So, we come to it at last. The first Halo game that I didn't actually bother to play when it was new, frankly because I'd lost interest in the property as a whole. I couldn't really pick out one specific reason for you as to why, I mentioned way back in my E3 2012 Trailer Reviews/Skyrim Coma Recovery Post that I had honestly seen 3 as the logical stopping point before the entire series devolved into a pile of loosely-connected references to the expanded universe and the games themselves left pretty lacking in the plot department.
As it turns out, I was just as insightful in 2012 as I am in 2019.