Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Yeah, but why do you apply this "ism" to your penis?
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Yeah, but why do you apply this "ism" to your penis?
xxjuicesxx
Member
Because I dont need to prove myself!
You should try team throwdown though... Would be nice to read what you think about the playlist and how it can be improved. Be careful, a lot of people quit out sometimes and it does get a bit frustrating getting paired up with randoms.
NobleGundam
Banned
OT: Welp. Time to go dark from all BioShock Threads.
Supposedly Leaked Intel Has Just Started In GameSpot Forums and has spread through GAF.
Halo 4 didn't matter about leaked spoilers but no way in hell it'll happen that I'm gonna get spoiled with this Infinite game.
Supposedly Leaked Intel Has Just Started In GameSpot Forums and has spread through GAF.
Halo 4 didn't matter about leaked spoilers but no way in hell it'll happen that I'm gonna get spoiled with this Infinite game.
the end reveals that the entire game was a dream and you wake up on a plane, which then crashes into the ocean.
NobleGundam
Banned
Ok questions.
The precursors are completly wiped out? What is with other graveminds? Primordials? true flood? Nothing scary or new threat revealed?
Man if this is true, I don't even bother with the campaigns anymore..
If this ends up being true I will get your ass banned.
HiredN00bs
Member
SPRING
sorry Southern Hemisphere
sorry Southern Hemisphere
king picollo
Member
Does anyone have any good gametype/maps set up for classic/legacy play?
I'd really like to try some customs with these settings and see if it's as good as i think it would be.
I'd really like to try some customs with these settings and see if it's as good as i think it would be.
Poker Face
Member
Hmmmm
Should have posted it with Ray's reply:
Quinn retweeted it.
Oh damn I didn't see that. BRB going to respond, "neither, Halo Reach"
ElRenoRaven
Member
Just letting everyone who entered know. I picked a winner for the hardcover copy. They've been PM'd and once they get me their details I'll officially announce the winner.
That said now it's foreign Halogaf's chance to get in on the love. This contest is open to anyone that is outside the US. As I said to get this prize you'll need an Amazon.com account because my friends the winner of this one will get a kindle copy of Silentium. Yes you too will get Silentium but for for Kindle.
That out of the way let's get to the rules.
You must be from outside the US.
You must PM me saying you want in by Friday at 11:59PM Pacific time.
That's it. Simple huh? Since that's 2AM my time I'll be announcing the winner when I wake up on Saturday morning after I of course PM the winner the code to redeem the copy.
That said now it's foreign Halogaf's chance to get in on the love. This contest is open to anyone that is outside the US. As I said to get this prize you'll need an Amazon.com account because my friends the winner of this one will get a kindle copy of Silentium. Yes you too will get Silentium but for for Kindle.
That out of the way let's get to the rules.
You must be from outside the US.
You must PM me saying you want in by Friday at 11:59PM Pacific time.
That's it. Simple huh? Since that's 2AM my time I'll be announcing the winner when I wake up on Saturday morning after I of course PM the winner the code to redeem the copy.
squidhands
Member
Oh, you. Stalp.
This is the kind of trolling that isn't even remotely funny.
Certainly seems that way. The Librarian went to a nearby galaxy to where they thought the Flood originated from and found nothing. Well, they found ancient ancient Forerunners and a massive fleet... plus Precursor structures. But no actual Precursors or Flood. The book gives the impression that the remaining Precursors were killed off in the Forerunner-Precursor war and either by the IsoDidact or the Halos. Will start reading again tomorrow to see if I missed anything, but I think that's about right.
No new threats even hinted at. The book actually closes that saga quite nicely. Hell, if I didn't know any better with the end of Halo 4/Spartan Ops and Silentium, I'd be under the impression that the series is almost over; There really aren't too many looming questions. It's all down to civil war and crap like that.
Maybe a plan to reinvent the series for next gen maybe?
No new threats even hinted at. The book actually closes that saga quite nicely. Hell, if I didn't know any better with the end of Halo 4/Spartan Ops and Silentium, I'd be under the impression that the series is almost over; There really aren't too many looming questions. It's all down to civil war and crap like that.
Maybe a plan to reinvent the series for next gen maybe?
But I wouldn't give up just yet. I'm sure 343i are working on something exciting.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Ok now I can announce it.
The winner of the hardcover copy of Silentium was Karl2177.
The winner of the hardcover copy of Silentium was Karl2177.
Ok questions.
The precursors are completly wiped out? What is with other graveminds? Primordials? true flood? Nothing scary or new threat revealed?
