scattered. The group (for better and for worse) does have history and tension between them eachother, as well as meaningful moments where they work as a unit. It’s not perfect as it still falls short in the same areas as Reach does for a few of them, but it works far better for me because I’m given reason to care about them.
In the end I just don’t think video games have as good a track record of telling military-fiction narratives as well as film and especially books/novels. And even then I feel as if Reach didn’t go with the best influences, and there’s plenty of tonal dissonance between what’s actually happening on-screen and what the game wants us to feel. Reach is a stellar game, and even if I prefer the gun-play and map design of the previous Bungie games, Reach still has some of my favorite missions like Lone Wolf and New Alexandria. It’s a fantastic game, just lower on the totem-pole for me for feeling lacking in both the moment to moment gameplay and especially the narrative
I think halo infinite deserves more praise. It is a lot of fun to play that game. It feels like what a halo game should play like. If the campaign wasn’t missing chunks of the storyline and the world was a little more diverse, then it would have been a masterpiece!
Halo multiplayers ranked? 👀
Here is my list:
Halo 3
Halo 2
Halo Reach
Halo CE
Halo Infinite
Halo 4
Halo 3 ODST
Halo 5
This armor suits you, but it cannot hide that mark.
When he said Reach in 5th, is where I just…
I wish we had gotten the Cortana boss fight the concept art suggested, where The Weapon and Cortana were going to face off while Master Chief defends them both, with The Weapon defeating her by absorbing her like Tycho absorbing Leela.
It was... Poetic.
My Personal Rankings
1. Halo Reach
2. Halo 3
3. Halo 2
4. Halo 3 ODST
5. Halo Infinite
6. Halo 4
7. Halo CE
8. Halo 5
I know Ranking Halo CE so low is a crime, but I genuinely have only ever enjoyed Halo CE when playing cursed Halo. The game came out the year I was born, and the first Halo I played was Halo 2, I do not think it is timeless, and it really feels like an early shooter, I do recognize that it was innovative, and I wouldn't have gotten so many amazing games without it but playing through it for me is like pulling teeth. Halo 2 would be 1st if half the game wasn't holdout sections to extend the run time.
Noble team being Spartan IIIs was amazing. Giving them personality unlike Master Cheif being a Spartan II that was more of a machine personality. Also Noble 6 is the only other Spartan given the title Hyper Lethal other than Master Cheif. Reach is literally top with 3 and ODST
I think 343's main issue is they didn't commit to one thing, and when they finally committed to the banished it all fell apart cause half the game was missing and the dlc was pretty much never going to happen, overall 343 just dropped ball after ball and microsoft has shown little care for the series ever since reach
My list
Halo 3
Halo 2
Halo Infinite
Halo CE
Halo Reach
Halo 4
Halo ODST
Halo 5
I think for me no.1 is 3 or reach. Even if Halo 2 was my first Halo I ever played but I think I was too young + played mostly multiplayer at friends. The third one is just this amazing way of wrapping things up. It just awesome in every single way honestly. It just ends in a very satisfying way. Halo reach however was the first Halo game (never owned a og xbox or 360 until like 2011) I myself owned and learnt. I played it so much and became the person Who helped People with legendary runs and stuff. I still do think reach has a great story and is a perfect way for bungie to leave the franchise. But I might also be very nostalgic for the game itself.
Honestly the list is perfect to me, only thing I’d switch is ODST and Reach. Other than that, nothing beats the trilogy
Every true Halo fan.
Halo CE most classic, nostalgic, best in universe zeitgeist, art direction
Halo 2: best campaign story, fleshing out of the covenant sets it apart, transformed FPS competitive community
Halo 3: best overall game, best physics and sandbox, Polished, refined, VERY best multiplayer/matchmaking/ranking/ above all , best release, fondest memories
ODST - real awesome 👏 more fun in the best Halo sandbox
Halo Reach: fondest memories for some depending on age, incredible forge/customs, tons of Bungie magic still but the beginning of the end (we lost classic movement, and never got it back)
Halo 4: cheeks all around. Over designed, new enemy types mega ass. Doesn’t feel like halo
Halo 5: unmitigated Dogwater
Infinite: more maddening 343 - finally a super fun campaign, great combat tho repetitive environments hold it back - Competitive and multiplayer still a country mile from Halo 3 perfection
ODST is my number 1 but besides that I fully agree with the list. I think the main thing for me that just edges ODST over 2 is just that I find it a lot less stressful to playthrough and I prefer the weapon balance.
That’s a wild take. But you are entitled to your opinion still
@ Halo 2’s campaign still slaps, just that there are certain parts that piss me off to no end even on Normal mode. It’s good if you want a challenge, just not as fun for me in a standard playthrough.
Halo infinite was up there. Open concept was fun
I completely agree with this list. 100%
Having beat all these games solo on legendary laso this is the rank I give them
🥇 Halo 3
🥈 Halo 2
🥉 Halo reach
4. Halo CE
5. Halo infinite
6. Halo 3 odst
7. Halo 4
8. Halo 5
The reason why the pistol only has one round in the gun is because the pelican driver was saving that round for himself
12:39 this made me cackle when I played through this the first time
Move Reach up to #1, keep everything else the same and it's pretty accurate. Reach is genuinely one of the best story games I've ever played. As a story game I enjoyed it as much as something like the Red Dead Redemption series. Incredible game.
I came into this video wanting to love it… I saw halo 5 guardians in last place and then knew I’d love eit
Odst does so well in making us care about its cast good voice work goes along long way
I liked the theme of reach, every other halo game you play, you know that you’ll win in the end. But in reach it’s just a losing battle mission after mission, and it progressively gets worse as you play through the game.
1. Halo Reach
2. Halo Reach
3. Halo Reach
4. Halo 2
5. Halo 3
6. Halo CE
7. Halo 3 ODST
8. Halo Infinite
9. Halo 4/5
Mines
1. Halo Reach
2. Halo Reach
3. Halo Reach
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