| Ryuu96 said: How'd you rank the villains of Halo thus far?
Trying to attach an antagonist for each one, Reach and ODST didn't really have a primary antagonist, a couple of games had more than one, of course Gravemind and Truth are also antagonist of Halo 2 but I feel the focus is more on Tartarus and Regret. Mercy isn't there because well, he was fucking useless, Lol, dude did next to nothing, got killed by a flood spore. Part of me wants to defend Guilty Spark being called a villain but by pure definition of the word he is and he killed Johnson, I wouldn't call him evil though. |
Truth is, no Halo game to date has had a particularly compelling singular antagonist figure. I'd argue that the Bungie games didn't even really try. Sure, they had some key players for you to eliminate at various points, but none of them were presented in a "big bad" kinda way. They were just faces of a greater whole that needed to be overcome. They weren't true rivals to the player. Halo 2 got the closest, with Tartarus, as he definitely was a rival to the Arbiter, but Arbiter's arc is only half the story, and he's not even the series lead.
343 did try to create traditional antagonists that define the player's journey through their games, but they've basically botched it both times. The Didact gets unceremoniously disposed of, without so much as a boss fight, effectively wasting his entire build up throughout Halo 4. And then of course there's Cortana in Halo 5...a nice idea, in theory. In practice, it was too soon to pull this move, and undercut by pretty much everything else about Halo 5, not the least of which being that you spend entirely too much time away from Chief, and blue team. The personal dynamics that 343 wanted to play on aren't given the necessary time and depth to deliver the appropriate punch.
Halo Wars...I honestly don't remember a true Antagonist from the first game, but it's admittedly been a while since I've played it. Maybe I'm wrong here. As for the sequel...Atriox was damn cool...but he was also barely in the game. That really awesome cutscene of him that we've all seen 100 times by now...that's pretty much the extent of his direct involvement in the game. Total waste.
