Can someone explain halo 5 campaign to me

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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So far this is what I got, Osiris the new squad on the block obliterates jul’mdamas forces, and him. Chief finds cortana for the second time, and they go AWOL. Osiris is sent to bring them back. Somehow he actually manages to stand up to a spartan II. Chief gets away. Osiris saves arby? Osiris needs a promethean thingy for some reason. They get to sunion and get on the guardian not before beating warden. Meanwhile blue team gets on genesis and beats up two wardens. Osiris meets the lightbulb of this forerunner structure . Chief captures some more wardens and plans to evolve them (pokemon humor).Chief gets captured by cortana using a oversized masterball. Then he gets back to sanghellios to greet his old friend arby.

Problems with it so far
Why does arby need help with jul’mdama? He could have just done it instead. So far he has out ran a ring explosion and beat the heretic and the prophet of truth, and has stopped tartarus from activating a ring.

These new sangehelli need to know that you don’t screw with chief

so far this is 343 stealing mission Ideas, since literally you did the same thing in h2 as arby as Osiris did in… Osiris, Like you had to squash a rebellion get blinky and the sacred icon, and then in h5 you had to kill jul’mdama and find the human version of mr lightbulb, dr halsey. Good job 343.

So chief has walked away from 5 scarabs unscathed and has destroyed 3 rings, killed a prophet and has stopped an ancient evil two times, (three if you consider the prophets) and they don’t hesitate to arrest him, like has chief ever let you down?

Hey wait a minute, why do you need a forerunner thing when you can just use a GPS to track him.

Speaking of which, why haven’t they created a better tank or a warthog that actually is good.

So far this is the second time chief has gone mad, just to find cortana, like are they playing hide and seek?

So far cortana hasn’t really had any problems with ONI, so why does she want them to pay now?

How in the world did locke size up to chief, him being a Spartan II and all

Why was locke the leader of the team, buck should’ve been

they broke up the ODST group just so that buck could be apart of Osiris, talk about a missed opportunity

So can anyone explain H5 to me and the questions I have posed

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Complaints about how bad the campaign is/was in 3…2…

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> Complaints about how bad the campaign is/was in 3…2…

Cortana and Master Chief. Actually a worse love story than Twilight. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Ok so to explain some of the points, just because Chief is a spartan II and did all those things does not make him invincible remember what Cortana said in halo 3 he had incredible luck, in fact the spartan IVs are basically like a spartan III they are a cheap spartan however given lockes skill set it would make sense that he would be able to at least for a while keep up and spar with chief look what happened in the end the spartan II still won the battle took maybe a minute at most. The ODST group wasn’t broken up so Buck could be in Osiris, if you read New blood you learn that 2 members retired, one died (still very sad about that one) and another was arrested, along with that in the beta the ordinal Osiris team was Thorn, Tanaka, Vale, and Locke. The reason they couldn’t track Chief was actually explain in the game, they talked about how he took the ship and ran that ship had cloaking on it, they tracked that ship after it decloaked, found it, found Chief, Chief took the Guardian to where ever they had no idea, the best way to find out is to hop in the same ride, it also gave Osiris a way to sneak onto the planet almost unnoticed, if they tried to fly in with a unsc ship or other most likely cortana would have blow it up as she had things stationed there that could keep an entire section of space in check

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> Complaints about how bad the campaign is/was in 3…2…

