>>1626346 >2026 >Still playing Gaylo BELIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE

Doesn't it feel familiar? Like you have done this a dozen times before? You have fought a thousand times before %HERO and you will fight a thousand times more. Personally I am just happy to have the games on PC. They are worse versions of the older games but at least they are easily playable. Some franchises dont have that luxury. It really shouldn't be like this. Microsoft could pretty easily make a new good halo game but they dont care about making good games. They clearly do not fucking care about Halo. At all. If they did 343 would have been disbanded after halo 5.

>>1626356 Really looking forward to this game, great marketing too

Today I Will Remind Them

Halos legacy is Extra XP for Doritos and Mountain Dew

>>1626365 If there was actual justice 343's workforce would be hung.

Loved Halo, played a ton with my brother on XBOX Live and iirc it was my first introduction to online gaming. Really great memories in general. Played a ton of Halo and Halo 2 over a couple summer breaks, Halo ODST is still one of the best standalone mid-quels to a series I've played, and despite all the memes I do still really love everything about the (original) series. Replayed the first a few years back and had fun, I've been contemplating getting the MCC simply because I'd like to experience the games again. As far as the series goes though I think the last one I actually played was Halo 4 about halfway through and then I just stopped caring. Speaking of Halo, has anyone read the books? There's only like four I think, I read the first couple and liked the tone, especially since I read them around the time I was playing ODST and thinking about the real nitty-gritty of war time in the future and all the less savory details it'd entail. Has anyone else read the rest of th- >There are 33 released novels in the Halo book series. These books span various storylines and characters within the Halo universe, including the original trilogy, the Kilo-Five trilogy, the Forerunner Saga, and standalone novels. ...holy shit. >>1626365 In an alternate universe Halo was a popular, PC-only RTS series as it was envisioned before being retro(?)-fit for the XBOX. Frankly, I think getting stuck between the heyday of Starcraft and the soon to be peak of Star Wars popularity probably would have killed it, even if I hate how much being a casual FPS truncated the series of its potential.

>>1626365 You ever wonder if Cortana ever used the Index as a dildo?

>>1626346 >what is armor >what are human bodies

Reminder: Sonic's "dark age" was Dec 2003's Heroes to Nov 2011's Generations . That's 8 years minus a month, and Sonic still had good games in that period (Unleashed day stage, some versions of Colors). Halo has been bad since at least 2012's Halo 4 and hasn't had any good games in that period.

>>1626613 Great adverts you can see the proto zog propaganda that materialised with the cod games that came around the same time and became progressively refined.

>>1626560 The progression of Halo as a Franchise directly paralells Sonic. >Sonic 1 and Halo CE were both games that were groundbreaking when they came out, are generally considered to have aged badly (but still have people who prefer them over later games) >Sonic 2 and Halo 2 were both great but incomplete sequels that were able to evolve the formula of the prior entry and are considered to be some of the best in their respective series in spite of their hellish developments >Sonic 3K and Halo 3 were both huge sequels that pick up directly after the previous game and conclude a trilogy. The developers of both games didn't want to make any new games in their respective franchises after their releases. >The Sonic Adventure games and ODST and Reach were all made because corporate wanted more games to sell their consoles and forced their developers to make more. They're considered good now, but have had a more mixed reputation in the past. >Sonic Heroes and Halo 4 both restart storylines that were meant to be ended in the previous game (Shadow and Master Chief both get taken out of cryosleep), sold well, but have worse gameplay and story than prior entries, but not bad enough to where they don't have defenders and are both considered to be where the series began to go bad. >Shadow the Hedgehog and Halo 5 are both considered bad enough to force their respective franchises to soft reboot. Both have the exact same user score on Metacritic. >Sonic 06 and Halo Infinite were both ambitious games meant to bring their respective franchises back to their roots for the launch of a new gen and both had huge amounts of content cut due to hellish development cycles where lots of important staff left due to corporate meddling and ended up only making the state of their respective worse. Next up should logically be a Halo equivalent of Sonic Unleashed, a high budget game using a new engine that is intended to reboot the franchise and has some genuinely good parts, but is heavily bogged down by boring filler.

It fell because they just about made the best possible game they could ever have made out of this franchise with Halo 3 anyways at least in terms of multiplayer. You can get into the finer details like it should have been on dedicated servers, had a better BR and whatnot but the core itself for what Halo was as a franchise was nearly perfected with that game. Anything afterwards would have just been extra polish unless they went in a drastically different direction which they did. And this is why the series ultimately died. It strayed from its core identity.

>>1626570 I swear this is a remake of a post from several years ago

Halo has some good music. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=g1fPUejOTB8 >>1626438 >ODST I wish we got more games that wasn't just spartan wank. Spartans were more interesting when not everyone and their girlfriends could become spartans.

>>1626570 you don't know what you ask

>>1627813 >first one Hey! That one was done by NCS when she still did smut, before she became a le wholesome SFW meme artist. It's a shame, she drew great heavy ladies without veering into hyper or slob. Thanks for posting that, she apparently drew a lot of Sangheilis but didn't publicly post much of it, and I lost that one. Comic related is ironic because she later wiped basically all of her old lewds

>>1626438 >holy shit 343's book obsession kind of irritated me. Having (sometimes) important plot details crammed into books most gamers are completely unaware of makes me want to slap someone. Or at least it would if I still gave a shit about the series. >>1626503 What you don't like lanky twink spartans? >>1626560 >since at least 2012's Halo 4 Yeah that is pretty sad. Only good thing out of that game was Cortana's assets. >>1626613 The ODST one was pretty good too. A shame the tv series were handled by fags who hate gaylo and never bothered to learn what it was about. Could have been a cool fucking show.

>>1627813 Why does everyone draw sangheili as hyper? Is it too much to ask for aliens that aren't mountains of lard?

>>1627931 Thick girls make unga brain go YES. That, and anon specifically asked for thigg Sangs. But seriously, I have noticed and questioned this phenomenon too. If you look at old Sangheili R34, like methados' 2000s art god I forget he's been drawing for that long, you'll find lanky and thin gals. They first started being drawn as neolithic goddesses around 2013 and since 2020 that's become their default. I can't tell you why this happened, I assume it's because a few popular artists did it and others wanted to copy it. That said, there are still plenty of musclegirl Sangheilis and even a few thick muscular girls, if you're one for multiple flavors.

>>1627917 >What you don't like lanky twink spartans? As a sane person, no. I'm more partial to H4's Cortana. Although spoiler related is… something, too.

>>1627982 2nd pic is perfect. Thank you anon.

>>1628063 Putting clothing on Cortana is a crime against humanity. I vaguely remember a line from someone about her choosing to go without clothing to manipulate people which I found mildly amusing. They should have kept to that line of thinking instead of crapping all over her design in 5.

>>1626346 As a Halo veteran that played from the first game to Infinite, it's kinda sad at how Halo is being handled by a bunch of retards that show no love for this series. Despite its problems, Reach was the last good Halo game for me. If Microsoft wasn't filled with assholes that like to screw the older Bungie devs to the point to crunch them in their offices, both Bungie and Halo would have been different today. >>1627496 >Spartans were more interesting when not everyone and their girlfriends could become spartans. I hold the controversial opinion that Spartans should be just be comprised of men like Space Marines from WH40K.

>>1628431 I figured she was nude for the same reason statues are.

>>1628431 And the change to a manjaw is beneath reproach, of course.

>>1628447 I agree Reach was the last good Halo game but it also was definitely a sign that the series was straying too far off the path and would get ruined shortly after which it did. Had plenty of fun with Reach but the armor abilities for multiplayer and weapon bloom was a pretty god awful combination since the abilities were quite unbalanced. I also disliked how on launch nearly half the maps were all Forge World based maps. Halo pretty much nailed what it needed to be as a console first party FPS franchise for Microsoft with the very first game actually. Halo 2 and 3 only refined what they already did with the first game. In my eyes they pretty much perfected it by Halo 3. It only needed further refining with its netcode and gun balancing at that point. Perhaps also a slightly faster running speed and mandatory 60fps. I bet people would have bitched eventually though had Halo stuck to this formula. Especially since COD not only emerged as a competitor but overtook Halo in popular definitely by MW2's release.

>>1627465 >>1627813 >>1627886 >>1627982 ehehe >>>/vb/29629

>>1628447 100% in full agreement with you dude. 343i fucking destroyed this franchise & retard normgroids can't make their way out of a dystopia even if they tried. >Combine current culture with crappy studio and that's the reason for Halo death

>>1626365 >If they did 343 would have been disbanded after halo 5. >>1626416 >If there was actual justice 343's workforce would be hung. >>1641995 >343i fucking destroyed this franchise You guys do remember that M$ staffed 343 with people who HATED the Halo series, right? What were people honestly expecting to have happpen?

>>1628953 That makes sense, the ideal female body is a work of art, and covering it is only needed by modesty >>1628431 Only works though if the person is into women, so it couldn't sway gay men or straight women. If anything that would cause hostility in some cases. Good thing that wasn't expanded on lorewise.

