+100 (Destiny)

by Korny , Dalton, Ga. US. Earth, Sol System, Thursday, October 29, 2015, 18:03 (3408 days ago) @ bluerunner
edited by Korny, Thursday, October 29, 2015, 18:15

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.

-99

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.

Yeah, the desire to answer every mystery (sloppily, what with English-speaking aliens that hate humanity just-because), the whole "it was prophecy that you would exist, because we programmed it", and the killing-off, then comic-book resurrection of Cortana (is that even a Spoiler, since the second level in the game mentions that in a throwaway line?)... It's just too hokey, and ruins the awesome simplicity of Halo 1, and even makes Halo 2-3 look focused and straightforward as a result...

343 basically said that they don't really care about the old fans, and then tried to lure them back with Blue team, to reportedly weak results. How has Halo 5 done sales-wise?

Honestly, I'm amazed that the Halo series has continued the way it has. After the Halo 4 population vaporized, and the MCC was the biggest trainwreck of a launch since the Sega Saturn, I'm amazed that heads didn't roll over at 343. They just kept chugging along...