Posted by: j7holdfastjack7
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
Posted by: j7holdfastjack7
Totally agree. Story's have ends.
Forerunner's were meant at the outset as a mystery. This is the same bs starwars crap we have been putting up with for a decade. Just RUIN the entire story.
Cryptum just changes the whole FREAKING story out of nowhere, slaps us in the face and tells us were stupid and the last 5 games, 5+ books, and ten years of being fans didn't count because apparently "none of that was important, because its really all about this story that were just not gonna crowbar into the universe"
Reach was the last real Halo game. Whether from the story side or the dev side.
What do you mean it changes the story? It doesn't...at all.
You mean the point where the covie human war isnt the entire the main conflict of halo? or where that war is now "not a big deal", or how the forerunner are second fiddle in mystery to the precursors and just a number of other random and wholly new parts thrown in.
I agree somewhat. It's an insult when somebody says the Forerunners and Precursors are part of a much better and larger story when they have not been the main focus for this whole time whatsoever within the primary media of Halo.
Larger story my ass. Think about if I were to write a fanfiction based on the wildlife that live on Halo. Then I say that it's part of a "much larger story!". Because that's basically what's happening.
This is why the Halo opinion among developers and the community is skewed: Everything is disjointed. The games tell the story of the Covenant and the Flood primarily, while some books are talking about something completely different.
It's not really to say that I think the Forerunners should have remained mysterious for too long, but the way they're going about explaining them is half-assed and messy. So unless Halo 4 is able to give me the necessary details in order to understand the plot, my opinion will not change.
I do have to commend Bungie for trying to keep it consistent and simple.
Games shouldn't play off of books because it will only lead to general confusion among not only the busy gamer, but to the general public.
Do the users on this forum really expect a gamer to have to buy a damn novel to understand the back story to a video game? If 343 isn't able to set their story straight through the media which they're projecting it in, then that's just incapability on their part.
I sound like Yahtzee, god. It's almost as much of an insult when that crap-spewing Bungie employee in a ViDoc said that "Campaign prepares an amazing story...! But Multiplayer's your meat."
[Edited on 09.09.2011 6:42 PM PDT]