"Halo 4: I Get a Woman!" - Sgt. Mjr. A.J. Johnson, RIP

That was really good. If you're reading Halo: The Thursday War, you'll hear of Lateski and read about him throughout the book. I like this continuity. The acting is pretty solid for an internet series as well, though I'm not entirely sure how good it truly is given how they're playing a young age and military personas. So far though, it's pretty good and I thought it was going to be terrible.

Helljumper's only excuse was that it was done by fans. However, it was still really badly written, the acting was poorly executed, and the casting was poorly decided.

I believe the two biggets actors they have are Mike Dopud (lots of popular things) and Anna Popplewell (Susan - The Chronicles of Narnia). I'm actually surprised to see big-name actors in it.

I thought Silva looked familiar. Damn.

Forward Unto Dawn was not bad. Not great, but I'm interested.

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Forward Unto Dawn was not bad. Not great, but I'm interested.

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Felt the same. At first I felt like it'd be a cheesy film with children again, but that's exactly what they are in the context of the story and I'm interested in what they have to go through now. It's also intriguing to see a way to portray a UNSC academy in regards to day to day life.

Interesting. Cheesy, but not terrible. I'll keep an eye on it.

Yeah, I liked it. At least the actors aren't terrible. The only issues I had that I could comment on is that some of it felt dragged out, but it was still pretty cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oATxKMr5FU

^It is Beta footage, but it does look pretty cool. Reminds me of some of the stuff people try to accomplish in HCE. Regardless, I'm ecstatic that 343i decided to insert DLC for Single Player.

There's just waaaaay too much to this game, it's insane.

There is alot, indeed. Lets just hope there's no fat and its all meat.

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There is alot, indeed. Lets just hope there's no fat and its all meat.

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Hey, fat can be as good for as meat (protein) can. It's all relative to the person, which explains this scenario entirely. But I get what you mean. I'm honestly more concerned about it having some aspartame features instead, you know, the kind that shit-up gameplay for the sake of continuity. So far, I don't see that and that's good. Rather than aspartame, most of the features (like selectable Loadouts/Perks) are flavors of the month.

Honestly there hasn't been much gameplay of the actual Campaign so you can't really tell. But yeah thats what I meant by fat and meat. Good level design comes down to meaningful encounters and nonlinear design. However, so far of what they have shown of campaign looks fairly boring (imo) + also heavily requires ingame cinematic moments, which is a bit disappointing.

I also have hardly seen any classic looking Halo enviroments, which is also annoying. I have yet to seen at least one nice grassy landscape with large clear sky's. I mean cmon, there needs be at least like 1 iconic Halo level like that in each game. Even Halo Reach had one, and that game is fairly dull and plain in terms of color palette and environments.

I'm pretty sure the first mission of requiem is what you want Higuy, there's some concept art of it floating around.

And so far we haven't seen much; only what they want us to see. Maybe three or four levels in the campaign, some of the multiplayer maps, and a few Spartan Ops missions. I would guess about a quarter of what there actually is.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most of the stuff we haven't seen will be genuinely unique in one way or another and they want us to experience it for ourselves rather than spoil it. Also works as a selling point: "Buy our game to see the things we didn't show you."

Yes, BUT, they are a new developer and, even though its Halo, its practically a new IP. Even if they didn't want to spoil anything, you would imagine when showing off their levels they would be showing something great (as the rest of the game should be) that is ingame and fresh. For example, when my team and I showed off Lumoria: Episode Two the first time, we showed an actual encounter in the game to show how gameplay has improved. The only way to show off good level design is by showing off gameplay of an actual level, there isn't any other way because in those just turn into montages and trailers. So far what they have shown rely's heavily on scripted cinematic moments like COD and are fairly linear in design. Even the last mission they showed off where you disable the power cores was fairly boring and dull looking. I'll save my judgement for when the actual game is released to the public, but so far for first impressions it doesn't really have me sold.

