"Newish, digger maggots."
Best part of the comic. The rest of it was the same, predictable Halo hatred. Nothing that hasn't been done over and over again. Anybody who wanted to call it "Halo 3 with jetpacks" could have said that during the Beta.
The story, while it was very predictable at the point you said, the rest was fine. And the ending was handled really well.
I actually like it, but I guess I don't play like everyone else. I don't feel a need to play on the hardest difficulty, I enjoy Forge (oh yeah, that improved that didn't they? ), I don't let myself listen to people in Matchmaking (mute is a simple solution, really), and more often than not I play with friends.