>>1643945 In a future with human space colonization, faggots don't exist. It's just axiomatic. We can't possibly coordinate the survival of our species if disease vectors and mental illnesses are still around.

>>1628953 That was what I assumed until I read about the reasoning for it. >>1629068 Yep. >>1643945 >Only works though if the person is into women Considering the majority of the military would be straight men, I don't think that would be too much of a problem for her. >Good thing that wasn't expanded on lorewise Meh, it would have at least kept off those fuck ugly outfits that they slapped on her later. >>1643865 >What were people honestly expecting to have happpen? I don't think most people realized just how badly things went wrong for this series. From the top to the bottom, shit was fugged. MS mishandled the ever loving fuck out of 343 and their company policies were awful. 343 in turn let every retarded idea run wild, and just ruined everything with their generally unchecked incompetence. I guess having Bonnie Ross being the boss of 343 and the VP of the xbox games studios protected them as nothing would change until after she was gone. I now look forward to seeing how nothing improves under the new Gaylo Studios.

>>1626356 >Unreal Engine tech demo with demoralizing dog whistle symbolism, no other nuance whatsoever >"SAAR HIRE THESE PEOPLE" every time with you guys.

>>1648311 Did we read the same post?

>>1648335 Did we make the same post?

>>1648311 >demoralizing dog whistle symbolism explain

Thoughts, anything to this?

>>1651927 I don't buy games without a single player mode.

>>1651927 Thanks for reminding me that 343 shot down an ODST helldivers type of game (and many others) before Helldivers was even a thing. >>1651932 is right too. An ODST skin isn't really enough to make me interested. Still probably pretty neat I'm sure for those who already play it though as fags have been asking for something akin to this for a while.

why do u guys think reach is trash? talking about the campaign here. sure, the story and specially the characters are trash, but back in 2017 when i first (and last) played it, the gameplay was good and smooth, interesting weapons and good ai. so what gives?

>>1679916 >taking imageboard users opinions on mainstream games seriously Considering how long I've seen complaints about how "Gaylo ruined FPS forever", I don't consider criticisms seriously unless it genuinely comes from someone who didn't hate in the first place just because it was popular or different from what he was accustomed to.

>>1679936 <oppressed halo gamers rise up

>>1679936 Consolification is cancer

>>1679916 >why do u guys think reach is trash I wouldn't call it trash, just a step down from what people were expecting back then. A list of what I remember fags arguing about off the top of my head: >weapon bloom >weapon balance >ranking system in multiplayer >lore issues if you read the books prior to the game and random fags mad about how Bungie handled it in general in comparison to said books >armor abilities >loadouts >over reliance on forge maps for multiplayer and some maps had terrible balance >it wasn't on par with gaylo 3 and people are never going to stop comparing it to that game >some ODST firefight fans disliked Reach's approach for firefight Maybe more, but I can't remember at the moment, so feel free to add whatever to the list.

>>1680317 i think halo died because of reach, the game was simply not good at all (it was decent but not good). suspicious how reach was the last halo and bungie had to sell the franchise to another company short after releasing it.

>>1680468 They already wanted to stop working on halo after 3. They made reach and ODST because they were contractually obligated. That is why you can find future hints to destiny in ODST.

>>1680468 >the last halo and bungie had to sell the franchise to another company It also wasn't sold off, Microsoft already owned the franchise. They just lost bungie as a dev.

>>1680497 tru, i forgot microsoft exists >>1680479 that explains a lot since the trilogy was so good i give halo 1 a 9/10, halo 2 an 8/10 and halo 3 i have yet to replay but its probably gonna be another 8 (havent played it in at least 4 years). halo reach i dont think it even reaches (lol) a 7. havent played it since 2017 and i doubt ill replay it tho so i cannot really give a number. odst i have never played

>>1680468 >>1680511 Begone, reachlet.

>>1679916 Aside from armor abilities (mostly just two being useful to the point of being almost overpowered), gameplay was fine. A lot of folks gawk about bloom, which automatics already had a cone of fire. Precision weapons like the DMR having a cone of fire was pretty dumb and unlike Halo, but I got used to it because of the way Halo handled aim assist in those days. There's also fucking up lore, and using Halsey's Journal as some kind of bible to justify said fucking up with lore, but that's kind of pointless to talk about now, considering what 343 has done to the lore since then. And Bungie just seemed to not want to do Halo anymore. That was obvious with ODST. Even if they didn't leave Microsoft to do Destiny, they probably would have phoned in the next Halo game if Microsoft kept them and made make another, and it would have had similar quality to Halo 4 for different reasons. Reach's artstyle is my favorite, and apparently many others'. There's a reason Infinite emulates a lot of Reach's armor designs for the Chief, the Marines, and some of the Banished.

