3 and Reach are both solid choices. I personally prefer 3 (fuck bloom 4eva), but they’re both good.

5 is weak. Pretty, but weak.

Narrowed it down to 3 and Reach. I definitely played through both in co-op but can't remember if I tried Reach solo. Enjoyed the giant enemy crabs in H3 but also thought the jetpack was a legit addition in Reach.

3

Play none of them and play Titanfall 2 instead.

I definitely think 2 is pretty underrated, the enhanced graphics really makes the campaign pop IMO, makes it a great lead in to 3 and I definitely prefer some aspects to 3. Delta Halo in particular is amazing, 2 has some of my favourite and most memorable set pieces.

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Fucking Gary Sparrows up in here.

He'd play both at the same time. On legendary. #lad.

I've never played ODST and forgot about it so I'll start that today, case closed for now. If I don't like the hub thing (open world?) I'll bin it for H3. Played Titanfall 2, great campaign, might replay it in 60fps one day.

Cyber Shadow

This should be my sort of thing but it's a real disappointment. I thought the first few levels were good, but from there it increasingly relies on moves that aren't implemented intuitively at all and punishes mistakes too severely.

And there's just nothing exciting about the level design that makes me want to push through. Visuals and bosses are ordinary, no real set pieces. Just feels like fighting through to the next checkpoint for no reward.

I'm really enjoying it but the DP is winding me up (genuinely). I'm not keen on the way you bounce up slightly with the input rather than straight down, it still feels wrong, and there doesn't seem to be a way to do it without depleting the special bar. Despite the fact that its part of your standard moveset once the magic in your pockets is gone. On the stage I'm playing rn you need to DP certain enemies to open doors, and that's costing me SP reserves I like to save for bosses.

The bounce on the DP gives you a longer reach on the jump so I'm at peace with it now. Up tp a boss with enemies that turn into rafts.

Anyone experienced a jump slash glitch in Cyber Shadow? I didn't notice it for he first four levels or so but there are spots where the slash doesn't register in the air, like a frameskip confirmed to certain areas maybe? There's one just after an early checkpoint on level 5. Maybe I just need to reboot. Not blaming my tools here, it's a definite problem.

Annoying as it is, level 7 rolls in with possibly the best approximation of an early 16-bit Yuzo Koshiro track I've ever heard and all is forgiven.

There's a stretch at the start of level 7 where you have to do a small chunk of the stage before you get to a checkpoint.

Left it on a checkpoint in level 8 tonight. Things are hotting up and I was starting to do some swears.

Definitely, from the very start too.  Volgarr was so masocore there was very little chance of success without pattern learning.  If you take things slowly in Cyber Shadow half the battle is won, but it's more fun to attempt to sail through it.  Usually if I keep dying on a checkpoint overconfidence is what kills me.  Once you've had one or two runs at a checkpoint you'll know what's what, but Volgarr required more memorisation and more precision.

CS is tough but the checkpoints take the edge off - there are plenty per level.  Volgarr was brutal, with one checkpoint per stage (placed midway rather than before the boss).

Why the fuck would any game with a double jump allow you to double jump immediately after the initial jump? Trying to do one of the optional changes in Cyber Shadow and the double jump is killing me. I've tried two joycons and a Horizon Split pad now, the cunt keeps double jumping with a single button press.

Credits rolling.

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