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All this to feed 545 insatiable hunger for another halo slop.
Maybe I'm missing context on this, but halo slop?
Infinite came out 3 years ago and though they've done updates and general live service garbage there haven't been any major releases since. Halo isn't a yearly release schedule, charging full price for the same game every year like sports games, so i'm not seeing the slop...
Ever since 545 take over from Bungie, halo fans hasn't been eating good. 4 is really bad, 5 is subpar, infinite is just ok. Not to mention the spinoff and tv series.
Do you mean 343/Halo Studios or is 545 some sort of reference I'm missing?
Yes that 3 digits number.
Maybe calling them 545 is an insult?
Halo 4 was mostly good, especially the story, but they listened too closely to the complainers and scrapped the story line. They haven't been able to commit to villain. Didact? Killed off at the end of 4, and then resurrected and killed off in a comic. Jul 'Mdama? Introduced and explored in Spartan Ops and books/comics. Killed off in the beginning of Halo 5. Cortana? Resurrected/Introduced as a villain in Halo 5 and killed off between 5 and 6(Infinite). Atriox? Introduced in Halo Wars 2 "killed off" between the opening cutscene of Halo 6 and the first level. Escharum(Atriox lite), Introduced in 6 and killed off in 6. Harbinger? Introduced in 6 and killed off in 6. But wait, Atriox isn't really dead and he's totally going to come back in Halo 7 and be a long term villain. For real this time.
Agreed, I think it also hurts the games trying to even have a singular "villain" in the first place. Halo 1-3 had villainous figures, but I don't think anyone was under the belief that just killing the 3 Prophets would solve the problem of the Covenant, or that killing the Gravemind would mean that the Flood would never be a problem again. The Halo series relies on having compelling factions with clear purpose and ideology to act as antagonists in a more general sense.
The Prometheans in 4 weren't bad, but outside of the Didact, they had no real purpose or personality. They were just an obstacle. I was really looking forward to the premise of 5 with the concept of going rogue and tackling the underlying themes of fascism at the heart of the UNMC, but then it just rapidly pivoted to some other garbage with Cortana and the Guardians which led to nothing in the end anyways. And so I didn't even bother to play Infinite.
Well, the Gravemind is definitely not dead as it's mind resides in either the Domain or an adjacent dimension. Hell, the Flood aren't even sterilized from known infection locations. But like you said, the factions all have a clear purpose. Even the Flood in Halo 1, before the Gravemind was even introduced, were working towards a goal though consuming the minds of the species it encountered and fixing the Covenant ship. Hearing Cortana say that the Flood were fixing that ship was chilling. Zombies repairing an FLT capable spacecraft?!
A lot of my disappointment in 5 was how irrelevant and misleading the advertisement was. Nothing even remotely similar to this happens in the game. Hunt the Truth had so much better writing then 5 did. Let those people write a spinoff game.
For the longest time I refused to watch the Halo show because I heard that Master Chief takes off his helmet. But then I gave it a shot and it's a really really good show, and they did the adaptation solid justice.
They made changes where it (mostly) made sense and were truthful to everything else.
They set up a back story that explains how we got a John-117 in the games. Someone who is socially reserved, doesn't talk much, never takes off his helmet, and prefers to work alone. The ending of the second season was a setup for season 3 to start exactly where Halo 1 started.
The music was phenomenal, cinematography was on point, acting was great, story line was compelling.
I'm normally the person who's a stickler for not changing a story at all, but the Halo universe was originally told through a game that was more about story beats than actual literary writing. So there's a ton of room for the in-between conversations and events.
I think the show got an undeserved bad rap. If more people gave it a chance they may have actually liked it.
Halo fans got an actually decent show. Whereas Wheel of Time and Tolkien fans got the abominations of a show we got.
The reality is that Halo has never really been anything more than a mediocre fps when compared to what had already been coming out for years on PC.
The first few were really good on console. I played the first one on PC as well and there was definitely something missing with mouse and keyboard controls. The vehicles especially.
You have to remember that most FPS on consoles were pretty terrible back then (e.g. Medal of Honor series), and there was a lot of experimentation to try and find a control scheme that didn't completely suck, along with just the right amount of aim assist. Other devs were still wrestling with that into the Xbox 360 era. Sony put so much effort and money into Killzone, and it wasn't anywhere near as good as Halo.
Plus, split screen co-op made it very popular. It's one of the few games to keep that into the modern era as well.
As someone who was busy playing Battlefield 2, I beg to differ.
Halo predates BF2 by nearly four years.
Oh, then Battlefield 1942 then. People here were saying 2005 so I went with the one I knew from 2005. Also, first isn't always best, the BF games made Halo look like a school project imo
I did miss the "on consoles" part of your quote though as I was referring to playing on PC so my bad.