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I can't speek for all of you, but I found Halo's story very disturbing, and not in a good way either. Frankly I found the story to be ill conceived and completely lacking in likeable characters, and respectable plot developement. But that's not really why I'm writeing this. The thing that I found most unsettleing is the complete lack of a sense of anykind of accomplishment.
Every SINGLE Thing that you do in Halo between when you evacuate the PoA and when you blow it up is completely negatedsomewhere along the line.
Let me illustrate this level by level.
Level 1 Pillar of Autumn: We jump off the ship, Nuff Sed
Level 2 Halo: You try and save a bunch of marines who are goping to die any way.
Level 3 Truth and Reconciliation: You try and rescue Keyes' sorry ass, although he's eventually taken over by the flood anyway, and he doesn't present and new information that Cortana doesn't already have the ability to find out.
Level 4 Silent Cartographer: You're looking for a map to the control room for Halo, which turns out to be completely useless any way.
Level 5 Assault on the Control room: Pretty much the same as above minus the bit about the map.
level 6 343 Guilty Spark: youre trying to stop keyes when it's so obviously too late.
Level 7 the Library: You bust your hump fending off hordes of Flood in search of some stupid index which, again, is useless.
Level 8 Two betrayals: Ok this may be the only exception, although it seems ridiculous to me that Guilty Spark would have gone through the trouble of having you find the index if there was a way to turn Halo on without it. I mean I don't think The Forerunner would desighn Halo if it could be activated without the key, I mean it's not like they're retarted or something. Oh, wait, maybe they are.
level 9 Keyes: We're looking for Keyes, who we already know is one of the flood, whether Cortana or MC want to accept it or not, and get his neural implants, which, Surprise Surprise, prove useless in the next level.
Level 10 the Maw: We did it, we Finally did it, us maniacs, we blew it up, Damn us, Damn us all to hell.
So in the end we gain nothing except maybe a bitter taste in our mouths as we ponder our waisted lives, and lose everything includeing our respect for bungie.
I admit that there is some astounding gameplay in Halo, but not hardly enough of it. In all fairness, I didn't expect the game to have a story on par with Marathon, but I'd only hoped that it would have a story on par with "Debbie Does Des Moines #69". But I gues I just got my hopes up too high.
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