Yantelope Posted October 12, 2011 Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 (edited) Master Chief is practically a mute character. He says like 3 words across the whole series. Yeah, but those 3 words make all the difference. Edit: this too: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PreAsskickingOneLiner Edited October 12, 2011 by Yantelope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocSeuss Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 Me caring about Halo begins and ends with the Master Chief and Cortana. Those two have such a great quasi-romance going on that I find it so hard to care about anyone else in the universe. I think that's what made me not enjoy Halo ODST or Reach as much. Also, mute heroes suck with the exception of Chrono and Link. What about the Chief/Johnson Bromance? D: Master Chief is practically a mute character. He says like 3 words across the whole series. Yeah. Basically, it's the best way to do a silent protagonist: have him say just enough (while being neutral) that you can subtly guide how the player thinks about the situation without getting in the way. IIRC, they did a sequel to Ghosts of Onyx so you find out what happened to those people. Halo: Glasslands hits... October 25, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiltonGaines Posted October 17, 2011 Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 Man, still gotta finish Cryptum and Halo: Evolutions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/online.aspx Holy Crap, we've killed more people in halo than have ever lived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Which is why drones scare me. Video games have shown just how much death can be caused when you have soldiers that don't die, on their surrogates do. Which is going to be hell on the army that is made of flesh n blood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Yes, because human-on-human conflicts are so bloodless. Not to mention the fact that it's not like drones are free & infinitely replaceable like game avatars are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope V2 Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 Yeah, the Soviets vs. Nazis was a disgusting display of what can happen when two nations who put no value on human life go to war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 2, 2012 Report Share Posted April 2, 2012 I didn't say human on human was blooodless. If anything I said the opposite. I didn't say drones are free and infinitely replaceable either. They are cheap and repairable though. A bullet passes through the CPU of a drone, you replace the parts weld on a new front plate and send it back out. A bullet passes through the CPU of a human soldier and it's a lot harder to fix. A solider also needs training, a drone just requires manufacturer in a factory and it's done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 http://news.xbox.com/2014/05/games-halo-journey-announcement Halo 5: Guardians is revealed. It'll be out Fall 2015. Honestly it should of been this fall but maybe there is some killer game coming out this fall that I'm forgetting about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 16, 2014 Report Share Posted May 16, 2014 Halo 5 was never coming out this year. Last year at E3 they announced a Halo game for Xbone for this fall and for some reason everyone assumed it was Halo 5 (Halo has never been a 2 year cycle for the main entries), but it's actually Halo 2 Anniversary (not officially announced, but Master Chief's voice actor said that's what it is). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 17, 2014 Report Share Posted May 17, 2014 Well now it's rumored that this year's game isn't just Halo 2 Anniversary, but is actually the "Master Chief Collection": Halo 1-4 all packaged together and remastered in HD for Xbone. This is exactly what I wanted in my heart (except my dream bundle would have also included ODST and Reach), but never actually dared to hope for. There's no details, but the thing that would make the most sense to me is completely remastering the graphics of Halo 2 to bring them in line with Halo: Anniversary and Halo 4, and then just upresing Anniversary, 3 and 4 without actually redoing any assets. Halo 3 could do with some asset replacement too, cause its models and stuff always looked a little wonky to me, but given it was already a 360 game I'm skeptical they'd go to that much trouble. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 http://imgur.com/a/Y8h6w Comparison between the old and new graphics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MetalCaveman Posted June 10, 2014 Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 HELL YEAH \m/ \m/ Can't wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted June 10, 2014 Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Halo 3's Forge Mode is surviving the transition. Ordinarily wouldn't be news, but there was some question about it after the reveal that they didn't immediately clear up. Bigger news is that they're adding Saved Films to Halo 2. No word on whether it will be in every gametype like Halo 3 or just custom games like Halo 4 (where it didn't work in Campaign or regular multiplayer). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 12, 2014 Report Share Posted June 12, 2014 Good rundown of the collection on Eurogamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-06-12-halo-the-master-chief-collection-is-pure-fan-service An especially neat bit about the multiplayer: 343 has filtered the maps by game type. So, you make a decision about the mode you want to play, say Team Slayer for example, then the game searches for players. Once the matchmaking is complete, it digs up a few random maps lifted across all the games. You might get a Halo 3 map and two Halo 2 maps, or one from Halo 1, one from Halo 2 and one from Halo 3, or three from Halo 4. The players vote on which one they want to play then get stuck in. Whatever the decision, the game switches to the engine the multiplayer map was originally created for. So if you select a Halo 3 map, the Halo 3 multiplayer engine comes up and you play Halo 3 as it existed when it launched in 2007. After that game, you might pick a Halo 4 map. At this point the Halo 4 engine is used, and so on. It's worth noting that you can still create custom games, so if you just want to play multiplayer on Halo 4 on Complex on whatever game type, you can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Bigger news is that they're adding Saved Films to Halo 2. No word on whether it will be in every gametype like Halo 3 or just custom games like Halo 4 (where it didn't work in Campaign or regular multiplayer). How do you mean? I'm pretty sure I've got saved films of regular multiplayer games in Halo 4. I just remember being disappointed it didn't have it for campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 I couldn't remember for sure when I was posting that, so I looked it up and everything I could find said it didn't have them for matchmaking in Halo 4, only custom games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Hmm, well, if these links work, here is stuff I've made, all from regular matchmaking: http://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/games/halo4/filebrowser/details/5b6e62fc-2799-4b46-ad4e-daefdb02aebe http://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/games/halo4/filebrowser/details/3136affa-91e1-4bb0-afc6-81ebd575e6c4 http://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/games/halo4/filebrowser/details/4b2e9f4a-38a0-4d1d-bd29-4d849be044b4 I'm guessing the new Halo 2 might be like Halo 3 where you can do all that jazz in multi and maybe just full films for campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 14, 2014 Report Share Posted June 14, 2014 Well apparently my sources were wrong then. Good to know. I really hope it's like Halo 3's theater, that would be awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted June 15, 2014 Report Share Posted June 15, 2014 Really enjoyed MS E3 conference. Makes me wish I had the cash to get one this year, but it's looking like I'm gonna be able to save up enough just for a WiiU. Maybe by 2016 I can get a xbone, and thne picj up this collection on the cheap....really want to check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheMightyEthan Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQRHst97ss I'll just go change my pants now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted July 24, 2014 Report Share Posted July 24, 2014 (edited) Pfft, I don't change my pants for anything less than 1080p. Honestly, though, that last Halo live-action series was complete rubbish and this just looks dull. Like, Halo's bright and colourful. Give me something other than grey! Edited July 24, 2014 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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