Sometimes I wonder if they make these lists dumb just 'cause they like to see people rage.
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Halo |OT 20| It really does feel like Halo
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kittens
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It certainly gets more discussion going than a perfectly agreeable list would, lol.
Slightly Live
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IGN guilty of clickbait? Take that back!
Dun worry man, I'll fix game journalism in a few years.
Glad to see my friend's website still being shared around here and glad the new design is liked! He is literally working on adding the additional 50 achievements that were just revealed right now and we are trying to do some research on the new mission specific achievements (if any) and will try and update everything once that's all done.
Slightly Live
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Highlands was one of the maps that helped me continue to play Reach for man, many more months than I would have. Not a great map, but it's solid and one of the best Reach maps for sure.
Nah, probably Lockout.
Actually, it's IGN "9.8, out Bungie'd Bungie" so it'll be Haven.
TRD Mr Blonde
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Jesus Reach and Halo 4 are taking a beating.
II SHABUTIE II
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Ryan is a big Blood Gulch fanboy, so I'd say BG. They might as well throw all the map names in a hat and just put BG and Lockout at number 1 and 2. The list is just awful and will continue to get worse.
All this stuff reminds me...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=39774709&postcount=8033
Also, how have we not recreated the HaloGAFCivilWar.gif yet?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=39774709&postcount=8033
Also, how have we not recreated the HaloGAFCivilWar.gif yet?
Nope. A lot of multiplayer content, but that's not all it is.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=134774911&postcount=223
Diablohead
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Boarding Action for Halo 5 Guardians.
Chiron TL-34 as DLC.
Slightly Live
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Someone did.
It's too dark to see any details and the text is too big and there's no fade out and some text is missing too.
VisceralBowl
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Wrong font also. Downgrade confirmed.
Fahzgoolin
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So they are rating maps from Reach. It's not part of the collection.
Stupid.
Stupid.
Slightly Live
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Bungie took the re-using assets for other modes thing way too far with Destiny too. It's pretty terrible. Destiny's PvP looks like it's ripped straight from campaign (and perhaps it was) just like Reach.
Vile practice.
ArchedThunder
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How many times can Kynan Pearson use the words cool, good and interesting to describe maps?
Good to hear. I bookmarked the page now and it will serve me as a guide.
I'm not good with these things and it was just me playing arround with the GifCam tool.
The source video is unfortunately this dark, so I can't do anything about it. Somebody should do a better version, when the game is out.
Poodlestrike
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In all fairness, the article is about ranking every Halo map ever made, not just the ones in the collection.
Depends on how soon we can mail him a thesaurus.
IGN clearly has never played Slayer Unlimited
Yeah, I mean it's super tough to ever do something like this, so I'm glad most of the responses seem to be pretty mature.
For one thing IGN has several HUGE Halo fans, with thousands of games played each, but there's still maps we barely remember. Stuff from Halo 2 Vista, or the final Reach/Halo 4 map packs. So from the perspective of familiarity alone, this was challenging.
The other "problem" is that Halo Multiplayer is like pizza - even when it's bad it's pretty good. There's only about ~20 Halo MP maps that I would say are actually, genuinely not good. So that's what's going to rile people up about this list - the switchover from Not Good to Good is around #80 - so there will be maps in the 80s and 70s that other people think are great. And maybe they are. But we just didn't think so.
It's a really really high quality curve, in other words. There's maps like Powerhouse or Isolation that totally do what they set out to do, fill a role effectively, are fun to play, and they still got pushed low-ish in the rankings not because they aren't good, but just because they aren't better.
squidhands
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IGN is the Buzzfeed of gaming sites.
lolwut
Back in '07 I literally followed a guide online that showed me where I could scratch my Halo 3 disc so that Isolation would not load so when I went into MM it would never pick that map.
don't sweat it, it is super hard to do a list like this, and pleasing everyone is impossible
The things we did to play the Halo we wanted to play.
I uninstalled all doc except Standoff just so I could only play Standoff
Isolation was sweet in Team Dubs if you could abuse the regens. But I guess that kinda makes it a bad map if it can be abused lol.
Aye, I feel the same way.
Sorta. In this regard, Bungie made the PvP maps unique enivrons unlike Reach which had SEVERAL maps that were ripped straight from the main campaign (Powerhouse, Countdown, Zealot, Boardwalk, whatever the Ivory Tower remake was called).
In Destiny, the Crucible maps just "look" like campaign sections in terms of architecture/aesthetics, so at the very LEAST Bungie improved on Reach in this ONE regard... :-/
There were two main reasons why I disliked the map. First, aesthetics. Flood maps like that were never all that interesting to play on, and the lower half of the level looked like a colon. Second, gameplay. The default variant shouldn't have included a Ghost. Probably shouldn't have Mongooses either but at least getting a kill with one of those was skillful. The Regen that you mentioned could totally be abused by a team that controlled Brute Shot and power weapons too.
tl;dr, the map looked like shit and played like shit
Standoff is such a great map. One of my favourites.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Slightly Live
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The IT remake felt like it was inserted into the campaign for the sake of it. You were in and out and it barely registers.
Of course, it was a remake, not an original map.
I don't see Boneyard mentioned yet, meaning it's ranked higher than all these maps, including Highlands. That is a genuine crime.
Yup. So good.
I once got a splatter on that map by hitting a Warthog with a BR from half the map away, as it swung into an enemy player. The bullet added enough momentum to the hog that it registered as a kill and a splatter medal.
Pretty sure Highlands was never in matchmaking outside of the DLC playlist.
Can't convince me otherwise.
Pretty sure I only played that map in the playlist or customs
Slightly Live
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It rarely appeared outside of the DLC Playlist. When the playlist was taken down, I stopped playing as much. I pretty much lived in that playlist for a long while.
The Ridgeline/Timberlands came and I played again. Until they took that away from me too.
Just thinking, I'd happily pay $15/20 for all the Reach maps as DLC.
Blue Ninja
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True, but it also had a Laser. And a base with stickies/PP.
The spawns weren't the best but even when fully locked down and I'm driving a great gunner to easy kill heaven, you need to control the enemy base to force them to spawn outside and even then you only get at most 70-80 of the team spawning together in one area.
If you're team loses the laser. Loses their own base. and lets the over team set up the hog spawn trap, well the teams weren't particularly balanced in the first place. I've locked a ton and been locked on Standoff, it takes just one player, one sticky, to sort it out.
It's like Hogs dominating on Rat's Nest. No decent team would let that happen - you literally just need a single player with a clue. I've killed over 10 hogs in a single game (think it was 10, time makes this number a bit hazy now).
