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My Thoughts on Halo 4 | Campaign Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ส.ค. 2024
- Timestamps:
0:00 - Prelude
1:45 - Part One - The Good
15:06 - Part Two -The Bad
28:31 - Conclusion
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Hi everyone, thanks for tuning in! I know this is a bit of a departure for me, but I hope that you enjoyed it regardless of the growing pains that come with trying different things. If there's something I missed, maybe I got something wrong about the lore or there's just an editing mistake you picked up on, please let me know. I'm always looking to better my content in any way. No point in doing this if you're just gonna become complacent, right?
If you're looking forward to Zombies content though, don't worry, I've got a real RAVE of a review in the works. Yeah, that's real good, me.
As for the occasionally snarky little segment descriptors, I figured I would bring that back from my earlier reviews (like my original BO3 review with the silly segment names) but combine them with the title card presentation of my Beast From Beyond review to prevent breaking flow. Then halfway through editing, I realized "oh shit, that's what Raycevick does lmao".
And here I thought I was being clever. Ah well, what can you do?
P.S. There's some things I intentionally left out because I either wasn't interested in talking about it or the script was just getting WAY too long and I needed to trim it a bit.
Tbh I only watched your zombies stuff because of your charm and presentation of these long videos. I'll always watch your videos b x
Honestly it'd be cool if you reviewed one of the Gears of War campaigns tbh
Review the Bioshock games? 👀
U should review every halo campaign
Can you do a review on the Gears of war franchise I'd love to see your thoughts about it
So happy you mentioned The Didact barely showing up. Honestly the thing that I hate most about H4's story is that it gives us such a dope villain that we were teased about in the Halo 3 terminals all those years ago, then goes on to show him only twice (TWICE) in the camapign. What a monumental waste
Good to see ya here I C O N I C lad
@Grayest Yeah, the writers of Halo 5 said that the Didact will be seen again in some form. However, I really disagree with the Didact only having 2 scenes because of "baby steps with his character arc". It's understandable that the Flood and Covenant weren't really that developed in Halo 1, because they were both antagonists in the first game of the series, and Halo's universe hadn't been established at all before that point and there wasn't (As far as I'm aware) terminals in game like there were in H3/4. In that case, I can understand taking it slow and not knowing everything about them from the get-go.
With the Didact though, a huge amount was already known about his life and his motivations before Halo 4 was even released, yet in the game (besides the terminals), he had about 5 mins of screentime. It would've been easy to actually give him something to do instead of sit inside the Cryptum for 5 missions, but for some reason 343 decided to go with just not having him be present which is just bad writing, especially considering how he's billed as the primary antagonist for that game. If you have a primary antagonist, you need to use them, and 343 did not do that with the Didact.
He wasn't really the focus on of the story though...
Didact should have taken Cortana role in guardians it would make the story so much better or even at least have it where he was using a rampant fragment of Cortana
@@activatehalo7763 But he should have.....the appearance of this character should have been a monumental moment in the Halo franchise, as the forerunners have been teased throughout the Bungie games. And since 343 decided to have a Forerunner appear, he better make a damn impression. Yet, the Didact was just another generic bad guy that was dumb as hell. He now got composed in a comic book and Cortana is the main bad guy. 343 completely wasted all that build up and got nothing out of it. 343 introduced so many cool ideas into the lore, but completely failed to connect it into a grand narrative. The randomness of the extended lore and the appearance of random retcon bullshit such as Cortana coming back and the Flood somehow not dying after the events of Halo 3 (like High Charity being still there is just total stupidity and ruins Halo 3) is just lazy writing.
this is my favorite star wars game
John Halo was a pretty cool Jedi. Remember that time he said "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"? Classic Jedi phrase.
Spooky Sal
Still better than the Last Jedi
@@flamingdragon1527 true
@@Jrrizzo lmao
I grew up watching Jr Rizzo, I'm giving him a C+.
"You might not have noticed it, but your brain did"
Fantastic.
Please make more of these. This is by far the most truly neutral review I've seen for Halo 4 in years. Most of them just delve down to "tree-for-free gaem bad, bungo gaem goodest" This is also the first video I've seen from your channel and I very much enjoyed it. One thing I did notice is that, Halo 4's story is about Chief becoming human and less of a machine. The intro cinematic features the Spartans looking exactly the same. I can't believe it's taken me years to realize that it's literally showing that Chief is just a cog in the machine, despite how unique he is with his armor and augmentations.
