…Campaign? As soon as I saw that first trailer at E3, I was so excited, but that was because my favorite game was getting another installment. Then I started to think it over. I was happy with the way the campaign of Halo 3 ended. I don’t want Master Chief to come back. If Halo 4 was about any other Spartan, I would be fine with it, but the fact that it has to be about Master Chief is so off-putting. There are plenty other Spartans (there are even Spartans already in a shield world), so making Master Chief the protagonist again, when he already had the perfect ending, is disappointing. Does anyone else feel this way, or is it just me?
I take it you didn’t read the Halo 3 Terminals, those of us who did knew it wasn’t over.
master chief is an iconic symbol to halo, it just isn’t halo without him.
the campaign is looking to be one of the few good things to the game.
Halo 3 was a good ending to the trilogy, but it left so much open for stories to build off of and continue. Now we get to learn more about the Forerunners and their shadowy past. We also get to see what becomes of Cortana and Chief with their ever growing relationship.
> I take it you didn’t read the Halo 3 Terminals, those of us who did knew it wasn’t over.
I don’t think you read the OP. I know it wasn’t over. But Master Chief was over. He didn’t have to land on that planet. Halo 4 could be about an entirely different Spartan, and it wouldn’t make the game worse.
I didn’t think there was going to be more halo’s because bungie wasn’t going to make them any more, but then 343i took it up. Personally I’m at a loss of words at the thought of another confirmed trilogy. In a good way 
The first trilogy was more focused on the Convenant and the Flood
the second trilogy is more likely to be focused on the forerunners and their secrets
> > I take it you didn’t read the Halo 3 Terminals, those of us who did knew it wasn’t over.
>
> I don’t think you read the OP. I know it wasn’t over. But <mark>Master Chief was over</mark>. He didn’t have to land on that planet. Halo 4 could be about an entirely different Spartan, and it wouldn’t make the game worse.
Master chief isn’t over, that’s why he’s in Halo 4, and probably going to be in the next couple games.
The terminals made it obvious that we would see Chief again.
> > I take it you didn’t read the Halo 3 Terminals, those of us who did knew it wasn’t over.
>
> I don’t think you read the OP. I know it wasn’t over. But Master Chief was over. He didn’t have to land on that planet. Halo 4 could be about an entirely different Spartan, and it wouldn’t make the game worse.
And I don’t think you read the last Terminal.
“And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I’m not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.”
That is the Forerunner AI Mendicant Bias telling Master Chief he is sending Master Chief to his makers as an example.
OP clearly didn’t pay attention to the story?
Halo 3 is anything but conclusive. Half a dozen plot points are left hanging, and the final mission even introduced NEW things which made Halo 4 an inevitability - the most notable one being Mendicant Bias directly telling John he’s sending him to the Forerunners.
Not only did this confirm that the Forerunners are alive at the time, it alone opens up the potential for a whole new trilogy. And judging by the way 343i are interweaving the Reclaimer Trilogy with the novels, they’re going to be treating the story with a damn sight more sophistication than Bungie did in order to make a cohesive universe with a singular vision rather than a meandering mish-mosh of random events being clumsily clumped together to make a ‘story’.
Halo 4 was always inevitable. You knew it, I knew it, even Bungie definitely knew it.
> > > I take it you didn’t read the Halo 3 Terminals, those of us who did knew it wasn’t over.
> >
> > I don’t think you read the OP. I know it wasn’t over. But Master Chief was over. He didn’t have to land on that planet. Halo 4 could be about an entirely different Spartan, and it wouldn’t make the game worse.
>
> And I don’t think you read the last Terminal.
>
> “And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I’m not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.”
>
> That is the Forerunner AI Mendicant Bias telling Master Chief he is sending Master Chief to his makers as an example.
He already was on example! He destroyed the Flood!
Nope, I’m happy to be playing as the Chief again. And also there’s what the others have said in regards to the terminals. Mmmhmm.
> > > > I take it you didn’t read the Halo 3 Terminals, those of us who did knew it wasn’t over.
