No, the "story" of Halo is a raging rip-off of Ringworld, drawn together by some failed, hack of a sci-fi writer. It is cheap, weak and wholly unoriginal.
As to why you should be mocked for liking Halo: the reason are just to numerous to name fully.
First up they are just bad games, in every measurable respect. Very weak corridor shooters that even the designers admit had to be wildly dumbed-down to make them playable on a joypad (3 second delay on all enemy AI so that you have a chance to faff around with your little thumbsticks and shoot them? Oh yes: that's great fucking design). The graphics are appalling, the combat hysterical and the general form of the way the game plays is so pedestrian and overblown it rivals the Modern Warfare series for its utter fucking stupidity.
Secondly, you are supporting and playing games that the designers hated. They are bound by NDAs but anyone who pays any attention knows that Bungie fucking loathed the franchise by the end and could not leave MS and Halo far enough behind as soon as they got the chance.
Taking the issue further, Halo is the wreck of a childish nightmare that sold the 360 and the 360 is responsible for the current, appalling state of gaming, especially everything that has befallen PC gaming. Gaming has been dragged down to a pathetic, laughable level as all things go through that fucking atrocious platform and if it cannot be run on what is essentially 10 year old hardware then it cannot be made. This means that every game of the current generation has to be shrunk, chopped to bits and generally raped to allow it to run on the 360 as it has less ram than a watch and less graphics horsepower than a frigging iPad.
But no, buy all means, you have your "opinions", supporting the weakest, stupidest, most generic, most unimaginative, most plagiaristic crap-hole games and the platform it runs on but don't expect me to like it. Your "games" actively diminish the industry that I enjoy so no, I wont be nice about it.
If you want actual, good fiction, go read a book. Go read Ringworld and see where the idea comes from or go read Iain Banks and learn what true sci-fi writing is about. This tawdry, generic nonsense is beneath you.
I never said that I had a raging boner for xbox's and just the halo in whole. I just liked their story because at the time when I was younger I just enjoyed it. I know Xbox's have their huge problems but I left the consoles for 4 years now. The only true games I enjoyed on the console were Fallout 3 and Oblivion.
I posted the video because I thought they filmed it pretty well (from my eyes) and wanted to see if anyone else was interested in it.
Oh and I guess sorry for somewhat liking such a "bad game", I didn't mean to offend anyone here.