From the ad’s on tv to hype trailers everywhere! Did you find the “HuntTheTruth” sort of misleading to the campaign itself.
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To be honest I was expecting master chief to start smoothing out the story and begin a whole new mission but once again we are back to finding Cortana in Halo 6? Where was the truth? what did we actually hunt for? We all knew that finding Cortana was gonna be the purpose of the game, but hunting master chief to help him find Cortana to help him stop Cortana? That once again leave us to another confusing cliffhanger. Idk it could just be me but it seems a tad bit confusing and misleading. If I am missing something replay. I am super lost.
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> Thought it was pretty good listen to all of it on a car ride not to long before i got H5
Im more concerned for new players coming to the Halo universe. It seems like the past 2 games just done show you much about the story like the Trilogy did.
The marketing campaigns were just too far off from the story. i understand not wanting to give it away, and wanting to surprise us, but when you tease this dramatic conflict, this hunt, when in reality it was much more benign, and ended up being a rescue mission, its disappointing.
The ads made it seem like Locke considered the Masterchief a traitor, who at some level had betrayed the UNSC. Masterchief did not have a high opinion of Locke either. While I don’t expect exact scenes from promos, you do expect that somehow, the UNSC and fire-team Osiris view blue team as a real threat and are angered by the betrayal.
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Being AWOL to go check out your lost AI, and then the specific dialogue and interaction, does not retain any of that essence.
I like the game, the story is alright, personally I don’t like the cortana as the villain choice, but that is subjective. But its very annoying to have the promotion of the game be so far off base from the story, and its reflects badly on 343.
Hunt the Truth connected through the Chief going rogue and then his alleged death on Meridian. You didn’t actually think that HtT would be that absolute center of Halo 5’s story? That’d be… different.
Locke was essentially a drone who followed orders throughout the entire campaign. Completely one dimensional and not once did he question anything. Aside from a tiny brawl, Chief and Locke seemed more like buddies than enemies. There was really no violence or tough decisions involved. They hyped Locke up to be this merciless hitman who would eventually question his morals and views on the mission at hand, but ONI (and Locke’s conscious) hardly played any role. It really feels like they majorly changed the direction of the campaign half way through development or something. Not meaning to complain, but it was extremely misleading.
I didnt actually listen to the thing.
Almost did a few days before release but didnt.
From what im getting i think i made the right choice cause i would probably be more disappointed.
But from the commercials that i did catch…
remember when the live commercial got the date wrong and they had to correct it?
So that was all for nothing, too.
Yes Eclipse (I don’t care, you will always be Eclipse), it was extremely misleading. None of the themes were explored, there was little dynamics between John and Locke, and none of the events were remotely relevant to the story. The amount of missed opportunities is insane.
I don’t really see the connection of the audio Hunt the Truth season 1 to Halo 5. And I don’t see how the TV ad campaign has nearly any connection to the game.
I understand that they had to be careful because they didn’t want the ad campaign to be spoilery, but it ended up feeling rather misleading after playing the game.
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> I don’t really see the connection of the audio Hunt the Truth season 1 to Halo 5. And I don’t see how the TV ad campaign has nearly any connection to the game.
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> I understand that they had to be careful because they didn’t want the ad campaign to be spoilery, but it ended up feeling rather misleading after playing the game.
Well Season 1 gave hints to stuff. I mean it was at a time were everything was unknown. I mean you had to search for a totally random quote to say what a guardian was at that time. So it did its job. And what a job it did in my opinion.
It also had Hunt the Signal. More stuff in that affect Halo 5 than what Season 2 even does to Halo 5. The device Locke tries to use on John to lock his armor was created due to AI’s in that, We also found a signal that lead to a colony that left only a Symbol(that soon turned out to be the Guardian glyph)
Season 2 was around a time where we knew a lot more. So holding back was never a problem.
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> > I don’t really see the connection of the audio Hunt the Truth season 1 to Halo 5. And I don’t see how the TV ad campaign has nearly any connection to the game.
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> > I understand that they had to be careful because they didn’t want the ad campaign to be spoilery, but it ended up feeling rather misleading after playing the game.
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> Well Season 1 gave hints to stuff. I mean it was at a time were everything was unknown. I mean you had to search for a totally random quote to say what a guardian was at that time. So it did its job. And what a job it did in my opinion.
Season 1 of Hunt the Truth seemed a lot more about finding the truth of the Spartan II program than anything else. It was great but falls rather flat in the sense that the information uncovered never became public, ONI is portrayed as the bad guys, and it does little to set up for the Halo 5 story.
They definitely made it seem like the Chief was going to be a lot more of a rogue element in the game and we were going to be spending a lot of time as Locke chasing after Chief and Blue Team.
What we got was like 2 or 3 missions where we were actually hunting the Chief, while before and after that we’re all on the same team.