So Cortana is the killer/mastermind wow just killed any reason

>>389241978
They REALLY fucked up with this one. I wonder how they'll write themselves out of it. Whatever happens it'll be really stupid, like Cortana fairies at the end of Halo 4.

>>389242048
Explain. You fight Cortana fairy cancer with cancer

>>389241978
Literally the best part of that shit story. It's going to be legit heartbreaking when chief has to shove a bullet up her

>caring about story in a casual peekaboo shooter

>>389242361
>forced conflict

Nah. She shoulda stayed dead.

>>389242436
Story WAS the best part.

>>389242521
No it wasn't. The best part was the open levels and aesthetics

>>389242745
And music, and universe, and characters, and tone, and atmosphere.

There will never be anything quite like it. I hope you played enough of the originals.

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>>389241978
343 doesn't have a clue. The oriignal trilogy was something of a mythological epic, a marketable space action equivalent (albeit generic) of Tolkien.

All the characters are competent military personnel regardless of their rank. But even if they outrank the chief they all give him enough respect to effectively make his own decisions.

The Covenant refer to him as the demon and the marines treat him as a demigod whenever they lay eyes on him.

He rises from cryo in the original game to save his people and he returns to it after his task id done at the end of the third game.

That's just Chief's part in what made the original games so good. The Covenant having strong religious and societal convictions and motivations added some depth to the story. Plus the racial conflict between groups like the Brutes and the Elites. Makes the enemy relatable.

The nutrilogy destroyed everything good about the original.
>EVERYBODY IS A SPACE JESUS SPARTAN NOW
>LMAO CHEEF SUCKS & IS A ROGUE AGENT
>MILITARY BEAUROCRACY LMAO
>FIGHT SPACE ROBOTS JUST BECAUSE LMAO
>LMAO I WANT TO KILL HUMANS BECAUSE HUMANS ARE SAVAGES AND GOD DOESNT EXIST MORTY
>SHITTY MEANINGLESS QUIPS EVERYWHERE (even Chief's quips carried importance and weight to them)

I swear lads, if they make another game I'll kill my wife's song. RAAAAAARRRRRGGHHHH.

>>389242983
It's one of my favourite game series. I replay them all regularly. I even enjoyed 4. not so much 5

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>>389243096
There's literally a Halo game for you

>>389243096
Humanity wanting to churn out as many chiefs as possible makes the most sense in universe after everything he achieved

>>389243586
Not even remotely close.
>levels are arenas
>no vehicles
>can't pickup enemy weapons

I don't even know why I'm arguing with you about this. THey are nothing alike, and frankly even Halo CE is better than D44M.

>>389241978
STILL the best FPS MP this generation :)

>>389243767
>tfw hate Halo 5 but can't deny that the multiplayer is literally god-tier PvP FPS

>>389243767
This is why nobody plays it anymore?

>>389243838
Let me guess, you like Overwatch as well?

>>389243885
Nobody plays it because 'gamers' have moved on to shit like overwatch. The player count doesn't reflect the quality of halo 5's arena mode at all, it's fucking mint

>>389243885
People always played for the MP and people still are...

>>389243962
It plays nothing like OW, dude

>>389243767
HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA

>>389241978
The graphics looked really shiity but I guess that is the price of 60fps on the Xbox One.

>>389244050
Name a better one :)

>>389244084
Does PS4 even have an FPS that runs at 60?

>>389243962
The fuck?

>>389244090
R6 Siege, Battlefield 1, soon Quake Champions

>>389244181
lol nope

>>389244145
Doom
Also it shits on Halo 5 graphics

>>389244145
It's not like it's something they can't do. They would just have to make the game look like shit and use dynamic resolution like Halo 5.

I like Halo as much as the next guy, but does this irrelevant series need a thread up at all times?

>>389244218
Living in denial, I see

>>389244147
both are shit tier meme games

>>389244232
Doom isn't MP and the PC shits all over the PS4 in terms of grafics

>>389244253
Nice bait

>>389244434
>Doom isn't MP
It is

>>389244446
Halo's time has come and gone a long time ago. No matter how much you scream and cry about 343, nobody would care if they returned to form.

