The biggest gripe I have with 343 is that they played up the forerunners' importance. They're not supposed to be [i]shown[/i], dammit, that just reduces the charm and mystery they had in the main trilogy.
I'd rather they move on from the forerunners entirely and take the story in a different direction.
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I liked how one forerunner threatened the existence of the whole human race. 2 forerunners and we'd have all been composed
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...Or just Earth. Humanity is spread out pretty far in the Haloverse.
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After he'd done with Earth, he would have moved onto everyone else
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Edited by Lord Keksworth: 10/3/2014 8:39:14 PMWhich would still take a few centuries. Even a portion of a galaxy is a [i]huge[/i] area.
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I think they were shown in Legends. (The animated shorts.) So, it was kind of less a mystery after that.
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Legends was a retelling from an insane Cortana. Their portrayal was not accurate.
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I don't think she was insane, just starting to fall apart
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I didn't know about the 'insane' part actually.
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Rampancy, watch Forward Unto Dawn. Apparently the A.I's lifespan is 7 years, after that they get rampancy (go mad).
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I saw Forward Unto Dawn, and have played Halo 4. So I know about from there. I just didn't know she was going crazy in Legend. Or didn't remember. I also assumed the timeline was before Halo 3.
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Oh I see, sorry.
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I like how huge they made Master Chief. lol [spoiler]And one of the students called him a robot. I thought that was hilarious.[/spoiler]
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I know, that student should have been used as a meat shield.
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By the time 343i took over, there were already 2 fleshed out Forerunner characters from their perspective (Didact and Librarian were Bungie creations) and one war letter written by a third. Their was no longer any mystery about who they were or what their motives were, the mystery would just get old and stale after too long. we have the Precursors to cover that void (also a Bungie creation).
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The terminals never showed them to the degree that 343 did with the Forerunner Trilogy. Their motivations were [i]never[/i] a mystery - they rather clearly didn't want to be wiped out by the flood. I'm well aware the Didact, the Librarion, and Filial Devotion were Bungie creations. I'd rather their mystery go unsolved than have every answer and fact dumped at my feet like the Forerunner Trilogy did.
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Their motivations were actually thrown into doubt with the terminals, whether they were actually benevolent or an evolutionary roadblock--the entire Forerunner Saga is based largely on expanding the Terminal story and this theme presented in them.
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The terminals threw the repercussions of them being the leading species in the galaxy into doubt, not their moral standing. The question was whether they were really the shepherds the other species' needed, or were they just getting in the way of the other species' progress. The Librarian's standpoint was not so much 'we weren't as good as we thought' so much as it was 'we weren't as necessary as we thought'. It was not until the Trilogy that their morality came into play.