A Tier List Of All 52 Bungie Developed Halo Levels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- Having finished my work analysing every single Bungie-developed Halo game and every mission within each of them, I've decided to celebrate by putting the levels into tiers based on quality.
Starting with Halo: Combat Evolved and finishing with Halo: Reach, each is given a tier and my rationale discussed, with a few potentially controversial choices appearing here and there.
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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - Halo: Combat Evolved
12:29 - Halo 2
25:28 - Halo 3
36:52 - Halo 3: ODST
47:25 - Halo: Reach - เกม
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My first unscripted video since starting the channel more than years ago. Hopefully, it's at least somewhat watchable!
Hot Take: I recognize that it isn't anybody's favorite level and I don't enjoy it all the times, but I think the Library is a good level. At least thematically it is. The level means to show us just how utterly without hope fighting the Flood can be. Wave after wave comes for you and you push through by the skin of your teeth and Chief is just focused on survival that he almost dooms all of reality by firing the Halo ring just because of how crazy the Flood makes everybody.
I agree with you. It may seem like a slog but no level really lets the shotgun shine quite like it, and no Halo shotgun has ever been as good as the first one. People often have this idea of rushing through the level when they're playing on legendary but if you take your time it's actually safer if you know where the waves spawn.
Yeah I definitely think it’s over hated but it’s still not a great level
@@cosmictreason2242 but halo infinite is so much more fun and interesting to actually play. Everything about halo infinite is better, weapons, armor abilities, AI, art style, etc. So where it lacks in diversity it makes it up in everything else
It's also very much a product of its time. Lots of games had "trap levels" that were just a slog for the sake of being a slog, and it's a trend that came from arcade games. Arcade games would have levels in every game that were just designed to eat your coins. Half Life had Blast Pit, DOOM had The Chasm, TMNT had that endgame boss gauntlet before Krang. Mortal Kombat had Sub-Zero. And so on and so forth.
So, I like to call The Library a quarter-sucker level. On the surface, it's not hard, but the longer you spend in the level, the more your chance to die to a random rocket flood or a grenade pile carrier form one-two punch, or a mob of shotgun flood approaches 100%
I love The Library though. It's such a fun level and it shows off the Flood really well.
@@Emu1776I don't agree. The weapon sandbox was doodie and the game would have benefitted from more diverse biomes and interiors.
The story was good and the overworld sandbox was fun, but not moreso than, say, CE or ODST. I just wish the game had all the classic weapons.
YOOOOOOO, The Ark in S tier and The Storm in A tier??? Finally someone gives those missions the tiers they deserve
I didn’t have Xbox Live as a kid and those level’s sandbox was great
The hatred for Sacred Icon I will never understand
one of my favorite levels
Yeah, I agree. It's not my favourite level or anything. But I think it's still a good level. My only problem with it is that I do think it drags on a little bit at certain points. But overall I really enjoy it. Personally, I would not put any "Halo 2" level below B tier. Maaaaaaaybe "High Charity." But even that is not a level I really dislike. It has great atmosphere, but it just doesn't have much meat to it.
Because it sucks!
@@forpdrop3793 Great contribution from the think tank over here
@@RedAce93 it’s bad!!!!
Two Betrayals gang rise up
Two Betrayals is my favorite level in CE. The atmosphere with Covenant and Flood fighting in the distance.
Probably my favorite.
Hell yeah
2 betrayals and the covenant are both S+ teir. They are the ultimate, here is what halo has to offer.
I feel the repetition accusations are a little bit overrated in my humble opinion
I actually played through every halo game (in the mcc) with my mom recently and here are her thoughts. A lot of the levels are too dark for her to feel like she can effectively navigate(she's vision impaired), and that really saps the fun out of them, because in spite of my protestations otherwise, it makes her feel like she's bad at the game. Keyes was the worst offender, with the library a close second. As a side note, she really loves the cursed halo mod. She does appreciate the anniversary edition of Combat Evolved, because she, for the most part, can actually see what she's doing, because it's significantly lighter. The brutes in Halo 2 can "suck it". 3 is a lot of fun, but she doesn't like cortana because, in her words, "it looks like colonscopy footage", and it was "deeply confusing to navigate". ODST is still her favorite, for a number of reasons, and she couldn't really find a reason to complain about it. She does actually like reach. 4, she likes the writing, but she doesn't like the "dogs", or how quickly weapons despawn. She also doesn't like the promethean weapons. I asked her if she had a favorite level, and she said "the one in ODST where you're running around at night" which would be Mombasa Nights.