>>389244434
Not really, I own the PC and PS4 versions and while it's without a doubt better on PC at max settings on my 1080Ti, the console port of DOOM is pretty impressive in my opinion. I only played the demo on Xbox One but that version also looks surprisingly good, definitely better looking than Halo 5.

CoD is 60fps on PS4 and Xbox One, Battlefield tries to be 60fps but it's not really.

>>389244497
I would

>>389244497
>>389244573
I would also care even though I disliked Halo 4 and hated Halo 5. Need a reason to keep my Xbone.

>>389244541
It was also released two years after halo 5

>>389244573
You and the 14 other autists who can't let go of the game they played every afternoon when they came home from middle school.

>>389244487
it "is"

>>389244497
That's okay Halo5 is the best game in the series

>>389244629
Doom 4? It came out like 8 months after Halo 5.

>>389244629
No, it was released 7 months after Halo 5.

October 27, 2015
May 13, 2016

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Halo 3 doesn't get enough love, honest to god.

>>389244629
Actually, 6,5 months

>>389244541
oh graphics only matter when it helps your argument i guess.....

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Why did they want people to hate master chief so bad?

>>389244706
It's not. It's certainly not as bad as the other sprint games, but it's still not "great" or "the best". Nobody plays it, and the game is far too sterile, with far too much board-approve "fun".

>>389244713
>>389244719
>>389244759
My bad

>>389244787
nope

>>389244497
>nobody would care
>about a Halo from the glory days
My guy, what ARE you smoking?

>>389244770
Making the protagonist the bad guy is the first sign of a creative team running out of ideas. It happened to Fast and Furious after 7 movies.

>>389244763
I'm not saying it isn't better on the PC, it totally is. I dispute "PC shits all over the PS4" in the context of DOOM. I have a 1080Ti, the PS4 version of DOOM holds up extremely well compared to most console ports of shooters. Usually it's way worse graphics at half the framerate or less.

>>389244650
>MFW I am the autist that played Killzone 2 religiously and still can't get over its death.
>MFW people remember only Halo and CoD4 when talking about MP shooters from that generation.

>>389244826
People played Halo because it was something new and exciting. There was no other experience like it. People have moved on, and fads have changed. Why play the crazy minigames in Halo when Overwatch already has those and also has an established playerbase?

>>389244905
>the PS4 version of DOOM holds up
lol

>>389244770
Think about it, you get a hold of an IP and make a game with it, you add flavorful and deep characters to the story

but the fucking idiots only want more of the original character you didn't make. Your only option is to make them hate that character so you can represent your own characters

>>389244931
I thought everyone loved KZ2, who played it.

>>389244938
Because I want to play straight up arena

>>389245029
Halo was never a true arena game.

>>389244986
>playing for the story at all

Halo's story went off the deep end with 2

>>389245014
They did, but is was quickly forgotten, while Halo classics like 3 or Reach are still frequently brought up in discussions.

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The only interesting characters are obviously Blue Team, Thel, and Nathan Filigan. The story is absolutely retarded and Locke as a main character is an unlikable cunt. I can't even imagine how bad the 6th one will be.

That intro to the game is the most fan wank i've ever fucking seen in a halo game

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Watch him get benched in Halo 6 because literally no one liked him, despite 343 shoving him down your throat.

>tfw 3/8 levels are dedicated to chief and the rest are nig nog

>>389245081
CE was stuffed with arenas

>>389245082
The story was not bad at all. Quite enjoyable, but I'm not saying it's a masterpiece

>>389244938
>Literally an UT clone with much worse and slower movement with added vehicles
>Something new

>>389245142
Along with slow movement, regenerating health, and spawning you with the best weapon in the game.

