Before that legendary ending you see him fighting the flood. After which there were zero survivors. Then the ring blows up and you get the “dust end echoes” line stating that nobody but chief survived. Since we are talking from the point of view of people who play the games, explanations that came form books is irrelevant since from the player’s point of view Johnson simply pops back in like magic.
Time pasted between HW2 and Infinite. I assume Aritox found a way out during that time.
What would have been gained in detailing his exit when his only in the game for 2 minutes? The flashbacks of him killing Cortana were infinitely more relevant to the plot than how he busted out of ark.
Some of the best stories are the ones that do not spoon feed you every bit of information. Prime example of this is Dune (2021).
I loved the campaign, and I agree that it wasn’t perfect. The Banished could have been explained a little better, but it was much much better than Halo 4 introducing the Didact and the Librarian.
As someone who relies on the games for the lore, I was completely lost. I had to do some research on that one. At least the Banished were featured in a game, and not just via the terminals. I haven’t even played HW2, and I was completely fine with the Banished being featured in Halo Infinite.
Furthermore, the Banished were introduced as the main villain way before release, not to mention the Halo Wars series has a great story and excellent cut scenes. I’m sure anyone who did any amount of digging found HW2 and either played it, or watched the cut scenes.
Im literally asking for a 2-5 minute cutscene of dialogue to explain who the Banished are lmao thats not spoon feeding. Spoon feeding would be wanting to know EVERYTHING about the Endless.
The game does a explain who the banished are and their leadership through gameplay, dialogue, propaganda towers, audio logs, cutscenes. There is no need to rehash that same 2-5 minute banished intro cutscene from Halo wars 2.
Cause transitioning from one enemy to an entirely new faction with no kind of data is great story telling right? Wrong
Chief is a strong maybe. But the UNSC and Arbiter both knew about Atriox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-RMEYMu82Y
The UNSC AI knows Atriox’s and the Banished whole back story so there is plenty of reason to think the leaders of the UNSC or at least ONI knew about him too. Since the Arbiter was one of the top generals in the Covenant there is no way he did not know about the other massive enemy army his side was fighting.
You expressed knowledge for the ending of Halo Wars 2. How are the Banished a new faction to you and why do you need a second introduction cutscene for them? Infinite does a better job of fleshing out the Banished than CE did with the Covenant or Halo 4 and 5 did with the Prometheans and the Remnants of the Covenant lead my Jul 'Mdama.
Yes. Because you get that data on them throughout the entire game instead of all the info being dumped in a one cutscene and never mentioned again.
Let’s say someone never played Halo Wars 2.
The intro cutscene introduces you to the Banished and Atriox. The first 3 level build up who the Banished are, what their ideology is and who the leaders are. Once you enter the open world you learn about their goals and by the end you understand the reason why they are on the ring. On top of that you also have all the side missions, HVT’s, audio logs, etc that flesh them out further.
I mean, Bungie never explained who the Covenant were. They were just the super colorful alien species that kept shooting at you and really wanted to turn the giant space hula hoop on. They didn’t get fleshed out until Halo 2. While you can’t really excuse it because they did say you could pick up Infinite with 0 prior knowledge going in, it is always a very beneficial idea to go back to previous games and books leading up to the current installation so that you know more.
Yes you could call it a marketing scheme to get people to spend more money on their games and books, but would you come into volume 15 of a series without reading/watching volumes 1-14 first? You’d probably read/watch up to that point first, even if 15 was the newest installment.
While Halo Wars 2 only kind of touches up on who the Banished are, it’s enough that you’re not clueless as to who they are. Given even the books don’t really touch up on the Banished short of brief mentioning’s in a few books with the most recent ones going deeper into the Banished presence correlating with HW 2.
So maybe 343 was taking a Bungie approach to it. Newer players would have no idea just like we had no idea back in CE, but they’ll get more fleshed out for newer players (hopefully).
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Pretty sure theyre about to, or already have, linked the Endless to the unsolved Sandtrap mystery from Halo 3. I really hope it doesn’t suck as bad as those skimmer things. Are they awake? Are they afraid of heights? Completely unafraid of being shot in the face so they make it easy? Who knows…