Halo 5 Boss: "We Took Some Digs For Storytelling"

You'd think they'd have learned their lesson from Halo 2. These guys are so full of crap.

It was a bad story is the problem, that and the horrible feel of the game. They screwed up the physics to everything and the combat lacked weight that the past games had. Good to know this boss ignored criticism and made up some dumb excuses. Bought an Xbox One for Halo 5 and after playing that horrible game I sold it on ebay. Terrible terrible game.

They brought back blue team which was great, but they just showed up out of nowhere! Not everyone follows the comics and novels and what not, if they add something so big to the universe they need to flesh that out more in the game. Lets be honest the majority of people play the games only.

To me it felt like they were trying too hard to force Locke on the player. You only got to play as the Legendary Blue Team for like 3 missions. Atleast in Halo 2 the campaign was divided more evenly between The Arbiter and MC. The most offensive part was having Locke and his fireteam save Blue Team as the final mission of the game.

"Chief we tend to think of as kind of a vessel for your adventure rather than necessarily this major character in the universe. He's really just your entry into the universe,"

They were basically trying to replace the chief with another character. Are these guys just morons? Of course everyone wanted Master Chief's story, but that's not what we got. Halo is nothing without the Master chief, as Zelda is nothing without Link. Halo is the Master Chief's story, without him you just have nothing but side characters, and side stories that don't mean much to the fans, without it's origin.

Roundabout way of saying it sucked.

i loved the story. but hey to each his own

Well, I felt that way when I played Halo 2 and had to play as Arbiter, but playing the game years later I didn't mind it, and that's partially due to them developing Arbiter a bit more with Halo 3 and what have you. I just thought Locke was boring, and his teammates, including Buck didn't add much in terms of dialogue. I didn't dislike it like I did with Arbiter when I played Halo 2, but develop the character more with interesting moments and I think I can look back and not mind it as much.

If you want Halo 6 to be a hit 343i better make the campaign feel like Halo CE. More open, more mystery, more unknown around that corridor, better pace, better scale of powers (Opening scene set the bar to high, and then you were brought back down to reality in H5), do not Phuq up Cortana, or MC. Larger battles with more marines fighting along side MC, More MC being the ultimate bad ass! Zero loading screens. Kick ass cut scenes (H2 from MCC). Give the Guns real sounds not the same BS. It is as if the devs never shot a rifle!

AND FINALLY MORE BEING A MARINE not this politically correct bs. Sgt. Johnson would be ashamed [Mature Rating]. When was the last time you watched a war file,and the Marines were like "Golly Gee wiz"? I am not looking for a swear fest, but a few "F" bomb right after a few Marines tear $h!t Up would be nice!

*Warning* Multiple Spelling, and Grammar errors!!!!!!!!!!

Say what you will, but I thought Halo 4 had an excellent story. Halo 5 on the other hand had an awful story not just because of a lack of Chief, not just because Locke was a boring character, but because the whole relied too much on Spartan Ops and other expanded universe bs. It couldn't stand on its own and as a result, was more confusing than riveting.

As if I needed a reminder that 343 killed Halo. This article shows just how completely out of touch these companies are in this day and age. This guy was actually surprised that people want the campaign in a Halo game to primarily focus on Master Chief?? Wow, who would have thought?! It's not like he's been the main character and become synonymous with the franchise over the last 15+ years or anything like that. And to dig the hole deeper and say that Master Chief is just a vessel for you to play in, as opposed to an iconic video game character that people have become invested in? What is this dope even talking about?

Spartan Locke was NOT WHAT WAS WRONG WITH HALO 5 PEOPLE! Team Osiris has amazing potential in the world of Halo! And chief's hand full of missions didn't "ruin" it for me! IT WAS THE WRITING!! THROWING MORE MASTER CHIEF IN THE MIX WOULDN'T HAVE SAVED SHIT! YOU HALO FANS ARE THE SAME FANS THAT HATED HALO 4'S STORY! AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE BEST IN THE SERIES! HALO NEEDS GOOD WRITERS NOT A GET RID OF LOCKE AND MORE CHIEF CAMPAIGN!

First off, the beginning of this article is wrong! No one cares that we played as a different character, in Halo 2 we played as the Arbiter for about a third of the game. But we didn't care because the story was still dynamite. Halo 2 has one of the best campaigns, even if a few of the arbiters missions were some of the weaker ones in Halo 2. Locke was boring and his squad (except for Buck), is really lame. The story wasn't exactly what they were promoting with their advertisement, the mission layouts were kinda boring because of a lack of those huge set piece battles that halo is known for, and we only played as chief for 3 missions. More importantly, the prometheans are kinda boring bullet sponges and we ended up fighting the same boss around 7 times. Honestly, it's pretty simple to see the changes they need to make.

The Chief is just a vessel? What? Many of us spent YEARS following his full story in the novels and what not. I don't understand how the guy in charge of Halo 5, which brought back Blue Team, could say he's just an entry way for players...

I don't get how the advertisement was supposed to make the game itself a surprise to fans. The only thing I was surprised about was that there were no insurrectionists, crazy cults, uncertainty about the Chief's loyalty, or anything else that made Hunt the Truth interesting and exciting.

I'm also not sure why he's making the Chief out to be a blank slate avatar that players puppet around. The Halo novels flesh out his past and personality and paint a really good picture of who he is.

I bet Halo 6 reveal with Scorpio at E3.

What I want from Halo 6 is something totally different. At least in the single player. I don't know if that's some kind of open world Far Cry type game, or something like Destiny's 'MMO lite' approach, but after seven games of basically the same kind of thing, I'm pretty worn out. Halo 5 had no punch; it just felt old. Gears 4 kinda the same way. I don't need to relive the golden days of 360 shooters guys, all those games are backwards compatible (or you remastered them). I'm looking for the next evolution of console FPS games, not the one that was so popular everybody copied it for like 10 years.

I enjoyed playing as Spartan Locke then I did the Arbiter in Halo 2.... mainly cause the Arbiters missions were so stale. I don't see what the big fuss is about.

The story in Halo 5 was a great premise, but their execution was less exciting than it sounded on paper. I enjoyed it for what it was. Unfortunately, my buddies who were all Halo fans dropped off the bandwagon after 343 screwed up the Master Chief Collection. I didn't think it was such a big deal, I still play(ed) Halo and I love it. But maybe all of this is a good indicator where Halo is actually at, compared to where the devs think it's at.

I can't believe they didn't know this would happen when the same thing happened with Halo 2 and the Arbiter. Oh well. I haven't even played 5 yet. After how bad 4 was I didn't even bother.

Halo's story has become way too convoluted for me, it's a mess what they've done halo ce was so simple.

They have eight playable characters now, so it'd be a shame if they backed completely down to one.

They did exactly what was annoying in Halo 2 where you kept swapping characters. Super annoying. I dont mind playing from other prespective but I mainly want to play as Chief not a little bit of him.

While Halo 5's campaign was indeed lackluster but the main issue with Halo 5 however was the removal of Split-Screen in the first place and got a lot of backlash for that then the campaign. Whoever thought not having Split-Screen in Halo 5 needs to be fired.