You know, with this in mind, it suddenly makes sense to show that Halsey interrogation scene. I think h4 was trying to move in a critical direction of the Spartan creation, their sociopathy and childhood abduction
Turbofurby I think Act Man did a good job as well.
I’m so happy you took the time to talk about the Chief and Cortana arc in this video. It had such and emotional impact on me when I first played through the game I was saddened when people thought it was dumb and forced. It felt like such a natural story to tell and the didact compliments it so well with him being an mirror image of what Chief could be with out Cortana.
It’s a shame that Halo 5 is handled so poorly from a narrative perspective and really down plays everything in 4. Could of been great to see Chief have become more of a human in 5 because he didn’t have Cortana.
I like a lot of Halo 4, but my biggest issue is the Forerunners. I feel any magic and mystery they had is gone in favor of them being like every other race. Which is amazing as we know there are races above even the Forerunners, which I found the Forerunners being how they were in the original trilogy adding to that. I kind of wish they didn't use them or kept them as a backdrop, using ONI instead or something. Generic art-style complaint, but I find them incredibly over-designed and although I know the Prometheans are sort of different, but giving them weapons that are just like ours is fairly dumb. I think the Forerunners should have been this unimaginable race of beings who we can't even picture in terms of their society. If they even live in a society like we do (rise up).
I did enjoy the reveal of Requiem though, I feel the floating towers were the best addition to their architecture. Oh and I love this game's sound design so much. I also prefer the game to Halo 2 overall, which I know is a hot take. Hope you do a video on that game. If you do replay it, I hope you take note of how out of place the first mission is, playing as Chief. It should have opened as Arbiter's first mission, in my opinion, I feel like this could be an interesting topic of the game's pacing. (Note, I am about as much as a fan as you are, I used to be big into it when I was younger but got into other games).
Playing as the arbiter first would have been a terrible decision as there would be even more of a disconnect between halo 2 and Halo CE.
@@digiornodigiovanna7530 I still think it would have made for a more coherence opening level than what was there.
Alex Griffin fighting heretics as the first mission would still be a bit jarring to me.
@@digiornodigiovanna7530 More manageable after the set up, surely. The Covenant cut scene introducing this all as well as the mission.
Totally agree with you. The mystery that's invoked by the Forerunners in the previous games is so entrancing. They definitely should've been kept hidden away, or at least not portrayed so over-the-top. My favorite portrayal of them is from Halo CE. The dark, ominous, massive, intricately illuminated, hieroglyph-ridden structures paint such a massive canvas for your imagination. It helped put me in space. The original skyscapes and darker, more nitty-gritty scifi theme were also a lot more interesting. Wreaked of untraversed territory.
As someone who has played every single Halo title, read all the books, know almost everything about the lore, I have to agree with some of the topics you brought up in the video. Even I didn't notice some of the things you mentioned in the good and bad segments. Seeing as how you said you're into Halo now, I'm pretty happy that you're interested in one of my favorite franchises. Can't wait to see more Halo stuff from you in the future!
Just gonna say it. Halo 4 has the best sound design in the series apart from the negatives mentioned in this video. Although I do feel the Promethean weapons sound better in Halo 5
Good show, Rizzo!
I'm glad you're branching out into even more things that you're enjoying and despite me having zero experience with Halo, it's always a pleasure to tune into the reviews you make!
Rizzo, love your work man. Few questions as for future content.
1. Do you plan to do anything with the Halo 5 campaign and possibly Halo: Infinite when that drops?
2. I know you're done with the cod stuff for now. But I'm curious to see your take on the black ops series campaign. Ya don't have to, but it would certainly make quite a few fans happy to see what you do with it.
This is actually one of my favorite Halo games campaign wise. Right next to 1. This was legitimately beautiful and seeing it again in this review brought a tear to my eye.
In the words of Count Dooku... “I’ve been looking forward to this”.
I’ve admittedly never played a Halo game before and have never had much of an opinion of them, however the videos which you make truly invest into you’re opinions and your outlook. You’re “meme” content is also ‘top kek’ so please keep up the great work there! Your content, It’s a joy to watch and hear your views of any game you talk about, not just Call of Duty zombies. what’s made this video special to me was watching you post about this video on twitter during the process of making the video, Treyarch should really take a leaf out of your book learn how to hype up their audiences for their projects. In conclusion Rizzo, awesome job pal, can’t wait to see what other games you’ll review or play next. Till next time. See ya.
