Poodlestrike
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Voluntarily. He wanted to be able to better focus on getting the MCC out the door. He'll be back.
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Halo Lore Thread
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Voluntarily. He wanted to be able to better focus on getting the MCC out the door. He'll be back.
LordOfChaos
Member
Ooh, glad we're talking about the Lekgolo, I've been wondering about this.
It takes multiple worms to become an intelligent entity, we know this. It also seems they require some sort of artificial shell to hold them together. I'm wondering then about this chicken and egg scenario, how did they form intelligent larger organisms pre-covanant so that they were intelligent enough to reach tier 3? And to have some sort of combat forms to fight the covanant very effectively?
I'd love to see their more intelligent side, and have this be a way to communicate to a group of humans...Either "this is the way", or "do not go here, flood", or something like that. Remember, this was a tier 3 race before the covanant, these aren't dumb worms that just do what they're told.
It takes multiple worms to become an intelligent entity, we know this. It also seems they require some sort of artificial shell to hold them together. I'm wondering then about this chicken and egg scenario, how did they form intelligent larger organisms pre-covanant so that they were intelligent enough to reach tier 3? And to have some sort of combat forms to fight the covanant very effectively?
I'd love to see their more intelligent side, and have this be a way to communicate to a group of humans...Either "this is the way", or "do not go here, flood", or something like that. Remember, this was a tier 3 race before the covanant, these aren't dumb worms that just do what they're told.
Slightly Live
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This gets me more hot and bothered than an entire month of IGN content.
A very generous first chapter is provided. Juicy.
Well, I noticed a few grammatical issues, so hopefully that's been edited a bit tighter for the ship?
(Also this is going to be the kind of author who pisses off people who hate the "verb adverb" style of writing.)
LordOfChaos
Member
Are the bottoms of each page cut out for everyone else?
Poodlestrike
Banned
Yeeeeaah, but it filled my hunger for more BioShock at least.Oh, that was him?Rapture was not great from a writing perspective...
Expect this to be line, writing-wise, too.
Well, yeah, it was solid from the lore standpoint, it just didn't really do anything besides that until the last third, when it discovered having the audience identify with a character might be a good idea. Hopefully this one is better; haven't read any of his work aside from Rapture so there's hope.
Same here, although I'm not expecting much from this.
MrGreencastle
Member
I was thinking the same thing.
Aside from 343 and 2401 we've seen 859 Static Carillon and 686 Ebullient Prism. Installation 03's monitor is Abject Testament but we haven't seen him in the games at all, which is curious.
Where did we see those?
Edit: I think it was in the Terminal videos. I remember it vaguely. Need to rewatch those.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
686 - is from The Line installation from the Bloodlines comics.
859 - is from the Forge installation where the Composers are kept that Didact is after in the latest Halo: Escalation comics.
I end up naming my computers after forerunner Ai...totally forgot about 859 Static Carillon
Next computer
Well, he's only been known for two months, so I think you're forgiven.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Holy verb adverb is right! Wow.
Takes a little getting used to but in the end it's fine for me I guess. Excited to get this in my meaty paws. Wish the Halo 2 Anniversary soundtrack was on the same day.
LordOfChaos
Member
Broken Circle was to launch today, right? When will it be available?
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
Its out now. I got mine on Kindle.
LordOfChaos
Member
Perfect, I'll be getting it on my nook as soon as I get home.
Poodlestrike
Banned
It's pretty densely packed (like, in "probably should have been two books" sense), and the writing is a little bit awkward. Still, better than the Traviss books.
Wanted to read the book, strange that it arrived at my college but I got no email from the package pick up place to pick it up. I'll have to check it out tomorrow. Advanced Warfare arrived yesterday with no incident, so eh.
Also will update the thread. Going to add to the title (Now discussing: Halo: Broken Circle.)
Also will update the thread. Going to add to the title (Now discussing: Halo: Broken Circle.)
FunkyPajamas
Member
Forerunner trilogy (and to a lesser extent, Contact: Harvest) kind of soured me on the Halo lore. I would love for Nylund to get back to writing Halo books.
Anyway, I'll wait for reviews on these Covenant stories before I make my move.
Anyway, I'll wait for reviews on these Covenant stories before I make my move.
Slightly Live
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Give in to the Kindle. Accept no inferior rival.
I'm going very slow on this book. Smelling the roses and all.
LordOfChaos
Member
Rebellious opinion time: So you mean it is thoroughly enjoyable? I did get a bit of whiplash going from the breakneck pace of Ghosts of Onyx to much slower Kilo-5, but I still enjoyed the story and characters by the end. And BB is the best AI.
(should I hide now?)
I feel the same just in general of 343i takeover on the EU.
But I'll follow the story to the ends of the Earf.
