Posted by: dmg04
I don't understand why there are so many haters in this forum. Reach is obviously canon if bungie made it :\
I don't understand why people hate Reach either. I'll admit that it veered from Halo tradition and I suppose it didn't "feel like Halo," but as a stand alone game it was great. Its campaign was, in my mind, the only one with significant replay value. It also had the best voice acting and dialogue, and what it lacked in story it made up for in drama. And to touch on the story for a bit, it had already been written. The games slogan was: "From the beginning, you know the end." Maybe that's why people felt it was stale.
Anyway, I don't think Bungie would have accidentally overlooked explaining a part of Reach's plot if it was really that significant. I do think more work could have been put into the campaign, but that goes for all Halo games and not just Reach. However, that's just me being the rare type of gamer that prefers campaign play to online. Still, as I have said countless times before, no Halo campaign kept me as engaged as Reach's did and still does, so I guess it's just different strokes for different folks. I liken it to Wind Waker: you either love it or you hate it.