“On October 27th Experience the Beginning of the Greatest Hunt in Gaming History”
That was directly from the Halo 5 Launch Trailer. So what if Halo 5 was in fact the beginning?
In the end of Halo 5 we start seeing the Guardians, especially Cortana’s Guardian, attacking a inner colony world. The Infinity critically wounded, Chief and Locke at each others throats in the aftermath of a fallen world, what if this comes to be in Halo 6? Chief knows Cortana’s plan is insane, but what if he’s trying to save her and bring her redemption, while its Locke’s mission to neutralize her? That would certainly make Chief seem like a traitor, and the UNSC telling the media the Master Chief is dead to cover up his betrayal. Locke and Fireteam Osiris would be the only choice to take down the Chief and Blue Team.
I like the theory, I hope it is true, but we will have to wait until halo 6
Then as far as I am concerned, that should have been the trailer for Halo 6, not Halo 5.
The trailers for Halo 5 made it out to be that the Master Choef had abandoned the UNSC and had gone rogue while Locke is willing to do anything to serve the UNSC and bring down the Master Chief.
Instead we get some cruddy 30second cut scene between Locke and the Master Chief. THEN once the two teams finally cross again, they are in a complete agreement already to team up to defeat the bigger threat. This was by no means what the game was advertised to be, although enjoyable it is far from what it could have been.
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> That was directly from the Halo 5 Launch Trailer. So what if Halo 5 was in fact the beginning?
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> In the end of Halo 5 we start seeing the Guardians, especially Cortana’s Guardian, attacking a inner colony world. The Infinity critically wounded, Chief and Locke at each others throats in the aftermath of a fallen world, what if this comes to be in Halo 6? Chief knows Cortana’s plan is insane, but what if he’s trying to save her and bring her redemption, while its Locke’s mission to neutralize her? That would certainly make Chief seem like a traitor, and the UNSC telling the media the Master Chief is dead to cover up his betrayal. Locke and Fireteam Osiris would be the only choice to take down the Chief and Blue Team.
Did I miss the part where Chief and Locke are at each others throats?
LOLOL right. And the MCC will be made right… Yeah.
Still doesn’t fit with all the “Hunter becomes the Hunted” and other things that tied the Locke vs Chief stuff together that was totally downplayed in the actual game. Just look at the two trailers we saw a while ago. The one with Chief about to kill Locke and the vice versa one. I didn’t expect that to happen in the game, but I expected a similar sort of conflict and all we got remotely close was one cutscene. Not a quick time event, not a boss fight. Just a cutscene.
I thought Infinity was at
Earth, not any random Inner Colony world.
You’re onto something. People wanted Halo 5: Guardians to feel simultaneously like:
- Its own self-contained story.
- A sequel to Halo 4.
- A middle chapter meant to advance the Halo narrative in a big way.
These expectations are the main source of people’s problems with the story. Halo 5: Guardians ended up being the first story of a new story arc, more than anything.
Any franchise that is 5 games in with one continuous story should never consider their 5 entry to be the beginning of something else. If you advertise HALO 5 as a new generation of Spartans chasing and hunting the older generation of Spartans who have defected or ignored orders, that should be what your game is about. Hell, if you really want to scar a franchise, have us fight Master Chief and actually get a chance to kill him. But instead, we got 12 levels of the normal Halo “kill all the aliens” bull. That’s not a bad thing, but its not what anyone was expecting/wanted.
I feel like I’m one of the few who wasn’t disappointed with the story and expected it to be what it was…so I was happy! The original E3 Teaser made more sense than all the recent promoting they made though.
Locke hunting Chief, Chief hunting Guardians(I didn’t think Cortana), then Locks realizing what is going on and helps/joins Chief to defeat the Guardians.
I can’t see Chief trying to redeem her or save her when he admits that she is dangerous to Locke. Truth be told I’m not digging the big thing about Cortana’s character being that she has to constantly be saved. First from the Gravemind, then from rampancy and now herself.
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So Halo 5 was just a waste of time? I have to pay another $60 to get the real story? Welp I really regret getting this game now. I was so excited for the campaign.
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> “On October 27th Experience the Beginning of the Greatest Hunt in Gaming History”
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> That was directly from the Halo 5 Launch Trailer. So what if Halo 5 was in fact the beginning?
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> In the end of Halo 5 we start seeing the Guardians, especially Cortana’s Guardian, attacking a inner colony world. The Infinity critically wounded, Chief and Locke at each others throats in the aftermath of a fallen world, what if this comes to be in Halo 6? Chief knows Cortana’s plan is insane, but what if he’s trying to save her and bring her redemption, while its Locke’s mission to neutralize her? That would certainly make Chief seem like a traitor, and the UNSC telling the media the Master Chief is dead to cover up his betrayal. Locke and Fireteam Osiris would be the only choice to take down the Chief and Blue Team.
-Did we play the same campaign? At what point was the Infinity critically wounded? It’s in 100% operational condition.
-Aside from a small fist fight which was completely resolved by Chiefs words of “Cortana’s dangerous. I know.” when were they at each other throats? You realize they’re allies now, right?
-At no point were either of them near death, as the other stood over them in triumph. Not even close.
Defend the gameplay and the story all you want, but for the love of god don’t defend the blatantly false advertising.
That definitely is a good theory and its makes a lot of sense.
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> “On October 27th Experience the Beginning of the Greatest Hunt in Gaming History”
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> That was directly from the Halo 5 Launch Trailer. So what if Halo 5 was in fact the beginning?
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> In the end of Halo 5 we start seeing the Guardians, especially Cortana’s Guardian, attacking a inner colony world. The Infinity critically wounded, Chief and Locke at each others throats in the aftermath of a fallen world, what if this comes to be in Halo 6? Chief knows Cortana’s plan is insane, but what if he’s trying to save her and bring her redemption, while its Locke’s mission to neutralize her? That would certainly make Chief seem like a traitor, and the UNSC telling the media the Master Chief is dead to cover up his betrayal. Locke and Fireteam Osiris would be the only choice to take down the Chief and Blue Team.
With how the game practically ends mid-sentence, it got me wondering if 343 pulled a Konami and held back a chapter. It was very suspicious and infuriating. I use the analogy of watching a movie you’ve never seen, but are really enjoying, and then hitting the stop button in the middle of a conversation, just as the story is starting to develop. That’s Halo 5 campaign in a nutshell.
The comparison I make of 343, to Konami, is referencing the fact that Konami released MGSV - The Phantom Pain with holes in the story and left a rather incomplete feeling experience. Later, Konami leaked they were releasing a third chapter.
It’s a shame the MP is so darn fun to play, because the campaign was clearly a bait and switch. The E3 teaser is from one of the last levels in the game, and 3 filler missions didn’t help.
I’ve loved most Halo campaigns - CE being classic, Halo 2 being fun (despite irritating with the cliffhanger), and 4 being a good take in a new direction. 3 and reach were not very appealing or memorable to me, especially being a big lore fan at the time. ODST was good, but not for a main series game, hence not counting in this.
The part that gets me is why we’re the ads setup that way? Prior to those and the #huntfortruth thing, I would have expected the Halo 5 plot to pan out as it did. All the advertising did was try to lure attention away, and the ultimately short/rushed experience could be fixed partially with some DLC missions or something to extend beyond what we were given.
I always thought the ads were in the future of Halo 5’s setting.
Given that they got the dates wrong on the last live ad, i wouldnt be surprised if they shot several ads together and they released the H6 ad by mistake.
Um, this is only one of their 15 other ads or something and even though this one might prove true, you can’t really explain how all the other ones weren’t ads and you can’t use the argument these ads might be used in Halo 6 because this was advertising used for Halo 5
Get off 343i’s -Yoink-, OP. You’re clutching at straws in denial that your beloved game developer would straight up lie to their fans about Halo 5’s story.
The ads got me so hyped for the game I bought the collectors edition thinking that the story was going to be immense but I was severely let down by the BS they actually gave us.