343 Industries, I believe Frank O’Connor, stated that Halo 5: Guardians will be the darkest halo game to date, question is, those who have played the campaign do you agree with this statement?
In my opinion, no Halo 5: Guardians is not the darkest halo game, it is dark but no the darkest… I’d say the ranking goes probably…
- Halo 4 - Halo: Reach - Halo 3 - Halo 5: Guardians - Halo 2 - Halo: Combat Evolved - Halo Wars - Halo: Spartan Assault - Halo: Spartan Strike - Halo 3: ODST
Halo 5 was pretty dark, but…
It’s hard to compete with Reach. From the beginning, you know the end.
Well, it was dark in that it showed one of the most beloved characters in the series betraying you and assuming control over the galaxy. But it was also extremely awkward, incredulous and confusing. Since it was billed as the darkest Halo game, I was expecting so much more, especially after Cortana ‘died’ in Halo 4. The game could have been darker.
Given what was built-up in Hunt the Truth and the game’s marketing, I was expecting an intense rivalry between Chief and Locke, ONI becoming the antagonists, a massive civil war striking the UEG, along with the return of the Precursors and Chief being forced to make some tough decisions.
We didn’t get that; we got the tired ‘AI uprising’ plot. And it wasn’t even told well…
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> Halo 5 was pretty dark, but…
> It’s hard to compete with Reach. From the beginning, you know the end.
Well we can calculate how dark a halo game is, in terms of quantities of death, emotional impact of those deaths and the events that transpire during the game…
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> > Halo 5 was pretty dark, but…
> > It’s hard to compete with Reach. From the beginning, you know the end.
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> Well we can calculate how dark a halo game is, in terms of quantities of death, emotional impact of those deaths and the events that transpire during the game…
Reach wasn’t really that dark. It was just gritty and generic. All of the deaths felt forced, and Noble Team were extremely dull characters that I found hard to care for. The genocide and destruction of the planet is a pretty dark theme but I think it was kind of glossed over and didn’t leave that much of an impact for me.
Overall, I think Halo 4 has a much darker story. One of Chief’s closest friends is literally deteriorating and dying, and he’s also being forced to fight a threat he was totally unprepared for and which doesn’t even take him seriously until the very end. At which point over two million people die and Cortana heart-wrenchingly sacrifices herself to save John. The game closes with Chief mourning his loss and looking into the emptiness of space while questioning his status as a man or a machine.
Too bad Halo 5 ruined all of that.
Halo 2 was pretty dark for ending the way it did…such an evil unwanted cliffhanger…
Many TVs were broken that day…many poor TVs…
In halo reach you watch civilians being mowed down by brutes, I think that’s really physically dark. In halo 4 you know an entire city of people gets disintegrated due to you and your ai’s errors which is psychologically dark. In halo 5 an old friend turns on you and kills a bunch of people and other living things. Kinda dark, but also kinda cartooney.
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> In my opinion, no Halo 5: Guardians is not the darkest halo game, it is dark but no the darkest… I’d say the ranking goes probably…
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> - Halo 4
> - Halo: Reach
> - Halo 3
> - Halo 5: Guardians
> - Halo 2
> - Halo: Combat Evolved
> - Halo Wars
> - Halo: Spartan Assault
> - Halo: Spartan Strike
> - Halo 3: ODST
How is odst the least dark? You explore a broken dead city finding audio logs about a woman that is being chased by a rapist and having her father murdered all while the city is being invaded, oh and she finds herself lying to the people of the city to save their moral when just seconds before she was trying to tell people the truth. Wow I think ODST is actually the darkest halo game out there.
Halo 2, than Halo Reach was the most dark in my opinion.