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Yes, BUT, they are a new developer and, even though its Halo, its practically a new IP. Even if they didn't want to spoil anything, you would imagine when showing off their levels they would be showing something great (as the rest of the game should be) that is ingame and fresh. For example, when my team and I showed off Lumoria: Episode Two the first time, we showed an actual encounter in the game to show how gameplay has improved. The only way to show off good level design is by showing off gameplay of an actual level, there isn't any other way because in those just turn into montages and trailers. So far what they have shown rely's heavily on scripted cinematic moments like COD and are fairly linear in design. Even the last mission they showed off where you disable the power cores was fairly boring and dull looking. I'll save my judgement for when the actual game is released to the public, but so far for first impressions it doesn't really have me sold.

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Even though I'm still Iffy about the game, I think its worth the play. I watched something awhile ago on some SP mission and it actually reminded me of the halo i once enjoyed, I'm not really a fan of all of the scripted events they have going on, but everything else is looking okay to me.

had a chance to play this on the weekened, didnt give a shit, i was too busy trying out shootmania and watching starcraft.

u mad?

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had a chance to play this on the weekened, didnt give a shit, i was too busy trying out shootmania and watching starcraft.

u mad?

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That's cool. Not really mad though. I probably won't be able to play till Christmas.

And add me on SC2 brah. Jasiwel 444.

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Reminds me of some of the stuff people try to accomplish in HCE.

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This is not a good thing. I love playing around in CMT as much as the next guy, but I would not want to find it as a finished product. A game made to sell better have some refinement to it...

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had a chance to play this on the weekened, didnt give a shit, i was too busy trying out shootmania and watching starcraft.

u mad?

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Nah, I've already played Halo 4. Plus have no interest in starcraft :D

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This is not a good thing. I love playing around in CMT as much as the next guy, but I would not want to find it as a finished product. A game made to sell better have some refinement to it...

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Ooooh I think we just got burned lol :P

Nonsense. CMT is what it is: a fan-made mod done with limited access to manpower and time.

Fair enough. <3

Crysis 3 has flood mode and a mech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI5n95FCgJM

Video not available :\

Video link still works fine for me

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This is not a good thing. I love playing around in CMT as much as the next guy, but I would not want to find it as a finished product. A game made to sell better have some refinement to it...

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I think it's not HCE in the way that it's moddish, but more that it's just experimental and exploratory. Those are honestly the only similarities I see, anyways.

Thats what I meant, too. They are cramming too much into one release.

http://youtu.be/lOJ5lqXXtpU

That's really fucking cool.

I am more and more conflicted over this game. Everything looks great except the player models, weapons, and campaign. I don't know what to think anymore.

And totally fucking pointless, because your map won't ever be on a playlist to be enjoyed by countless numbers of people!

Make it available on PC, give it an editor, and then we can talk. Forge is a neat toy, but it is ultimately undermined by the nature of the very ecosystem it was made for.

@Hooded: The models are questionable, I agree, but the Campaign looks really interesting. However, the best solution for you would be to rent it or borrow it to decide. It never harms to play it to find out yourself.

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And totally fucking pointless, because your map won't ever be on a playlist to be enjoyed by countless numbers of people!

Make it available on PC, give it an editor, and then we can talk. Forge is a neat toy, but it is ultimately undermined by the nature of the very ecosystem it was made for.

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So, so negative.

After how Bungie abused Forge in Reach with their generally AWFUL Forgeworld maps and how there were no system for rating and cycling user-made maps, you betcha.

is it just me, or are these 343 interviews a lot less polished than bungie's vidocs were? it seems like theres a lot of "um"ing and people tripping over their words.
E: that said, i really fucking love what theyve done with forge. object highlighting and actually visually showing where snap points are is awesome. object duplication is sweet too.
also, the map they showed called "relay" that shows up at about 6:30 reminds me a hell of a lot of tensity, the ce map.

I'll bet that there will still be community maps brought to playlists through Blueprint (or 4chub, XF, etc.) and 343i just like it was in Halo: Reach.

Im still spazzing over her saying 300-400-500 forge pieces in a single map... Holy what... if we can seriously have 500 different pieces in a single map, that is incredible compared to previous iterations. So many possibilities.

500 fusion cores!!!!!!!!!!!!

500 camping stools! Finally my dream has come true.

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is it just me, or are these 343 interviews a lot less polished than bungie's vidocs were? it seems like theres a lot of "um"ing and people tripping over their words.

