Poodlestrike
Banned
Just read issue 9; pretty damn good. Solid writing, nice cliffhanger. The art continues to be horrendous, though.
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HaloGAF |OT: Anniversary| So fades the great harvest of our betrayal.
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NobleGundam
Banned
6 Composers
Another Halo came through slipspace that Didact wants to repair and eradicate all of humanity within the galaxy for good this time.
Monitor is PISSED that Didact betrayed their agreement and assists the Spartans back to the portal and fights off the prometheans as they go back.
Didact has the index and tries to get rid of Blue team and chief. Chief ninjas Didact with his knife to the Didacts right eye.
This shit had better be made into a CGI short!
gAg CruSh3r
Member
Yup yup yup
. I want this to happen.Yeah me too. It seems like a lot has happen after Halo 4. I just hope they do a short before Halo 5.
Same.
nillapuddin
Member
seriously, I would die, damn it was awesome
I wish the panels were laid it in a way I could cap w/o getting crazy, but its just too awesome to not see the whole thing start to finish
Im sure as more eyes get on impressions and conversations will continue un-tagged in the Lore Thread
I'm sure they have to know how stupid it would be to not release this in CGI or other format. The art is terrible in this but the story is important and not a lot of people read comics, especially those with terrible art.
also confirmed that black team was killed by the Didact.
The crack in john's visor seems to be from the Didact starting to crush his helmet as he holds chief in the air by his head after the knife in eye incident.
The ring that got brought in seems to be installation 03. (The composers forge isn't on the ring. It's seems to be at a separate location).
Current theory is that the halo ring can be used to amplify the composers effect. We also know from the forerunner trilogy that the rings can be fine tuned to only target a small area in a certain direction instead of their usual omnidirectional pattern.
The crack in john's visor seems to be from the Didact starting to crush his helmet as he holds chief in the air by his head after the knife in eye incident.
The ring that got brought in seems to be installation 03. (The composers forge isn't on the ring. It's seems to be at a separate location).
Current theory is that the halo ring can be used to amplify the composers effect. We also know from the forerunner trilogy that the rings can be fine tuned to only target a small area in a certain direction instead of their usual omnidirectional pattern.
You should do that and if they fail then as a consumer you are proof this required reading stuff is stupid, which even for someone who does read the stuff still thinks Halo 4 failed with that big time.
I will. I'm not going to be a great representative of the consumer though because I read synopsese of a lot of the books. I did a little research for halo 4 too. We'll see how it pans out though, and hope that Halo 5 is a standalone story.
MrGreencastle
Member
At this point if they're trying to let Halo 5 stand on its own, then I'm starting to think this Didact is not even going to be part of it. Not sure how something like this is going to be wrapped up in one issue. Really don't want the character turning into Team Rocket and blasting off again. Something else is going on that we aren't privy to just yet.
Dammit. Are they serious? /grumbles.
I know they're cheap... But putting all this information in shitty comics is just silly. It's pretty much a given that I'll need to buy these to understand Halo 5, right? No way they're wrapping everything up in-game.
Sikamikanico
#1 Dad
Where can one purchase these comics from out of interest? Preferably digitally so I can read them on my Surface Pro on the train!
For booties:
Please understand.
Please.
gAg CruSh3r
Member
Reposting just in case no one saw it last night, but we did it! We prevented it from becoming vaporware much like other fabled Halo podcasts! (I'm looking at you ManCannon). We upped the audio quality and the number of dumb halo in-jokes in this one, we're pretty proud of it, and hope you guys will take time to listen and leave feedback!
(The Banner is clickable, it goes to Episode 2!)
Wahrer, zoojoo, Mix and Ghazi are back with episode two of Reclaimer Radio! The first half covers Ian and Austin's RTX meetup, while after the intermission we all have a roundtable covering the new Halo: The Master Chief Collection information, the Halo 5: Guardians beta information, and finally Halo 5 and Halo Nightfall speculation.
Link to Ian's RTX writeup
Reposting if someone did not get the chance to see this yesterday.
The audio is 10 time better then the first episode and I had a lot of good laughs during the podcast. This is a great refresher of what has happen in these last few months. Great job guys! Keep up the work.
Also, if you need someone for a segment about forge or customs I am more willing to help out
. You can also get some of the top forgers here on HaloGAF to put there input as well.I want to see that movie actually. Shailene Woodly is the wind beneath my wings.
gAg CruSh3r
Member
Because he can!?
I will admit I did cry.
Your a great brother. I watched it with my wife.
Oh Tashi
... It's a great movie by the way.Because he can!?
I will admit I did cry.
Your a great brother. I watched it with my wife.
Oh Tashi
I had to google this to know what you guys were talking about. My gf is a 7th+ grade english teacher and I think I've seen the book lying around in the house. After reading the first 2 paragraphs of the synopsis I don't think I'll be reading/watching this sad ass book/movie.
squidhands
Member
I would be much more inclined to watch Halo story expansion from my xbox than to pay money for a poorly drawn comic. I'd pay upwards of $6.99 for a 10-15min episode.
