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In my opinion, the best part about halo is how physics based everything is Want to get that scorpion tank onto a sniper ledge? Use a man cannon Want to send a vehicle flying around? Use a hammer or explosives You want to change which direction a man cannon pushes you? Use a thruster

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I agree with custom games wholeheartedly. I don’t think I’d be half as attached to the series as I am without those experiences on Halo 3 and Reach. Obviously haven’t played classic 3 in forever now, but last time I was on there I think something like 1.3k of my 3k games played were custom games. Some of my best memories growing up

12:40 Launch Site is a great asymmetrical map, the elevator is a real saving grace for that map's overall gameplay flow, and the vehicles definitely help it seems like a modern-day high ground and I hope they focus more on releasing asymmetrical maps in the future instead of ones like Catalyst

For me, it comes down to the original "30 seconds of fun" gameplay loop introduced in CE. The basic triad of gunplay, grenades, and melee is just plain fun and holds up to this day in Infinite.

One of the best aspects of halo is the music. The way each game gives its own unique twist on some of the most popular themes is fascinating. (Especially between the original trilogy!)

Arbiter isn't just the best part of halo 2, he's half of the franchise (Or ought to be if 343 would remember he exists beyond BOOKS. I DO NOT WANT TO READ, I WANT TO SEE HIM ON SCREEN IN HD WORT WORT GLORY)

LOL 0:38 - "on what could have just been a bud light" - that aged very well haha, the man is clearly a prophet

I was 9 when H2 released, so I can’t remember hate towards the arbiter. Still regard that campaign to be peak Halo, ah nostalgia

What I recall about the Arbiter controversy was that it was more about "not playing chief" and being disassociated with Arbiter because he was "alien" to the player than about the covenant or his story.

10:22 hilarious to think even back then people didn't want halo to advance in plot or gameplay elements. I was a 10 year old kid and the internet wasn't really a widespread thing so I was none the wiser.

I think halo 3 had the perfect evolution or devolution of the covenant after the events of halo 2, showing that the elites were an integral portion of the covenant and even the difficulty being easier is almost an indicator, if not direct one that the covenant was on the decline of course they still wrecked humanity a bit but between no longer having to fight the elites, the brutes being easier to fight (which I chalk up to tartar sauce's death), and only having truth essentially running a galactic cult army to me it seems like a great ending.

What I find crazy when I try looking up best co-op video games of all time. Not one Halo game gets mentioned. That should be a crime. Single player campaign is fun, but let’s not pretend how amazing any of the Halo campaigns are as co-op. I mean I kind of think that is what made Halo amazing in the beginning.

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Halo 3 spartan dead body physics are secretly my favorite thing. I only got better to see the physics more often. But I don't mind dying because I get a cool close up of it with a movable camera (wish infinite allowed movable camera)

As a person who values Campaign, PvE, and Customs, I couldn't feel more alienated by Infinite when it wants to be so competitive focused because I very rarely touch standard PvP

the godlike sandbox is fun as hell, there's nothing like picking a gun from the ground and using it in the most creative way posible

4:35 A Halo game launching with no Campaign and no Multiplayer, but instead having only Custom Games, Forge, and Custom Games Browser? That'd be interesting.

The home slice returns from hiatus!!!!

halo 5 really makes you feel like a super soldier in a powered suit of armor. reach to a slightly lesser extent.

I think people forget that originally Halo was a RTS turned into a first person shooter, and I feel like in the original titles the Spartans were more like a gear in the military, the newer titles they put more emphasis you versus the enemy, it's rather than the whole team, that's what makes Halo Halo.

The warthog is the epitome of halo and you can not convince me otherwise the wacky physic’s that flip it the teamwork involved to the unique halo design that is the warthog

I still want to know why 343 got rid of the Plasma Rifle and Covenant Carbine. I get the whole "well, we already have a weapon that does (xyz), so we don't need another one" but it's not about that. It's about fluff. Sure, covenant and human weapons can overlap sometimes, but why does that really matter? I want my aliens to use weird alien weapons, I want my humans to use human weapons. I get that the brutes/banished use human weapons just because "big monkey like explosions and loud noises", but I'd still like to see the Bruteshot return. I wasn't a fan of the Promethean weapons in 4, and Infinite's forerunner weapons are alright. I prefer the old "battery" of the sentinel beam, but it's fine I suppose. But I'd like to see more of the OG weapons return. Of all the guns that were changed, the Bulldog is probably the most agregious. I have no issue with a semi-auto shotgun, but the damage output puts sword players at an advantage. There's nothing wrong with weapons that slightly overlap in what they do!

The social side of Halo is one of the things that made it unique and stand out from all its competitors even to this day actually. Awesome video as always Ascend 🤙

Your insights are always of the utmost quality! So damn entertaining to watch 🤙🤙

Interesting, the homeslice appears to be attuned with the recent Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, considering he chose Stella Artois for today's Let's Argue. Coincidence? I think not!

The soundtrack, clearly 😇

I was shocked to actually hear you say “Ascend Hyperion,” all the ones I’ve seen it’s like “Ascend *BOIOIOIOIOIOIOINGGGG*perion” or something

Fun fact, stalla is nick named "wife beater" in the UK

Can anyone tell me if custom games in Halo popularized/coined the term 'custom games'? I feel like it's such a ubiquitous phrase now that every gamer knows exactly what you mean when saying it. But I'm kinda curious how/when this term formed.

Awesome video bro!

