Halo 3 Forum

" I love Halo as much as the next guy Smug. But Halo 3's story was shit. "

 As science fiction, the Halo story is pretty ordinary. It hearkens back to the pulps of the thirties and such classics as E.E. (Doc) Smith's Lensman Series (excellent material for a game of it's own, by the way) and Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future.  Even so, it has ten times the story of your average non-japanese game, and that, combine with excellent voice acting and endearing characters--along with the novelizations, has made it an epic that has captivated it's fans for years. Unfortunately the single player experience and the story, took a definite back seat to the online multi-player part of the game, after Halo 2, and the trend culminated in a distinctly brief and painfully truncated single-player conclusion to the story in Halo 3. One can only dream about what the game COULD have been, had less resouces been, in this writer's opinion at least, squandered on the multiplayer aspect.

" WinterSnowblind, I have played all Halo games. I don't hate them. I still play Halo 3 once in a while.  I've had a blast with 3's campaign in 3-player Co-Op. The Halos are good, worthwhile FPS games.But anyone who has anything positive to say about Halo 3's story, plot, writing or execution needs help. Badly. "

"Play Halo, then play something like Fallout 3, or even read a good book. Then tell me Halo doesn't have a half-baked story.  "

" @AgentJ said:

" Play Halo, then play something like Fallout 3, or even read a good book. Then tell me Halo doesn't have a half-baked story.  "

So wait, Saving the wasteland by purifying water sounds pretty epic, right?   My favourite authors are sci-fi writers like Assimov, Baxter and Clarke and I love the Halo story and have yet to read a single Halo book.  Don't instantly dismiss a story just because you went into the game with a predisposition. "

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" @Vecta said:

" @AgentJ said:

" Play Halo, then play something like Fallout 3, or even read a good book. Then tell me Halo doesn't have a half-baked story.  "

So wait, Saving the wasteland by purifying water sounds pretty epic, right?   My favourite authors are sci-fi writers like Assimov, Baxter and Clarke and I love the Halo story and have yet to read a single Halo book.  Don't instantly dismiss a story just because you went into the game with a predisposition. "

Not at all. It doesn't take a predisposition to realize that Halos story is pretty weak. Lets review: A space Marine has to take out a bunch of evil aliens that want to kill all the humans. If it went into more of the lore within the game maybe my opinion would be different, but the first two games are exceedingly bland, while the third one trys to make some sort of twist out of Chiefs relationship with Cortana while nothing actually happens concerning that relationship until the very last level.  "

Congratulations, you shorted down a story to a single line and made it sound shallow....  "Lets Review:" Did you know in The Lord of the Rings that a hobbit takes the evil ring to a volcano and destroys its. Sounds pretty epic right? How about in Star Wars; The Rebels try to destroy the Galactic Empire. Sounds even more epic.  Or how about when I said for Fallout 3 "Saving the wasteland by purifying water sounds pretty epic"? I guess you didn't pick up on that.  You can make anything sound stupid and shallow by turning it into a One line summary. "