Your mom sounds like a hoot! Mine has never touched a controller in her life. All she plays is Solitaire 😢
My mom watched me play reach a few years back and she said it made her sad
Love the content as always! This capped off all your level retrospectives really nicely. Hope you're doing well!
Not too bad thanks pchurch, trundling along I suppose! How's 2024 started for you mate?
Can't complain, glad you're doing alright fam.
This is a really fun concept. Your passion for the Halo franchise make the videos all the more entertaining. I managed to take some pics of my Master Chief action figure in the snow the other week and will put them on the channel shortly if you want to check them out.
Thanks mate! And yeh defo - send me a link when it's ready via a reply here and I'll have a butchers.
@@BenPlaysGames Here it is, the first shot is inspired by the Halo 3 Poster: th-cam.com/video/vGYYLvOW4lE/w-d-xo.html
The culmination of all your level analyses has arrived and it was a great watch as always. Can’t wait to see what you have planned for the future of the channel, no matter what type of games you are covering I always have a great time watching your videos.
Cheers Jacob! My plans are a little fuzzy at the moment - I've loads of ideas so just got to choose what to actually work on. Lots of Halo and non-Halo stuff in the works, as vague as that sounds. Currently working on a long critique of 2001 movie tie in game The Thing. Will be one of those videos which gets about 7 views (perhaps a slight under exaggeration) but the film is one of my top five movies, so really enjoying the work.
@@BenPlaysGames the thing is a fantastic movie. The one from the 80s. I've never seen the remake
I recently watched the Thing and it’s a marvelous movie, probably my favourite horror movie. I didn’t know it had a tie in game, so I’m curious what it’s all about.
gotta say I do actually agree with a lot of these, however i personally do quite like the sabre section on long night of solace (although absolutely not on legendary, and would say it goes on a little too long). Exodus and New Alexandria are pretty much inseparable in my opinion and are the two greatest Reach mission. Definitely do agree with the Ark and the covenant being the top two halo missions; everything about them is almost perfection. Great video man 😁
Floodgate is A tier for me as well even though it uses the same areas as The Storm (I heavily dislike most of the other levels in the series that are retreads of previous levels) but I think due to how much of the environment changes and it being a shorter level makes it feel different enough to be a fun level plus the additions to the flood as enemies helps me enjoy it too
I would agree. I think floodgate works well.
I really like Floodgate too - there's some great body horror with the scenes of people being turned and I always enjoy fighting alongside the elites who drop in. It's nice and pacey too, which I think all Flood levels need to be moving forwards (if we ever see them again).
I’ve just got finished replaying all the original Bungee games with my boyfriend and this is what he had to say about them.
His game ranking is as follows:
ODST, H3, H2, CE and Reach (which absolutely killed me inside because I’m the greatest of reach fanboys).
The reasons why he preferred ODST over all the other ones were because he absolutely adored the atmosphere that transpires in the rookie levels at night, aswell as the music that goes along with them. Moreover he loved the noire genre that the writers used to portray the rookies search for his team.
He also really liked the flashback levels in which you get to know the rest of the squad.
Halo 3, oh boy it was one hell of a run.
He loved the story, the weapons designs and feel were top notch for him, as he basically found that it was mostly H2’s guns but reworked in terms of balance and with some additions of old favourites like the AR.
He loved the Arby/Chief dynamic aswell as the level designs and the cutscenes.
He really liked the ark initial cutscene, where the shipmaster disses the brutes.
H2, he loved the anniversary graphics and the new cutscenes made by 343.
He also loved the fact that missions began to span to more different settings, like the city of new Mombasa, Delta Halo and especially he loved getting to see how the covenant works from the inside.
He also loved the idea of the great schism, as it brought so much more dynamism to the story
CE, he just liked the game for what it was but didn’t really enjoy any of the levels except for the silent cartographer.
