Rate the Halo games from worst to best

343 games < Halo 3 < 2 < CE

KYS

4 < 5 < Reach < 2 < 1 < 3

>>388220458
Halo Reach < Halo 3 ODST < Halo 4 < Halo 5 Guardians < Halo 2 < Halo Combat Evolved < Halo 3

4 < 5 <<<<<< 2 < CE < Reach < 3.

Reach's story wasn't the strongest but the new weapons and vehicles were a nice addition and armor abilities were actually really fun.

From what I've played.

3>1>2>odst>reach>4>wars

and Fall of Reach is the best book almost equaled by The Flood.

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Campaign
Reach>4>ODST>3>2>5>1

Multiplayer
2>3>5>1>Reach

Forge/Customs
5>Reach>3

campaigns
3>Reach>1>2>ODST>4>5

ODST > Reach > 2 > 3 > 1 > 4

>>388220458
HPC>3>2>dunnotherestsotheygohere

hpc was nothing but 3sks across the map with pistols but that was getting good and it was hard with lead and shit. The game also has the most 10/10 maps in the series.

2 is a janky mess but fun in its own right. 3 is a cleaned version of 2 with a map editor.

5 <4 <wars2 <Reach<wars <3 <2 <1 <ODST

Reach > 2 > 1 > 3 > odst > 4 > 5

5>4>3>2>1

2>3>1>Reach>ODST>5>4

4<2<Reach<1<5<3

1 < 2 < 3 < 4 < 5 < 6 < 7

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>>388222105
Patrician

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>>388220983
>All of these faggots rating on a single scale

immediate way to tell you have no idea what you are talking about, given how many facets there are to the Halo games and how much pros and cons there are per game

>Singleplayer:
2 > ODST >> Reach > 3 >> CE > 4 > 5

>Core MP
2A > 2 = 5 >> CE > Reach > 3 >> 4

>Customs/forge
5 > 2A >> Reach > 4 > 3 >> 2 >> CE

>Music
ODST > 2 >> 3 > CE >> Reach >> 4 > 5

>>388220458
Halo 2 > Halo: Reach > Halo: CE > Halo 3 > Halo 4 > ODST > Halo 5

I care mostly about the story, I've never played any Halos at their respective multiplayer height anyway.

>>388222430
Youre just taking it too seriously bud.

Also HALO Combat Evolved has CUSTOM EDITION it wins for mapping, bar none.

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>>388222430
>can't average it out and rank the games as complete packages
wew lad

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>>388222430
I see you shoving this shit list on every single Halo thread. Anybody who rates Reach above anything but 4 or 5 is a fucking shit eater.

>Campaign
2 >= CE > 3 > ODST >>>>>>> Reach >>>> 4 > 5
>Multiplayer as a whole.
3 > 2 > Reach = CE >>>>> 5 >>>>> 4

Soundtrack
2 > 3 = CE > ODST > Reach >>>>>>>> 4 >>>>>>>>> 5

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>>388222698
>>388223067
>implying 3's campaign was better than 2's

>>388223067
>reach campaign that high
What is the appeal. Level design was garbage, music was average for halo, set pieces were nonexistant it was just a very mediocre experience

>>388223194
stop replying to me

>>388223067
what went wrong with the MCC?

>>388223256
Sorry you can't downvote here.

>>388223181
It was. The layouts and aesthetic of 2's campaign are so boring that it can barely be enjoyed in replaying.

>>388223398
>meanwhile he rates Reach as the best despite the whole campaign being composed of brown and grey and killing elites in tight corridors with little to no vehicle segments

>>388223393
i only care about the odst change i made. I replied to the og with a nigga in a blanket you basic bitch

>>388223524
fuck off nigger, you have shit taste.

>>388223398
>best Forerunner architecture
>best scenic beauty
>more varied Covenant architecture, interior of High Charity being the best example
>best story, wasn't a run and gun cliche cyborg vs aliens story, but nuance with Covenant politics playing a key role
>introduced the best character (Arbiter)
>had the most emotion of all the games
Halo 2 is GOAT and a pleb filter.

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>>388223665
i literally havent played reach.

is this better silly cunt

also 11 years this year and it makes me sad

>>388223783
>i literally havent played reach.
Well don't. It's irredeemable shit.

>>388223734
See the thing about 2 is that it's fucking mediocre as hell for half the damn game. And then it does a full 180 after the first arbiter mission and becomes a 10/10

>>388224009
Halo 2 is my favourite Halo and I agree that pre-Arbiter it's a slogfest. But that slogfest represented all of Halo 3 to me.

>>388220458
ODST had the comfiest campaign.

Debate me.

