What's your favorite Halo: CE map? (Progress: COMPLETE)

There's not a whole lot of weapons in this game, but I still found myself picking favorites: The plasma pistol and the shotgun.

Be warned, Halo: CE is the last time the plasma pistol is ever useful as a primary weapon.

Or the plasma rifle
Or the needler
Or the assault rifle (pre-halo 4)

And the Ghost's strafe ability has been hamstrung into oblivion.

This thread makes me want to play Halo CE again, but I didn't bring my Xbox with me to college. Damn it.

I guess I can play Halo 2 PC instead.

Or the plasma rifle
Or the needler
Or the assault rifle (pre-halo 4)

I don't care much for the needler anyway, to be honest. Too often has my death been the result of the needles taking far too long to detonate. I rarely use it.

Plasma rifle is best gun

until you get to Halo 3

I love the Shotgun in general (another reason I want to play as Kelly in Halo 5), but it's especially great in Halo CE. Otherwise, I really like the Plasma Rifle

I can't forget the plasma grenade, too. I've always liked plasma grenades. Sticking enemies is very satisfying.

I bet you like the Spike grenade too


NERD

The AR is your friend when making a whole crowd of Flood buddies :^)

Just remember to shoot off both the Tentacle arm and head of Elite combat forms, as they can still melee when their arms are missing but their head is still on, somehow.

Or the plasma rifle
Or the needler
Or the assault rifle (pre-halo 4)

I don't care much for the needler anyway, to be honest. Too often has my death been the result of the needles taking far too long to detonate. I rarely use it.

Unrelated question:


What's your general opinion of Halo lore/ story, based off what you've read us talking about? Is it something you'd be interested in learning more about or do you think it's a load of crap?

I mean, I generally prefer the books to the games because they 9 times out of 10 have far better writing.

It honestly seems like a load of crap, to be honest. But like you said a couple times already--it's not like they expected Halo to become the juggernaut it is today, so maybe I could benefit from learning more about it.

For the time being, I don't really care to delve too far beyond the games themselves.

As much as I love Halo

The story has always been crappy

It honestly seems like a load of crap, to be honest. But like you said a couple times already--it's not like they expected Halo to become the juggernaut it is today, so maybe I could benefit from learning more about it.

Yeah. Halo CE is very much self-contained. The trilogy very much works like Star Wars - the original was self-contained but left things open, then 2 and 3 act more as a duo with one leading directly after the other. And the third one being pretty bad compared to the second.

Plus, Bungie held a policy that game canon trumps expanded universe so tha caused a fuck ton of inconsistencies and retcons in their era. 343 is now planning the series around book/ comic releases and everything ties in a lot better.

www.halopedia.org is a good website if you get bored and want something interesting to read.

Yeah. Halo CE is very much self-contained. The trilogy very much works like Star Wars - the original was self-contained but left things open, then 2 and 3 act more as a duo with one leading directly after the other. And the third one being pretty bad compared to the second.

Plus, Bungie held a policy that game canon trumps expanded universe so tha caused a fuck ton of inconsistencies and retcons in their era. 343 is now planning the series around book/ comic releases and everything ties in a lot better.

www.halopedia.org is a good website if you get bored and want something interesting to read.

Cool, thanks.


All right, let's try to get this game all finished by tonight!... No promises. If not today, then tomorrow for sure.

All right, typing up the last update before I do the final chapter.

As some of you noticed, I didn't really care much for Two Betrayals. I won't repeat myself too much, but the level itself being a repeat of Assault on the Control Room wasn't really all that appealing to me. I think the added dynamic of having the Flood and the covenant fighting each other is interesting, considering they don't just fight endlessly--they actually kill each other, too.

Knowing that, when entering a skirmish, you can literally just wait until one side wins and then run in and kill whoever remains, or sneak into the crossfire and try to reach certain spots while your enemies are distracted by each other. Stuff like that is pretty cool to me, and even though I feel a little bit cheap doing that, it's all part of the game, if you ask me. It's fun thinking on your feet and strategizing in the thick of battle.

Keyes was a much better level, even though the second half is basically the second half of the Truth & Reconciliation all over again. Only this time, again, the Flood is present, and my god... there's so many of them... It was pretty challenging not to get completely overwhelmed by them, and honestly, it was almost a joy seeing my old Covenant friends again. At some point, I expect the humans and the covenant to put aside their differences, because now, they have a common enemy. That's what I kind of expect to happen in Halo 2, anyway. Maybe that's why the Arbiter is a good guy.

Anyway, I can't say I expected THAT to be Keyes's fate. Pretty gruesome. And significant, considering this makes the first time the game has made me feel some kind of emotion, 'cause I honestly expected him to make it out of there. Oh well.

Onward to the final level, then.

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Who's Verbatim? Is he/she a new member?

Wait a minute

Verbatim has NEVER played Halo?

never

not the campaign

my opinion on the series was based strictly off the multiplayer

Anyway, I can't say I expected THAT to be Keyes's fate. Pretty gruesome. And significant, considering this makes the first time the game has made me feel some kind of emotion, 'cause I honestly expected him to make it out of there. Oh well.

You might be interested in watching this CEA terminal

YouTube

THE MAW
MAW
MAW

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Wait a minute

Verbatim has NEVER played Halo?

never

not the campaign

my opinion on the series was based strictly off the multiplayer

No wonder you're always so depressed.

game wasn't that fun, bro

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Sister came home.

Now she's purposely singing Psycho Killer at the top of her lungs, nonstop, for the last THIRTY MINUTES.
Just to distract me.

Sister came home.

Now she's purposely singing Psycho Killer at the top of her lungs, nonstop, for the last THIRTY MINUTES.
Just to distract me.

Tell her that Talking Heads sucks and she's a fucking queer.

GEE

WHAT A FUN LEVEL


I literally made it in the last second. No deaths, either. Whew.

Favorite weapon depends:

For multiplayer, it's the sniper.
For single player, it depends on what level and difficulty.  Usually the primary precision weapon: pistol (BR in later games).

GEE

WHAT A FUN LEVEL

Sarcasm?

Welp, that's Halo.

Sarcasm?

Yes. Fuck that warthog.

Imagine how fun it is on Legendary, where you have even less time.

The warthog handles infinitely better in later iterations, at least.