> Second worst story on the Halo universe just after Wars. Lack of context about many things, lack of explanation about Didact motives… heck even lack of coherency about Cortana’s “death”. You needed to read the books to understand half of the story. Was like if I was reading a bad Star Wars comic. Seriously, 343 even admitted they couldn’t handle the story to make it coeherent.
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> The Didact? Pff, this is Halo not Star Wars. Powers of the Jedis? Prometheans? WTF? Where did those guys came from? Composer? Never heard of it. Where are the Halo rings? Where are the fellow marines fighting alongside with you? Where are the Pelicans? What? More Spartans? Why they didn’t help during the Halo 3 events? Oh, they weren’t planned yet, right? What about the last Spartan concept, uh? What about the wide open areas? Ancient humans? LMFAO, 343! An the quick time events are ripped off from Call of Duty.
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> Nothing special: 4/10
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> They can’t repeat the same mistakes with Halo 5.
You act like Bungie explained everything too.
We didn’t know why the Covenant were attacking us until Contact Harvest, a book. Which is one of the most important things in the game.
Lack of explanation of the Didact’s motives? Did you skip the Librarian cutscene, which explained that he fought a devastating war with Humanity in the past, and he became obsessed with revenge that the Composer’s bad effects were dismissed.
No, 343i admitted that they let a little too much of the expanded media in without proper explanation.
What powers of the jedi? You mean the gravity-manipulating Constraint Fields? We know the Forerunners have tech to affect gravity, and we see the air between the Didact and the Chief distorted as he holds Chief. Put two and two together.
The Prometheans came from the same place the Covenant came from in CE. Except the Covies never got explained.
That was also explained in the Librarian cutscene. The Didact used the Composer to create them from Ancient Humans.
Just like you never heard of a Halo or the Covenant in the first game? Using your method of review, CE was atrocious.
The Halo is at the start of mission 7. I’m starting to doubt you even watched the cutscenes.
Uhh… your fellow Marines show up after Infinity crash lands. Did you expect to have Marines alongside you when you’re the only one on the planet? Did you even play the game?
Pelicans appear in missions 4, 5, 6 and in the epilogue…
These weren’t creatednyet. Plus, you could associate it to something like “Why weren’t the Brutes in CE?”
They hadn’t thought of them yet.
Chief was never the last Spartan. Bungie ignored the events of the books to try to give Chief some marketing value.
And he could still be the last of his kind of Spartan (though he’s not).
There are a few pretty open areas.
Yes… how else did you think the Forerunners chose Humanity to be the Reclaimers?
When did Call of Duty have you defeat an 11ft tall ancient warrior and detonate a bomb in the middle of a ship?
A boss fight would have been illogical, as there was no way Chief could win. His weapons wouldn’t penetrate the Didact’s armor, and he wouldn’t even be able to get close.
I recommend you play the game and watch the cutscenes before criticizing it.
While there are certainly things it could have done better, like a better explanation for the Covenant’s involvement and more in-game motives for the Didact, it didn’t leave any more unanswered as the other games. It shouldn’t require outside media, but it also shouldn’t hold your hand the whole time like you seem to want.