Why you should play Halo Reach

[Kim]

I used a jetpack to hijack a banshee.

'Nuff said.

[Magus]

Shouldn't I play the first eleven before playing this one?

Although it is a super-prequel (the best kind of prequels), right?

[Azisien]

Yes. I mean a lot of the weapons and vehicles are superior to the Halo's afterwards. But uh, yes, prequel!

[Kim]

It's easily the best the series has seen. It's only tenuously tied to the other games, and even then only at the very end. It looks gorgeous, and the plot is actually pretty decent, which is impressive for a series that has only had it's plot go downhill in my experience.

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Azisien

Yes. I mean a lot of the weapons and vehicles are superior to the Halo's afterwards. But uh, yes, prequel!

Yeah, I get a kick out of how plot continuity always falls in the face of needing to add new elements to the gameplay in prequels.

Although it wouldn't have been impossible to pull off a prequel where the technology felt less. Like have them use machine guns instead of lasers or whatever. Well, I know the other games have machine guns too, but anyway, there was probably some way they could pull it off.

Also, as for it being "tenuously connected", that doesn't make a lot of sense. The villain is the Covenant, right? The first time humanity encounters them. The main characters look like they wear Halo powerarmor. Seems pretty connected, all in all.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Magus

Yeah, I get a kick out of how plot continuity always falls in the face of needing to add new elements to the gameplay in prequels.

Although it wouldn't have been impossible to pull off a prequel where the technology felt less. Like have them use machine guns instead of lasers or whatever. Well, I know the other games have machine guns too, but anyway, there was probably some way they could pull it off.

Also, as for it being "tenuously connected", that doesn't make a lot of sense. The villain is the Covenant, right? The first time humanity encounters them. The main characters look like they wear Halo powerarmor. Seems pretty connected, all in all.

Halos 1-3 are about Master Chief and the Halos and the Flood and the Guiltysparks and the Covenant want to destroy the universe except the elites blah blah blah. Halo Reach is about a group of Spartans, none of which are Master Chief, who are on a planet that canon says is scorched until glass by the end of the game, and the opening cutscene shows your protagonist's helmet with a bullet hole through it lying on the glassed surface. They are trying to keep this planet from being destroyed. This really has very little to do with the recurring plot threads of the main Halo games, except for some stuff near the end that connects them.

Also, Halo Reach actually improves the gameplay by returning to the first Halo's single wielding of weapons and combination health and shield system.

[Azisien]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Also, Halo Reach actually improves the gameplay by returning to the first Halo's

I'll give you

combination health and shield system.

that but certainly not

single wielding of weapons

that.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by Azisien

I'll give you



that but certainly not



that.

I like not seeing everyone else running around with a charged plasma pistol in one hand and machine gun in another. Maybe it's not as common online as my experience offline, but that's my feelings.

[Magus]

When I was playing Halo 2 at one of those Halo 2 parties about 7 years ago I ran around with duel magnums because that's how I roll.

Frankly it was the only way I could figure out how to beat the alien guy who has the lightsaber in whichever mode it is where the one player is the alien guy who has the lightsaber.

[DFM]

Halo Reach is balls awesome Noncon what's your GT do you do co-op? I do co-op. I do firefight too. I firefight fire with fire and jetpack jump onto tanks with exploding grenades so that I get the last laugh that day.

Is your GT Gaymer I bet it is Gaymer