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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Except for the part where the Precursors and Flood are still a total mystery. Tell me: what do we know about either of them other than that they are related in some way, and that the Flood is a parasite?
Precursor appearance: like a grossly misshapen human, with four upper limbs, two degenerate legs, and a head that looks like a sea scorpion. They created the Mantle, they went to war with the Forerunners, they lost but created the Flood as a revenge/failsafe/martyrdom (call it what you like) weapon to take the Forerunners with them.
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
The Forerunners were fleshed out through the terminals already. 343i merely portrayed them as an imperfect race of beings who were thrust into desperate times and desperate situations, while giving them a personality and a face. The ultra-enigmnatic race of perfect beings, as they had originally been (as you prefer, apparently) is objectively more cliched and uninspired than a fleshed out character. The Precursors, on the other hand, can fill that roll because they represent the almost divine force of fate.
Both are 10/10 cliched. Oh, and no, a few glitchy hidden computer terminals giving you transcripts of Forerunner conversations from which you can sort of work out the overarching details of why the Forerunners aren't around any more isn't fleshing out their character too much. it's giving you virtually no details. The multiple novels from Forerunner PoV are what removed the mystery. The terminals were sparse enough not do do so. And the idea that we're going to fall back to another even more super-ancient super-powerful civilization to take their place is laughable. What is this, a comic book? Shall we end up with row after row of ever more powerful, more ancient entities? What, exactly, is the point? you've come full circle, i.e. gone exactly nowhere. Why create the Precursors to replace the Forerunners? Why not just keep the Forerunners?
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
And the Composer was introduced in the books. Are you saying any weapon the Didact could have used would thus have just been cheap? Composer was explained in detail and proved just how far the once pure Forerunners had fallen from grace, to in effect become the one thing they fought against: forcibly converting beings into mindless killing machines is exactly what the Flood did. It is a tragic poetic irony that they had resorted to stooping to the Flood's level to fight it.
I've made it clear multiple times I'm not just talking about Halo 4, but the books as well.
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Tropes themselves are not bad--without tropes, there would be no story. Certain elements are universal to storytelling, and certain kinds of storytelling, such as sci-fi. How they are incorporated into the story, and how the characters develop as a result of these unique uses, are what matter. If I tried as hard as you do to find problems in stories, no story in history would be good enough for me.
Nope. I'm very easily pleased story-wise. Heck, I liked Avatar, don't even think of accusing me of being some wannabe super-critic. I just hate the way Halo's universe is being killed by over-saturation.
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
But you seem too butthurt to understand this, or at least willing to understand this.
Nice one. Cheap 12-year-old insult, with a "you're too dumb to understand me" thrown in to mix things up. Real classy, really adds depth to your argument.