Halo has been one of the most revered titles on Microsoft's game consoles and computers that sold thousands. The question is though, which one is your favorite? I prefer Halo 2 personally because the community has less little children, actual clans, more and better maps, and fucking blood gulch(coagulation in halo 2). Halo 1 was a good start but the PC servers were shit and Halo 3 was a decent conclusion but the campaign was too short, the multiplayer is FLOODED with annoying children and douche bags(not that halo 2 does not have those kind of people every now and then, and I am not saying any of you who play halo are douche bags just many who I encountered on matchmaking) and most of the weapons were better(Battle Rifle and SMG mainly).
NOTE: I will edit this post when Halo Wars comes out, which is why you can switch your decision and you think halo wars is better than all the above....

Never played halo outside of splitscreen at a friends house.

Halo was the best, but that level in Halo 3 where you run the Covenant's motorcycle off the jump and into the cockpit of the Scarab walker was basically the best part of the series.

Didn't halo invent the walk/aim control scheme?
Anyway I've never really understood why people hate on Halo, it's really a pretty great game as far as FPSs go.

i know there are a bunch of fps guys that can list technical reason why halo sucks, and i don't want to be that guy that comes in and says halo sucks for whatever reason, but honestly i never had any fun playing halo, for whatever reasons there may be. im not a hardcore fps player that is going to say why halo sucks because of aimer size or whatever, but i had so much more fun playing perfect dark, but i guess i am uniformed so...probably shouldn't listen to me

Didn't halo invent the walk/aim control scheme?

Marathon did I believe, which as well was made by bungie o.o

Yeah, the only reason I've ever played halo (2) is for its multiplayer, and I suppose it does that fairly well. It's nice to play 8-player over 2 xboxes with some friends.

I play these games just for the multiplayer, and I always had the most fun with Halo 2.  Halo 1 brings a lot of nostalgia, but the game always seemed so unbalanced (scoped pistol, anyone?).  Halo 2 brought on the dual-wield along with all the best maps (new ones plus the nice renditions of Halo 1 maps).  I was just never comfortable with Halo 3.

just before I played first played Halo, I'll be honest, I didn't know a thing about it, before the Xmas of 01 I had not followed a thing about the Xbox, but my dad liked the Xbox more mainly because it was superior hardware-wise. He heard that Halo was a good game so he bought it with the console (along with a few other less desirable games). So even though the PS2 was what I wanted and asked for, I got a Xbox. Initially I was annoyed, and then I played Halo and forgot about GTA completely (to be reminded of it again when Vice City rolled around for Xbox).

I like playing Halo to this day, both because of nostalgia AND that I still think the Gameplay holds up to today's games extremely well.

While I realize the first Halo was hyped, I was never exposed to that hype.

When Halo 2 came out I was insanely excited, once I beat it once there was little for me to do because I didn't have a credit/debit card to pay for Xbox live. and overall, I think I liked Halo 1 more because I played Halo 20 times more than I ever did Halo 2, and when Halo PC came out I literally spent the entirety of a summer vacation playing the PC version online. I just thought that (and I know this sounds stupid) that halo 2 didn't feel like it had Halo gameplay to me.

Good and bad thing: Halo 2 from what I could tell brought a significantly large portion of new players.

Halo 3 came out, and I was MUCH less excited about it then I was about Halo 2. That didn't stop me from some participation in the Beta and getting it on its opening day.  When I played its campaign I felt it was WAY too easy/short, I beat the campaign on heroic alone in 6-7 hours on my first try. The core gameplay, however, was much more like the original halo's gameplay with the art style of Halo 2. So I played it a lot. The only true negative thing I have to say, other than that it had a short campaign, is that its multiplayer map design was extremely generic. If you looked at the maps closely they all seemed to have the same formula with a different theme and backdrop. This is actually how I felt about Quake 3 arena and unreal tournament games, all their maps had the same formula.

I'd go into even more analysis, but it probably wouldn't be read.