I’ve never played Halo and I don’t know anything about it, yet I actually enjoyed this review. It was really well done. Good job man
You should play it my dude trust me you won't regret it.
SuperiorBat Playz I wish I can but I am on ps4
Dude.. grab an Xbox 360 off eBay or get the new Xbox Series X and you will have the Masterchief Collection on gamepass for free. Halo CE - Halo 4 are all fantastic. The story and the execution are top shelf. Halo put the first person shooter on the map for consoles. Halo 5 was the only one where I feel 343i dropped the ball. But from what I hear about Halo Infinite... the series will be back in fine form later this year.
@@solidarnosc9663 I managed to get an Xbox series S and downloaded the master chief collection thanks to Game Pass. I still need to play it, but at least I have the chance
@@sinner2133 did u play it now?
Your review was exactly what I was looking for! I wanted to hear someone who shares a similar opinion. Thanks for making this video! ✌️❤️
I'll have you know i watched this entire video and will watch any video rizzo makes because he's a genuinely enjoyable personality keep up the good work rizzo
Halo 4 was the first halo I really got into and to me it’s my favorite. The soundtrack still gets me in the feels
Fun fact: Lasky was saved by the Chief as a child, which is why he seems to like him so much.
Great video riz! i stopped with halo after halo 2 because i went to pc gaming rather then console. so seeing a review on one of the games i missed out on is actually realy nice. perhaps when/if they come to pc i will have to pick them up!
Now I got to get this off my chest, because i need to know something. its about... black ops 4.
Now you have already said your distaste for the game to the point your not even touching it. thats fine but i also have similar feelings towards the game. despite it getting new updates i just dont have the enthusiasm to even pick it back up. the multiplayer i found meh, blackout i won one game on then aint touched it since, and zombies i just.... feel drained. but i cant put into words why i dislike black ops 4.
what im trying to get at, is that i would adore some kind of video explaining in your views, on what the hell has gone wrong with black ops 4. because i cannot honestly put my finger on it. i was so excited for this it but now i just.... i honestly regret even picking it up.
wierdly enough i felt this way about black ops 2 when it first released. but i duno if they can be compared.
I’ve been hyped for this since you first mentioned it Rizzo. My hype has been satisfied.
I’ve really nothing else to say aside from a tiny desire to see an overall review of the Black Ops campaigns. Or see you tear into Halo 5’s campaign.
You said you had some interest in reviewing Halo 2’s campaign, right? Would love to see that.
My Grandmother just died, and she had been suffering from Dementia as long as I knew he, so remembering Cortana's fall reminds me of her.
Finally someone who doesn’t think that chief and cortana had a romance in this game
I agree completely, throughout the game Master Chief has moments that show he's a stunted child and unwilling to let go of Cortana, it's really heartbreaking.
I don't think it was ever 100% confirmed, but I'm fairly certain that whole Halsey interrogation prologue was in reference to replacing Master Chief's _persona_ of _"Humanities Greatest Hero"_ with Locke.
It's always nice seeing content you genuinely enjoyed making. You did good, Rizzo
Halo 4 was and still is the only Halo game I managed to go into almost completely blind (Except for me accidentally stumbling onto a spoiler days before I finished it), and I loved it. I'm glad to see someone else at least had some fun with it, and I look forward to you covering the series in the future!
I would love to see more Halo content, but honestly I would watch anything in a similar format. You have a very unique style and personality that is entertaining to watch even in very long videos like this.
One campaign that i would love to see you cover in the future is Infinite Warfare's, Black Ops 1's or Black Ops 2's
Man, I was sooooo excited to play halo 4 that i actually shilled and picked up the halo 4 xbox 360 bundle. That thing was freaking awesome. The custom lights and sounds it made that paired with the game itself. Mmmmm.
Absolutely superb video! You earned a sub!
Oh and nice little RLM references :)
I feel like Halo 4's score is underappreciated.
Fr lol
Bro this was extremely well written its the first vid ive watched of your channel and I ended up subbing in the intro good job man
I’m very glad that you didn’t stop the review videos.