>>389244938
OW has garbage shooting mechanics, Halo 5 feels much more like a true arena shooter requiring more skill without any of that MOBA meta game bullshit

>>389245183
no

>>389245184
Mostly talking about the community, not the actual game. It was the first time you could come from PvP multiplayer, and then invite your whole recent player list to play whatever minigame someone came up with. And while the map/mode customization wasn't all that new, it had the party system backing it up.

>>389245124
>Making nigger main protag unironically (unlike GTA:SA where it was ironic and shit)
>Muh sales! Muh playerbase!

>>389245230
>OW has garbage shooting mechanics
>compared to the shooter that adjusted your camera sensitivity on the fly based on your ping to the server, and didn't get fixed until over a year after launch

>>389245302
Somewhat

>>389245410
still better than OW

>>389245332
True on this. I didn't like the game (was a PC Quake 3 tryhard at the time) but its network features were ace.

>>389245230
Out of console arena MP shooters, I think D44M post 6.66 update is better.

>>389245504
It's really not. But it doesn't matter, the game you like has fuck all population while everybody else plays the game you don't like.

>>389245653
too slow and nothing like Warzone

>>389245687
millions of flies etc.

>>389245692
Just stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL1_ht1EdAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qfx9eoB-88

>>389244963
It does hold up well for being on a shitty ass console. What video card to you play DOOM with?

>>389245692
Except Doom is faster

>>389243594
sure, if it were more than 4 years after a war that nearly made humanity extinct. One of my biggest issues is that humanity should still be recovering, not at the top of the food chain at this point in time.

>>389245827
Only when you're walking forward.

>>389245827
nope

>>389245886
Yea that's a big part of why the story is so shit.

The infinity shouldn't exist yet, and if they were somehow creating it while still getting SLAUGHTERED during the covenant war, then it's a huge misallocation of resources.

>>389245787
>getting upset with H5 marketing after the shit they pulled with 2

just stop

>>389245893
>>389245958
Doom is a faster game, get over it

>>389246176
Faster than a snail isn't too impressive.

>>389246176
It really isn't

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>Atriox has the Foundry
>Cortana has the Guardians
>Atriox actually fought off the covenant and owns a massive string of Covenant rebels
>Cortana is going to take the foundry back with John

I'm pretty hype for Halo 6. Halo 5 had it's flaws, but Halo Wars 2 setup for an epic sequel.

>>389246360
what the fuck was the whole point of the AI having an aneurysm in-cutscene near the end of halo wars 2? looked fucking stupid.

And them changing Cutter's VA was depressing

>>389245787
That second video, god dammit

>>389246360
Halo Wars 2 isn't going to tie into Halo 6. They learned their lesson with 5 and how they expected people to engage in a shit ton of multimedia shit to understand the basic story. They would never expect people to play Halo Wars 2. Most Halo fans didn't and have no intention to. It'll just be a continuation of 5's shit direction.

>Halo 5 had it's flaws

It's one of the worst big AAA games of this gen.

>>389245387
how was it ironic in GTA:SA?

>>389246648
>It's one of the worst big AAA games of this gen.

best MP tho

>>389246257
It is

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>>389246648

Your probably right sadly. I really like Atriox and friends as villians. O well.

>It's one of the worst big AAA games of this gen.

Really dude? Man Halo fans are so hard on the franchise.

>>389246782
lol

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This is the man who killed Halo. Say something about him.

>>389246960
by making the best MP?

>>389246807
>Really dude? Man Halo fans are so hard on the franchise.
Not him but I think that's a pretty fair statement given how bad it is compared to Halo 1-3. Even Gears 4 managed to do its franchise justice compared to Halo 5.

>>389246748
Genuinely liked Destiny's better. I think 5 is mechanically tight, but maps are really bland and they have too many weapons that just simulate other existing weapons. Promethean were a mistake. I'm also pissed off that they added so many things in late. Did they not add the grunt Mech and Promethean Banshee clone like a year later? They didn't take any risks with Halo, despite changing everything.

