Emotional Qualms with one of H5: Guardians' possible paths

[NoobishTitan]

To all you beautiful people in the Halo community, could you please address a very dire issue to me?

It's that of extra content (such as books and comics) being so caught up as canon, that it takes away from the actual game's experience (by itself)..

Take Mass Effect 3 for example. That game started out and things had happened inside comics and outside lore that the people who didn't take the time to buy them were completely and totally confused.

Or Assassin's Creed (spoiler). There was an entirely missing sequence (supplied inside DLC) where it is revealed that Lucy is a Templar and that isn't even explained until you actually do something about that later on, or even for me, by the time the next game came out.

One of my biggest fears is that the people, who haven't spent hours on the internet watching as much as they can for Halo as they possibly can, will be totally confused with Halo 5: Guardians' storyline.

Also a fear is that 343i will try to fix this all up by doing a five minute recap at the beginning of the game to explain who Blue Team is and why they're back together again...

It doesn't look very hopeful but I have faith. Don't get me wrong, Halo is pretty much my entire life, I just don't want to see them going down this road.

So what I'm asking here is if you could ease my mind in any way of this fear or should we all just sit it out until it either comes out or further information is released.

Thank you for your time and patience, have a wonderful day

One of your newest additions,

-NoobishTitan

[Caboose The Ace]

Maybe I correct you an say it was clarified in Revelations that Lucy was a Templar.

And there was a ton of scenes in Assassins Creed 3 about it.

 

As for Mass Effect, I never read the books or comics and I 100 percent knew what was going on in Mass Effect 3.

 

As for Halo 5.....

 

I agree it is confusing for people who have not read the books like halo 4 was.

 

But with a bit of common sense you can figure it out. ( From the stuff we have seen so far )

 

Blue Team are a bunch of Spartan II's and Chief's old squad.

 

The Didact is a Forerunner. ( That one confused people in Halo 4 )

 

 

 

In conclusion, I don't think anything in Halo 5 or Halo 4 is too hard to follow if you pay expert attention. Though stuff is pretty vague  ( Like the Storm Covenants Origins ) but if you just care about shooting stuff, its fine.

 

 

 

Edited September 9, 2015 by Caboose The Ace

[Unease Peanut]

You don't necessarily need to read any books or comics to understand what Halo 5 is about. The comics and books only enrich your experience.

I believe Grim on the Waypoint forums gave out a guide on what you should catch up on if you want that enriched experience in Halo 5, but he assured you that you didn't need it.

[BATMAN]

I'm more with the "wait and see" crowd; As I've had Halo: Reach spoiled for me about a week before release. I like going dark before a video game releases, so it'll be an entirely new thing for me, rather than being able to anticipate everything before it happens.

 

Plus, to me, it's a video game. Even if I don't know what's going on, I'm just trying to gave fun; And I'm perfectly okay with that.

[BaconShelf]

I played mass effect trilogy and understood what was happening fine. 

 

My opinion is that if you can't be bothered to even look at a halopedia summary of a character, then you probably don't care enough about the story to have it really matter. 

 

Still, ToaFreak/ HaloCanon is doing a Halo 5 primer for those who haven't read the books. 

 

But, you can't expect to have a rich/ deep story in a game by solely relying on the game itself (Unless it's an RPG). You simply can't get in the amount of characterisation. The recent Halo media has been about introducing and characterising the new characters- Vale, tanaka, Buck (Post-ODST), Locke have all been brought into the fold with Hunters in the Dark, Escalation #17 and #18, New Blood and Nightfall, respectively. anyone who likes Halos story and still thinks John was the only spartan by this point in the franchise has been living under a rock. Besides, the only way you can't understand what is going on in Halo 4 (Example) is if you weren't paying attention. If you can't even pay attention to character dialogue, then that's your fault. Everything you needed to know for Halo 4 was supplied in the game, well enough (Even without terminals). Well, you could make an argument for the Covenant, but people who think that an entire species would be truly united obviously don't watch the news.

 

So, TL;DR. If you're too lazy to pay attention in-game or to go read a summary on the internet, 343 should not cater the story to you. It's not fair on the people who would be getting repaet informstion, nor those who spend their money on the expanded universe content, only to get it ignored or negated in game (Like bungie did in their reign of the series.)