What is a change or adjustment to the story of Halo CE that you think would make it stronger?
I'll start off by saying I personally think CE has the best singular story out of all the games. Humanity on the run, shipwrecked on an ancient alien world, battling old enemies and new horrors, I just think it's got it all. I love all the other games too, I just like the original the best.
That's not to say I don't think the story could be even stronger. Imagine if some of the lifeboat crew didn't die in the crash. Maybe 4 or 5 survived. Then they proceed to follow Chief on his missions throughout the whole game, but they're all killed one by one like in Reach, to show how desperate the stakes are. They're all named, they all have voice actors, they're all in the cut scenes. We would get to know and love them as they fight alongside us and then get wrecked when they all die.
I would have them all survive Halo, then one dies in Truth and Rec, maybe by one of the camo elites in the brig. No deaths in Cartographer. Then another dies in the final battle of AotCR. Chief tells the survivors to stay behind and guard Cortana and the control room as he goes off in search of Captain Keyes. Chief is solo for Guilty Spark and the Library. No deaths in Two Betrayals, but another dies during Keyes. (The marines could joke about how they feel like they're just doing everything backwards now) Maybe there's one or two marines left at the beginning of the Maw. One survives until the very end when they get infected in the final run to the long sword.
I feel like the cutscene of Chief alone at the end would hit so much harder with something like this. What do you all think? What would you change or adjust?