Halo 4 - Launch Trailer
Apparently the über special forces are made up of abducted children.
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A launch trailer?
But the game's still two weeks away- I thought launch trailers usually accompanied the launch of a game.
But the game's still two weeks away- I thought launch trailers usually accompanied the launch of a game.
Yes, the Spartan II Program consisted of Kids abducted at the year of 8 if I recall correctly, then put through rigorous and harsh training for most of their life, then biologically altered, given an armor and send into war.
That´s been known for almost a decade now...
Congrats on the umlaut btw, not everyone does that.
That´s been known for almost a decade now...
Congrats on the umlaut btw, not everyone does that.
So, I played only the first Halo in PC, but I guess right if I say the new enemies of Master Chief are dead bodies controlled by a artificial intelligent robot-armors?
Or they are indeed.......undead aliens and they wear robot-armors?
I prefer the first one for originality.
Or they are indeed.......undead aliens and they wear robot-armors?
I prefer the first one for originality.
Well the grunt easter egg at the end of Halo 3 also more or less mentions the fact that the spartans were abducted as kids
So did just about every book with the Spartan II's in it.Trillovinum said:
Including the first book, The Fall of Reach.
Which was released BEFORE the first Halo game...
Awesome trailer, but that's hardly news...
I haven't read any of the books, nor played a Halo game since the 3rd, but my guess is either the undead-aliums are A) what's left of humanity after dicking around with Forerunner tech, or B) the remains of the Forerunners themselves...SweetShark said:
... Or I would think that, if 2 minutes of googling didn't inform me that they're Prometheans, aka Warrior-Servants of Forerunners... So, effectively, I was right with B - they're what's left of the top-rung of the Forerunner security forces, which were themselves the second-to-bottom-rung of Forerunner society, who were vehemently supportive of the Forerunner religious-political dogma known as the Mantle (which apparently was provided by an EVEN OLDER race called the Precursors - bloody hell, this is getting to be a Warhammer 40,000-level fluff maze).
Oh, and apparently...
It is also revealed in the first chapter that Humanity once had a previous interstellar empire. This original empire ended some 10,000 years before the events of the book, when they went to war with the Forerunners and were utterly defeated. As punishment, the surviving Humans were devolved by the Forerunners and exiled back to their planet of origin, a world called "Erde-Tyrene" (known in the present as Earth) in the Sol system. The Human species was also split into about a half dozen sub-species to reduce the chances of it once again allying and becoming strong.
..... This is my face when I learn this: :|
To be honest, I'm not really feeling the new Halo - I was a big fan of the fluff back in the day, actually enjoyed playing through Legendary in the original trilogy more than I ever did the multiplayer, and a lot about this game just seems kind of.... off.
Master Chief being IDed as a white male in the trailer, when in the games 'hes' always pretty much been just a (literal) Faceless Protagonist? Okay, fine, I'm assuming its already been assured due to outside-games fluff.
The Covenant still being a threat? Okay, I suppose they co-
The Covenant still being a threat because some of them are still caught up on the religion of the Prophets? Er, okay, I suppose, I mean the Brutes weren't particularly sma-
The Covenant still being a threat because
THE SANGHEILI (you know, the relatively smart leadership caste?)
Seven years is the maximum life-span for a human-level intelligence AI? Why would you do tha-
And they go bat-crap crazy at that point instead of just, ya know, shutting down permanently? ...
Openly stating you plan to make another trilogy, without even seeing how your first attempt at breathing life back into the game gets received and/or what people like/hate about it? That's alittle ambiti-
"Developers have claimed that Halo 5 will be a much darker title"...
All of my 'meh'. All of it.
As ever, the Halo trailer is amazing.
Problem is, we know the game will never go within a mile of confronting the truly dark and unsettling story that's been built up around the Spartans. It's just going to breeze right around it like ODST breezed round being a lone human lost in New Mombasa, or 2 breezed around the prospect of a battle on Earth.
Still a great little trailer though.
Problem is, we know the game will never go within a mile of confronting the truly dark and unsettling story that's been built up around the Spartans. It's just going to breeze right around it like ODST breezed round being a lone human lost in New Mombasa, or 2 breezed around the prospect of a battle on Earth.