Levels were often too long and repetitive, ending up boring for him too much for him to really like them a lot.
On a plus side, he enjoyed the story and the plot twists with the flood.
He absolutely hated playing against the flood tho.
Halo Reach, oh boy this hit me hard…
He hated the game, because in his own words “didn’t have any time to get to know the characters”.
He found them blank and not very charismatic or memorable enough to even remember their names.
The only character he enjoyed was Kat, and when she got killed he almost quit the game (lol).
Also, he hated how quickly it all evolved from roses and daisies to absolute mayhem and death, aswell as Noble team being sent on a ton of completely different missions around the planet.
And hot take, he found Lone wolf to be pointless…
Me personally I LOVE every single aspect of reach and I could yap about it professionally
@@cosmictreason2242 don’t waste your life living it in order to please your non existent imaginary friend in the sky
Man, your bf really chose some fighting words when it came to Reach.
The thing that held Reach back for me was I could tell it was where Bungie started feeling the Call of Duty envy. They started putting in things like mandatory scripted vehicle segments and one-off setpiece gameplay elements (like the jetpacks and the one space level) reminiscent of what Yahtzee so eloquently dubbed "spunkgargleweewee" shooters. That flies right in the face of what made the earlier Halo games so much fun, which is how open-ended and sandboxy the combat is, being able to hop in and out of vehicles at will, using whatever weapons and equipment are around in whatever way you want to complete the objective.
Thankfully, it's infrequent enough and there's still enough of the old sandbox gameplay that it's still allover a pretty good Halo game. I just think it falls short of the original trilogy (still better than ODST though, I played that one again very recently and the only thing it really has going for it is the atmosphere, sometimes).
@@zackakai5173 Halo has always had mandatory scripted vehicle sequences, CE with the banshee mission and the first warthog run (altho you can in theory complete this on foot), Halo 2 with the banshee mission to kill the heretic leader, halo 3 with the warthog run and the mission with the hornets (mission name: the covenant), so idk what you really mean by that to be honest with you, but at any rate taste is subjective and everyone is entitled to their own opinion
@@giannizen3775 I should clarify what I mean by "scripted vehicle segment." I mean a scene (such as the VTOL part in Exodus) where you enter a vehicle and the game locks you in, usually for some rail shooting while an NPC flys/drives, until another pre-scripted point where you exit the vehicle. It's true that you effectively have to use vehicles in a few scenes to get from A to B in the older games (such as the Banshee section you mentioned in 2, or the Falcon scene in Halo 3), but with those you're at least the one operating the vehicle and can fly around at will (and *in theory* they wouldn't be *strictly* mandatory if you could find some other way to get where you needed to go, though I acknowledge that's not really viable unless your name is MintBlitz).
Again, I overall still think the game is pretty good. It's still mostly pretty sandboxy, it's just that playing it again now, I can really feel that the CoD/Battlefield influences were creeping in at the time, and I think it was to the game's detriment.
Really enjoyed the free form style of this! Felt just as insightful as the more scripted and edited videos you make. Not a knock against those, perhaps more of a testament to your ability to analyze. They don't necessarily need to be as long, but I hope you do more videos like this.
Cheers mate! I might start doing one of these every fortnight or two, as they're relatively time cheap to create compared to my other videos, which often take tens of hours. I'll see what I can do about the length - I'm quite scatty in the head, so find it hard not to just rabbit away ad infinitum. It's why I tend to only do scripted stuff!
Have not played in few years, but back when I played favorites were:
Halo CE - Silent Cartographer
Halo 2 - Gravemind
Halo 3 - The Ark
Halo ODST - did not play
Halo Reach: The Pillar of Autumn
Will have to replay MCC very soon!
P.S. As usually, your video is very nice, educative for new Halo players, and I really enjoyed while eating pizza. Best to you my friend!
Imagine not having played ODST
@@MaxiemumKarnage Yeah imagine...
Solid list! And cheers, hope all's well with you too mate.
@@BenPlaysGames Thanks sir! I am. When will you stream again?
For me for the main trilogy it would probably be...
