idk if id say bungie did worse even with reach but still you have a point 343 has had 1 Attempt and its a pretty good first attempt considering they didnt have an outline this time unlike with Halo:CE Anniversary
Halo CEA was a good game because they only had to update it. With Halo 4 now they had free rein to do whatever they wanted with the story and frankly people need to quite having soo many problems with it because lets face it if they wanted to they could have had John take off his helmet in the end and Ruin the franchise
/ODST wasnt bad the reason people dont like it is cause its different tho not that much different because remember Halo 3 all you had was a shield too besides HW was worse XD least in my opinion