I feel like Halo 4 is more of a movie than a game. To me at least
Notification from TH-cam for Jr Rizzo’s 30 minute video is always the best kind of notification.
Halo 4 is what killed my love for the game. But I’m happy to see that wasn’t the case for everyone else. Hopefully the new halo game does good.
Another video I really enjoyed, I’ve always loved your stuff Rizzo and I used to play halo a bunch with my buddies forever ago. Keep making videos man!
Always love your long reviews, keep up the good work!
I can't get the image of the elites saying Wort Wort Wort as the turn noble 6 into sushi out of my head lmao
Was very excited to see this video, and I was not let down. This was a really fun video to watch from start to finish. I'm really excited to see more Halo content from you. I remember a twitter post about you going and making a Halo 2 review after your re-review of Rave, and I'm 100% on board. Keep up the good work pal!
Halo 4 would have been MUCH better if it got an extra year of development time, especially in terms of gameplay, because it wasn’t until the last few moments 343 realized the prometheans weren’t fun to fight.
I like the change of pace. The new editing style was weird to me at first (but that’s just because I was so used to the old one) but it’s growing on me. I would like to see more of this stuff in the future
I still can't believe rizzo is a 64 year old sicilian
Things I hate about halo 4 campaign:
- Expects you to defeat a whole army or I just suck
-Master chef should of died like 20 times
-He survived a nuke
-can he just die
Things I like about halo 4 campaign:
-the graphics
-it ended so shortly
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He only survived a nuke because he was surrounded by a hardlight shield, which does sorta make sense - it is Forerunner technology after all, and it was set up that it's basically impenetrable beforehand. With the dying, doesn't the same thing apply to every Halo game? Chief/ Arbiter constantly do crazy shit, like in 3 Chief fell from orbit and walked it off like 10 secs after the game began. But yeah Halo 4's Promethians were annoying as fuck and completely sunk large parts of the game for me, so I see where you're going with the whole army thing lmao
WTF are you on about?
This was a great video, and opened my eyes to stuff in Halo 4 that I didn’t know was there. It would be funny to see you play infected with Matt, Nick, and the others for a leftovers video. Just a suggestion.
Absolutely stellar video, you knocked it out of the park, just wanted to clear something up, rampancy is dementia in halo 4 because of what you mentioned, but rampancy itself was hinted at in halo 3 and the concept actually comes from Marathon, an earlier Bungie title, where rampancy is what happens when the growth limitations of an AI are removed and it becomes fully sentinent.
This is why they retconed it back to being that in halo 5
EDIT: not defending halo 5, fuck that campaign, but just wanted to make clear why the dumbass writer that made 0 research did that
Halo 4 was good because it had a clear vision and passion put into it, something that H5 was severely lacking
Its weird...
I’m not used to seeing somebody's opinions so closely mirroring my own...
Its almost scary!
Great, great, great, great vid!
The only feedback I'll give you is... I'm gonna need one of these videos for every single Halo campaign now. 💜 You're one of my inspirations, keep it going, this was great
Glad to see another video from you Rizzo. I'm willing to support any creative decision you make in the future as this is your channel and you are free to do whatever man. Look forward to seeing more soon. Don't work too hard though ;)
As your Halo 4, I honestly don't know much about the Halo franchise after Halo 2 sadly because they decided to not make anymore of the main games for PC which I was very disappointed to find out. Other that the Halo Wars game I want them to release all the Halo Franchise on PC so I can experience it all on there. I don't plan on ever buying an XBOX of any kind so it just sucks they didn't care about the fans like me that played and own Halo CE and 2 since they have released on PC.
Never got into this franchise because of the controls, but learning about the story and characters like this is genuinely interesting. I'd love to see more.
Damn I haven't come across your channel before but ngl this vid gave me a pretty good impression. Your review gave me incite into parts of this game I haven't appreciated before and I dig the light (actually funny) comedy sprinkled throughout. Excellent review you're really good at this
20:57 perfect fucking edit yes 😂 I'm totally checking out more of your shit
Havent even played halo , still watched the whole video . Your voice man... soothing af
I remember years ago when i was in college, my roommate would play this game in the living room and i just watched him play with my brain shut off. Never would i thought i would've regretted doing that after watching this video. I swear to god every video you do gives me insight i never thought i would get and especially the inspiration to keep making videos. Was that last sentence a bit too much? I dunno.