Man if this is true, I don't even bother with the campaigns anymore..
If this ends up being true I will get your ass banned.
Answer: we don't know.
The Precursors of ancient times seem to be gone--killed by the Forerunners or essentially turned into a primitive form of the Flood humans found as a final "fuck you". It's still possible that they remained outside the galaxy--we know the blast reached at least part of their extragalactic origin, but not all.
It was the last book in a trilogy, so it was mostly interested in paying off some plot points within its books and without--we finally learn the question and context that 343GS tells Chief he's had time to ponder, way back in Halo CE. We get a satisfactory reason for why the Didact is so damn angry when he wakes up, etc.
In terms of hooks for future games, the fate of the IsoDidact (aka the cool non-crazy one) is still left unanswered, and 343GS clearly thinks the Librarian is alive, despite knowing about her intended one-way trip to Earth, so there's that. The present nature of the Flood itself is unknown--is it just a 'mindless' assimilation machine, or is it still acting out the Precursor's orders to test and uphold the Mantle, albeit in a perverted way?
One thing that left me a bit confused is I supposed that the Domain was the reason Cortana managed to get Chief and her out of the Mantle's Approach. Now I'm not sure how she did it besides spacemagic.
It was the last book in a trilogy, so it was mostly interested in paying off some plot points within its books and without--we finally learn the question and context that 343GS tells Chief he's had time to ponder, way back in Halo CE. We get a satisfactory reason for why the Didact is so damn angry when he wakes up, etc.
In terms of hooks for future games, the fate of the IsoDidact (aka the cool non-crazy one) is still left unanswered, and 343GS clearly thinks the Librarian is alive, despite knowing about her intended one-way trip to Earth, so there's that. The present nature of the Flood itself is unknown--is it just a 'mindless' assimilation machine, or is it still acting out the Precursor's orders to test and uphold the Mantle, albeit in a perverted way?
One thing that left me a bit confused is I supposed that the Domain was the reason Cortana managed to get Chief and her out of the Mantle's Approach. Now I'm not sure how she did it besides spacemagic.
The Elite
BOSS
I haven't played Halo 4 in a while and I don't miss it. That makes me sad.
With that said, I have never been more in love with the fiction. Really enjoy Silentium at the moment and I will be most likely picking up the books. I don't see myself picking up a new Xbox until Halo 5.
I thought the "Karl" from the Simpsons was Homer's gay assistant. Nonetheless, my hair is perfectly feathered this morning and I am quite attractive, thank you.
Thanks to PsychoRaven for doing the contest.
Also, I have a few codes that I'm going to be handing out around 4-6PM CDT tonight, so stay tuned for that.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I thought the "Karl" from the Simpsons was Homer's gay assistant. Nonetheless, my hair is perfectly feathered this morning and I am quite attractive, thank you.
Thanks to PsychoRaven for doing the contest.
Also, I have a few codes that I'm going to be handing out around 4-6PM CDT tonight, so stay tuned for that.
Pics now.
Gratz!
You might be thinking of Mr. Burn's assistant Mr. Smithers. Aka Elzar.I thought the "Karl" from the Simpsons was Homer's gay assistant. Nonetheless, my hair is perfectly feathered this morning and I am quite attractive, thank you.
Thanks to PsychoRaven for doing the contest.
Also, I have a few codes that I'm going to be handing out around 4-6PM CDT tonight, so stay tuned for that.
User 73706
Banned
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Karl's just boasting because he lives in the best city ever, with a college that's about to whoop up on Notre Dame in the tourney.
Karl and I live in the same town.
It's kind of sad, I was reading the paper the other day and they had a graphic with all the college teams on it--when I saw Iowa the first thing that popped in my head was "What's Deadly Cyclone's avatar doing in the newspaper?"
User 73706
Banned
Silentium discussion. I haven't read the books so some things probably sound stupid.
Is it possible that the remaining precursors are extragalactic and are just waiting, or hid in a pocket dimension or some bullshit? I feel like they're going to pull a Mass Effect and when humanity rediscovers Precursors, they'll reveal themselves as a final test of sorts.
Also, the Forerunners went extragalactic and found... ancient Forerunners and a massive fleet? What the fuck? Am I reading that wrong or is that one of the biggest potential sequel hooks ever? Unless they're primitive ones, of course, but then the fleet bit wouldn't make sense.
