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Bane?

Their art team
The REQ system
Brian Reed
Halo 5's lack of content
Their inability to understand why people liked classical Halo's multiplayer
What the fuck they've done to SPARTANs and MJOLNIR
The overall tone and atmosphere of their version of the Halo universe.
The butchery of the Announcer

While I think 343's influence on Halo has been a net negative, they have done a lot of good stuff.
Halo 4's story is one of if not the best in the series and felt like a sequel to the OT where the rest of the game didn't. It did wonders for Chief's character and the setup between him and the Didact was really exciting. Shame the impact of that story was eradicated by Halo 5. Honestly, I would have preferred the series stopped at 4 than continued in the current direction.
The Forerunner Saga, regardless of how its relevance to the present has been handled, is amazing.
Escalation's first few issues were great and really felt like a proper Halo story while setting things up for the future.
Hunt the Truth

Really my distate for 343i basically stems from them betraying my expectations for the story for the most part. Brian Reed needs to go, but the damage is already done.

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English

I can't say I've ever wanted to punch someone because of their political views.

To War.

time to bust out the silver spray

Shiny, and chrome.

LMAO those responses

Literally nobody would've gotten all bent out of shape over that today.

I'm wondering if there was something that happened at that time like someone dying or some shit that caused people to get all butthurt about it

>forerunner space magic

The Forerunner Saga and stuff involving the Forerunners is probably the most interesting and fantastical part of all Halo Lore. Not saying that Post-War stuff isn't good. Then again, I'm really into cosmic calamities and abstract shit.

I, and a lot of peoplen got into the franchise for being gritty military scifi (In the book department more than the games) I have absolutely no interest in space fantasy, and I found the forerunner books to be the dullest part of the lore, and also some of the dullest books I've ever had to read.

The tone shift from gritty to space magic is too fast, and the old and new material barely feel part of the same franchise anymore.

It's like the next elder scrolls game suddenly being set in space with hard physics explanations for magic and technology and shit with some familiar names like the empire; I love scifi but I would detest that as a direction for the series because the two don't mesh well, and suddenly the people who got into TES for being a weird, fairly 'out there' fantasy setting now feel alienated from the newer material.

If I wanted a space fantasy with weird shit, I'd look at WH40K or Mass effect. I don't want a series to have a sudden tone shift to the point it feels like a badly written fanfiction in a completely different genre.

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Quote from: Fedorekd™ on March 14, 2016, 03:02:39 PM

tbh fam the entirety of the Created storyline has killed my interest in the story
the didact vs chief conflict was actually interesting. they had a really good thing going where halo 4 left off
bringing back cortana was fucking stupid
fuck brian reed and whoever else was involved in that shit

and considering the REQ system and spartan abilities are here to stay my multiplayer interest is also beginning to plummet

this is not what i wanted Halo to become

I think it would have been ideal for the story to have continued on with the Chief against the Didact, but truthfully, I think that could have only been done justice with Chris Schlerf.

Question: Would you have preferred Cortana to reclaim the Mantle, or Halsey?

I honestly don't know. I suppose if it was done well, Halsey, and have Cortana remain dead. But with Brian Reed as lead writer, I don't think Didact or Halsey would be done well so we're kinda fucked.

Would Spartan Ops and Escalation been enough?

I'm pretty much in agreement that the created thing has killed my interest in the future lore, but I still want to weigh my thoughts in here.

If Escalation had actually gone somewhere instead of preserving the status quo, then easily Halsey. She's actually an interesting character, and has a much more interesting motivation than just AI RULES HUMANS SUCK.

But, as the ever-profound Yahtzee says, master chief and cortana are the only marketable characters of Halo to the mass audience, so expecting a main-game story to do anything more interesting than that is pretty unreasonable. Especially given peoples' reactions to the didact in halo 4 and the thought of introducing another lead. In both Halo 2 and Halo 5, the new protagonists (Locke and Arby) were met with a lot of disdain because the mass audience couldn't give to shits about something more interesting than a dustbin on legs.

Though honestly, I'd rather the story of Halo 5 have focused on the politics of the UNSC, Swords, Covenant Remnant, NCA/ Insurrection/ Colonies and the general post-war climate than having to delve into forerunner space magic bullshit. The post-war period is a pretty interesting setting that is being wasted in favour of prometheans and shit. It feels like they're rushing the story now, trying to tie up plotlines like Jul Mdama as fast as possible to move onto the new stuff. Then there's the stuff like the Absolute Record story arc where, besides the loss of one assault carrier, literally nothing happened and neither side was better or worse off for the experience, and of course the negotiations story arc where again, literally nothing happened. As far as nothing goes, those three issues weren't too bad, but ultimately nothing really happened to change the balance of power. As someone who has very little interest in the forerunners and precursors and all the related stuff I tend to group under the term "space magic bullshit", the SMB taking centre-stage is something killing my interest in the series.

I'll probably get Tales from Slipspace with the hopes that it finally explains black team's return to UNSC-space, and Halo Wars 2 because Halo Wars, but I'll probably just look at halo 6 on youtube. My lack of interest for where halo is going, combined with the pitiful state the game launched in and the almost certain guarantee the req system will return means that I have very little, if any faith in 343 as a company.

oh yeah, and no giant insects. fuck you

tfw you are the undisputed master race of time zones GMT+- 0

let us purge the heretic scum, brother

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For some reason, Edward Deegan was in the Dugout Inn, instead of at Bunker Hill, so I got the Cabot quests way earlier now.

He can spawn randomly.

Oh, never knew that

Yeah. I think it's partially influenced by when/ if you go to the asylum and kill the guards beforehand. Deegan typically then seeks you out in one of the bigger towns (BH/ DC).

I've had him appear at both.

Oh yeah, just found this in my screenshots

Quote from: BaconShelf on March 13, 2016, 05:38:28 AM

I love that if you build the device to get into the institute for the brotherhood in one of your settlements, ingram and maxson will walk across the map to activate it. Having Maxson hanging around my settlement for a couple days was pretty cool, I like to think he approved of my BoS flags, Power Armour armoury and Vertibird helipad.

Proof that the Brotherhood of Steel is whats right for the Commonwealth.

And I'm totally making a vertibird helipad now at one of my settlements. I can't believe I never thought of that.

It also doubles as a basketball court when there aren't any helicopters about.

My starlight drive-in is pretty cool, I have a level 3/ 4 (When available) for every kind of store, it's linked to Abernathy Farm, Sanctuary and Tenpines Bluff for supplies so that everyone at starlight is either a scavenger or a trader, and I also have a caravan post for the vendors to use. I have an inn, too, so that travellers have somewhere to stay.

Oh yeah, I've managed to get all my guards in power armour, so I have a bunch of PA troops guarding my settlement.

somewhere between S A D B O I I and MetaMemeLord