This is a ridiculous comment. (Destiny)

by TheGhostBrigade, Sunday, November 01, 2015, 16:32 (3405 days ago) @ Funkmon

That said, Halo seems like a young adult universe now. Everyone is on a first name basis and everyone does everything. There appears to be no discernible ranks in the 343 Halo universe. The forerunners are dumb. The didact is dumb. The current universe is dumb...

Yeah, don't get me wrong I have a ton of issues with the direction they've taken the story. In retrospect I think the "humans are forerunners" aspect of the Bungie era was a better plan, but the Forerunner trilogy (well, besides maybe Primordium..) are extremely interesting to me.

343 seems like they want to put out more EU content then ever before, which I love, but it also increases the amount of filler content. You get more good (Last Light) and more bad (Hunters in the Dark), whereas it used to be one turkey came out (The Cole Protocol) and that was it for a year or so.

I'm not invested in the characters, though. These are not MY characters. That is not Cortana. That isn't Halsey. In my head, they're crappy fan fiction of the characters I know. I do feel attached to the Chief. I think his complete lack of discernible personality has kept him safe from 343's sweeping universe changes.

But, again, as itself, on its own, this game is easily one of my favourites ever.

Heh, I don't necessarily feel that way. I think they nailed Halsey in this game more than in any fiction since Ghosts of Onyx, but then again such is the subjectivity of things. In a very real sense, I think that Cortana is literally not the one we know and love, not the one that sacrificed herself to save us, but intentionally (from a storytelling standpoint) a twisted version of herself being manipulated by forces she may not even understand. So Halo 6 will be The Winter Soldier, basically.

But again, I was disappointed they brought her back, and that Arbiter didn't get much screen time, so yeah, their character development still needs work.