It can’t be just me who thinks that they could do a better job of writing the events in a halo game.
Halo’s story reeks of fan fiction. The whole thing about the didact/Covenant/shield world is just filler -Yoink- for the love story of John and Cortana. Chief’s armour is now ‘cooler’ whilst Cortana has become ‘sexier’; She’s 50% more curvy and has so much detail on her model that each toe has been made in separate,high poly glory.I am by no means alone; EVERY review i have ever seen for Halo 4 notes that the main focus of the story was the on the two characters and not many seemed impressed by anything else.
I mean the Didact quite obviously had no thought put into him.Described as "an ancient evil’. He’s been frozen for a few millennia and wants good old fashion revenge because he disliked humanity a billion years ago (How perfectly logical?) He looks really ‘evil’ with red glowing eyes and all that jazz because halo has become a children’s story.
All of the supporting characters were weak. The hard -Yoink- leader who’s portrayed almost as an antagonist, the friendly and understanding guy who at some point ends up as moral support. Even the renown and wise wizard who at some point shows up to guide our hero and provide him with a gift (the librarian).
We’ve been given things that don’t make sense. I always come back to solid light. It seems like technology when it makes a bridge. I could see it working for making beams or projectiles for weapons. I don’t see how solid light can make something disintegrate. I’m very sure that it’s not going to work if you want to make a box out of it without any emitters. The box of course having it’s own solid avatar moving around inside it and it’s own artificial gravity.
It’s poetic, yes. I’m sure the lovesick fan fiction writer at 343 thought as much. Is it not the cheesiest thing ever to happen in halo? Something that completely oversteps the bounds of what can be done in the halo universe? I would say so. But it enhances cortana’s relationship with chief, which was all halo was really about.
I enjoyed it, although I think the terminal videos should have been viewable in game to help set the scene a bit more. For people who haven’t read the books or visited Waypoint to watch the videos, the overall storyline must have been a bit confusing.
all ill say is that you have not read any of the books, nor watched FuD or watched the terminals. Not that you should have to, but if you had read/watched any of these things you would not say this. Yes its confusing and it should not be, but no it is not bad writing, they created a whole culture for the forerunners, they created the elite politics and described the elites civil war very well. Go read the books and watch the terminals/ FuD if your so bothered about it that you would post on a forum.
You mean it isn’t quality writing when someone takes over a long-running intellectual property and then proceeds to kill off one of the female main characters for dramatic effect and also introduce a main villain with magic powers that can easily defeat the hero who is know for being tough?
> all ill say is that you have not read any of the books, nor watched FuD or watched the terminals. Not that you should have to, but if you had read/watched any of these things you would not say this. Yes its confusing and it should not be, but no it is not bad writing, they created a whole culture for the forerunners, they created the elite politics and described the elites civil war very well. Go read the books and watch the terminals/ FuD if your so bothered about it that you would post on a forum.
I did all of that and still think the story wasn’t very good. Also, I think a story requiring tons of background information to understand it is bad writing.
Watched all of the Halo 4 terminals. May have read a few too many articles on halopedia. Might be an English student. Might also think that one need not be a learned person to find halo 4’s plot lacking.
A billion years seriously nullifies anything that humanity has done to the didact to tick him off. He’s realy just a side character for an action romance game in space.
Still don’t get why people criticize the plot for being too hard to understand. You don’t NEED to read the books or watch terminals to get the plot. I mean really, I read a comment once that basically went “You have to read the books to answer certain questions. Like, what species is the Didact?” Must have missed the oh-so-subtle hints, like “The Forerunners have returned” and “We are Forerunners.”
Personally, I think people were expecting a relatively simple plot like in the previous games, and instead got a plot that requires a bit of thought, which is too much to ask for some fans.
The expanded universe is not necessary; it’s simply something on the side that gives more insight into the universe. Like it should be.
Meh, I thought masterchief and a handfull of marines + 1 frigate effectively dismantling the covenant in 1 day (halo 2) was much more fanfictiony.
Yeah, the Didact and co weren’t well fleshed out on screen, but neither was most of halo’s previous side characters. I mean, johnson is just a sergeant who gives you stuff and says funny lines.
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> You don’t get it. I’m not having a go at the story for being ‘complex’ for it is far from such a thing. I criticise it for being ‘dumb’.
I wasn’t so much talking about the dribble in the original post as I was about other comments in the thread (and others). Thinking the plot is dumb is dumb in and of itself. It’s much more complex and emotional than anything in the other games, besides CE, and even then H4 beats that in some ways.
One of the main focus’ of the game was the development of the characters of Chief and Cortana and their relationship (I don’t mean that in a “They’re in love” kind of way of course, there is no relationship there in that sense. More the way that they interact with each other). It was meant to explore the humanity of both of these characters and ironically it’s revealed that the AI Cortana is the more human of the two.
The Didact was apparently really fleshed out in the books, though I haven’t read them so I can’t tell you anything solid.
Ok seriously where was the love aspect in the story? A guy finds out someone he’s know for a long time that’s been close to him is about to die and he want’s to fix it. I don’t see any romance in there what so ever, I would have done the same be it male or female.
> hinking the plot is dumb is dumb in and of itself.
The Plot is dumb. The Didact fits the very model of a young child, not a hyper intelligent being.
In the books, he expresses remorse after he discovers the humans were just trying to stop the flood.
In game, he is pissed off over something the humans did over one hundred thousand years ago, even though the Forerunners killed more of themselves than the humans ever did with the firing of the Halo arrays, not to mention he fully knows that the humans had no choice. He also views them as a threat even though they aren’t very technologically advanced compared to any other race in the galaxy. How illogical and childish can you get?
As for Chief-Cortana, Cortana is dying and Chief is trying to save her. There really isn’t much depth beyond that.
The game had nothing to do with “Chief finding himself”, I don’t see where people are even getting that notion.
This doesn’t even begin to address that the Didact shows up and dies within the span of one game, with extremely little dialogue or character development. What character development there actually is contradicts his true character anyways.
It wasn’t any worse off than any other Halo’s story. If you take any individual main title Halo game at face value with no extended lore, they all blow compared to many AAA games.
2: 'Kay… cool back at Earth. Wait… wait what. Arbiter. Stahp. Arbiterr-… but… the flood? Why? Just… why? And-… Brutes? Tartarsauce just betrayed Arbiter for completing objective?..Kay.
3: Just marchin’ along, killin’ some dudz… “I am the monument to all of your sins.” …Wat?
Reach: I’m just going to, erh, use a quote from the first level to sum this one up: “The Covenant are on Reach. Repeat. The Covenant are on Reach.”
Halo’s lore doesn’t shine without paying attention to the extended universe. Moreover, if that’s what you’re getting from the Chief-Cortana relationship then you’re simply gripped too much by cliches that aren’t actually there.
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> The Plot is dumb. The Didact fits the very model of a young child, not a hyper intelligent being.
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> In the books, he expresses remorse after he discovers the humans were just trying to stop the flood.
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> In game, he is pissed off over something the humans did over one hundred thousand years ago, even though the Forerunners killed more of themselves than the humans ever did with the firing of the Halo arrays, not to mention he fully knows that the humans had no choice. He also views them as a threat even though they aren’t very technologically advanced compared to any other race in the galaxy. How illogical and childish can you get?
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> As for Chief-Cortana, Cortana is dying and Chief is trying to save her. There really isn’t much depth beyond that.
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> The game had nothing to do with “Chief finding himself”, I don’t see where people are even getting that notion.
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> This doesn’t even begin to address that the Didact shows up and dies within the span of one game, with extremely little dialogue or character development.