Before we contunue: THIS POST CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS REGARDING THE GENERAL THEME AND ENDING OF HALO 5!
Man oh man, what a ride! Gotta say, after Halo 4, I came into H5 with somewhat tampered expectations regarding the campaign experience. Man was I ever wrong! The level design, sound design and soundtrack, art direction and story are all top notch!
The story, in particular, went places where I really did not expect it to go and that is mostly thanks to the fantastic marketing campaign that pulled a red herring by having us believe that our main objective is going to be to hunt down the Chief and Blue Team. Having Cortana be the main antagonist of the game is both brilliant and in line with her nature (when you take into consideration that she is, more or less, a digital clone of Dr. Halsey). After much fumbling about, the Halo series finally has a proper main antagonist!
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All in all I want to congratulate 343 on creating such a fantastic game in every single regard. If I have to rate the campaign I’d say that it sits neatly in the top 3 of the series (along with CE and Halo 3). Can’t wait to do my Legendary solo run. That…encounter…in mission 14 is gonna be one hell of a headache though. I can feel it.
I disagree. Personally I thought this was the worst campaign by far in the series of Halo. Replaying the same boss battle like 5 times? WOW so much fun. Poor character development and cutscenes that cut to black every time something good and meaningful was about to happen. I got so bored towards the end because it was clear 343 were just trying to drag it out. Disappointed is an understatement.
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> I disagree. Personally I thought this was the worst campaign by far in the series of Halo. Replaying the same boss battle like 5 times? WOW so much fun. Poor character development and cutscenes that cut to black every time something good and meaningful was about to happen. I got so bored towards the end because it was clear 343 were just trying to drag it out. Disappointed is an understatement.
First of all you are right about the boss battles. Waaaaay stupid. My first and only playthrough was solo legendary in just under 17 hours LOL.
I can understand your frustration, but most of this game is deeply rooted in the story already told in the books and while that may be unfortunate for some, it is infinitely enriching to others. This campaign is an incredible expansion of the halo universe.
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> Before we contunue: THIS POST CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS REGARDING THE GENERAL THEME AND ENDING OF HALO 5!
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> The story, in particular, went places where I really did not expect it to go and that is mostly thanks to the fantastic marketing campaign that pulled a red herring by having us believe that our main objective is going to be to hunt down the Chief and Blue Team. Having Cortana be the main antagonist of the game is both brilliant and in line with her nature (when you take into consideration that she is, more or less, a digital clone of Dr. Halsey). After much fumbling about, the Halo series finally has a proper main antagonist!
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> All in all I want to congratulate 343 on creating such a fantastic game in every single regard. If I have to rate the campaign I’d say that it sits neatly in the top 3 of the series (along with CE and Halo 3). Can’t wait to do my Legendary solo run. That…encounter…in mission 14 is gonna be one hell of a headache though. I can feel it.
I spent like 3 hours on M14 solo legendary. Not cool 343 lol, but I eventually figured out that you can kinda dance around on the ledges at the bases of the pillars and avoid both focus beams and the last warden and goes pretty smoothly
Dude this was the WORST campaign experience in the entire Halo franchise…possibly even worst than Halo 3. Even the plot was predictable and cliche…let’s take one of the series most beloved characters and make her go crazy. Oh, cool…I guess. A true rivalry between Locke and Chief would have been far more fun to play as was advertised.
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> > Before we contunue: THIS POST CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS REGARDING THE GENERAL THEME AND ENDING OF HALO 5!
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> > Man oh man, what a ride! Gotta say, after Halo 4, I came into H5 with somewhat tampered expectations regarding the campaign experience. Man was I ever wrong! The level design, sound design and soundtrack, art direction and story are all top notch!
> > The story, in particular, went places where I really did not expect it to go and that is mostly thanks to the fantastic marketing campaign that pulled a red herring by having us believe that our main objective is going to be to hunt down the Chief and Blue Team. Having Cortana be the main antagonist of the game is both brilliant and in line with her nature (when you take into consideration that she is, more or less, a digital clone of Dr. Halsey). After much fumbling about, the Halo series finally has a proper main antagonist!
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> > All in all I want to congratulate 343 on creating such a fantastic game in every single regard. If I have to rate the campaign I’d say that it sits neatly in the top 3 of the series (along with CE and Halo 3). Can’t wait to do my Legendary solo run. That…encounter…in mission 14 is gonna be one hell of a headache though. I can feel it.
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> I spent like 3 hours on M14 solo legendary. Not cool 343 lol, but I eventually figured out that you can kinda dance around on the ledges at the bases of the pillars and avoid both focus beams and the last warden and goes pretty smoothly
I just finished my solo legendary run, yikes how frustrating that was, but the warden encounter where there is 4 of them what I did was go to the area before that part and armed the whole team with incineration cannons and it helps out a huuuuuuge amount