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originally posted in: Does anyone dislike Halo?
9/13/2015 2:43:00 AM
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Because I noticed too many contradictions with canon and when it came to stuff from the Forerunner Saga too many things that just didn't really fit in Halo or belong in the series for whatever reason (either not fitting the way the genre was executed or the themes, and so on). And the writing in Halo 4 felt rather simplistic to me and like the new characters weren't very well-developed or written. I think Halo 4 (and the rest of 343i's work with the story) probably would have been just fine if it was the start of its own, new IP/series, at the worst it would have simply been average and not really any better or worse than most of the games and series out there these days, it's mostly as a [i]Halo[/i] game and part of the series that it's particularly bad or insufferable...so yeah, if it were something standalone and the start of a new story that had nothing to do with Halo, I'd have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. I'm not sure whether it'd have been a series I'd like or one that I'd enjoy, but I wouldn't actually have any problems with it at all.
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  • Oh wow, thanks for explaining all of this! Half of this stuff I had no idea about. You went in depth, too. Your posts actually have effort in them! :D

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  • She didn't explain anything. She asserted with no evidence.

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  • OrderedComa?

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  • That is correct. She certainly explained why she felt the way she felt but feelings don't mean much in a lack of evidence; she gave no concrete examples, is what I am saying.

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  • Oh, I had no idea Coma was a female. Well you may be right, but she still supplied me with quite a bit of information.

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  • No problem, with people I haven't talked to before and haven't really seen my thoughts or opinions on the subject of Halo I definitely try to put at least effort in...I get quite a bit lazier if it's someone that I've talked/debated/argued about it with before ^^' If you don't mind getting stuff spoiler for you and actually want [i]specific[/i] details about all of the stuff that I consider to be contradicting canon and/or as not really fitting in the series, you can read [url=http://princessarien.deviantart.com/journal/Halo-and-Why-I-Hate-the-Current-Writers-362092601]through this[/url] and the comments section on it to see all of my thoughts on it......though I will put it out there as fair warning, I wrote that mainly as a way to blow off steam and when I was [i]extremely[/i] frustrated/angry so there's a fair amount of cursing and ranting in the actual journal itself :/ For the most part I avoided that in the comments, but still, thought I should let you know and throw that little bit of warning out there so you wouldn't be surprised by any of it if you decided to read it....I really should write up a calm, edited, proof-read, cohesive version of that so I have an easy way of consistently explaining my opinion on the current state of the Halo series in future >_> 'Cause I'm not really all that sure I want people reading that whole unedited, stream of consciousness rant there whenever I need to sum it all up XD

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  • I am saving that article for later, it was a good read and says much of what I have been saying all along. Thank you for that.

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  • You're quite welcome, glad to have been a bit of assistance...I hope sometime that I can basically re-create that at some point as a more well thought out and actually edited piece. It's not like I'm ashamed of that particular journal entry or any anything, but it doesn't really serve the intended purpose all that well...or at least as well as I'd want it to. I feel like I could do a much better and more comprehensive job.

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  • Yeah I'll do that sometime! ^-^

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  • Cool, if/when you do try to leave a comment with your thoughts on it as I find it helps me further nail down my thoughts on a matter or explain it better when I can have some sort of discussion with someone, well, do it if Deviant Art allows people to make anonymous comments and doesn't require you to create an account to say something >_> If they do, then don't worry about it :) And hey, I just wanted to say thanks for being easy to talk to and open minded about the whole thing, that's something that I [i]really[/i] appreciate a great deal. All too often I find people on both sides of the issue being too prickly about the subject and not really being willing to at the very least make it look like they're willing to listen to what the opposing side/viewpoint has to say. So thanks, it's really appreciated :D

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