For Halo CE
Pillar of Autumn - A
Halo - S (at the time) but B (from a present day perspective)
Truth & Reconciliation - B
Silent Cartographer - A
Assault on the Control Room - B (really hard cuz I feel part of it is A and part is C)
343 Guilty Spark - S
The Library - E
Two Betrayals - C
Keyes - C
The Maw - A (S for the Warthog run and B for the rest)
Average score: B
For Halo 2
Cairo Station - B (good but just overly difficult on LASO, imo, cuz famine makes you run out of ammo for headshot weapons too fast during the boarding craft sections)
Outskirts - A
Metropolis - S
Arbiter - B
The Oracle - B
Delta Halo - A
Regret - A
Sacred Icon - B
Quarantine Zone - A
Gravemind - SS (best level in the series, imo)
Uprising - A
High Charity - C
Great Journey - A
Average Score: A
For Halo 3
Sierra 117 - A
Crow's Nest - C
Tsavo Highway - A
The Storm - B
Floodgate - B
The Ark - S
The Covenant - S
Cortana - F (a combination of it being extremely repetitive and overly difficult on LASO and the environment is uninspired, imo)
Halo - A
Average Score: B
You forgetting reach is criminal
@@lusionvids"for the main trilogy"
I reckon Uprising should be minimum B tier for me personally Id give it an S its the music that and background ambience which makes the level so alive not to mention all the friendly NPC's you rescue make it feel like a actual war than a one man army level. The nature of the outdoor sections were also perfect liked the colour and nature of the level.
Best Arbiter level.
You look exactly like I thought you would and I'm absolutely cool with that.
Looking forward to this video and I'll definitely enjoy it.
Ha refined, debonair and devilishly handsome? Maybe, maybe not, but that's my takeaway. Cheers for the support too!
Welp, "The Library" deserves better than this. I can't believe you put it in THAT category!
Love the content even if I disagree with a lot of the choices
Specifically Assault on the Control room
For me it’s S tier and at very least A tier, to consider it C is baffling to me, yea I know the indoor section can be repetitive, but it really is never that bad for me
It could be dependant on the difficulty that you play on, I get a sense that it may impact your liking somewhat
For me I consider the level at what difficulty makes it the most enjoyable
So for Cortana for instance, normal (because I’d hate the level on legendary) but on normal find it pretty enjoyable
And the Ark for instance I find most enjoyable on Heroic
But yeah Assault on the Control Room is just too good, I even enjoy running through the corridors, clearing out the covenant
@@cosmictreason2242I love AOTCR, but disagree with this take. Adding filler past a certain point makes the experience worse, not better. It can get tiresome, boring, and/or frustrating doing the similar things over and over again. There's the saying 'less is more', which I think is true a lot of the time.
I think AOTCR is a little too long, but CEs amazing gunplay and AI is enough to carry it in those indoor sections. And the outdoor sections are fantastic of course.
A lot of people are annoyed with me for Assault on the Control Room. In retrospect, having read everyone's views, perhaps a B may have been more appropriate, but I'd never place it any higher than that. The length and repetitive parts are just a bit much for me. It's a real shame too, as the outdoor parts are cracking.
@@BenPlaysGames I mean no hate man, everyone has different opinions of course we can’t help but feel how we feel
I totally get that if someone really didn’t like the circular internal sections, they would be very put off by the amount of them in this mission certainly
@@BenPlaysGames What's funny with AotCR is that, the first time I played it in 2003, I largely agreed with the criticism of the repetitive interiors. But they got better with repeated replays. I think a lot of that comes down to the fact that they're actually pretty diverse in encounter design terms and room geometry, in a way that becomes more apparent with familiarity. And in some ways the modular element re-use has the neat effect of making it easy to get *really good* at fluidly navigating the spaces. Where you and enemies will be visible to each other, how to nail the crouch-jumps, sidestepping to avoid a plasma without having to look where you're going, etc.
Conversely, I feel like my enjoyment of the outdoor sections by the thirtieth playthrough wasn't much different than on the first. Maybe even slightly lower.
@@HaloTupolev CE is one of those games that gets better as you get better. It's so replayable.
Another great video my man 🤙
Thanks mate!
