User blog comment:Ahalosniper/What Is Halo About To You?/@comment-24020008-20170624040301/@comment-31940183-20170624044458

As I can reword what King said, as I agree with it. Halo is the sum of all its working and moving parts, nothing more and nothing less.

An interesting enemy faction, underdog setting, a power fantasy, a imprintable protagonist, an over the top plot, heavy undertones of mystery and adventure, and an addiction to the sense of battle. At least the basics for the games, the world beyond that is a little bit more or a lot more but basically similar.

Halo is what you make of it, but you can never escape those basic concepts.

As for my personal point of view of Halo, I have gradually shifted to the belief that Halo is a contradictory mix between a military science fiction story and a space western, one that I seek to invest and exploit as a bigger world to let my characters live in, as their sandbox. That is my goal as an amateur writer, and as a proponent for the expansion of interest in "good" fanfiction. I don't want Fanfiction to be shit - I want to lift the bar and set the standard, and Halo is one world that I have seen promise in - both from being a writer and a reader.