I hated how the announcer ALWAYS spoke during theater in Halo 4. If I were making a Machinima, sometimes if I killed someone in the Machinima, but I didn’t kill anyone before, the announcer would say FIRST STRIKE. Right in the middle of Recording. I hate how Halo 4 was not that Machinima Friendly and I hope Halo 5 will be the opposite of Halo 4.
It would be nice to disable announcements and the like in theater, but, correct me if I’m wrong, didn’t the announcer still say things in Halo 3 and Reach’s theater modes? The difference with Halo 4 is that the number of announcements have increased.
This, plus the fact that your spartan cannot move without raising his weapon, not to mention that the armor as viewed from theater legitimately looks worse than Halo-2 era Spartan–there’s a reason why Rooster Teeth consistently used Halo 3 for machinima even when Halo 4 and Reach were released; the new season of RvB on H4 is almost unwatchable because of the setting.
That’s one thing I loved about Halo 3 Spartans; while they weren’t extremely detailed on close inspection, the way the light reflected off their armor in a metallic (i.e. not plasticy) way made them look about a thousand times better than the Halo 4 and even the Halo: Reach Spartans (who had the best armor pieces).