Adam Root4me

The story sucked, gameplay was good but not on the scale of Halo 3, and the "feel" of the campaign was no where near as great as Reach's... The set up and execution of Reach's campaign was better than even Halo CE's; it was a story of hopelesness and survival, not a grand dramatic tale about being a super soldier hopping around the gaalxy blowing everything up, it was subtle but great, with nice gameplay too. Also (due to my obsessive behavior in fixing things I deem not right) in 3 hours I came up with a slightly altered Halo 4 campaign plot which fills in all the cracks, completely makes sense (Because some of it was a tad silly), and builds up to a grand ending. It just saddens me that in 3 hours I was able to do what 343's story team clealy didn't have the ability to do, why? They're the well paid, talented, and respected individuals whose job it is, so why couldn't they?

Twin Reaper I meant why was he so intent on composing human intelligence into machines, the composer does many things and I'm assuming he could simply set it to kill, and then build a promethian army using ai. I meant why aren't the suits controlled by AI, not why doesn't cortana control the suit while master chief is in it. I meant why doesn't the chief have 2 slots. And Master Chief did go through the portal at the end of Halo 3, how could he have not? The terminals in Halo 3 indicate that mendicant bias changed the portal destination. The Didact was against the creation of the Halo Array, this is very much clear, and the Covenant had in their meddling attempt to fire it for no reason also released the flood. Apparently the storm covenant are a break off from after Halo 3 (Because not all coveneant would just believe that their religion and way of life is a lie), I think this would make more sense than a covenant group which was completely un aware of events happening for years, they would still have been able to make contact whilst in slipspace or whatever. It is just silly. I wish you would look at it from a neutral perspective, also like I said, I don't care if my version does'nt match up with the books, the games are primary cannon and my version makes much more sense from their perspective. Love story is silly, she's the librarian, if she was serious she would just do it, it's yet again another excuse for bad writing. Your points 7 and 8 just further try to reinforce the bad writing (and you didn't seem to understand what I was saying), it doesn't make sense, my points clearly outlined why it doesn't; she is comunicating with you whilst in the composer's systems, but yet she has no way to comunicate herself out? She's an ai she can copy herself all she wants, she wasn't damaged or anything that makes no sense, she had transfered herself to the composer's systems when the console was destroyed and was clearly comunicating to and recieving comunication data from the chief via some sort of wireless data transfer. And the forerunners are crazy techno geniuses, if an innocent seeming forerunner surviving on a shield world says I can fix you you wouldn't ignore him. Also I meant there isn't a laser spree medal. I really don't care anymore, I'm just gonna leave this website forever.

Implying the books help much at all beyond filling in some definitions and providing more crap to fill in the gaps.

k The bolt shot glitch is where you spam reload straight after you fire a charged shot and it insta reloads, and your explanations/excuses for the campaign's flaws aren't satisfactory (nothing personal it's the original writing that's at fault not your inability to find a reason why), hence why I gave an alternative which makes a whole lot more sense. Also you shouldn't have to find a reaosn why something makes sense, that's kinda a dead give away it's not written properly.

I'll take that as a compliment

I've got it backed up in a word document; COME AT ME MODS.

