Dec 2014.
Halo 5 Opening Cinematic
- Thread starter Twin Tails
- Start date
Dec 2014.
Samurai G0SU
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. Ugh... garbage. Why didn't 343 stick with their guns and stay Forerunner only. This Covenant shit got old in ODST.
lol
this is going to be good.
brainzelda
Member
There's Covenant in Halo 4? Which is my point. They should've stayed Forerunner only.
VincentMatts
Member
Prometheans were boring as hell to fight in 4. Best part of 4 were the covenant battles.
What happened in Dec 2014?
Why? 343 could have added a whole bunch of new aliens on top of the Forerunners and they're would have been just as much complaining. I still loving fighting grunts and elites. I do like having new enemies though, hopefully 5 has some in store.
Samurai G0SU
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So you're confirming you never played Halo 4, yet you want them to only have Forerunner as enemies in Halo 5.
Halo 5 Beta, Ground pound was introduced there.
rokkerkory
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what the what? lol
I want my covies back like a big mack attack!
wesleyshark
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You haven't made any points so far. This is a very bizarre tangent.
Leyasu
Banned
They look to have thankfully got rid of those knights in 5 which is good. Having the covies is nice, and it never gets old fighting elites imo. I only wish that they would go back to fully armoured elites like in Halo 3. I dont like the bareskinned designs that 343 have.
brainzelda
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I know I definitely would've been far more engaged in Halo 4 if they made new Forerunner tiers. I remember seeing Covenant in that initial Halo 4 reveal at E3 and my eyes glazed over immediately.
Check again. There are knights all over most of the media in Halo 5 since E3. There are a few of them in the opening cinematic to boot.
VincentMatts
Member
hell, id even take the brutes back
I hope the Brutes are in Halo 5.
Even if its just a small level involving them.
They are fun to fight in Halo 3.
formasymphonic
Member
The lack of Chief scares me. I don't want emphasis on Locke. Give me Chief!
— here I'd counter that if your story is entirely dependent on a single character, then that itself is a problem and 343 bringing more characters to expand the story is actually the right move.
I was gonna tag some of the DBZ power level debating earlier for Spartan II, III & IV's but meh. Instead I am here sensiblechuckle.gif -ing over people feeling that Osiris punching a hole to an objective through a fight that seemed to already be in motion before they got there.
For all the gaffers that think its unreasonable/doesnt fit within the universe, did you forget that you spent the majority of the previous Halo games as a **single guy** who tore through enemies repeatedly?
Edit: part two
soulassssns
Banned
Knights are in the game. They are also in Warzone as well.
Twilight Gap
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holy shit i just played this over the clip and it synced up perfectly BRB gonna edit
Leyasu
Banned
Oh shit... What complete with those fucking watchers?? I liked the look of the soldiers in the E3 demo. I was hoping that the teleporting bullet sponges were gone. Oh well, not the end of the world.
Goldfishking
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Can you elaborate? Alot of people have said that but i dont get it.
Because that wasn't the Master Chief trailer.
Well he's half right. There should have been no Covenant and there should have been even better designed new foes that evolved the Covenant battles while introducing fresh foes.
When I fired up Halo 4 after being on media blackout and discovered that the myserious adventure I imagined at end of Halo 3 approaching the sphere was more covenant my heart legit sank.
Of course then I got to fight the new Promethean foes and to be fair wanted the covenant back because they were better designed foes even if they were also old hat (and also an enemy fully resolved at the end of Halo 3).
The fact that there's still a covenant to fight makes plenty of sense, and it's a point that appears will be better explained in Halo5.
The Arbiter doesn't represent all of the covenant... He doesn't even represent all of the elites... Just because the Arbiter agreed to a truce with Humans doesn't mean the countless other alien factions are so kind...
The majority of the covenant we fight in Halo4 still hold the Forrunners as god's despite MC and Arbiter proving otherwise... And so, they still want Humanity obliterated... Oh and their leader doesn't believe any of the religious shit... He just pretends to because he absolutely despises humanity and needed the religious nuts as allies..
Yes, it's stupid that none of this was explained in game... But just like in real life, politicians signing a peice of paper doesn't erase decades of bloody hatred...
formasymphonic
Member
Whaaa? I wanna see it.
Playing other major characters besides Chief isn't exclusively 343's doing, nor were they the first
Duxxy3
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Playing other major characters besides Chief isn't exclusively 343's doing, nor were they the first
Hated it in Halo 2 as well.
The English Conquistador
Member
Kazuma Jinnouchi already killing it with his score. Great cinematic! Over the top completely but I dig it regardless.
Been kinda cold on Halo 5 and the info dropped but this has brought it up a notch.
Been kinda cold on Halo 5 and the info dropped but this has brought it up a notch.
Could you in any way come to terms that some of the core values of Halo have changed, and end up liking the new values? Same thing as I said to Hubble:
Welfare
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Playing solo, the only other character you would be playing as is Locke. Did you not like what Halo 2 or ODST did?
What about The Arbiter in Halo 2? I mean, playing him was a significant portion of the game. [EDIT: Beaten like the original Covenant.]
I liked this cinematic and I believe this dual narrative type of campaign has huge potential. Of course, we will see what 343 did with it but personally, from the story level, I liked the campaign of Halo 4 the most, so I'm optimistic. I mean, the interactions between The Chief and Cortana in H4 were something absolutely special.
Ennosuke
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You asked, me a couple of posts above, why I say "It didn't feel like Halo". You sort of provided the answer for me in this post. It is difficult for me to explain, but it feels like a lot of those elements/values which I connect to Halo, have changed. I know the series needs new fresh ideas, but the direction feels different from what I like about Halo.
Anyway, I am still looking forward to this one and of course I will give it a chance, because I am also fair, when someone tries something different.
Goldfishking
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You take that back. The arbiter was great.
MightyHedgehog
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Definitely trying to wash the lame taste of Halo 4 away, but it's just too bad the actual gameplay combat won't feel this kinetic. Did the Elites and Knights lose their energy shielding or did Spartan weapons get a huge boost in power? Nitpicking aside, nice opening.
Duxxy3
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Possibly. This is just my initial impression.
I did not. Didn't like the arbiter bits and didn't like ODST as a whole.
Milly Osworth
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That was pretty meh. Could have been the intro to a level.
soulassssns
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What elements and values are you talking about exactly?
soulassssns
Banned
Well there are plenty of other game franchises out there just waiting for you to play them. I for one like playing other characters within the Halo universe.
That's probably going to be hard to define. It's usually a combination, too, how they mix together.