SaganIsGOAT
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When did I say Neill Blomkamp worked for Bungie? What are you talking about?
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When did I say Neill Blomkamp worked for Bungie? What are you talking about?
Compsiox
Banned
He did. For Microsoft anyway.
You just implied that Bungie was directly responsible for how good the live action Halo scenes were.... the best of those being directed by Neill Blomkamp....
It's amazing the pessimism towards a Halo TV show just because 343i Studio is in control of Halo's development. The real Halo TV show is coming fall 2015.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Yesssss. Halo needs more creative, weird guns. Nothing nuts, but just cool and alien.
RowdyReverb
Member
I would guess it's a teaser that introduces an ARG. Flashing a mysterious URL on screen is a great way to get people to participate now that seemingly everybody watches TV with a phone or tablet in their hand. AMC even encourages it with their "second screen experience" or whatever.
It's too early yet to full-on advertise H5 with a trailer, especially with such expensive airtime. Those spots usually come within a couple weeks of a game's launch, not several months away.
TacticalFox88
Banned
I'd say something like Crysis or Mass Effect Geth Weapons.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
What I am implying is look at the QUALITY of the trailers and shorts that came out when Bungie was handling the universe. I am not claiming Bungie created these, I am claiming that some of the best produced extended universe stuff released during Bungie's time with Halo. I am not going to completely leave 343 in the cold because the Intro Cutscene with Halsey in Halo 4 was well done. They need to push that more. That was a glimpse of what they can do but haven't actually come close to reaching that mark since.
I am all for 343 producing more short stuff like Blomkamp's short or even commercials. They can do those just fine. My issue is that it appears that once the script is extended and we have to push past the length of their best short duration content, it all falls apart.
Twin Tails
Member
Same. I'm hoping the drive starts off with a bang rather then more teasing.
Forward Unto Dawn was really good though, that was produced under 343. Nightfall not so much unfortunately.
I hope we stop getting this episodic stuff. It worked somewhat for Forward Unto Dawn, it didn't really work for Nightfall. Nightfall should have just been one start to finish film/movie. Breaking it up into 5 parts just made little sense, especially because of how much they'd need to keep showing us what happened previously but then, we'd barely advance the story 15 minutes before it ended again.
Welfare
Member
Cortana with the #truefacts
wesleyshark
Banned
Wait, what's wrong with Nightfall? Are we supposed to hate that too, now?
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
What's wrong with Nightfall? My list will be too long. Hit me with your list of what makes it good please.
Goldfishking
Member
2am*
Clocks go forward...
that's next week (in the UK atleast)
Also thats not how time works.
TacticalFox88
Banned
the Dude who plays Locke in Nightfall is so awful it's extremely distracting.
2am*
Clocks go forward...
That's on the 29th for the UK.
I actually don't need to get up though so that's nice.
Means you have less time to sleep though.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Didnt like his voice acting in Prologue and epilogue scenes. But dude was good in the TV series.
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Never watched Nightfall, but from the cutscenes he has with the Arbiter it just feels weak by comparison. Not hating on the guy, just hope it improves for Halo 5.
Forward Unto Dawn was great! more please.
killer rin
Member
Honestly, I think the problem with Nightfall was one of a couple reasons.
First of all, we knew how it ended. We knew from the very beginning that 343i Needed Agent Locke to survive, so the narrative they were playing of "We only have 2 slots on this transport ship that we have to reach in 3 hours or we all die" was pretty guessable.
Another problem was that they tried getting a Director who does Horror type stuff to do this with Halo, but instead of having it be something traditionally scary with Halo, eg. Alone with the flood in a foggy field; In a dark environment being stalked by covenant using active camo, they hamstrung the director by giving him only one enemy, the Mgalekgolo in a bright environment with a set of rules which were easily bypassed. "Oh we just turn off our weapons and we're fine. If we need oxygen, we take turns and only keep the oxygen mask opened for a minute before they come"
Lastly, the Actors they got were kind of meh. I'm not expecting AAAA Actors, but atleast decent ones. I especially feel like the guy they got for Agent Locke was pretty mediocre and not the best introduction to a character 343i is planning on spanning across the entire Halo Universe as an integral part of, for several years to come.
Goldfishking
Member
-Shitty CGI (Worm swarms looked like crap, and that elite in the first ep looked constipated while walking)
- Good characters were killed off before they could be expanded on, and some forgetful and annoying characters.
- Walking through a quarry 2014
- Didnt bridge the gap between halo 4 & 5 and just sort of ended without showing us what happens to agent locke afterwards
Overall it started of promising but went only one place. A quarry with bad looking aliens
And this is coming from someone who liked it
Twin Tails
Member
To be fair, Nightfall really wasn't very good. FUD was a much better show all things considered.
wesleyshark
Banned
I definitely liked FUD more than I liked Nightfall, but I certainly did not dislike or have piles of complaints about it either. I dunno. For what it was, it was quite enjoyable.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Like it if you want, dude. Just because popular opinion conflicts with your opinion doesn't mean there's an agenda.
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Elite walking through mall...
Twin Tails
Member
FUD decent until Chief shows up then meh.
The covenant ship showing up was bad ass though
The covenant ship showing up was bad ass though
Don't waste your time. If the reveal is happening at 9 pm on the website, the commercial wont air till after. The commercial will either be the same thing that debuts online or a tease ending with "head to this tumblr page for more".
B-b-b-but the high budget and Ridley Scott!!!
Did most of the Nightfall budget go to securing Ridleys name and his production company? I have no idea how it cost more then FuD.
Agreed. All the issues stemmed from the writing. Locke's actor is on The Good Wife and people who've seen it say he's good on there so. Voice acting is another discipline though. Hope he can pull that off.
Agreed. All the issues stemmed from the writing. Locke's actor is on The Good Wife and people who've seen it say he's good on there so. Voice acting is another discipline though. Hope he can pull that off.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Naw. He was okay. Nightfall's problems were ones of writing, not acting or direction.
High budget and Ridley Scott don't mean that it's a guaranteed great movie.... Prometheus for instance.