I’ll never understand how people don’t understand the library. The point of the mission is that it’s long. The purpose is fatigue, and it does a great job of imposing the same feeling Chief would have onto the player. It’s fun as hell, and because there is nothing else like it in the game, it is a gem.
Full speed ahead, don’t look back and blast everything in your way, now show me you can survive between a rock and a door place.
Wow - that was a lot of information. Thanks for this. Bit perturbed about the ranking for "The Package" E ? I loved that section. Mind you, I am biased as I love everything about Reach ! Cheers....
He did?
@@regularphill Looked like it. Am I wrong ?
Gotta disagree with you on gravemind. I would’ve at least given it an A. The opening room is trash but I think the rest of the level is very good. When you sneak up on the hunters and peril plays is just the best and that last room is easily one of my favorite halo moments.
Watching the civil war happening right in front of you creates awesome 3-way encounters and that blow me away mausoleum final battle is like a top 10 gaming experience
I love Gravemind, sacred icon, and quarantine zone. This is why I stopped watching tier lists
As you theorised, there was a warthog run in High Charity that was cut
I wish we'd have got that, I feel bad for 2 not having its own warthog run. Motoring through High Charity would have been quality too.
@BenPlaysGames It's still partially in the code, I believe GeneralKidd has a video of it on his channel and there's a mod called "Halo 2 Uncut" which has it restored and fully playable. Worth checking out if you ever want to see how Halo 2 could've been with a bit more time
Halo 2 uncut is my new definitive way to play halo 2, the last 3 missions especially get such a facelift, highly recommend it
Outskirts in D tier is outrageous
Yeah, it's probably one of the few times in Halo 2 where I actually enjoy being held up in one place. Lots of little places to explore. I'd probably rate a B personally.
Two betrayals should've been S
I like this style of video where we see the face behind the English accent and ofc halo tier lists are just awesome
Cheers - I had fun making it, so will definitely do a few more about Halo and other series in the future.
THE MAN. Miss your live my man. Would be so very nice to see you play CE LASO someday. despite the pain....
Uprosing is my favorite level in halo 2
wake up babe New BenPlays just dropped!
Even to this day, I still remember playing the Silent Cartographer instead of doing homework 😂 was the closest thing I could get to the full game at the time, but I loved every moment of it
I expect Quarantine Zone to be very high.
Vehicle stuff very good, gondola stuff very bad.
Uprising is S tier for me 😢 I love how it shows the full scope of the covenant civil war. Great video tho! Love these lists
Love these videos, let’s go
Appreciate the support!
31:20 - I now have to go rewatch that scene where the Forward Unto Down comes down on TH-cam. Just a sec.
Regret is S+, pinnacle of gaming
It's those gondola ride man, I'm an extraordinarily impatient soul and just can't deal with all the waiting. Story wise, though, it's boss.
the ark, delta halo, metropolis, tip of the spear, pillar of autumn(reach), and the maw are the best in my opinion. honorable mentions being new Alexandria, covenant, Cairo station, and silent cartographer. worst is cortana, all of odst, 2 betrayals, and crows nest.
@@cosmictreason2242 I have never once had fun playing 2b. I’m always worrying about if a grenade I throw to the other side of the map is gonna kill me or I’m gonna get cornered by the flood or if the wraith is gonna nail me etc. it’s just a less fun assault on the control room(which was cool but not that fun for the same reasons)
R.I.P. the level Cortana.
She shan't be missed.
“And, you guessed it, ANOTHER circular room”
H3 "Halo" for me is to darn short. Its narrative is a 9/10 but its gameplay is 4/10. Coolest part of it for me is the snowy cave but, it only takes 30 seconds to walk through it. Wish we got to fight flood in the caves, wouldve been pretty unique set peice in a halo game game
That’s halo 3’s biggest problem. Campaign story and narrative is great, but the gameplay is horrible. Flood are not that fun to fight, brutes are just slower elites, and there’s a lot of weird choices with level design. There’s a lot of filler
Honestly i really like halo 3's gameplay in general, "cortana" is pretty much the only level in h3 that i dont like.