Still a great little trailer though.
It's really hard to talk about this as unless you have read the books you cannot blow half of what is going on in the wider Halo universe.Dark_Reaction said:
A bit further into that particular book Cryptum and there are some of the Forerunner stored in their machinery, namely the children of the Didact who fought and died in the original Human Promethean War.
Also...
you realise the previous relationships we as humans had with the Prophets and why they now hate us unconditionally.
We and the Prophets first fought the Flood on a seperate battlefront to the Forerunners eventually defeating the Flood by some unknown means only to loose it all to the Forerunners. They do in turn devolve us, but strike a deal with the Prophets locking them in their original solar system. Only to find that they cannot defeat the flood on their own, which is kinda the point of Cryptum I suppose.
We and the Prophets first fought the Flood on a seperate battlefront to the Forerunners eventually defeating the Flood by some unknown means only to loose it all to the Forerunners. They do in turn devolve us, but strike a deal with the Prophets locking them in their original solar system. Only to find that they cannot defeat the flood on their own, which is kinda the point of Cryptum I suppose.
Well this is explained in The Thursday War...Dark_Reaction said:
The Elite Jul 'Mdama is taken to the backwater of the Elite empire so far that in The Great Schism word has not reached of the fall of the Covenant. Essentially it's like World War 2 just finished and a pissed off Japanese POW just managed to find a Pacific Island with people who still think the war is on.
AI rampancy is not a defined time limit, as the smart AI's are fashioned on human minds and are rather expensive/rare so binning them before you are sure is a bit of a waste.Dark_Reaction said:
I'm still on board!
It's a shame they don't really dive into the unsettling backstory stuff in the games, instead making little references to it when Cortana is going nuts in Halo 3. I always liked the fact that Master Chief, who many characterise as being a male power fantasy, has no sex drive thanks to the Spartan II procedure. He's also posed as being socially retarded as he was raised as a soldier from the age of six. He does beat a man to death in Fall of Reach because he misinterpreted something as an order...fix-the-spade said:
That and the whole "Your best friend is the mental imprint of your mother figure, who in turn is the woman who abducted you and turned you into a super-soldier" thing.
Nevermind all that, there's the minor point that the Spartans were created (stolen?) before the Covenant were even known about. I would love to see their original purpose of making political dissidents disappear brought up.Geo Da Sponge said:
Oh yeah, that's definitely the other good point about the creation of the Spartans. That wholefix-the-spade said:
project is pretty nasty, and I really wish more people knew the background stuff. The whole "saving humanity" thing is purely coincedental.
Having said that, one of the things I like about the series as a whole is that it remains neutral about the project and it's repercussions. It shows you something blatantly inhumane, but it doesn't feel the need to jump around shouting about how evil it is when you can clearly figure that out for yourself. That's why I really like the style used in this trailer; the footage of the Spartans is shown in a clinical, neutral fashion.
Obviously I want them to explore that stuff since it's pretty dark and very interesting, but I think I'd prefer them just setting out the story without feeling the need to emphasise the dark aspects any more than necessary.
I'm learning a lot in this thread.
1). I thought the spartans were all orphans to begin with since there were so many left after some war (maybe with the covanant)
2). The plot is probably going to involve some kind of "are we so different" theme involving the forerunners and the spartans
3). That "Ghostrider" thing is essentially a cyberman
4). The ancient aliens theory is overused
1). I thought the spartans were all orphans to begin with since there were so many left after some war (maybe with the covanant)
2). The plot is probably going to involve some kind of "are we so different" theme involving the forerunners and the spartans
3). That "Ghostrider" thing is essentially a cyberman
4). The ancient aliens theory is overused
As a Halo fan...this was kinda underwhelming. For a "gameplay" trailer, there wasn't that much of...well gameplay. It just left me wanting more. Aw well, still looking forward to this.
I know I'm going to get hell for this but what can be said for one Halo game is all that needs to be said about ANY Halo game.
What could be said about the halo games must also be said about the anime lots of flash of purple and blue but little to no substance. Halo has turned into little more then a marketers best possible wet dream.
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What could be said about the halo games must also be said about the anime lots of flash of purple and blue but little to no substance. Halo has turned into little more then a marketers best possible wet dream.
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