Full version of Birth of a Spartan. Beautiful!!!

[Mendicate Bias]

dual.soul said:

When children are born, they are sent far away to distant planets with instructions to destroy the inhabitants of those planets and colonize it in the name of their species. One of these children, through a unforeseen accident loses his memory and as a result forgets his mission.

After overcoming trial after trial, he devotes his life to protecting the inhabitants of the planet he was sent to destroy. Even after his original mission was revealed to him, he defied orders and made the choice to defend the planet he had grown to love even though all that awaited him was certain death. The mark of a true hero.

After facing his own brother in a fight to the death (a fight that no one outside a close circle of friends would ever know about) with the fate of the planet in the balance, he managed to overcome the odds all for the sake of protecting people who would never know of his sacrifice.

Sound familiar? It's dragon ball Z. Even shit can be made to sound epic when retold.

This is the main problem with Halo. It does not have a good story regardless of what you might think. It has an extensive back-story that is never actually realized or experienced in the narrative. This is a very cheap way to tell a story, because all that stuff you mentioned is not part of the actual narrative; it's just a bunch of information you can discover in the game. That is not a story. You are simply reading too dedeply into it and as a result get taken in by bad writing. A story is much more than facts.

DBZ did have a good story (well for a while), it just had a downright shit way of telling it. Even the best story in the world would become a pile of shit with bad presentation. You clearly have no idea about the Halo universe, the depth of its story or its novels. If you did then you would know that The Fall of Reach has been compared to some of the best science fiction ever written like Ender's Game and Ring World.

But of course disagreeing with the opinion of such a knowledgeable person who of course must have read every single novel on earth and is the end all be all critic of good literature is a no no. We all humbly submit to your crappy tastes in story telling oh great alt account.