I completely agree, I actually loved Halo 4 which is what made Halo 5 so painful. If they had just made a sequel to this game, including elements from Hunt the Truth and Spartan Ops?? Could have been amazing.
Halo 4 didn't have something. It altered the course of halo forever to die. The concept of the didact and 343's version of the forerunner is terrible. Plus Halo 4 isn't even a good game if you disregard it's story it has the worst sandbox and balancing out of the series and it has me wanting to rip my hair out just playing on normal difficulty. I went into the game trying to have a positive mindset but left having had one of the worst gaming experiences of my life. The Prometheans are terrible enemies.
Looking back on what I know of Halo lore, this shouldn't have happened to begin with. The Halo 3 terminals say that he and Librarian were separated before the Halos fired and neither could get to back to each other. A better villain would have been Mendicant Bias, or part of its remaining consciousness that was still corrupted by the Flood and then imprisoned on Requiem. It would have paired with Cortana's Rampancy and potentially set her up to become what she was in Halo Infinite.
I agreed. Even it would be better to makes that the Didact returned like a cybernetic being in Halo 5, and that he was the founder of The Created, than revives Cortana and makes her evil. Making the Didact like the Sephiroth of Halo.
Tell me about it. I remember being so fucking excited that they were FINALLY releasing Halo 4. I had been a super halo nerd for years before it, reading all the books that were released up to that point.
Well, much like some overpowered villains, like Albert Wesker or Sephiroth, that prefers be toying with the protagonists, than kills them inmediately, making that their arrogance and hubris end becoming their undoing, to gaves the heroes a chance to defeat the villains.
The fact he demonized and dehumanized the covenant forces yet resembling a tiny amount of respect for humanity shows how much of a threat ancient humanity was
2:13 Anyone notice what that emblem is on chief's left forearm? If anyone can hyper zoom on that with keeping quality fixed somehow, it would be cool to see what that is. Only just noticed it now as this video is in 4k.
I love how the didact casually scales higher than any character we’ve seen in halo. This guy beats characters like homelander, thanos, and hulk. Chief is pretty powerful but he scales only to characters like iron man, black panther, and extreme diff soldier boy.
wtf are you talking about? Didact beats Thanos? Homelander? I agree he is the strongest character introduced in the halo games, but how does that equal him beating thanos and homelander?
@@Skeptic_Tank he beats thanos. The didact can dismantle characters who lift in the same range as thanos. Homelander would be incinerated by the didacs weapons.
@@Skeptic_TankThe Didact’s Combat Skin makes him, for lack of a better term, akin to a Kryptonian in strength, durability, speed, reflexes, agility, flight (including spaceflight), etc. This is cannon. Forerunners are essentially techno-Kryptonians (atleast when in their secondary skins, which is all the time). A Forerunner’s secondary skin literally grants them the capability to conduct *interplanetary travel.* Also, despite The Didact’s immense power, he still doesn’t eclipse the psionic capabilities that The Geavemind ultimately possesses.
Did the new crap post-Bungie developers just forget about the Didact? They introduce him in Halo 4, never to be mentioned again. It's embarrassing how bad the games were after Bungie's exit.
the didact was definitely around, had an incredible book (epitaph) but he definitely shouldve been the main villain for halo 4-infinite. even if epitaph is absolutely incredibly and a great end for the character (to be honest it made a halo 5 just a slither more bearable with how smug the didact is over cortana losing chief at the end of 5)
The didact has some badass armor, but everything about him from the video game is weak. The books seem to tell better history of him. Oh well. It's 343, not Bungie, so of course it's a flop.
after epitaph i would highly doubt hes coming back. epitaph was a perfect end for the character, the only way to give him justice as well because the games cant really dive into the forerunner trilogy events just a few characters like mendicant and offensive bias
Honestly I’m utterly disappointed how dirty they did the didact, not even some closure with him in in a final battle of epic proportions, though they did give him some closure of redemption from what I heard in halo epitaph. Despite this however, it was truly an astronomical let down, not to mention that they even could have done the warden eternal well had they given some effort, the warden eternal had potential if they bloodywell cared, hell I would have loved to have seen the didact with the warden eternal working together with their promethean armies and guardian armies (the guardians were probably one of the few good things to come out of halo 5 in my opinion) and they even wrote the warden eternal off sloppily in epitaph (and I wish they did a warden eternal action figure and heck even a decent guardian action figure other than the tin foil model!) for goodness sake 343 industries, get your act together if you want to live up to the legacy of Bungie and give Halo meaning, purpose, and glory again and whatnot! Though despite this, Halo wars 2, it’s dlc, and Halo Infinite are very awesome games, I look forward to what comes next 🤞
I thought 4 was a masterclass in story-telling. It is extremely solid and stands up well to the test of time. It was establishing a new trilogy, and they nailed it, aside from the multi-player of course. This is coming from someone who remembers the midnight release of Halo 2. I think it's a crying shame that they binned this story and wasted so much great build-up from all the multimedia. I miss the Didact.
