GringoSuave89
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Damn it Frankie...
Halo 5 Guardians: #huntthetruth
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I'm kinda skimming through Nightfall now, I don't ever remember seeing that robotic left hand thing
Edit: nevermind, found it. What a weird thing to put into that.
wumster3000
Member
Sorry to potentially derail the thread as I cannot make one.
I am currently playing Halo 4 on Xbox One and I am enjoying the hell out of it. Why do people dislike this game? The gun play is amazing. Music is top notch and the story so far is good. I'm on chapter 4 and I can't put it down.
Reasons for playing it late relates to my 15 month old son and career changes. I hate that I waited so long. This game is amazing.
I am currently playing Halo 4 on Xbox One and I am enjoying the hell out of it. Why do people dislike this game? The gun play is amazing. Music is top notch and the story so far is good. I'm on chapter 4 and I can't put it down.
Reasons for playing it late relates to my 15 month old son and career changes. I hate that I waited so long. This game is amazing.
GringoSuave89
Banned
Then come over to Community Side and post there.
4 is pretty good, multiplayer was a disappointment
rokkerkory
Member
SP was great, MP wasn't
RedAssedApe
Banned
Is that lady in Episode 04 Cobie Smulders?!
why is there a pic of cobie smulders in this thread? haven't been following but just popped in lol
Twin Tails
Member
she is a voice actor for a character in the series.
GringoSuave89
Banned
if you read the sentence above said picture, you'll have your answer.
ThatsMytrunks
Member
I bet the character in question is Buck. Anyone got tabs on where Nathan Fillion's been lately?
wumster3000
Member
Both of you say the same. I'm not a huge MP gamer so I guess I'll miss that. I'll head over to the community thread. Apologies for the slight derailment.
RedAssedApe
Banned
i didn't know what episode 4 referred to. like i said this is the first time i popped into the thread haha. thanks though...i guess i should have went through the tumblr
At the very, very least, I will say the game made huge strides on both weapons and vehicles, they look and sound much more satisfying
Yes, watch the series there or on tumblr and all will be answered
He's already been seen around, that seems like way less of a swerve than MB
Captain Zyrain
Member
Yeah, while Buck recording lines would be cool.. Not exactly "Halo lore" aficionado mind blowing.
I'd like to see more Guilty Spark, or Mendicant Bias or maybe the Primordial ;-)
I'd like to see more Guilty Spark, or Mendicant Bias or maybe the Primordial ;-)
luckygodzilla
Member
The main villain's motivations seem a tad unreasonable if you haven't dug into the expanded fiction, late game objectives that consist mostly of running from button to button, and the fact that the promethian's were simply not that fun to fight on harder difficulties are the communities primary gripes with the campaign.
That aside, Halo 4 is undoubtedly the best game out of the entire series when it comes to raw kinesthetics, it just feels so good to play. For once every weapon feels and sounds powerful, and the game is a positive joy to play.
Idle Storm
Member
Siege of Madrigal
I hope this Easter egg track makes it somewhere into the new game. It's so beautiful and it's followed Halo since CE. It makes me think of blue team and the relationship they share with chief.
I hope this Easter egg track makes it somewhere into the new game. It's so beautiful and it's followed Halo since CE. It makes me think of blue team and the relationship they share with chief.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Considering the Siege of Madrigal was a Marty/Bungie thing that dates back to Myth, gonna say it probably won't ever pop up in a Halo again.
Idle Storm
Member
They usex the track in CE anniversary and linked an achievement to it... and it can't that far fetched to think the may still use it hidden somewhere again.
Buttonbasher
Member
Yeah but in that instance it makes sense, given that it was hidden in the original game they were remastering.
Idle Storm
Member
I guess that depends. In CEA did it play the original track or did they remaster/remake it like they did the rest of the soundtrack? If it was remade then it shows 343 have the rights to it.
Buttonbasher
Member
It's the original track in both.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Not necessarily - rights can be complicated. Considering the song pre-dates the existence of Halo (and the MS buyout), odds are that at most MS/343i owns the rights to the song as used in that particular software. So they could remake Halo CE a hundred times and use it there, but out of said context they couldn't do a thing with it.
Either way, considering it's history as a Bungie/Marty Easter egg, even if 343i could do it, I don't think they would. It would be like Nintendo including Totaka's Song in a game Kazumi Totaka didn't work on. It would just kinda be wrong of them, ya know?
Keith David? Ron Perlman? Nathan Fillion? I wonder who it could be? Definitely looking forward to it!
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Considering all of three of them have been main cast members, I'd say none of them. I love them all (and Ron Perlman/Hood returning would be awesome), but I wouldn't exactly say any of them would be characters that "hardcore Halo lore fans" in specific would lose their minds over. Odds are he's referring to a character like Mendicant Bias who only hardcore fans of the lore would know about.
Also: https://twitter.com/franklez/status/593657281935380480
Heh, wonder what sparked that tweet.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
The discussion in the replies reminds me of how much I hate what the Forerunner lore has turned into. It manages to be needlessly complicated but also totally uninteresting. I really hope 343 refocuses it into something more appealing.
It's not really that complicated, and there are people that like where it's at.
Like me.
I obviously have things I would see done differently, but overall I'm happy.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Nope, no mixing and matching. It's either all Anniversary or all Classic.
Shit. Oh well, not a deal breaker but I do prefer the original soundtrack from what I've heard. Thanks.
SuicidalSteve
Member
Whatever it was, hopefully it was nothing to do with Halo 5.
Breakfast at Noon
Member
£200 for halo 5 collectors edition.. fuck straight off.
It better contain Locke's crotch.
Blue Ninja
Member
I thought the Didact was immune to composition. They make a point of that in the H4 terminals.
We don't even know what's in it, and yet people are already pre-ordering it. Boggles the mind.
Depending on how positive their showing at E3 is, I'll either get the regular or the limited edition.
Yeah, that aspect of the lore isn't really my cup of tea, either. I enjoyed the Forerunner novels, but as you said, it was all needlessly complicated. I preferred when they were ancient humans.
FollowTheWind
Banned
I'm so honestly confused about whats in it that could cost £200, I mean Reach was £100 and it had an extremely beautiful well crafted statue, what the fuck does this one contain to be DOUBLE the price?
It cannot be just a statue can it?
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Two statues.
lighthouse777
Member
collectors edition game plus?? they simply have not said
but OT
Hololens is coming to E3, perhaps we will 'see' Cortana?
samurai1226
Member
Yeah the new soundtrack sound way worse to me. I thought 343i stated that comparing to HCEA they got the real notes for H2A and dont have to recompose them. A lot of tracks just sound wrong, e.g. the scene in new Mombosa where the scarab attacks has totally epic music in original but sounds completely different in anniversary. Also the "Follow" and "Blow me away" tracks got replaced by some weird music that dont really fit.
show me your skeleton
Member
anyone surprised by the the way this game's narrative seems to be heading? this 'master chief is a traitor' and a seemingly more personal story is a world away from the 'defending the galaxy' norm i was expecting.
sobnekahcS moT
Member
A set-up for Halo 6 (and 7) perhaps?
show me your skeleton
Member
i guess this will be a new trilogy, definitely. i love the build up so far, however it turns out. can't wait for e3 for some single player footage!
samurai1226
Member
They really should have an interesting Halo worth story in the game. I hope we dont spend half the time of the campaign finding out chief is not a traitor (surprise!) and then the game rushes through space settings because they ran out of time for a plot about defeating a big threat.
I just can hope that the whole Locke vs Chief / Traitor campaign is just to not spoil the mainplot of the game.
To me the campaign should be devided in:
- First 20% to find Chief and what's he on about with Blue Team
- 60% kicking some alien ass on a trip through the galaxy while discovering the truth whats going on in the galaxy
- Last 20% defeating the villian, but find out the real big threat it's on its way (like the Mass Effect 1 ending)
We only get a real Halo about every 3 years, spending Halo 5 without doing something big in the Halo Universe would be a shame
There is still the Forerunner threat and Jul 'Mdama who know has access to Forerunner information and tech. Chief's beef with Locke will blow up but we still dont even know the true reason Chief has gone rogue.
JumPeRJumPzZ
Banned
I can already see Chiefs Team and Lockes Team fighting together and acting like the "Guardians"
FollowTheWind
Banned
Hahaha, like instead of Noble team, we get two statues Blue Team and Team Locke.
In Service
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I think thats probably why they had to go in a direction like this. Every Halo game to an extent is about saving the galaxy. This is the 5th numbered Halo, not including Reach, ODST etc. Got to keep it thresh. The huge stakes will be there, but there's now this personal, spartan vs spartan thread which is obviously doing a good job at reminding people they care about Halo - how many 'fuck Locke, Chief all the way!' posts have there been? I'd wager It's working exactly as 343 were hoping for.
Poodlestrike
Banned
My money's on the Guardians name referring to the Bigass Forerunner Bird-thing (BFB).
User 73706
Banned
I have a feeling the Covenant combat we saw in the Locke trailer isn't going to last throughout the entire campaign. Granted, I don't know that the Covenant will ever truly "die," but I think it'll get to a point where another faction will end up absorbing them, similar to how we saw Elites running around with Promethean weapons in Spartan Ops. I bet you Covenant missions on Sanghelios will last us four, maybe five missions before the real enemy shows up.
I also think it's a pretty smart way to combat (heh) the problem of the Covenant getting dull to fight: rather than completely reinvent the wheel in terms of what the Covenant can do, they totally reworked what the player can do by giving Locke all these new abilities that allow him to approach Covenant encounters in different ways. Rather than breaking up the bunch with a grenade, you can Spartan Charge into them and give off a shockwave that scatters the Covenant group, etc.
I also think it's a pretty smart way to combat (heh) the problem of the Covenant getting dull to fight: rather than completely reinvent the wheel in terms of what the Covenant can do, they totally reworked what the player can do by giving Locke all these new abilities that allow him to approach Covenant encounters in different ways. Rather than breaking up the bunch with a grenade, you can Spartan Charge into them and give off a shockwave that scatters the Covenant group, etc.
Yeah, especially since the Didact says "We are Forerunners, Guardians of all that exists." in the Halo 4 Epilogue. Who knows, maybe Humans will take over as the Guardians, just like Forerunners took over from the Precursors.