Spartan Ops: Infinite respawns without reverting to a checkpoint means anyone can complete it on Legendary, give us an infinite mode which doesn't unlock acheivments, give us a 1 life mode which unlocks acheivments. As it is I only play it with the intention to restart if I die, because otherwise it is so damn boring. Campaign has checkpoints which is very different from infinite respawns, also it has skulls so if you wanted to you could make it restart if you died. War Games: Bolt shot glitch needs fixing, other than that Bolt Shot could maybe do with a shorter ohk range. No snipe, perfection or stick medals? wtf? No laser medal? wtf? A medal for rocket kills? wtf? No carnage report? wtf? Would be nice if we could have a secondary as a primary if we so wished. Would be cool if pistol was slow but powerful (like Halo CE). Where's the multi team at? Where's the forge maps at? (Think how many maps were in Reach multiplayer) Action Saaaaaaaack, but this time with lots of fun game modes, think Halo 3. Starting with 2 pulse grenades would be nice, but they can be quite powerful so I can see why not. Campaign: Is the didact composing the human race into Promethians to enslave them so that they can serve the Forerunners as he sees they should? (Rhetorical question) Or is he actually using humans instead of highly advanced combat ai that would be capable of tracking a grenade mid flight and shooting the fuse out whilst literally flipping, dodging bullets and snapping necks with whatever limbs are not currently sniping heads. Also why use spartans controlling Mjolinr arnor, why not use ai for the above mentioned reasons? Think how far the chief would have got without Cortona figuring out and hacking all the stuff she does. As proof of how fast she is able to react (as if being a super advanced ai isn't good enough) she uploaded herself into what ever of the Composer's systems she could get into when she saw the Didact about to fire at the console. Also it's full retard that they threw the curve ball of- Oh Cortana's rampancy came in handy in taking down the Didact's shields. No just no, she has been able to hack into EVERYTHING so far ever within seconds, and all she did was basically upload a computer virus that she could have created herself anyway, if anything her being rampant would hinder the process. Why doesn't Master Chief's suit have 2 of those data chips so that if the data chip gets destroyed (which there is clearly a high risk of the looking at the amount of times she needs to be removed in order to interact with stuff) there is a live copy of cortana still there? Because she is able to hear and see what the master chief is seeing (her talking to him could just be her vibrating the hard light) she there for must have a way of recieving and there for sending signals, she also cleary had a good few seconds before the systems she was inhabiting shut down. So being able to send signals and having a few seconds why could she have not have sent herself to the infinity or anywhere on Earth? This seems quite plausable. "Cheif wait let me send myself to the infinity real quick and I'll leave behind a little program which will save you when you detonate it." By this point she would have already done this, especially considering all the time chief was crawling to the nuke and then staring at the Earth. Didact doesn't kill you when he first sees you, I see absolutley no reason why he couldn't have used his jedi powers to hold you while the elites and promethians shot you up, does he perhaps wish to enslave you also? The composer is exposed when it's firing, why couldn't the Infinity have shot that thing to pieces? "You go stop it chief, if you can't stop it in time we'll be waiting for him to fire it so we can shoot it, we'll probably get all the mac guns and other ships and stuff to shoot it too." I understand that the ship is massive but come on, the time between it opening and masterchief blowing it up was quite some time really. The librarian has temporary control over the Promethians? Why does this change when suddenly the Didact is freed? The Didact clearly had a way of comunicating and interacting with stuff outside of his little prison so why would they still not work for him. It would make sense if the Librarian had simply got Mendicant Bias to change the portal at the end of Halo 3 to bring you to reqiuem, but no the writing is yet again stupid. So... the librarian planned the development of the human race to the extent of the Master Chief existing and coming to Reqiuem (the forerunners weer capable of this but not destroying the flood....), so there for she would have been fully aware how the covenant would develop so as counter act for this so that Master Chief ends up on Reqiuem. However she does nothing that would have prevented them from being a threat, she actually makes it so they wreak havok on the human race; is she some kind of massive wimp? The Didact loves the mantle, but the Didact is happy to be allies with the Covenant when they just got through with trying to wipe out all life in the galaxy because of some religious pursuit after they stupidly misinterperuted his races existance. This would imply that the Didact must be forgiving, but he doesn't seem very forgiving of the human race which had just got through with protecting ALL life in the galaxy from said threat. Also I get the gist that apparently the Librarian moved the Didact to Reqiuem... and then she went through the effort of planning out the development of the galaxy so that you could come to Reqiuem to kill him? WTF?! If she had temporary control over the promethians for what ever reason then why not have them kill him? Is she some kind of wimp? Answer; No. :SPOILER: The Libraraian is just some crazy sociapathic who likes to seriously with people when she's not designing crazy ass head gear. http://images1.wikia...ian_closeup.png Look at that Balla ass style This is what I mean when I say the Halo 4 campaign isn't very well explained. >inb4 fan boys cry at the realisation that the Halo 4 story isn't perfect. My Halo 4 story (it's pretty brilliant if I'm smug about it): Now the Didact was aware of what was happening with the Halo installation and knew that if he waited the Humans would win with both sides taking casualties (he hates both sides and so they are weak enough for him to conquer later on) and the Halo installation would be destroyed (he hates this also). He does not wish for both sides to necessarily be destroyed (The sanctity of life due to the whole Mantle thing) but merely to essentially enslave them via the composer. The Didact changed the portal to send Master Chief (and not the Arbiter) to Reqiuem because only a reclaimer can free the Didact (after he was imprisoned there due to trying to enslave the human race for his own satisfaction) and because the Didact wishes to meet Master Chief. The Didact made the Covenant and the UNSC aware of his presence after the war and adjusted the portal location so that the Forward Unto Dawn drifting to Reqiuem will coincide for when the Covenant arrive and UNSC arrive, Cortona wakes up the Chief when they recieve a signal from infinity after infinity arrived. The Didact then contacts him and says he is glad to see so many reclaimers, he says he has been awaiting the arrival of a reclaimer to awaken him but that he was awoken prior by a security risk when this faction called the Covenant arrived armed with some kind of forerunner defense ai (promethians), he says they think he's some kind of god and they've beaten back his sentinals and caused them to get to defensive and identify everything as a threat (because they're not about to allow even a reclaimer get away with trying to free the didact) and locked him in the center of the planet. He also offers a cure to Cortana's rampancy. This is the first the majority of players would have heard of the Didact and so they would believe him to be good. The covenant have been lead to believe that they have found a forerunner army (promethians) and have found the coordinates for Reqiuem, and they wish to defend it, so this coincides well with what the humans believe. The player would even see it from the covenant's point of view. Master Chief and Cortana believe this all to be reasonable but don't understand why the portal changed and sent them else where and why this all coincided so well with the Infinity and Covenant turning up at the same time, when they question the Didact he says he does not know and that he does not know of anything that has happened since he went into cryo