They destroyed the story 343 writers should be ashamed, they could technically just reboot 4-6 and claim it was a timeline that was destroyed by Requiems power source as it was powered by collapsing universes.
humanity didnt want to fight the flood, thats literally what started the human-forerunner war. ancient humans considered the flood such a big threat they risked a war with the forerunners over it spreading
@omegax4213 maybe in a different continuity. But not in Bungie's continuity. It's not about whether I liked it. I used to defend H4. But it's incompatible with the original games. You gotta do insane mental gymnastics to fit the universes together.
@@LAYON916 Halo 4 doesn't contradict anything from Bungie's games, it only expands what is already established, in fact Bungie contradicted its own lore before 343 did when they released Halo Reach by decanonizing The Fall of Reach novel.
@omegax4213 "Don't fuck with Halo fans...we don't play the games". Brother, The Fall of Reach WASN'T BUNGIE. IT WAS MICROSOFT. Matter of fact, Bungie didn't want TFOR to come out. And if you think there's no contradictions between H4 and the Bungie trilogy they playing them again but pay closer attention next time. The entire plot twist of the Halo franchise is destroyed by 343i.
@@LAYON916 It's literally the same, Bungie at the time had control of the saga and decanonized whatever they wanted, the same thing happens with 343, there are things that Bungie did that they didn't like and they decided to change them, with the difference that you forgive Bungie for everything. And yet I still don't see a single contradiction that Halo 4 has made.
![Halo 4: The Librarian [HD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/J_1m2cT5c6k/mqdefault.jpg)
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They were on to something with this. And then it all blew away like a fart in the wind with halo 5.
I completely agree, I actually loved Halo 4 which is what made Halo 5 so painful. If they had just made a sequel to this game, including elements from Hunt the Truth and Spartan Ops?? Could have been amazing.
Halo 4 didn't have something. It altered the course of halo forever to die. The concept of the didact and 343's version of the forerunner is terrible. Plus Halo 4 isn't even a good game if you disregard it's story it has the worst sandbox and balancing out of the series and it has me wanting to rip my hair out just playing on normal difficulty. I went into the game trying to have a positive mindset but left having had one of the worst gaming experiences of my life. The Prometheans are terrible enemies.
@@GalileoGuy175thank god someone said the most obvious things about that terribly awful game. The ONLY thing i enjoyed from halo 4 was cortana lol.
Uh-oh, people are seething that you like Halo 4. It was a great game, and where the series ended for me.
@@GalileoGuy175 Not really bungie already changed it
I say “so fades the great harvest of my betrayer when I wake up sometimes” 😂
I sometimes think "Time was my ally. But now it has abandoned me." when I wake up right before my alarm clock goes off.
"This tomb, is now mine" when I be looking to hit that bed to snooze, no questions asked
It’s criminal that the Didact was not written better, he potentially has the most character depth.
Looking back on what I know of Halo lore, this shouldn't have happened to begin with. The Halo 3 terminals say that he and Librarian were separated before the Halos fired and neither could get to back to each other. A better villain would have been Mendicant Bias, or part of its remaining consciousness that was still corrupted by the Flood and then imprisoned on Requiem. It would have paired with Cortana's Rampancy and potentially set her up to become what she was in Halo Infinite.
I agreed. Even it would be better to makes that the Didact returned like a cybernetic being in Halo 5, and that he was the founder of The Created, than revives Cortana and makes her evil.
Making the Didact like the Sephiroth of Halo.
It was proven time and time again that Bungie did not care about the books. Reach was totally different than the book.
@@SiXiam Bungie can do that when they invented Halo.
@@SiXiam I hated Reach just because of how badly it retconned TFoR. Almost a different event.
“Time was your ally….but now it has abandoned you”
- the Didact
Hard to believe this game came out 12 years ago.
