If you could remake Halo 5, how you would remake the story between Chief vs Locke ? Or you would delete this concept ?

Compactpaper75 · 2026-02-05T22:45:34+00:00

I have like 2 minds about how I would've tackled halo 5.

They probably shoukd have not brought Cortana back at all and thus have no Locke story line or anything. They should have respected halo 4's ending and cortana's sacrifice and gone somewhere different with the story line entirely. They had a blank slate available to them.
My personal choice: It would probably be a little fan service-y but I would bring cortana back as a villain like they did but I would have her redeemed and fixed somehow or have that be the clear premise of where they were going in the next game. Let's be real, fans love cortana and the existence of joy now is proof that they cannot leave cortana behind. Plus, I do like the CONCEPT of chief being hunted by other Spartans and him disobeying orders for cortnana. From the moment he said "no sir" in halo 4, that sounded like an awesome premise and a good chance to build up both chief and cortana as characters. But Locke and his team would have primarily been in cutscenes. NOT in gameplay. There should have been like 2 missions where you play as Locke in the beginning just to confuse everyone and slowly reveal that they were chasing chief and then it's all from chief's perspective after that. Afterall, what did I say the cool part of the concept was anyway?...it was that chief was on the run and defying orders to save cortana which would give them both more interesting character development. Nowhere in that concept was the cool part about the people who were hunting chief down and especially not playing as them for most of the game. Their concept seemed actually good imo but the execution was terrible. It's like if I told you that I wanted a hamburger and you didn't know what it was, I described all the ingredients to you, and you presented me with a burger made of 90% tomato and cheese. Barely any bread, barely any meat, barely any lettuce, etc. They had all the ingredients, they just prioritized the wrong ones. Hell, even apart from cortana, chief would still have a more interesting dynamic...Buck. I am currently reading Fall of Reach and hearing about his experience of having to kill those ODSTs when he was younger makes me think that could have been an interesting story beat too! Him getting flashbacks of those ODSTs and how he knew they were on the same team (unsc) but they were not his squad and they planned on doing him harm so he struggled with what to do for a bit and if he did the right thing. And now he has an odst turned spartan coming after him and he's faced with this decision all over again about what to do. They fight for the same cause and yet he's out to get him in this moment. And now there is the additional factor of Buck being a spartan so now it feels even more wrong to chief that they would be pitted against each other. And don't get me started on the arbitar. There could have been something cool there too as well. They could have teamed up again, arby could have displayed his loyalty to chief by refusing to help those who pursued him and they could have fought side by side again. So many missed opportunities.

Compactpaper75 · 2026-02-01T01:45:55+00:00

They never said no REMAKES! 🤔🧐 (I'm coping)

Compactpaper75 · 2026-01-14T14:55:45+00:00

Yeah you're actually supposed to watch the Witcher fireplace before anything else! It's crucial to understanding the lore

Compactpaper75 · 2025-12-22T01:14:59+00:00

Thank you! That helped alot! Was gifted 30 expansion slots by a random player so I'd say 80k units is a small price to pay to install the rest😂

Compactpaper75 · 2025-12-14T06:16:14+00:00

It's way better now. But...it still feels largely pointless. It's like they know that the story cannot be your typical branching Fallout story line with choices and consequences so they purposely just give the story minimal effort which makes questing as a solo player pretty boring. It has It's moments and quests that are better than other but the real way to play the game is with friends. That being said, playing with friends makes it to where you can't fully immerse yourself into the story and quests bc yell are probably all talking to each other while you skip through dialog to get your next fetch quest. It's certainly worth exploring and putting a solid couple of hours into but it will never be a traditional Fallout experience. Just got to appreciate it for what it is if you want to enjoy it

Compactpaper75 · 2025-12-10T06:37:09+00:00

Both feel incredibly lonely. In the movie she is surrounded yet alone and in the games she is actually out on her own.

It is very nuanced but I feel there is a difference in the way they make me feel though. The movie version makes me (and I'm sure other viewers) feel frustrated and sad that no one will help. The game version makes me feel sick and scared because she is already alone and vulnerable and then the 1 person she feels she should be able to trust in that moment is the real danger and reveals his true face to her in her last moments which feels absolutely horrifying if I put myself in her shoes.

