- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I was never pissed off at the ending, really. Because, frankly, I didn't expect Halo 2 to be the end of the series. So now, instead of Halo 3 being a "quick! Make a new plot so we can cash in!" kind of thing, it'll be just a flat out continuation of a story that was planned to be continued from the very beginning.
Sorry, but you simply can't fit a story so large and so complex in a game that isn't primarily about story-telling... not in a 15 year game, anyway.
Halo 2's ending may have "sucked" (though I certainly don't think it did), but it's not the end of the story. You're in the middle of a good book. You're on chapter 13 of 20. You can tell by the story; by the entire game... there's so much more left to play.
You'd need another 15 hour long game just to wrap everything up.