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I believe there is also a lot more 'vidocs' released than Bungie has done for a single game. Of course, someone may not want to classify these as traditional vidocs as they're more like a Let's Play video (totally ingame and voiced over)

The Making Of Halo 4 videos are closer to vidocs.

On another topic: I'm kind of glad they did three different maps for this, each with their own palette. That'll certainly mix things up a bit.

I can haz covenant palette plox?

Yo dawg, forge is cool and all, but we all know that HALO 4 NEEDS TO COME ON THE FUCKING PC WITH A DECENT EDITING KIT LIKE HALO:CE

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Yo dawg, forge is cool and all, but we all know that HALO 4 NEEDS TO COME ON THE FUCKING PC WITH A DECENT EDITING KIT LIKE HALO:CE

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QFT :neckbeard:

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Yo dawg, forge is cool and all, but we all know that HALO 4 NEEDS TO COME ON THE FUCKING PC WITH A DECENT EDITING KIT LIKE HALO:CE

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QFT :neckbeard:

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Waypoint has some Terminal videos up now. If you've read (or haven't) read The Thursday War, it fills in some suspicions and a few gaps.

EDIT: Waypoint is currently offline for upgrades right now. Lemme find a YouTube of that Terminal perhaps....here we go:



I encourage everyone to read The Thursday War. It's well written and it has a lot of information concerning some background on the next game's Covenant antagonists. It isn't entirely action packed, but it's still interesting regardless.

For those who won't read the book and want to know some disposition anyways:

Jul 'Mdama is the Fleet Master for the Storm faction. He seeks vengeance on humanity because their intervention killed his wife. Did I also forget to mention that he smartly did not trust humanity, followed the rebel leader on Sanghelios to learn the rebellion was being fueled by humans, was subsequently captured and tortured, kept and interrogated in Onyx so that humanity could create a strain of produce that would force the Sangheili race into starvation, and finally escaped via Forerunner portal in Onyx (because the humans were stupid to let him walk around free, even with a bomb-harness on) to meet a Covenant faction still devoted to the Forerunners. Though he doesn't give two shits about the Forerunners as gods, he does want to find Requiem and the Didact to reek vengeance on humanity for their atrocities. He considers them to be more of a threat than the Flood.

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For those who won't read the book and want to know some disposition anyways:

Jul 'Mdama is the Fleet Master for the Storm faction. He seeks vengeance on humanity because their intervention killed his wife. Did I also forget to mention that he smartly did not trust humanity, followed the rebel leader on Sanghelios to learn the rebellion was being fueled by humans, was subsequently captured and tortured, kept and interrogated in Onyx so that humanity could create a strain of produce that would force the Sangheili race into starvation, and finally escaped via Forerunner portal in Onyx (because the humans were stupid to let him walk around free, even with a bomb-harness on) to meet a Covenant faction still devoted to the Forerunners. Though he doesn't give two shits about the Forerunners as gods, he does want to find Requiem and the Didact to reek vengeance on humanity for their atrocities. He considers them to be more of a threat than the Flood.

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Now that​ is a shitty storyline.

Wait, is this some shitty asian dub or is that real el33t sp33k?

Also, what Amit said

Why would you A: record lines for a made-up language with a completely noninflected American-English accent, and B: intersperse that language with English words? The subtitles are already there, and the Elites are heard using an Elite word for "Humans", why do they not have Elite words for "Forerunner" or the planet itself?

Points docked, Halo 4. See me after class.

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Then read The Thursday War because what I said only pertains to Jul 'Mdama in a very summed up sense. The book puts everything into context and it's a lot nicer. There are a lot more details and it is a pretty good read. But as we have all been guessing, the Didact is the main antagonist in Halo 4. Just fucking read the book or something.

I thought the Elite Speak was kind of weird in the terminal, but honestly it doesn't matter that much. It's a piece of narm that doesn't honestly detract from the overall product.

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I thought the Elite Speak was kind of weird in the terminal, but honestly it doesn't matter that much. It's a piece of narm that doesn't honestly detract from the overall product.