I just played all of the Halo games again in co-op with my cousin a few months ago. At least for co-op, here is how I would rank the games from best to worst
Halo 3
Halo 2
Halo Reach
Halo Infinite
Halo CE
Halo 3:ODST
Halo 4
Halo 5
The Package, my beloved :(
I finish The Library on Heroic for breakfast
343 Guilty Spark in terms of story is S+ tier, no doubt about it; but gameplay-wise is a straight up C. I would argue the real S tier in Halo CE is Two Betrayals.
That livestream energy!
Scatty and unfocused haha! There's a reason I (mostly) use scripts, find it difficult to organise my thoughts on the fly as everything's all over the place in my head.
My brother and I loved Cortana. It's the Library of Halo 3 and I'll never understand why people hate it so much.
Kazingo Blvd not in A is criminal. It’s the best tank level in the entire series imo.
Ben Makes Tier List
Interesting video
I think you should base your opinions around the heroic difficulty cuz yea, legendary is almost never fair and is a whole different experience, its a challenge that requires you to memorize the levels
Also, even if some levels are repetitive in a structure sense the music is what makes every section of a level recognizable, like in assault to the control room after you take the elevator and grunts are sleeping or the bridge.
Nice video tho, i agree in lots of opinions
I always enjoyed Outskirts and now that I can examine it from another prospective, I find it socially interesting because you can really tell that it came out after the invasion of Iraq: it has that "middle east modern warfare vibe" that sets it afar from the missions in the previous game, and many games that came out in those years have adopted that formula. I find it "historically" interesting.
If you at least showed some footage of each level I would have watched. I love the idea, but visual queues are the strongest at reviving memories, of how the level plays, feels, difficulty etc
Little late to the video, sorry Ben!
I always love to listen to you talk about your interests and I really love the unscripted talk here.
Totally agree with Lone Wolf
Cool video! I disagree with the implied idea that you can seperate the narrative from the levels themselves; I think the narrative should affect the scoring at least in some way, for better or worse!
If you don't disagree, then I apologise for reading into something that wasn't there
The best thing I’ve heard to describe Halo CE’s campaign: “Halo CE has nine great levels and one mental stability test.”- The Act Man.
IMO Halo CE is still the best in the franchise.
I love halo lists
Interesting, I agree with a lot of your reasoning, but with some of the mission 'couples' I actually prefer the one you put slightly lower 😅
Halo A and truth and reconciliation B is criminal
You did not put Outskirts at D Tier. You didn't.
Truth & Reconciliation 💙
Big ups Ben
Its unfair your voice sounds way too good
Appreciate that dude!
Just the list I was hoping for
Glad I could be of service my man!
IMO flood levels need to be brutal to really set the tonality of how destructive and invasive the parasite is. Cortana, has repetitive level design and the Pure Forms (especially the shooting ones) are BS but it shouldn’t be a walk in the park. Even with the library, which I agree is too long, I found it really establishes how bad releasing the Flood was and how this is “the biggest threat in the galaxy”
The forerunners made Halo’s to starve the Flood from food source because it was that dangerous.
Oh this is gonna be a real civil converation, won't it?
23:56 “Where 343 we’re running out of time” oopsy daisy
Good
Thanks Gabe, hope all's well mate!
Great video. He smacks his lips every other paragraph and it causes utter discomfort to my sensory brain 😭
I'm not allowed to eat food until the television is turned on because, according to my wife, I eat too loudly. I showed her your comment and apparently it vibes haha.
@@BenPlaysGames nooooo I'm sorry 😭
I dont know why I always pictured you being younger than me haha
This tier list really should be Labeled S, A+, A, A-, B+, B, B-, maybe add a couple of tiers for C and you could spread out the rankings a bit more.