>>1682837 why was it obvious with odst that bungie didnt want to make halo anymore? i have never played it so i dont understand. also, can i ask why is reach ur favorite artstyle? halo 2 seems like the best

Halo 2 was the best game in the series and if you disagree its because you are a retarded casual who couldn't hang and needed the game to be dumbed down in """Halo""" 3

>>1683159 halo 2 is the one with the most personality and the most artistic merit out of the three but halo 1 is simply superior because its better done, has less (very few) flaws

>>1683124 Because it was a mission pack to Halo 3 to tie Halo 2 and 3 together and it wasn't necessary, since every major reveal in ODST was already shown three levels into Halo 3 without needing to follow six dipshits wandering a doomed city to discover what the player already knows. A Bungie that gave a shit would have made not only a completely different story showing something we haven't seen before, but would have made significant changes to the gameplay as opposed to the ODSTs playing like a mildly debuffed Master Chief. >>1683159 Strange that people that call Halo 2 their favorite consider 3 the inferior Halo and not Reach, but whatever. While I favor Reach's gameplay in certain areas, Halo 2 arguably has the best gameplay.

>>1683159 Halo 1-3 are comically similar, what's with this retard-tier attempt at tribalism? >>1683124 >why was it obvious with ODST that bungie didn't want to make halo anymore? For one thing, most of ODST involves you just walking around an empty hub city in Neo-Africa collecting shitty audio collectibles rather than anything actually halo-esque, and most of the missions sucked too, plus the general changes to the story and spartans in the context of the game were for the worse.

>>1683159 https://archive.is/ny9rB Then why did Bungie claimed that they majorly screwed up the game when it launched? You're forgetting the fact that they had 8 months of development because they had to redesign their engine from scratch and scrap so many ideas that wasn't finalized, in which they suffered from crunch. You can see yourself in the awful enemy AI (i.e Elites being not as agile and fast like in the first game) and Legendary being absolutely so shit to play that jackal snipers can easily one-shot you in a single shot.

>>1683159 >Rushed out linear piece of shit with even more corridors and worse level design than 1 1 is the only good game, the rest are a mixed bag with Halo 2 being the worst.

Also >Gaylo thread

>>1683256 >Halo 1-3 are comically similar, what's with this retard-tier attempt at tribalism? You need to post inflammatory one liners that obviously make zero sense in order to farm engagement for twitter bucks. They're extremely valuable to third worlders. Does anyone know the going rate for 8moe (You)'s?

>>1686446 >Does anyone know the going rate for 8moe (You)'s? bout tree fiddy

>>1626438 I read the first 3 novels, and unironically enjoyed them more than the games. Halo just never really clicked for me when it was the big thing, and of course, it completely destroyed the first person shooter genre as a result of everybody else trying to mooch off of its success, so it's hard for me to enjoy it retrospectively either. I never knew that there was a 4th novel, though. >Checks spoiler Jesus fucking christ.

Holo: Wombat Involved

>>1689373 Hola: Taco Evolved

>>1689401 Gaylo: Cumbat Inballs

>>1689406 Gaylo: Mayo Wad

Haha: Laughter Beloved

>>1626356 It's ogre #CloseTheGayte

>>1692271 >>1692198 >3 kids What a king

>>1692451 >Yassssss make more normgroid mouths to feed you go gurl!

>>1692510 >Childless loser will never bring in more white children to this world Sad

>>1692639 Hey, look on the bright side. It's almost certainly not white, so that's a positive.

I still meet up with the boys to play Halo 2 every once in awhile. 360's are cheap when you know how to fix and mod them so I've finally gotten 16 full setups.

>>1694057 Anon... We're at 8bil

>>1712582 and most of em' are assholes of different races - while the whites are slowly being genocided off. Can you not be retarded you shitter?

>>1712603 There are more than 100 million whites you retarded backpedaling squirrel

>>1694057 You're fat and have Mexishit admixture

>>1694258 >lan parties I wish I had enough friends nearby to do those. I still have a collection of 360s from when my friends and I used to play random vidya on the weekends. I miss it.

>>1712640 Your mother you ugly fruit

>>1713909 >>1712603 You're replying to the wrong guy He just stated we're at 8 Mil, to correct >>1694057

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