not because they are against the humans but because the last cut-scene of halo reach is still 30 years after halo 5 and is still the farthest point in the story to this date and obviously it shows humans are powerful recolonizing the planet so it has already ruined halo 6’s tension.
Let’s be real here: humans are going to win and we really didn’t need Reach to tell us that. It’s a video game series and we’re not going to spend all this time playing multiple games just so we can lose in the end.
It’s not a spoiler. It’s just common sense.
While the tension of whether or not the Created will be triumphant is sort of gone, we still don’t know how they will fail and how Humanity will become Inheritors to the Mantle or if they even do or not. All we know is that in the end, Halsey is not killed by Locke (as “foreshadowed” in Halo 5) and that Reach is recolonized and reterraformed by presumably Humanity. However, the ship in the background shown in the Epilogue seems to be of Forerunner design. Although it also has several Ancient Human aesthetics too. So, it can be assumed for now that it’s highly possible that the Created will be defeated or something will occur to them that won’t allow them to be a higher threat, and that Humanity Inherites what was supposed to be theirs in the first place.
Unless of course the Reach ending with recolonization isn’t canon anymore.
First, a single scene at the end of Reach is not exactly definitive canon. 343 can just ignore it like Reach did to The Fall of Reach. Second, we don’t know that was human architecture, it could have been AI construction. Third, that scene was obviously made far before anyone thought of this story-line, so I wouldn’t exactly be concerned with it’s implications. Fourth, does anyone honestly think the AI’s will win? Of course not, Humanity always wins.
Most narratives have the protagonists win in the end. This will be no exception, as we won the war against the Covenant.
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> First, a single scene at the end of Reach is not exactly definitive canon. 343 can just ignore it like Reach did to The Fall of Reach. Second, we don’t know that was human architecture, it could have been AI construction. Third, that scene was obviously made far before anyone thought of this story-line, so I wouldn’t exactly be concerned with it’s implications. Fourth, does anyone honestly think the AI’s will win? Of course not, Humanity always wins.
Even if you ignore the year 2589 we still have other dates past 2558 that are canon.
The year 2559 comes from The Return.
2567, 2573, 2581, 2607, 2610 comes from the believe campaign for Halo 3 which has been confirmed as canon by 343.
2610 also is mentioned in the Halo Reach Legendary Edition content.
2608 is mentioned in the limited edition content from Halo 5.
But anyway, as everyone else has said Humanity will win. However, just because we know the end doesn’t mean we know everything that lead up to it. Halo Reach’s tagline “From the beginning, you know the end.” didn’t stop us from experiencing the games story.
I found the whole thing rather terrifying, if I’m honest. Such powerful beings turning against us - AI’s are a foe against whom Spartans really have no use. If they’re advanced enough, they could just infiltrate MJOLNIR’s systems and tear the user apart.
And who’s to say that those Reach colonists weren’t doing what they were doing beneath the gaze of their AI overlords?
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> Most narratives have the protagonists win in the end. This will be no exception, as we won the war against the Covenant.
To bad that the humans never won against the Covenant, only managed to survive. The Covenant torn itself apart, and humans was just lucky to still be around when it happend and was able to exploit it. Heck, if the survivng factions was going to cooperate they could easily defeat humanity, even with Infinity.
~ Legacy
So what you’re saying is you have been on the edge of your seat in the past because you thought the flood was going to win and humanity was going to be wiped out, and Microsoft was going to stop making Halo games. It is a video game (same for TV shows, movies, or books) even if the hero looks like he really about to die in the very beginning, I am pretty sure they will win in the end. The rebellion wasn’t going to lose after Empire, everyone just wanted to see how they would win… same here. There is suspension of disbelief, but don’t kid yourself no-one will actually end the world
except maybe Cabin in the Woods haha
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> I found the whole thing rather terrifying, if I’m honest. Such powerful beings turning against us - AI’s are a foe against whom Spartans really have no use. If they’re advanced enough, they could just infiltrate MJOLNIR’s systems and tear the user apart.
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> And who’s to say that those Reach colonists weren’t doing what they were doing beneath the gaze of their AI overlords?
To me the end of the game reminded me of Battlestar Galactica, I am interested to see where it goes from here.
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> not because they are against the humans but because the last cut-scene of halo reach is still 30 years after halo 5 and is still the farthest point in the story to this date and obviously it shows humans are powerful recolonizing the planet so it has already ruined halo 6’s tension.
They aren’t about wiping out humanity though. For all we know humans are reconplizing reach lead by the created 
But yeah as the others said. Main guy never really loses the bigger conflicts in video games.
The created will succee.
In about 10,000 years
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> Unless of course the Reach ending with recolonization isn’t canon anymore.
DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!
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> Unless of course the Reach ending with recolonization isn’t canon anymore.
I don’t think that 343 has ever made anything uncanon before. Artistic license is one thing, but they have said that everything is canon.
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> I don’t think that 343 has ever made anything uncanon before. Artistic license is one thing, but they have said that everything is canon.
Tell that to the Assembly.
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> Tell that to the Assembly.
Or a dead Cortana.
Because a single cutscene can serve as hard, 100% irrefutable evidence.
We all know humanity is going to win in the end. It’s only logical.
And as for there not being any tension? I still get chills each time I play that mission, hearing all those voices and realizing just how effective this is going to be. But again, while I know humanity is going to win, I don’t know how or when they will win, or how few humans there are going to be in the end. Because honestly, it’s like how it felt when we fought the Covenant. We knew we were going to win because we mostly play a human protagonist. That doesn’t mean we won’t be hit by a lot of things before we do so.
For all we know, the cutscene in Reach could be about how humanity lost everything else and is down to that one planet again, which just happens to be Reach. That one small area we see in it could very well end up being what remains of the UNSC, or humanity, for that matter. When they are trying to crawl out from under the ashes of whatever conflict may have driven them to such a state.
We don’t know.
Also has no buildup either.