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Halo 4 |OT2| TURBO
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Wasn't sure if I should spoiler or not, saw he answered without spoilers so I figure it'd be pointless to spoiler anything at that point.
ONI are a bunch of dicks who want to make sure the Elites don't threaten humanity. They're not above undercutting the rest of the Navy's goals to further their own "higher" ones.
The Thursday War's a year old and most of the info comes from Glasslands so I don't really think it needs spoiler tagging at this point.
Orochinagis
Member
The elites still have a big army and enough ships to put Humanity in danger
so yeah, ONI wanted to keep them that way while they are searching and destroying their ships.
I really doubt it will be explained or get information in the games
but now they are dispersed in different planets or moons (also fathers waiting for the young elites that come to war but never get a response). If one faction wins I would gather them again a becomes a big ass covenant danger again
I really doubt it will be explained or get information in the games
gAg CruSh3r
Member
I need a updated picture with him in my Astro A40
... He will be turning 1 years old in a week. It breaks my heart.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
If we don't see Arby in the next Halo game that would be extremely offensive.
The Arbiter and the return of the Flood.
I really want to see what 343 do with the story of Halo 5.
In general there are a lot of cool ideas, but I don't think it has achieved its potential. I'm glad they are trying and hope to see more attempts because I think they will get better at it. Too much has been made unnecessarily complex and then there is the issue of what part of the story should exist in which media. They should be able to exist coherently separate, but connect into a greater whole. I actually liked the forerunner books(though felt the pacing was off) and Spartan Ops(though not a fan of that name), but there is a lot of untapped potential and overall thought they felt somewhat disjointed.
BaconSkittles
Neo Member
Plot
A Covenant Supercarrier is severely damaged in a battle against the UNSC. The ship retreats into Slipspace. Shortly after the Slipspace generator breaks, causing the ship to enter normal space and crash onto the human colony New Mecca. The surviving Covenant forces hold the colony hostage until their Engineers can repair their telecommunications. Once repaired the Covenant will signal for forces to come and recover them as well as glass the planet.
The UNSC quickly acts in an all out attack led by Team Cyan, a group of Class-II Spartan-IIs, and other forces as they attempt to take out the Engineers before it's too late.
Canon
The plot is being made to coincide with the established canon with little to no inconsistencies.
While most of the content will be based on existing designs, some new content that may exist already in the canon will appear. For example the Mantis is the 9th model in the HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL line by 2553. So in Second Class we will show you what we believe a previous model would look like. Remind you that the Mark I first appeared in the Halo: Legends segment "The Prototype." A weapon that will be appearing in Second Class is the M6J/C, a carbine variant of a M6 Sidearm. It exists in the Halo canon but has never seen any appearance in any of the games, comics, books, etc.
Various new assets to the UNSC and Covenant will appear in Second Class that haven't appeared in the Halo canon, but that isn't to say that they don't exist within it. I can't go into further detail other than it involves the Halo 2 version of the ODST armor.
Second Class will also provide fan-made explanations into various canonical problems that Bungie/343i have made yet have never cleared up. Similar to levihoff's "A Fistfull of Arrows." Unlike most other fan fictions it provides a story that can fit within the established canon without any retcons or canonical issues.
If you have any questions on Second Class, please feel free to ask away. I hope to have a trailer for you guys out by Spring.
A Covenant Supercarrier is severely damaged in a battle against the UNSC. The ship retreats into Slipspace. Shortly after the Slipspace generator breaks, causing the ship to enter normal space and crash onto the human colony New Mecca. The surviving Covenant forces hold the colony hostage until their Engineers can repair their telecommunications. Once repaired the Covenant will signal for forces to come and recover them as well as glass the planet.
The UNSC quickly acts in an all out attack led by Team Cyan, a group of Class-II Spartan-IIs, and other forces as they attempt to take out the Engineers before it's too late.
Canon
The plot is being made to coincide with the established canon with little to no inconsistencies.
While most of the content will be based on existing designs, some new content that may exist already in the canon will appear. For example the Mantis is the 9th model in the HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL line by 2553. So in Second Class we will show you what we believe a previous model would look like. Remind you that the Mark I first appeared in the Halo: Legends segment "The Prototype." A weapon that will be appearing in Second Class is the M6J/C, a carbine variant of a M6 Sidearm. It exists in the Halo canon but has never seen any appearance in any of the games, comics, books, etc.
Various new assets to the UNSC and Covenant will appear in Second Class that haven't appeared in the Halo canon, but that isn't to say that they don't exist within it. I can't go into further detail other than it involves the Halo 2 version of the ODST armor.
Second Class will also provide fan-made explanations into various canonical problems that Bungie/343i have made yet have never cleared up. Similar to levihoff's "A Fistfull of Arrows." Unlike most other fan fictions it provides a story that can fit within the established canon without any retcons or canonical issues.
If you have any questions on Second Class, please feel free to ask away. I hope to have a trailer for you guys out by Spring.
nillapuddin
Member
jesus christ, for someone who is supposed to be so knowledgeable and talented with the Halo gameplay systems, this is some of the least thought through and poor gameplay Ive seen aside from my girlfriend
I've always thought Gandhi was a moron, and I still have absolutely no idea what entitles him to give critical analysis of Halo games that people should take under consideration.
I'm watching him play the campaign too, and for someone who promotes such a deep understanding of game mechanics and knows what's best for a franchise, the guy plays through a Halo campaign like a drunk fighting narcolepsy. I would bet my life savings the guy couldn't name ten characters from the Halo franchise.
HaloGAF Customs in...
Mic required? Also, what if you play like shit? Haven't really touched the game since turbo update. Been playing GTA too much, but wouldn't mind a few games with HaloGAF...
User 73706
Banned
dun wurry, I play worse. I'll be there in a few.
Not required but it's always nice. Doesn't matter if you suck these days.
gAg CruSh3r
Member
Who wants to help quick test my Ricochet map for the Forge contest before HaloGAFs play date? I just need some feed back to make any adjustments to it!
YourExWife
Member
Streaming the customs as well: http://twitch.tv/yourexwife
YEAH it is almost like he was an MLG player who only cared for the multiplayer right? Lol
Sure. But how can you claim you know what's best for a franchise when you only understand one part. It's like claiming you know how to make the best beer when all you drink is Bud Light Lime.
The Real Napsta
Member
the franchise is MP, always had been.
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
absolutely not true, i have multiple friends that get Halo just for Campaign, personally, i get it for the whole experience.
CoD is MP
Battlefield is MP
Halo is Campaign and MP
In think a large percentage of the players who buy Halo complete the Campaign but I think the multiplayer made the franchise for sure.
I don't think that's debateable, but I'm always amazed at how many people touch the campaign but don't actually play PvP multiplayer. That's one reason that I hope they expand the co-op options and quality of the co-op experience itself (dedis!)--there's a huge market out there that doesn't see the matchmaking side, and I think that's an area where 343 can carve out a greater niche. Competition from multiplayer shooters is always going to be tough, but none of the other major franchises have actual quality campaigns (I have no idea why they even bother for CoD.)
Well if there was ever a time when it could improve, it would be for Xbox One.
I'm really lucky that I've never had any major difficulties with campaign co-op, aside from some frustrating disconnects when going for "Endure". But it would be great to get more people on board by removing the networking obstacles.
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
He said he's only played CE's campaign before that, I come from the camp that I'd rather see someone be bad at a game and it be funny and entertaining, than them be really good, in that case, it's boring. With the exception of Siglemic. Of course I still love watching competitive Halo, but seeing someone just fuck around in campaign, which is entertaining in its own right.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Who the hell let you decide that? I have read the book but im willing to bet reading a Halo novel is pretty low on most peoples priority lists. Its common courtesy to take 2 seconds to add spoiler tags to something. Took me less than that to add bold tags to the sentence in your post.
Anyway GTA is pretty awesome, it has totally kept me away from Halo stuff, have I missed anything?
StalkerUKCG
Banned
This is all I have to say. Bobs stop beating my high scores in GTA mission
FUBAR McDangles
Member
No need to get hostile. Jeez.
It's been 11 months since the book was released.
Do you expect me to add spoiler tags when talking about Halo 4? In a Halo thread? How about Halo: Silentium, which came out five months after Thursday War but is talked about often enough and hasn't had spoiler tags in here for a long time?
I guess what I'm saying is, if someone cared enough about the Halo books to be bothered by background information spoilers, they should have read the book by now. A week from Wednesday is one calendar year from the Thursday War's release. Hell, it was even in Glasslands, which was released in October of 2011.
How much cushion time do you want? Am I allowed to talk about the plot details of Halo 3 yet?
bobs...onGaf
Member
I tried to avoid being overtly hostile but the authoritative tone of your post really stood out to me as just being a bit prickish:
If other people have the courtesy to spoiler tag I don't see why you would straight up state that your not going to bother spoiler tagging. I don't care if the book has been out 11 months, for a lot of people its quite hard to get hold of a Halo book and actually in a lot of places the book has been out a lot less than that. For a lot of people they have waited for the paperback ON TOP of a delayed release. I imagine people like Gui would REALLY struggle to get the books. On top of that a Halo book is going to be pretty low priority in terms of peoples to do list. Its just courteous to realise that not everyone is in a position to read it yet.
I never said you couldn't talk about it, I am just kindly asking you to stop being too lazy to take two seconds out of your time to add
to your post twice. You can copy and paste it from my post if you want.
I didn't even know that was a thing! I have actually tried to look at the friends tab on the main menu but it never loads up for me.
I was just at a friends house now, I played a lot of Halo 3 with those guys, especially Sniper customs, I got into a police chase, turned around and first time trying sniped the heli pilot out of the chasing helicopter, the groans and "fucking too much halo" comments where amazing.
Love that game.
I didn't even know that was a thing! I have actually tried to look at the friends tab on the main menu but it never loads up for me.
I was just at a friends house now, I played a lot of Halo 3 with those guys, especially Sniper customs, I got into a police chase, turned around and first time trying sniped the heli pilot out of the chasing helicopter, the groans and "fucking too much halo" comments where amazing.
Love that game.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I'm only here for the Bobs' meltdown.
<3 u bobby.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
bobs.. FUBAR is like the nicest person in this thread lol. I don't think he meant it in the tone as you're describing, so your hostile attitude was unwarranted in the first place.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Well Halo sure isn't going to entertain me.
<3 you too silent stranger.
FUBAR seems cool and its not a personal attack or anything, anyone who forgoes spoiler tags would get a hostile response from me, when I was reading the thread a lot it would have annoyed me to no end to walk blindly into spoilers and im just thinking of all the Halo fans who cant quite get access to the books because there are a lot.
Regardless apologies FUBAR if my hostility seemed over the top, I only wanted to be just hostile enough to show that I dislike spoilers.
User 73706
Banned
are we really arguing semantics over spoilers that haven't been spoilers for 11 months
spoiler warning: bornstellar and librarian sacrifice themselves to didact can use the dragon balls and the chaos emeralds to defeat Mecha Gogeta Gravemind in the Battle for Middle-Earth
spoiler warning: bornstellar and librarian sacrifice themselves to didact can use the dragon balls and the chaos emeralds to defeat Mecha Gogeta Gravemind in the Battle for Middle-Earth
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
Your profile pic is awesome.
GOD YOU'RE SUCH A JERK!
This is just ignorance. If Halo's story was garbage from the beginning, do you think it would've received the same popularity it has today?
Absolutely not. While MP keeps players invested in the game, the game isn't just about multiplayer. Take Halo 4, for example. Look at the drop off in player population after the first week - usually when people are done playing the campaign. Also, Halo 4 sold MILLIONS of copies, and I'd garner to say a good portion of buyers (~30-50%?) don't have Xbox Live. So what do they play? Campaign.
Back when Halo CE was released, like everyone else here, I spent hours playing it with my friends. After school, at buddy's houses, etc. However, we spent most of our time screwing around in campaign, not multiplayer. Sure, we played multiplayer just like anyone else, but we spent the most hours taking turns in campaign. The campaign of Halo made it take off, not the multiplayer.
Yea, multiplayer is important, and to the majority of us at HaloGAF, it's the only thing we care about. We're the vocal minority. But to say multiplayer is what the game is about, and "always had been", is nothing more than pure ignorance.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Well Halo sure isn't going to entertain me.
<3 you too silent stranger.
FUBAR seems cool and its not a personal attack or anything, anyone who forgoes spoiler tags would get a hostile response from me, when I was reading the thread a lot it would have annoyed me to no end to walk blindly into spoilers and im just thinking of all the Halo fans who cant quite get access to the books because there are a lot.
Regardless apologies FUBAR if my hostility seemed over the top, I only wanted to be just hostile enough to show that I dislike spoilers.
343 guilty spark is a bad guy
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
Agreed, multiplayer in Halo 1 was more of an afterthought. It's always struck me that Halo's always been about the campaign, at least to reviewers, or at least as equally important to the multiplayer. Halo's campaign's have always been at least, pretty good, even Halo 4's I enjoyed for the most part. Multiplayer is a different question, and is, obviously subjective, along with the campaign.
come on, man, I haven't gotten around to play Halo: CE yet!
:lol
User 73706
Banned
I think 50% of people who bought cod 4 or MW2 or something only played campaign