Current Events > Did you ever finish Halo Reach's campaign on Legendary Mode?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Well?

Yeah, solo as well.

It was an enormous pain in the ass. Fuck that warehouse room in the last mission right before the hunters. The one with all the elites.

Yeah. It's a tough game on Legendary, as it should be. There are times where it feels unfair, but it never actually is. I think it's about on the same tier as Halo: CE when it comes to Legendary difficulty. They're the most appropriately balanced Legendary campaigns in the series. Halo 2 is much more difficult than either, but that's mostly due to unfair game design. And every other Halo campaign is notably easier than Reach and CE.

Now LASO is a different story. That's not one I'm willing to try.

WHat was unfair about the design of Halo 2? I only played it briefly, a long time ago.

Nah, only the first 3 I beat on legendary

Yes. I used to actually do the LASO runs back then. Never again, that shit was more annoying than difficult

Shoot_FTH posted...

WHat was unfair about the design of Halo 2? I only played it briefly, a long time ago.

It's almost entirely because of Jackal Snipers. They have perfect aim and can kill you in one shot on Legendary. There are a lot of them throughout the campaign.

Aside from that, it's just a rather difficult run. You die very, very quickly even fighting normal enemies. You can generally kill them pretty quickly in return too, but that doesn't really make up for how fast you can die. And some levels have notoriously difficult sections.

Also, it's one of the few instances where playing the game in co-op can actually be harder. In all other Halo games, if your co-op partner dies, they can just respawn. In Halo 2, if either player dies you revert to the last checkpoint much like how it works in solo play.

That said, Halo 2 is perfectly fine on other difficulties. It's a great campaign overall. It's specifically Legendary where it's a bit of a mess.

I've only ever beaten one FPS

I remember the Jackal snipers in the first level of Halo 3 being a bit unfair.