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Cave Johnson here, we're done!
PS: If you are reading this comment while imagining my voice, don't panic. That's just a side effect of the testing.
Posted by: ThE ReD3mPti0n
see my beef isn't necessarily being able to play in large scale fights but the fact that they weren't there at all like cutscene wise or even in the background. A good example is... i think its package, where you look up and see all the banshees and falcons fight when you have to destroy the AA guns.. you know just something in the background that makes you feel like there is a war going on around you. it feels so meaningless and even the members of noble team don't really help you out in campaign, besides taking the attention away from the covies. I would want a spartan to be able to kill an elite if it was next to it not dodge and spray, and not get the kill or even significantly injure. This story was not only a let down but an unnecessary one at that.
I feel the complete opposite. It has always been my assumption after finishing reach that this was bungie showing us how outmatched humanity was. While everyone was expecting to see huge fleets fighting with covenant foes both in space, in air, and on ground, but I was expecting complete devastation. Reach showed you a frigate being blasted out of the sky in a split second, it showed you broken pieces of frigates as the tumbled through space aimlessly, wrought with tangled molten metal and spire like chunks that had been blown to bits. A whole shipyard glassed without a moments notice, each and every one of those ships incapable of ever taking off.
Reach showed us how doomed we were, and to what extent we had to change our tactics to just simply fight back. I mean my favorite scene was being tossed out of the Covie frigate falling towards space as a carrier which is at least twice the size of an assault carrier (Possibly bigger), and watch as our technology which had brought us galactic travel become a weapon in only a split second.
Not to mention every spartan's death was not over dramatized, it was a pure moment of just utter defeat, and regardless of the futility, our hope was that Spartans would never give up, simply because they couldn't. Reach by far had an amazing campaign, which gave us a better understanding of what the battle of reach was like. Dominated in every damn battleground.