In Response To: Re: Rants about Halo's story (Spoilers) (Xcruiser)
: Every mission has a purpose, or was forced according to objectives that need
: to have been done. Honestly, the only way you can make speculations about
: something being "so obvious" is after playing it. Hindsight is
: 20/20, and I doubt you could see the plot twists coming while you were
: playing. Getting the Index for nothing? Well, you didn't know it was for
: "nothing" until Cortana stops you from making a very huge
: mistake.
Tell me, how would you feel if you spent a whole saterday afternon rakeing leaves, and the have your little brother do a swan dive straight into the pile?
Also, if Cortana and the Master Chief have the Index, then the
: Monitor can't activate Halo...so if we have it, the Monitor can't sucker
: someone else into activating Halo.
Who else is going to be able to find the Index? MC barely makes it out of the Library alive, all the humans get consumed, and the Covenent are too busy saving their own asses.
: activate without the Index...but my thoughts are that it is a very long
: process, or the Monitor can't do it at all. A bit of thought makes me
: wonder where the Monitor goes after the beginning video sequence in Two
: Betrayals - maybe to start trying to activate Halo. Regardless, everything
: in this game has a purpose, and the storyline is phenominal,
: actually...looking at things at face value, then claiming the missions are
: repetitively useless towards the storyline is very far fetched. How would
: you know something until it's too late? Oh yea, that's right...you already
: know, that's why you're allowed to criticize how obvious it was. That's
: like seeing a movie one time, then going back to see it again only to
: criticize that many of the major twists and backstabs are very obvious,
: whereas they were not obvious the first time around.
Maybe for you, but I've seen a lot of movies, and a lot of them follow the exact same formula. Like, when ever your in a situation involving the phrase "...Before it's too late..." It almost always is too late.
I don't like to judge people, especially in a situation as impersonal as a web forum, but I question your use of the word Phenomenal. I Have bought seven other games for Xbox and they all have more compelling stories than Halo.
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