sleep after he fired the halo rings, he says something must have gone wrong for he has been awaiting the arrival of a reclaimer which clearly has never come. Things look bad but one of the covenant ships breaks rank and fires on the others, it is revealed that this is an undercover heretic ship with the shipmaster being the Arbiter himself. The first few levels proceed as normal with everyone getting sucked inside (Didact says it's part of the planet's defenses), the chief finding and going to the core but with the covenant/promethians and humans/heretics beating back the sentinal's defenses along the way (3 way fight like in campaign). The chief makes his way to the core with aid from the infinity (the didact even is helpful to show the infinity a fore runner docking bay to use), so the covenant/promethians and humans/heretics beating back the sentinal's defenses and eachother (Mean while the Didact gains sick amusement that the Chief is humanity's hope and the Infinity is humanity's jewel and they are killing what are essentially humans and the human's protectors). But when he frees the Didact the Didact laughs, explains how Master Chief has been tricked and proceeds to capture the masterchief and imprision the Infinity in the docking bay for composition into Promethians later on as he wishes to have humanity's hero and humanity's jewel as his slaves (he keeps the covenant as an ali to help him defeat the humans and that afterwards he will compose them also, he explains this and everything else to the chief and Infinity). By everything else I mean including how it is the Forerunners duty to uphold the Mantle, to protect all life in the Galaxy, and that humans are destructive and not fit reclaimers to uphold the Mantle; and that this is why he enslaving them and eventually the covenant to the one true race that is capable of such a feat. All seems lost while he remains trapped and under promethian and covenant guard, a patrol of covenant comes to take over for the prior guard, and when they leave it is revealed that this patrol is an under cover group of heretics one of which is the Arbiter. They free the chief and them along with the remaining infinity ground units take out the gravity well, free the infinity and fight off the covenant/promethian forces that are boarding it. The infinity goes back to Earth (with some covenant and promethian forces in tow) to warn Earth, and prepare a defensive while the Master Chief, Cortana, Arbiter, some of the Infinity's forces and the Arbiter's Heretic ship chase after the Didact's forces which have retreated into the planet to regroup and where the Didact is preparing to board his ship. So the aformentiond lead an assualt to the layer of Reqiuem which the covenant and the Diact reside to destroy it, the chief destroys it with a nuke while the others flee, ghost dash escape happens and they emerge and regroup to chases down the didact and his forces further. The didact escapes the explosion on his ship however. The Librarian contacts the Human/Heretic Forces saying that she's been trying to contact them but the didact and covenant had been preventing her from (destroying their crib stopped their signal jamming), she tells where the composer is and says she can fix cortana and provide her information on how to control the composer and more if Cortana passes her tests and reaches metastabilty, she says she has her doubts after trusting an ai before (she later talks about mendicant bias). Master Chief, Cortana and Arbiter go to the Librarian via an altered pelican level, while others head to the composer as the Didact is. When Master Chief gets to the Librarian it is revealed that the Librarian will try and help get Cortana to Metastability and if she survives she will allow her control of the composer and more, and that Master Chief needs to go as it could be some time until Cortana survives or not. Master Chief keeping a copy of the current Cortana is seen as dangerous and would hinder Cortana trying to Reach metastability, also the Master Chief and Arbiter are altered so the Composer does not recognise them. They join the fight against the Didact and follow him to the composer where everything proceeds as normal, the composer fires, has no affect on them, and they immedietly go in pursuit like before. However this time when they meet the Didact he confronts them un armed but with a dilema to highlight the human's inability to uphold the mantle, he has had rigged a self destruct on the area where the Librarian resides on reqiuem if the composer is destroyed and to prove his point further he calmy walks up and hands chief the button to self destruct the composer and his ship, he even opens a holographic/hard light com link straight to where he knew the Librarian was the whole time so that he can talk/see cortana. He ofcourse does all of this in the most smug way possible, perhaps even with a sarcastic slow clap when Arby and the Chief approach the composer. He wanted to break Humanity's greatest hero in a way he's never been tested before; ancient evil awakens! (Wether this was his original plan or a back up plan after his previous one of capturing the Chief and Infinity failed will be left up to the player's decision.) The Arbiter doesn't take kindly to the chiefs hesitation and a scuffle ensues whilst the Didact looks on in laughter, eventually a recently metastability Cortana convinces chief via facing him after generating a form of herself with hardlight that it's okay, she's okay now, and that he needs to push that button. When the chief reluctantly pushes the button (the player pushes the button after battling the arbiter via a similair quick time sequence, and if you don't push it in time the Didact laughs and kills you both while the Earth gets destroyed, so an alternate but non cannon ending) due to Cortana's metastability allowing her to think clearly the Didact doesn't take to kindly to being wrong. While chief looks on in despair the Arbiter mocks the Didact, Didact telekinecticaly grabs the Arbiter and mini boss battle ensues between Didact and Chief/Arbiter where you have to shoot his hands in order to break his telekinectic link, and if you don't break the link when he grabs the arbiter he swiftly kills him and then turns to you. They fight their way to where infinity had blasted a whole and shot a warthog in, classic halo warthog dash to the end while sad halo music plays, as this time cortana is not accompanying you. And the best part is the chief will always know that he didn't act quickly and caused the deaths of many more citizens, there by proving the Didact right that humans are not fit to uphold the mantle, not even the bravest of them all (The Didact should die laughing whilst saying this). It shows that he is human and not this killing machine which does everyhting for the good of humanity, it shows that he has weakness, it destroys the heroic auro that his name brings. So who else agrees that my version thought up in a couple of hours is better than 343's/bungie's that was thought up over a period of years? (Rhetorical question; as you can tell I'm quite annoyed at the story I was given). I mean, mine makes sense in all the ways 343i's did not, and especially it makes SLIGHTLY more sense to peolple who havn't read the books. >inb4 people who have read the books complain because they liked the feeling of superiority. I mean come on 343i so obviously skimped out on stuff so that you guys would feel a little more special, it's such a cheap tactic. I haven't read all the books and if there are any conflicts with the books I don't really care; The games are primary cannon The books aren't always written that well anyway We shouldn't be hindered because of what the books say (resort to the games being primary cannon rule). With Halo 3 they ignored the books somewhat and people got over it. Soo... Thoughts? I think it's a pretty groovy story I've come up with, considering the time span too I'm sure it could get better if I had spent years on it.... *cough* *cough* Although yes, I didn't create a story from scratch I altered it, so I'll give them that I guess, but still the difference I made in a couple hours. Also I'm aware I'm not exactly being modest about it but do I look like I care? Short answer; no. Anyway contrary to (perhaps) popular belief I'm actually compleetly open to criticism (as long as it's not arrogant fan boy hate), so fire away! Edit: I can't get anyone of the bulletin points to space out more than 1 line, while I can get it to space out 2 in other places... I can't figure it.

