So after I posted a topic about my brother playing Halo: Reach I came to the SHOCKING conclusion that not many people enjoyed Halo: Reach. Now to be completely honest I understand as to why people didn't enjoy it. The campaign wasn't as fun and interesting as the previous games. The armour abilities straight up brake the flow of multiplayer and overall it just didn't have Bungie's charm that they were known for. That said I still like the game. Not as much as ANY of the games in the original trilogy but it has it's moments like every other Halo game. Then we come to the point of Halo 4 and yes I agree that game has a multitude of problems. Especially in the campaign side of things but I enjoy the multiplayer quite a bit A LOT more then I do with Reach's Multiplayer especially. I love every Halo game. Halo: CE for it's great story, it's just a classic sci-fi story through and through. Halo 2 for it's crazy campaign mission's that were amazing. The Multiplayer that was addictive as all hell (I was only 5 but I have fond memories of it) and the amount of improvements to online console multiplayer that it brought, that pretty every much console game uses to this day. Halo 3 for it's improvements to content creation such as the file share & forge and don't hate me for this but the best multiplayer in the series, I know the hit detection was shit but I just love it too death for whatever reason. Halo Wars for well.... I don't talk about Halo Wars. Halo 3 ODST for it's great characters and story. Halo: Reach for it's sheer amount of customization that it gives you with not only your own character but with modes and forge.... just forge 2.0. Halo 4 for it's risky change to multiplayer that I actually enjoy... and that's about it for that.

I don't want this to become a Halo hate thread. I want this to be a thread about how Halo has brought us here. We are all here because of what Bungie created. Even if the future of Halo may seem a bit scary. Halo is still Halo. We all love it. We all play it. We all enjoy it. You don't even have to post anything. I just want you to read this and remember Halo. That game. It was pretty great.

I find it odd that everyone hated Halo Reach so much when I thought it was one of the best. Then again, I did start with Halo 3 and ODST, and this was around the time I jumped ship off the CoD Titanic, so Reach was a relatively smooth transference.

I didn't mind the armour permutations, though having them as default on virtually all gamemodes I didn't like, and armour lock got a bit annoying when glitches were probed for it (today, there's still one to throw grenades while in armour lock, but it's not nearly as prevalent as when it was very popular). I liked the new Flood/Zombies gamemode previously from Halo 3, but I hated after 343 took over and added in some retarded gamemode "zombieghosts" and modified certain maps so that they had a shitty sepia filter and blocked certain routes so the games stayed short. Halo 4 completely wrecked that gamemode and it's multiplayer was far more fast paced, something I didn't enjoy as I'd gotten into Halo to leave CoD-style-super-fast-reaction-time shooting behind.

I think a game can be determined "good" when it still has an decent playerbase still on, e.g. CoD4, though that has dwindled slighty in recent years. Halo 3 and Reach IMO reached "good" status given that there's still several thousand players enjoying the game today.