Current Events > cool they put fucking boss fights back into Halo.

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I have only finished 3 official campaign "missions" I think, and have already put in 8 hours. The game is sooooo fun. I remember spending hours and hours in Halo 2 just exploring, getting out of every map, getting on top of buildings, etc. This game's open world feels very much like that, except it is on purpose. Feels like Breath of the Wild, where there are a million different ways to go about reaching the top of a mountain or bottom of a chasm, and the grapple shot + Halo physics is perfect for this. And also like Breath of the Wild, it seems like every part of the map is full of some enemy camp w/ a hidden collectible somewhere.

I am not too impressed w/ the story/characters so far, but I am only 3 missions in. I know people complained that Chief was too emo in Halo 4 and 5, but this seems like they went a bit too far into the Halo 1 direction, where he has pretty much 0 personality, every cutscene where I expect some sort of exposition, it is just Chief saying "Doesn't matter, give me a weapon so I can go kick some ass" lol

i liked chief in 4.

4 made me cry at the end.

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

I have only finished 3 official campaign "missions" I think, and have already put in 8 hours. The game is sooooo fun. I remember spending hours and hours in Halo 2 just exploring, getting out of every map, getting on top of buildings, etc. This game's open world feels very much like that, except it is on purpose. Feels like Breath of the Wild, where there are a million different ways to go about reaching the top of a mountain or bottom of a chasm, and the grapple shot + Halo physics is perfect for this. And also like Breath of the Wild, it seems like every part of the map is full of some enemy camp w/ a hidden collectible somewhere.

I am not too impressed w/ the story/characters so far, but I am only 3 missions in. I know people complained that Chief was too emo in Halo 4 and 5, but this seems like they went a bit too far into the Halo 1 direction, where he has pretty much 0 personality, every cutscene where I expect some sort of exposition, it is just Chief saying "Doesn't matter, give me a weapon so I can go kick some ass" lol

I'm about the same distance in, and seems to me he's just purposely avoiding answering certain questions when asked, so makes me suspect is more to what's going on than we know.

Or he just really wants to kick some Banished arse.

The story has stuck out as one of the main criticisms from reviewers. I'm also three main missions into it, so I'm not really sure what I think yet. As for the characters, I like the Weapon so far. It's nice to have an AI companion with you again. They've definitely made it feel like Halo should feel. Just Master Chief, an AI, and some ragtag squads of Marines.

But one of the main things I hated about the transition from Halo 4 to 5 is just how many potential plot threads were abandoned or resolved in other media. A similar thing happened here. The events of Halo 5 are barely even acknowledged so far aside from Cortana's part in it. It's very jarring. I imagine the story will explain at least some of it, but I think they should have stuck to their guns and tried to play off what they did with Halo 5. We'll see how it all unfolds though.

Just finished the campaign and can say its mostly open world. Theres a big focus on bosses and mini bosses. Its been a blast to play. The game on Legendary is going to be brutal this time around solo.

The audio logs I have found so far have been a lot better than I expected, sounds like we will get a lot of the story of Lasky/Halsey/The Infinity/Cortana/Locke in them.

Im kind of glad they just skipped the Halo 6 storyline (and I think they just put it into the audio logs), the cliffhanger at the end of Halo 5 was alright, but I was not too eager to see the story of evil Cortana out to the end.