Halo

[Ventus Fall]

Most of you have probably heard about it, it's been around already for a very long time: Halo.

The franchise started off with Halo: Combat Evolved in 2001.
At the time, it was indeed 'combat evolved'. A bit less so nowadays than before, but still they always try to implement new combat ideas in their games and sequels.

This thread I would like to see discussions on what you like about Halo, what you don't like?
Favourite game of Halo so far? (Yes, including any spin-offs, or other types of gameplays, such as Halo Spartan Strike, or Halo Spartan Assault.)
Favourite character(s), level(s), etc.?
Or what character(s) do you dislike, what enemies, etc.?

Anything can be discussed here about the game itself ^-^


Go Blue Team!

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>> UPDATE! <<
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I created a club on the Xbox, members with an Xbox Live account (be it via console or windows 10) can request to join this group. This private group is to share a common interest: the game franchise known as Halo.
It's primary focus is for members to join from TFF, but other furries (and non-furries) are welcome to join!
While Ventus Fall (me) is currently the owner and founder of the group, if anyone has any suggestions to for the group, of if anyone wants to play a game together, feel free to start something up via the club

Hereby now follows information with regards to the club/group/clan.

Team Athena

Tags (and rules):
Everyone is welcome; All ages; New players welcome; Will help new players; Cooperative; Casual; Mic optional; No trash-talking;

Description:
TEAM ATHENA (T.A. or T.A.F.F.) for HALO fans from TFF.

Games:
Halo Master Chief Collection; Halo 3; Halo 4; Halo Reach; Halo Waypoint; Halo 5 Guardians; Halo Spartan Assault; Halo Wars; Halo Wars 2;

[Dax Declan]

My first experience with halo was 'Halo: Combat Evolved'
I was fairly young but I played through all of the co-op campaign with my dad. He is actually the reason I'm the gamer I am today. Then once halo 2 came out he bought that and we played that campaign together. After playing a lot of that and the split screen slayer mode with my brother the Xbox 360 and halo 3 came out. Years later we got that and Xbox live and I spent countless hours playing halo 3 online. I met a lot of people and spent a lot of time making creations in forge mode or getting invited to massive infection lobbies with custom maps. Because of that halo 3 was easily my favorite.

[Ventus Fall]

That sounds like an amazing experience and very cool
It's nice that Halo gave you that experience with your dad and with others.

[Ventus Fall]

Right now I'm at one of the last levels of Halo 2.
Yes, I play on normal difficulty.

So then why do Grunts and Elites suddenly start throwing grenades as if we were at a large party and it was confetti?
It wasn't difficult to get passed this part of the level, just slow and frustrating, because every time two to three grenades would be thrown to where I was standing (which was in a hallway), and I had to jump back every time when I saw them throwing the darn blue glowing balls. It is on NORMAL, not hard or legendary! Stahp throwing nonstop plasma grenades, douches!

That aside, it was also fun though

[Dax Declan]

Reminds me of when I'd try playing halo 3 with all the skulls on. Oh lord.

[Shoon]

i never played halo because i never owned i console apart from a wii but i like the franchise, the story is ok but the universe is very grand, but i do like the fact that it caused the great series red vs blue.

[Ventus Fall]

The first game was for PC and the Xbox console. It's how I got into Halo in the first place
A friend of mine had an Xbox console on which we could play  Halo 2 (original version on his, I play the remastered edition on mine now).

Besides the console, Halo 2 was also made for on Windows Vista as well. I remember I was a bit sad, because at the time we just had a PC with Windows 7 and one with still (if I remember correctly).
I knew I really wanted to play Halo 2 and I couldn't. I was really curious how the sequel looked like (this was before I met the friend I spoke of). I also was not planning on getting an Xbox console. My GameCube was fine for me

After Windows Vista was scrapped, so were the console games specifically made for the PC. I would never play Halo 2 ever (or so I thought). Now, basically more than 10 years later, I am finally playing the game myself, fully.
Playing at my friend's place was nice, but he chose which level to play, sporadically. That, and... let's just say we wouldn't get far, because he kept throwing grenades at mah face ingame. Or even when we would be in an elevator, he would constantly drop a grenade, killing the both of us, thus restarting the part every time we had to go into the elevator.
Yeah, that's why I don't really consider that time period as me having actually played Halo 2 ^^;

It's kind of 'funny', because I've played the Halo games in the following order so far:
Halo (1) CE, (played Halo 2 sporadically,) Halo: Reach, (a bit of) Halo 3, Halo 4, (the rest of) Halo 3, Halo 2.

Now with Halo 5, I have played it a bit... before even having started on Halo 2, but then I decided I just had to finish 2 before rushing in with 5. So yeah, that's the timeline of which Halo games I played when

[Shoon]

you should still watch red vs blue.

[Ventus Fall]

Who says I haven't?


Oh, and the cool thing about Red Vs. Blue is that they've put in Easter Eggs of the show in Halo 4, if I'm not mistaken ;D

[Shoon]

oh neat, whos your favourite character?

[Ventus Fall]

The Puma
Sorry, just had to xD

I forget their names all the time ;_;
Which one is your favourite?

[Rocco Rex]

I loved Halo, especially the first one, ODDT, and Reach. Kind of got burnt out on Halo though. My four younger brothers and all their friends die over Halo though. But even after not playing for months at a time, I still beat anyone

[Shoon]

I like caboose the most, then north, then york, then church, then wash, carolina and texas are cool but i mostly like their fighting scenes.

[Ori]

I think I was eight when I started playing Halo (Started with combat evolved.) I remember it was one of the first games I played on the XBox. Back when my father was somewhat nicer we used to play all the time, and halfway through some levels we started fighting over the shotgun and or wraith (In the game.)

In any case, my favorite Halo: has to be the first one. My favorite mission was the library. The enemies I dislike most are those stupid jetpack elites from Halo 2. They're hard to hit >:\ Favorite Weapon was definitely needler (Everyone goes Kablooey) Favorite vehicle is the Scorpion. Everything so much more fun when you can shoot anything and make it go Kablooey. My favorite enemies are the grunts. They're hilarious. I remember after playing the game again after a few years, I heard them say something new and I sat there like: Really? Wow... After all these years he said that line?

[Ventus Fall]

Oh my goodness, the jetpack Elites! Currently playing the end of Halo 2, and they have been so bothersome. To be fair, I find the flying aliens more annoying, the Yanme'e. Fudging buggers. Literally!

In the first game my favourite weapon was the Needler, but I noticed in the following games they made it... less fun for me. I think the tracking ability and the power was toned down a bunch. Still, I do pick it up in any game if I see if and there isn't a better one around for the situation
This is my list of first-choice weapons when dealing with certain enemies:
+Shotgun for the Flood
+Sniper when I can be sneaky for every enemy
+Plasma Canon for everything as well
+Energy Rifle (Brute variant) against Brutes

My favourite grenade in the game? Plasma grenade I like it when I throw it and I can make it stick to an enemy and they panic. Sorry, guess I'm rather sadistic like that in the game