boring plotline that’s been rehashed over and over until no one likes it (faction war/robot revolution)
characters turned into caricatures of themselves for shock-value/plot convenience
a plot that probably could’ve worked if executed correctly but the writers decided to go with the worst possible outcomes instead
plot-points/characterizations from previous installments of the game are forgotten
previous installments of the game are just…completely irrelevant now. might as well not have happened.
despite very obviously being a terrible game that invalidates its predecessors people will go to hell and back to defend it for Some Fucking Reason
The only difference is that, whereas 343 lied to us two years straight with the ad campaign, I knew BFA was gonna be garbage the moment I saw the trailer.
The only other reason: 343 cared very deeply for Halo and spent years carefully studying Bungie’s lore to integrate it into the game, but when the everyone liked H4 except the nostalgic fratboys, Microsoft feared they might lose said precious fratboys and forced 343 to retcon H5’s story by replacing any dev who wasn’t already submissive.
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