This is mostly accurate.
Orochinagis
Member
Prophet honor guard enemies are something I never knew I wanted. Holy hell. Seeing peak-of-their-military-prowess variations of Haloverse content always makes me giddy.
Is kinda hard to not seeing them in a floating chair, maybe they somehow suceeded in getting a new pool of ADN so they could grow without deficiences.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
She is also supposed to be Mary Jane Watson in the next amazing spiderman movie.
I'm not an especially huge fan of the current-era Mk. VI, but it's not horrible either.
The helmet looks cool, and the actual armor pieces themselves look pretty decent. What I don't like though is how prominent the body-glove is. It just stands out too much, and makes the actual armor look like they just pasted it over the body-glove.
This is especially prevalent when doing the armor customization in Halo 4.
If you recall, in early Halo 4 development the body glove was just straight black. It made the Halo 4 spartan armor look super weird and puny. Like a MJOLNIR space bra. So what did they do?
They literally painted parts of the body glove the armor color so it looks at first glance to be armor. Standard issue kevlar protects more than what Halo 4 spartan chest pieces get.
I get they're trying to be practical or some shit but how practical is that?
MrGreencastle
Member
Seems more like how my mind's eye views them pre-Covenant. Broken Circle, let's go!
My body is ready!
Poodlestrike
Banned
In all fairness, the body glove is significantly tougher than modern Kevlar, IIRC. Between that and the shields, it makes sense to maximize flexibility. Can't say I'm fond of how it looks, (much prefer the full-black bodyglove) but it works from a practicality standpoint.
I think it's supposed to be made from titanium, like the armour plating.
Another way to tell this story is by having flash backs to these events in the game to explain to the player why
and why
These events NEED to make it into either a CGI format or in-game flash backs / forced Terminals that are not hidden away somewhere online on a stupid to navigate site.
John's visor is cracked
the Didact is missing an eye
These events NEED to make it into either a CGI format or in-game flash backs / forced Terminals that are not hidden away somewhere online on a stupid to navigate site.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I kind of doubt that the events of the comic are going to matter, honestly. Blue Team is probably going to kill the Didact in the next, issue, so that's going to be neatly wrapped up. They may just never bother to explain why Chief's visor is cracked; I doubt it'll be plot-relevant. I could see this being wholly self-contained.
Maybe they'll auto-snap to the Halo Channel when you activate it?
How about nanotech for Maximum Padding?
Best movie ever, confirmed.
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
3/4 stars -tashi 314 industries
Orochinagis
Member
So thats how chief got
for Halo 5?.
?.
his helmet cracked
Also the new phoenix people werent used to be knights in this battle but saved to future use where they wered storage anyway
lmao, that Xbox 360 S isn't even on.
JohnnyLovesYou
Banned
What the fuck is going on in the Halo Universe? Why is stuff of this importance happening in comics? I used to care so much about all of this.
I just lost track.
I just lost track.
Poodlestrike
Banned
People keep saying that, but I don't think it's going to be that important in the long run. Maybe Blue Team dies; that would suck for those of us who follow the EU, but nobody else would notice. The Didact, for all his personal power and lengthy history, is assumed dead by the general population. Killing him off in the comics wouldn't matter either. This entire thing could end up being totally self contained.
Wouldn't that defeat the point of setting him up as the villain in 4 if you kill him off in a comic and not mention it except in passing?
Ragnarok Flames
Banned
Technically we killed him in halo 4. So there is that. I mean to those that don't read expanded universe stuff he IS dead.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I'd argue that 4 doesn't necessarily set him up as any sort of long-term villain. From a games-only perspective, the Didact could just as easily have died when he fell into the Slipspace portal.
Chief personally knifing him a few days later wouldn't really change the outcome of him never showing up again.
If 4 did set up any new long-term threats, it'd be the possibility of a Forerunner resurgence in general, rather than something limited to the Didact.
This.
squidhands
Member
Is this supposed to be the same Didact from Halo 4? I understand that there are/were at least 2 in the lore...
edit: I guess it is. I just need to give up on the lore outside of the game. The only reason I bother at all it to keep up discussion in this thread.
This is kinda how I feel right now.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Same dude, yeah. According to the Forerunner trilogy, after setting off the Halo Array, the Iso-Didact and the rest of the surviving Forerunners sent themselves into exile, though I'm not 100% sure where.
Besides, only the original Didact had the whole Composer obsession.
Technically he wasn't killed even in 4 itself he fell into the portal after being blown off the bridge with a QTE pulse grenade.
Other than possibly the librarian who else is left who is a forerunner?
Poodlestrike
Banned
There's a few. The Iso-Didact, Chants-to-Green, and anyone else who was on the Ark when the Array was set off. Their armor can apparently keep them alive indefinitely, so they're presumably still out there somewhere.