So I just finished Halo: Reach on Legendary and it got me remembering that I really, really like Halo as a game and a display of low-Sci-Fi. The lore is pretty interesting (granted it does what a lot of fiction does and brushes away genocide, especially the Elites to Humanity come Halo 3).
And I am sure there are other Halo fans on Wyrmrest Accord so come on down! Let’s have discussions, fun ideas, expectations for upcoming anything Halo.
I played Halo 5, maybe it’s my poor eyes, or just getting old but everything in that game is pale and hard to see past all the glares. I hope the devs stand by making Infinite more like 3 and Reach. The spartan customizing was great, so was being able to play elites. :<
I purchased the Master Chief Collection for my wife (She’s the Halo fanatic in our family) and I’m as cross as she is that they’re staggering the releases instead of putting out everything at once.
She’d planned on spending a week binging on Halo. She blazed through Reach in a single night.
It does, but if you look at it from an in-universe point of view, humanity didn’t really have much of a choice but to forgive the elites on that. I don’t think they’d have been able to handle another war, especially considering the variety of other problems that had been going on - the flood, the forerunners, et cetera…
“I remember how this war started. What your kind did to mine. I can’t forgive you." from Terrance Hood, Fleet Admiral of the UNSC.
I just wish it made it more clear the elites were monsters, instead of ennobling them.
That is true. Anyone who has played Reach knows that even without the Covenant, the Elites are a serious threat. Going up against them again would mean disaster for both races.
I know the expanded universe and subsequent comics and media help paint the conflict as more dynamic, with Elites and Humans still having minor conflicts (sometimes with the Brutes). It’s a shame, and with hindsight should have been a blessing, the games ended at Reach.
Rogue groups causing trouble and brutes being brutes, it’s not a surprise if there were some minor periods of conflict. Fortunately the Brutes should bomb themselves back into pre-industry like they did repeatedly before the prophets showed up and pulled them into the fold.