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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
I like the Campaign too. At least I always got the sense of a larger war going on, don't know about you guys. But it was disappointing not actually being in the thick of any of the larger battles (Tip of the Spear=*sadface*) but it gave a good depiction of what the Human-Covenant war looked like from a scale perspective.
What I didn't like though was the fact it screwed the Fall of Reach's timeline and the overall primary story. The Assembly/Datapads story was infinitely more interesting because it advanced the Halo story's plot forward by introducing the masterminds of the human universe.
What did the primary story do, though? Gave the finger to Eric Nylund and introduced--and immediately killed--6 characters we knew nothing of.
I know it can be said that the purpose of Reach's story was to introduce the Assembly and all, but couldn't the same be said for Halo 3's terminals?
At least in Halo 3 the story was advanced in both the Terminals AND the primary story. With Reach the primary story actually went BACKWARDS by destroying some of the established canon.
Now I like Reach, and I like the multiplayer and the option it has to offer, but really, looking at the story of Reach, what was the ultimate point? It made the UNSC look like idiots and disregarded the last act in TFoR completely by doing things we couldn't care less about for the sole purpose of trying to make the player feel like a badass.
Bungie could have very easily have done TFoR in a good, canon way and crafted an emotional story that we could connect too. A character driven story with virtually no emotion is a contradiction, and that's exactly what Reach was: one massive contradiction.
My biggest gripe is that it--the primary story of Noble Team--did not advance the Halo story AT ALL.
We just meet these characters, and then they died. It gave us nothing new that we didn't already know except butchering the established story.
So again, the ultimate question is: what was the point of telling this story?
I agree with everything here.