By Ragnarok Flames Go To PostGame that is the first in a series ... To a game that is 5th in a seriesThis is true, but there was nothing in the Destiny story that kept me going. Whereas around mission 7 I just wanted to keep going till I finished to find out what would happen next.
Well, yeah.
I did the same thing. I was just more or less disappointed with everything that didn't have to do with Cortana, and Arbs to a degree.
I did the same thing. I was just more or less disappointed with everything that didn't have to do with Cortana, and Arbs to a degree.
I think disappointed sums it up pretty nicely, but not because of a poor story.
The hype campaign laid the foundation for something completely different.
The hype campaign laid the foundation for something completely different.
By Ragnarok Flames Go To PostGame that is the first in a series ... To a game that is 5th in a series
From a company that made 4 original Halo games, to a company that's made 2 original games. See? I can play this game too.
By Dark PhaZe Go To Postweren't we told from the beginning that John was the only active Spartan and out of nowhere they introduce three original spartan 2's
like, how does that happen the way it does--expecting such a large fanbase to read books? its didack all over again
Blue Team has been around for many years- they just haven't appeared in any of the games. There were also many other Spartans, ranging from S-II's to S-III's. Bungie had extended universe novels to set all of that context up. These presented the universe surrounding Combat Evolved:
Contact Harvest
The Cole Protocol
The Fall of Reach
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
343 then continued that vein of the EU with:
Glasslands
The Thursday War
Mortal Dictata
Last Light
A lot of what Halo 4 and 5 are about, and also part of what Combat Evolved was about, are deeply examined and explained in:
Cryptum
Primordium
Silentium
There's a handful more of novels that range in various time periods or focus on smaller tales with lesser known or newer characters also. There's also comics and short films and other various media bits. Halo's universe is massive and the games are only a piece of it. That's not a 343 Industries thing.. That's how it was under Bungie as well. 343, however, ties all of the pieces together a whole lot better.
I don't think 343 does. Bungie was still putting out complete start-end stories that didn't rely on that amount of context
hell, in reach when i lost a fireteam member i was like FUCK
if someone from blue or osiris got hit i don't even know if i'd read the subtitles.
hell, in reach when i lost a fireteam member i was like FUCK
if someone from blue or osiris got hit i don't even know if i'd read the subtitles.
By Wesley S Shark Go To PostBlue Team has been around for many years- they just haven't appeared in any of the games. There were also many other Spartans, ranging from S-II's to S-III's. Bungie had extended universe novels to set all of that context up. These presented the universe surrounding Combat Evolved:
Contact Harvest
The Cole Protocol
The Fall of Reach
First Strike
Ghosts of Onyx
343 then continued that vein of the EU with:
Glasslands
The Thursday War
Mortal Dictata
Last Light
A lot of what Halo 4 and 5 are about, and also part of what Combat Evolved was about, are deeply examined and explained in:
Cryptum
Primordium
Silentium
There's a handful more of novels that range in various time periods or focus on smaller tales with lesser known or newer characters also. There's also comics and short films and other various media bits. Halo's universe is massive and the games are only a piece of it. That's not a 343 Industries thing.. That's how it was under Bungie as well. 343, however, ties all of the pieces together a whole lot better.
nice writeup...I actually did read fall of reach, first strike, and ghosts of onyx, so I understood that Kelly et al were around, but I still expected ORIGINAL spartans in Halo 5 alongside the chief to be given the full weight that it truly deserved
By Dark PhaZe Go To Postnice writeup...I actually did read fall of reach, first strike, and ghosts of onyx, so I understood that Kelly et al were around, but I still expected ORIGINAL spartans in Halo 5 alongside the chief to be given the full weight that it truly deserved
My initial complaint with the campaign was that the first few missions felt disjointed and out of context. After playing through the campaign a second time, I find that that it's only the second mission that was giving me the disjointed feeling.
Blue Team is a welcome addition to the games, but they really could have used a proper introduction for folks who didn't even know there were other Spartans that Chief grew up with, or that didn't read Halo Escalation and how Blue Team was already reunited with Chief.
What the campaign is missing are Terminals. They could have used Terminals as a way to introduce blue team. The Intel stuff presents a nice bit of context but I feel like a handful of terminals that presented animated clips like in HCEA, H2A and H4 would have fixed that disjointedness.
*Edit*
I suppose that the Fall of Reach Animated Series is where the terminals went, now that I think about it hah.
By DY_nasty Go To Posthell, in reach when i lost a fireteam member i was like FUCK.
I was legit bored.
Outside of my boy Jorge the rest were cardboard cutouts.
By TheHunter Go To PostI was legit bored.Pretty much.
Outside of my boy Jorge the rest were cardboard cutouts.
I will say that Jorge's death was very well handled though. The rest were pretty much completely forgettable.
By jem Go To PostPretty much.
I will say that Jorge's death was very well handled though. The rest were pretty much completely forgettable.
I was a bit bummed by Kat's death. And Emile's. But yeah they weren't like Mass Effect levels of "oh God please no not them".
By TheHunter Go To PostI was legit bored.
Outside of my boy Jorge the rest were cardboard cutouts.
Reach was mostly a bore. Read the book... That's the better story and one that has emotional depth and weight.