I prefer the human-covenant story. The books fall of reach , the flood and first strike over crpytum and primordium . I also prefer the Halo ce - 3 over Halo 4’s campaign . I prefer fighting the covenant and flood over the prometheans aswell. To me the prometheans are annoying
Did 343i’s make this new trilogy and books, or did bungie lay down the material and 343 bring it to life ?
your a bit quick just seeing as you only played one third of the trilogy.
the flood will more than likely come back.
i think the Forerunner books are really good.
i think you just don’t like change and are looking for fault
> your a bit quick just seeing as you only played one third of the trilogy
i really didnt like it. The didact felt like the boring generic I wanna kill everyone cause I’m evil boss. I also dislike the forerunners and the new art scheme…
I will agree with you about the Prometheans. All they do is have another step in front of the one you’re about to kill or the one you’re shooting will just teleport away. It’s pretty annoying. Covenant is definitely more fun to fight. Promethean design is rather cool though, but gameplay is where it is at.
> I will agree with you about the Prometheans. All they do is have another step in front of the one you’re about to kill or the one you’re shooting will just teleport away. It’s pretty annoying. Covenant is definitely more fun to fight. Promethean design is rather cool though, but gameplay is where it is at.
I buy Halo 4 for the story and online, 60% Story and 40% online. But this really left me disapointed. The forerunners just look like weird Humans , the prometheans dont look like they suit Halo to me.
Is it that they did not meet what you would expect a forerunner to be?
> Is it that they did not meet what you would expect a forerunner to be?
Nah I just never cared for the forerunners , they died out and should have stayed like that. Why does the didact look different compared to the other forerunners another thing that made me wonder . There guns too are really disappointing and don’t look lethal for such a advanced civilisation
The Promethean Knights piss me off, the way they charge at you until your drop their shields and then they teleport five feet away and bam, full shields again. Ugh, that winds me up to no end.
> > Is it that they did not meet what you would expect a forerunner to be?
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> Nah I just never cared for the forerunners , they died out and should have stayed like that. Why does the didact look different compared to the other forerunners another thing that made me wonder . There guns too are really disappointing and don’t look lethal for such a advanced civilisation
So because they are exploring a part of the universe you don’t like.
The forerunners can look very different from one another. I guess you forgot that.
And no, even in the halo 3 terminals bornstellar-didact mentions starting their great journey.
These weapons designed to combat the flood are highly lethal. The light rifle shots go through marines.
I really don’t care for the direction the new trilogy is heading towards either.
So you are saying you would prefer that Halo ended with Reach? Give it time 5 & 6 will be even better.
I quite like it. I thought this was my favourite campaign by far, probably on equal grounds with the excitement of Halo CE. Good on 343 for finding a balance in storyline with familiar characters / plot setting for those who had read the books without alienating casuals (unlike in halo reach where that campaign storyline took a massive steaming dump on all the previously established lore, especially if you had read fall of reach).
The didactic was/ is a cool enemy, finally someone serious as previously all the arch villains like prophets have all been rather comical. The only thing that really bugged me at times was the AI gameplay mechanics of the promethean knights, especially on legendary. Sometimes I felt like they were bullet sponges who just stood there and absorbed everything you threw at them before teleporting away and then coming back with full shields, rinse cycle repeat.
> I really don’t care for the direction the new trilogy is heading towards either.
It was much more interesting fighting on earth in halo 2 and 3. When humanity was near the end and you being master chief turned the tide of the war and won it for everyone. Halo 4 is like i woke up drifted onto a planet awoke a boring boss and threw him off a edge . it is nowhere near as re memorable for me.
> I quite like it. I thought this was my favourite campaign by far, probably on equal grounds with the excitement of Halo CE. Good on 343 for finding a balance in storyline with familiar characters / plot setting for those who had read the books without alienating casuals (unlike in halo reach where that campaign storyline took a massive steaming dump on all the previously established lore, especially if you had read fall of reach).
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> The didactic was/ is a cool enemy, finally someone serious as previously all the arch villains like prophets have all been rather comical. The only thing that really bugged me at times was the AI gameplay mechanics of the promethean knights, especially on legendary. Sometimes I felt like they were bullet sponges who just stood there and absorbed everything you threw at them before teleporting away and then coming back with full shields, rinse cycle repeat.
I just found the didact so , so boring. He has no personality to him . He is just so generic . He wants to kill the human race and that feels like thats about it
> I quite like it. I thought this was my favourite campaign by far, probably on equal grounds with the excitement of Halo CE. Good on 343 for finding a balance in storyline with familiar characters / plot setting for those who had read the books without alienating casuals <mark>(unlike in halo reach where that campaign storyline took a massive steaming dump on all the previously established lore, especially if you had read fall of reach</mark>).
