If you're triggered by Halo 5 spoilers or opinions please do not read.
Here’s a strange spoiler warning: Beware, what you’re about to read will completely spoil what does not happen in Halo 5: Guardians — because Microsoft’s ad campaign has been lying to you. Most of the cinematic scenes you’ve seen for Halo 5 tell a very different story than the game itself.
Let’s go back to the beginning.
Opinion: Halo 5’s Ads Lied to You
Here’s a strange spoiler warning: Beware, what you’re about to read will completely spoil what does not happen in Halo 5: Guardians — because Microsoft’s ad campaign has been lying to you. Most of the cinematic scenes you’ve seen for Halo 5 tell a very different story than the game itself.
Let’s go back to the beginning.
The debut trailer for "Halo for Xbox One," shown at E3 2013, has little resemblance to anything that happens in Halo 5: Guardians. The lonely robed traveler wandering through a desert wasteland never shows up anywhere, even thematically. In fact, your squad is with you the entire way -- this is a co-op campaign all the way. Nothing about this scene seems to matter to the main plot, other than the existence of the winged Guardian itself.
It’s understandable — it’s a tease for something we’d learn more about over the course of two years. Plus, game development is volatile, and stories often change dramatically over the course of production. In this case the pattern continued long into the process, and the Halo 5 that’s been sold to us on television and online is not the Halo 5 you’ll be playing on Xbox One this week.
More at the link: http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/10/26/halo-5s-ads-lied-to-you-2?%20hub%20page%20%28front%20page%29&utm_content=6
Thoughts? Halo has always had incredibly cinematic story trailers and propoganda type PR events leading up to release. Given what we know about the story, does anyone feel lied to? This article gives me Destiny vibes.