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>>389243096
>space action equivalent of Tolkien

that's enought of /v/ for me today

>>389246807
Sure the MP is good. But the Campaign/Story is horrendous

>>389247098
Destiny's slow as shit and H5's DLC was free and more substantial

>>389247112
sounds like halo

>>389241978
>He doesn't know
H5 Cortana isn't Cortana, it's Warden Eternal taking what was left of her off the Didact's planet glasser and jury rigging it with Forerunner tech to fit the requirements for him to not be stuck on a shield world forever.
Unfortunately for him, both Cortana's knowledge of Forerunner tech and some semblance of a connection with MC stayed intact, but it also ramped up the Halsey part of her, hence her going crazy for a white peace.
>>389246435
The whole thing with Not!Serina was likely to show some kind of rampancy onset, setting up an eventual conflict of interests with Cortana. Jerome cock will keep her sane though.

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>>389243096
>LMAO I WANT TO KILL HUMANS BECAUSE HUMANS ARE SAVAGES AND GOD DOESNT EXIST MORTY

>>389247280
Halo 1-3 had a serviceable story, with 1 being great and self contained. Halo 4-5 was unbearable to watch

>>389247219
>Destiny's slow as shit
Idk, it didn't seem slow to me. I actually find the pace to be very similar to Halo 5.

>>389247338
halo CE had a good story, Halo 2 ruined it

>>389247406
>I actually find the pace to be very similar to Halo 5.
are you retarded?

>>389247219
Halo 5's DLC was pizza skins and shit rehashes of existing maps.

>>389247330
But she doesn't want to kill them all. She wants to force a peace so they upgrade their tech to Forerunner level stuff.
>>389247552
Maps are free though.

>>389247552
It was new maps, game modes, customs browser, Forge etc

Destiny got some new shit, but it was all locked behind a paywall bigger than the game itself what a joke

>>389243594
I agree, therefore don't make games set after the war. There was so much more 343 could've explored, but instead they went with DUDE CHEEF LMAO

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>>389247008
>by making the best MP?

>any MP after 3
>best

>>389247589
Who cares if they're free if they suck?

>>389247531
They both have fast engagements with relatively quick TTK, but also have periods of lull where you're navigating around the map looking of enemies. They are very similar. Even map size range are about the same.

>>389247735
>fast engagements

lol not destiny

>>389244145
Titanfall 2

>>389247674
They did try, with Spartan Ops, Spartan Assault, and part of 5. The issue is that too many fans hump MC's leg, so those attempts didn't sell nearly as well as lel Chief's Epic Adventure. At least they brought in Blue Team, and might be bringing in Red Team too.

>>389243767
DUDE BOOST EVERYWHERE LOL

DUDE WE ADDED ALL OF THESE ANNOYING SPARTAN ABILITIES FOR NO REASON LO

DUDE WHO CARES ABOUT THE HALO FORMULA LOL

>>389248037
Define the "Halo formula".

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>>389248037
Hello I'm the ability that killed Halo multiplayer forever.

>>389248037
yeah they improved the formula

>>389247784
idk dude, Destiny can be just as fast and slow as Halo 5.

>>389244835
>first sign of a creative team running out of ideas
>happened to Fast and Furious after 7 movies
???

>>389248115
I fucking loved Armour Lock in Reach

>>389248139
not really

>>389247110
I added an exclaimer for a reason. That being said there's a lot of implicit and explicit religious themes in the game.

>>389244931
>tfw I'm also that autist
>KZ2 is just one of many amazing games I'll never again play online
Fuck

>>389248201
In any case, Destiny 2 comes out like in 2 days and they may have tweaked the multiplayer to make it faster or slower.

>>389248318
not if the beta is anything to go by

>>389248026
I think the problem with Spartan Assault is that it was a shitty mobile game

>>389246648
>It's one of the worst big AAA games of this gen.
Come on now I hate Halo 5 but this gen had so many garbo AAA games like Mass Effect, Mafia 3, Order 1886, Ryse. Halo 5 isn't even the running

>>389248737
Single Player-wise and writing wise, it's worse than all of those. Only Forge and multiplayer hold it up. but the game didn't even launch with forge/fileshare and the multiplayer was thin at launch with a very bad selection maps.

