Wake me when the jews are gone.
Posted by: the real Janaka
Posted by: MaxRealflugel
Do you watch/read Game of Thrones and complain about the politics?No, because that's what Game of Thrones is about. Halo is about the action-adventure side of a war between Humanity and The Covenant in a world that is defined by the actions of Forerunner and Flood. Is Halo supposed to continue after whatever climax the sixth game has to offer as a deep, action free, drama just because there aren't any conflicts?
If there is no action, jump to where there is action, jump between the high notes/high lights of the one universe defining story line, don't dilute and ware out the experience with petty squabble. Don't look for excuses to trip, don't turn it from a neat and highly qualitative little package to a loosely wrapped doubtfull bundle.
There isn't a war on at the moment. Not a formal one, anyway. So, like real life, things develop and evolve on the political front.As I wrote, the resolution of the narrative as increased. It's like a graph. You have the high notes and you have the curves between them, the lower it gets, the less important it is. Don't wear it thin by wasting time down there.When 'war' breaks out again, you'll be able to breathe a sigh of relief, as the politics will most likely take a step back.
But let's jump back to the crux of this argument/opinion. The Halo universe is vast, full of opinions, viewpoints and secrets. There may be something that we know nothing about that will provide greater clarity in the future, and we'll see Halsey put back on her scientific throne and a lot of apologies offered.
We don't know everything. Yet.I know one thing, and it is that this clarity is not the same answer as the one I was promised back when I tried to unravel the mysteries CE, Iris, AdjutantReflex, and Halo 3 teased me with, it is a reimagined, heavily retconed one, with an entirely different pace and resolution. 343i are teasing me with the carrot and making me walk those extra miles (that did not exist in the past), which are just making this trip tedious.
I think you're being a bit naive here, seeing it from far too positive angle. Do you really wan't Halo to become such a thoroughly--to the point of mundanity--described regularly occurring science fiction franshise that's so oftenly shown that it wears off its glow? Again, that's why I brought it up in this thread. Because evidently 343i believes that Spartan Ops is sufficient enough in quality to tell a story in the Haloverse.
One can tell all kinds of stories in most universes, but that doesn't mean that one should. A franchise is not bound to be an alternative universe in which one depicts everything. Halo most certainly wasn't, it was a slice/thread of a story, and I'll stick with that it shouldn't be anything more. Expanding it just ruins it as a whole. Otherwise, where's the human civilian side, I want a trilogy about that. What do the poets say of the war?
We'll see what everyone feels in ten years...Posted by: SOME cGUY789Oh, I totally agree, Chief too should be set on trial for the ODSTs that he accidentally killed.Uhh im sory but the thing you just described, the alternate universe is what i wanted all along, i want Halo to be an actual universe, with an actual history, actual politics and all the cake it can get, i want it to become a huge and complex universe, you might not like it, but believe it or not i want Halo to become a Game of thrones, Star wars etc... just because you cant enjoy it doesnt mean there are no people who enjoy it or that Spartan Ops is a all time low for the series, it is actually quite an up from the old Halo with it's daring plotholes and contradictions.