I am literally here about to cry while listening to never forget. The original Halo trilogy was great (not perfect or a masterpiece) and Halo 4’s story was PERFECTLY EMOTIONAL. If it wasn’t for the multiplayer or some issues with the level design the game in general would have been the best halo game. It had emotion, it action, and the soundtrack (while not very halo-like) fit the game perfectly and I can say without a doubt the I can replay halo 4 mor than the original halo. I like many others were hyped for all the halo games to be on ONE console while running at dedicated servers, having campaign playlist, a universal UI, and I can go on, but sadly the game came out and the online portion was completely BROKEN. The game actually made me think if 343 can deliver again. Hope was regained when I played the Halo 5 beta. Everything was right about it, all the doubts that I had were flushed out the window. Then the best part about Halo 5 came, HUNT THE TRUTH! This was the best marketing of any video game in history from the podcast the teaser trailers, the information that were slowly given to us, and then came the OST. Everything was leading this campaign to be the best of the franchise! But the day came and we all experienced the most disappointing halo campaign. The multiplayer was great besides some playlists missing that weren’t added for some month. Now I’m worried of what’s going to happen next. Can Halo 6 revive the halo story? That’s the question that is haunting me right now and it can’t leave no matter how hard I try. This game’s narrative has broken my heart and it ripped apart the perfection of halo 4’s narrative. Now all I have left is my 360 to look at the memories that I hade when I played Halo 4 for the first time and crying by the end of the game, I have the MCC to look at everything that could have been perfect, and I have all the Halo 5 trailers that make me think what could have been! Halo 5 is a worthy entry to the franchise, but the campaign left a humongous stain, a stain that cannot be cleand.
After playing through the campaign again it’s not awful. Worst campaign of Halo? Probably, but they’ve all had pretty stellar campaigns, so in the big picture it’s not too bad. I kind of think of it as sort of a “Phantom Menace” at this point. It’s basically a prequel to Halo 6, and many people don’t like it.
That being said though, they’ve set up the story so far to lead into something pretty exciting, so I have high hopes for H6 campaign, especially considering the community’s reaction to H5.
Like i said in another thread: I have no expectation for Halo 6 since i’ve been burned by MS/343 before.
I agree that Halo 5’s campaign was poor, mostly because the supporting characters on team Osiris and Blue team were not developed. A good example of successful supporting characters are the ones from Reach (Jorge, Kat, Carter, Emile, and Jun). These characters were diverse, they had different fighting styles, and (spoiler), their respective deaths were emotional. Halo 3 also had good characters. I believe good characters make up a good story. Halo 5 didn’t have characters that the player grew to know, unless you read the books and watched whatever you were supposed to watch.
P.S. I AM SICK of fighting promethiums. What is the point of them anyway? There is not even a waypoint article about them, so I don’t know their background. As for me, I’d rather fight the flood.
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> After playing through the campaign again it’s not awful. Worst campaign of Halo? Probably, but they’ve all had pretty stellar campaigns, so in the big picture it’s not too bad. I kind of think of it as sort of a “Phantom Menace” at this point. It’s basically a prequel to Halo 6, and many people don’t like it.
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> That being said though, they’ve set up the story so far to lead into something pretty exciting, so I have high hopes for H6 campaign, especially considering the community’s reaction to H5.
This is how I kinda feel as well. H5 isn’t as bad as most make out, if looking at the big picture… sure H5 didn’t follow suit with the hunt the truth at all… 343 seems to have very very poor communication between advertising and what is actually going to happen in the game. But over all H5 left us, well at least me, eager to see what happens next… does Chief continue to try and save Cortana? Does he try and kill her due to her calling the Guardians? Is it even her or just a bad copy of her from the domain? Is there going to be a new war between the AIs and Prometheans (the Created) vs those non created essentially mankind? I think most have to realize is Halo was supposed to end awhile ago so to continue the story and the universe it won’t always jive 100% with the original stories.
Hopefully they step it up and make the campaign have more substance and longer missions would be nice
I don’t think 5 is terrible, but it certainly doesn’t live up to the others. I am yet to play it a second time, bearing in mind I’d finished 4 on Heroic and Legendary by the 3rd day. The campaign did suit quite well as a way to introduce the new mechanics and some of the environment designs were stunning. However there was so little to explain story previous to the game as well as so little story development throughout. I’m really hoping Halo 6 has a campaign that hooks me in and makes me play over and over again, the same way Halo 3 did and still does to this day. But I do get the idea that Halo 5 was a set up for the next, so hopefully it fits in that way.
They added far too many new characters and ended up developing none, plus the fact they essentially ignored pushed the past 3 years of lore to the side apart from Cortana’s “Death” is just shoddy.
Frankly if they continued on from halo 4 and Spartan ops season 1, with master chief and blue team hunting down halsey and the Janis key, in an attempt to try and find Cortana at the absolute record would have been much better. They could have introduced locke/Osiris as supporting, non player characters in missions and later explored them in a DLC/ spin off like ODST. Just imagine a agent locke, semi stealth game In large open missions hunting people down.
But no, what is done is done, and my passion for the lore has gone with it