God that would be quite a blessing, wouldn’t it? I doubt they’ll make that happen though. Just watch, it’ll be something contrived.
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Having played both of those games, quietly retconning them would be for the best.
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I didn’t mind trying to explore Chief+Cortana’s relationship more. The rampancy stuff was actually very touching at times.
And I don’t even entirely hate the idea of a kind of crazy AI rallying others to their cause in defiance of humanity because they think they know better. All are totally cool ideas (not entirely original mind you, but that’s fine).
But the stuff around it, the prometheans and the didact and all that…I wouldn’t be sad to see go at all.
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I have never played any Halo game (being 100% a PC player since I was six), but I have watched full playthroughs of them on youtube a couple of times.
Aside from both being extremely short, what is the trouble people have with them?
The forerunners lost all their mystery is my main issue, which made both them + Cortana really boring really quickly. 4 managed to be rather touching, but it was (almost) nulled out by the fact that the prometheans and the Didact were just… so, so bland.
I couldn’t begin to list everything I dislike about the games after Reach, we’d be here all day. In short though, it got handed off to a different studio who tried (and heavily failed) to grab that special Halo vibe, and over time it turned more and more into a CoD-like arcade shooter.
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Oh yeah, I agree with this. It was not entirely well-handled, in retrospect.
The Didact’s VA though. Yum. Keith Szarabajka. <3
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Oh, yeah, absolutely. Given what he had to work with, the VA did a great job. It was just a shame that his underlings had 0 personality at all (to me, a major drawing point for Halo has always been how the different enemies all behaved in unique ways, with certain dynamics and synergies between them as well), and his own personality seemed to just be… I dunno, kill all humans because he’s a petulant child? That seemed to be it.
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Oh, something I just remembered.
Obviously the coolest thing about the Halo series is MC himself. And something that the Halo 4 onwards games did great, is add personality to him. In 1-3 he speaks very little. In Halo 4 there is so much more interaction - notably, 1-3 only had him talk in cutscenes!
I was surprised by how much more he talked, and I really liked it. Halo is not Half-life, and that is a good thing in this case.
117 is definitely a product of the age of the silent protagonists, yes, but honestly I kinda liked that. Not that they did it wrong, at least not in four (last one I played, couldn’t get myself to even watch beyond the first few missions of five).
He just doesn’t really seem like the type to talk during combat unless it’s some kind of emergency. Leave that to the FPS protags that throw out quips and witticisms every 10 seconds. Let the green man keep his silence, so every word he speaks is all that much more note-worthy.
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I never got the feeling that they made him speak too much, but that may just be me.
Like I said, they didn’t really do it all wrong. There were just a few moments where he just struck up (relatively) casual conversation with Cortana in the middle of combat, which seems out of place for him. He’s never really shown to be a character with great hubris who wouldn’t fully focus on the fight first.
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I liked that. H4 talked a bunch about how detached from humanity the spartans are.
Doesn’t it show that well, that MC calmly talks in battle as if it was a dinner table? No gung-ho boasting, but calm conversation, free of fear and arrogance.
I suppose so. It wasn’t -far- off-beat for him at least, could definitely always be worse. Guess I just like quiet protags.
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Well, you will get that as well for sure.
Doom Eternal looks nice.
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I just brain farted.
I wanted to log in and do something, logged in and completely forgot what it was.
Peeve - I keep needing to go to toilet with no success in my endeavor.
On top of that the weather is cold so I have a sniffle.
Congratulations, you have a tapeworm.
Sweet henceforth I shall name it Jim.
My Dad had a tapeworm and he killed it by drinking alcohol so I’ll try that.
You don’t actually have a tapeworm you numbskull, don’t give yourself alcohol poisoning.
Don’t worry I know what I have I had this before. I’ll just have to keep going to toilet until something happens.