Posted by: bagan bodies 2
Posted by: ajw34307
People saying Halo 4... -_-
It was Halo 3 that made Halo 4 inevitable by giving absolutely no closure at all and compounding plot points in the final mission telling us that we were about to see the bigger picture.
As much as I enjoy Halo 4 and the extended universe 343 is bringing in, I will play devil's advocate to your points should they be invalid.
Note: * refers to plot points introduced in Halo 3
1) 6 of the 7 Halo rings are still primed and ready to fire - a shadow that will forever loom over the Halo universe as long as it's unresolved.
False. They were all shut down in "The Covenant" when the Chief pressed the main button in the citadel. Right before Arbiter kills Truth.
*2) The Gravemind tells us that defeat at Installation 04B only delays his return at the end of Halo 3.
Yep I'll give you that one.
*3) Medicant Bias virtually screams to the player that the Chief's story is not done, informing us that:
*4) The Forerunners are not dead...
*5) ...and that the path to the Forerunners is "frought with peril," suggesting a new threat.
True to an extent but it may have been more symbolic than literal. Of course this has since been revealed to be literal in Halo 4, but at the time of Halo 3 it could have been closed as just metaphorically redeeming himself. Plus the "path" could have been the Halo and its destruction.
*6) No explanation whatsoever was given to these mysterious new beings referenced by the Didact called the Precursors. Later forming the basis of Greg Bear's 'cosmic game' in the Forerunner Saga, and which we now know is feeding directly into Halo 4.
No real mention of the precursors was present in the game. The bestiarum was the only brief hint of them, and even then they were "creatures of legend." And Halo 4 gives no mention of them either, though may have possibly hinted at them.
*7) Nor was any explanation given as to what "following in their footsteps" means when the Didact started talking about the Great Journey he will go on after he fires the Halos.
While I agree he was likely referring to the Precursors as we now understand them, he also could have simply referred to following the flood's footsteps, possibly back to their point of origin to eliminate them once and for all?
*7.1) Therefore, The Great Journey does in fact exist, but has been misinterpretted by the Prophets. What is the Journey, and what is the signifigance?
Could have been left as the activation of the rings and the Forerunners' exodus of the milky way.
8) Mankind has yet to uphold their destiny as the guardians of the universe (as mankind's destiny is the entire thematic point of the series, not continuing the story would mean voiding the relevance of the franchise as a story). This forms the thematic basis for the Reclaimer Trilogy, as the name itself implies.
This unresolved plot point was established in Halo 4, not in Halo 3.
9) We do not know if humanity can survive the inevitable tensions between the Covenant client races, the Elites, and themselves.
Another plot point established after Halo 3.
*10) We did not know (at the time, until Cryptum) what made humanity so special and worth saving in the eyes of Librarian. She said that we held the answer to many Forerunner secrets.
I'll give you that though it was and still is definitely up for interpretation.
*11) Cortana, who holds the largest wealth of Forerunner knowledge in the universe aside from the Forerunners themselves, is slowly drifting into insanity. How can anyone claim that Halo 3 provided any kind of satisfying closure when we spend the whole game building up to her rescue only for her to be discarded and left to rot into insanity half an hour later?
What? It was about the Chief keeping his promise.
*12) And finally, Master Chief, the selected messenger of Medicant Bias, is drifting near an unknown Forerunner world at the very end of Halo 3.
Again, see my response to points 3, 4, and 5.
Halo 4 covered many of these in detail and has made them pivotal to the central theme of the Reclaimer Trilogy. Halo 4 was certainly needed because Halo 3's faux conclusion was just poor, playing the nostalgia card as so many people point out that "it ends how it started". So what? Almost nothing was resolved at all.
As much as I enjoyed the campaign, it most certainly did none of those things.
welp, this thread has been derailed and turned into another Halo 4 dick slapping competition thread. Look, Halo 4 sucks, get over it. Don't need to derail a thread to dick slap over it. Seriously get over it. This isn't a Halo thread.