: Because the story has to stand in abeyance while you shoot stuff? And a lot
: of HtT was an inner monologue, the thoughts of a character, a stream of
: consciousness. How do you represent that in a shooter?

: The original game story worked for me because the Chief's tasks where things
: that I wanted to do. I was presented with this amazing place that I wanted
: to explore and the Chief's tasks were to explore and to go to the places
: that I wanted to go to.

: For example, when we landed on the Halo, there was this strange thing
: shooting into space on a regular basis. You could see that it was coming
: from "over there" and you realized that the game was taking you
: over there. So I was always willing to see where the game was leading me.

: There was a lot of trust between the game and the player. I knew I was going
: to have a good time.

I think you're overstating and simplifying things a bit. I never wanted to go back in that fucking Covenant cruiser, let alone go back *again* after the second time didn't work out too well. I didn't know what I was doing in the Library, I didn't want to disable pulse generators. There's a lot of go-her, shoot-there in CE too, admittedly less absolute button-pressing.