Halo 3

[Matt]

Thought I was the only one who hates the melee! It's just LAME. Every firefight is two people running at each other trying to get the earliest possible smack. The melee should have some effect, maybe a bit of damage but knocking the opponent away, but as it stands everyone is so reliant on it and it ends more fights. And as has been pointed out, you see no animation coming at you, and I'd swear blind 9 times out of 10 when I die I'd actually pressed the button WAY before I got smacked.

Agree with the comments above - can have a wonderful game where it all clicks, then can have a really frustrating game where you just can't be arsed with it ever again. Until the next game of course

For anyone looking for all the unlockables, the absolutely stupid Ranked Free For All Only Achievements don't help matters. Need to start a petition to ban all Ranked Achievements. Hate 'em!

[El Leone]

And Here I am, liking the variety that melee (and grenades) add to the combat.

[Simmy]

Yeah I'm with you Leone, if your just running at people with the AR and trying to get in with a melee first then you really are missing allot of the depth of the game.

Any way each to there own, will be intersting to see how TFII effects the player numbers on this next week !

[Dogg Thang]

I absolutely detest playing Halo 3 multiplayer

What's not to like?

[Jebus]

And as has been pointed out, you see no animation coming at you, and I'd swear blind 9 times out of 10 when I die I'd actually pressed the button WAY before I got smacked.
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That's what gets me, I'm SURE I get the melee in first, but nope...

I seem to get more crap than good games at the moment, that's the sad thing.

[Sigourney Beaver]

I played through the whole game today. I haven't got a word that describes the scale and accomplishment of the production. Epic isn't big enough. Colossal maybe.

The line between games and movies is now seriously blurry, that's for damn sure!

[MJ]

Also, regarding the netcode, whilst it seems its as near perfect as we'll get there are some things I find a little odd. In a 1 vs 1, I've found I've gotten some extremely strange results. In the last match I went into a 1 vs 1 with a full shield, empty a whole clip of the Needler then meleed him, he didn't die, in fact he hit me with a single melee and killed me instantly.

Finally, one quick question to halo vets. When you die from a frontal melee, should you be able to SEE them do the attack? Sometimes I see it, other times I melee them but it says "xxx beat you down"...only they didn't, not on my screen, in fact they did nothing of the sort on my screen! Actually, a LOT of the time I get beat down but don't see any such attack.

Welcome to Halo multiplayer. Halo 2 was the same and I can't believe they haven't fixed it three years on.

Assault Rifles that kill you with less bullets from the effective range you're using a scoped Battle Rifle, shotguns that work from miles away, but not yours, shoot and melee first combos that you lose. I like it when you hide around corners Mauler someone in the face, doesn't kill them but this kills me, and then have to melee them to kill them for my entire shield to vanish when no bullets or melee has come my way.

[Freddo]

there's only so much that netcode can do for the frankly dire quality of the networks and internets some people have.

[Tobal]

If people are running right at you for the melee kill, use 1 of the 2 sticky grenades. Works a treat everytime, gives them something to be scared of next time they AR/Fist combo you.

[egparadigm]

I've played a bit more campaign now. I would say the difficulty on Legendary is just about right - probably returning to the heights of Halo CE. No. 2 was totally ruined by the beefed up Elites, but this doesn't feel unfair.

Halo has got to be the only game where checkpoint restarts aren't joyless. I can just sit for hours on end replaying the same scenario and not really care.

Great - just hope it keeps up! Only just met the first hammer carrying Brute.

[Kevvy Metal]

Halo 3 Legendary is easily the easiest of the three Halos.

Halo 1 took me MONTHS!! to finish on Legendary.

Halo 2 is IMPOSSIBLE on Legendary. Can't get passed Level 1.

Halo 3 Legendary run is almost dun after about 12 hours. So much easier.

this is all solo mind...I've finished it already (Legendary) on coop.

This isn't a bad thing though. My favorite Halo game. Even better than one!

And i even enjoy the flood/"Cortana" level.

[Jebus]

If people are running right at you for the melee kill, use 1 of the 2 sticky grenades. Works a treat everytime, gives them something to be scared of next time they AR/Fist combo you.

The game relies SO heavily on AR/Melee, nothing would put people off.

[El Leone]

Just wait till you start playing with higher ranked players, then it moves onto the Mauler/Melee combo. You'll love it!

[anephric]

I can't stand that instant up-close Mauler kill. Sometimes, because of lag or whatever, I can't even see what they've done to kill me.

[El Leone]

The problem is that the melee is almost actually instant, there's hardly any frames to the build up which allows people to abuse it in close combat. Still, I'd take the shotgun over the Mauler any day.