OK.
Now, i knew what i was doing when i wrote that post.
I added just enough flamebait with my rant to get the attention of fanboys and trolls alike. I understand that perhaps had i worded it differently, and not ranted on about examples that give the simpletons something to focus on and ignore the point completley, i may have gotten a little more creative argument in here.
What i was not expecting was this trainwreck of a thread...
You people, other than a small few, seem completley incapeable of understanging the damned point of the rant. Im going to adress a few issues here that have been raised repeatedly....
I DID NOT SKIP ANY CUTSCENES! I ENJOIED THEM, AS I MENTIONED, THEY LOOKED DAMNED COOL!
I did not mean the commander of your unit, i ment the commander guy who you spend the first half of the game taking orders from, or fixing something so you can take more orders from him and then forget about him in the 3rd act.
You all need to stop justifying it with crap like "IT WAS FOR FANS"!!! That does not invalidate my point. I am a fan and I loved it, but there are different levels of fan.
I should not need to read several novels about video game franchises in order to understand who and what these characters are in the game i paid 60 euros for, in a series of games i have spent simmilar ammounts of money on in the past.
Give me enough to work with, or just dont bother. Im ok with both. Good story or no story.... Just not this self important drivel.
Ok, yes i conceed - There is a "story" in the same sense as a 5 page childrens book has a story. There is not however a story in the sense that everyone and every review are all raving about. It informs you of nothing - Simply where to go.
I also admit that when entering a 4th game in the series, one is generally expected to know a few things. This is fine and well, however this IS a prequel.
Prequels explain how things came to light.
This explains nothing and is not understandable in its entirety by those who have played every single halo game to date. It requires research and extra reading. This is not a good story. Would you not rant about a movie you just saw if you had to read a seperate book to know who particular entities are?
Also, i do not believe the game was apocolyptic at all in scale.
The "glassing" of that city was so tame we managed to take an elevator. I have played Modern Warfare 1 and F.E.A.R - I know what a city blowing up in first person should look like in order for maximum awesome.
I mean, in the second last mission, i was sneaking back into the place i visited in the second mission with a small contingent of marines. This is not an action one typicaly takes as the planet burns around you.
Also to the dope who pointed out i should look at the "totally awesome battles in the distance". A few banshees floating around like flys in the distance, does not an epic atmosphere make.... More to the point, Why the hell arent we in the middle of those awesome battles?
However i digress. I was simply posting because my girlfriend brought to light some issues with the plot that i would not have even noticed because i was so much of a halo fanboy zombie like the rest of you that i couldnt see just how bad it was. It was like a slap in the face realisation. As if everything i had loved was a lie.
Oh.... and I KNOW WHAT A BANSHEE IS YOU TWITS, I WAS QUOTING ONE OF THE THINGS MY GIRLFRIEND ASKED!!! - You all missed the POINT of the quote as an example. They begin throwing technical jargon at you from the get go.
To those of you who answered my question about Halsey, thankyou, i had no idea who she was as she was never mentioned in any of the other Halo games, nor was the existence of a spartan III model.
In short - Defenders of the story are blind beyond words.
I could have switched the order of any of the missions and it would have still made as much sense as before.
mega48man said:
should of taken her to see scott pilgrim instead, she would of enjoyed that.
No sir.
No she would not.
