WARNING MAJOR SPOILERS!!! Read at your own risk.
I don’t know about you but there are somethings about the direction 343 has taken with halo that bugs me to this day and keeps on disappointing me, and I’m sure annoys many of halo fans out there. The actual lore of halo and lack of explanation as to why things look the way they do. As well as the omitting things we are lead to believe were suppose to happen.
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Halo 4. THE ARMOR! Why in the world are the Spartans wearing the EXACT same armor as Master Chief in the prologue!? Which is Mark 6 when they’re suppose to have Mark 4! And in case you missed out on the lore, it does not have shields! Speaking of Mark 6 armor, why does the armor he is wearing on the Dawn so different! Sure 343 gave a bogus explanation as to why the chief’s armor looks so different, the “Cortana” special modified armor. Ha! What a joke. Couldn’t you have just started the chief off with the original mrk 6 armor? Then he could have gotten his new armor in the infinity? But no you messed it up forever… Don’t even make me start on the armor the marines were wearing, looking more like a plushie than a soldier.Slap in the face! Do it right or just don’t do it all.
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Halo 2 THE ARMOR AGAIN! The terminals themselves were awesome. However! The things in them were poorly constructed. For one the armor Fred and Linda were wearing was wrong! They were not wearing “gen 2” armor in 2552! They were either wearing Mark 5 or Mark 6 armor gen 1! Just like Master Chief! Damn! I don’t understand why it’s so hard for them to do things accurately. All in all 343 did right by halo 2 remastered as a game, the cutscenes were AMAZING! And the remastered version was equally as awesome! I hope they remaster Halo CE in the future! They would make so much money and make us (the fans) happy, it would be a win win for the both of us.Anywho back to my rant!..
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HALO: FALL OF REACH MINI SERIES! Basically all of it! Halo fans know what I’m talking about. I mean c’ mon! Do it right! ARMOR/HALO 4 BR/DIALOGUE… The odst fight!!! Really?! For all that don’t know, read the book “The Fall of Reach”. Which actually includes “The Fall of Reach”.
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HALO 5 PREMIER/ PROPAGANDA. You mislead us 343. Seriously! Not even once was Master Chief in the desert in a cloak! NOT ONCE! There was no “HUNT” for the Chief! More like a game of tag! The Halo 2 remastered cutscenes with Locke and the Arbiter never happened either! Something that was supposed to be in the game was not in the game!
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HALO 5. The story could have been so much more. But you just give us something that’s not even believable making us think everyone in the Halo universe lacks a brain! Why would a man that saved the universe 3 times be accused of going AWOL!? Heck wouldn’t people have a little more respect for him? Instead he gets hunted? Give me a better story at least. Okay okay lets say he actual turned bad, the chase between worlds, the confrontation could have been epic! Instead we get one fist fight (which was cool) that wasn’t even what you led us to believe would happen. On top of that, 3 missions as the Chief! Are you kidding me!? If you wanted to introduce a new character, you should have given a quick looksy to Halo 2! Not take away the sole character we can dive into and play as the most awesome super soldier ever! Heck maybe if I played as Buck instead, I would have let it slide a bit. But instead you give us Locke, someone we never even asked for.
Conclusion: All things said, I still love playing halo no matter what direction it takes and will always play it until it ends or something extremely drastic happens to the story. For now I can overlook things and choose to omitt things from my psyche. The disappointments are there obviously, and I just want an actual game that follows the lore, that follows the prequels, and that is what we are led to think we are going to buy. I do want to give thanks to 343 however for keeping halo alive and going. It would have been sad and irritating for it to end with halo 3 not knowing what happened after.
Hope you enjoyed my rant!