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

[TVTyrant]

Why the hell are you still fighting covenant though?

*insert convenient plot device here*

[itszutak]

I hated how the Chief was basically talking to himself during gameplay.

ugh.

I like the music, environments, and enemies.

I hate the HUD. The gradients and colors and partially transparent bitmaps look like shit.

The combat is different. Very different. I can't judge until I play, however.

There's not really much more to say. We still don't know what the story is about or where the game will ultimately lead us.

Why the hell are you still fighting covenant though?

The covenant look like a very minor plot point, if the skirmish is any indication. The way that elite was incinerated seems to imply they're much less of a threat than they were-- assuming the scriptwriters know what they're doing, the first confrontation usually is designed to imply the general feeling of the enemy. (Look at the flood introduction through a cutscene, covenant in H1 through complete decimation of the crew, skirmishers in Reach killing civilians, etc.)

H4 takes place far enough away from Earth that this could very well be some covenant who were just cut off when the Prophets were killed; they may not have ever been given the news about the Rings or the Journey or whatever.


On the point of the Chief-- seems like they're taking a much more first-person approach to storytelling, like crysis or half-life or cowadooty. At least he has a voice (in his head) to talk with; hopefully he doesn't start bursting into one-liners all the time.

[Timo]

It did look pretty neat, but I was really hoping it was just going to be Cortana and the Chief up against a new enemy.

[TeeKup]

So who is controlling the Prometheans? I doubt it's the Didact, I want to conjecture it may be an AI, maybe it was an assistant to the Didact? The emblem at the end was not his FULL emblem.

[itszutak]

I haven't followed the new books or the terminals recently, but wasn't the symbol at the end the Diadect's symbol?

It did look pretty neat, but I was really hoping it was just going to be Cortana and the Chief up against a new enemy.

I imagine we'll see the covenant for three or four levels, but less than 40% of the entire game. Kind of like halo 1 (assuming you start on c10)

[Ki11a_FTW]

Dis anyone else notice that during gameplay, Chief..... talked?

IIRC, in 343 guilty spark theres a sound file in the dialogue where cheif is responding to echo 419 to get picked up, I guess thats why it wasnt used. No cutscenes in that map besides beggining and end.

[ChemicalFizz]

Cortana. Hawter and crazier.

[Donut]

well, i like how they had the chance to do another thing like they did with the flood in halo 1, with the dramatic introduction. i say had, because they showed the new enemies and the "dramatic" introduction in the trailers.
that blue shield looks interesting. sound effects are kind of terrible, but thats kind of been a thing for a while now.

...except the "overkill" sound. somebody needs to change that, or im going to go to 343 and key "OVERKILL" into somebody's car.

[OmegaDragon]

Don't mind me, just here to put this up for possible discussion:


And regarding the covenant; didn't we end up blowing up their planet? Perhaps when they came back from the war they were pissed off to find this, it was never really cleared out in the books that I remember.

[EagerYoungSpaceCadet]

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