That reminds me...

"conclusion"

Well, ODST and Reach weren't sequels to 3

What fight did we finish in that game? Even with Truth being dead there is still going to be a Covenant force with someone to control it and for the Flood there's still the chance of it laying dormant somewhere.

Also for the people that wanted the series or at least the MC' story to end in Halo 3, how could that happen? At the end of the game Bungie teased a new planet which the MC is drifting towards. 343 didn't have much of a choice about Halo 4 being about the MC due to that.

I loved Halo 4's story and the Forerunner Saga but everything else 343i does leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I really dislike the overall feel of Halo now. It lacks that sense of adventure it once had. Halo 4 felt new and exciting, and I was okay with the direction the story was going in. Then Spartan Ops came along. And then Escalation. And then Halo 5.
Watching this trailer back only pisses me off because of what we could've had.

lol

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_Reach
itt franchises that have been milked beyond recognition

Reach was before we finished the Fight. Not milking.

I loved Halo 4's story and the Forerunner Saga but everything else 343i does leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I really dislike the overall feel of Halo now. It lacks that sense of adventure it once had. Halo 4 felt new and exciting, and I was okay with the direction the story was going in. Then Spartan Ops came along. And then Escalation. And then Halo 5.
Watching this trailer back only pisses me off because of what we could've had.

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Eww, Halo 4.

"Final Fantasy"

30+ games later...

"The Brawl to end them all..."

Though I'm honestly glad Brawl wasn't the last entry in SSB.

Quote from: BaconShelf on April 07, 2016, 05:17:18 AM

Making more sequels isn't inherently bad - if people want them and the content is good, everything's fine.

Problem is when the content turns shit (Like Halo 5) and becomes full of shit nobody wanted (Like Halo 5).

Anyway, isn't the mext cod game like, 12 or something?

Don't forget Halo 4. Ruined Halo right there.

Aside from.the fact that the story was one of the best in the franchise and it actually acknowledged the expanded universe, okay.

Halo 3 was a great ending to the series; Reach and ODST were good additions because they explored parallel parts of the series. Yeah, Bungie teased a planet at the end of Halo 3, but that doesn't necessitate a sequel. I give 343 a lot of credit for the MCC, but 4 & 5 were abysmal, and a lot of the world-building they've done is just trash.

This has nothing to do with the OP, and is a pretty bad description, but I loved Halo 2 and 3's atmosphere infinitely better than 343's saga.  In Bungie's universe, I felt like a military tool who's a renowned badass.  In 343's universe, I feel like the center of the universe and a superhero with space-magic, which I find a bit over the top.

The entire UNSC force looks like they came out of a cheesy SyFy movie: everything's design is super over-complicated and nothing is gritty.  The armor is a prime example: nothing is sleek (except for maybe 2 or 3 343 armors and all the remakes), nothing makes sense, and it looks like the designers came up with ideas by crumpling pieces of paper and asking someone to model that. 

The marines look like dorks straight out of an 80's Si-Fi prop room. 

They don't communicate like a military, they're more like "go stomp the bad guys, Spartans" over the radio.  Etc...

All of these things detach me from the universe.  The Forerunner environments are nice, but that's weighed down by the unrelatable characters and styles for the people you play as.

Also, Luci, the SPNKR is it's own weapon in H5:

"Final Fantasy"

30+ games later...

"The Brawl to end them all..."

Though I'm honestly glad Brawl wasn't the last entry in SSB.

Final Fantasy is just named that because Squaresoft was broke and they thought that would be the last game they would ever make.

A lot different than hyping up the "conclusion" to a world famous franchise.

I'd contribute to the discussion, but everyone becomes autistic when I do that.

The climactic confrontation between humanity's best supersoldiers - throwing slow, drunken haymakers.