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Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Okay so, yes H5 has been out for awhile and I just finished the game’s campaign due to the fear of being extremely disappointed. Instead, I found myself in disgust.

For H6, I’m expecting more dialogue (especially with a reunion between Chief and the Arbiter that was just casted aside), more gameplay (strictly as Chief. None of that Locke -Yoink- where we got to play as Chief oh so many times). Just please, this is just me begging for a decent Halo again. I know I sound pathetic on here, but I’ll do what I have to do to make it known how much Halo means to, not only me, but others that share the same feelings as I do.

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They have already said that Halo Infinite will be centered more around Chief so hopefully that does mean more chief missions.

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You can rest easy knowing the campaign will focus on Chief and the writer will be one with talent this time around :slight_smile:

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I actually really enjoyed the campaign of Halo 5, but that was when I worked 12 hours a day in the hot sun and could only play video games on the weekends if I was lucky. I guess you could say my expectations for a deep, meaningful story were pretty low and I just liked shooting things and seeing the cool graphics and what not. However, from the perspective of a person who takes Halo’s story a bit more seriously, I can definitely see why it disappointed them, especially after I played Halo 4’s campaign and saw how much more well written and well played out it was than Halo 5’s. It was a serious case of “sequel-itis.” That’s a word I just made up that describes situations where a sequel of something great is vastly inferior to the first installment. Hopefully Halo 6 will compensate for Halo 5’s lack of good storytelling.

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It depends what you think the story is, and can spot how to play the “Hunt The Truth” Mystery it contains in its multi-layer story, told mainly from two points of view: Locke’s and Chief’s (some of the substories follow other viewpoints). The real story is hidden by “Locke’s point of view”, and we have to work out what Master Chief finds out by “Hunting the truth” to be able to correct the errors in the “Locke viewpoint” - then we can finally see Halo 5 purely from “Master Chief’s point of view”. Suddenly, like an optical illusion seeming to switch from one image to another, the whole meaning of Halo 5 changes.

Note especially how:

  • in Halo 2, we play as “the enemy” Arbiter (who will become our friend), sent to hunt down the Heretic Leader who refuses to believe “the lies” of the San Shyuum “Prophets”.

  • in Halo 5, we play as the enemy Locke (who will become our friend), who is sent to hunt down the Heretic Leader Master Chief who refuses to believe “the lies” that “Cortana is behind the Guardians” etc.

But, as the original advertising asked: “Who is right? Locke or Chief?”

343i then give many clues and hints about the answer Chief finds in the game (making Chief the hero and star of the story, which does not require him to be the main playable character).

To sum up a bunch of clues, follow 343i’s hints by listening to the music clue at the end of this scene:

https://youtu.be/WKryvDPoJf8?t=169

Now watch the Gameplay Trailer again, noting:

(1) the opening scene of this Trailer uses the music from the Cryptum scene…

(2) at time 0.41 what images are briefly shown as Halsey says “I tried to warn you this was happening”? So, either Halsey’s warning led to Lasky sending Chief to the Argent Moon, or Halsey’s warning was given to Chief on the Argent Moon. What is “The Argent Moon Plan” and how does it fit into Halo 5?

In the end, what clues did players miss, starting onboard the Argent Moon, which will change the meaning of other missions and the whole story, including how the Cryptum scene links to the Halsey Opening of Halo 5?

“Hunt the truth in Halo 5”, but as Arbiter would say, “If only it were so easy…”

Because in the end, it turns out that is NOT Cortana in Halo 5, there is no “AI Revolution”, a hidden enemy is revealed with a sinister plot, Chief has gone “rogue”, and a whole new war has just begun - and so we can see why so much of the story had to be told from another point of view which could not be done by playing most missions as Chief and still have Chief as the Hero of the story - of course, that also helps 343i hide which direction the story is going in, ready for the big reveals in Halo Infinite… :slight_smile: