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What a stupid opinion....
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Why? This is why the Halo community is dying. Vet players that think they hold some insane level of superiority over all newcomers. Embrace the newcomers and teach them of the past. Don't just be an idiot for the sake of being an idiot.
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Indeed I completely agree.
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I'm glad you agree, even though we're mortal enemies with completely different viewpoints on Halo 3. ;)
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Thats ok. To each their own I had to get into something since they ruined my collectathon and adventure genre. RIP Jak, Zelda and Rare. I think Halo 3 has its negative points to be honest I only enjoyed it because of 1-50. Probably why I switched to black ops 2 to play league.
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Well......no why would you start a series at the forth instalment. How could you enjoy a game you simply won't understand?
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If you really feel this way, I'd assume you haven't played Halo 4. It's a game that you can certainly get into without knowing too much about the past games. It's like a new beginning. You also have to think about the mp only perspective. MP doesn't need any sort of story for someone to get into. I for one know that I wouldn't have gotten brought into the Halo universe if it wasn't for mp. Now I enjoy all aspects of the game.
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*Looks at copy of Halo 4* *looks at Limited Halo 4 controller* *looks at complete collection of Halo games* Nah, I didn't play any of those. Do you really think, anyone would play Halo 4, without touching or knowing anything about the other games, story wise, and understand what the hell is happening? Why is Cortana going nuts? Who the -blam!- are the Covenant, am I a green robot?, Why do people treat me like a god, did I do something good?, why was I asleep for so long? is this just how my story begins? Like Pandorum without the inbred fleshies? Sure you can play this game without somehow knowing what Halo is, maybe your too young to understand stories, but if you consider yourself a gamer there is no way you would touch this game without at least knowing that they won't understand this. You could buy it for the multiplayer sure, but without knowing it's past achievements, why would you? And personally I feel Halo 4 doesn't correctly present to what we all know is Halo multiplayer.
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Edited by BaconShelf: 3/12/2014 10:54:59 PMYeah. It explains in the Prologue what Chief/ SPARTANs are. It explains at least once in the campaign what is happening to Cortana- [quote]Chief, do you even know what rampancy is? (I forget this bit, but technical stuff), we literally think ourselves to death.[/quote] -Reclaimer, Halo 4 Admittedly, the Storm Covenant aren't amazingly well explained but even so, anyone who believes that Humans and Elites will suddenly be BFF's after 28 years of killing (Again, seen in prologue) without any splinter groups is an idiot. And on the first mission, there is a terminal that you press that gives a quick summary of the events of Halos 1, 2 and 3. I'm not trying to flame or anything, but pretty much everything you need to know is explained in the game- but most of that stuff (you listed) was never explained in Halos 1-3 (The relevant ones anyway)
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Edited by Another Nephron: 3/12/2014 10:54:49 AMI'm afraid I don't fully agree with you - and I'm drawing from my own experiences on this. I started the series at Halo 3 (until then I had only owned a PS2, so Halo was completely new to me, though I had heard friends talking about it). I would argue it's harder to pick up the story at this stage than Halo 4, due to the cliffhanger ending previously. I had a fair idea of who I was (the guy in awesome armour), and who the bad guys were (the funny little triangle guys and their big monkey pals). Yeah, I had no idea of the plot or anything, but that did not take away from the experience - I was hooked from my first time playing. And as I progressed, I picked up things here and there - I was a Spartan, the enemy were the Covenant who wanted to activate the Halo rings (oh so THAT'S where the game's name comes from!). It was a journey of discovery, and by the time it came to the showdown with Truth, I had a basic idea of what was going on. But finishing the game led me to want to get the first two games and discover what had come before, which I did. This led to a much more thorough understanding of the lore, and made future playthroughs of Halo 3 a new experience. Just because someone joins late, doesn't mean they can't get something out of the story. At the time, I wouldn't have considered myself a massive gamer (though the definition of that is debatable) but I had gamed nonetheless. However if I had never picked up Halo 3 and thought 'yeah I'll give it a go, despite it being number 3' then I doubt I'd have the same love of games today - it truly was the game that made me appreciate games for all their aspects - music, story, multiplayer - and all the rest!