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Posted by: Simjon4two
Yes, it should have stayed with Bungie, but just to protect it from being abused by Microsoft. Bungie could have let it rest and do something else and some time in the future when they feel like it develop another Halo game.
After thinking it through, this seems like it would have been the best possible scenario.
As much as I love Halo, multiplayer, lore and all, obviously Halo has been stumbling for quite some time, and I think this continuation of Master Chief's story when it was decisively ended by Bungie at the end of Halo 3 is the first to the complete ruin of, at the very least, classic Halo lore.
Of course, it's not the first time developers have retconned their own canon. I mean, look at Reach, which basically took everything stated in most of the novels and twisted it on its head, but at least it tried its hardest to keep things as they canonically happened.
Now, with the Forerunners, we have this whole Human-Forerunner War and the fact that the Humans somehow managed to find a cure for the Flood, and all of this doesn't sit well for me. I get the Infinity, I somewhat get the Spartan-IVs, and I'll even accept, with some bile, the existence of a Storm Covenant.
But I think the Forerunners returning is a wrong step for this franchise to take. I would've even enjoyed some kind of ONI conspiracy to weaponize the Flood, cliche as that would have been, as that would have at least acknowledged some canon that existed in the story beforehand. The Forerunners being fleshed out like this just raises too many questions.
I mean, they honestly had lasers and telekinesis, and they STILL lost to the Flood? How almighty were these guys, anyway? They could make seven rings to wipe out the galaxy of sentient life, but they can't fricken burn a few parasites with their uber death spheres.
But my gripes with 343i's direction with the story aside, I just wish Bungie took its ball and went home with it. Sure, we probably wouldn't have had any further continuations with Halo after 3, save for the occasional lore expansion such as ODST and Reach, but honestly, I think that might be for the better. Series being dragged on longer than they should have is never a good sign. Look at things like CoD, or Final Fantasy. The only three franchises I can think of that had continual game releases and didn't end up spiraling into mediocrity are Mario, Zelda, and Kirby, and some people might even challenge me on that.