It's been over two months since Halo 4 has come out and the more I think about it, the more I think the story is completely unnecessary, along with the actual tale being told, being completely and utterly awful.
Everything felt forced.
You get Chief talking, which was a nice change, really. But his dialogue is crap. There's no badass quotes just self-pity. 'She said that to me once' The whole, I can't do this without you shiz. He's become too clingy to Cortana. It just feels off. While there are some, admittedly, touching scenes, it still comes across as WTF.
Then you have terrible characters like Palmer and Del Rio. Del Rio has no other traits besides being an unlikable jackass for no apparent reason. "Arrest that man!" Yeah....okay, dude. Palmer is....well...Palmer. There really needs no explanation.
The Didact as a whole. The game NEVER explains what or who he is, outside of vague sentences, that you'd need to read the Forerunner trilogy to even remotely understand the context of which. Just an awful villain. Back in the Halo trilogy, you got a sense of awe and mystery with the Forerunners...now...they're just laughable of what they used to be. I honestly think we were better off not going into AS much detail about them. But that's just me, personally.
Lasky wasn't given the justice he was due. Forward Unto Dawn set him up as a terrific character, but all of it's underutilized in Halo 4. He's basically Del Rio if he were a reasonable and likable character. Nothing else about him stands out.
To paraphrase another user "Bungie had a story to tell with the trilogy and ended well enough. Halo 4 basically just forced expanded the universe and it feels extremely unnatural, inorganic, and completely unnecessary outside of the excuse making more games to for money purposes."
The game turned me off from Halo's storyline, because it can only go downhill from here, unless they retcon the shit out of it (like usual, but that's a rant for another time).
Until 343 proves otherwise, Halo is dead to me.
Everything felt forced.
You get Chief talking, which was a nice change, really. But his dialogue is crap. There's no badass quotes just self-pity. 'She said that to me once' The whole, I can't do this without you shiz. He's become too clingy to Cortana. It just feels off. While there are some, admittedly, touching scenes, it still comes across as WTF.
Then you have terrible characters like Palmer and Del Rio. Del Rio has no other traits besides being an unlikable jackass for no apparent reason. "Arrest that man!" Yeah....okay, dude. Palmer is....well...Palmer. There really needs no explanation.
The Didact as a whole. The game NEVER explains what or who he is, outside of vague sentences, that you'd need to read the Forerunner trilogy to even remotely understand the context of which. Just an awful villain. Back in the Halo trilogy, you got a sense of awe and mystery with the Forerunners...now...they're just laughable of what they used to be. I honestly think we were better off not going into AS much detail about them. But that's just me, personally.
Lasky wasn't given the justice he was due. Forward Unto Dawn set him up as a terrific character, but all of it's underutilized in Halo 4. He's basically Del Rio if he were a reasonable and likable character. Nothing else about him stands out.
To paraphrase another user "Bungie had a story to tell with the trilogy and ended well enough. Halo 4 basically just forced expanded the universe and it feels extremely unnatural, inorganic, and completely unnecessary outside of the excuse making more games to for money purposes."
The game turned me off from Halo's storyline, because it can only go downhill from here, unless they retcon the shit out of it (like usual, but that's a rant for another time).
Until 343 proves otherwise, Halo is dead to me.
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