I will go ahead and leave my list, to see how much our opinions diverge, given you have the most respectable opinions that i disagree with
PoA - A Tier
Halo - B Tier
T&R - F Tier
SC - S Tier (overrated tho)
AotCR - A Tier
343GS - S Tier
Library - C Tier (my favorite level tho)
TB - A Tier
Keyes - B Tier
Maw - S Tier
Armory - N/A
CS - B
Outskirts - B
Metropolis - A
Arbiter - A
Oracle - D
Delta Halo - B
Regret - A
Sacred Icon - B (favorite level tho)
QZ - B
Gravemind - S
Uprising - S
HC - C
The Just OK Journey - B
Sierra 117 - A
Crows Best - B
Tsavo Highway - A
The Storm - B
Floodgate - B
Ark - S
Covenant - SS
Cortana- B (it’s not _that_ bad)
Halo - S
Mombassa Streets - S (mad respect for including it, and even more so for your ranking)
TP - B
UR - A
KB - A (much more difficult with skulls)
ONI:AS - F
NMPD HQ - S
KS - A
Dara Hive - A
CH - C (A in the original)
WC - A
ONI:SB - B
Nightfall - B
TotS - S
LNoS - B (A in original)
Exodus- S
New Alexandria - SS
Package - B (the words, please)
PoA - A
Lone Wolf - Ω
@@cosmictreason2242
It is the single worst mission Bungie has ever made, and it’s worse than a lot of 343’s missions. I **try** to like T&R, but i really just cannot. And my distaste for it is why Keyes isn’t an A
@@cosmictreason2242
The fact that you’re *SOLELY* limited to the sniper if you want any chance of beating the level, and the checkpoints in the outside part are worse than the ones during the Regret boss fight (Garish Goblin has lost runs on T&R because he died late in the outside part and was sent ALL THE WAY BACK to getting out of the pelican.
Not to mention the unskippable cutscene, and the complaint lack pf checkpoints during the gravity lift fight. And the hangar… i skip it every single time.
Feel free to say “get good,” but i will counter that with saying i genuinely enjoy playing Regret on Legendary, and same with Gravemind. After Sacred Icon, they’re my two favorite levels in H2
Is this explanatory enough for you?
@@cosmictreason2242
Yes, it is the most limiting level in the entire series with weapons, even more so than Forerunner.
I’m someone that plays very up-close and personal. I literally use the Boxer button layout because i use melee just as much as i shoot. I can use the AR in CE on Legendary to the point i actually think it’s viable.
This is likely reflective of my rankings
@benplaysgames I’d love to play some coop with you 😊
Man you used the Halo 4 chief helmet for a bungie video?
Really bro? Halo 4 and infinite chief is the best looking version of him ever. He looks like a tank
It's the MCC logo, figured it was an image people might think of when they think of Halo games as a collective. I see your point though. Honestly, I'm absolutely terrible at thumbnails, they're often a bit of a mess haha.
I find arbiters missions better than the chiefs missions in halo 2
I have one rule with Halo levels, F stands for Flood, any level with Flood is F tier.
@@cosmictreason2242 If 'real fans' like Flood levels I'll gladly bear the title casual fan.
Major halo 2 hate inbound 😢
Truth and Reconciliation is S tier.
@@cosmictreason2242 I always play on legendary where sometimes the vehicle sections in halo don’t always work for me. Sometimes your vehicle gets destroyed but you manage to bail and maybe get a bad save so end up fighting on foot 😆 so for me personally the close combat linear missions I’ve always preferred and truth and reconciliation is my favourite. I even love playing the library which most people don’t seem to enjoy 🤷🏻♂️
@@cosmictreason2242 actually I’ve had the most issues in halo 3 tbh. But I always forget to give the marines better weapons. Also when I last played the covenant mission I absolutely fucked up i killed a few enemies at the start then snuck past the rest thinking I was awesome then walked up the track for what felt like forever then realised ah because I didn’t kill everyone my vehicle and marines haven’t been dropped off 🤦🏼 bungie obviously didn’t think anyone would approach the mission like that as if so maybe there would have been a damaged ghost or something along that track.
@@cosmictreason2242 oh and I also had a nightmare on the Ark mission where once again my vehicle got destroyed and I was in the open section with the wraiths firing at me. Luckily I enjoy the challenge.
First half is S tier, second half is waaaaay down. Bungie never really got the Covenant environments right in Combat Evolved or 2, and there mostly non-existence in 3 is a big plus for me.
Why not halo 4 and 5?
