I love canon as much as the next man, but this is...extreme.
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Halo |OT10| The Calm Before The Storm
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I love canon as much as the next man, but this is...extreme.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
How did I expect that?
The Librarian
Banned
First off, I can't believe Silentium got delayed. I want to finish the trilogy already!
It's John. If you look in the previews during the credits, "117" can be seen on the Spartan's chest plate.
Moa
Member
When was Silentium's original release? Jan 2013?Nooo, Silentium delayed
I understand why, but this book was the thing I was waiting for.
BlueScrote
Member
This was my favorite part of the whole commercial. I thought it was pretty cool to see some of stuff I've read (which is very little) visualized. I've stopped thinking that anything will ever be able to top the We Are ODST commercial, so this was just a great little piece of fan service. All you guys who are bitching about it were expecting something you shouldn't have.
Perhaps you should re-read this whiny garbage and see how ridiculous you sound. Part of your argument of why you think it's terrible involves a random barfly's comprehension of the commercial, for fuck's sake.
This is actually why I loved the commercial. Since I recently read Fall of Reach it was awesome seeing those scenes from the S2 program. I'm not sure it makes for a great wide audience trailer, but it's awesome for fans of the fiction.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
I know its gonna be
John, but in the same episode they showed Fred in the hacked ONI footage. so my thought was that maybe they would bring more than one spartan to the party so to speak
Not really. She started as a copy of Halsey, but quickly became her own person. Their interactions are nothing like the way the Chief or any of the Spartan IIs interact with Halsey (or anyone, really).
We don't even know if that's supposed to be the mother, it could actually be Halsey, in which case that hardly even counts as a metaphor.
evanswolves
Member
Nooo, Silentium delayed
I understand why, but this book was the thing I was waiting for.
God damn it, the wait from Primordium til the original release date of Jan for Silentium was bad enough
YourExWife
Member
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Hypertrooper
Member
Personally I thought that the person was Halsey because of the following sequences with Cortana.
I would laugh my ass off, if he would say that
or "time to dongblain"
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I will never get that Halo Wars "General" achievement... My boosting partner isn't motivated, I'm not motivated, end of story...
Edit: YourExWise, you are a genius. :lol
I5CharactersMax
Neo Member
Best FUD episode yet, I'm actually really looking forward to next weeks now.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Hydranockz
Member
Good ole Hedgem0ny
Um... I read it.
It said there's a delay. It did not explain why.
(Unless you're counting "The book was originally planned for release in January 2013, but has since slipped its date to March 2013" as an explanation. In which case my opinion of your reasoning skills has just decreased.)
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Its so simple its trite, but maybe this commercial is going for the lowest common denominator, so in that case mission accomplished. Not one of my favorites by a long shot.
Bring on some actual gameplay, please
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
its because they want the physical copy to release at the same time as the Digital and audiobook copies.
I had a fun moment last night, playing with biggy and his friend.
Before you watch it, and yell at me for using an Assault Rifle - I'd run over to pick up Rockets from a big pile of weapons. I got the Assault Rifle instead. Before I could try again, someone ran down the ramp, and I had to leave.)
This guy tries really hard to ninja me... ends up getting hisself assassinated. Oops! Never try to ninja someone backing AWAY from you - you wanna do this to people running TOWARDS you.
http://files2.bungie.org/dv/failed_assassination/
Before you watch it, and yell at me for using an Assault Rifle - I'd run over to pick up Rockets from a big pile of weapons. I got the Assault Rifle instead. Before I could try again, someone ran down the ramp, and I had to leave.)
This guy tries really hard to ninja me... ends up getting hisself assassinated. Oops! Never try to ninja someone backing AWAY from you - you wanna do this to people running TOWARDS you.
http://files2.bungie.org/dv/failed_assassination/
...which were originally scheduled for January, same as the book.
I don't think that is why it's delayed. I think it was just clarifying that they would release together.
squidhands
Member
EVERY commercial does this, as they're designed to. The fact that we have gems like We Are ODST and Starry Night are exceptions to the rule.
Fall of Reach is the only novel that I've read, so it was all cool for me.
No, the article says it pretty clearly. The book alongside the audio and e-book editions has been delayed.
There are going to be at least three Spartans if some cast photos are to be believed.
I5CharactersMax
Neo Member
Delicious.
I'm in 100% disagreement.
The trailer sheds light on a subject that's been somewhat untouched through the main narrative of the Halo series. The main narrative meaning the straightforward story provided by the game's missions, cut scenes, and dialog.
It brings up the subject of humanity, what John actually is. Throughout the previous games you're touted as a an ultra-badass; the perfect soldier. Arriving at the front lines you're greeted with dialog praising your arrival, but while you may be the "perfect soldier," you're an imperfect human.
I love the dark themes being twisted into the Halo story now. The fact you're a kid who's actually a science experiment originally bred to kill his own race is fucked up.
Who in their right mind would be okay with that?
Who could live with that?
Now, look at the way Chief is being suspended in that blue field, the way he's held prisoner there. It's kinda Christ-like isn't it? Now draw the parallels. Regardless of your religious affiliation, the story of Jesus is equally torn. You grow up knowing you're the savior of mankind... but you're also just a kid; a human being, with feeling, with emotion, and with a moral gray area that we all can identify with.
