lol... (Gaming)

by Quirel, Thursday, November 26, 2015, 03:56 (3285 days ago) @ Ragashingo

The game was pretty but the Didact was a different character than the complex, conflicted military general I expected. And his motive, destroying Himanity to stop the already defeated Flood, made zero sense. Cortana's death kinda happened off screen... during a cutscene... right after 343i made me nuke the Chief (which for that short instant before I hit RB felt significant and gutsy)... and they decided Halsey should be seen as evil... and they went from Spartans being individuals who always did the right thing and had the best technology and armor that only they could use and could singlehandedly save the world to Spartans being random unruly former ODSTs with a new generation of armor that magically solved all the problems and in true Incredibles fashion made everyone special, thus making no one special.

I think someone on HBO put it best.
343i: "We love Halo. Just not the Halo you love."

As a result, I did not buy the last Forerunner book, did not buy any of the other newer books, and still have not bought Halo 5.

Buy Last Light. Speaking as a Halo fan who can't stand 343i's direction, Last Light does everything right.

And it's heartbreaking to not be playing a new Halo game. It feels wrong to be waiting for a price drop. And I don't know if my first and favorite video game franchise will ever appeal to me again. :(

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