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I like plenty of UNSC stuff too, especially if we're going off of Isaac Hannaford's art from Halo 3, ODST, and Reach, that's probably my favorite aeshetic for a relatively grounded human Sci-fi faction.

But it's still LESS interesting then the Covenant etc, which was my response to the person claiming Halo is generic and uncreative, I was suggesting they check out other parts of the series

>I *will* read these things eventually, but my hopes aren't high.

As I said, it's a mixed bag. I will say though that of the 343i books i've read, they actually have a slightly higher average quality level then bungie, but only slightly:

>God tier: Silentium (343), Contact Harvest (Bungie)
>High tier: Cryptum (343), Evolutions (both), Ghosts of Onyx (Bungie), Last Light (343), (Broken Circle (343)
>Good tier: Fall of Reach (Bungie), Primordium (343i), Hunters in the Dark (343), First Strike (Bungie), Thursday War (343)
>Okay Tier: Glasslands (343), Cole Protocol (Bungie) The Flood (Bungie)
>Bad tier: Mortal Dictata (343)

orders within tiers matter... though I don't remember liking thursday war more then glasslands, but that's what I have saved here

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>>10206368
what did you dislike about 2

>>10206368
The MCC version of Halo CE's original graphical mode is mostly fixed now, if you're going off of the original MCC port of CE, CEA, or the old gearbox PC release, then yes, it's missing effects. The new graphics mode/anniversary visuals generally reuse assets from reach and aren't super visually faithfful but in some scenes it looks nice