Yeah, I heard once 343 took over it was starting to decline. I haven’t played Halo 5, but just a couple weeks ago I sat down with baby momma and we played through Halo Coop 1, 2, 3, Reach, and 4 in that order on Heroic. It was a lot of fun. I don’t think I’d get to the point where I’d read the books. A lot of the story and campaigns in Halo are confusing. There is so much jumping around and back and forth, but the gameplay is very solid and the locations are different and fun, good weapons, vehicles. I tried reading a Halo book about 10 years ago but never really finished or got too into it.
A blocky survival game.