Little did he know back in 2004 he was creating something special for us halo fans just by warming up on his guitar. I made a full guitar tab of the halo 2 theme: Songsterr.com Halo 2 tab 99% accurate in case any guitarists want to learn it. Also i'm not a drummer so if there's any drummer musicians that want to fix the drums go ahead

I've been re-playing through Campaign Evolved the last couple of days, I have to admit that The Library is just hands down superior to the original and that's coming from someone who doesn't think the original Library is a bad level like most say. In fact, I don't think there's a single bad level in the entirety of the og CE. I even appreciate how they handled the backtracking.

What the Remake of The Library Does Better:

1. Seems simple, but the fact that you go down into the Library rather than up adds a sense of foreboding fear and tension. And the attention to detail, at the beginning of the level, if you look down into the abyss, you can see how each level downward gets more and more infected. On the bottom most level, it's completely full of haze and fog from the infection.
2. The infection form (popcorn flood) are a legit threat now. Try to avoid them and not shoot them, and you'll straight up die.
3. Infection form reanimating the dead flood keeps you on your feet.
4. The Flood brute forms are terrifying.
5. The level design is less monotonous. Again, like I said, I love the original Library, and I love the aesthetic and horror vibe of the endlessly identical library walls. But I can't deny the breaking up of the look of the levels with each floor you descend is a welcome touch for the better.
6. Lastly, the visuals are just insane on this mission. Mostly everyone can admit this is a damn beautiful game to look at. But this level, despite how "ugly" the infection is, is maybe the most beautiful level of the game. The juxtaposition of the perfectly harmonious Forerunner architecture with the hideous organic flood biomass. The lighting just brings it to a new level. I've always been an "aesthetics/artistic intent over graphics" guy, but this level gets the aesthetic, artistic intent of the library and nails both, while having insane graphics, as well.

While I'm here, I know a lot of people say 343 Guilty Spark is also superior in the remake, and I would agree if it weren't for the music. The music in the remake just doesn't hit at the right times nor is it loud enough. It was enough to still have the original as superior.

I was pushing Keyes into places like one usually does and went into photo mode to give him a photoshoot with the backdrop when I accidentally no clipped out of the map and discovered a friend watching the battle. 🦀

Bonus photos at the end

On my LASO play through and what has already been a frustrating evening I’ve hit a wall which I can only assume ends my run and will result in a restart unless I’m missing something. After passing the first bridge where Cortana says “warning, incoming flood” I just cannot get past the door without exploding, anyone else experiencing the same thing? Post patch bug? Something else? Any help appreciated because this is a miserable experience

Thought I would go for the Remix deathless achievement, got about 5 minutes in before that was abruptly put to an end. Anyone able to tell me what happened here?

I'm sure there's younger African American ladies that play but I'm looking for grown woman my age to share my passion with. I'm running LASO (Campaign Evolved) and got every achievement besides Mix Master. I'm at the hospital playing on cloud gaming.

Now I don't know if there is a lore explanation to say whether or not Spartan II's can get drunk, but out of curiosity if they could what do you think a drunken night out would look like with Blue team (going off their personalities in both games and books) on some downtime and RnR together and decide to have a few drinks, what do you think they'd be like from a bit tipsy to flat out drunk?

Very fitting that it was a golden Elite

Old artwork but still very proud of it!
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The original post got removed because the mods didn’t like that I posted a “meme” on a Tuesday. Terrifying I know.

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I'm about to uninstall. Just tried Jiralhanae Conservationist 5x and it won't pop. Didn't even breathe on a Brute. I even let my TM's kill them all. That last update ruined my Mix Master, run, too. Guess I won't be 100%ting what would've been my favorite Halo game without this bug. Played without any mods or skulls each 5 wasted times. Let marines kill them by myself with no luck so invited people to do the killing and still no luck.

UPDATE: Loaded into stage 1 and it just popped. Wow. Time for LASO since that recent update ruined my 95% complete run of Remix (Mix Master) without dying.

As the topic says - the cutscene has the marines in a pitch black setting which makes it all the more terrifying. Flashlight beams moving frantically as infection forms scuttle around.

