The writing problems with Halo 5 seem so much smaller now that Paramount's Halo is out. I guess the main problem with Halo 5 is no splitscreen and paid-only multiplayer.

Oh yeah I remember now, they killed off the Didact and Jul in comics, right? 100% reactivity to the small negative reaction to Halo 4, and ended up pissing off everyone else. Still, not as bad as making gaming's biggest asexual icon a rapist.

[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I never even touched the tv show, but this is the example of my issues with H5's writing. So many cutscenes don't have natural beginning or endings. That's not to mention the outright dishonest advertising.

The other problem with modern Halo is that they wont commit to a villain. Halo 5, Halo: Spartan Ops/Escalation, Halo Wars 2, and Halo: Infinite all discarded the villain from the previous entry. Hell, Infinite discarded two villains that could have been longer narrative investments in the same game they were introduced in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's actually one of the best written scenes in Halo 5. The only thing holding it back is the bad mocap acting. Which is at its worst during this sorry display. And it makes no sense, because Halo 5 does have great animation

[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That one always stuck out with me because the scene starts with the conversation already going and it just ends without finishing. It needed to start about a minute earlier and end a minute later. Halo Wars 2 also had these issues where it felt like story elements are missing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It starts with "You're okay with this? Not just another target, you know." At that point in the story, we know Osiris is going after Chief, we know what Buck thinks of Chief (same as 99% of the UNSC), and we're about to learn what Locke thinks of Chief. That makes sense to me. Buck is using a pronoun instead of a noun to describe the mission, because the mission is what's on everyone's mind, audience and characters alike. He doesn't need to be specific, and Buck doesn't seem like the type of guy who gets all prim and proper about grammar and conversational etiquette. He sounds like a soldier.

It ends with "You're not the only one here because of him", and Locke walks away. Locke is a silent and stoic type who doesn't want to talk about his feelings, so he doesn't. We know he has some kind of history with Chief, and we know he doesn't want to talk about his past.

I dunno mate, it seems like both of these lines are just serving to help establish the characters and how they act. Buck is casual, Locke has a stick up his ass. Buck respects the Chief, Locke does too but he's got a job to do. They're not how a perfectly normal person would start or end this conversation, but we're not being shown perfectly normal people. We're being shown a guy with an above average amount of social intelligence, and a guy with none. These lines make sense and they give us information. They tell us that the mission to hunt down the Chief is on everyone's mind. They tell us who these characters are and what they value.