Not really. Bungie made it clear that Reach was a “reconstruction” of the events that were thought to have happened during the Fall of Reach, ie not the actual events. 343i are the ones who decided to make it completely canon. It still fits though, look up Nihilus Shadow’s Reach timeline, it’s great.
> <mark>The didactic was/ is a cool enemy, finally someone serious as previously all the arch villains like prophets have all been rather comical.</mark> The only thing that really bugged me at times was the AI gameplay mechanics of the promethean knights, especially on legendary. Sometimes I felt like they were bullet sponges who just stood there and absorbed everything you threw at them before teleporting away and then coming back with full shields, rinse cycle repeat.
What exactly made the Didact so great? The OP is right, in the game he is just your average generic bad guy who wants to kill all the humans.
I mostly disagree with you, I do however have mixed feeling about EVERY halo game. Halo 4 brought good story telling back, hasn’t been this good since halo2 imo. I do like to fight the flood, probably my favorite enemy to fight, you are a little to quick to judge since the flood may very likely return. And if they do, I sure hope 343 does it right, because yes the Prometheans are annoying at times, but nothing compared to those spider flood crawling needle shooting freaks in halo3. I honestly didn’t enjoy the flood to much in halo3 - the little there was of them.
Edit: and yeah also about the Didact, he is a good antagonist (I don’t think of him a ‘villain’, he thought what he was doing was the right thing), he is an interesting character when you know his background. However, we didn’t get to know much about him in the game and he was portrayed very poorly. So yeah it is understandable why many don’t find his interesting. If we would have got to see another side of him, like we did with the prophets, it would have been so much better. Because imagine if we didn’t get to see the prophets and covenants side of the story (particularly in halo2), don’t you think we would have also seen them as “villains” that want to “kill all humnity just cause”?
The Didact has been fighting for over ten thousand years including a war with ancient humanity that killed all 12(?) of his children with the Librarian. Being left on the Flood infested planet by Faber unhinged the Didact ever so slightly. He became obsessed about fighting and destroying the flood at any cost.
To him humanities final payment for their “crimes” against the Mantle and the Forerunners would be the loss of biological form. With billions of soldiers the Didact would at last defeat an enemy he could not beat before and prove the Forerunners right to rule the galaxy.
The Didact as a lot of depth as do many of the named Forerunners including their vast array of genetic diversity (which was also supposedly their greatest weakness). Bornstellars father was what 5 meters tall and deep skinned. His mother was 3 meters tall and had violet hued skin. All Manipulars looked alike regardless of family caste until their first mutation.
The story is also about reclaiming what was lost after the war with the Forerunners. Humanity use to be a tier 1 society only slightly behind the Forerunners. In those ancient days it was humanity being tested by the Precursors with the Flood to hold the Mantle. But the Forerunners refused to let that go. And now the cycle is continuing until it can be finally stopped. Which hinges on the plans of both the Librarian and Halsey.
> The Didact has been fighting for over ten thousand years including a war with ancient humanity that killed all 12(?) of his children with the Librarian. Being left on the Flood infested planet by Faber unhinged the Didact ever so slightly. He became obsessed about fighting and destroying the flood at any cost.
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> To him humanities final payment for their “crimes” against the Mantle and the Forerunners would be the loss of biological form. With billions of soldiers the Didact would at last defeat an enemy he could not beat before and prove the Forerunners right to rule the galaxy.
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> The Didact as a lot of depth as do many of the named Forerunners including their vast array of genetic diversity (which was also supposedly their greatest weakness). Bornstellars father was what 5 meters tall and deep skinned. His mother was 3 meters tall and had violet hued skin. All Manipulars looked alike regardless of family caste until their first mutation.
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> The story is also about reclaiming what was lost after the war with the Forerunners. Humanity use to be a tier 1 society only slightly behind the Forerunners. In those ancient days it was humanity being tested by the Precursors with the Flood to hold the Mantle. But the Forerunners refused to let that go. And now the cycle is continuing until it can be finally stopped. Which hinges on the plans of both the Librarian and Halsey.
Shame most of that was never mentioned in-game, otherwise the Didact may have been a good character.
All of the new things they added in Halo 4 just don’t feel organic to the series. It all feels very forced and unnatural.
After playing Halo 4 I can’t say I’m looking forward to the new trilogy. I don’t have high expectations for Halo 5. My only hope is that it is less like Halo 4 and more like Halo CE-3. I used to be solely a console gamer because Halo was the only thing I needed but after the let down of Halo 4 I’ve slowly moved towards PC gaming. I hope Halo 5 can draw me back.
Think of it like this. This new trilogy’s story, unlike the original trilogy’s story, is planned as one big story. Think of Halo 4 as the first act of a movie. Each game has a specific target to build on. This game was Cortana. I presume 5 will be Chief. And then finally the Didact. There is actually a LOT more to the Didact than what’s in the game, I just believe that 343 want to build his character further throughout the trilogy instead of revealing everything about him at the very beginning.