I don't even follow Halo storyline or the Halo franchise in general, but this was a bloody great watch Rizzo, really enjoyed it 👌👌
Real good review Rizzo. While I never played Halo 4 ever, I couldn't help but get my interest back into Halo, as I only played 1-3, alongside a very faint portion of Reach.
Hope you do more reviews like this for other games, like the Gears series, or coming out of left field and giving a Dead by Daylight review. If not, I understand.
Honestly, my headcanon is that chief has always cared this much about cortana, it's just that the fact she is dying is what gets him to be more desperate and outwardly show these emotions
Great video like always my guy
Marty music is I C O N I C
I kinda hate myself now
I'll listen and watch your reviews cause I actually really enjoy hearing what you have to say, to me it's just more of yourself.
18:19
I felt that.
Would love to hear your thoughts on Halo 5
I'm not a hardcore halo fan kinda only played 2 3 and reach.im going to have to go back and play them all to follow your channel.my opinion the story for casuals became completely un followable in halo 5 and put me in an anxiety because i couldn't understand the story im really happy you are doing stuff you like instead of black ops 4s literal titantic shipwreck of a game good work on the video I really like these more critical videos you produce now
i now would like to see a full series retrospective cause this was great
One of the things I would add is showing the dialogue without commentary for effect. Like when you were talking about Chief and Cortana’s last conversation in the hard light shield. I wanted to here what the were saying when you were talking about. Ya know. But that’s just me
ThIS isNT A Srs WeaPOn GuID3 v1D30
Would be really interested to hear your thoughts on ODST.
Do one on reach! My personal favorite, would love to see an unbiased review like this one, great job dude
While I do think Halo 4 was one of the best campaigns in the franchise in terms of plot, story and quality, I really did not like the core gameplay, and the choice of enemies, especially the Covenant Storm (Jul's Covenant). It just felt like a lazy excuse to keep the same former covenant species in the sandbox because the prometheans were not interesting enough to be replacements. The prometheans, rather than being some new alien race or species unaffiliated with the covenant races, ended up being overhyped forerunner sentinels with a little plot twist in their origins to try to spice things up. I always felt that the enemies you fight in H4 were the biggest letdown. Everything else was top notch.
I agree with the assessment on the Didact, frankly the fact that we never got to fight him in game, to get back for being constantly tossed aside earlier, was disappointing.
This was the first halo game I owned and it's really cool to get a new perspective on it. Very cool
Been watching u for a while. Love ur content. Keep it up.
I found myself rushing through missions just to get the cutscenes, and even though i didnt enjoy the combat, the relationship between cortana and cheif made up for it, and i enjoyed the game so much because of that
Gonna have to disagree on the new sounds except for the Assault Rifle and The Fuel Rod Gun I really hated most of the revamped sounds not because their bad but because they just don't sound like Halo.
Y'know, I never really got into Halo, even as a kid, the only game I ever had from the series was Halo 2 on the PC, and that was without multiplayer (fun fact: Halo 2 is fucking impossible to get to run nowadays on modern windows systems). Regardless, I really liked this review, as with most to all of your stuff, and I'm actually considering (eventually) getting an XB1 to play the entire series. So, that'll make two franchises you've convinced me to buy games for with your videos. Looking forward to the reviews of the other campaigns.
I'm 100% on you side for writing when you mentioned characters with "grand plans" that are out of nowhere and are exposition dumps. However, I'm curious as I'm a low level writer with a character like this. My question (anyone can answer btw all feedback is needed) is if this character is mentioned, referenced, or even an important plot point without actually being there from the beginning, could this "grand plan" character be a rewarding revelation for the story?
'Chekhov's gun (Russian: Чеховское ружьё) is a dramatic principle that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed; elements should not appear to make "false promises" by never coming into play. The statement is recorded in letters by Anton Chekhov several times, with some variation:[1][2][3]
"Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."[3][4]
"One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep." Chekhov, letter to Aleksandr Semenovich Lazarev (pseudonym of A. S. Gruzinsky), 1 November 1889.[5][6][7] Here the "gun" is a monologue that Chekhov deemed superfluous and unrelated to the rest of the play.
"If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there." From Gurlyand's Reminiscences of A. P. Chekhov, in Teatr i iskusstvo 1904, No. 28, 11 July, p. 521.[8]
Note the difference between Chekhov's gun and foreshadowing. Chekov was commenting on narrative detail and what details the writer should include. Foreshadowing only vaguely implies that an event will take place in the future, while the Chekhov's gun principle guarantees that an event will happen further along in the story'.
