honestrade
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Valhalla is probably my favorite. I also really like Haven.
As a BTB only player I put Waterworks on top. God I loved that map. Only one or two of you defending and you see an incoming fully loaded Warthog. It was on. Really enjoyed defending(camping) on that map.
Any site have a list of every map with pics? I'll need pics for the 25% of the names I don't recall.
Hopefully Guardian ranks somewhere high. That was my favorite map.
Eh, District is certainly not the worse map in the series, CTF on that map is great.
I really, really loved Lockout.
But, that said, Zanzibar should be #1. It was so good for every game type.
Snowbound and Isolation are worse than Construct imo, Construct felt different to me, but I liked it.
No one is mentioning High Ground ITT? That's one I remember liking.
Construct is all about camping the lifts.
Guardian definitely deserves no 1. It's just the perfect map everything feels so right
110 maps... Whoah didn't think there were that many. MCC is gonna be glorious.
Guardian definitely deserves no 1. It's just the perfect map everything feels so right
Guardian is a sorry Lockout derivative.
The Pit and Narrows are the best tho.
Seems right the Reach and 4 maps are appearing this low as I felt the map design really fell off after 2. Not fond of 3 maps either myself. I expect most of the top maps to be from 2. Lockout, Zanzibar, etc etc.
Also, I really hate that the remade versions of maps for the different games have different names. Blood Gultch should be called Blood Gultch in every single game. Why they went and made stuff more confusing I'll never know.
Because they're generally demonstrably different, and giving them different names makes it easier to distinguish between them.
Yeah but when it's the same general layout, i don't see why they didn't just call them things like Lockout redux or Bloodgultch 2.0 or something identifying where they came from. I have no idea what the other versions of the maps are called, i just associate them in my head as Bloodgultch, Bloodgultch 2.0, etc etc. Gets confusing for me when people call them by their actual names and them I'm like, "Oh you mean Halo 2 Blood Gultch."
Seriously what's the rationale behind including Forge World remakes of maps on the list?
IGN just aiming for redundancy?
There's absolutely no way Lockout, Midship, and Bloodgulch aren't top 3.
Blood gulch will be number 1 simply because its the most iconic. That's a problem I have with these lists, fame/nostalgia trumps quality many times.
Spoilers for the finalists
#5 Ragnarok
#4 Bloodline
#3 Coagulation
#2 Hemmorhage
#1 Bloodgulch
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/11/04/ranking-every-halo-map-ever-made-85-61?watch=+main+twitter
85-61 is up.
#61 - Standoff
#62 - Solace
#63 - Forge World: The Cage
#64 - Meltdown
#65 - Ghost Town
#66 - Isolation
#67 - Chill Out
#68 - Assembly
#69 - Blackout
#70 - Spire
#71 - Erosion
#72 - Harvest
#73 - Gephyrophobia
#74 - Uplift
#75 - Reflection
#76 - Forge World: Pinnacle
#77 - Forge World: Asylum
#78 - Heretic
#79 - Epitaph
#80 - Sword Base
#81 - Vortex
#82 - Backwash
#83 - Derelict
#84 - Ice Fields
#85 - Orbital
They're just going for completion, ranking all the officially published maps by Bungie. Forge variants made up a good chunk of Reach's shipping maps.
One thing that strikes me seeing all these maps lined up is how much I'm reminded just how few of them were truly excellent, particularly after Halo 3. Reach's maps were nearly all subpar.
My end all be all Halo map is Valhalla. I have so many wonderful memories of two flag CTF BTB on Valhalla. To me it's the quintessential BTB map, correcting all the mistakes from Blood Gulch. If the latter ranks over it, it's pure nostalgia ruling their thinking.
Reachs maps were imo some of the shitiest most pointless maps I've ever played on. I think that it was quite clear that bungie no longer gived a fuck, so they just threw in some areas from the single player. Then released a vidoc pretending it would be cool.
They had to use forge maps to pad it out as well.
Anyway, less than a week now
Reachs maps were imo some of the shitiest most pointless maps I've ever played on. I think that it was quite clear that bungie no longer gived a fuck, so they just threw in some areas from the single player. Then released a vidoc pretending it would be cool.
They had to use forge maps to pad it out as well.
Anyway, less than a week now
halo 2 maps >>>> all other halos
Valhalla is a lot of fun but the hill in the middle will always keep it a nudge below Blood Gulch for me. I just found it far too easy for a moderately coordinated team to completely dominate the map once they gained hill control.They're just going for completion, ranking all the officially published maps by Bungie. Forge variants made up a good chunk of Reach's shipping maps.
One thing that strikes me seeing all these maps lined up is how much I'm reminded just how few of them were truly excellent, particularly after Halo 3. Reach's maps were nearly all subpar.
My end all be all Halo map is Valhalla. I have so many wonderful memories of two flag CTF BTB on Valhalla. To me it's the quintessential BTB map, correcting all the mistakes from Blood Gulch. If the latter ranks over it, it's pure nostalgia ruling their thinking.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/11/04/ranking-every-halo-map-ever-made-85-61?watch=+main+twitter
85-61 is up.
#61 - Standoff
#62 - Solace
#63 - Forge World: The Cage
#64 - Meltdown
#65 - Ghost Town
#66 - Isolation
#67 - Chill Out
#68 - Assembly
#69 - Blackout
#70 - Spire
#71 - Erosion
#72 - Harvest
#73 - Gephyrophobia
#74 - Uplift
#75 - Reflection
#76 - Forge World: Pinnacle
#77 - Forge World: Asylum
#78 - Heretic
#79 - Epitaph
#80 - Sword Base
#81 - Vortex
#82 - Backwash
#83 - Derelict
#84 - Ice Fields
#85 - Orbital
It's really only good for Slayer. Being a successor to Lockout is fine, but Lockout was at least great at things like Slayer and King of the Hill, even 1-flag was decent. Guardian was awful for objectives.Guardian is bad. Traversal on that map is beyond annoying. It's the Khloe Kardashian to Lockouts Kim Kardashian.
That's why these 'rankings' are just awful. How can you compare maps like Zanzibar to Sanctuary. They're both great at what they do.Well... not so good for multi/neutral flag or bomb, koth, oddball or territories
Best map for gametypes is probably terminal... doesnt handle neutral games very well but the rest is pretty good