>>388223398
This

>>388223505
This

1 > 2 > 3 > Reach > 5 > absolute shit > 4 >>>>>>>>>>>> MCC

Fuck 343 they'll never make a good Halo game especially with the way their shit company is structured.

>>388224129
>But that slogfest represented all of Halo 3 to me.
I was that post but Halo 3 was consistently really fucking good. Like I'd say it was worse than 2's second half but it's still fantastic. Tsavo Highway, The Storm, The Ark and The Covenant are all 10/10's. Big open levels are what halo does best.

>>388224172
>the Covenant are literally destroying millions of people on humanity's last major world
>lmao time for quipping and le epic XD Buck quotes
I liked ODST but fuck is it overrated. It had no emotional impact and it was incredibly slow and immature. It writes like a Marvel movie.

>>388224535
Yeah, because me, and ODST, with my super powerful and world ending smg, and my nigh-penatrable plate armor, is in a better position to be used as a war machine against an entire armada, rather than be thrown into a pinpoint precision strike.

But no it's okay, you can curl into a fetal position and die, it's the end of the world, right? Plus, if this emotional impact was missing, or rather, intended to be there in the first place, don't you think we would've stuck on one character and followed him around for the entire game? It's not a Pillar of Autumn race to the finish, it's an investigation in a Halo setting.

>>388224535
This

>>388224535
this but buck didn't quip that much in odst

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By campaign: 5 < 4 < Reach = 3 < 2 = CE

By multiplayer: 4 < CE < Reach < 5 < 2 = 3

>>388224535
I mean why are you playing Halo for fucking serious shit? People like you ruined the series and why Bungie shat out that piece of shit Reach. Halo was always about cheesy writing, good music, pretty art and big battles not "MUH HOPELESSNESS"

>>388222430
2 best SP? and 3 customs that low. The later games mightve added some nice extras in forge but the community/variety was unmatched in 3.


By campaign:
3 > ODST > 1 > 2 > Reach > 4 > 5

By Multi:
3 > 2 > Reach > 1 > 5 > 4

>>388220983
This is correct

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4>>>>Reach>ODST>CE>3>5>2

-4 was hot garbage. Everything about it was mediocre to terrible compared to others.
-Reach was passable. Nice campaign even though they raped the lore. Fun MP except for some cancer armor abilities.
-ODST had an great campaign. Was fun to play as something other than a walking tank in the Halo universe.
-CE campaign was fucking amazing. One of the most memorable things of my childhood. No online MP puts it in the middle though.
-Halo 3 is where the story should have ended probably. Great 4 player campaign, lot of great memories. Countless hours in online MP.
-Halo 5 has the worst story of all the games. It's atrocious and I want to burn 343i to the ground because of it. But the sheer brilliance and technical competency of the rest of the game makes up for it.
-Halo 2 had the most memorable campaign that built on CE in all the best ways. The online defined XBL and console multiplayer for generations. Companies are still fucking up something Bungie did perfectly 13 years ago.

Overall Halo is a dying franchise though. It doesn't have the marketshare it used to. But I love it. I love the lore and the universe. I wish no one but Eric Nylund wrote for the franchise and the creative directors of the game followed his work closer.

>>388226551
>But the sheer brilliance and technical competency of the rest of the game makes up for it.
You mean taking CoD and slapping it with a Halo title? It's messy gameplay with shitty maps. Forge solely can not make up for how much of a piece a shit the rest of the game is.

>>388222430
>F-Follow my autism!!!!
No.

>>388220458
Multiplayer is Reach>1>3>2>Literal Shit> 4/5
Campaign is 3>ODST>2>Reach>1

>>388224009
The bad missions in 2 are as good as all of CE

>>388226543
>people still believe Halo 6 will have squad shit after the Halo 5 backlash

>>388223389
It's a fucking mess. There is no redeeming quality. Custom games is kill, you can pretty much only choose playlists by mode instead of game, they used the pc version of halo 2, there's no commumity aspect at all. Backwards compatibility for the OG releases fixes the issue, but you know M$ hates the idea of keeping Bungie-era games alive

>>388220458
Reach > 2 > ODST > CE > 3 > The rest

>>388220458
2>ODST>3>Reach>CE

>>388228653
It won't. If they're smart it will and they'll actually make it fun. Instead 343 will pull a 343 and delete things with potential instead of expanding upon them.

2 > 3 = 1 > shit > the rest

>>388230132
Squad gameplay was one of the main reasons Halo 5's campaign was shit. I'm glad there's a big chance we will never see it again. Going by Frankie's comments we won't.

Frank O'Connor: "They loved Blue Team, they liked Osiris, but they wanted Chief. And that has been a big learning. Chief we tend to think of as kind of a vessel for your adventure rather than necessarily this major character in the universe. He’s really just your entry into the universe."