Foreshadowing is a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. Foreshadowing often appears at the beginning of a story, or a chapter, and it helps the reader develop expectations about the upcoming events.
A writer may implement foreshadowing in many different ways. Some of these ways include: character dialogues, plot events, and changes in setting. Even the title of a work or a chapter can act as a clue that suggests what is going to happen. Foreshadowing in fiction creates an atmosphere of suspense in a story, so that the readers are interested and want to know more.
This literary device is generally used to build anticipation in the minds of readers about what might happen next, thus adding dramatic tension to a story. Moreover, foreshadowing can make extraordinary and bizarre events appear credible, as the events are predicted beforehand so that readers are mentally prepared for them.
Low level writer myself, but I'd say yeah it can, but it needs to be actually set up in some way, and built up to.
My thoughts:
See I think I'd be more appropriate for Chief to have his armor look more like the Halo 3 armor, then give him his new armor look in Halo 5 after he returned to Earth. It would give off more of a sense of Chief maturing or growing up if you will when he gets his new upgraded armor.
I also would have definitely changed the Forerunners design, gun feel, and AI movement.
The BR and the light machine gun needed a complete rework because they look and sound like toys.
I think the game should've had a boss fight with the Didact.
Cortana should've just died then and there. And have Halo 5 deal more with Chief overcoming hiss loss rather than him fighting her as the villian.
I'd be cool if after the Didact awakening, you'd see the covenant now switch it's allegiance to the Didact and their appearance changes to a more forerunner look. This would be a NEW Covenant now rather than serving the profits, serves the Didact.
Sweet, a jr rizzo video to distract me from my relentless anxiety. Epic
Halo 4 is one of my favourites
To be fair about the intro I don’t remember there being any direct mention to the fact that all Spartans IIs are basically child soldiers in the games themselves. I believe up until this game the only mention that Spartans were child soldiers were in the expanded universe. In fact many Halo fans who have read the books say that Halo 4’s depiction of the Chief was the best of all the Halo games.
I think what people consider an extreme change in closeness between MC & C is not that extreme at all...... As someone whole follows the halo novels it seemed pretty understandable imo.....
Also that intro cutscene is one of the important humanity in the game since it sets up the main theme of the entire game: Chief's humanity
The sounds of the guns in halo 4 make my ears bleed, like actual guns do in real life, and I love it
I loved spartan ops despite the repeating levels, I've played them solo, with friends, and with randoms and it was great.
I do hope to see more campaign reviews with the good ol Rizzo touch!
I really like the fact that you're reviewing other things, it is a pretty nice change. I hope you do Halo 5 (just so you can tear apart that one fight scene that two of the characters have. You should know what I mean), because I am interested in your opinions on that game.
The guy interrogating Halsey is Spartan Locke
Unlike Halo 5, Halo 4 had a lot more rememberable levels and moments. Moments include the introduction of the Diedac (might of spelt that wrong), the Ghost run, your first Mantis, the Litch battle, the Pelican, the nuke and much more. While my favourite moments in Halo 5 were the Kraken battle and the Phaeton cave.
It's spelled "Didact".
Gameplay wise this one is definitely a step back. For me Halo Reach elevated the controls and made everything feel so much tighter. This game felt more like a step back to Halo 3 just with aiming and I didn't enjoy that too much.
While exploring forerunners some more and going into the issue of rampancy was an obvious direction for the story I don't know if I like how it was done here. A lot of what happened just left me confused and I didn't enjoy fighting the new enemies.
Maybe this could have been better if it just focussed on the relationship between John and Cortana and her descent into rampancy without the didact and all that. I don't know if going from one universal threat to another was really needed.
Loved the review Rizzo! Not a huge fan of Halo but you made me interested in the franchise! I was curious, would you ever think of covering God of War (2018)? The story of the game is sooo good. Just curious if you would be interested in that ever?
20:27 tbf, it is the fourth mainline game in the series, and its not like the lore of the previous games were well explain. Source Me: This was the first campaign I completed, I didn't know about the truce with the elites, mainly as I missed the line about "I thought we had a truce with the covenent", though even then it doesn't exactly clarify anything as they didn't have a truce with the covenent, only the Elites whom split off from the covenent.
