I feel like if they wanted to have a Forerunner villain, they should have used the Master Builder from the Forerunner Saga, he would have been absolutely [i]perfect[/i] for the role and he was already established as a villain, and a pretty good one too, [i]or[/i] come up with a completely new one we hadn't seen before. And if they felt like they absolutely [i]had[/i] to have the Didact as an antagonist in Halo 4, they could have easily found a better way to do it than making him out of character and evil and doing his evil deeds because he hates humans :/ They could have even worked in that whole thing of feeling like humans weren't ready and/or currently undeserving of taking up the Mantle without him being out of character too. If he were to be an antagonist at all, I feel like it should have only been a temporary one and have whatever the issue(s) were eventually worked out. The biggest problem for me with the Didact being an antagonist in 343i's works so far is that he's an [i]actual[/i] villain and just generally pretty out of character.

They should have explained it better why he hated humans, because without an outside source or terminals i just thought he was just a bad guy, doing bad guy things. I may not hate the 343 story line as much as you do to stop playing and buying the games but i do see some of the flaws that are in them.

Mhm, if it had been handled better in the game, and if Silentium had come out [i]before[/i] Halo 4 did, I think I probably would have been able to at least tolerate it or maybe look past it. The whole thing with the Didact though is only part of why I lost interest in the series and didn't really want to continue it though. Other big things that drove me away were the Kilo-5 Trilogy (which was a [i]REALLY[/i] big one) and the fact that where ONI, their relations and interactions with the UEG and UNSC, and the whole entire plot involving Halsey that was introduced in Kilo-5 has only continued to be built off of as 343i's story has gone on; and a lot of the stuff they introduced in the Forerunner Saga and concerning stuff to do with the Forerunners and [i]especially[/i] the Precursors not really feeling like it belonged in a setting like Halo's....the stuff they introduced concerning them wound up feeling like something that would have sat fine and right at home in a genre like Warhammer 40K or Star Wars, which aren't really pure sci-fi but sort of a mix of sci-fi and fantasy as well. I've always considered Halo to be a sci-fi series that was pretty grounded in reality and pretty much all of the technologies in it were something that felt entirely possible and like something that could naturally be invented given a long enough time, or they were technologies that were already based around ideas and things that were being researched and studied (like the science used to create the MACs on the UNSC's ships or similarly used in the Gauss 'Hog). Pretty much everything they revealed about the Precursors in Silentium or had them capable of doing, or things like the geass didn't really feel like Halo anymore and felt more like something you'd find in a sci-fantasy setting or that'd be at home there.

Yeaah i do see what you mean. Halo felt more serious and close to realistic, like things that could actually happen. I just hope that Halo 5 will be great, and better than Halo 4. Maybe that'll save the halo series.

Well, I know it certainly looks like it'd be a lot of fun to play or at least try. It's definitely something I'd rent at the very least if I had an Xbox1. In any case, I do hope it's enjoyable and good for all of the people who've decided to stick with Halo. And hey, I just want to say thanks for being so cool with all of this and actually having a polite and fairly intelligent conversation, I really appreciate it. All too often I find conversations along this topic devolving into the internet equivalent of shouting matches and one or both parties plugging their ears and essentially going "lalalalalalalala, not listening". So yeah, it was a very nice and fresh change of pace to have someone actually being pleasant about it for once :)

No problem! I too enjoyed our conversation, and sadly there are too many of those type of stubborn and ignorant people. I hope you have a wonderful day/afternoon/night, where ever you are. :D

It would currently be night where I am, and I wish you the same :) Perhaps we shall run into each other on here again sometime. Oh, and I just thought I'd add, if you were curious to see a more in-depth look at the specifics for the problems I've been having with 343i or where I thought they'd gone wrong, I though I'd leave you with [url=http://princessarien.deviantart.com/journal/Halo-and-Why-I-Hate-the-Current-Writers-362092601]this[/url], though fair warning, when I wrote that it was mainly a way to blow off steam and vent all of my frustrations without holding back and without much regard for grammar or proofreading, so it's a bit rambly at times and quite......uh, passionate throughout with more than a bit of swearing >_> I've definitely calmed down [i]considerably[/i] since then XD Even if my opinions ultimately haven't changed all that much at their core from what I wrote in there. What I said in response to people in the comments section would also be good to read as it's quite a bit more coherent and calm, and I think probably gets my points across better and further extrapolates on them a bit.