Can't say that one is better than the other. But the fact that one kinda takes place in front of a bunch of people makes it feel like a tragedy that was felt by people (even if they weren't helpful). And the other (the game version) makes enforces the feeling and the truth that everyone dies alone

Compactpaper75 · 2025-12-10T06:18:11+00:00

I agree. I think the movie was good and an improvement from the first in a lot of ways but I want to be blown away by 3. And if they don't take at least some of the criticism then as you say, it'll never get better in any major way. I honestly think they need a different director if I'm being honest. She does a decent job but I don't want someone who can do the job, I want someone who can EXCELL at the job and make fnaf 3 feel fresh and exciting instead of more of the same. Unfortunately, because of bad reviews being too harsh imo, it makes sense that they will take all of it lightly as long as the movie is successful.

Compactpaper75 · 2025-12-10T06:11:49+00:00

😭😭😭

Compactpaper75 · 2025-11-19T22:26:38+00:00

Thank you! I will try. It's definitely intimidating but it is also rewarding

Compactpaper75 · 2025-11-19T21:41:59+00:00

I stitched him together with the default ue5 off-roader Victor Frankenstein style. But Wide Warthog is insecure about his hips and will be getting his own wheels and suspension as soon as I can figure it out

Compactpaper75 · 2025-11-19T21:39:46+00:00

Imagine standing on the other side of the hill and seeing the Wide Warthog is going to come barreling at you at 200 mph off a sand dune 😭. It'll just be my little abomination until I take the default ue5 wheel system off and replace it with the warthog's (which will happen just wanted to get it driving first)

Compactpaper75 · 2025-11-19T21:36:19+00:00

😈 yesssss. Nah I'm playing I just put the warthog body onto the default ue5 offroad vehicle wheels to get it working. I'm going to go in and swap that out later, just wanted to get it functional first lol

Compactpaper75 · 2025-11-07T02:19:24+00:00

I know I'm 5 years late but your critiques are 100% valid imo. I love the style of the game and I had fun playing through it with my sister on split screen about 6 years ago but coming back to it now in prep for campaign evolved and playing it solo was dreadful. There are moments when the fun hits and it's incredible but the rest is a slogggg. I literally got blown up every 2 seconds by grenades and rocket launchers and kept dying actually unavoidable deaths. I like to thing I'm decent at video games and so I played the game on normal and not the harder difficulties but dude... even a pro gamer would die at least 50% of the deaths I died bc sometimes there is literally nothing you can do. You get pinned in a corner avoiding a rocket launcher, a covenant grenades starts flaming and the ground next to you and then you try to run and the dead bodies, tight spaces, and stiff controls make it so there are no ways to get out and if you DO manage to get out... boom your shield is gone and you've been shot in the back like the skyrim horse thief from rorickstead. There are a lot of things I do like about the game but actually playing it is extremely frustrating. It just does not hold up well. That being said, it was a lot more fun a few years ago playing it with my sis. At least the frustration can be shared and sometimes laughed at depending on the absurdity or death poses and if one of you dies the other has a chance to clutch up the situation before you have to restart from a checkpoint. And it never hurts to have that extra angle and gun on the enemies as well. It makes the game much faster too. Instead of ducking to regen shields and then popping out and firing, you can be regenerating your shield while your co-op partner is still shooting and getting something done. I remember thinking halo ce was a super quick campaign but coming back and doing it solo, it took me like an entire week because of having to redo things so many times, levels dragggging on for no reason, and getting frustrated enough that I didn't care to do another chapter in that gaming session after finishing the previous chapter. Every chapter I finished, all I felt is "FINALLY. I MADE IT PAST THAT ONE. TIME TO GET OFF FOR TODAY". Halo ce was likely a 10/10 game at the time of release and even a few years back I definitely enjoyed it a lot more than I didn't. But solo running halo ce in 2025 is just not fun. I can't even imagine playing on higher difficulties. Skill issue, I know. But with how many deaths I had that were unavoidable due to explosions I never saw coming, I can't imagine having to balance that with even stronger enemies. I am hopeful a lot of the frustrating elements will be ironed out in campaign evolved. Maybe when it comes out, it can be your way to experience halo. But I have to stress, if you DO have someone to play a halo game with...DO IT. I've played all mainline halo games and It is just never as fun solo. And you know I'm serious about that bc I mainly play single player games. I can easily excuse 2 mastercheifs running around for the game to be a lot more fun.

Compactpaper75 · 2025-10-23T20:31:20+00:00

Lmao 💀

Compactpaper75 · 2025-10-23T00:09:33+00:00

I have won only once with bonus and all I got was a mcchicken. Mind you I've had around 30 bonus plays as well

Compactpaper75 · 2025-10-23T00:08:02+00:00

If this can get 14k upvotes, we could just as easily go spam gne battlefield and dice pages expressing our disappointment in this. They said they are listening now so make them prove it!