Seriously was just about to make a post like this

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> So far this is what I got, Osiris the new squad on the block obliterates jul’mdamas forces, and him. Chief finds cortana for the second time, and they go AWOL. Osiris is sent to bring them back. Somehow he actually manages to stand up to a spartan II. Chief gets away. Osiris saves arby? Osiris needs a promethean thingy for some reason. They get to sunion and get on the guardian not before beating warden. Meanwhile blue team gets on genesis and beats up two wardens. Osiris meets the lightbulb of this forerunner structure . Chief captures some more wardens and plans to evolve them (pokemon humor).Chief gets captured by cortana using a oversized masterball. Then he gets back to sanghellios to greet his old friend arby.
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> Problems with it so far
> Why does arby need help with jul’mdama? He could have just done it instead. So far he has out ran a ring explosion and beat the heretic and the prophet of truth, and has stopped tartarus from activating a ring.
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> These new sangehelli need to know that you don’t screw with chief
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> so far this is 343 stealing mission Ideas, since literally you did the same thing in h2 as arby as Osiris did in… Osiris, Like you had to squash a rebellion get blinky and the sacred icon, and then in h5 you had to kill jul’mdama and find the human version of mr lightbulb, dr halsey. Good job 343.
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> I disagree there wasn’t any stolen missions IMO
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> So chief has walked away from 5 scarabs unscathed and has destroyed 3 rings, killed a prophet and has stopped an ancient evil two times, (three if you consider the prophets) and they don’t hesitate to arrest him, like has chief ever let you down?
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> I don’t understand this
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> Hey wait a minute, why do you need a forerunner thing when you can just use a GPS to track him.
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> Probably way out of range of trackers
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> Speaking of which, why haven’t they created a better tank or a warthog that actually is good.
> I don’t understand this… doesn’t the oni versions and Hannibal vehicles count?
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> So far this is the second time chief has gone mad, just to find cortana, like are they playing hide and seek?
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> HE hasn’t gone mad he feels that Cortana is his responsibility as he when says in the game.
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> So far cortana hasn’t really had any problems with ONI, so why does she want them to pay now?
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> She now knows all of ONIs dark secrets and we don’t so who knows what they were up too.
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> How in the world did locke size up to chief, him being a Spartan II and all
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> All Spartans are tough so yeah he sized up t him but Chief still won the fight.
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> Why was locke the leader of the team, buck should’ve been
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> Locke is a former assassin for ONI, did you not see him take out JUL? He is clearly a bad yoink himself.
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> they broke up the ODST group just so that buck could be apart of Osiris, talk about a missed opportunity
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> There is a book about this… perhaps you should read it. Halo: New Blood.
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> So can anyone explain H5 to me and the questions I have posed

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^there yah go friend. Also reading the lore helps.

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I don’t like the campaign, but it seems many of your problems are just you not paying attention to anything.

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ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe

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> ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe

The books have little, if anything, to do with Halo 5. Maybe why Buck is a Spartan now, but even that has little actual bearing on Halo 5’s plot.

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> ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe

Even if you are fan of the fan of EU, the plot are still bad.

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> > ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe
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> The books have little, if anything, to do with Halo 5. Maybe why Buck is a Spartan now, but even that has little actual bearing on Halo 5’s plot.

H5 is more about where the story of Halo is going not where it was.

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> > ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe
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> Even if you are fan of the fan of EU, the plot are still bad.

I don’t think so… H5 leaves a good set up for H6. Sorry Halo is changing from … someone is trying to fire a halo right, chief stops them and blows up said ring…

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> I don’t think so… H5 leaves a good set up for H6. Sorry Halo is changing from … someone is trying to fire a halo right, chief stops them and blows up said ring…

Sorry but i didn’t like the generic Human vs AI plot we got.
Maybe you did but i sure as hell didn’t.

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> > The books have little, if anything, to do with Halo 5. Maybe why Buck is a Spartan now, but even that has little actual bearing on Halo 5’s plot.
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> H5 is more about where the story of Halo is going not where it was.

Except that is a problem since Halo does not seem to actually be going anywhere. Halo 4 set up a solid path to explore. Humanity is recovering, yet facing internal obstacles from human insurrectionist groups that have achieved independence and no qualms about working with former Covenant species and potential rifts within the UNSC and ONI as one pursues a peaceful relationship with factions like the Swords of Sanghelios while the other attempts to dismantle such factions to further human ascendency. Within the Covenant you see that organization splinter with the possibility for some truly different results, the major example being Jul 'Mdama’s Covenant formed externally as a continuation of the religious foundation of the old Covenant yet 'Mdama has personal motivations to see his species survives from human aggression and what he sees as weak leadership from Thel 'Vadam. You also had the introduction of a living Forerunner who could have changed the currents of the galaxy. ONI was already scouring information on the Didact, Jul 'Mdama sought out the Didact for help with his Covenant, and the Librarian had hoped he would be a mentor for humanity. There was the potential for a more complex universe than with what Bungie had left us with.

Instead we get a generic AI vs organics story with little to differentiate it from other such tropes and tossing aside every other story set up in the three years since Halo 4 released. No natural conclusions for those stories, no room for those stories to grow organically, now if they continue at all they have to be focused through the lens of the Created, a faction that just appears on the scene with little build up or logic behind it in Halo 5 or in any other piece of lore. I would not be shocked if like everything else even this is swept under the rug. Seems Halo is a ship without a sail.

