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Quote: --- Original message by: UBE Chief
Absolute crap. This is just a compilation of different levels, trailers and cutscenes from Halo 3 and Reach. Even the names of the ships are taken from (or a parody of) levels of Halo Reach.

If Hiralis sees this, you should know that you need far more imagination.

It's impossible for the Elites to not know about a Brute/Grunt battalion on their own homeworld, and would have already engaged them in battle or have otherwise defeated them - and five years without knowing? That would be considered shameful in the eyes of any Sanghelli. Plot fail.

"Sanctum of the Brutes"? Really? The Sanctum of the Arbiter was something Bungie added to allow the usage of the Arbiter as a secondary player in Halo 2. Without the Arbiter, you would be playing as either the Chief throughout the whole game, or some random Elite instead of the Arbiter.

"Using your jetpack, you try your best to dodge guards, banshees, phantoms and super carriers." Do you have any idea how hard it is to dodge Covenant Super-Carriers? The weapons themselves are near-impossible to dodge specifically because they're so damn accurate. Not to mention the anti-missile batteries stationed all over the ships - you're too easy a target. Gameplay fail.

"You manage to dodge the scarab beam from a Super Carrier just in time." Uhh, knowledge fail. Any and all beams fired from Covenant warships use plasma, but are not called "scarab beams". Plasma Batteries or the Energy Projector would be a far more accurate name. Again, near-impossible to dodge such a beam from a Super-Carrier. And as we all know, the Chief rarely talks, let alone taunt his enemies. Another knowledge fail.

The Brute's "Holy City" idea is bizarre, if not idiotic, as the original Holy City of the Covenant is a piece of the Prophets' (San'Shyuum) homeworld, taken out by the power of the Forerunner Dreadnought's engines. To have more than one (holy city) is ridiculous, and would never be used as a plot idea by Bungie.

A mini-Slipspace upgrade? WTF? Only the Forerunner has access to such technology, and according to Halo canon, Humans have barely - and I mean BARELY - begun to understand the intricacies of Forerunner tech, the Covenant understands far more - but even then, not fully.

Why make the Chief die? We don't even know (or even see) how he dies, and you just place his death in there like a friggin picnic on a sunny day. BTW, Elites don't even have Kings - just Emperors (think feudal Japan) or Arbiters.

Oh, but wait, we finally find out how the Chief dies - in the last level. FAIL. We should've had this level before the previous one. Oh, but you wanted a Reach-like ending. DON'T. It just appears more fail if you rip ideas off older games.

As I've said, make your own ideas, not get stuff from Halo 3/Reach trailers, levels and/or cutscenes.

For shame.

tl;dr? Think more and better. This idea for Halo 4 sucks hard.

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