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Posted by: Sh1n1ng Wolf
Posted by: Haloroach
Posted by: bobcast
Posted by: Bornstellarr
I think the Reclaimer trilogy will become the definitive Halo experience. Yeah the first trilogy was about the Human-Covenant War, but this trilogy is focusing on the true nature of Halo's story, the Forerunners and possibly beyond.[/quote]
No. It will not.
The Halo 4 story is a perversion of the Halo story line, simply created to drag out the series and milk it for more money.[/quote]
-respect and evolution of Halo's thematic principles
-subtle evolutions of Chief's character (especially through his dialogue in the last scene as he tries approaching the conflict at hand normally at first, and then realizes that he has truly lost this time)
-"AI is more human than the humans"
-"Broken character becomes human trying to save the human character from becoming broken"
-several metaphors and allegories (ex. how Chief's body armor, for the first time, is taken off at the end of the game- symbolizing how the level headed, always calm, damn near stubborn Chief has become human)
Wow, this "perversion" seems to be better written than every single effort Bungie has ever made with the series! I guess I really like perversion!All those minor improvements became irrelivent when God came down and told Chief he was literally the "chosen one." What's that, Cortana? You chose Chief because of luck? NOOOOOOO, you prick!!! You chose him because of Midichlorians!!!
Yes.
LET'S COMPLETELY IGNORE HALO 3'S FINAL TERMINAL WHICH BASICALLY SAID MENDICANT BIAS HAD BEEN GUIDING HIM TO THE EVENTS OF THE RECLAIMER TRILOGY ALL ALONG AND INSTEAD FOCUS ON SOMETHING THAT IS A COMPLETE RESPECT OF ONE OF HALO'S MAIN THEMES (that humanity, and Chief in particular, has a far greater role in the grand scheme of things). Uh, that doesn't mean the whole destiny thing is, well, -blam!- retarded, although that leads to another problem with this. Why are humans the chosen ones? No, I don't care that humans are descendents of Forerunners. Humans being the destined race is just hokey as hell, incredibly black and white since it means the other races suck in comparison, unimagintive and very cliché. What's with all this fate crap in the Halo games? Why are there absolutely no evil humans in the Halo games? Are the Covenent the big, scary, foreign aliens we still need to defend ourselves against even though we're at, uh, peace?
Did we not resolve this -blam!- through three games worth of content? The whole Prophet coverup angle for genocide of humans was brilliant because it was a despicable and pathetic reason to keep their power, and the discovery of a kinda cool revelation (that humans were from forerunners, not the chosen ones bit) would have just bunked their religion ... But that's over. That's resolved. The Covenent are back as dicks, and the only explanation from Cortana is "Oh, they must be a salvaging crew" or something along those lines. I don't remember the exact reason because it's never, ever brought up again. Covies are just evil again, and we don't know why. There's no reason for the Covies to attack Chief again unless they still believe in what the Prophets said, but that's NEVER brought up.
Anyway, getting off that tangential rant, force choking in Halo is stupid because it's just thrown in there, and saying that Chief, a character who had absolutely no personality in the first 3 games, is the chosen one instead of a character who got lucky as hell is just dumb. Just because Meded, um... You know, I didn't read the Halo 3 terminals, and I'm kind of glad I did just because I would've have been disappointed so early. What sounds better, though? Barely surviving by the skin of your teeth, or knowing your character is just going to get through it because God, who is essentially what the Librarian is (no, I'm not -blam!- familiar with what she EXACTLY is and I don't care since I don't want to wrap my head around this -blam!- any longer. She is essentially a divine figure) guided you along a path?
1)The humans are being tested as the chosen ones, there is no destiny but our test. As Librarian says, she is preparing us, because we have potential, she doesn't say we're Jesus.
But we're being tested because we were willing to sacrifice everything we had to stop the Flood, a personal sacrifice, where we admited defeat, making us better inheritors of the Mantle than the Forerunners, who stubbornly fought against the inevitable until the end. The truly wise understand hubris. We are currently being tested to see if we have maintained hubris, amongst other traits.
And there are evil humans, ala the Kilo-Five Trilogy, and there are good aliens, ala Librarian and the Covenant seperatists. Halo isn't black and white, you're just imagining it is.
2) Fanatical, uniquely zealous Covenant now being referred to as terrorists and rogues, juxtaposed against the asylum seeking "good" Covenant mentioned in S:OPs. You mean to tell me you can't do the math?
3) Didact uses a gravitational restraint field that he compressed to give John uber-Bends. It is well within Forerunner technology to do so.
And he hasn't survived because he's the chosen one. Medicant Bias NEVER says he's been protecting and guiding you, he merely says that he will help in the battles ahead, to do everything he can to help you.
But I somehow fail to understand how surviving by luck (aka: canonical plot armor) is superior to surviving because of a divine purpose. At least one has an explanation, even though it isn't accurate.
[Edited on 12.13.2012 6:21 PM PST]