The story could have been awesome, they had so much potential coming out of Halo 3 and from the Forerunner Saga, but they threw it all away at the finish line. The whole entire plot of Halo 4 with the Didact made absolutely no sense and does not fit his character in the least little bit. Now, if they wanted an evil Forerunner or Forerunners, I'd have been all for that, because no species is perfect, and the Forerunners are no different than the rest of mere mortals....if 343i wanted an evil Forerunner though, they should have either completely made someone up, or used the one that Greg Bear had already painstakingly created with the Master Builder. And then you have the stuff with the Sangheili, the end of Halo 3 was great, Humanity and the UNSC moving forward with the Elites as eventual strong allies standing firmly at our side and all of the great things implied and directly stated about the future of Humanity and Elites....completely thrown out the window with Halo for absolutely no reason whatsoever, the Elites are all just suddenly raging, evil, zealots again, 343idiocy has completely and totally undone everything about Halo that made it great, the moral issues are reduced to black and white with absolutely no complexity or multiple levels to them, such as Halsey and the Spartan II Program, now it's just black and white with 343i shoving the "Halsey is an evil demon bitch, hate her guts!" bullshit down our throats. They even messed up ONI, portraying them as some sort of cheap knock-off of Cerberus, without any of the depth and moral complexity of said group. And the sad thing is, I know 343i has the potential to tell good stories, or at least hire good writers, they created a whole ton of good stuff before Glasslands came out and it all started going downhill...but now, now it's all just crap sinking deeper and deeper into the mire of their own mediocrity and inability to tell stories.