Today’s game was Halo Reach. I had finally hoped to finish it up today with my friend, but i miscounted how many levels were left. Hopefully tomorrow should be the day and I will have finally played Master Chief Collection through in it’s entirety on Legendary. Though, i plan to go back through Halo CE on Legendary because according to the service record in game i did not beat it (which i assume is due to mew having anti-cheat off due to an error with Proton).
Playing through Reach, i can definitely see why it’s so beloved. While trying to avoid story spoilers (even though it’s an old game), there was one section where you get to fly a Pelican (big helicopter like things) with a fiery hellscape of a city as the backdrop that progressively gets worse. It made for such a cool moment that was fun to playthrough:
I like that it actually let us fly the things too instead of just making it an on Rails shooter. It helped make it feel unique in my opinion, especially since in two earlier levels you were just a passenger.
Story wise (now possibly story spoilers), i’m really enjoying how much grittier it feels. Knowing how it ends really makes me wish i didn’t know, because i think that ending would be far more enjoyable without knowing it.
And, i know i say this for almost every game i play, but it looks gorgeous too. The city landscape of the level especially is really well done in my opinion, and i felt like Reach executed it well in the one level as opposed to ODST’s open world thing (don’t get me wrong though, i really loved ODST). I like how it has you backtrack to the first level at near the end. It’s such a fun thing to do to havbe you go back only to get to go deeper too. And the audio logs are really well hidden and fun to find. There not as fun as the Skulls in my opinion, but they’re still a lot of fun.
God I fucking love reach. 4 person LASO in reach was one of my favorite gaming experiences ever
I’m looking forward to doing LASO with my friends, i’ve already got two of them recruited to help. The customization of your character sticking to your Noble Six definitely makes it more fun too. So instead of 4 master chiefs or Master Chief, Arbiter, and two Elites, it feels more like it’s actually you and your friends.
Make sure they know what they’re in for lol. We were stuck at the spire at the end of Tip Of The Spear for at least 2 hours lmao. Nobody can quit
Good luck finishing it up and redoing that level on CE! Note that the pelican (pictured in this post) is the vehicle that is typically used to transport marines. You were driving a falcon.
There is an easter egg on that level that lets you drive a pelican, though!
Somehow i managed to cheese the Halo CE one. What i think happened was that the conditions to check are just checking if the level is beat with Anti-Cheat on, and then just checking what the highest difficulty done is (with anti-cheat not included in the equation). I recently have been playing with one of my younger siblings through the entire Master Chief Saga and we’ve made it through CE and half of 2, so i’m assuming that ticked the boxes for Condition 1. So as of today my Halo MCC service record says i have played through the entirety of it on legendary!
Damn on the Falcon though. I have have just recently started being able to tell ghosts and banshees apart. Me and my friend had to come with a whole ass mnemonic device for it (“ghost goes on ground”). I’ll definitely have to go back and look at the Pelican Easter egg though. Halo has had some of my favorite Easter Eggs to date.