I'm with you in parts. But to me, the K5 trilogy suffers from a double-whammy of audience expectations (people heard "post-Ghosts of Onyx trilogy" and never let it go) and the trilogy itself serving masters other than its own story. The first book had to wrap up plot threads that could have been their own book series, the second had to prep people for Halo 4; it was only with the third book that it seemed like we got to the story Traviss wanted to tell.
I did like several of the characters, especially BB and Phillips, and I appreciated the time we spent with the Elites and Jackals. I also think technically that Traviss is a good writer (although she definitely did too much of the "as the humans say".)
Poodlestrike
Banned
My issues with the Traviss books mostly revolve around how she handled existing canon. The character of Halsey especially. I don't mind the view that she's a monster (because honestly, she kinda is), but there were huge segments devoted to hammering that in at great length, and with little to no response, and with great willingness to alter existing canon to get there (Fall of Reach Halsey was unwilling to lie to the children in the Spartan II program, Kilo 5 Halsey was). She did the same thing with her Star Wars books as well, apparently, so that's not really a surprise.
Otherwise, it was a fairly good series. But seriously, so much of it revolves around her expressing her views of Halsey that it ends up screwing the whole thing up.
For a fun time, check the trope pages for each book. Glasslands gets a decent sized page, Thursday war is a stub, Mortal Dictata doesn't even get an image. With the way the series is set up, despite the books arguably getting better, it's hard to care by the end.
LordOfChaos
Member
Oh snap, Halo 5 cutscene
https://vid.me/GJg
EDIT: Or rather, the bridge cutscenes from MCC linking the first trilogy to 5 in Lockes search, more likely.
https://vid.me/GJg
EDIT: Or rather, the bridge cutscenes from MCC linking the first trilogy to 5 in Lockes search, more likely.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Fuck me. I must resist. I opened it and closed it right away.
Chezzymann
Member
Wait, isn't the game coming out in a year? Cutscenes already?
Shogmaster
Member
That looks likes a snip from Nightfall.
LordOfChaos
Member
I may have misspoke, more likely it's the bridge cutscenes from MCC linking the first games to 5.
Nah, probably MCC. Nightfall is live action, and before Locke is a spartan.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
It's the new prologue to H2A. We've seen some stills of it before.
Monocle
Member
I'd like to second all of this.
Slightly Live
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H2A Heretic Prologue cut-scene with shite sound, , entire missing bits, visually de-synced and not even complete.
And posted all day yesterday in the main Halo community thread. So, no.
GringoSuave89
Banned
There was another vid floating around with better audio and minor framerate issues (at least the guy didn't pause in the middle of it). The full cutscene really is a bookend. More or less ends with Arbiter getting ready for "storytime" and goes right into the opening cutscene from Halo 2.
LordOfChaos
Member
To?
I said it was MCC, not Halo 5, in the edit you quoted.
And yeah, there was a better video that was being posted on youtube but those were all killed. I have it downloaded.
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
I'm quite aware there was a better video.
At chapter 3 of Broken Circle. I read so slowly.
GringoSuave89
Banned
I'm quite aware there was a better video.
At chapter 3 of Broken Circle. I read so slowly.
I have yet to start it, and it's right here on my desk
MrGreencastle
Member
Going to start it this weekend, myself. Really looking forward to it!
Captain Zyrain
Member
Can't wait to see all of these.. so much juicy goodness..
Terminal 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB5yso8d3gA
Terminal 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwgJ1FDU57U
I don't remember what was covered in Terminal 1 being really discussed before, but it sounds familiar. I don't think Halo 2 really covered the detailed how's and why's of Regrets appearance on Earth.
Terminal 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB5yso8d3gA
Terminal 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwgJ1FDU57U
I don't remember what was covered in Terminal 1 being really discussed before, but it sounds familiar. I don't think Halo 2 really covered the detailed how's and why's of Regrets appearance on Earth.
We got a few hints here and there. Regret wasn't looking for the human homeworld, they were looking for the Ark; but this specifically spells it out.
Wish Fred and Kelly were in the right armor, though... confuses the hell out of me what time periods things are supposed to be in.
LordOfChaos
Member
I get the strong feeling that showing blue team in the terminals is a way for 343 to introduce them to Halo gamers who don't read the books, in preparation for Halo 5. Even more chance they'll be in there going off this, I'd say.
Some of those scenes seem directly from the books, I don't remember if it was The Flood or Fall of Reach when that dude on the distant observatory noticed all the Covanant signatures first. And then the other one, that must be a fragment of Mendicant Bias. Man, I want him in Halo 5 too!
Slightly Live
Dirty tag dodger
No, just, no.
LordOfChaos
Member
As always, indispensable input.