> > Here’s my bunch of theories on the characters, and I hope some of these aren’t true, else it will make for a boring and obviously predictable plot:
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> > Bornstellar-Didact is a character we will experience as the leader of the Forerunner armies, the characterised face of the enemy. But we will discover that he is being manipulated by Faber, the Master Builder, who is holding the Librarian hostage, all of this happening on Requiem.
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> > Having seen concept art of UNSC forces on Requiem, we can probably assume that John will be fighting alongside the Marines and such. The motives of the Forerunners remain unclear at present: Faber harbours a dislike for humanity, and John is, in theory, trespassing. So as the UNSC forces fight for their survival, Faber recognises John as an iconic leader for them. As such, he sends Bornstellar-Didact to get rid of him. John fights through the Forerunner ship and, in whatever order, crashes the ship on one of the Halo rings and/or convinces Bornstellar-Didact that the UNSC can help him. Stranded on a ring (again), the pair fight off whatever hostile forces present themselves, perhaps rogue Covenant and/or more of Faber’s forces, and maybe BD goes looking for transport.
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> > Escaping, the pair find the Infinity, which Chakas Spark has hijacked in his search for the Librarian, and head towards Requiem to free the Librarian. At the last moment, Faber flees, and tells them all they are doomed.
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> > He will return in Halo 5, and he’s bringing the Precursors with him.
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> > In theory. And, as I said, if that is the plot, snore. I mean, it’s ok from what I know of the story, but there’s bound to be so many things of which we don’t know yet.
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> > Hell, that completely ignores Cortana’s fate, and, besides from ordering John into a deep, dark facility to be overwhelmed by enemies, and laughing (like in [the level] Cortana, not like an absurd maniac), before coming to her senses and helping him out, I don’t know what can be done. I just hope they don’t find some deus ex machina to cure all her ills. That would be cheap.
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> Yeah that would suck incredibly bad…but unfortunately I have a feeling this is what is going to happen, or something similar to it anyway. I just don;'t think 343 can match the creative potential that Bungie had, they were master storytellers of Halo and it was because Halo was their game, which then stolen by Microsoft and given to amateurs. I’m sorry, Halo fans, but it seems like this is the end.
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> Unless they are really and truly serious about developing the Master Chief character, then there may actually be hope. If they choose not to show his humanity and continue on with the immortal superhero stereotrope then the Halo series is really and truly doomed.
You do realise that a lot of 343 emploees are ex-Bungie? The Halo series hasn’t been handed to ameteurs, in fact, from what I’m hearing, and from what I’ve read and seen in 343’s extended universe (Legends, Cryptum, Primordium, Glasslands) they’re actually SUPERIOR to Bungie when it comes to story telling, and the small amounts of gameplay that I’ve seen indicate they’ve retained the true Halo experience that was absent in Bungie’s last, woeful game, Halo Reach, and hence match them in the gameplay department.
You can hardly call Bungie “master storytellers”, the extended universe was, under Bungie’s direction, poorly written and rushed, and felt like it had been written half–Yoinked!-. Under 343, two quality writers, writers who have actually won awards for their writing outside of the Halo universe, have delivered three excellent books which could be used to even get non-Gamers into the Halo series. Greg Bear is really good at description, and his characters are interesting and they feel real, unlike stereotypical military figure #134246 present in Bungie’s stewardship of Halo, and Glassland’s writer is nearly as good.
I know these are not Bungie or 343 employees, but as Frankie is the overarching Franhise director, it suggest that 343 know what they’re doing. When relating to 343 themselves, the terminals suggest they’re actually quite good writers - I felt really sorry for Captain Keyes in Terminal #9, much more so that when Bungie wrote for him, which made him just another cardboard cutout. Bungie are very good at creating universes, after all, Halo is iconic and interesting, but when it comes to characters, and storytelling, they’re poor. The only game they’ve made character I cared about was ODST - let’s be fair, Reach, albeit being similar, was terrible, no character was fleshed out. What 343 has presented, in my opinion, is saving the Halo franchise, they’re introducing a story-quality that, if in keeping with their limited media they’ve given us recently, will revive that Halo series after the failure that was Reach.
And for your information, 343 have specifically said that they will flesh out the Chief.