: Even after reading the various summaries around the web, I still had no clue
: what was going on in the game, or where these people came from. I'm busy,
: and don't have time to keep up with this junk. How did Chief end up back
: with Blue Team? They were just together at the beginning of the game.
: Completely lost, and I don't care to go traipsing through lore and outside
: material. I just want to play a game. The Uncharted series are some games
: that really this right. I care about the story, the characters, and it's

But that doesn't matter to the game. It's not hard to assume that after he got back to Earth at the end of Halo 4 they paired him back up with Blue Team. The game doesn't need to explain that.

Halo 2 didn't explain how the Chief and Johnson were suddenly back on Earth (or how Johnson even survived the destruction of Halo). It's not important to the immediate story.

I also don't think we necessarily need to know where all the new characters came from. That they are a team of Spartans is really all you need to know. However, they do need to have more actual character presented in the game in order for people to actually care about them.