Thread 719227829

humans are forerunners
the last halo game was reach
fuck you fight me

I won't fight you because you're right and only retards disagree

the human covenant war is the only interesting aspect of the halo universe.

>>719227981
That's pretty much the only thing the games are about if you exclude the flood

>>719227829 (OP)
woah I literally never noticed the eyes at the top before

>>719227829 (OP)
>>719227981
If Reach was the last game then the idea of an AI shadow government could of been used on account of the Easter Eggs, but Halo 5 permanently tainted that idea.

>>719227829 (OP)
Technically humans can be considered forerunners because humans came out of the foreskin

>>719228057
wtf me neither. maybe the label on the box hides it?

I won't fight you because I'm not faggotarded enough to give a shit about video game lore.

What's that Plank? Plank says FPS games are midwits with no inner monologue.

>you will never boot up your Xbox for the first time in 2001 again
>you will never hear the opening music as Pillar of Autumn comes into view again
>you will never seamlessly jump in and out of a Warthog for the first time again
>you will never land on the beach of Silent Cartographer for the first time again
>you will never panic as floodlings charge you for the first time again
>you will never just make it to the longsword for the first time again

>>719228969
ed edd n eddy sucks, go back to /co/ ya fag

>>719227829 (OP)
>humans are forerunners
Based
>the last halo game was reach
Oh no a reachfag, I take that back.

>>719230946
Reach was fun

>>719227981
Why do you think 343 went to the Banished after their whole "yandere Cortana and her AI rebellion" shit went about as well as anyone would expect? Gutted it of the personality Wars 2 gave them, to make them edgier Covenant knockoffs, to justify a back-to-basics that fucked up royally anyway.

>>719230946
You used armor lock whenever I'd almost kill you, I used my jetpack to perch above you whenever you did, I killed you after you were done with your little blue cuck kneel every single time.
This is the reason you will forever be a shitter.

>>719231148
I don't play multiplayer, actually. Reach was just trash.

>>719230998
I didnt play Reach until 7 years after release because I thought it looked shit when I saw a video, but it was actually alright. In my opinion the only games worth playing single player are:

>CE
>ODST
>Reach

2 was such a disappointment from the moment I started playing it, after checking halo.bungie.org every day until release.

>>719231227
> I don't play multiplayer
Then you don't play Halo, I refuse to believe there are people who play Halo just for the campaigns.

>>719231148
Reach was good for its custom games.

>>719231126
Halo Infinite as a whole was 343i admitting their big failure with their previous Halo games, and even that ended up shitting the bed.

>>719231227
Not much of a fan of Reach, it reminds me why Halo 2 is my least favorite Bungie-Halo title.

>>719231148
>This is the reason you will forever be a shitter.
Ok Arnie, chill out

>>719230946
>Oh no a reachfag, I take that back.
He didn't say reach was amazing, just the last halo game.
I enjoyed it, though not as much as 2 or 3.

>>719231284
Different anon here, didn't grow up with broadband internet for a good long while until I moved to my current home back in 2008, but Xbox Live was never exactly a priority even then. So I got to indulge in bits of it but never accumulated online friends (and lost my original account to boot). And I sure as fuck am not paying for Xbox Live now to play the Master Chief Collection nor do I have good space for it on my PC half the time. So yeah, the Halo campaigns were my childhood experience and generally are what I still have today.
Honestly some part of me is half tempted to just slap my OG copies of 2, 3 and Reach in my Series X anyway despite having the MCC. Only had the PC port of CE though, so no dice there.

>>719231284
>I refuse to believe there are people who play Halo just for the campaigns
lol

>>719231370
I bought a case of that Gamerfuel stuff in preparation for Halo 3 back in 2007. Cracked open the first can upon popping the disc into my 360 after getting home from the midnight release

Nearly spat it out all over the carpet after taking my first swig, it tasted like cherry-flavored vomit, and this coming from someone who used to enjoy Code Red. It took me an entire year to get rid of that case of soda in any way I could.