>>389246473
>>389245787
The second video is extraoridnaly cherrypicked and you could easily make the same thing, just making 343i look good and bungie bad

Every halo game and console shooter in the past 15 years has aim assist and bullet mangtism like in the first video.

>>389246648
>They learned their lesson with 5 and how they expected people to engage in a shit ton of multimedia shit to understand the basic story

People keep saying this with HUR YOU NEED TO READ THE BOOKS TO UNDERSTAND THE GAMES, but it's a load of horseshit. Halo 4 explaines WAY more about itself and the stuff it introduces then the bungie games. In Halo 4 alone, it explains

>What requim is for
>Who the didact and librarian were
>what the promeathians are and why they exist
>what the composer is and what it's backstory is

Compare that to CE, where you were just expected to accept the covenant were bad guys and the UNSC was good with zero context. The accusation that 4 and 5 are EU or multimedia reliant is fucking absurd. It makes more sense by itself then the older titles ever did, even if you aren't paying a ton of attention and skip every cutscene and terminal it's still just as evident who the good and bad guys were as in CE.

And I think 4's story is fucking dogshit, but "multimedia reliance" isn't one of it's problems. Fuck 343 for giving into people saying and and now wanting to dumb down the stories to appease them, not that they were doing a good job with 4 and 5's stories to begin with

>>389248026
And people here and elsewhere are defending it as if sticking to the cheif foreever is going to be a good thing

>>389248037
Halo 5 has even starts, vertical maps with a focus on platforming, and weapons and powerups on maps. That's the halo and arena shooter formula. The new abilities work well with that.

>>389248865
Halo always had bad writing

>>389248737
>Mass Effect, Mafia 3, Order 1886, Ryse.
But only Mass Effect actually came from a franchise with any pedigree. The Order was definitely a huge flop but the developer had never made anything and Ryse was a Crytek game with Kinect integration, of course it was shit.

>>389248937
>Compare that to CE, where you were just expected to accept the covenant were bad guys and the UNSC was good with zero context.
Except if you didn't read the manual. Not that it matters. Aliens are trying to kill fleeing people, what more context do you really need?

>>389248865
>Halo 5 writing
>Worse than 'Asspull escape plan into asspull forced diversity into asspull rebellion plan'
Worse than Black Mafia
>Worse than WEREWOLVES, the QTE.

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>>389248937
We're not even talking about the same thing here. You literaly needed to listen to podcasts and watch a shitty Live Action movie to understand who your new protagonist is and what the fuck is even going on. Halo 4 is also continued in a fucking comic and Halo 5 leads off with the ending of the comic.

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honestly after seeing this image i lost any and all interest to play this game

>>389249445
it's a pretty cool image desu

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Best Boy (Multiple) in Halo 6 when?

>>389249568
character looks stupid as fuck

>>389249276
To add to this, the comic literally explains that the Didact is still alive after the events of 4, kills black team and then is killed AGAIN, IN THE FUCKING COMICS.

>Among the high-ranking officials in the UNSC, it was assumed the Didact had died when falling into the slipspace abyss; even though no body was ever found. In order to keep the human population at ease, they decided not to disclose to them a live Forerunner had been encountered. The attack on New Phoenix was to be blamed on Jul 'Mdama's Covenant.

>Unbeknownst to the UNSC, on July 25, 2557, the Didact ended up on Installation 03, where he was found by Team Black. Regaining consciousness, the Didact attacked the Spartans on sight, killing them and the science team nearby with his bare hands. He then came into contact with 859 Static Carillon, the keeper of the Composers and inquired how he came to Halo. When the Monitor explained that he came to the Halo in response to the service portal being opened and the ring's Monitor being unresponsive. Realizing that the portal lead to the Composer's Forge, where he could acquire additional Composers, the Didact asked to be brought there.

