What happened to her arm? Like I said, I don't care about Halo lore. I mean... I couldn't pay attention. I remember her in Reach.
I haven't played much Halo for nearly a decade now, but I'll take a shot at the explanation:
It happened during the last of the Spartan Ops segment in Halo 4, where Halsey gets shot in the arm by Palmer and for some reason the only thing they could do with it was amputate. Not sure if it was explicitly seen in the closing cinematic, but I'm fairly certain it was.
Not your fault you didn't remember. The
idea of Spartan Ops was good as were the cinematics, but the actual
product was not - reusing maps and adding arbitrary objectives like you were only showcasing Forge capabilities was not a good substitute for unique assets.
*shrug*
When did the Didact die between Halo 4 and Halo 5? It feels like 343i can't figure out how to stick with a villain.
This is a recurring problem with Halo as far as I can remember - they try to link the games with external media such as comic books and novels to give those other pieces of media more value to fans, but in doing so the game stories are
greatly diminished and fucks with continuity. You should never have to read a book in-between two numbered entries of a franchise for
major plot points. Ever.
Didact died in some comic or whatever during Halos 4 and 5. The same thing happened to Rookie from Halo ODST.
I liked Halo 4's campaign and felt it was pretty well self-contained, but the level of disconnect between that and 5 was terrible in just having Cortana spontaneously be back because reasons.
Not really. They do stuff that pisses me off, but if i want a good, engaging, single-player game, Playstation is the only console of choice.
Plus, VR next year
I actually don't like the majority of Sony's single-player franchises that haven't gone multi-platform already, a lot of them are just plain retarded in my book.
Microsoft and Sony are one as bad as the other from my perspective. The only thing that Sony has going for it is my thinly-veiled hope that Japan can keep them more consistently on track for a longer duration, but last-gen really hurt my impression of that.