Halfway There...Halo

So I guess I was completely wrong about the length of this game. I've played for about 8 hours now and I just started the 5th mission out of 10. I'm guessing the total time ends up being closer to 15-18 hours, which is unheard of for an FPS these days. Honestly, I think that's too long. People often complain about the brevity of single player campaigns in modern FPS games, but I think the genre lends itself to being on the shorter side. Like, I'm already bored with Halo to be perfectly frank. Yeah, they mix it up and bring you to different locales, but all I'm doing is shooting at the same 4 enemy types in front of different window dressing. Maybe it's just my gaming personality, but I think this is why I never finished this game to begin with, it's too damn long.

Now with the threat of "The Library" that everyone keeps telling me about, I am more hesitant to keep going. I get more frustrated playing FPS games than any other genre when I have to repeat a section over and over - like last night.

There is a section right at the end of the "snow world" stage where you leave a building that opens into a big snowfield. There are a couple hunters roaming around and then there's those damn flying machines and one of those tanks that hurls massive energy balls. You have to drop down to this area where there is a rocket launcher if you want to stand any chance at all against everything. So if you come through to doors quietly, you can melee one of those "OHH ROLL THE DICE" enemies before he jumps on a ghost. Then you jump on the ghost, ride it over to the rocket launcher area, climb out, take out the two flying things, take out the tank, take out the two hunters, take out the gun turret, all while managing other little dudes trying to kill you. This whole process took me about 7 or 8 minutes when I did it perfectly, but the trial and error before that made me want to eat tin foil. Having to do each step over and over again got old REAL quick.

I'm afraid The Library may force me to give up on this game...I await it's stupid difficulty.