Also, the Forerunners went extragalactic and found... ancient Forerunners and a massive fleet? What the fuck? Am I reading that wrong or is that one of the biggest potential sequel hooks ever? Unless they're primitive ones, of course, but then the fleet bit wouldn't make sense.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Going to look at reviews and go from there? Or wait a while and get it when the hype has died down?
no bullets hans
Neo Member
This is gonna get fun with all the spoiler tags. Is there a spoiler-friendly discussion thread someone can point me to?
I think The Precursors will always be a threat in the form of the Flood. When you couple the scope of the Forerunner's war with the Flood with the end of Spartan Ops and the possibility that all Forerunner artifacts are on the cusp of discovery, that's a lot of open room to get into trouble. I mean, if Flood samples survived on all the Halos after their firing, then its safe to assume Flood survive on every Forerunner installation where the Flood had previously be contained.
I liked the closure with Spark, but it hints at his madness, which we obviously see played out. He says that line to Chief, but is he talking to himself? Does he suddenly confuse the Chief with the IsoDidact? His memory is stripped away as the rings are fired, so its possible he doesn't remember that the Librarian went to earth to die. Maybe he just remembers she was going to Requiem to stop the UrDidact and that's how the UNSC gets there in the first place. That's what I assumed, anyway.
I hadn't thought about the Domain and Cortana. I understood the Domain as being destroyed when the rings were fired so the UrDidact wouldn't have had access to the Domain when he awoke, anyway. I just figured she was using spacemagic (lol) to encase Chief in hardlight.
I liked the closure with Spark, but it hints at his madness, which we obviously see played out. He says that line to Chief, but is he talking to himself? Does he suddenly confuse the Chief with the IsoDidact? His memory is stripped away as the rings are fired, so its possible he doesn't remember that the Librarian went to earth to die. Maybe he just remembers she was going to Requiem to stop the UrDidact and that's how the UNSC gets there in the first place. That's what I assumed, anyway.
I hadn't thought about the Domain and Cortana. I understood the Domain as being destroyed when the rings were fired so the UrDidact wouldn't have had access to the Domain when he awoke, anyway. I just figured she was using spacemagic (lol) to encase Chief in hardlight.
Barrow Roll
Member
You need to brush up on your Simpsons.
no you don't really need to. but you should be ashamed of yourself.
MaximumFlipFlop
Banned
no bullets hans
Neo Member
Hard to say. It suggested that for millions of years the Precursors changed shape and form at will, so their conversion into the Flood was a planned move. It's pretty wide open if they want to bring them back in some form or another. You're right though, it would be Mass Effecty.
So, the Librarian went extra galactic and found a small planet of Forerunner basically living in exile. The ancient fleet was totally useless, more or less. I mean, its not like the Covenant or UNSC are going to find them and bolster their forces with them...unless they want to use them as garbage to crash into a planets surface.
Anyway, the ancient Forerunner destroyed all the Precursors except the one, the prisoner at Charum Hakkor...and they did so out of cruelty, they wanted to leave one a live, forever, to suffer for chosing humanity to carry the Mantle over the Forerunner who believed it was theirs to carry.
So the Forerunner on the planet I understood as being originated by some Forerunner who refused to rejoin society after that atrocity. Like, that was their penance and they are the ancestors of the current exiled Forerunner.
So, the Librarian went extra galactic and found a small planet of Forerunner basically living in exile. The ancient fleet was totally useless, more or less. I mean, its not like the Covenant or UNSC are going to find them and bolster their forces with them...unless they want to use them as garbage to crash into a planets surface.
Anyway, the ancient Forerunner destroyed all the Precursors except the one, the prisoner at Charum Hakkor...and they did so out of cruelty, they wanted to leave one a live, forever, to suffer for chosing humanity to carry the Mantle over the Forerunner who believed it was theirs to carry.
So the Forerunner on the planet I understood as being originated by some Forerunner who refused to rejoin society after that atrocity. Like, that was their penance and they are the ancestors of the current exiled Forerunner.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Hard to comment personally on those specifics, but all the business side of Gears Judgement looks like a slimy turn off to me.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Thanks for rubbing it in, even more. Feels bad man.
Tha Robbertster
Member
I told you, you guys shouldn't do anal.
For those who want to avoid covering this thread in all that black ink, the Halo 4 spoiler thread might be a good place to divert the discussions to:
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=489582
http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=489582
Who's trolling?
ElzarTheBam
Member
No wonder you were walking so weird when Elzar was plowing you. Reminds me though, you kept smiling the whole time. Elzar is that beast.
User 73706
Banned
why are we talking about anal
bobs...onGaf
Member
Because as Over would say: Halo is poop.