>The next day, Blue Team and the Master Chief were sent to search for Team Black. After finding their dead bodies, Blue Team investigates the Forerunner structure which used to hold the Composer before it was moved. While investigating the structure, they stumbled upon the Composer's Abyss, the location of all the subjects which were 'digitized' by the Composer. As soon as they entered, Static Carillon alerted the Didact to the Spartans' presence.[13]

[1/2]

>>389249797
sure

How mad were people at locke being the protag? Just found out but seems like the kinda thing people would cry about

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>>389249919
The Didact appeared before the Spartans, holding the Activation Index in his hand. The Spartans opened fire, but the Forerunner summoned an army of Prometheans to attack them. As the outnumbered Spartans fought for their lives, Static flew down to protest the Didact's continued manufacturing of Promethean Knights in direct violation of their compact. The Didact assured the Monitor that his Prometheans would be moved to Requiem soon. However, the Monitor was more concerned that he used unwilling humans to make them. The Forerunner proceeded to grab the Monitor and order him to fulfill his end of their bargain. The monitor obliged and teleported the Halo over to the Forge. The Didact then returned to the ring to affect repairs and replace the Composer, planning on firing it near Earth to wipe out humanity. The Spartans managed to follow him back, but the Didact merely swept Blue Team aside and prepared to kill them. However, the Master Chief managed to sneak up behind the Didact and stab him in the right eye. Intending to kill the troublesome Spartan once and for all, the Didact grabbed the Master Chief by the helmet, lifted him off the ground and began to squeeze.[14]

[2/3]

>>389250045
More angry that a game advertised as having him and Chief as equals mainly focused on him. Only /pol/acks were really angry about him being in the game.

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>>389250153
>Blue Team attacked the Didact, forcing him to throw John aside. The Didact easily overpowered the Spartan, knocking them all to the ground. However, before he could finish them off, the Monitor attacked him from behind and then transported him into Installation 03's control room. When he regained consciousness, the Master Chief entered and put the Index into the control panel. The Didact asked if the Master Chief intended to fire the ring just to kill him. He said he had thought of it, but didn't want to also kill all life in 25,000 light years around the ring. Instead, he had 859 Static Carillon deactivate Installation 03's fail-safes and detach a section of the Halo, which fell to the planet below, impacting the Composer's Forge and presumably destroying the five Composers stored there. John-117 was teleported to safety by Static Carillon, while the Didact was disintegrated by the over-lapping pulses released by the Composers upon their destruction. However, John later told the UNSC that he believed the Didact was only "contained", not dead.[15]

>>389250153
>>389250292
>>389249919

Wow seems like something that 4 should have ended with and would have been a cool finish to the game

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>No splitscreen
>No LAN
>No offline/local play of any kind beyond the SP campaign
>MP and co-op are online-only, will be 100% unplayable when servers are gone

Only reason I needed. Fuck MS, and fuck 343.

>>389250586
Hey Anon.
Those are already confirmed in for H6

>>389250539
Idk, I think it's actually all really poorly written. The events of Halo 4, the Escalation Comics, Jul' Mdama, Halsey, Buck, Arbiter Locke, the events of Halo 5. It's all just a giant mismanaged mess. It feels like they were just making it up as they went along.

>>389241978
Stinkles is too busy being woke about DACA to save Halo, sorry guys

Can 343 do anything right?

>Halo 4 was shit
>Halo MCC had broken and unplayable matchmaking at launch
>Halo 5 was shit

Is it time for Halo to finally die?

>>389250631
Too late, don't care, not buying an Xbone.

Much like how they walked back their E3 2013s announcements, they only promised splitscreen again because of the massive backlash they got after having removed it. I just don't trust MS at all anymore, they've squandered and pissed away what little goodwill they had left. I'm anticipating some caveat to its inclusion in Halo 6, like it'll only support two players or something, and still won't be what I actually want out of a Halo game. And I guarantee it'll have microtransactions again.

