LordOfChaos
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First of all, that was the best Halo has been in many years, nearly a decade. It brings in a new energy and excitement to Halo that I really appreciate as someone who always had a soft spot for it, after Guardians was leaving me on the edge of continuing to care. I am quite excited that Halo feels fresh and new again, and I'm far more interested in where it goes now than I was after Guardians. So I just wanted to get that out of the way first.
It does, however, repeat some of 343's biggest storytelling flaws. Here we have the third game in what was first slated to be a contained trilogy but that idea itself was canned, where the main baddy of the last game is swiftly abandoned and a new one comes up for what's next. All throughout the promotional material, I was left wondering, is something more going on with Cortana? Is she still alive somewhere and biding her time? After dispatching the Didact off-screen in a comic after Halo 4, surely they wouldn't do that again...But they did, and while there was a little more going on with Cortana, it did feel like a rug sweep again to get the old story bits they didn't want to deal with done with again largely off-screen apart from some convenient exposition through floating memories.
And about that next thing. Here's the big thing with me. To call something a bigger threat than the Flood is a BIG ASS CLAIM to make. And so far, we saw nothing that shows that. They seem to have some time manipulation abilities. But to call them a bigger threat than a galaxy spanning super parasite that caused the Forerunners, itself a galaxy spanning mega high tech long lived race, to mass suicide? And we just never heard of them before, not in the ancient times books, not in any media? This part here is starting to feel like another villian of the week going on and they just needed something new for us to shoot at going forward into the next 10 years.
And how is that thing going say something like the Forerunners lies are at an end, and NOT be the Precursors, the actual ancient alien threat that there's existing lore to draw from? And then if they do Precursors eventually, something else being the reckoning of the Forerunners would feel like a repeat. But here's my Unless...
Speculation/theory time: What if the reason the Forerunners found the Endless a worse threat than the Flood was that their time manipulation could bring back the Precursors? That they could turn dust back into the Primordial? That's one of the only ways I could see them actually living up to being a greater threat than a galactic parasite that effectively did win, apart from the galaxy mass suiciding (or rather the Forerunners forcing that on the galaxy) itself into them going away.
Now THAT story direction I'd be incredibly interested to see. My worry though is that 343 will not draw from the existing lore and this is just another villian of the week type thing, another new ancient alien threat we never heard of rather than drawing from the ancient alien threat we did hear of. But if everything is coming up Precursor, that's a highly interesting direction.
It does, however, repeat some of 343's biggest storytelling flaws. Here we have the third game in what was first slated to be a contained trilogy but that idea itself was canned, where the main baddy of the last game is swiftly abandoned and a new one comes up for what's next. All throughout the promotional material, I was left wondering, is something more going on with Cortana? Is she still alive somewhere and biding her time? After dispatching the Didact off-screen in a comic after Halo 4, surely they wouldn't do that again...But they did, and while there was a little more going on with Cortana, it did feel like a rug sweep again to get the old story bits they didn't want to deal with done with again largely off-screen apart from some convenient exposition through floating memories.
And about that next thing. Here's the big thing with me. To call something a bigger threat than the Flood is a BIG ASS CLAIM to make. And so far, we saw nothing that shows that. They seem to have some time manipulation abilities. But to call them a bigger threat than a galaxy spanning super parasite that caused the Forerunners, itself a galaxy spanning mega high tech long lived race, to mass suicide? And we just never heard of them before, not in the ancient times books, not in any media? This part here is starting to feel like another villian of the week going on and they just needed something new for us to shoot at going forward into the next 10 years.
And how is that thing going say something like the Forerunners lies are at an end, and NOT be the Precursors, the actual ancient alien threat that there's existing lore to draw from? And then if they do Precursors eventually, something else being the reckoning of the Forerunners would feel like a repeat. But here's my Unless...
Speculation/theory time: What if the reason the Forerunners found the Endless a worse threat than the Flood was that their time manipulation could bring back the Precursors? That they could turn dust back into the Primordial? That's one of the only ways I could see them actually living up to being a greater threat than a galactic parasite that effectively did win, apart from the galaxy mass suiciding (or rather the Forerunners forcing that on the galaxy) itself into them going away.
Now THAT story direction I'd be incredibly interested to see. My worry though is that 343 will not draw from the existing lore and this is just another villian of the week type thing, another new ancient alien threat we never heard of rather than drawing from the ancient alien threat we did hear of. But if everything is coming up Precursor, that's a highly interesting direction.
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