"I haven't touched Halo 5 and Destiny is to blame" (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Thursday, October 29, 2015, 16:48 (3408 days ago) @ bluerunner

I haven't touched Halo 5, but Destiny is only partially to blame. Mechanics wise, I enjoy the movement and shooting in Destiny more than I ever did in Halo. Aside from that stupid warlock jump, Destiny just feels right to me.

Halo 5 feels better in that regard than any other Halo, in my opinion. It feels grounded and less floaty, and the new movement mechanics add a lot to the core gameplay loop in a similar way that Destiny's jumps do.

The bigger issue I have is the story. For me, the Halo story ended with Halo 3. Everything after that is just fan fiction. The original games heavily implied humans=reclaimers=forerunner descendants, and that's it. All this garbage about gaias and bad guy forerunner just turned me off. The forerunner were this mysterious awe-inspiring race, and they turned them into comic book villains. I've already read the plot for Halo 5, and it left me with no desire to play it. It just sounds like it was written by someone who never seriously played the original trilogy.

I had the same reaction initially to 343i seemingly flipping the "You ARE Forerunners" quote and subsequent expansion upon the Forerunners, but they've taken in what I think is a pretty interesting direction. I guess they've managed to sway me to their side, and it makes a certain sort of sense in that they're continuing something that Bungie very obviously intended and wrote to be completely finished. I'm not sure how else they could have played it, other than sparking up another war with the Covenant for some reason and keeping that as the central antagonist.

I'm not trying to say you're wrong or convince you of anything, just offering my opinion. And also saying that even if you don't like the story, the campaign might still be worth playing for you. It was, in my opinion, definitely the tightest Halo campaign yet with arguably the best encounter and level design.