My sentiments exactly. Story not only changed established canon, but even if you looked at it as it's own isolated story it still wasn't good. The plot holes were huge and on the mulitplayer side of things it introduced armour abilities and loadouts, which carried into Halo 4. Most of it's multiplayer maps were terrible as well.
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Ya Halo Reach, or better yet, Destiny Prototype, was just made to make money and shit on the canon
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My theory was that it was Bungie's middle finger to Microsoft. Since they were forced to make Reach before they left, they decided to F with Microsoft's most important game franchise. I know it's likely not true, but I like to believe it is, since I can't come up with any other logical reason for them to do what they did.