You're the Atlas of the world. The fate of your entire race, a race you might despise because of what they made you, rests on your shoulders. Would you just be cool with that?
Now let's look at the tagline of the trailer, "An Ancient Evil Awakens."
At first inspection it looks to clearly refer to the Didact, or whatever your main adversary in the upcoming Halo title turns out to be, but I urge you to dig deeper.
What if the "ancient evil" is actually what's inside John, an evil within himself that he's suppressed. A distaste for humanity, for his own humanity, for what they made him and what they made him do.
If you're at all familiar with Freudian psychology then you'll be akin to the ideas of the id, ego, and superego. Imagine Cortana is the Chief's superego, the dialog that works between the id and the ego. As Cortana deteriorates and goes rampant, the Chief's consciousness, his ego, will be directly exposed to his id, or our instincts that don't care about reality or the needs of others, only its own satisfaction.
Maybe he's not the "strong, silent type." Maybe he's the type that's biting his tongue from telling his superiors to fuck off because he never asked for this.
If you're just staring at your computer screen letting the images flood your brain while you sit there flat lined, yeah, this trailer seems hokey. However, use that brain thing inside your skull and it becomes this dark undertone that's been present in the Halo universe, but never indulged in the games.
That's why I'm excited for Halo 4's campaign.
The Librarian
Banned
So master chief is indeed a white male is what I learned. A part of me was hoping he'd be black.
He was said to be white in FoR in 2001, I believe.
So master chief is indeed a white male is what I learned. A part of me was hoping he'd be black.
We've known he was white anyway, it says in the books.
Beaten like Rihanna.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Yep, how he's shown right at the beginning (as a child) is the description we got in FoR.
There was also a graphic novel that showed him too.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
So master chief is indeed a white male is what I learned. A part of me was hoping he'd be black.
The comics. the books. and the Live action stuff has shown chief being white.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
I know.
God you are a fucking child. I'm all for jokes but I'm not sure beating up a woman the way he did is what critics would consider "hilarious."
Holy shit FUD ep.3
Only 2 more episodes? we definitely need more than that!
Dangit Heckfu, I have him ignored for a reason
Only 2 more episodes? we definitely need more than that!
Dangit Heckfu, I have him ignored for a reason
really?
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Talents is just some dumbass kid, don't worry about him. I bet he thought that really obvious Christ pose Chief does in the commercial was really deep and interesting
Jesus, if you think that's bad, I'm glad I don't tell jokes on here like I do in real life.
Wow, American's are really sensitive...
neoism
Member
So master chief is indeed a white male is what I learned. A part of me was hoping he'd be black.
IF you have not read Fall of Reach do it.
Is anyone else not watching shit and going dark in a way....with all these streams and shit seems like you'd get tried of the game before release. I'm even saving the rest of FUD til about 4 or 5 days til launch
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Annnnnnd ignored.
You really are one of the worst additions to this thread. You're pretty much worse than Zoojoo at this point.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
Yes. But i looked past the Reference to advance the conversation along.
It's always helpful to practice your routine in the mirror at home. Don't worry, once you work up the courage to sit at the jock's lunch table at school, I'm sure they'll love your jokes.
Trailer was a neat bit of Halo fiction.
Spoiler marked for people who haven't seen it yet:
Spoiler marked for people who haven't seen it yet:
Personally, I don't like stories with the hero held helpless by the big bad guy anymore. Believe was neat because it turned that trope on its head a bit, made the whole thing seem a ruse by the simple addition of priming the plasma grenade - in Believe, Chief will save himself and won't be saved by luck, a dumb bad guy, or a supporting character. Couldn't help thinking "well, it's your own fault if you lose now, Didact." Also, the one thing I thought held it back from being a great trailer (as opposed to being a good film clip, like you'd see in a terminal) was the music. Not that every trailer has to have Two Steps from Hell but here the music was off. Unlike We Are ODST, Believe, and Deliver Hope, I don't even remember any music from this.
Edit: It occurs to me that a great trailer has a lot in common with a great music video, or a great opening sequence.
Edit: It occurs to me that a great trailer has a lot in common with a great music video, or a great opening sequence.
The Librarian
Banned
Why doesn't the ignore feature hide quotes from those you have on ignore?
Please stop quoting Talents.
Please stop quoting Talents.
I live in England, we don't have 'lunch tables' or 'jocks' and seeing as my sixth form does a football/soccer academy thing, half the people in my sixth form are wimps who couldn't stand up to a year 7, would hardly call them jocks.
Pop
Member
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I thought, above all, the trailer showed 343's dedication to fiction. Something Bungie had, but not a deep dedication to in marketing, etc.
Making their first launch trailer one that showed fiction over a "fuck yeah" action-filled sequence (although it had some of that) shows me that the game will have a level of fiction we did not see in Bungie games necessarily.
It really showed they feel great enough about the game to make a trailer about fiction, and not something to try to make non-Halo fans (necessarily) buy the game.
Making their first launch trailer one that showed fiction over a "fuck yeah" action-filled sequence (although it had some of that) shows me that the game will have a level of fiction we did not see in Bungie games necessarily.
It really showed they feel great enough about the game to make a trailer about fiction, and not something to try to make non-Halo fans (necessarily) buy the game.