The first time i ever played Halo i was in 6th grade. I remember getting stuck on the first level, trying to figure out how to crouch, to get through the doorway and running out of time because i needed to go to school. I remember the thrill of meeting Hunters for the first time and all the hours playing the campaign with friends and making them bribe me with candy, to get me to play 343 Guilty spark and the Library with them. Listen, I know i cant speak for everyone but to me and i know many more fans out there Halo became, well, more than Halo. And more than just some first person shooter. It became a story of a hero, the Master Chief. Back then it was just a fun game to play, but as Halo 2 and 3 came out, you kind of got the feeling of who you were actually playing. He wasn’t just some Spartan. No he couldn’t fly, but it felt more like playing superman rather then just some enhanced human. You were a One man army and nothing could get in your way.
Let me get to the point. Halo 5 doesn’t feel like, well, what i envision the sequel to halo 4 being. Yes i know John is in it, yes i know the halo universe is bigger than one man, yes i know Cortana is still alive. and yes i know a lot of you would argue hes more like Batman or Iron man. But my point is the feeling you get from all the other game campaigns is not there. How fun is a Superman game with 8 heroes just like Superman. And for all of you that argue the Avengers let me remind you Captain America is not the Hulk. Don’t get me wrong the idea was great. i like the story and i feel like out of all the games this is the most well rounded one out of all of them. And i will admit, if it were the first halo game i would have ever played, it would be my favorite, besides maybe halo 2. But the urgency you get from the other games isn’t there. Call me stupid if you want, but in the back of my mind, for the entire campaign, even if i didn’t know i was thinking it at the time was "Well if i don’t stop them there’s 3 more standing next to me… " That feeling of playing someone special,… well its gone. The characters are cool. I like that blue team finally made it into the games story, the hunting master chief was a great idea and cool advertisement, and Cortana becoming some form of corrupt is actually kind of cool which actually shocked me. But at the end of the day you have a superhero that saved the human race, multiple times, virtually by himself, looking like an average Joe in a fight against another spartan. I don’t know why, but i cant get that out of my head. I realize that maybe they didn’t really want Master Chief to become more than a Spartan, or at least not much more. But it happend. I used to feel like, John had to do what he did, because he was the only one that could do it and now they have me doubting the hero i grew into knowing.
Look for some reason it had alluded me of why i haven’t played it, really since beating the campaign. All the other Halo’s i played over and over again “and i cant stress the word OVER enough” but i literally have no ambition to go put my hands on that controller to beat this game again. For me Halo became John being Superman. Not John being me or you on steroids… They needed a hero, so he became one. Now they want a bunch of them and he gets lost in the crowd. I spent most of the game waiting to play Master Chief and then it was over…
And to any of you 343 Employees reading this. “if you even do read these”. I know this part may sound nerdy but Goku is a hero without Dragon Ball Z, but Dragon Ball Z would be nothing without Goku. Don’t loose your Star in the midst of a Galaxy and if you want to kill him off to diversify your game, like you have, i would rather you send him out with a bang that only he could pull off, than needing a bunch of help and making him feel like a normal spartan…