>>389251087
>they walked back their E3 2013s announcements
They did?

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>>389250713
>>389250539
It was also clear that Buck was a last minute shoehorned in addition, but what's interesting is that concept menus showed Thorne instead of Buck. They probably thought Buck fan service was better.

>>389251306
Tanaka wasn't funny enough. They needed someone to be the wise cracking funny man.

>>389251293
For the most part, yeah
>No forced Kinect despite saying it was 100% integrated and necessary
>No online check every 24 hours that locks you out of your games otherwise
>No restrictions on used games

Point being they only walked that back after the mountains of backlash they got in response. They were more than willing to shove their platform out with all that bullshit intact, so MS can fuck themselves. The fact that they even TRIED that shit is immensely troubling, to say the least. So I'm not applauding or giving kudos to 343 and MS for putting something back into Halo that should never have been taken out in the first place.

>>389248937
>People keep saying this with HUR YOU NEED TO READ THE BOOKS TO UNDERSTAND THE GAMES
You absolutely do not need to read Traviss books to understand Halo lore. In fact, you'd understand more without reading them.

>>389250713

They were likely doing it with the impression that the series was larger than what it really was and assumed tons of people would keep up

>>389251547
It doesn't really matter. The whole team chemistry was off and they barely even had any significant character moments to make you like them. I guess Vale talking Sangheli with Elites was cool but that's about the extent of layered characterization you get. It's pretty obvious that Arbiter and Buck were purely in the game for fan service and nostalgia pandering. I'm glad in the end it bit them back in the ass. They really are shameless hacks, those 343 people.

>>389251871
Even Vale knowing how to speak Dino was handwaved away in a single line while you're in combat.

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HW2 is the best Halo game in the past decade, prove me wrong.

>>389252254
Halo 5 exists

>>389252348
Unfortunately it's bundled with a mediocre campaign that drags it down but nice try.

>>389249134
The manual game some context but Halo 4 still gives more by itself in game

> Not that it matters. Aliens are trying to kill fleeing people, what more context do you really need?

I agree, which is yet another reason why people saying 4 and 5 are too hard to understand without the books are fucking retarded

>>389249276
>ou literaly needed to listen to podcasts and watch a shitty Live Action movie to understand who your new protagonist is and what the fuck is even going on

No, you fucking dont. CE works fine even if you didn't read the manual. You don't NEED to listen to any of the podcasts or watch the movie or read the comics to understand it. Did you even fucking read the post you are replying to?

4 and 5 still work on the "you are a fucking supersolider and those guys are evil, go shoot them" level that The OT games did.

>>389241978
they ruined her face, cortana died with 3

GUYS.

Remember when the Forerunners led the Precursors to extinction around 10 million years ago because they got butthurt the Precursors didn't chose them as part of the BFF club and in retaliation the Precursors became sentient dust that somehow got corrupted and became the Flood?

Neither do I and shit makes no sense.

>>389241978
>playing Halo after Bungie left

>>389251047
Halo was over after 3 dude, since then this has all been a walking corpse strung up by micro$oft

>>389254609
I'm afraid i can't see the issue with this.

>>389246025
The original purpose of the Infinity was to be an Ark for humanity if the Covenant won the war. Load it up with the last human resistance and flee from the Covenant.

>>389241978
343 never did what they should have done, which was make interesting spin offs.

Where's the Halo/XCOM clone?
Where's the Firefight only game?
Why is Halo Wars 2 shit?
Why is there nothing like ODST was to 3?
Why is there no Covenant game?

>>389254609
>>389256124

Elaborating on the Forerunners/Precursors was the worst move they ever could have made. Up until Halo 4 everything we know about the Forerunner was that they were a galaxy-spanning civilization that willingly chose to destroy themselves, rather than succumb to the Flood. They opted to preserve the galaxy's remaining life and reseed it after firing the Halo array, but while they could have preserved themselves as well, chose not to. They are implied to be the zenith of a collective, altruistic, nurturing species beyond comprehension of lower forms of life. Their machinery is built to maintain, their material engineering is pristine, and their architecture is so rigidly uniform as to suggest it comes to them naturally, as bees build a hive. It was even conceivable that they might not have experienced objective consciousness, despite their intelligence. And despite all this, the only thing we really knew about them, thanks to the outline of a control panel in Halo 2, was that they had 5 or 6 fingers on each hand.

