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- Apr 27, 2015
Canonically, Halo should have ended with Halo 3.Absolutely, the Spartan IVs were utilized poorly. The original idea for them, if I were to guess, was to go with the theme of the UNSC, as well as humanity, "moving on" from the Master Chief's legacy. Captain Del Rio, the douche who kept yelling at Cortana and MC during Halo 4 even called him obsolete if I remember correctly. [EDIT] He said "aging Spartan."
The problem is that once that purpose was served, there any interesting stories done with the Spartan IVs. I would love to see that rectified in Halo: Infinite; also, it could help that the art direction for Infinite seems to be a lot better, especially the armor. Until Halo Wars 2, 343i's art style did not do the Spartans any favors.
As far as the ODSTs are concerned, they became irrelevant as far as 343i is concerned due to the creation of the Spartan IVs. It is unfortunate.
After the Covenant fell there was no interesting stories to tell with Master Chief, and any new threat they add just seems like a retread and makes his victory pointless and shallow.
"Chief saved the human race from extinction, but that was all for nothing because now there's another enemy faction that's gonna do the same thing."
Similar to Ellie and Joel, if they wanted to tell another story, they shoulda told a story with different characters in the same universe.