> > >
> > > I don’t think you read the OP. I know it wasn’t over. But Master Chief was over. He didn’t have to land on that planet. Halo 4 could be about an entirely different Spartan, and it wouldn’t make the game worse.
> >
> > And I don’t think you read the last Terminal.
> >
> > “And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I’m not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.”
> >
> > That is the Forerunner AI Mendicant Bias telling Master Chief he is sending Master Chief to his makers as an example.
>
> He already was on example! He destroyed the Flood!
No he didn’t. The Flood is far from destroyed. Samples still exist on the other Halos and more exist outside the galaxy, you know, where they came from. Sorry dude, but as ajw34307 said above, Halo 3 was far from conclusive.
For all the talk of a a great story and how everything will be explored and everything will fit together 343 still haven’t approached the subject of the Covenant who still haven’t had a solid base in world building but are merely represented as the bad religious aliens. Sure some of the species and species interactions are partially developed but the covenant hasn’t been developed at all.
Not a gripe about halo 4 just a general gripe
> > > > > I take it you didn’t read the Halo 3 Terminals, those of us who did knew it wasn’t over.
> > > >
> > > > I don’t think you read the OP. I know it wasn’t over. But Master Chief was over. He didn’t have to land on that planet. Halo 4 could be about an entirely different Spartan, and it wouldn’t make the game worse.
> > >
> > > And I don’t think you read the last Terminal.
> > >
> > > “And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I’m not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.”
> > >
> > > That is the Forerunner AI Mendicant Bias telling Master Chief he is sending Master Chief to his makers as an example.
> >
> > He already was on example! He destroyed the Flood!
>
> No he didn’t. The Flood is far from destroyed. Samples still exist on the other Halos and more exist outside the galaxy, you know, where they came from. Sorry dude, but as ajw34307 said above, Halo 3 was far from conclusive.
Theres also a possibillity of Flood on other shield installations like the infection on the Shield world from Halo Wars, unless that one, Onyx, and Requiem are the only shield worlds in existance.
> Theres also a possibillity of Flood on other shield installations like the infection on the Shield world from Halo Wars, unless that one, Onyx, and Requiem are the only shield worlds in existance.
No Shield Worlds have Flood on them. If you look at the cutscene from Halo Wars, the wreckage of ships is on the Halo Wars shield world’s surface, the Flood invaded long ago.
> > Theres also a possibillity of Flood on other shield installations like the infection on the Shield world from Halo Wars, unless that one, Onyx, and Requiem are the only shield worlds in existance.
>
> No Shield Worlds have Flood on them. If you look at the cutscene from Halo Wars, the wreckage of ships is on the Halo Wars shield world’s surface, the Flood invaded long ago.
Never mind then. =P
> “And so here at the end of my life, I do once again betray a former master. The path ahead is fraught with peril. But I will do all I can to keep it stable - keep you safe. I’m not so foolish to think this will absolve me of my sins. One life hardly balances billions. But I would have my masters know that I have changed. And you shall be my example.”
>
> That is the Forerunner AI Mendicant Bias telling Master Chief he is sending Master Chief to his makers as an example.
That’s a very clear interpretation now, but it wasn’t like that back in 2007. We had no idea who [L] and [D] were, and no notion that the Precursors were somehow involved. What I’m saying is that things are different now, and that paragraph was viable to be interpreted as “I can’t undo what I’ve done, but I can save you. If my masters were around, this’d show them I learned from my mistakes.” The way he says “I would have my masters know” doesn’t confirm that his masters are alive, only that he wanted them to know.
But I’m generally in the positive on Halo 4’s campaign. Chief didn’t need to be the protagonist, but I’m very fine with that if 343i is true to Frankie’s word that this campaign will explore his personality a bit more. But some day Halo will have to get along without the Chief. There’s so many other characters that could be played as already, let alone what writers can come up with.
Well we learned in 2009 that Forerunners are indeed alive in the Halo: Encyclopedia.