They want them to look holographic but they just look cheap =\
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They want them to look holographic but they just look cheap =\
The cover might be Halo 4 concept art. Wasn't Primordium's cover?
Interesting stuff. If he isn't an ODST or a Spartan, an officer on the Infinity would make most sense. Briefs you for SPOPS?
Interesting stuff. If he isn't an ODST or a Spartan, an officer on the Infinity would make most sense. Briefs you for SPOPS?
Vire
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A-ha! Nice catch. Didn't even see it.
Yeah, that's what Frankie said a while back.
Hypertrooper
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Both; Halo Cryptum and Primordium were concept art of Halo 4.
No, no shame on you. It's your opinion, and it's not wrong, per se. I consider Glasslands a waste because a major plotline was not used to deepen the character or provide world context or to even provide a message for the reader. Traviss took the most developed character in the fiction and used her and the surrounding characters as a vessel to preach her own views. And she also had the nerve to summon up contrived characters and circumstances to validate the character assassination that took place.
We all know Halsey did some shiesty shit, and that her most recent actions were to atone for those crimes. But instead of providing more information on her (and the S2 program's) past in order to shed some light on her demons, Traviss tackles the issue with clumsy hyperbole (comparing Halsey to 20th century dictators) and completely ignores the moral crisis Nylund wrote her into.
As a result, the most busy and plot driving character -- aside from the AI modeled off her brain -- did fuck all for an entire book. She just took shallow hits the entire time that provided NO NEW INFORMATION for the reader to digest.
squidhands
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Silentium sounds like something I'd learn at a knockoff Hogwarts school.
also, Hogwarts is an anagram for Warthogs. Just blew my own mind a little bit.
also, Hogwarts is an anagram for Warthogs. Just blew my own mind a little bit.
K
kittens
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There's absolutely no way those medal are final. Unless they hired a team of pre-schoolers and armed them with crayons, in which case, maybe.
Hypertrooper
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It confirms the theory that
there are two Didacts.
Shit. Seriously. No. It is. Damn.
But they weren't, so you're wrong.
And I believe she was compared to Mengele, and it was an ODST who read the file of what she had done over the years, this wasn't just about SIIs and SIIIs; it was probably an apt comparison. She is the definition of a mad scientist, doing crazy things just to see if she could, which she basically admits over the course of the book.
I don't understand this 'preach her own views', what exactly were you expecting from the characters who viewed her past actions to think? She is a monster, she was a monster before this; her madness just happened to play out in humanity's favor.
As for doing fuck-all, what exactly were you expecting; she started out
stuck in a sphere full of forerunner tech, we got a bunch of character interaction with her, Mendez, and the other Spartans; interaction we normally wouldn't get as they aren't trying to escape immanent death or fighting for their lives, and yet you sum this interaction up as 'character assassination'. Give me a fucking break. She got out, got taken into custody for war crimes; in case you forgot she knocked out a Spartan and stole a ship in the face of a Covenant attack just to spare her conscience and 'save' her children.
But this is no new information! No new character development! I feel the same about all these characters as I did at the end of Onyx! Amazing!
Dunno if we're still dodging spoilers, but that's a biggie for Cryptum (probably the biggie, IMO).
Vire
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I hope Halo 4 is understandable to people who aren't familiar with these outside projects. (Forward Unto Dawn/The Greg Bear Books). My brother's only knowledge of the Halo universe comes from the games, so I hope that H4 doesn't get drowned and lost in the details of the books...
I guess it's a difficult balance.
I guess it's a difficult balance.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Yeah easy on book spoilers folks, I have yet to finish them.
K
kittens
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Frankie has stated in multiple interviews that the game's story would be accessible while also being deep in fiction. So no worries.
Vire
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Excellent. Maybe they can tackle the deeper minutiae of details through terminals without beating you over the head in cutscenes.
Or, get regular Halo fans up to speed on what's going on quickly.
That's good to hear though.
