Perhaps MC is on a downward slide, a difficult journey on the other side of things than he normally is. Etc etc. It's undoubtedly done on purpose.

Not really, but if you need to read the books to get the story at all then yes, that's bad storytelling. However, you can get things in Halo 4 about as much as any of the other Halo games, a subtle/barely existent story that Bungie had no ability to flesh out apart from what the authors of the books did for them.

I think a game should be good, and it should fit well in with canon in a universe that had grown larger than just games so that everything isn't a standalone piece of crap. Halo reach was fun multiplayer but a halo disaster, it's story was simply "we're attacked, go here, go there, fail, and die." If they hasn't…

It's a little different when Star Wars had hundreds of books to deal with as potential canon. Also, I just disagree entirely, we're coming more and more into an age of integrated tech and entertainment forms. I have no problem with other Halo material being developed that IS canon and isn't games, like Forward Unto…

Read the core books and you'll find Halo has never been more alive. Bungie got lucky with a hit, the real story starts in the books and into Halo 4

Read the core books and you'll feel different, if you want to like it again.

Read the core books, it makes Halo 4 make alot of sense.

Not to mention for every Breaking Bad there's another Breaking Bad, why do people like crap television. Go watch Sherlock.

I'm actually surprised he hasn't been killed yet and the US government just issues the statement, "Yes, it was us. No questions."

I agree.

His point is if you didn't preorder ask the little bonuses you like so much would just be in the game for everyone. All of them from every retailer.

It may not succeed for gaming but the rift will succeed regardless. It has Facebook behind it and it's already being developed by militaries for tanks, etc.

But... Luigi is blue...

All you need to do is look in the comments to see why it's still an issue in 2014, lots of people still disagree with it.

Except your not really allowed to speak your mind if you disagree with it or you could lose your job. Ask former Mozilla CEO of like 5 days.

Surprise! Lots of people still don't agree with it and yes it's still a controversial subject just because more people support it than 10 years ago.

Alright, this is ridiculous.

He was referring to the acceptance of homosexuality part.

Pretty sure it's almost always the other way around.

Considering it's not even briefly touched on in the article I don't think anyone does. If what you're saying is true it should have been the focal point of the article so it had some merit.