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

by kidtsunami , Atlanta, GA, Friday, October 30, 2015, 11:30 (3407 days ago) @ Xenos

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.

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 I was talking about this last night with some DBOers. I thought the Halo 5 campaign was fun, but the story just leaves me a little sad. Bungie is good at building mystery (with vanilla Destiny, maybe a little TOO good), but I feel like 343 on the other hand needs to explain almost everything. The mysteries that are left are mostly interpersonal ones, but nothing big and grand I'm dying to find out more about.

Yeah it's like we actually get stories about characters and their relationships now rather than a mystery box...