The levels in those games were developed by 343 games, not BUNGIE
I'll get round to them and Infinite at some point this year I guess, but want to complete the full critique of each game first.
man how is pillar of autumn ranked higher than cairo station
If we were going purely on cinematics, Cairo Station 100% wins due to how it ends. As a whole experience, Pillar of Autumn is my favourite of the two, although I still really like Cairo Station.
Campaign ranking:
1. Halo 2
2. Halo infinite
3. Halo 4
4. Halo 3 ODST
5. Halo CE
6. Halo reach
7. Halo 3
8. Halo 5
This is ranked with MANY different factors involved. Including how the sandbox works and feels in campaign, overall story, level design, replay ability, badass moments, how the game looks, aesthetic, enemy variety and how fun the enemies are to fight, how many just outright bad levels in a game and many more. I think it’s ridiculous to discredit some 343 campaigns just because of nostalgia and stubbornness. Halo 4 has the best pure master chief story in the series and halo infinite is BY FAR the most fun to play and replay
@@cosmictreason2242 I have played each campaign religiously and this is what I came up with. Halo 3 has so many boring filler levels with boring enemies. Halo reach has terrible gun and armor mechanics, as well many mediocre levels. Halo CE has the best first half of a Halo campaign, but falls apart from the library on, using the same environments with long and slog missions. My top tier is the top 4. All 4 have something absolutely perfect about them. Halo 3 ODST, it’s the ambience and environment with great characters and improves the experience fighting halo 3 brutes. The only thing holding it back is that it’s too short. Halo 4 for the perfect story and antagonist. The didact is the most badass and interesting enemy chief has ever faced. His dialogue, motive, and design is perfect. It’s an emotional hard hitting game that builds up to something. Halo infinite has the perfect gameplay and AI/enemies. Halo 2 is perfect in almost every way.
@@cosmictreason2242 I started with halo CE in 2002, and been playing ever since. Halo infinite is by far the most fun I’ve had playing a campaign. The open world environment mixed with the ai, weapons, and grapple make it perfect. The overall storyline isn’t great but that doesn’t matter as much as long as it’s interesting and replayable
What did you do to my boy! My poor old Combat Evolved! I get that being lower as many don't carry quite the nostalgia for it I do, but 3's placing is a bitter pill to swallow - I find it probably the most entertaining to blast through in a sitting or two. A lot of people hold Infinite in really high regard which doesn't surprise me, as it's gameplay is stellar. Hopefully the next game can build on it with decent mission design and a well thought out story.
If you tried really hard, you might be able to come up with a worse list.
Now time to play the dreaded 343 halos.
*Gulp*
@@BenPlaysGames they definitely are not my favorites, but it is still Halo I suppose.
@@cosmictreason2242 they started to realize that there is no money in the campaigns. It's all in MP with selling crap cosmetics. It shows because the campaigns are terrible.
Nothing will ever top halo 3 covenant. A lot more going on compared to halo infinite’s entire world.
Unsubbing for that Gravemind B brother, all the best.
So long and farewell!
This dude hates Halo 2 lmfao
I disagree with most of your halo 1 list..
I’m sorry, far from your best video. This felt very rushed and very not paced well. You made tons of speech errors even calling Bungie- 343 at one point. You seemed to be trying to think so fast that your words weren’t coming out right. Like seriously tripping over your self at times. Idk I just didn’t feel very engaged in this video. Unlike a lot of your other videos.
As for the tier list it’s self. Halo in Halo 3 being B was wild take. The other levels are all understandable and I feel very similar for most levels.
Honestly I’m not sure if difficulty should be taken into account. Just base the tier list on Normal. Each level plays so differently based on difficulty that each difficulty could have its own tier list lol. At least separate for Legendary.
It's an unscripted video just for a bit of fun, as sometimes I'd like to be able to talk about things on the channel without spending 10, 20, 30 hours writing and editing. The thinking/talking fast might get better, it might not - doctor thinks I have ADHD (waiting for my diagnosis), so my thoughts can be quite jumbled which makes it hard to speak off the cuff in this manner. These videos are sort of a way of working on that too honestly, I'd like to get to a point where I can speak unscripted just as well. Though, that may be a long shot haha.
@@BenPlaysGames I see! Keep up the content! I do really enjoy what you do.
Halo 2 is pretty boring