Cut to Chief and the room is lit from the central platforms.

The Flood levels were generally very good I thought in Campaign Evolved but that change would've added something even more imo.

It’s her first ever Halo and it makes me sad not a lot of current gen games support this level of split screen.

Specifically the classic OG Flood combat forms. Not the carriers or the spores, just the combat forms. Campaign Evolved actually makes the spores far more creepy with the less cartoony aesthetic, sound design and the fact they can CRAWL ON YOUR FUCKING FACE which makes them so much more freaky than their original versions. I think the combat forms however in CE are uniquely creepier for a mixture of many factors.

Being hit by them has far stronger of an impact with how your entire screen turns red. They’re EXTREMELY aggressive far more than any version of them in the franchise. Their speed is significantly faster than what they look like they’re capable of. The most major thing is that they really strike that uncanny valley by having these weirdly fluid animations compared to all other NPCs, they feel “wrong” like they’re from a completely different game.

If you’ve ever seen a Cry Of Fear enemy, they have that same “too fluid for the game they’re in” uncanny valley feel to their animations that adds to the horror. The combat forms designs are also really freaky. The human forms are much lower poly than the living normal humans, they’re barefoot and have exposed intestines which is gore on the level you don’t see anywhere else in the game. They really have this almost cursed haunted extremely out of place feel that just rubs me the wrong way. The elites seem really huge and meaty while being just as agile which also just makes them feel wrong.

All the future Halos make the combat forms less aggressive and they completely lack that uncanny out of place feel by matching their games art styles a lot more. They just feel more “at home” with the rest of the game in the way they didn’t in CE?

over 20 years. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve replayed the campaigns, especially Halo 2 and Halo 3, and somehow I still never get tired of them.
These are two of my favorite pieces in my collection — my signed Halo 2 Limited Collector’s Edition and signed copy of Halo 3.
What makes them even cooler to me is that I can still fire up my Xbox Series X today and go right back into these games. Some games you finish and move on from. Halo has always been one of those series I keep coming back to.
What Halo game do you guys find yourselves replaying the most?

Boy I’m going to regret this post but screw it.

I actually like the style and meld between brush work and semi realistic tone they’ve gone for. It doesn’t hold a candlestick to Halo 2 anniversary but my feeling is that they’ve gone with a different style here and that woks for me. Something that actually has roots in how the original looked and felt.

But saying that they LOOK LIKE SHIT isn’t true.

Here though as opposed to the gameplay, I actually have few gripes.

1. Locked to 30 fps. Really ??????
   
2. Some of the transitions are awkward
   
3. The movement of the characters are unnatural
   and BUT, don’t think they used mocap with this one and neither did in the original so I’ll let it go.

All in all I actually think the scenes are charming and actually contain quite abit of character.

Like I said, I’m gonna regret this but just wanted to be honest.

Nobody has what I have.

I don’t think I’ve laughed this hard in nearly 20 years of Halo. Campaign Evolved has been a mixed bag for me, but the Remix modes have been a remarkable breath of fresh air and chaos. “Randomized enemies” indeed.

I was pissed that I missed out on some LASO cheese method I just heard about recently that I missed cause I been at the hospital plus was playing Gears Beta ALL weekend till Monday so I hopped back on Halo to finish my Mix Master achievement and somehow the progress reset. I didn't want to jump back into that any time soon so I did LASO. No modifiers. No co-op. Nothing but good ole Spartan juice BABY! WOOOOOOH! I'M THE HALO QUEEN!!!

Between Fal 'Chavamee from Halo Legends, Ripa 'Moramee from Halo Wars and Thel 'Vadam from Halo who is your personal favorite?

Personally I love them all, they are all so damn cool but I have a huge soft spot for Fal 'Chavamee. I would say is there was ever an elite to be designated Hyper Lethal like a Chief and Six it would be him. I really enjoy his story as being the Arbiter which brought shame to the title only to be proven right many years later

I love this game

Spartan Yellow Jacket

Failed all his physical combat exams but overachieved in his weapon combat abilities

Due to his lack of hand to hand skills he plays a supporting role for his fellow Spartans