Also other things dislike;
I don't like the rampansy plot, I mean how does it make sense, who would design an AI to kill itself when it gets to old and has to much data, and even then she is basically an overly advanced computer program, just have her dump or delete the memories of her in space. I think the best solution would have had her infected by the logic plague during the events of Halo 2-3, and while Chief was able to get to her before it could fully take over with the influence of the Gravemind, it would still slowly take over while stuck in space, and worsening during Halo 4.
Why is Cortana thick all of a sudden? While sure she has appeared different in every other halo game, it was still semi-consistent in terms basic features.
Why is Chief thick all of a sudden? This one is worse, as somehow his armour changed completely during cryo sleep.
Why are Elite thick all of a sudden? Why do the elites look more brutish than the freakin brutes?
I want there to be the Engineers helping humanity. Not a huge complaint, just a want.
Prometheans suck, both conceptually and gameplay wise. As you pointed out they are not fun to fight due being able to be revived, and teleport. But they also have stupidly broken shields that regen extremly quickly.
Also 343 over complicated the forerunners in both design (way to many floaty bits, to much grey upon neon with nothing to break the designs up), and lorewise as stated by the Gravemind, and Guilty Spark, humans are forerunners, or at least an offshoot that survived the firing of the rings. Though that also may have been a bit muddled by terminal entries in the Bungie Games.
The Didact, while a cool villain that was killed off to early, has the force for some reason, which is probably why they made his 'boss fight' a quick time event. Also quick time event.
The enemies blending into the background, making it difficult to determine rank, or even notice them half the time.
Don't exactly mind the new jackal design, I just want my chicken men back. In fact they could have used the various 'jackal' species to determine covenant roles, the new one, more aggressive frontline soldier such as shield jackals, or even as engineers and drivers work, and the chicken men can stay as designated snipers and long ranged arms.
Things I liked:
Conceptually: the Storm covenent, just need to fix the AI, coloured ranks and relevence to campaign. Maybe have their boss help you for a while, helping him fight off the Promeathean till you can wake up his god then either kill him in this game or do something with him in the next one.
The Didact: The Didact was a cool villain cut short by shitty grenade on his second appearance. He needed to be shown more, be and active threat that doesn't die in a glorified cutscene.
Prometheans: Don't hate the idea of fighting forerunner robots, just needed to overhaul their design, functions and behaviours.
Spartan IVs: Great Idea poor excection. Should have had a group stay behind with chief as he went rogue going after the Didact, and be a little tougher than buffed up marines.
Some of the weapons are quite fun and fit the halo sandbox well. Such as the UNSC Sticky Grenade pistol, and the UNSC Railgun.
Here's how I think the Aether story will end: The characters kill monty in a huge boss fight. The screen fades to white and the outro begins. We see each of the characters finally set free from the cycle they have been trapped in and can finally have their own lives back. Before they go through 4 different portals, they say goodbye to eachother and screen fades to black. This is it. Its over. There is no fighting left, and this 10 year endeavor has come to and end. But then we see Willard Wyler and he says "This is a masterpiece. This will be my return to the big screen."
I really enjoyed this review. I personally wish the series ended here, 5 was a major disappointment to me. What made me upset with 5 wasn't even the bad writing in the story, it was the lack of couch co op, which made if feel like the soul was ripped out of the game. I hope infinite can return to its roots.
Also if you enjoyed the flight level in 4, you'd probably like every final mission in the ace combat ever, as it seems to be an almost exact carbon copy, complete with epic music and flying through narrow tunnels lol.
I thought halo 3s weapons sound like toys
What about the 1st captain?? His aggressive personality torwards chief feels completely unnatural. A commander would not treat his "MVP" in such a way. A good commander, like one that would be the captain of the infinity, would have naturally acted just like laski in the first place.
I am confused on Chief's size, at least in the final cutscene. How tall in comparison to Palmer he is as he walks by her is about how tall he was to a normal person in the original trilogy. So it seems like he grew an extra five feet.
Review on Destiny 1 or 2?
Plus I really enjoy your video style and how you explain your likes and dislikes!
Keep up the good work can't wait to see more!
Halo Wars would be cool to cover. And Gears needs more love too, it hasn’t quite receive the proper amount of respect, I believe.
Dude, you smashed it out of the park with this one.