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It defeats the purpose of having the Elites speak their own language. What word did they use for Requiem before the Covenant discovered the humans? Obviously not Requiem. Knowing that really detracts from the immersion.

I honestly can't understand how some of you guys continue to be interested by this product. Every time they reveal something new it's just a further insult to the Halo universe.

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It defeats the purpose of having the Elites speak their own language. What word did they use for Requiem before the Covenant discovered the humans? Obviously not Requiem. Knowing that really detracts from the immersion.

I honestly can't understand how some of you guys continue to be interested by this product. Every time they reveal something new it's just a further insult to the Halo universe.

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I can understand how it kills immersion and it does sound weird, but it doesn't kill anything. It's just a short clip of a terminal. We'll probably still hear "Wort wort wort" and other sounds in-game. Also, if you read The Thursday War, Requiem is first understood by Jul in the English language. The Sangheili language only had symbols for it which were discovered later by the Sangheili, but names for those symbols were never given. Prone To Drift informed Jul 'Mdama of what Requiem is utilizing English to Sagheili. Because Requiem is a proper noun, it's English sound is the only one that probably works. The only problem with that is that Forerunners are still called in English, so I do agree that was annoying and it seems lazy of 343i. After listening to it again, it also sounds like a lot of Asian in the second half, which is also weird since it wasn't as bad in the first half. Needless to say, I still don't think it's a big deal, especially when you consider that the Covenant Jul' Mdama is leading is from a different side of the Galaxy and the Sangheili branch left "long ago" from the home world of Sanghelios. Just read The Thursday War. Wikias still aren't updated yet, sadly enough.

One part about the series that we all love is that you can go into those parts you don't like and reinvent them with your imagination. That's basically what Halo Custom Edition allowed by default when it came to modding the original campaign and then that lead many people down great roads of creativity. The point I'm making is that you're making this too big of a deal and frankly I'm not understanding how you can keep calling this game deteriorating when the the more stuff that's being released is looking pretty fucking cool. It may not be on PC, but does that make it shit? Of course not. If you're actually a gamer and love the series, then you'll play it regardless. And then you might say: "But I don't consider this to be part of the series...." blah blah blah. Simply put, you're being closed minded to letting only one shepard lead a flock. Bungie may not be the leaders this time, but it's pretty obvious that 343i is trying to keep working with the series in a fashion that isn't releasing the exact same thing over again.

I'm not really defending the actual choices that 343i makes when it comes to designs. I find the language to be kind of dumb to be honest, but it's for entertainment purposes, so lighten up. I'm defending 343i's ability to interpret and express what they think the Halo Universe is going into with Halo 4, technical shit like Forge and gameplay shit like SP/MP. I don't understand how anything introduced so far besides Greg Bear's Cryptum and Primordium are insults to the Halo Universe. All things considered, I simply think a lot of you are being overdramatic because you don't have another PC release. Face it, Microsoft doesn't want to invest in PC gaming. They probably see too much rivalry from Valve's Steam to be able to cost-effectively compete. On top of that, explain to me ALL of these insults that are ruining this unreleased game for you. I'm only speaking positively from anticipation and how it seems really cool as a new installment. What are you seeing as insults for the series? Honestly, it's just looking more like it's not all lining up with your immediate opinion/guesses, so you're slamming it to compensate.

I miss the good ol' wort wort wort :(

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You can hear it sometimes in Reach, but alas, it's not always easy to hear as a result of all of the noise/chaos going on in the game. :(

Here's a good example of when you can hear it!:

god damnit

when I first read up on the elites in halo 3 (the limited edition came with a little thing explaining the biography of each race) and read that they had a "feudal" culture, I thought they mean like, european-feudal. Knights and serfs and shit. Then the halo anime thing came out and they made them super-japanese. But they fucked up so much in that anyway (elites without split jaws?) that I figured "fuck it, it's anime, they can have their japanese whatever".

...The elites sound like god damn george lucas aliens speaking japanese. I don't know if that's fake or placeholder voices or whatever, but seriously?

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You can hear it sometimes in Reach, but alas, it's not always easy to hear as a result of all of the noise/chaos going on in the game. :(

Here's a good example of when you can hear it!:

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They spruced it up. It's not as derpy as the original.

