did you actually understand halo 5?

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Halo 1-3, ODST and Reach had simple but engaging story’s that all complemented each other because they were set in the same setting, the final years of the Human-Covenant war and the discovery of the Halo rings. Halo 4 had an engaging story as well but it failed to properly execute some ideas, like the return of the Forerunners being a little underwhelming and the new cast being (mostly) less favorable than the one in the original trilogy. It also failed to inform the player about important plot points like; what is this ''new Covenant"? Why do they look different and why do they not speak English. Halo 4’s story had continuity errors but was still a great story for the experienced lore fan.

Halo 5 on the other hand is almost like a soft-reboot of some sort. Halo 5 completely detached itself from its predecessor that was already kinda detached from Halo 3. The result is a story that literally feels like somebody took characters from the Halo universe, added some new ones, and made a generic sci-fi story that has nothing to do with Halo. If it wasn’t for Bucks’ occasional references to ODST and Reach I seriously would have thought that Halo 5 was set in an alternate universe.Events of the original trilogy are never mentioned in Halo 4, and 5 (except for a few vague lines)

2

I think the new characters are absolutely unaware of the events that traspired in the Halo trilogy or at least have very little knowledge since most of it is classified, hell, Halsey didn’t even know that John was still alive until Spartan Ops.(Blue Team, maybe Laskey, and Palmer being the exception of course)

3

The guy above me has a point. A lot of the events in the first trilogy that we experienced would not exactly be common knowledge.

4

I think most clearly didn’t listen to what was being said in H5 if they didn’t understand it. There were quite a bit of references to past events. I think some need to go through and really listen to what is being said.

5

I’m not even sure why they were chasing the chief.

But I was watching older cut scenes from all the previous games and realised halo 5 just wasn’t interesting though it did effect me playing it but I didn’t know why. I was too bored of the story I found it hard to play the campaign I literally couldn’t bring my self to play it till I had no internet for a while.