: Halo Reach "Best Characters"
: Whether you love or hate the story, everyone can agree that Noble team has
: some of the best characters in Halo. The extensive armor system allowed
: for each member of Noble to be visually unique and match their
: personality. The dialogue between team members felt realistic and natural
: with all of them sounding like teammates and old friends. Each death had
: weight to it, whether you saw it coming or not, and although all but Jun
: never made it past Reach they all hold a special place in our hearts and
: have rightly earned their place in Halo.

Looking back on it, while I have my issues with Reach one of the things I really liked is that Jun survived, but that it wasn't underscored. I still have my issues with Carter's death (mostly how it was sort of thrown in before a cutscene) but I think the tendency for a "modern" story would have been for everyone to die (hello, Star Wars Rogue One), where I think it has more resonance if some people get out.

: Halo 5:Guardians "The Most Explosive"
: There is just something about Halo 5 that just decides to crank the boom up
: to 11. Whether it's in the campaign, riding giant space robots and blowing
: up enemies into bright shades of blue or orange. Or it's multiplayer and
: you're shooting a rocket launcher that fires 3 rockets at once, a carbine
: that uses needler rounds, or a suppressor with home explosive bullets. The
: game just feels crazy and fun. I had a hard time figuring out what about
: Halo 5 made me love it so much and keep on coming back to it. Easily, one
: of my more favorite Halo games and definitely my most favorite
: multiplayer, the game has all the tools needed to make a fun time and its
: more than willing to dish them out to you.

That's an interesting way of describing the game, although one I agree with. The REQ system allows a lot more freedom to get crazy in the sandbox than any of the games previously.

: I know there'll be some disagreement about what was good about each Halo, but
: this was all based on my personal experience. I'd also like to mention
: that for almost all of these games there's other things about them that I
: love but to make sure that I could finish this in a reasonable amount of
: time I limited myself to one reason each. Thanks for making it all the way
: through my long ramble and I hope this helps you all remember why we keep
: going back to this great franchise.

Great thoughts, thanks for sharing.