343i and Microsoft have released a infographic for the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians to ties the Halo lore and storyline.
In Halo 4, 5, and Infinite, Master Chief became a more nuanced, human character.
In spite of the Halo series’ struggles, 343 deserves praise for adding nuance and characterisation to the ever-beating heart of Halo - The Master Chief. Playing through Infinite, it's abundantly clear that the events of the current and previous trilogies have irrevocably changed the iconic hero. He’s no longer the ‘blank slate’ that was previously presented by Bungie. He’s a fatigued, damaged and fallible protagonist, and one who is meandering through currents of grief, while reveling in his newfound agency. Giving the Chief a compelling and meaningful voice was no small feat, and 343 should be proud of that victory.
This article completely misses part of the appeal of the original iteration of character in the original game trilogy. It was the Chief and Cortana vs an entire alien collective. The blank slate Bungie displayed in their games was genius, he was an mysterious hero a wide audience could identify with because he wasn't as clearly defined as most characters.
The books added a lot of lore and backstory but most Halo players just want a fun game with exposition that doesn't get in the way of gameplay, it's why the Cortana level in Halo 3 was derided.
Not every character has to be a damaged soyboy, a soldier has to suck it up and do his duty.
The 343i Master Chief has is based on the books. However, in Halo 4-Infinite, the Master Chief overtime become. gradually becomes more willing to show some emotion.
Daily Video Game writes: "GameStop is running a new pre-owned game sale on over 1000 pre-owned games that offers four pre-owned ($9.99 or less) games for $20 across multiple gaming platforms right now, including PS3 and Xbox 360!"
Given the nature of backwards compatibility on new systems, this is a great sale in case you missed out on some gems from last gen.
Most of the games on Xbox are on game pass. The Switch games in this sale are trash c'mon farming simulator that's laughable. The PS4 games should be cheaper. I can't wait for the GameStop going out of business liquidation sale.
These sales, while potentially great, really struggle to be valuable given you can't easily parse what games are in stock. You can't just say "only show what is online & what are in my nearby stores". Probably 60-75% of these games in these massive lists are out of stock for shipping, and out of stock locally. It makes it a chore to find anything you'd want, much less 4 of them, much less enough if you wanted to get to a free shipping tier. It's a bummer.
NoobFeed Editor Joshua Burt writes - There are many games in the famous Halo Franchise that are stellar titles and need to be revered. And some that do not. These games stand out from the crowd and deluge of colossal Halo titles. Games that made Halo great. We do need to iron out what qualifies the game for this list. They have to be in the Halo franchise… Obviously.
Halo 3 at the top is correct the only thing id change is swap infinite and halo ce around.
No the Halo games do a TERRIBLE job of doing the lore justice. In fact, so much of the story is based on the lore than I really wonder if anyone who hasn't read the books stands a chance of understanding what's going on.
With Halo 4; who was the Didact? The books explained everything in great detail including the existence of another Didact (created via brevit mutation), the relationship with the Librarian and why the Didact lost his mind somewhat.
With Halo 5, you're reunited with Blue team. Now I'm having to constantly explain to my mates who haven't read the books, the significance of this and who Blue team are.
Instead of making shoddy series like they did with Agent Locke, they need to make a real effort to explain the lore to the masses because the lore is absolutely incredible and deep, its just that the devs don't do it justice.
Make a series about how humans existed millenia ago and were technologically matching the Forerunners. Show how they were devolved. Show how the Forerunners won and what they did to the Precursors (who created humans and Forerunners. Explain what the Mantle of Responsibility actually is. What the Domain is! What the Flood really were. So much important info untouched by the games.
Animated Fall of Reach series?
This any good?
The problem honestly is that Bungie did a poor job explaining all the story in the games. You can't expect 343i to spend all its time explaining what should have been explained in Halo 1-3. There is also the issue that some of the story didn't even exist until it was retconned by Nylund and other authors.
This mean the people bought the Xbox one was hardcore gamers people watch E3, and casual gamers are buying ps4 cuz hype like Justin Beiber selling disc