Personaly I think the final battle could have been better. Though it was awesome to blow him away, a challenge could have been more entertaining. It was sort of an anti-climatic scene. Maybe a combat mini game where you could fight back and forth and get different results of how you did it and when. Also a Leonidas spartan kick (The movie 300} would have been pretty bad -Yoink!-. Alas it may be of possibility in the next Halo. Hopefully.
I’m sure we haven’t seen the last of him. You’ll probably get your epic boss fight later.
A fight with him without a form of cheating would hav resulted in him winning. Without any cheap things, John would die so easily.
> A fight with him without a form of cheating would hav resulted in him winning. Without any cheap things, John would die so easily.
The Didact could’ve just tossed him over the edge without a second thought. But, you know, a villians gotta talk smack before doing anything.
At first, I was a bit disappointed in the fight with him. But then I thought about it and realized, if there was an actual fight, how would it have gone? Didact would’ve kicked John’s Yoink a thousand times over. There would be no fight. There was only the option of activating the nuke. The grenade made sense to at least slow down Didact while John activated the nuke. John can’t actually the Didact. That’s why there’s really no fight, and I’m completely fine with that.
Honestly, I think it was done pretty good. Short, yes. But, the Didact being fought normally wouldn’t make sense since he was able to easily defeat him twice before that encounter. Without Cortana and the Librarian giving him a hand, he wouldn’t live.
He’s not like the Covenant before where they are cautious of what they do when Forerunner artifacts are around. If he wants something dead, he’ll make sure of it.
I understand that John would lose, but something that you could get close to him and take away his powers with and then fight ,ending with the spartan kick of course, would have made it a little more interesting
for me was epic (yeah, short…but epic)
i expect ‘‘that battle’’ in Halo 6 or maybe 5
The Didact is much stronger than the Chief
It was cool, but the way I picture it would have been so amazing. And also I think that the after credits ending on legendary made up for it
The only real action scene they botched was majority of Dawn (lackluster explosions) and Chief rampaging through the Lich at the start of Composer (they only show the aftermath). As for in-game moments, Forerunner, Reclaimer, and Shutdown need a lot of work.
I must admit though, I’d have liked the opportunity to fight a boss enemy. It didn’t have to be the Didact, they could have made something from the Promethean Knight concept art. They could have used that Brute Chieftain concept art (there’s a hammer on the last level for no explicit reason). Or paired the two up like that famous punishing dual boss battle in Dark Souls. And IIRC, that ambush at the end of Requiem was going to be a boss fight.
Instead, we were treated to 6 Knights (a pretty good fight with the right skulls) and a pair of platform sweeping Commanders (this encounter really ruined the moment for me). 
The closest thing to a mini-boss battle is the Battlewagon pair on Infinity but it did not feel like it.
I get what you mean by it not having to be the Didact. I just wanted an awesome boss battle but mostly with him
If he did the 300 kick he needs to shout THIS IS [insert name of place here]!
It would’ve been impossible for the Chief to fight the Didact, conventionally.
The only way it could’ve happened is if Cortana disabled his constraint field, but that would’ve felt contrived, and even then, the Didact is twice the size of the Chief.
I simply can’t see 117 winning the fight any other way.
Although the Didact may be bigger, the Chief still has his superhuman abilities
the final battle was just more quicktime. when did gamers ever want to press a button over actually fight a boss? it wasn’t even a battle. it was just pure laziness on the developers part. that whole level felt contrived and half-yoinked. not to mention the whole cortana splitting thing was really really weird.
> I understand that John would lose, but something that you could get close to him and take away his powers with and then fight ,ending with the spartan kick of course, would have made it a little more interesting
yes, that is what I think could have been done, and would have made the most sense. cortana could’ve done something to his powers instead of doing that freaky thing she did.
sarah palmer is probably the only spartan who could take on the didact. there is a reason she doesn’t wear a helmet into combat - it is because she does not need to. she can deflect the bullets with her mind
> It would’ve been impossible for the Chief to fight the Didact, conventionally.
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> The only way it could’ve happened is if Cortana disabled his constraint field, but that would’ve felt contrived, and even then, the Didact is twice the size of the Chief.
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> I simply can’t see 117 winning the fight any other way.
I’ll take a QTE beatdown from Didact before I allow interference from Cortana. Honestly, Chief didn’t seem weakened that much from a single blow. The Diact’s fist seemed equal to a Knight’s swing.
Also, that constraint field is boring.
I agree. But all in all, Halo is the best game series and I will take whatever the creators throw at us
True. I would have loved to beat his face the way I did with regret.