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> > > > ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe
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> > H5 is more about where the story of Halo is going not where it was.
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> Except that is a problem since Halo does not seem to actually be going anywhere. Halo 4 set up a solid path to explore. Humanity is recovering, yet facing internal obstacles from human insurrectionist groups that have achieved independence and no qualms about working with former Covenant species and potential rifts within the UNSC and ONI as one pursues a peaceful relationship with factions like the Swords of Sanghelios while the other attempts to dismantle such factions to further human ascendency. Within the Covenant you see that organization splinter with the possibility for some truly different results, the major example being Jul 'Mdama’s Covenant formed externally as a continuation of the religious foundation of the old Covenant yet 'Mdama has personal motivations to see his species survives from human aggression and what he sees as weak leadership from Thel 'Vadam. You also had the introduction of a living Forerunner who could have changed the currents of the galaxy. ONI was already scouring information on the Didact, Jul 'Mdama sought out the Didact for help with his Covenant, and the Librarian had hoped he would be a mentor for humanity. There was the potential for a more complex universe than with what Bungie had left us with.
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> Instead we get a generic AI vs organics story with little to differentiate it from other such tropes and tossing aside every other story set up in the three years since Halo 4 released. No natural conclusions for those stories, no room for those stories to grow organically, now if they continue at all they have to be focused through the lens of the Created, a faction that just appears on the scene with little build up or logic behind it in Halo 5 or in any other piece of lore. I would not be shocked if like everything else even this is swept under the rug. Seems Halo is a ship without a sail.

I think you are trying to cram way to much stuff for in game than what may or may not be included in additional books. As I see around the net, including the OP, they are confused about what happened already. They have to make the game a little easier to understand. The past Halo lore is deep and vast and simply to much to squeeze into each game. Sorry you don’t like the what seems to be AI vs humanity war but I think it’s ok. Odds are it won’t be the entire new universe or anything just another chapter in the Halo story.

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> > > > > ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe
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> > > > The books have little, if anything, to do with Halo 5. Maybe why Buck is a Spartan now, but even that has little actual bearing on Halo 5’s plot.
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> > > H5 is more about where the story of Halo is going not where it was.
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> > Except that is a problem since Halo does not seem to actually be going anywhere. Halo 4 set up a solid path to explore. Humanity is recovering, yet facing internal obstacles from human insurrectionist groups that have achieved independence and no qualms about working with former Covenant species and potential rifts within the UNSC and ONI as one pursues a peaceful relationship with factions like the Swords of Sanghelios while the other attempts to dismantle such factions to further human ascendency. Within the Covenant you see that organization splinter with the possibility for some truly different results, the major example being Jul 'Mdama’s Covenant formed externally as a continuation of the religious foundation of the old Covenant yet 'Mdama has personal motivations to see his species survives from human aggression and what he sees as weak leadership from Thel 'Vadam. You also had the introduction of a living Forerunner who could have changed the currents of the galaxy. ONI was already scouring information on the Didact, Jul 'Mdama sought out the Didact for help with his Covenant, and the Librarian had hoped he would be a mentor for humanity. There was the potential for a more complex universe than with what Bungie had left us with.
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> > Instead we get a generic AI vs organics story with little to differentiate it from other such tropes and tossing aside every other story set up in the three years since Halo 4 released. No natural conclusions for those stories, no room for those stories to grow organically, now if they continue at all they have to be focused through the lens of the Created, a faction that just appears on the scene with little build up or logic behind it in Halo 5 or in any other piece of lore. I would not be shocked if like everything else even this is swept under the rug. Seems Halo is a ship without a sail.
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> I think you are trying to cram way to much stuff for in game than what may or may not be included in additional books. As I see around the net, including the OP, they are confused about what happened already. They have to make the game a little easier to understand. The past Halo lore is deep and vast and simply to much to squeeze into each game. Sorry you don’t like the what seems to be AI vs humanity war but I think it’s ok. Odds are it won’t be the entire new universe or anything just another chapter in the Halo story.

Who said all of that has to be put in a single game? You have the main games, but there are other routes as far as spin-offs go. Halo: Last Light introduces us to the S-III Ferrets, a black ops team comprised of the Spartan-IIIs from Team Saber and their handler Veta Lopis. You could tackle the seedier side of the Halo story with them doing ONI missions or infiltrating rebel groups. Rtas 'Vadum has his flagship Shadow Of Intent patrolling the Sangheili borders in space and fighting Jiralhanae and recently putting a stop from a San 'Shyuum using a prototype Halo to destroy Sanghelios and and its colonies. You could explore the Covenant and its fragmentation and provide a playable game as a Sangheili. Plenty of routes exist past thinking in terms of single main games every 3 years or so. People like the OP may be confused, but it isn’t because of all the books and stuff, Halo 5 just never bothers to contextualize anything. You don’t need to know what happened in Hunters in the Dark, or Shadow of Intent, or Last Light to follow Halo 5. Halo 5 just doesn’t have a solid story to begin with.

