ViewtifulJC
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did Halo 4 end with a QTE or was I just imagining things
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HaloGAF |OT: Anniversary| So fades the great harvest of our betrayal.
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The worst nightmares are the ones that are real.
Halo 4 did indeed end in a Quick Time Event. You Used LT in a cutscene to put a pulse grenade into the Didacts Armor, and then hit RT to explode the nuke in a crawling animation. Which this is probably the best time to talk about this, but I was also slightly puzzled by the Chiefs arms in the cutscene. They don't physically line up to his shoulders, and are like attached to his ears.
Deadalus and/or SubZeroStarbukz, you know what needs to be done.
link1201
Member
I'd be ok with that....would like to see Containment too/instead. I like the snow covered maps. I do hope it's a BTB map.
User 73706
Banned
I don't think I've ever heard of "Chief is actually an ancient human Forerunner" theories before Halo 4. Don't act like that shit's been around the entire time.
Huh? Are people selling them at cheaper prices or something like that?
Confirmed
Do you guys think we'll have in-game ladders/divisions/leagues for Halo MCC?
With the incorporation of the esports channel in the Halo media channel, I would love for there to be a Starcraft II-style league/ladder system that tracks your progress and overall multiplayer career seasonally.
With the incorporation of the esports channel in the Halo media channel, I would love for there to be a Starcraft II-style league/ladder system that tracks your progress and overall multiplayer career seasonally.
Do you have any idea if Halo 2 Anniversary will be at Fan Expo in Toronto? Previous years usually have Halo games before release, just wondering if I should go or not .
Is there a schedule of what you guys are doing?
Nirvana
Member
The art in the comics is so bad, it's good.
I'd pay $4 a month just to eyeball new background art like the above. Obviously somebody's child is making a ton of money from this comic.
Is this really the best they could do? What an abortion.
Steelyuhas
Member
Live viewing of the polishing of Frank and Tashi's shiny domes is the only thing on the schedule.
Would also like to know, Midwest region needs some early Halo love.
User 73706
Banned
The art in the comics is so bad, it's good.
These dudes remind me of the colored outline men from the GAF meme.
If this doesn't help Murder Miners population I don't know what will. I actually saw yesterday that Gandhi and Maven were playing with some big youtubers playing this game. I think over 6 Million subs worth of people and I don't know if the population raised a bit from that.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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So my friend who's in med school read the discussion on inverted and this is what he had to say:
Doctor approved.
#TeamInverted --
pre-
What scene are you guys referring to?
They REALLY need a ranking and Matchmaking system and a few other things. That old promo ad being deleted probably helped a bit too since it was fucking awful.
Yeah but they're still freaks
ArchedThunder
Banned
And don't forget that the Pulse Grenade in that cutscene didn't act like a Pulse Grenade, it just exploded.
I am dead now. I have been murdered.
"Last time, you asked me, if it was my choice, would I do it? Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7wU1fpDYvQ
The idea that the Master Chief was a reincarnated Forerunner, et al was certainly an idea discussed among fans at the time and before the Reclaimer Trilogy, although how "widespread" that idea was is sort of a pointless question to try and answer. Before Halo 2 there were a lot of crazy theories that I really love rereadingamong them that Cortana went rampant or was host to a hostile AI at the end of the game, that the Forerunner's survival as a species had depended on the Flood, which is why they kept them around for study the Halo.bungie.org Story Archives are great if you've never read them.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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Ahh, on Two Betrayals, Karl said AotCR. But yeah, definitely a lot of interesting discussions on this.
Details coming soon!
aHebrewMenagerie
Member
Finally recording Reclaimer Radio Episode 2 today, should be out by the end of the week (now in beautiful lossless audio!), barring any technical difficulties.
shit ton of technical difficulties going on right now, but still well on track to be done by the end of the day
Hypertrooper
Member
if you post the link to that blog post with the beer packaging for a flight, I may bring some beer with me this year.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
squidhands
Member
I always assumed that Guilty Spark was telling Chief that he had Forerunner DNA marking him as Reclaimer, not necessarily reincarnated or an actual Forerunner.