Frank O'Connor: "nstead of focusing on bringing new characters into the world and expanding the playable characters we’ve sort of shifted the focus a little bit to making the world a little bit more realistic and compelling and, I would say, more fun for players who get to inhabit the Chief in the future, pretty much as they demanded."

Frank O'Connor: "There’s always a call and response element of shipping a game, you have to ship improvements, you have to ship tweaks and you have to ship changes and sometimes you have to walk some of those back."

>>388231169
*Instead
Cut off the I

>>388231169
Squad gameplay could have been great. The problem is there isn't general orders. The only orders you can give is while you're pointing directly at something, at which point you'd be better off just shooting it. What they should do is things like ordering your squad, including marines tagging along to get in vehicles, Jack Vehicles, distract enemies, etc. The main problem I have with 343 is abandoning the decent things about their games such as the death of Cortana whilst keeping the actually shitty things about their games like the Forerunner artstyle. Halo 5 could have been a brilliant introduction to Blue Team. Cortana is dead, naturally Blue Team joins the fold to be a replacement and as a result the novels are folded into the games. Instead Cortana is alive and as a result the writers have to factor that into the plot.

>>388220458
3>reach>2>1>ODST>wars>shit>4>5>6

>>388220458
SPV3 > 343i

TWO SCARABS I REPEAT TWO SCARABS

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>>388220458
Reach < 5 < 4 < 2 < 1 < ODST < 3

I pretty much enjoyed every one in general by the way.

>>388231808
Squad gameplay doesn't work in a series like Halo, you are already a walking tank of destruction that can take out galactic threats, what the fuck do you need more of those fuckers for. having three other Master Chiefs on your side makes you feel less special. Halo 5 also got rid of allies, UNSC weapon drops in the campaign, gave bullet sponge boss fights, ruined Hunter combat, along with made it where you take less damage so you could rely on your squad and, made the game easy with player revival. If you want squad gameplay go play Gears of War, keep that shit out of Halo. When I play Halo, I want to be alone.

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>>388220458
From worst to best:

>Campaign (Plot)
5 < Reach < 3 < CE < 4 < ODST < 2

>Campaign (Gameplay)
4 < 5 < CE < Reach < 2 < 3 < ODST

>Multiplayer
Reach < 4 < CE < 2 < 3 < 5 < 2A

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Halo Wars 2 will end up saving the series. Mark my words.

>>388232015
SPV3 looks like hot shit

Story & Characters
Halo 2 > Halo 3 ODST > Halo CE> Halo 4(with the books) > Halo 3 >Halo Reach > Halo 4(without the books) >Halo 5
Soundtrack
Halo 3 ODST > Halo 2 > Halo CE > Halo 3 > Halo Reach > Cant even remember 4 and 5's soundtrack
Multiplayer
Halo 3 > Halo 2 > Halo Reach >Halo CE >Halo 5 > Halo 4

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>>388226952

It play nothing like CoD. It's still at it's core Halo gameplay (gun/nade/melee). Being butthurt about mobility enhancements doesn't make any sense. It does nothing but improve the gameplay and give everyone more options. If you can't kill someone because they dodged away from a grenade trap it isn't the games fault. It's yours.

The only thing I'll give you is that the maps are a little lacking. Some are very good, others are trash. BTB taking a backseat to Warzone didn't help that either.

And when I'm speaking on technical proficiency, the game is fucking solid and well made. You cannot deny that no matter how butthurt you are. I honestly don't even play it much anymore though because it has lost a bit of it's charm over the years. Too much tryharding.

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>>388220458
How about i post this pic instead?

>>388226952
>You mean taking CoD and slapping it with a Halo title?
Judging by this statement, you haven't played Halo 5, CoD or neither of them.

>>388232870
Reading the books just makes Halo 4 worse, because it makes MC and Cortana's actions and behaviour all the more dumb and out of character. Other then that and you having Halo 5 too low for MP you have some of the least shit taste in the thread.

Why do you prefer 3's MP to 2, though?

>>388233151
Is frothing mouth better or worse then sun shining sparke eyes

>>388233349
IMO it's worse.

>>388233030
This

>>388233290
It's been a very long time since 3 and longer since 2 so I might be objectively wrong but I recall dual wielding in 2 being extremely fucked and there being next to no reason why you wouldn't pick up an extra SMG or a plasma pistol, I feel like the AR in 3 really balanced out the playing field and made your weapon choices on the map matter more.
I mean in 2, you have a SMG and kill a guy with another, that's free ammunition -and- you can double your damage capacity, I remember it being kinda fucked
As for H5 I didn't spend to much time with it, seeing as how I fell off of consoles almost entirely.
I did like H2's maps more though, no feeling will ever match my cousin and I buying the map pack on a warm 2005 summer and playing our hearts out.
Sorry for nostalgiafagging lmao

>>388220458
3 > 1 > Reach > 2 > ODST > 4

Didn't play 5. 4 and microsoft let me down so bad I switched over to playstations (cause of that horrible E3 they had years ago, not because of Halo, obviously).

