- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: The 8bit Requiem
But if you take his gameplay moments out of the game, you're losing those elements that you're talking about which were good about having him in the story. I mean when you pull out his campaign you lose that true sense of the civil war beginning. You lose information about the Covenant that we would never have seen otherwise.
He's an invaluable character, and i'm glad Bungie threw him in. Through his eyes you see that the Covenant aren't just religious maniacs bent on human destruction, but that they have these heretics and disputes within the alliance.
Yes we could've seen that within cut scenes or the Chief's campaign, but just seeing is no where near being a part of these things. And being a part of the civil war is somtehing only the Arbiter could provide.
And as for two separate campaigns...I don't really like the idea. Chronology would become a problem, which is why the Halo 2 style of switching back and forth would kind of makes more sense. Exactly. With out the Arbiter, the story would not be as great as it is, and we would not know what is happening to the covenant. With out Arbiter, it would just be the MC killing covenant and saving humanity, but with Arbiter, it is much more than that.