>>719228132
Could HAVE
>>719228969
>FPS games are midwits
Eager for company are we?

>>719231284
I played 1 and 2s campaign a bunch because it's what my siblings and I had. Multi was only for local pvp (not exactly the full experience between 3 players) or map exploration. I didn't pvp proper until I played a bunch of reach at my friend's house, and haven't played any more since moving away.

>Bought MCC for a decent price
>Play through each game back to back
>having a good time with the bungie titles
>boot up halo 4
>it sort of look like halo
>but doesn't play like halo
343i didn't understand halo

>>719231148
No you really didn't do that to me. You know why?
I traded this trash in a couple of weeks after launch.

>>719232541
343i was trying to chase trends, they were looking at Call of Duty while making Halo 4.

I still don't understand how 343i managed to convince people Forerunners aren't human when 1, 2 and 3 (Ignoring some terminals that muddied the waters) outright had that as plot points.
It's also ignoring Contact Harvest, the best Halo Book.

>>719232847
It's been years since I read Contact Harvest, I don't remember where the Forerunner/Human deal comes up there, can you please refresh my memory.

>>719232847
the common talking point was that halo 3 retconned it with the terminals and that 343 guilty spark had simply gone insane explaining his comments.
also bungie themselves didn't consider the books canon either.

>>719232929
Merdicient Bias, one of the forerunner monitors, was founded by the Covenant and talked to the Prophets. The damn thing pretty much started humans at the very least are an evolutionary continuation of the forerunners after they wiped the galaxy clean using the Halo rings. This troubled the prophets greatly since this undermined the entire basis for the Covenant's existence and their understanding of the great gods. Hence the genocide campaign against humanity.

>>719233032
Nigger, look up who wrote Contact Harvest.

>>719233101
>look up who wrote Contact Harvest.

The fact Joe Staten wrote Contact Harvest always stood out as odd to me, because Johnson in Contact Harvest rarely sounds like the Johnson from the games. Contact Harvest Johnson just comes off as very generic.

I wonder what Frank O'Connor is up to lately.

>>719233360
>Contact Harvest was 2007
I guess it's a case of just interpreting the character differently in his head and on the page than making the scenes for the games.

Also add:
1) None of the books are canon. Not even the ones released during the bungie era.
2) Master Chief was the last spartan. Yes, even Jun did not survive reach.

Halo should just focus on making good campaign only games for a while, to build good will amongst the fanbase. Theres no point wasting time and resources on multiplayer if everyone just plays CoD and Battlefield instead. It could mean we get longer campaigns with smarter enemies as well.

>>719233813
I agree, but we both know that isn't happening.

I've always played Halo for its campaigns. Every now and then I'd dabble with online multiplayer, but I never bothered with it in MMC for any reason other than to build Spartan Points so I could unlock stuff to use in the campaign. All this time later I still don't have everything I want unlocked.

>>719233813
>>719234039
I don't disagree but for good campaigns they'd have to actually know that they're doing.

>>719227829 (OP)
>humans are forerunners
sounds fucking dumb, I liked the story when I was a dumb kid who didn't understand all the details and the forerunners were mysterious ayys whose tech you used for your own ends to save you from the flood in your own time.

>>719235170
Halo 1 wasn't really meant to be some grand story.

>>719235490
all I know is halo started out as this very down-to-earth military sci fi game, and MC's supposed "luck" was just that, luck, but he was really just an advanced elite soldier in this military that you followed, then they started to do some grand destiny chosen one bullshit and it just lost me. As ethereal as the music was and the unique atmosphere the alien megastructures brought, the framing of the whole thing was grounded in the military stuff, that combo gave it a special feeling which can still be felt with the disposable spartans in Reach. I really dislike what they did later, even if "uh achually that lore existed in the books" or whatever the fuck.

>>719235720
Bungie shared your feelings on that. They didn't even want the ODSTs in the games.