- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I do not want to just see the Halo universe....I want to FEEL it.
That means I want to walk huge, bleeding regions of a broken Earth decimated by a terrible last stand with an utterly ruthless and utterly alien power. And when I do, I want to feel dismay.
At the same time I want to witness incredible alien structures full of brilliance and beauty I can not comprehend and yet am unable to to resist.
I want to smile with relief when I see human dropships, battle ships or just a Hog because the troops that inhabit them and the people who made them represent all that is the most ingenious and prosperous about the human race. Yet I also sense respect, because the shudder of the ground when they pass is the sound of a machine called home.
When The Flood appear I want to FEEL DREAD. I want to reel as some rancid stench from the bowels of my 360 fills the otherwise pleasant aroma of my room. I want to get nervous. It should cross my mind to turn the lights on.... more than once.... just to check underneath the sofa.
Throughout, I want to see this adventure through the eyes of John 117. And I want to feel something impossible for John 117 to feel.... doubt.
I want Bungie to make us EARN our ending to this story.... and I want to feel exhausted when I get there.
[Edited on 6/12/2006]