First off how does cortana manipulate a light bridge to create and maintain a sphereical shield, and use it to create a form of herself (and some how seeing and hearing you too), when the light bridge and the systems she was in were destroyed by the nuke? When you shut down the shield around it why couldn't orbital cannons or a ship then fire upon the composer? If the librarian was capable of planning ahead so as to bring you to Reqiuem why couldn't she do anything about the covenant? She must have been fully aware of their existance and how they would progress so as to compensate so that you end up on requiem. It is not explained in the game but are we to assume she had Mendicant Bias change the portal at the end of Halo 3 to bring you to Reqiuem? Why go all complicated with her being able to plan the growth of all species in the galaxy (whilst allowing the covenant to still go on a killing spree), why not just say she changed the portal at the end of halo 3? Why were the Forerunners and Humans at war with eachother when the flood was such a threat? Surely the humans could have told them the pickle they were in and asked for help? When they created the composer why was the Didact using it on humans for the purpose of turning them into Promethians? Why not just use combat AI in a promethian body? Why use normal everyday humans? And whyd oes he have this xenophobic grudge against the human race? Seems a bit silly for the main villain to want to destroy the human race just because. Why does the Didact not kill you when he first sees you, does he wish to compose you for some reason? And when the Forerunners found out about Didact killing humans with the Composer why did they nice and safely imprision him where he survived to this day? This is the first Halo game where I felt the story was improperly explained because if they did it would highlight how it didn't make sense, you just have to take for granted that things happened because they did. 343i you have failed at making a Halo story but succeeded at creating a CoD inspired one, please address this.