Then we get the Forerunner novels, and the Didact, and it all goes to shit. The Forerunner are as flawed, petulant, and selfish as any old human, because that's all these dipshits know how to write. The Covenant races are like us because they're low beings as well: prone to wrath, lust, and greed; but the Forerunner have always been implied to be something more. Now, no longer are they an alien race beyond mortal belief: something to strive toward as a species; now they're just a depressingly grim view of life on a larger scale: still the same problems, but now their shit glows.

Like the Space-Jockeys/Engineers of the Alien series, their allure was the mystery behind them. But like all mysteries, once it's solved, it's not something you come back to. And in revealing the mystery, you risk failing to meet the expectations behind decades of thought and imagination by millions of fans. No wonder it all fell flat.

>>389243594
It makes absolutely no sense from an interesting story perspective though. The thing about playing MC was that he was unique, think about this way, in the original trilogy they spent so much energy and time hammering into the player that chief is pretty much humanities only hope. The covenant fear him, the unsc fucking admire him to the highest degree, and when chief sets to it he gets the job done. BUT HE'S THE ONLY ONE. Add more of these ridiculously overpowered walking God's and the story just doesn't make sense. At that point you would have to downgrade chief immensely like they did for Halo 5.

And what does the story show for it? Boring fucking cardboard cutouts of chief.
Really they should have just wrote into their stupid books, which should suit the games and not be self indulging circlejerks of Halo lore, they should've written

CREATING SPARTANS PRETTY MUCH IMPOSSIBLE. MASTER CHEF 1 OF A KIND MIRACLE

>>389248091
Gun. Nades. Movement (NO SPRINT THIS RUINS THE MOVEMENT ASPECT). Melee. Positioning. Weapons and equipment as map pickups.

Take all of these and you've made yourself a Halo game

>>389258461
Adding on to anon's post, sprinting in Halo and other shooters is reviled because it changes "run-and-gun" gameplay into "run-then-gun" gameplay, which can lead to major changes in level design.

Short-distance omnidirectional thrusters, however, as seen in Halo 5, aren't a bad idea, and I think should be refined in future titles. They can afford a quick-reaction evasion from incoming fire, without disabling the player's weapons, and without making major changes to level design, apart from additional trick jumps, which have always been and should remain a part of Halo.

>>389245124
People said the same thing about Arbiter after Halo 2 came out.

>>389245124
I remember the lead up to Halo 5 and Locke. I was unsure whether or not I would like the character as he was the new focus in Halo 5 and kinda seemed like he thought too much of himself, compared to the Chiefs' stoic attitude and willingness to get the job done.
And then I saw the little film they did before Halo 5 as an introduction to Locke and I came away from it thinking that he was a good character and he seemed to respect the Chief and other Spartans for what they've done for humanity and such.
But then I played Halo 5, and they completely changed his character, I was honestly disappointed in how they handled it, how could they have fucked it up so much?

>>389261083
People complained about Halo 2 in absence of Halo 3. Once it all came together, and the Arbiter got his revenge arc, I don't think anyone was upset to have had that insight into the Covenant's religious dogma and power struggles.

But the thing is, nobody likes Locke, and Locke doesn't bring anything new to the table. We don't get some profound insight from seeing things from his perspective, and there's really nothing he does that any other Spartan 4 couldn't have done. Halo 5 might actually have benefited from playing as the Arbiter half the time instead of Locke, with a team made up of half-jaw, some other member, and Locke as the resident ONI Spartan on loan. That'd be a team actually qualified to go hunting for the Chief. Instead we got four absolute jobbers.