It's Finally here folks! Halo 4 Discussion thread (Spoilers)

[BloodCovenent]

I'm on the fourth or fifth mission of the campaign, and i'm really liking it a lot. What are your thoughts on SP and MP?

[BloodCovenent]

Finished the campaign yesterday. Loved it! Love the soundtrack (still have certain songs playing in my head while sitting at work today).

I do have nitpicks and cynical comments about certain parts, but overall, its pretty much everything I hoped it would be.

For arguments sake, my nitpick has to do with the pacing/streamlining of the campaign. Some points that should have been major revelations to the main characters were just glossed over entirely, and even some minor points it would have been nice to have some comments about. Many things were presented as if it were already common knowledge, and even if it is to the players due to other cannon sources, it shouldn't have been treated as such by the characters.

Cynically, the game felt a little more like an action game than a pure shooter at time. What I'm trying to say (without actually saying it) (but I'm saying it anyways), is that at times I almost felt like I was playing Mass Effect 3. I'm not even talking about the minor (major?) plot point which is obviously similar, I'm just talking about the feel, the QTE's, the new weapons and enemies. I'm not saying its a bad thing, just not strictly the halo we're used to. Its still Halo though. And yes, a couple points in the game did remind me plot wise, namely the (campaign spoilers)

librarian talking about synthesizing organic and synthetic life, and the chief walking down the light bridge towards the beam of light hello ME3 ending...

I don't know if they're ripping each other off behind the scenes or not, I don't care. The stories are different enough, and all scifi stories overlap and borrow from each other to an extent anyways.


I'm also not 100% sold on the portrayal of the new covenant forces and where the covenant story arc seems to be going, but I'll probably have to wait until the next Kilo 5 book and the next games to see what they're planning on doing about the old elites (arby's group), and the new storm covenant.

Anyways, Gonna hopefully play the first episode of Spartan Ops tonight and then maybe start getting into War Games. But i'm pretty satisfied with the campain.

Spoiler: Major Campaign spoilers

What do you think about the fates of cortana and the didact? Which didact was it?

I think the didact is dead. People are saying the speach at the end means he's alive, but its clearly a flashback speach of him addressing the forerunners 10,000 years ago before he was locked away. We may find the other didact and be allies in later games, idk.

Cortana is also dead, and it was very sad, but we may not have seen the last of her essence. Remember the librarian hijacked her temporarily, its possible she may have added cortana's data to the domain, or done something to protect her/change her. Maybe when the chief figures out how to reverse the composer process properly, cortana will become human? It'll be interesting to see what the UNSC tries to do about giving the chief a new AI in the next game, the conflict. Will cortana be able to be recovered? Will a new AI cortana clone be given to the chief? Will be interesting to find out what happens.

My biggest gripe with the storyline was

the fact that there were suddenly other spartans. The biggest thing for John was that everyone else was already dead, and he was the last one alive.

I actually really enjoyed the campaign, i just played it on normal since it's been a while since i've played a console game. I'll probably do a run on legendary with my friend some time this week. As for the MP i've really been digging it. I don't mind the kill streaks or perks. They're pretty damn balanced.


Plot spoilers:

Spoiler:

I was pretty sad when cortana was erased. The scene on the bridge where Chief and Her are talking about how he'll probably get a new AI..... holy shit that was emotional. You bring up good points about the librarian taking a part of her, i could see them using that in the future games. It's definitely going to be interesting where they go with chief and how that will play out with either a new or no AI.

Anyways, if anyone wants to play some MP with me, feel free to add me. (Blood Covenent)