Agreed. (Off-Topic)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 12:29 (2785 days ago) @ Avateur
edited by Ragashingo, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 12:50

The problems with Halo 4 and 5 were never that you couldn't continue to tell a satisfying story in the Halo universe. It's that 343 told a crappy, illogical story that:

• Changed the Didact, the greatest and most tragic hero of the Halo universe, into an brainless evil bad guy who decided to kill an entire race to fight a threat that no longer existed.
  
  (Remember when the Forerunner were a noble race who exhausted all other options then sacrificed themselves to save the rest of the galaxy?)
  
• Gave us UNSC characters like Captain Del Rio, who's solution was to yell at everything ineffectually, and Sarah Palmer who was mainly around to be a total jerk.
  
  (Remember when the UNSC personnel were effective strategists, like Captain Keyes, or actual bad asses, like Sargent Johnson with his max level plot armor?)
  
• Reintroduced the Covenant as a faction to shoot at by almost literally saying: "I thought we had a peace treaty?" followed by "Oh. I guess not."
  
  (Remember Halo 2 which at least gave a sense of the politics and conflict surrounding the exchange of hats?)
  
• And topped it all off by trying to extend the single player campaign with a series of way too short, not even half baked "missions" stitched together with the occasional short cutscenes about 4th rate "Spartans".
  
  (Remember when a single Spartan in Moljnir armor was enough to turn the tide of an engagement, and a team of Spartans could often save planets?)

343's Halo isn't bad because they revealed the mystery of the Forerunner, it's bad because they largely betrayed the principles that upheld the Halo universe. If they had kept Spartans awesome, the UNSC leadership competent, and the Forerunner noble, then I'd still be involved with the Halo universe.