Alright, when I saw Halo writer I thought Brian Reed and almost had a heart attack. Really glad it's Staten, now show the gameplay already
@spitfire-six said:
@GreySeal9: Explain Aggressively shitty ?
Halo, for all intensive purposes, has a really interesting universe (although at the end of the day it's just really hardcore sci fi) but holy crap is the narrative all over the place. I love Halo's lore but it's confusing as f*ck especially in Bungie's games. Halo's story has always rewarded people who went out and read the books, the graphic novels and comics and not people who only played the games. The story in the games are so reliant on you knowing about the expanded universe that if for example you played Combat Evolved and never read Fall of Reach or Ghost of Onyx you're going to have trouble telling which way is up and down.
Having a cool setting or universe isn't enough, you need to have good narrative. That's one of the reasons people praise games like The Last of Us because even though it's setting and story were generic it's narrative overshadowed it.
As someone who's played Halo since 2002, I had to watch this video several times over to understand what was going on. If this was solely EU material it wouldn't be an issue, but this knowing this is crucial to understanding plot elements in Halo CE and Halo 4. That is not how developers and writers should structure their stories. I shouldn't have to go and read books and comics to understand crucial plot points in main titles.
Hopefully they don't pull the same sh*t in ReCore and make it where you need to get EU material to understand the plot in the main game.
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