Because they was in the same game as the Master Chief and Blue team.
So blue team was a long awaited group to see in a halo game for halo fans. And the moment they appeared they were barley used and Osiris was given too much attention. So much attention that they looked like they we’re hogging the spot light and replacing Master Chief and Blue team.
Noble team, Alpha nine and the Spirit of Fire crew had their own games not set in the main series (spin offs) some of closely interlocked with Chief’s story but they kept their distance. Mabey if Osiris was used the same way they may have been liked by the fans (not that they were bad. Just used incorrectly).
Indeed. Going by OPs metric of expectation, Noble were regarded as a similar disappointment.
I still remember the initial teaser poster, and everyone trying to figure out who each of the blacked out Spartans were, based off of the books.
Blue Team, Samual, Kurt?
Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope.
Osiris had the unfortunate circumstance of being in a terrible situation. They debuted to probably the most controversial (in terms of story) halo, came in a halo where blue team came in, and were generally not very compelling.
And if they come back? I would honestly rather have blue team as I have years of history with them, It’s not that Osiris is bad though. They just debuted in a halo with like 10 significant changes that all needed backstory. Osiris was really the bottom of the barrel in terms of who should have gotten the game time.
its just like if 343 basically gave you the option of having a cupcake or your dream cake you wanted for years. Which would you choose?
Honestly they probably would have been better received if they had debuted in spartan ops.
That’s why they didn’t like Osiris. It was very much felt that people did not get to play as the Chief because of playing as Locke. Which fed into this conspiracy that they had plans to retire the character and make Locke main character. Whereas all the other teams you mention were consciously spin off games.
Also the marketing soured people as it misrepresented the “conflict” between the two.
Now, TBH, I think that was the wrong takeaway since 343 do really seem to like to push the Chief/Cortana story and see it as a core part of the narrative. I mean in Halo 5 the literal fate of the galaxy depends on this AIs love for him.
I don’t think it’s Blue Team. That’s a whole different issue.
I didn’t mind Osiris exactly, I just didn’t understand why I was playing as them during this quest to find Cortana and talk her down.
I really think they should have just called the game Halo: Guardians and been about fireteam Osiris from the get-go going on their adventures.
Then, we could have gotten an actual Halo 5 about blue team and Masterchiefs search for Cortana & the Guardians.
I’m a big fan of spinoff games for Halo and I believe they could be great as they can tell stories from across the galaxy, with another conflict going on or explain another Spartan’s backstory.
This is exactly why I still can’t consider Reach as one of the best Halo campaigns. It is a pretty good self contained story, but when it was originally announced, my imagination went straight to being able to play as Fred during the events of “The Fall of Reach” and “First Strike”. That would have been amazing, and the story could have still been similar to what we got. Starting out with 20+ spartans until it is just Fred and blue team trying to hold out.
Preach. I mean although I am a huge Spartan-III fanatic, the game that introduced them didn’t do them justice at all. It doesn’t even quell the misconceptions about the S-III program, and boy do some of those misconceptions frustrate me (maybe a topic for another time). Also I just felt the need to point out that Fred wasn’t leading or even part of Blue Team during TFoR, he was leading Red Team. I can’t remember how many Spartan-IIs survived Reach’s fall, but during the slipspace anomaly, the core roster of Blue Team + Will would be all that survived. Damn, just talking about Will makes me wish he wasn’t so courageous to take on 2 Hunters in hand to hand combat. Sadge.
The plan was to use Spartan Ops to present the spartan team in Halo 5, but 343 didn’t think the Majestic team was up to the task, so they use new Spartan and create Osiris.
Osiris should have appeared in Spartan Ops, the death of Jul Mdama would have be more coherent. They also should have only half the mission in Halo 5, it’s was non sense to let only 3 missions to blue team !
Conspiracy? No the actor that play Spartan locke said he was the new Master chief. If locke was he’s own character instead of trying to be the Master chief I think a lot more people mite of like him.
Honestly thats why I still consider halo 5tobe a chief/cortana game. Osiris is just there filling time since the covenant was already beheaded in the first level.
The main reason for Osiris failing was because of poor writing choices and blatant lying in their marketing campaign. It also didn’t help that 343 decided to put Chief in more of a support role in favor of Locke and his team.
I think its more to do with them having such poor writting, being power rangers, having to share screen time with blue team being shoehorned in ontop of the majestic and crimson teams whose story was curtailed and pushed into one of the worst comics to ever see print.
I mean people hated noble team and were super annoyed they werent red and blue teams back when the reach marketing began and many thought they lacled the time to become attatched before they died.
All in all.
Cant say i agree with this reasoning.
It also doesnt help they got dropped after one game.
And the fact you didnt even think to mention majestic shows they atbleast succeeded more than their predecessors. Despite being given both a spin off and technicslly being part of a chief title simultaneously.
And then going further into this logic the arbiter succeeded while sharing halo2s spotlight with the man in green.
So maybe osiris arent without merit even in their H5G outing.
So it seems like its safe to say the issue was the writing for the most part.
