To anyone who has completed the campaign (leave if you have not, unless you want to see spoilers), how come the live action trailers and #huntthetruth and all that good stuff had absolutely nothing to do with what this game was actually about??? Unless it was just bad marketing by Microsoft, I don’t see how any of the stuff thing had anything to do with the campaign. ONI wasn’t even involved. unless its a preview for Halo 6, I don’t really know what to make of any of this stuff anymore.
Maybe it was a classic misdirection.
Make you think things were happening, but they weren’t what we expected, and the game is the truth? or maybe i’m an idiot.
(spoilery) The ENTIRE…let me say that again ENTIRE marketing campaign for this game was a PR disaster. First it was the split screen, then it was the LCE disc not being included and I could name a handful more that are still floating around. But those trailers…they are going to kill the hype faster than anything. Once people start hearing from their friends that the campaign is 80% fireteam Osiris and that Locke doesnt even once come close to the emotion displayed in those heart pumping “Chief is dead” trailers, its going to stray a lot of fans away from this one. Adding insult to injury those REQ packs are going to keep the other half away from buying it just for Warzone multiplayer. They intentionally aimed this game at the wrong demographic completely. By the Prophets, the arena rankings were trashed too. I love the game, the campaign and multiplayer in my opinion is basically on par with Reach. You know its going to end with a cliffhanger, you know there is going to be a new threat and you know that its going to have a hard time keeping up with the original trilogy. But if they misstep even on ONE aspect of Halo 6, thats the endgame for 343. The lore has been tying up the loose ends and creating new plot paths(the first half of huntthetruth is essentially a recap of Fall of Reach and Halsey returning to the story in Halo 4 made sure we really get an earful); so that “Finish the Fight” tagline on the last level really had me snickering like when the ending of Halo 2 played me hard back in the day.