All I know is that there needs to be a serious re-evaluation of the creative/directorial lead at 343. Halo 5 might also be a victim of the Mattrick era too. A big problem is that there are people that believe Halo is a cinematic universe on par with Star Wars that can have Xbox TV shows, comic books, novels, and anime crap. The problem is 1) Halo's not -blam!-ing [b]Star Wars[/b] 2) The story has never been good enough to sustain that and 3) Halo 4 and Halo 5 were built around players having digested all the EU rather than (properly) using the EU as an extension outside of the games. For those of us that played Halo in 2001 there has been a noticeable crash in the quality of the games. We've gone from "Game of the Generation" contenders to "GOTY" contenders to games that aren't coming close to being even considered as one of the best releases of the year. Part of it is simply that nothing can last forever. Microsoft probably accelerated the process by releasing too many Halo games too quickly. Times change. You can only go to the same well so many times. I think what's most noticing is that the games aren't even as polarizing as they use to be. With Reach and Halo 3 you'd get God knows how many threads arguing how they aren't as good as the last game. People were passionate about Halo. Now they're not even making those posts. People just don't care like they used to.