ElzarTheBam
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She was compared to Mengele and Stalin. Eh, I haven't read the book in ages... So even if I wanted to, I can't give you a better argument than I already have. Still, nothing you can say will change my mind about the book; It's bad, and many others agree.
Anyway. I think I'm going to have to read through Primordium again. I've only read it once and found that some scenes were really hard to visualise.
Good luck with the second round.
Im hoping these are not final as well, I love the color variety the medal have in the other Halos.
The Librarian
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Fair enough, but it was a little hard to tell from your original post. I sorry.
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Posting image again for awesomeness.
Aw hell yeah. Halo: Silentium. The final novel.
thezerofire
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Shadow, sent you a PM re:getting better, I'll play some H3 with you if you'd like, maybe try to help
NobleGundam
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Ive been wondering when that cover art will unveil. Sooner than expected but exciting at most. Forerunner series are interesting to piece together thanks to Greg Bear =]
Thanks HaloGAF for these new Intel!
Thanks HaloGAF for these new Intel!
Fair enough, but it was a little hard to tell from your original post.
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Posting image again for awesomeness.
Aw hell yeah. Halo: Silentium. The final novel.
Really liking the design. But what is this in the background?
thezerofire
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has there been any news since about 9 pacific last night?
Reminds me of something from Mass Effect.
The Librarian
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It's a picture that I should able to have as a desktop background. That's what it is.
Summary Man
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I spy a Halo ring in that picture! (Top right side of the screen)
Vire
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Hypertrooper
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It is really hard to not seeing it.
http://pandyland.net/random/
They make sense. What is this wizardry.
Someone should take this formula and make it Halo themed.
They make sense. What is this wizardry.
Someone should take this formula and make it Halo themed.
MaximumFlipFlop
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I wanna add my 2 cents to the Glasslands discussion. I am not going to make a wall, but here is what I did not like.
-I reread all the Nylund books right before Glasslands, so I was used to the way he handled the story. Traviss did not do a very good job following in his style. The military jargon and use of hierarchy was just, non existant. She didn't need to mimic Nylund, but it felt as if she made no attempt to give us a sense of true continuity.
-It wasn't necessarily a problem that Halsey is demonized in the book, it's the fact that she is at every opportunity. A character talks about Halsey, they're going to slip in a few words about how terrible she is. Halsey talking to herself, she will think about how evil she is. I understand bringing to light a characters wrong doing, but you hit me across the face with at every opportunity and I start getting tired of hearing it.
-I reread all the Nylund books right before Glasslands, so I was used to the way he handled the story. Traviss did not do a very good job following in his style. The military jargon and use of hierarchy was just, non existant. She didn't need to mimic Nylund, but it felt as if she made no attempt to give us a sense of true continuity.
-It wasn't necessarily a problem that Halsey is demonized in the book, it's the fact that she is at every opportunity. A character talks about Halsey, they're going to slip in a few words about how terrible she is. Halsey talking to herself, she will think about how evil she is. I understand bringing to light a characters wrong doing, but you hit me across the face with at every opportunity and I start getting tired of hearing it.
NobleGundam
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Some fans believe Halsey could be on that halo ring.
or activated the ring on Requiem's surface causing the damage.
What I see is the damage appears to originated from the inside.
Lol what else could that possibly be?
Brolic Gaoler
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Where? You must have better eyes than me, I can't quite make it out.
No way man, I'd rather the franchise move in another direction than focusing on the "Halos" that isn't to say we can't visit them from time to time.
Vire
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I just hope they come up with a better way to end the game rather than the typical Warthog chase, trying to escape.
It was cool the first two times... let it be.
And by better I don't mean a Tartarus-like boss fight.
It's a difficult thing to end a FPS's campaign... even Valve struggled with it in the Half Life series.
thezerofire
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thanks
Should do an Elephant escape this time.
The communities represented are the communities whose fans have REPRESENTED THEM.
Nobody from HaloGAF has stepped forward. I guess you're all just a bunch of insular jerks.
The Librarian
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We essentially had that in ODST.Should do an Elephant escape this time.
I move for a vote to banish Wu forever and replace him with Starwolf.
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