Sorry for this poll in case some of you are sick of hearing how much people dislike the Halo 5 campaign, but I heard most people saying that the advertisements and talk of the story were completely irrelevant and misleading to the actual story and I want to see how much of those people exist.
Personally, I really didn’t like this story. It had so much potential with a Locke vs Chief thing like they originally talked about.
The marketing behind this game definitely lead us all to follow a almost non existent story in Halo 5, I would honestly go as far as to say that they straight up lied to their fans. However in saying all of that, it was a very clever way to derail any spoilers or theories that may of actually eventuated before release of the “actual” story behind game. Literally almost everyone who had done their best to go dark from potential spoilers outside of the marketing, including myself was shocked when we received the true story of the game.
Look If you’re just a regular Halo gamer, one who may of played most or all of the games and thats it, you’re not going to appreciate the campaign nearly as much as a diehard fan who has read the books, comics, watched both films and the anime and knows a good chunk of the lore behind the forerunners and sanghelli origins. As a fan who well understands the lore of the series, I’am far from disappointed and I was impressed at every turn. The open levels where fantastic, the visuals and set pieces where very impressive, the music was definitely on point, the cutscenes where a visual marvel, the voice acting was smooth, the gameplay was incredible and the story at-least IMO was very very interesting and has definitely expanded the Halo universe even further! At the very least OP you have to admit that the visuals are stunning and the gameplay was pretty damn clean.
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> As a fan who well understands the lore of the series, I’am far from disappointed and I was impressed at every turn. The open levels where fantastic, the visuals and set pieces where very impressive, the music was definitely on point, the cutscenes where a visual marvel, the voice acting was smooth, the gameplay was incredible and the story at-least IMO was very very interesting and has definitely expanded the Halo universe even further! At the very least OP you have to admit that the visuals are stunning and the gameplay was pretty damn clean.
As a fan who well understands the lore of the series, I’m far from impressed and I was disappointed at every turn.
Don’t get me wrong, the cutscenes are nice, it was cool to go on Shangelios and the opening of Blue Team really fits the Spartan 2 lore.
However there are a lot of bad sides to Halo 5 campaign:
- There are only 3 Blue Team missions whereas 343i said MC would be the main character of the story.
- Content wise the story is poor. As I see it, only Blue Team missions make the story progress and most Osiris missions are fillers.
- MC vs Locke fight was really bad. Mainly because as far as I know Spartan IV augmentations do not boost their reflexes and nervous response time, meaning that Locke should have been neutralized before he could have done anything.
- Vehicles are nerfed, we are far from the “tank beats everything” from Halo 3 and don’t get me started on the Warthog
- Where is the epicness of the previous Halo games ? Each mission of the previous game was as epic as the whole Halo 5 campaign.
They shouldn’t have included the missons where you only walk around.
The game opened up with so much potential.
Jul was killed off immediately, who could have been a wild card. Wanting revenge on Osiris and Halsey.
Osiris overheard Halsey talking angrily to Lasky about “her”, if all this would have been kept a secret among the higher ups, distrust and eventual grinding between Osiris and the Higher ups would have played a large role.
Chief was made out to be a traitor in the Marketing, this is not present at all in the game.
Locke is unknown to Chief and just another Spartan, never is Locke portrayed as a resourceful hunter who would be a worthy opponent of Chief.
Chief is on his own mission and Locke should time and time again have thwarted Chief’s good intentions, which to Locke would have seemed bad, as he was fed false information from ONI, which is missing altogether from the game. You’d think that ONI would have a larger presence as well in the game.
I was sorely disappointed, for a game that labels its own story as “The greatest hunt in gaming”, it can’t seriously have experienced any other game ever at all.
I really wanted more Chief time. Felt like they didn’t tell enough of the story from his point of view.
Stories would be boring if they were always what you expected.
You need a 3rd option. The “I feel the advertisements were a complete lie and utterly misleading to the game they actually sold, but was still a good and acceptable story.”
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> Stories would be boring if they were always what you expected.
Ugh…
That’s hardly the point. You don’t advertise one thing and sell something else entirely.
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> That’s hardly the point. You don’t advertise one thing and sell something else entirely.
You may want to stay away from M Night Shamalyan movies then…
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> That’s hardly the point. You don’t advertise one thing and sell something else entirely.
How do you advertise that story and keep the Cortana twist under wraps at the same time?
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That’s just good advice all around. Lol
I have no idea what they were thinking especially at the end where you just use Locke and walk towards the stupid orb (MGS4 anyone?) it felt like a filler not an entire Halo campaign like 1 & 2
oh and not to mention that the chief and the rest of Blue team were scaled down in size
Mislead us? ABSOLUTELY. But I still enjoyed the story a great amount.
I’m reluctant to think that this game’s story was worse than Reach’s, and Reach was only bad due to the retconing.
The things that bother me with the campaign is nothing besides achievements is unlocked. In Halo 4 you got the Chief’s armor and visor color, which to me the visor color was one of my favorites. I beat it solo legendary and only have a few more co-op but with nothing being unlocked, I’m not as driven anymore to complete it co-op. I felt the campaign and achievements should give us a few req packs to show that we beat it on certain difficulties, etc.
I thought it was pretty obvious that the Hunt the Truth campaign was about ONI lying to the public. Master Chief was never doing anything wrong, it was all lies by ONI to try and cover themselves and the Spartan IIs past while pushing the new IVs as heroes.
Locke was tasked with bringing Chief in because he was AWOL, and as a Spartan II that’s a pretty big deal, especially when he’s leading 3 other Spartans with him. So the UNSC wanted to bring him back in to keep him in check because they didn’t exactly know what he was doing. They also didn’t think he was capable with dealing with Cortana as a threat, as Dr Halsey had told them.
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By advertising the game as the universe being under the threat of the Forerunner’s thumb. Maybe show off the Warden a bit. Not by completely lying about what they are selling.
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> I thought it was pretty obvious that the Hunt the Truth campaign was about ONI lying to the public. Master Chief was never doing anything wrong, it was all lies by ONI to try and cover themselves and the Spartan IIs past while pushing the new IVs as heroes.
> Locke was tasked with bringing Chief in because he was AWOL, and as a Spartan II that’s a pretty big deal, especially when he’s leading 3 other Spartans with him. So the UNSC wanted to bring him back in to keep him in check because they didn’t exactly know what he was doing. They also didn’t think he was capable with dealing with Cortana as a threat, as Dr Halsey had told them.
The only problem with this approach, is that it had literally 0 relevance on the actual game. Not only that, but it was contradictory to how the game played out. There was no malice directed towards Chief at all. There was one little fight to try and bring him in, and then the rest of the game they were on the same side.