Halo 2 was the peak in terms of story telling and plot. Halo 1, in comparison, was shallow. Not unenjoyable, because it initially didn't strive to be anything other than your generic science fiction/shooter game.
Halo 3's gameplay was slightly better than the previous ones, but the story sucked and it was so damn short.
Edit: It's a ****ing exaggeration, Exodus. Bane is the Sith'ari. He meets all the criteria.
Originally posted by Taven
Nah, the games of the MGS series, or pretty much any Japanese RPG out there is the peak in terms of storytelling and plot. Halo's ok, but there's quite simply nothing especially new or innovative about it, and absolutely no wow factor.
I agree JRPGs usually tell a good story and the MGS series is epic. MGS4 was simply amazing in every aspect.
Originally posted by Darth Exodus
The Master Chief only ever displays a Clint Eastwood style of personality, an almost silent character completely lacking in personality quirks.And I agree with you on the subject of Revan. I've firmly converted to disliking the Hero worship of the faceless character, but ay least Revan has genius going for her, and that she's a philosophically thinking evil Sith character. That puts her above the Chief in my books, I hate that guy.
Halo was crap anyway.
If you were to read the books you'd disagree. Meh.
And the Chief's underrated anyway. He'd kill the best non-force sensitives (Minus GG maybe) without too much difficulty, and some of the low level FU's as well (Like Mara). Plus no no character has armor as durable as his...
Don't underestimate the foo'.
Can't recall how fast the Chief us (Kelly was the fastest of the Spartans), but General Grievous can become invisible to Obi-Wan Kenobi's eye with his movements. His armor is also comparable to a starship's in terms of durability. The Chief can't get through Grievous.
Mara would probably shutdown his suit's interface and deactivate it with the Force.
The Chief ran a kilometer in 19 seconds with a broken ankle and bullets move in slow motion to his eyes. With his reflexes he, literally, used his hand to slap an anti-armor missle fired at him by a jet fighter.
As for armor, the Chief fell out of a space ship and fell from high orbit, hit the ground, and the armor wasn't even scratched and he wasn't injured. MJOLNIR armor weighs over a thousand pounds. So, how much impact force would be created by a thousand pound object falling thousands of miles at terminal velocity? His armor also tanked two shots from a beam that put a large hole in Johnson's chest. He took two of these and his armor wasn't scratched.
When has Mara ever done that? And the suit is integrated into the Chief's brain patterns. Only he and Cortana can control it.. it's not like there's an off switch that she can just flip. And even if she could, the armor only gives him protection, it doesn't actually amp his base stats that much. SPARTAN's can, cannonically, lift multiple tons. In the second novel I beliieve he flips over a warthog with minimal effort... So minus the armor he'd be just as fast and just as strong...