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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: privet caboose
This is actual a very good read that sums up many of the canon errors from a different point of view. Scroll through the post until you see "Section III: Plot holes and bad writing."
Some of Aratech's arguments are good, but most of it was too colored by his feelings to actually be considered logically. And many of his arguments are flimsy and can easily be countered by anyone with half a brain-cell to call his own. He barely analyzes his so called "issues" and goes to great lengths to criticize the plot analyzing the smallest details. Of course he's going to find mistakes doing that, hell, I could do the same to something like Lord of the Rings, analyzing every single little detail is going to show up a whole lot of "mistakes".
So while he does raise a couple valid points worth thinking about, his review is far too colored by his own bias against the story, like many other people I have seen criticizing Reach, this taints what otherwise might have been a reasonable article with inflammatory, poor logic and reasoning.
I, having read that article/post, have to completely disagree with what Aratech said(for the most part).
Some of his arguments sound like somebody who didn't even look at the campaign with a clear eye. "How did they get visual feed while inside the Spire's shield? I mean, the shield blocks sensors!" When I read that, I laughed. The Spire didn't block sensors(which are completely different from communications and visual feeds running off said lines.), it was the pylon that was blown up in the begining of Tip of the Spear. When he talks about Kat's death, he mentions "Why didn't she turn on her shields?" The answer is, "She couldn't due to the glassing beam/radiation from the beam." You see three Spartans without helms in the cutscene. After putting helms on, you see NONE with shields reactivating. After the beam, they would have.
At one point he talks about ending of LNOS, and from that point on it sounded like he simply hated Spartan IIIs(Or at least Noble Team members). "Six should have handed his pack to Jorge and died there cause Spartan IIs are inferior in EVERY way to Spartan II's." He must forget to notice how Jorge didn't give Six a chance to do anything. Jorge literally went "Let me do this for Reach." *Tosses Six out of window*
Among other little details he blew to epic proportions while making me shake my head was Easter eggs. He took the MC easter egg at the end of the PoA, as CANON EVENT. He made it sound like it was the legendary ending and forces the camera to scroll over (which it doesn't.)
Like said, or tried to imply in my post, whatever good points he may have had were overwhelmed by the bad in his article. I can't even remember what logic I agreed with, and I don't feel like reading the article again 'cause it's too confrontational to enjoy.
Exactly, even if the shielding on the Spire was keeping sensors from really getting in I doubt it could stop something from coming out.
Or when he was talking about how Noble Team act like idiots in gameplay, that point is entirely in error, the gameplay AI is not canon, if that were the case then the Elites would be complete morons, because they're just about as bad as the UNSC friendlies when you fight alongside them in Halo 2 and 3. Or his complaints about Tip of the Spear, he knows nothing of military strategy, sometimes the best option is to do a Zurg Rush on the enemy position, and that's not entirely what the UNSC forces were doing, if you watch carefully you can see quite a few vehicles splitting off, not just your group, and going off to complete other objectives.
And about the Nightfall mission, Kate pulled her teams back, given the vast expanse of the "Dark Zone" her forces would not be the only recon teams out there reconning the Covenant. And not to mention we don't know what sort of things the other members of her team found, there was plenty of recon going on despite the claims made in the article.
That was the most outrageous of them all, it's a bloody easter egg! It's not something that it automatically shows you, it's something you have to find yourself, much like any of the other easter eggs in Halo, you have to find them. The only difference between this one and all the others is that it's in a cut-scene rather than in gameplay.
Given all the outrageous and ill backed up claims made, I would have to conclude that he does not really know much about military ops. Granted I don't really know much about the actual thing either, but I've read plenty of fiction detailing military engagements and what goes on to prepare for them, so I have enough knowledge to help my common sense out. Reading far too much into a story, and hyper-analyzing it will inevitably lead you to discover "faults" with it, even in something very well written like Lord of the Rings or Moby Dick, or hell even in movies like the Terminator series or Indiana Jones.