Tell me about it. I remember being so fucking excited that they were FINALLY releasing Halo 4. I had been a super halo nerd for years before it, reading all the books that were released up to that point.
(Meanwhile in the school)
Teacher: "Time was your ally student, but now it has abandoned you. The Finals exams have returned. This F- is now yours."
Lol
😂
Oh, that's good.
"The Forerunners have returned. This tomb is now yours"
That should've been what they ran with for a story. Talk about a total fumble
I agree. But thats not what community sentiment was back in 2012 around the didact and the story direction of Halo 4
Didact is voiced by the cop in the interrogation room that Joker gets the better of in The Dark Knight.
Lol that’s a fun connection
@@mrmaxmondays I know- it's random. I think I was checking the dude's bio one time because his vocal abilities are very unique and I saw that.
Also Harvey Bullock of Batman; The Enemy Within from Telltale.
WOW really? I never would’ve guessed!
And also Joshua Graham from Fallout NV. Ridiculously good voice
This game was so damn good. Why the hell did they kill him off at the end of halo 4, should've been the protagonist for the next 3 games
He did actually survive the game, but believe was offed in a comic after
Antagonist?
@@Ghostly_One1He wasn’t offed, the next book will explain his fate.
@@Nothingified ah, forgot he got composed. I thought he was just disintegrated or plain blown up somehow.
@@NothingifiedEither way they're finishing his story off screen which is trash.
Didact : Assuming direct control
Aww hell naw not again
@@MadisonRose0 Harbinger : Were the forreruners guardian of all that exist
Harbinger
@@Rtgv123 harbinger doesnt stand a chance against the forerunners
@@methadone1140 the same forreruner who lost against a space version of atheletes foot .
Literally the most powerful character in the halo games and was made weak
Well, much like some overpowered villains, like Albert Wesker or Sephiroth, that prefers be toying with the protagonists, than kills them inmediately, making that their arrogance and hubris end becoming their undoing, to gaves the heroes a chance to defeat the villains.
So fades the great harvest of my betrayal
This storyline should been milked more. Didact need come back. These new squid aliens are dumb.
Your best option is the books now, the original Forerunner Saga has a lot of Didact, and Epitaph is apparently phenomenal.
Proof that the Didact is a Force User, or a Star Wars Fan
"Time was your ally jedi, but now it has abandoned you. The Sith Lords have returned. This tomb is now yours."
2:33 when your parents find out about your grades.
Such a majestic entry.. such a horrible boss fight.. such a short run for the character all together.
Just noticed that sangheli said didact in almost perfect English, which is weird that I'm just now hearing it
The fact he demonized and dehumanized the covenant forces yet resembling a tiny amount of respect for humanity shows how much of a threat ancient humanity was
2:13 Anyone notice what that emblem is on chief's left forearm? If anyone can hyper zoom on that with keeping quality fixed somehow, it would be cool to see what that is. Only just noticed it now as this video is in 4k.
I think that’s just a metal component in chiefs armour and the light shining off of it makes it look yellow.
Visual glitch of a forerunner sniper
2:45 "...have returned"
Frank: "OH FUCK YEAH THIS IS THE SHI-"
thank you Rizzo
I love how the didact casually scales higher than any character we’ve seen in halo. This guy beats characters like homelander, thanos, and hulk. Chief is pretty powerful but he scales only to characters like iron man, black panther, and extreme diff soldier boy.
wtf are you talking about? Didact beats Thanos? Homelander? I agree he is the strongest character introduced in the halo games, but how does that equal him beating thanos and homelander?
Why are you making comparisons to cringe characters?
@@Skeptic_Tank he beats thanos. The didact can dismantle characters who lift in the same range as thanos. Homelander would be incinerated by the didacs weapons.
@@ReplyNotificationsMuted to make a statement on his power
@@Skeptic_TankThe Didact’s Combat Skin makes him, for lack of a better term, akin to a Kryptonian in strength, durability, speed, reflexes, agility, flight (including spaceflight), etc.
This is cannon. Forerunners are essentially techno-Kryptonians (atleast when in their secondary skins, which is all the time). A Forerunner’s secondary skin literally grants them the capability to conduct *interplanetary travel.*
Also, despite The Didact’s immense power, he still doesn’t eclipse the psionic capabilities that The Geavemind ultimately possesses.
Sangheili Admiral has arrived sir.