> 3 had an epic story and best multiplayer, ost and characters. Flawless.
> 1 had the best shooter battles you couldve played as a kid, it was a totally new genre. "Combat evolved"
> Reach had an awesome campaign! Multiplayer started to decay but if you could co-op the campaign you'd have a blast for sure.
> 2 was just rushed, but a great game
> ODST was original, but didn't feel as much like halo. I enjoyed it very much, but not a new game on its own and many fights didn't hype me.
> 4. You could feel how this wasn't bungie anymore. Terrible multiplayer with bullet magnetism and snowball effet with the kills and the deploy orders. Not a fun campaign at all. Can't remember any of the OST. It's the opposite of 3.

Also, you lazy bastards aren't giving reasons.

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>>388232710
>Halo Wars 2
I've already forgotten that game exists.

>>388234831
Not him but me too. Only Halo 6 can save the series.

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>>388234831
You're missing out buddy, it's a great Halo game. First game since 3 that didn't piss me off for any reason.

>>388235110
But it's not an fps.

>>388235110

I played Halo Wars years ago and liked it, but just the concept of willingly playing an RTS on the console is something I have a hard time subjecting myself to.

>>388235110
I'm more interested in Halo 6.

>>388236412
You'll be fine, it's not just a RTS, it's a "Console RTS". If you liked the first one, you'll like this one as well.

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>>388222430
>>388223004
>implying that 4 had better music than 5
You're joking, right?

>>388233030
good post anon

>The only thing I'll give you is that the maps are a little lacking. Some are very good, others are trash. BTB taking a backseat to Warzone didn't help that either.

I don't get the complaints about the maps, they are a much needed return to a high degree of verticality not just in actual geometry but in terms of player movement across that geometery.

They remind me of CE/H2 maps, which were the best

>>388237031
Originally I thought 5 had a better OST, but Raycevick's 40 min per halo game "Halo _ years later" series convinced me otherwise. 4's OST, while different, does an excellent job giving the envoirments a good sense of atmosphere in the same way CE did, using synth and electronic sounds to give them an othewordly mood contrasted by the outdoor area's more intrumental themes.

I'd arguably even say it does that and the atmosphere better then CE itself did. A shame 4 drops the ball almost everywhere else.

>>388235110
The hunter leaders and units seem awesome but I refuse to buy a game digitally on xbox/MS with their account loss policy if you don't sign in often enough.

>>388237449
>I don't get the complaints about the maps
5's maps are great and balanced for a competitive focus but boring and forgettable for anything else, i feel like that's what everyone's complaints are about. WZ maps are nively designed but H5 is notoriously lacking a Hang em high, Lockout or Guardian.

>>388237449
>with their account loss policy if you don't sign in often enough
The hell, is that an actual thing? How often are we talking about?

>>388237449
I guess I can see where you're coming from. I did enjoy the sort of Vangelis synths in some parts of Halo 4, but it had almost little to no motifs of the main themes from the previous games when the themes were fundamental to the development of Halo itself. Also, the title screen for 4 was pretty hard to swallow until the instruments kicked in after that solo voice and it became actually good. I figured 5 had a better compositional atmosphere overall that respected the Halo themes while having a different spin on them in a way (Halo fucking Canticles). As much as I'll miss Marty, Jinnouci is a good follow-up with his stuff in 4 and overall in 5. Davidge, not so much.

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>>388220458
In terms of single player and coop
2 >= CE >= 3 > ODST > Reach > HW1 > 4 >>>> Spartan Assault >>>(1000 > signs)>> 5
Havent played HW2 but its probably pretty far to the right since its by 343.

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>>388220458
you can't really rank the Halo games as a whole because all of them have SOMETHING wrong with them.

here's a take from a guy that pretty much only ever plays the Halo games:

4 << 5 <<< ODST < Reach < CE < 3 < 2

most casual Halo fans consider Reach to be really bad, and whilst it clearly has flaws (bloom, no shield bleed-through, armor lock, sprint etc) I think it deserves a lot more respect

Reach is the "biggest" Halo game. it has so much content its fucking unreal. (forge, arcade firefight, campaign matchmaking, most custom games options even today, theater, fileshare, campaign scoring, custom firefight, very custom spartans) the list is endless

>>388238287
>Havent played HW2 but its probably pretty far to the right since its by 343
Opinion discarded, not because i think you're wrong but because of your blind hate and clear fanboyism.

>>388220458
why? they numbered them for you.