For all the people making snide remarks on the cloak, here are 2 possible reasons for it, just off the top of my head:
1.Protect the armor. Sand getting in joints could cause problems over time, and when they show the helmet you can see it's already suffered a lot of wear and tear which would be compounded, again over time, by sand and high winds. I don't think the armor's shields would protect him against the sand unless the particles are moving at high enough speeds to cause instant significant damage (think space dust moving at hundreds of meters per second), or it's possible his shields aren't working in the cutscene.
2.Inhibit long-range identification. The cloak breaks up the outline enough that anyone observing from a distance wouldn't think "Mjolnir armor". Additionally it looks like it might be thick enough to at least alter his heat signature.
Or 3. To increase audience interest with mystery until the last second. Seriously, it makes no sense in-universe, but tons from a marketing perspective.
OT: Microsoft, dude, I know you think you need a new Halo title to sell the Xbone. You don't - nothing can save that... thing. So move on and [i/]don't split up a trilogy between two console gens![/i] If this game and the next Halo (the last two of the "Reclaimer Trilogy" as 343 likes to call 'em) are Xbone exclusives, even after you said 360 would be supported for another 5 years, you're gonna have a bit of a problem.
They already split Halo between two console gens, unless Halo 3 and 4 are coming out for the original Xbox any time soon. (I was one of the people caught out by that. Never got to play Halo 3. Shame. I really love the Halo universe, but console exclusivity can go die somewhere.)
Why does he need a robe for his spacesuit? Is he cold? Oh wait, I bet the inside of the robe is filled with pockets so he can use the pockets because he doesn't have pockets.
Cloak made no sense. We hate fighting the Forerunner stuff (seriously. Fighting the machines really sucks). Cloak still made no sense. Dogtags/empty AI thing was really cool. Cloak sucked. No hint at story. Looks like a 'slice of life' game.
You know what I mean? It's not, 'there's a threat looming over earth and you have to stop it' design. It's just 'Chief does some shit that's relevant to the story but not very dramatic'. Just like Halo 4.
I'm thinking 343 Industries should never have picked up the Halo title. Halo should have just faded out with dignity.
You know, I like Halo, but it cannot sell me an Xbone alone. And this is coming from someone that has a bunch of covenant weapon replicas, a couple spartan helmets, the collector's edition of each release, all of the books, and dozens of Halo figures. The fact that Halo alone can't sell this console should tell you something.
Microsoft needs to hire someone like you, because you've got common fucking sense. And that thing about Europe:wow. They're really trying to make this as US-centric as possible, aren't they? Well I live in the US and I don't want any of this shit. I just want a box where I can plug in and play some damn games. No DRM, no TV, just a box where I play some games. Maybe online connectivity for online play and Big chunks of DLC. Nothing more than that though. That's what I use my 360 for and that's worked well enough for the past 5 or so years.
Yeah they could do, if they're reading this I'm available for employment just to sit there and tell them when they're being fucking stupid. Windows 8 would be very different let me tell you. Bout £30k a year would sound about right for it too.
As for europe, all hardware costs more but the fact it costs that much more and does so much less is outright insulting. The PS4 costs.... $143 or so more here than there but at the same time it doesn't have a gutted feature set and isn't a glorified tv remote that doesn't work if my ISP decides to be a prick for a day. But at the same time we generally make more money and such, but at the same time lots of stuff costs more here anyway.
At any rate I can save up £350 pretty easy and justify it on a console that is a console and nothing more sinister.
Also pretty interested in a fair few PS4 games that were shown.
Totally. I mean, corpses are always really slutty. Those dead fish eyes are just asking for it. (Please ignore the fact that a computer program can't have a corpse, which would ruin the joke. Thank you for your cooperation)
No Arbiter to be seen. For shame 343.
And it's on the Xbox One which means I likely won't be getting it.
Also wasn't the pattern a Halo game every three years? I don't want Halo to be a yearly installment type deal.
