Thanks a lot Soccerdies, your thoughts are appreciated. I can safely agree with most of the things you said.
I should add that there is an absurd amount of story that occurs between Halo 4 and 5, such as New Blood and Escalation book/comics. It seems that in order to understand what is going on, players will have to read through a lot of pages prior to playing. I can imagine many new players will be like WTF is going on??? when they start Halo 5 immediately after 4.
Fireteam Osiris have a lot of backstory but it's not significant, and it feels like they were characters created at the last minute. I can only relate to Buck since he's an original character from the Halo 3 days (featured in Reach too). And even then, how he became a Spartan-IV from an ODST requires reading an entire book. I can't relate to Osiris simply cause they're not original.
I'm happy to see Spartan-II Blue Team back in action. Frederic, Kelly, Linda, and MC are pretty much family. They lacked personalities, however. They seemed plain and bland and had almost no purpose in the game other than to simply be there. They contributed little to the actual story.
Additionally, terminals were replaced with data pads which only play voice recordings rather than videos. Idk why but that kind of annoys me.
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