Yeah this probably isn't the best place to talk about halo 4 since its no longer from bungie but since they started it i feel its appropriate. Elites joined back with covenant and no more brutes i can live with. But now there are promethains and a promethain leader that has been locked up and that the mastercheif is the "chosen one" and gets special powers because he is the only one that can defeat him. Cortana has gone crazy and is basically dead, not to mention there wasnt even a single trace of good old flood at any point ( which i feel really makes halo good). And there is only one time they really bring up a halo ring even with the whole game being focused on the forerunners, I just think 343 went a little to far off of the original topic and added a ton of emotion to the game. Good game, bad story.