And come on man, if you are going to say a part of the story is ok, you can at least explain why.

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> > > > > > ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe
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> > > > > The books have little, if anything, to do with Halo 5. Maybe why Buck is a Spartan now, but even that has little actual bearing on Halo 5’s plot.
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> > > > H5 is more about where the story of Halo is going not where it was.
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> > > Except that is a problem since Halo does not seem to actually be going anywhere. Halo 4 set up a solid path to explore. Humanity is recovering, yet facing internal obstacles from human insurrectionist groups that have achieved independence and no qualms about working with former Covenant species and potential rifts within the UNSC and ONI as one pursues a peaceful relationship with factions like the Swords of Sanghelios while the other attempts to dismantle such factions to further human ascendency. Within the Covenant you see that organization splinter with the possibility for some truly different results, the major example being Jul 'Mdama’s Covenant formed externally as a continuation of the religious foundation of the old Covenant yet 'Mdama has personal motivations to see his species survives from human aggression and what he sees as weak leadership from Thel 'Vadam. You also had the introduction of a living Forerunner who could have changed the currents of the galaxy. ONI was already scouring information on the Didact, Jul 'Mdama sought out the Didact for help with his Covenant, and the Librarian had hoped he would be a mentor for humanity. There was the potential for a more complex universe than with what Bungie had left us with.
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> > > Instead we get a generic AI vs organics story with little to differentiate it from other such tropes and tossing aside every other story set up in the three years since Halo 4 released. No natural conclusions for those stories, no room for those stories to grow organically, now if they continue at all they have to be focused through the lens of the Created, a faction that just appears on the scene with little build up or logic behind it in Halo 5 or in any other piece of lore. I would not be shocked if like everything else even this is swept under the rug. Seems Halo is a ship without a sail.
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> > I think you are trying to cram way to much stuff for in game than what may or may not be included in additional books. As I see around the net, including the OP, they are confused about what happened already. They have to make the game a little easier to understand. The past Halo lore is deep and vast and simply to much to squeeze into each game. Sorry you don’t like the what seems to be AI vs humanity war but I think it’s ok. Odds are it won’t be the entire new universe or anything just another chapter in the Halo story.
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> Who said all of that has to be put in a single game? You have the main games, but there are other routes as far as spin-offs go. Halo: Last Light introduces us to the S-III Ferrets, a black ops team comprised of the Spartan-IIIs from Team Saber and their handler Veta Lopis. You could tackle the seedier side of the Halo story with them doing ONI missions or infiltrating rebel groups. Rtas 'Vadum has his flagship Shadow Of Intent patrolling the Sangheili borders in space and fighting Jiralhanae and recently putting a stop from a San 'Shyuum using a prototype Halo to destroy Sanghelios and and its colonies. You could explore the Covenant and its fragmentation and provide a playable game as a Sangheili. Plenty of routes exist past thinking in terms of single main games every 3 years or so. People like the OP may be confused, but it isn’t because of all the books and stuff, Halo 5 just never bothers to contextualize anything. You don’t need to know what happened in Hunters in the Dark, or Shadow of Intent, or Last Light to follow Halo 5. Halo 5 just doesn’t have a solid story to begin with.
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> And come on man, if you are going to say a part of the story is ok, you can at least explain why.

I have already explained why I liked H5. I like the potential of a war between AI and humanity, which may not even happen. Sure H5 wasn’t the best campaign it just wasn’t as bad as most try and make it out to be.

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> > > > > > > ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe
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> > > > > > The books have little, if anything, to do with Halo 5. Maybe why Buck is a Spartan now, but even that has little actual bearing on Halo 5’s plot.
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> > > > > H5 is more about where the story of Halo is going not where it was.
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> > > > Except that is a problem since Halo does not seem to actually be going anywhere. Halo 4 set up a solid path to explore. Humanity is recovering, yet facing internal obstacles from human insurrectionist groups that have achieved independence and no qualms about working with former Covenant species and potential rifts within the UNSC and ONI as one pursues a peaceful relationship with factions like the Swords of Sanghelios while the other attempts to dismantle such factions to further human ascendency. Within the Covenant you see that organization splinter with the possibility for some truly different results, the major example being Jul 'Mdama’s Covenant formed externally as a continuation of the religious foundation of the old Covenant yet 'Mdama has personal motivations to see his species survives from human aggression and what he sees as weak leadership from Thel 'Vadam. You also had the introduction of a living Forerunner who could have changed the currents of the galaxy. ONI was already scouring information on the Didact, Jul 'Mdama sought out the Didact for help with his Covenant, and the Librarian had hoped he would be a mentor for humanity. There was the potential for a more complex universe than with what Bungie had left us with.
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> > > > Instead we get a generic AI vs organics story with little to differentiate it from other such tropes and tossing aside every other story set up in the three years since Halo 4 released. No natural conclusions for those stories, no room for those stories to grow organically, now if they continue at all they have to be focused through the lens of the Created, a faction that just appears on the scene with little build up or logic behind it in Halo 5 or in any other piece of lore. I would not be shocked if like everything else even this is swept under the rug. Seems Halo is a ship without a sail.
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> > > I think you are trying to cram way to much stuff for in game than what may or may not be included in additional books. As I see around the net, including the OP, they are confused about what happened already. They have to make the game a little easier to understand. The past Halo lore is deep and vast and simply to much to squeeze into each game. Sorry you don’t like the what seems to be AI vs humanity war but I think it’s ok. Odds are it won’t be the entire new universe or anything just another chapter in the Halo story.
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> > Who said all of that has to be put in a single game? You have the main games, but there are other routes as far as spin-offs go. Halo: Last Light introduces us to the S-III Ferrets, a black ops team comprised of the Spartan-IIIs from Team Saber and their handler Veta Lopis. You could tackle the seedier side of the Halo story with them doing ONI missions or infiltrating rebel groups. Rtas 'Vadum has his flagship Shadow Of Intent patrolling the Sangheili borders in space and fighting Jiralhanae and recently putting a stop from a San 'Shyuum using a prototype Halo to destroy Sanghelios and and its colonies. You could explore the Covenant and its fragmentation and provide a playable game as a Sangheili. Plenty of routes exist past thinking in terms of single main games every 3 years or so. People like the OP may be confused, but it isn’t because of all the books and stuff, Halo 5 just never bothers to contextualize anything. You don’t need to know what happened in Hunters in the Dark, or Shadow of Intent, or Last Light to follow Halo 5. Halo 5 just doesn’t have a solid story to begin with.
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> > And come on man, if you are going to say a part of the story is ok, you can at least explain why.
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> I have already explained why I liked H5. I like the potential of a war between AI and humanity, which may not even happen. Sure H5 wasn’t the best campaign it just wasn’t as bad as most try and make it out to be.