Did the new crap post-Bungie developers just forget about the Didact? They introduce him in Halo 4, never to be mentioned again. It's embarrassing how bad the games were after Bungie's exit.
the didact was definitely around, had an incredible book (epitaph) but he definitely shouldve been the main villain for halo 4-infinite. even if epitaph is absolutely incredibly and a great end for the character (to be honest it made a halo 5 just a slither more bearable with how smug the didact is over cortana losing chief at the end of 5)
The didact has some badass armor, but everything about him from the video game is weak. The books seem to tell better history of him. Oh well. It's 343, not Bungie, so of course it's a flop.
They gotta bring back The Didact
after epitaph i would highly doubt hes coming back. epitaph was a perfect end for the character, the only way to give him justice as well because the games cant really dive into the forerunner trilogy events just a few characters like mendicant and offensive bias
At least has the best Cortana model
Not making the Didact the main villain of the new Halo series is one of the greatest missed opportunities in all of fiction.
Honestly I’m utterly disappointed how dirty they did the didact, not even some closure with him in in a final battle of epic proportions, though they did give him some closure of redemption from what I heard in halo epitaph. Despite this however, it was truly an astronomical let down, not to mention that they even could have done the warden eternal well had they given some effort, the warden eternal had potential if they bloodywell cared, hell I would have loved to have seen the didact with the warden eternal working together with their promethean armies and guardian armies (the guardians were probably one of the few good things to come out of halo 5 in my opinion) and they even wrote the warden eternal off sloppily in epitaph (and I wish they did a warden eternal action figure and heck even a decent guardian action figure other than the tin foil model!) for goodness sake 343 industries, get your act together if you want to live up to the legacy of Bungie and give Halo meaning, purpose, and glory again and whatnot! Though despite this, Halo wars 2, it’s dlc, and Halo Infinite are very awesome games, I look forward to what comes next 🤞
1:33 (speak sangheili and bows)
"The foreigners have returned"
got a glitch where there was no speech of any kind in this scene so here we are
Halo 4 story was great… but the gameplay… yeah, not the greatest…
So much potential, ruined with shoddy storytelling. They did Cortana, Chief and the Didact dirty in 4.
I thought 4 was a masterclass in story-telling. It is extremely solid and stands up well to the test of time. It was establishing a new trilogy, and they nailed it, aside from the multi-player of course.
This is coming from someone who remembers the midnight release of Halo 2. I think it's a crying shame that they binned this story and wasted so much great build-up from all the multimedia. I miss the Didact.
cortana and chief are at some of their best in halo 4, its like one of its only redeeming qualities
Anyone else think the Diadact kinda looks like Lorien from Babylon 5?
Forerunner is so annoying to deal with I swear.
They destroyed the story 343 writers should be ashamed, they could technically just reboot 4-6 and claim it was a timeline that was destroyed by Requiems power source as it was powered by collapsing universes.
Is didact is halo infinite?
He is not, sadly. I don't think we'll see him again after the last book he was in (Epitaph).
that was the enemy that would have made humanity prefer to fight the flood?? BS
humanity didnt want to fight the flood, thats literally what started the human-forerunner war. ancient humans considered the flood such a big threat they risked a war with the forerunners over it spreading
You cannot even master these primitives...
This is the scene that cemented 343's lore as non-canon.
This is canon whether you like it or not.
@omegax4213 maybe in a different continuity. But not in Bungie's continuity. It's not about whether I liked it. I used to defend H4. But it's incompatible with the original games. You gotta do insane mental gymnastics to fit the universes together.
@@LAYON916 Halo 4 doesn't contradict anything from Bungie's games, it only expands what is already established, in fact Bungie contradicted its own lore before 343 did when they released Halo Reach by decanonizing The Fall of Reach novel.
@omegax4213 "Don't fuck with Halo fans...we don't play the games".
Brother, The Fall of Reach WASN'T BUNGIE. IT WAS MICROSOFT. Matter of fact, Bungie didn't want TFOR to come out. And if you think there's no contradictions between H4 and the Bungie trilogy they playing them again but pay closer attention next time. The entire plot twist of the Halo franchise is destroyed by 343i.
@@LAYON916 It's literally the same, Bungie at the time had control of the saga and decanonized whatever they wanted, the same thing happens with 343, there are things that Bungie did that they didn't like and they decided to change them, with the difference that you forgive Bungie for everything. And yet I still don't see a single contradiction that Halo 4 has made.
Lame ahh villain