did halo 3 have the perfect ending? what are your thoughts how would you make it better
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> did halo 3 have the perfect ending? what are your thoughts how would you make it better
I loved it. It finished the main plot of the trilogy but left open enough stuff for the story to continue. Enter Halo 4.
It was nice ending especially the mission for it, that was a good level.
You start CE in a cryotube and finish Halo 3 by getting back in one.
Take away the shot of Master Chief drifting towards Requiem and you’d have a perfect ending to the series.
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> You start CE in a cryotube and finish Halo 3 by getting back in one.
> Take away the shot of Master Chief drifting towards Requiem and you’d have a perfect ending to the series.
Which was never supposed to be Requiem…
Anyway, yes, it did. It should have ended with Chief dying, however. His story is done. The Rookie should have taken the mantle of Halo protagonist, but 343 decided to kill him off in one of the most anti climatic and pathetic ways imaginable.
I’d have been fine with most of Halo 4 (bar that stupid ancient human rubbish, that was and still is awful) if it was the Rookie as the protagonist, and not Chief.
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> > You start CE in a cryotube and finish Halo 3 by getting back in one.
> > Take away the shot of Master Chief drifting towards Requiem and you’d have a perfect ending to the series.
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> Which was never supposed to be Requiem…
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> Anyway, yes, it did. It should have ended with Chief dying, however. His story is done. The Rookie should have taken the mantle of Halo protagonist, but 343 decided to kill him off in one of the most anti climatic and pathetic ways imaginable.
> I’d have been fine with most of Halo 4 (bar that stupid ancient human rubbish, that was and still is awful) if it was the Rookie as the protagonist, and not Chief.
Killing chief off would have been iffy with me. If we did go with replacing chief with someone new I would have just left chief peacefully floating in space until humanity (the gamers) needed his power again. Then he could conveniently float or be descoverd in human space.
Edit: also when we would find chief, we’d need him to be exactly like he was at the end of halo 3. No super upgrades that just happen, no crazy new ship… just halo 3’s chief in a new and and strange universe. After he’s found then upgrade him or something. Or just show the power of spartan II and Mjolnir mrk 6
It was definitely a fair good, not perfect, but good. It brought closure to the plot and felt “right”.
I’d argue that it would have been just as acceptable to have Chief die while saving humanity (like staying behind to fire the ring)…but I understand the decision of Bungie to leave it open-ended since they were in the process of wrapping up their involvement in the Halo series.
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> > You start CE in a cryotube and finish Halo 3 by getting back in one.
> > Take away the shot of Master Chief drifting towards Requiem and you’d have a perfect ending to the series.
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> Which was never supposed to be Requiem…
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> Anyway, yes, it did. It should have ended with Chief dying, however. His story is done. The Rookie should have taken the mantle of Halo protagonist, but 343 decided to kill him off in one of the most anti climatic and pathetic ways imaginable.
> I’d have been fine with most of Halo 4 (bar that stupid ancient human rubbish, that was and still is awful) if it was the Rookie as the protagonist, and not Chief.
Bungie did Halo 3 ODST, not 343.
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> > > You start CE in a cryotube and finish Halo 3 by getting back in one.
> > > Take away the shot of Master Chief drifting towards Requiem and you’d have a perfect ending to the series.
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> > Which was never supposed to be Requiem…
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> > Anyway, yes, it did. It should have ended with Chief dying, however. His story is done. The Rookie should have taken the mantle of Halo protagonist, but 343 decided to kill him off in one of the most anti climatic and pathetic ways imaginable.
> > I’d have been fine with most of Halo 4 (bar that stupid ancient human rubbish, that was and still is awful) if it was the Rookie as the protagonist, and not Chief.
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> Bungie did Halo 3 ODST, not 343.
They then wrote the book (or approved the storyline of said book) in which the Rookie dies to Insurrectionists.
I personally didn’t care for it, but it did upset me a little because the campaign in that game is so short as it is ;(
I don’t think we’ll ever see a “perfect” ending, but I personally quite liked Halo 3’s ending, and here’s why:
- It resolved the crisis of the original trilogy. The Flood was dealt with, the Covenant was dealt with, and the Halos were stopped. Sounds like maybe a shallow list but Halo had a relatively simple plot back then. Which wasn’t a bad thing. - The structure was good. I don’t think anyone actually ever thought they’d kill off Chief, so when the Dawn was fleeing the Ark and the Halo energy was coming towards them, I didn’t feel like when the screen cut to white that it meant the Chief got killed. But the structure of trying to establish “did he die?”, followed by the scene on Earth absent the Chief, followed by Chief and Cortana in the aft section of the Dawn, was done well. - It was bittersweet. Chief won the day, but at the cost of becoming lost in space. He’s alive, but has been denied the return to home that we so wanted him to have. Cortana is about to begin a long stretch of time steeped in loneliness, but the Chief assures her that he’ll be there for her when she needs him. It’s a somber moment exemplified by the beautifully haunting music, but the scene is not without a modicum of hope. - It came full circle. Someone else in this thread pointed out that you start the trilogy waking up from cryosleep and end the trilogy going back into cryosleep. Kind of poetic. That was a good observation. - It left an adequate amount of potential and wonderment. To me, good endings don’t only just tie everything off with a nice little bow. They also leave room for the imagination to take the characters and the story. So Chief goes into cryosleep and Cortana sets up a beacon, with the expectation that eventually Chief will make it back to humanity. Could be sooner or later. Chief’s story is over, but also not over. A guy like him will likely continue getting into trouble. And this is given merit through the legendary ending, when the remains of the Dawn are shown approaching a mystery planet. I don’t think Bungie made Halo 3 with the intent to pick up Chief’s story from that moment. Yes, by the time Halo 3 released Bungie was working on a new Halo game, but that ended up turning into Halo Reach, a prequel, not a sequel. I think they just wanted to give the players that feeling of “here we go again” as the final send off for the Chief, because it fits him best. Chief is not the kind of character that should just acquiesce or fade. He’ll always have adventures, even if we don’t get to live all of them.I would have been perfectly satisfied if the Chief’s story had ended with Halo 3. I’m not saying that Halo should have ended with 3; I really enjoyed ODST and Reach, and the Halo franchise has always been ripe with potential for spinoffs. But I think Halo 3’s ending wrapped up the Chief’s story nicely and satisfactorily.
It was a good ending but Halo Reach’s ending was almost perfect…