Derpyness is what made Halo 1 so timeless. To give an example, something as simple as replacing its built-in animations with Havok physics would ruin the game completely.

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god damnit

when I first read up on the elites in halo 3 (the limited edition came with a little thing explaining the biography of each race) and read that they had a "feudal" culture, I thought they mean like, european-feudal. Knights and serfs and shit. Then the halo anime thing came out and they made them super-japanese. But they fucked up so much in that anyway (elites without split jaws?) that I figured "fuck it, it's anime, they can have their japanese whatever".

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Fuck Origins BTW. Some of the videos were really bad, but fuck that one in particular. I cleansed my mind of those female non-split jaw elites immediately. And besides, didn't Halo 3 female elites look about the same as the male ones? Not flat-faced at all.

Mexican pirates. Of course they're too lazy to put it up on usenet like any normal frenchie person

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Lol Mexicans.

Waypoint has the new Bulletin that explains how Halo 4 Multiplayer will work. Pretty neat stuff.
http://blogs.halowaypoint.com/Headli...n-101012-.aspx

I actually thought Origins was one of the only decent things to come out of Legends. Prototype remains my favorite, the Mark 3 suit was fucking intense.

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Fuck Origins BTW. Some of the videos were really bad, but fuck that one in particular. I cleansed my mind of those female non-split jaw elites immediately. And besides, didn't Halo 3 female elites look about the same as the male ones? Not flat-faced at all.

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The female elite was in The Duel.

Prototype was okay (lol melodrama)
The Package was okay (lol Halsey)
The Duel was just plain bad
Homecoming I really like, but the animation is awful
Origins is great and easily the best part of Legends
The Babysitter could have been decent but has too much dumb shit in it
Odd One Out is fun and silly

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Fuck Origins BTW. Some of the videos were really bad, but fuck that one in particular. I cleansed my mind of those female non-split jaw elites immediately. And besides, didn't Halo 3 female elites look about the same as the male ones? Not flat-faced at all.

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Hilariously enough people were complaining that the female Elite design in The Duel would promote more 34 of female elites because they gave them boobs or some stupid shit like that. Too bad the overall design was fugly as shit!!

When I think of females, I think of not having boobs. I don't know why, but that's just me.

Because reptiles would not have boobs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K56gSEJ6IGc&amp;feature=g-all-lik


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Edit: Watch out for a special guest appearence at 5:03. Franky you sneaky bastard...

Really Franky...really...

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I actually thought Origins was one of the only decent things to come out of Legends. Prototype remains my favorite, the Mark 3 suit was fucking intense.

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I agree. I thought Legends was pretty good all around as far as entertainment was concerned. But my favorites have to be Origins, Prototype, The Babysitter, and Spartan 1337 (because it was amusing). I skipped most of the Arbiter one though, only because it was so dramatic and kind of weird in the bad way.

Duel was just really stupid all around.

AAAAAAAND FRAAAAAAAANKYYYYYYYYY.....as the janitor....LOL.

That was a really good episode too. Acting was good, scenes were good, and in general everything is looking exciting. I honestly am greatly anticipating the next episode.

Forward Until Dawn: HIGHSCHOOL IN THE YEAR 2500!
This series isn't Halo.

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Forward Until Dawn: HIGHSCHOOL IN THE YEAR 2500!
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How the hell is it not?

I like it so far.

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I don't see how "This series isn't Halo" means anything. Define Halo? And remember, this is no longer Bungie's Halo. 343i has full
control, and as much as that sucks, we have to adjust to their vision of Halo. Not Bungie's.

So far, it's been a bunch of spoiled kids who are angsty that their parents or superiors dont see how awesome they really are. Yeah, it has props that resemble things from Halo and the CG cutaways resemble things from Halo but that's about it.

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So far, it's been a bunch of spoiled kids who are angsty that their parents or superiors dont see how awesome they really are. Yeah, it has props that resemble things from Halo and the CG cutaways resemble things from Halo but that's about it.

