Did 343 ever add any cool lore?

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honestly anything written after chief nuked the ark to hell and was stuck in space is just non canon to me, legit cant think of anything 343 has added to the lore i actually liked, except maybe some minor stuff in the halo 2 terminals and the banished

-dont like how the forerunners are way too overexplained now and how they dont feel like halo at all (mostly cause halo 4 tried its hardest not to be halo)

-the precursors just feel redundant since we already had a mysterious alien race and now we just have another one (and i guess we get another another one with the endless whoever they are) and apperantly they turned into a space fart that became the flood or something
literally the last thing i want is for the flood to be explained

-the rookies death felt like cheap bait to just piss off odst fans

-the storm covenant were super underdeveloped and are probably the least threatenin enemies in all of halo. like they become slaves in the first game they show up and in the next game theyre literally on the brink of collapse.

-the prometheans have nothing good about them. bad designs, bad enemies to fight and i legit dont even remember the lore apart from the didact made them or some crap, i dunno. and i dont care either because they failed at the first thing enemies in a game have to be: fun to fight. if theyre not fun to fight or look at, then whatever lore you write for thems just not gonna matter

-apperantly guilty spark is alive now? why?

-i think the banished are cool as a concept but at least in the games theyve never been fleshed out enough for me to care about em the same way i did for the covenant in halo 2. i also think their origin story is kinda generic

thats all i got rn. i mean im pretty sure there oughta be something they did right, thats why the title of the thread is a question

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This is… well, this is one hell of a take, I’ll give you that.

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I have to agree. Honestly the original halo games had a bit more mystery to the story. I kinda like the simple humans vs aliens generic storyline that halo started with. Sure halo ce had some complex themes in the story, but overall it was somewhat generic and that made it more fun.

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343 doesn’t provide lore.

They provide ret-cons to explain why their stories don’t fit into the lore established prior.

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NaNoMaChInEs changed chief’s armor in 4……… this isn’t crysis. From what I understand they changed the forerunners too, among other things.

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Changes that 343 made to the lore upon taking over. Not a full list, just a bunch of problematic stuff -

  • Nanomachines allowing Master Chief’s armor to change

  • Art Style Change that retroactively changed the Forward Unto Dawn to be a Strident-Class Frigate instead of a Charon-Class Frigate.

  • Covenant changed to look like unethical experiments rather than the actual aliens.

  • Forerunners were no longer humans, but now were instead a separate species. Which thus had to make a cutscene that explained 8 separate plot-points at once and three novels to “solidify” the ret-con.

  • The Cosmic Horror of The Flood was explained as The Precursors. Rule No. 1 about Cosmic Horror… DON’T EXPLAIN THE COSMIC HORROR !