First of all, sorry for any grammar mistakes.
So, the other day reading New Blood and Broken Circle something got stuck on my head.
If the story of Halo 5, instead of being a Game.
Halo 5 story was a novel.
It would be so hated it?,
I… Don’t really think so.
What do you think about this?.
Share your thoughts about it.
PD: This is my first post.
A book would certainly have given more space to flesh out characters and and story, so that might help, but Cortana returning is a fundamental issue with the story that isn’t going to be solved by any medium or alteration to the way it’s presented. You’d have to change the story to make Halo 5 a good story.
I think this was the problem with H5. They tried to add too much to a game and ended up writing dialog that was nonsensical and out of place. That, in turn, made the characters sound bland or unlike themselves and wrecked the story. I think the team and the leads forgot that they were making a game.
I looked back at the plot as a whole once I was done with the game and separated it from the associated narrative. It really had the potential to be a great sequel in a trilogy. If one of the established Halo authors wrote a book instead, I would have thoroughly enjoyed reading it even with Cortana’s resurrection.
Honestly, I felt like Halo 5: Guardians was more fan service than anything else. Blue Team in a game, return of Cortana, bring back the Arbiter, visit Sanghelios and have Edward Buck in the game as a Spartan-IV? They weren’t telling a story so much as trying to make everyone happy.
You’d need to take some remedial literature classes if you believe Halo 5 would make even a passable professional novel and not a sad fan fiction.
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> Honestly, I felt like Halo 5: Guardians was more fan service than anything else. Blue Team in a game, return of Cortana, bring back the Arbiter, visit Sanghelios and have Edward Buck in the game as a Spartan-IV? They weren’t telling a story so much as trying to make everyone happy.
Yeah, But what about only 3 missions for the chief?.
I really like seeing the Blue Team.
If the wanted to do as much fan service as they could…
Maybe more missions for the chief might have been nice…
Maybe if the game wasn’t “Halo 5”, Idk.
Halo : Fireteam Osiris.
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> > Honestly, I felt like Halo 5: Guardians was more fan service than anything else. Blue Team in a game, return of Cortana, bring back the Arbiter, visit Sanghelios and have Edward Buck in the game as a Spartan-IV? They weren’t telling a story so much as trying to make everyone happy.
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> Yeah, But what about only 3 missions for the chief?.
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> I really like seeing the Blue Team.
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> If the wanted to do as much fan service as they could…
> Maybe more missions for the chief might have been nice…
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> Maybe if the game wasn’t “Halo 5”, Idk.
> Halo : Fireteam Osiris.
Halo: Fireteam Osiris…
Yeah, that would have worked better.
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> A book would certainly have given more space to flesh out characters and and story, so that might help, but Cortana returning is a fundamental issue with the story that isn’t going to be solved by any medium or alteration to the way it’s presented. You’d have to change the story to make Halo 5 a good story.
Her return totally invalidates any sort of drama that was felt at the realization that Cortana was dead at the end of Halo 4. Her sacrifice was such a sobering moment for the story. Halo 4 did what Halo 3 tried to do with Johnson and Miranda’s deaths and NAILED IT.
Interesting thought OP. I think Halo 5 could have worked really well as a book. That way we would have had plenty of time to develop the characters and plot lines. Also, the world hopping could have been slowed down and the settings given more time to be explored. Halo 5 just kinda happened so dang fast. You barely had time to stop and see what was going on before the next sequence of events started rolling by.
Not to mention, books lend themselves to more character development because you can do more work with one page than an entire level of a game if you so desire. Besides, the game relied heavily on EU material (not as much as many think, but still heavily enough), so being a part of the EU would solve that issue.
It would’ve worked better as a book, especially since it would’ve had much better dialogue and some actual character development. The story wasn’t engaging or exciting for a videogame. But one of the issues still is that the game disregards a lot of what made Halo 4’s story so well-done and makes H4’s ending so insignificant.
That would be nice to sort of sharpen. The story and add some characterization to Osiris which felt pretty lacking in the campaign.
I think that comes down to far fewer people reading the books than playing the games. There are millions of mediocre books published every year that nobody pays any attention to; Halo 5 had millions of dollars poured into it and frankly it should at least have a better story than what we got.
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> I think that comes down to far fewer people reading the books than playing the games. There are millions of mediocre books published every year that nobody pays any attention to; Halo 5 had millions of dollars poured into it and frankly it should at least have a better story than what we got.
Agree completely that with all the money poured into H5, we should have gotten more. But to be fair, all that money went right to the MP and competitive online scene. HCS is a moneymaker for 343 from what I can tell, so catering to that crowd is a savvy business move. Sadly, that move has the potential to disenfranchise the rest of their audience.
I’m a capitalist at heart, but sometimes companies just need to say “we made enough this year” and spend a little time making their fans happy rather than squeezing as much profit as possible out of them. In short, you can take $100 million + happy fan base or $110 million and nothing else… take your pick I suppose.
Fortunately it appears that 343 has been putting some substantial effort towards making their fan base happy, so the above is more a general opinion than a specific dig at 343.
Halo 5’s campaign was doomed right from the start when 343 decided it would be a good idea to give the lead to Brian Reed after the train wreck that was Spartan Ops. After reoccurring dialogue, a grossly underwhelming character development for some potentially heavy hitting characters introduced in H4 backed up by repetitive narrative. It’s almost no surprise that what we got for H5 reflected the lazy washed out creativity and lack of respect for Halo’s story and it’s fans throughout the game.
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Just to add on real quick, no. A book instead of the game would not have been any better. At least I got through the Campaign relatively quickly. Stuff throwing 5-8 hours into a book about nothing.