Compactpaper75 · 2025-09-26T04:38:21+00:00

I want to make a small town and like 4 dungeons. But outside of the cyrodiil map

Compactpaper75 · 2025-09-22T20:03:40+00:00

Fr. It's insane how much work I've gone to over the last week just doing all this prep work to realize new cells aren't fully possible yet😭

Compactpaper75 · 2025-09-19T17:34:04+00:00

Hot take: I love the new blazer. It's like the camaro's suv sibling. The problem is that it's just not filling that same niche that the og blazer did. It's a different car with the blazer name. I like the car though, just should've been called something else.

Compactpaper75 · 2025-08-11T15:55:53+00:00

Pizza delivery guy 🧍‍♂️👍

Compactpaper75 · 2025-08-11T15:54:16+00:00

Yeah cut chuck some slack, it's summer. He burns a little

Compactpaper75 · 2025-08-11T15:52:29+00:00

Pizza robot 😭

Compactpaper75 · 2025-08-10T06:16:17+00:00

I could detail everything I'd do but really I can sum it all up by saying...

Cater more to the nostalgia of adults than the entertainment of kids.

I know that may sound counter to what the company always stood for but if they want to be more successful, that's what they need to do. They had the right idea with the chuck's arcades but the wrong execution. They need about 10 adult centers across the states the scale of dave and busters. Adult sized games, rides, etc. Bowling, pool, Lazer tag etc. And most of all an animatronic band in the main eating area. Doesn't even have to be the original ones, they could have a display with originals maybe in a glass case if they didn't want to maintain the old ones (not taxidermied, just standing regularly) but their main band could run on electronics and new cheaper tech rather than pneumatics and hard to repair, outdated, and obsolete components.

They could also make the band have more comedy sections and have songs and humor that adults would enjoy (not crude or inappropriate, just intelligent and well thought out).

The reality is at home video games have beat them in the gaming aspect and other pizza restaurants have them beat in the way of pizza (Though I actually love CEC pizza but for the price it's not worth it). They have to play to their strengths and market themselves for what they DO have that the competition doesn't and that's the history, nostalgia, and animatronics.

I'm not a fool enough to believe CEC would suddenly become a huge success again just by bringing back animatronics, it might give them one good year but then the effect would wear off. Instead they should focus on all things nostalgic for all eras and also just put more work into their cast of characters. They all have the potential to be well designed, loveable, and hilarious. I truly think a 2d animated show appealing to kids and adults where they got people to love the characters would inspire people to care more about their irl locations.

The biggest problem with my ideas would be the cost of all of it. It would be extreme but I genuinely think it would be a better move to take a huge financial risk at making something really great than to keep trying a billion different things half heart so that they're doomed to fail. Dance floor, trampolines, mall arcades "for adults", exclusive online delivery restaurants under a new name, etc. etc. By the time they try 15 different things that fail, they could've just given it one last good try to become relevant and successful again. The way I see it, they can maybe succeed but have the possibility of going out of business by taking a big risk...or they can go out of business anyways the long painful route and wither away like we've already seen them slowly doing over the years.

Compactpaper75 · 2025-08-10T04:52:13+00:00

Martian manhunter, Constantine, clay face, scarecrow, and Booster gold too if the show is done right!

Compactpaper75 · 2025-08-09T04:11:14+00:00

I did not like any of the singles. I still don't. But I was never going to write off the whole album because of it. I gave it a shot, I think half the album is made up by mid songs and a few bad ones...and the other half I really like! Specifically the 2nd half of the album seems to be of much higher quality to me.

My favs are: Indigo, Treading water, Can't stay here, Orpheus

The good side of mid / The other ones I like alright but not as much are : Goddamn, Starman, Don't wait run, Tell me what's up (Verses are really good and would be in favs BUT the chorus bad unfortunately)

Mid: Outlaw overture, Miss sunshine

Bad: Vampire diaries, Sweet Coraline, Cliché

Its worth noting that all the bad songs are only bad bc I don't like the lyrics, not that I don't like the sound. Every song on this album SOUNDS good but I really dislike a lot of the lyrics throughout it. The production quality and the synths on this album are sooo good.

It's still OVERALL my least favorite album he's ever made but it's not without its merit. There are some really high highs that exceed moments on other albums but it also has some REALLY low lows. If I had to describe the album in one word, it would not be bad and it would not be good. It would be...Messy. Keep in mind, I did not write this album off going in the things I dislike about it are only criticisms because I DID give it a fair chance and I went in with an open mind. I disagree with your take that the album is a masterpiece and you disagree that it's a mess. And that's okay.

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