Plot = Campaign

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> > > > > > > ill make it easy for you… just dont try to understand it without books of the universe
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> > > > > > The books have little, if anything, to do with Halo 5. Maybe why Buck is a Spartan now, but even that has little actual bearing on Halo 5’s plot.
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> > > > > H5 is more about where the story of Halo is going not where it was.
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> > > > Except that is a problem since Halo does not seem to actually be going anywhere. Halo 4 set up a solid path to explore. Humanity is recovering, yet facing internal obstacles from human insurrectionist groups that have achieved independence and no qualms about working with former Covenant species and potential rifts within the UNSC and ONI as one pursues a peaceful relationship with factions like the Swords of Sanghelios while the other attempts to dismantle such factions to further human ascendency. Within the Covenant you see that organization splinter with the possibility for some truly different results, the major example being Jul 'Mdama’s Covenant formed externally as a continuation of the religious foundation of the old Covenant yet 'Mdama has personal motivations to see his species survives from human aggression and what he sees as weak leadership from Thel 'Vadam. You also had the introduction of a living Forerunner who could have changed the currents of the galaxy. ONI was already scouring information on the Didact, Jul 'Mdama sought out the Didact for help with his Covenant, and the Librarian had hoped he would be a mentor for humanity. There was the potential for a more complex universe than with what Bungie had left us with.
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> > > > Instead we get a generic AI vs organics story with little to differentiate it from other such tropes and tossing aside every other story set up in the three years since Halo 4 released. No natural conclusions for those stories, no room for those stories to grow organically, now if they continue at all they have to be focused through the lens of the Created, a faction that just appears on the scene with little build up or logic behind it in Halo 5 or in any other piece of lore. I would not be shocked if like everything else even this is swept under the rug. Seems Halo is a ship without a sail.
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> > > I think you are trying to cram way to much stuff for in game than what may or may not be included in additional books. As I see around the net, including the OP, they are confused about what happened already. They have to make the game a little easier to understand. The past Halo lore is deep and vast and simply to much to squeeze into each game. Sorry you don’t like the what seems to be AI vs humanity war but I think it’s ok. Odds are it won’t be the entire new universe or anything just another chapter in the Halo story.
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> > Who said all of that has to be put in a single game? You have the main games, but there are other routes as far as spin-offs go. Halo: Last Light introduces us to the S-III Ferrets, a black ops team comprised of the Spartan-IIIs from Team Saber and their handler Veta Lopis. You could tackle the seedier side of the Halo story with them doing ONI missions or infiltrating rebel groups. Rtas 'Vadum has his flagship Shadow Of Intent patrolling the Sangheili borders in space and fighting Jiralhanae and recently putting a stop from a San 'Shyuum using a prototype Halo to destroy Sanghelios and and its colonies. You could explore the Covenant and its fragmentation and provide a playable game as a Sangheili. Plenty of routes exist past thinking in terms of single main games every 3 years or so. People like the OP may be confused, but it isn’t because of all the books and stuff, Halo 5 just never bothers to contextualize anything. You don’t need to know what happened in Hunters in the Dark, or Shadow of Intent, or Last Light to follow Halo 5. Halo 5 just doesn’t have a solid story to begin with.
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> > And come on man, if you are going to say a part of the story is ok, you can at least explain why.
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> I have already explained why I liked H5. I like the potential of a war between AI and humanity, which may not even happen. Sure H5 wasn’t the best campaign it just wasn’t as bad as most try and make it out to be.

If your position is that the Halo 5 campaign isn’t as bad as people make it out to be, I’m afraid you aren’t doing a very good job of that. You say you like the potential idea of a war between AIs and humanity, but does it not concern you that such an idea harms one of Halo’s own stand-out features in sci-fi of humans and AIs (robots) actually functioning almost as equals and not out for each other’s necks in a paranoid game of wondering when the other will betray them? There was already an in-universe story much like the one you describe with the Forerunners and their ancillas. The Forerunners treated their ancillas as little more than equipment and in the end when the Flood arrived the parasite was able to seduce these ancillas in rebellion. Humanity, then, has a step up on the Forerunners by treating their AIs by and large as people. Obviously there is the tension with the 7 year lifespan, but there was hardly widespread hatred by AIs towards humanity. Even in Saint’s Testimony as Iona tries to argue her case legally, she never expresses lingering disdain for humans. Had there been a mounting tension between AIs and humans in the lore, then I’d argue the Created would have been a logical step for the series to make. Heck, if Cortana’s status as an icon for AIs as a whole were built up in the lore, then her sudden reappearance after her “death” and promise of a cure from rampancy would have been a really cool twist. Instead, AIs join her because…reasons and set back the Halo universes portrayal of AIs. Halo 5 effectively created a conflict where none had not existed instead of drawing from the many conflicts already going on.

If people who don’t like Halo 5 are wrong in how they make it out to be bad, what would you point to in order to challenge this?

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It’s this
t’s honestly bad but if you want to know either go on Wikipedia or read the following summary below:
Chief goes “rouge” along with blue team cuz he sees cortana
Osiris/Locke are tasked with hunting him down
Master Chef finds a guardian on a planet, Locke tries to stop him, stupid cutscene follows
Chef leaves, Locke tries to follows, place collapses
Locke has to find other portals/guardians, finds them on Elite’s home planet
Locke asks Arby to land/help
Arby agrees, storm Storm covies base, find guardian use it
Chef looks for Cortana after he goes through the portal
Locke and team fall down Guardian
Eternal man tries to stop Locke/Chef, fails, fails and fails some more
Lock and Load and Chef meet up, Chef finds about Cortana is evil because of the Domain or something
Chef gets trapped by Cortana because she is still in love with him
L&L frees Chef
End cutscene, Infinity is on the run, with the AIs(called created) allied with cortana and the Guardians except Roland for some odd reason
The game ends on a cliff hanger and pretty much nothing happens when you think about it, and there was no character development, for comparison it has less than Halo CE. So 343i don’t try to defend it.