Then again it's on the aforementioned Xbone so do I really care?
But seriously BRING BACK THE ARBITER LEST YOU INCUR THE WRATH OF THE VREX!!!
Irridium said:
I thought it was a gritty re-boot of Journey at first. Or something like that.
Why is Master Chief wearing a cloak and hood over his armor? The sand wouldn't wear it down, since his shields would stop that. Plus, even if they didn't, his hands and boots would be the most in jeopardy, since they're less shielded than his torso and head. This allows him to walk/pick things up without the shields mucking things up. So they would have to be covered, and they're not.
And yes, I am a Halo fan who has way too much time on his hands, how did you know?
I don't get it either, the armor supposedly acts as cross between a body protector and a customized environmental system, putting a cloak on that is like putting an a hazmat suit and then adding a hat. What's the point?
I heard a rumor that Masterchief is doing this to hide his identity for some reason in which case someone should tell him the giant green robot suit still isn't subtle even if you put a ragged piece of fabric over it.
I just have one question about this. Why was Master Chief wearing a robe? What could he possibly need with that? He's wearing armor that also doubles as a space suit. I don't think that robe is really going to help him.
Man I have so much anger about how the elites in general were portrayed in Halo 4 compared to 3. I'd rant here but, I already made a rant so if you're keen, check it out:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.406728-Dark-Horse-Comics-Announces-Halo-Initiation-Miniseries
As someone who has a PC since 2006 hearing someone advertise 60 fps in 2013 is like watching a news about North Korea just inventing the radio. Yeah good for you and all that, but the only news for the rest of us there is that you were so behind in the first place.
Also the cloack is funny as hell because screw future technology, nothing beats a good old rag when it comes to protection...
This is dumb. Seriously. If I didn't read the title of this article that said "Halo" I would have thought Journey was getting an "Even H-er D remake"
I understand that 343 can actually "do storytelling" unlike Bungie, and they want to distance themselves from the Clusterfuck of bad writing that was the Halo Trilogy but honestly... this is silly.
It's like: "Hey look Guys! It's not like Halo at all! But! Also! Other people look it's exactly like Halo! Please love us!!!"
I feel sorry for 343 I wish they could make the game they wanted to make.
Totally. I mean, corpses are always really slutty. Those dead fish eyes are just asking for it. (Please ignore the fact that a computer program can't have a corpse, which would ruin the joke. Thank you for your cooperation)
At the end of Halo 4 Cortana and Chief were in the Composer, Cortana having been apparently rendered metastable by the process and returned to full control of herself. She uses the little remaining power in the the wreckage of the composer and Didact's ship to return Chief to the mortal plain.
Fast forward to Spartan Ops, it's discovered that the people of New Phoenix were in fact not destroyed when the Composer eventually failed post nuke, but had in fact been transmitted back to Requiem when the ship was destroyed (or may have been transmitted immediately as part of the process).
This raises the very real possibility that some of the Prometheans being burned through Spartans were residents of New Phoenix originally. It also raises the possibility that all the people who went through the Composer could be brought back. The terminal videos insist that people brought back come back wrong, but Cortana managed it with Chief, so it's possible.
Fast forward a little more, Requiem is destroyed, but not before transmitting it's data across the galaxy and leaving a complete index of all Forerunner technology half in the hands of the UNSC and half in the hands of Mdama and Halsey (who has turned her back on the UNSC after they try to kill her, disarming her in the process... literally).
That leaves us with Cortana, several thousand people and the means of their return split between the good andbad guys
<spoiler= The Halo 5 trailer>Chief is holding Cortana's empty AI chip in his hand, I'm expecting Halo 5 and probably 6 to center around getting control of the Forerunner device index, but also on getting Cortana back. I expect/predict that the end of Halo 6 will see Chief retiring and Cortana becoming a real girl, since the Forunners possess the tech to turn data into tangible matter. That will be the nominal end of Chief's story, with the Spartan Ops crew taking over as the faces of the series.
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