My best halo memories are on sandtrap in forge with my friends as a kid

in the UK Stella is the "wife beater" beer

Bring back constant lobby’s you can always leave if needed. Bring back game chat there’s a mute button some games even have a quick mute all

Dammit, you made me pause the video and go buy some stellas

It’s sad that people don’t understand Halo’s TTK. They just want games where you look at a guy and then they die. Instant gratification I guess. I hear too many complaints that killing someone is too hard or long

Can we do Peronis next

Try artios summer solstice. Its a bit better

What happened to the cool guy? The one with actual good opinions? ;3

Whats up with the sc sticker

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Lol idk maybe it gives you the option to turn it around but I'm still a shit player so I don't think it applies 🥶

Ight let's do this every halo game after 3/ODST was shit

2:12 kind of a weird take. First, you can play every Halo with your friends. Social experiences are in every multiplayer entry, and in particular, Halo Ce, Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST Firefight, Halo Reach, Halo 4, Halo 2 Anniversary / MCC, Halo 5 and lastly Halo Infinite. I'd argue that's like arguing the best thing about life is existing. Sure, playing with friends is "fun" but it's an expected notion of a multiplayer entry, especially one that promotes friends to play with each other. This was never Removed from the experience, however the belief for some reason is that "it was". Likely because people don't even understand what a social experience is, and just go with the horde mentality. Large misconception with what you said @ 2:37. Forge isn't the reason why a "social experience" exists, nor is, in specific a "custom game". A social experience exists due to it being a byproduct of a multiplayer entry. This, by large, makes every single multiplayer game a "social" game or entry. Halo's success had never loomed on it's ability to be non-competitive in a short notice -- in fact, one could make a legitimate argument that depicts the most non-competitive Halo experiences had the lowest population of the entire series, whilst the most competitive experiences continued an upward trend in population. Social interaction is a generalized norm of a multiplayer experience. Now having an interconnected "Social network" is not a Halo experience, but an Xbox 360 experience. One that was right at the cusp of Social Networking moving from 10 million to 2 billion people in a short couple years. In 2022, this "social network" that existed on the Xbox 360 (Halo 3, Reach, etc) would not just be frowned upon, but it would actually see a heavily decline in players. People do not want a Facebook but "In Halo format". I'm sure some do, but there's 3 billion users on social media, 200+ million FPS players collectively. I'd have to make a sound argument that a large percentage (overwhelmingly well exceeding 2/3rds) go to video games to escape both "real life" and "social media life". 2:55 It did. It just didn't have the younger audiences to promote that. Halo 3, in particular, was like Fortnite. It appealed to a much younger audience, so the much younger audience utilized the game the same way as they would Minecraft a short couple years later. The reason people express this notion of "weird custom games" is because they are young. You, yourself, are not in your 30s. You're a product of this "younger" generation doing this, rather than the product of the consumer who the game was originally intended for (M17+ rated game). Meanwhile, adults moved over to Call of Duty. Adults, in this era and even today, do not care about these aspects. Children do. In modern era, children don't even care about those aspects. That's why some of the most competitive games in the world had been plagued by Children (like Fortnite, APEX, CSGO and Valorant).

I can only really say what I consider the WORST part of halo since I also agree with so many different elements being super important to why halo is good. The worst part of halo is its standard arena play. It doesn’t really do anything there that other arena shooters haven’t already been doing better for decades, and once you take away all the significant elements that do make halo great, by playing a standard spartan v spartan mode, halo falls short of its arena shooter brethren like quake. I think halo infinite basically proved this by having such a huge focus on its standard matchmade arena modes and having everyone just get bored so damn quickly. But you add customs to the mix, suddenly the halo arena experience becomes capable of surpassing everything else

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I found customs extremely boring until 5 came along, I can not understand how people enjoy janga or driving down a slop for like 20 minute's and not hitting anybody, 5 just had better custom game types, like paintball, minitars, mantis mech warrior, world of tanks, probably some of the best times I've ever spent playing halo was halo 5 action sack, only thing that could rival that level of enjoyment involving halo is having massive lan parties with my mates back in primary school on CE and 2

femsangheili, human male... ideal love couple it can't get any more based than this.

Bungie was the best thing in Halo

Halo Customs is important? Could've fooled me. Haven't seen "meaningful" customs in 6+ years. MCC Browser is tight, I am on Jump maps all the time... but they have been slaughtered by the custodians of Halo.

Halo 5 is the only good halo game

I just dont understand the love for the Arbiter. I think the backstory they gave the Covenant in Halo 2 was super cheesy and totally unimmersed me from the storyline. The only thing that saved Halo's story for me was the fact that the rest of the games in the franchise stayed as far away from the Arbiter as possible (Halo 3 had to at least wrap up his story, but didn't make him the main character in any levels). (Forgot about Halo 5, but everybody else probably should too). I like my aliens to be ALIENS. The Covenant's motives could have been actually discovered throughout the campaign of Halo 2 in a way that built up some suspense and they could have kept some of their mystique, instead of becoming corny cartoon villains. The 'human' elements of the storyline should have been handled by, yes, HUMANS, the way the story was in Reach/ODST. I wish we could've had a Halo franchise with the characters of Reach, but the actual plot twists and alien discoveries/adventures of the other games. I know I'm pretty much alone on this, but I just can't see the Arbiter and think 'cool' (he's just too goofy-looking). Everybody else loves him now though, so it is what it is.

imagine if the covenant in halo 2 were as horribly written as the banished in infinite.

So here’s a halo take. I think halo infinite is the best halo game to date as far as core gameplay goes but everything else is so bad that I am totally uninspired to play I even bought the season 2 battle pass but I don’t even have the will power to get to rank 10 the surrounding features are so bad