OXM UK's Mike, Matt and Ed reflect on their favourite moments from the Halo franchise.
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Not really. 4, 5, MCC, and Infinite are only remembered for their shortcomings and failures when the franchise was purely known for being a system seller and an all-time great. There's a reason 1, 2, 3, and Reach are looked back on fondly, and it's not because of nostalgia.
I don't know of anyone that speaks fondly of the later Halo games, I would like to play 5, but I know it's not good, and I'm just waiting on Infinite to hit my strike price. I played MCC a lot later after it came out, so must of those bugs/issues were gone by the time I played it.
To say it dropped the massively is just not true. Many in the community hold H5 as the best mp mechanics in the entire series and say its what 4 should've been. Its campaign was trash but the MP is Fantastic and many faces of the community still play today and it only made 500mill in the matter of months but sure it dropped the ball massively. 4 was hated due to all the changes at once. And CoD like feature and rightful get hate but it's campaign story was liked by a majority of ppl. 343 hasn't nailed ot 100% but they get 1 thing perfect but F up in other places. Infinite had a good campaign and design but the story was a mess. The MP improves upon what Halo 3 was and is what many ppl wanted to go back to but it lacked content severely. So massively aint the word. Dropping the ball massively is when it's pure trash and unplay/unenjoyable. Most ppl blind by nostalgia so soon as 1 thing aint the same its hated cause Halo set the bar so high
FYI reach was not that good.
Halo-Pop like Gears Pop. Halo bowling. Halo Cooking Mama. There’s a reason why you won’t hear about them
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It sounds stupid, but my most memorable moment is just the title screen in Halo 1. When that music kicks in, and you see the ring spin slowly past the view... goosebumpsville.
Love this series. Sometimes I love it that much more because of the hate it recieves...sort of like xbox live
Mine was in Halo CE when you pick up that dead guys data card from his helmet and you see his encounter with the flood. And im hanging to experiance that moment again on the remake.
A lot of epic moments for me. One of which was the discovery of the flood in Halo:CE as well as the last part in the same game. Another epic moment was in Halo 3, where a scarab drops onto the level, and i'm like "oh shit" and then 5 seconds later, another scarab drops down right beside it. Aside from that, the sandbox design of Halo has provided many events that you would never expect to happen.
Halo 2 Quarantine levels.
Arbiter gets dropped off at the Quaratine Zone by Tartarus. Though I played the campaign 5 times, every time I got to that level I was afraid to go any further because the atmosphere and music were so foreboding and terrifying. Seeing the green fog in the rooms in front of me made me terrified to enter. And the sounds of the Flood made it even worse. That was the most epic moment for me because I liked how in the middle of what was supposed to be an action adventure shooter, there were horror levels.