I tried reading some of the Halo books, but found Fall of Reach to be too dull for my liking and never wanted to read more about the lore outside of the games. I'd prefer it if the major stuff was told through the games (which includes reading Terminals that are only accessible in-game) and the ancillary stories were told through the books, but now the opposite seems to be the case. :-(
I tried reading some of the Halo books, but found Fall of Reach to be too dull for my liking and never wanted to read more about the lore outside of the games. I'd prefer it if the major stuff was told through the games (which includes reading Terminals that are only accessible in-game) and the ancillary stories were told through the books, but now the opposite seems to be the case. :-(
Zooming in on background art in a comic is kind of lame, but at the same time, I wouldn't think the background art would be that poorly done.
Maybe its because I haven't been on deadline for a comic before that I think they should take longer on those! If I was going to draw background stuff that loosely, I'd obscure the fuck out of it with environmental effects.
Maybe its because I haven't been on deadline for a comic before that I think they should take longer on those! If I was going to draw background stuff that loosely, I'd obscure the fuck out of it with environmental effects.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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No, Chief did not have Forerunner DNA. In Dietz's novel, the Covenant accidentally let loose the Flood which activated GS whose directive it was to destroy Halo as to not allow the Flood to leave the ring. Since Chief survived the first onslaught before coming into contact with GS, GS just assumed he was a Reclaimer, mistakenly assuming Chief was hunting for the Key.
Fast forward to the library and Chief discovers the body of a dead marine that had made it a couple of levels into the library before dying. That basically means that GS didn't care who was a Reclaimer since anyone who made it past the Flood could retrieve the Key.
Really it was all by coincedence that Master Chief was in the position that he was in in Halo 1.
LinkToTheFuture
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I would rather that be saved for halo 5. Halo 2A's MP is only 6 maps & I feel serves as a snack to bite on till halo 5 which will have a much longer life span(if its good). I would rather have waterworks there (ﾉﾟοﾟ
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Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Who are the Guardians anyways? What are they Guardians of? The Galaxy?
We do not speak of Deitz's Flood.
But you also have to acknowledge Chief's Geas which was put into effect by the Librarian herself.
User 73706
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We should whip up a Halo 5: Guardians of the Galaxy thing. Shoulder-face Chief is Groot, Star-Locke can be the lead...
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
Banned
Didn't know his novel was viewed so negatively. I liked it a lot at the time but I can understand the reservations against it.
As far as the Geas is concerned, and having only looked through Halopedia since I only played up to Halo: Reach and only read through Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, I assume that the Librarian had this geas planned pre-Halo for MC although the information suggests that the geas was only inacted after the activation of the ring which would have been after MC's journey through the library.
Deputy Moonman
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Uhh... didn't ever play the Destiny alpha/beta I see.
Orochinagis
Member
Well, I witnessed how a bunch of spiders ate the fleas plague we had in one of ours field, now we are going to move all the grass to burn them all
squidhands
Member
Okay, I understand better now. So it was also kind of a coincidence that the super-soldier formula allowed The Librarian to update his body to resist the Composer?
The idea is that the Spartans are the next stage of the evolution of man as the Librarian foresaw and/or planned, and the Librarian tinkered with Chief to unlock 15% more potential than the placebo, including an immunity to the Composer.
The immunity makes me think the Composer has some software limitations or is designed solely to target certain lifeforms. But obviously with the new issue of Escalation
the Didact can't get enough of them!
So literally kill it with fire?
User 73706
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Chief being "the chosen one" was coincidental in the sense that the Librarian laid a framework that would eventually spawn an ace-in-the-hole that could start humanity's next step from an evolutionary standpoint, and that ace happened to be the Chief. When the Librarian taught Chief how to Armor Lock, one of the mutations apparently gave him an immunity to the Composer in the sense that it wouldn't outright digitize him - it still hurts, based on the cutscene.
The Librarian
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Tashi, get me some swag.