- ALPHAslayER1911
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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Agreed. It seems to me that Bungie made every possible wrong decision when it came to delivering on the campaign promises they made.
This should be good.
No sense of scale,
Go play Tip of the Spear again, and this time, pay attention to the background. There are four other battles raging for the other Spires, which are all protected by Scarab tanks. Just because Reach doesn't shove stupid anti-air Wraiths or easy as piss Scarabs doesn't mean there wasn't any sense of scale.
no sense of urgency,
Play New Alexandria again, and pay REAL close attention to the Covenant cruiser hovering right above your head. The Covenant cruiser roars agove you, causing your entire screen to shake, and then they proceed to glass New Alexandria before your very eyes. If that doesn't shout "Hurry up!" then I don't know what will.
no real emotional impact at all,
Bungie attempted to have you think of yourself as the Master Chief, to imagine your own face behind the iconic visor. Problem is, he speaks freely and he is essentially his own character. But since Noble Six's armor, gender, and voice are customizable, it gives the player the opportunity to actually make their own protagonist as they see fit, and thus it far easier to imagine yourself to be Noble Six, which brings me to my next point.
Since the player as identified Noble Six as themselves, they are now attached to N6, and that is why his/her death is so tragically great. If you died in Lone Wolf, then Noble Six canonically died. Now, why did I mention this? Because the bit adds another sense of immersion.
Noble Six died because you died, and the cutscene showing his/her death only activated when you died, so you at least you know that there was nothing you could've done. You were an unstoppable Spartan super soldier, but even you could not face overwhelming odds.
However, you can at least take satisfaction that you fought til the very end, just as your fellow Spartans had done before you. They gave up their lives for you, whether they knew it or not, and now you will join them in this plain of glass. Maybe you knew, maybe you didn't but either way, you indirectly saved the entire human race.
I dunno about you, but that seems pretty emotional to me.
it did not fit canon "like a glove,"
Neither did any piece of Halo media that wasn't made by Nylund. Honestly, the original edition of tFoR was stupid and needed to be retconned.
and was overall a dissapointment.
Not to me.
Which is why I'm glad 343i took over.
I'm not. They have hired Karen Traviss to write a trilogy of Halo books. Traviss even admitted that she doesn't like to research something because it makes the story "boring". If that doesn't have you at least second guessing 343i's judgment, then you are a more trusting man than I.