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Is that really all that you have gotten out of it so far? Im pretty sure that the main character isn't frustrated by the fact that his superiors don't see how awesome he is, Its more like he is frustrated because he doesn't agree with what he is being trained to fight for, and that he is always being overshadowed by the fact that he has to fill the shoes of his older sibling. Did you actually try to understand what was happening?

It's also only episode 2 Zeph so stop being :mech: and stop doing :dramabomb:.

It echos that live action short for H3 that Neil B. or w/e did...so yeah. It's a Halo live action film at any rate IMO.

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I like it so far.


I don't see how "This series isn't Halo" means anything. Define Halo? And remember, this is no longer Bungie's Halo. 343i has full
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I think it should have been written more like the books, personally, but this still has my interest.

Still no Covy structure palette >:|

Because covenant structures are too curvy. If you look at Covenant structures you will notice how it's mostly seamless and in one piece. The items would have to be very limited in order for it not to look like shit.

There still needs to be some kind of break-away from all this grey/white nonsense though.

That underground area, the cave, looks incredible, especially the water portion.

own3d.tv/elevatorsource

Looks pretty good so far...

Guess that first map was built for Waterworks?

Yep, halo 4 using pre-rendered cinematics = :suicide:

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Yep, halo 4 using pre-rendered cinematics = :suicide:

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...and I remember people complaining about Halo 1's lack of pre-rendered cinematics.

My eyes burn from seeing the halo 4 ending, fuck.

Link?

You will be warned, it isn't down yet. I just said it burns my eyes cause I didn't want to see it but I did.

Say as you want, the Halo 2 cliffhanger from a horrible dev cycle at least gave a proper sense of adventure leading up to the next game. Halo 3 finished things properly, but at least gave you enough questions amidst the closure to keep thinking. ODST expanded what we knew while still giving us more questions to think about. Reach was tightly packaged as a finished piece when you look at it from an action perspective, but visually there were plenty of things to keep you wondering how deep the rabbit hole went (dead spartans in last mission for example).

I was worried there for a bit that there'd be some sort of stupid cliffhanger or something leading up to Halo 5 for rabid fanboys to drool over and continue to talk about how awesome 343i is. Can't say I'm a fan of introspective character development in video games. That shit is usually left to books for a reason. Yeah, they dumbed it down to MC looking out a window, but they're going to catapult with it in Halo 5. 343 weren't kidding when they said they wanted a story with the chief and not a story where the chief is in it. Seems like it's a linear first person mass effect to me. As for the "boss fight" there, I think it's funny that the big scary boss snuck up on the MC by floating down when the MC has a motion tracker that would be able to detect that. 343i is retconning old stable lore while ignoring the shit they keep and make use of. This is probably the worst case of, "hurry [player character], we've got to [go push that button to save the day]," syndrome I've ever seen.

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Yep, halo 4 using pre-rendered cinematics = :suicide:

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Weren't Halo3's cinematics pre-rendered?

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Weren't Halo3's cinematics pre-rendered?

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No. Bungie never used pre-rendered cinematics.

343i what the fuck are you doing to MC

Also, RAGE had a better ending

Despicable

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No. Bungie never used pre-rendered cinematics.

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Huh. What exactly is pre-rendered?

Bungie's games used matte paintings and visual cheats to make huge environments like the space battle above the Ark and the shots of the Chief's pelican flying over the burning plains after the Cortana level. A pre-rendered cutscene would be like the stuff in Halo Wars, where it's all CG and not done in real time, but rather in a 3d engine. It's a video playing, rather than a true cutscene. The upside is that they can theoretically do effects that rival the ones in the engine, but at this point there's really no excuse for that since game engines are really damned good looking. Personally I prefer in-game cutscenes because they keep the flow the same. The pre-rendered cutscene at the end of Crysis 2 bugged the hell out of me because my graphics settings were actually better than the ones they rendered their cutscene at, so it looked washed out and low res, defeating the entire purpose.

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Huh. What exactly is pre-rendered?

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Pre-rendered is video that has been rendered previous and not shown as it is rendered ingame.
CGI in movies is pre-rendered, cutscenes in Halo CE through to Halo 3 were rendered on the fly by the xbox.


/ninja'd

Haha sorry warlord

TL:DR Halo 4: