king grimlock
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yup chief was actually indoctrinated by the reapers
It's a book thing that hopefully will be explained in-game
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Halo 5 Cover Art Revealed
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yup chief was actually indoctrinated by the reapers
Twilight Gap
Member
the cover's kinda boring, but the teal and orange contrast works here to illustrate the differences between the two characters. it's probably why they gave locke a blue visor to begin with.
Halo 4's cover was stronger, if not slightly busy.
Halo 4's cover was stronger, if not slightly busy.
They probably figured the TV show was enough to spin up interest in him.
Twin Tails
Member
Locke was introduced in Reach and everyone hated him.
Seeing as how he will play a major part in the actual story , why wouldn't there be focus on him?
Dylan Sexbang
Banned
Lovd the cover, so glad it's not the trend of a single soldier walking towards the view or away. Tired of that one particular visual.
But fucking Blue Team! I take it that means in 4 player co-op, each player will be able to control Chief, Fred, Linda or Kelly? It was kind of jarring to go from individual characters in three, and technically Reach, to Chief clones again. I also want to know who Locke's team will be. I need to catch up on the Lore.
But fucking Blue Team! I take it that means in 4 player co-op, each player will be able to control Chief, Fred, Linda or Kelly? It was kind of jarring to go from individual characters in three, and technically Reach, to Chief clones again. I also want to know who Locke's team will be. I need to catch up on the Lore.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Maybe I'm misremembering here but I'm pretty sure Locke wasn't in Reach.
Oh, right. I haven't read the books, watched the TV show or played H2A (a case of the vanishing co-op partner) yet so that'll explain why I'm so clueless about these people. I'll have to at least get round to playing Halo 2.
Are you sure? I played a ton of Reach and don't have a single memory of anyone called Locke. I could be wrong though.
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Compsiox
Banned
Halo goes far beyond games.
Twilight Gap
Member
Leafhopper
Banned
Better than another fucking humanoid person walking towards the camera with a gun.
Or crouched over with 2 fucking guns...seriously what the hell Treyarch, stop that.
Or crouched over with 2 fucking guns...seriously what the hell Treyarch, stop that.
RoyalLaFlame
Banned
Looks really good imo.
Roddslayer
Member
Kinda meh, worst Halo cover art IMO
SkyTurnsRed
Banned
I can't unsee this either! How does this not annoy more people?!
king grimlock
Member
from a looking/being a badass standpoint it was awesome.
snoopeasystreet
Member
It just seems really odd to have such a huge focus on a character the majority of the audience haven't seen yet. All the marketing so far has been "be prepared for these two guys to square off", but that only works if you know/care who the two guys are. It's like getting a champion boxer to fight an unknown and billing it as the fight of the century. Or I guess in video game terms, if MGS 2 was advertised as a game about Raiden and Snake, people would of been like "who the hell is this long haired guy and why should I care?".
All the Locke stuff might turn out great but I think they're expecting the audience to care far too much about what'll most likely be a supporting character.
Obliterator
Member
I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING. SO BEAUTIFUL.
BLUE TEAM!!!!!!!!!!
BLUE TEAM!!!!!!!!!!
Fair enough.
CrimsonEclipse
Member
Looks great - already have lotion in hand.
Versus cover is alright, if not standard. Look the contrast between blue and orange.
I'm in the same boat. Have no interest in watching Nightfall or reading any Halo books. 343 better explain the storyline right away from the beginning.
I'm in the same boat. Have no interest in watching Nightfall or reading any Halo books. 343 better explain the storyline right away from the beginning.
Same here. I don't have time or energy for the expanded universe and I can't say that I like the idea of it so heavily influencing the game's story unless it's very clearly explained.
Halo 5 to end with Master Chief raising the hand of a smiling Locke with a "please like this guy" face.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Well, I mean the TV trailers were 50% Locke.. I guess more than 50% since he was in both, but the focus was equally between him and Chief. He's being billed as the antagonist (I guess) at the moment to our favorite Chief, so it stands to reason that we don't/shouldn't know too much about him. (Covenant was mysterious Aliens at first/etc)
The MCC reveal had some Locke information, but it was formatted in such a way as to give his character some purpose (finding Chief), but framed in a way where he's interacting with an existing character (Arbiter) so we're not totally blindsided by the new character.
Otherwise, the Halo 5 reveal (originally) just had Chief and big Birdy. Nightfall is it's own thing, and while it introduces us to Locke, can't be expected people would have seen it, or care about it I guess.
#HUNTtheTRUTH hasn't mentioned Locke at all yet.
I see the poster the same as if it was Chief vs the Covenant or whatever he was facing. It's just unique since he's facing other humans for the first time (that we've seen in the games, insurrectionists notwithstanding).
snoopeasystreet
Member
Yeah, that's fair. Admittedly, I haven't really been following anything Halo other than the ads and promotional things they're putting out for 5 so its entirely possible I'm misreading their intent for the character.
RandyBobandy
Banned
Hopefully Locke's role isn't prominent. Don't give a damn about him. Just give me more chief
Foolishfellow
Banned
Sign me up for the french fry mcflurry IV drip, where we gladly hype the uninspired games put out by 1st party publishers.
The film industry knows what it's doing right now with its biggest most expensive films, while the video game industry seems to be (by and large) running most AAA straight into the ground.
This box art is emblematic of how uninspired the 343i's game design philosophy is. Looming ugly promethean enemy in the background that looks like a tribal tattoo. And ripping a page out of Halo circa 2004 by introducing a foe who is clearly not a foe (the Arbiter). Although this time, it's even less inspired because instead of controlling a cool alien creature, your controlling yet another shitty cookie cutter space marine character.
Ricky Ricardo
Member
From what I'm reading here, 343i is going to need to do a HELL of a job on exposition for Halo 5: Guardians.
They can't afford repeat Halo 4 where they introduce a major antagonist with barely any explanation about who he is, besides "He's in the books!"
Especially now, since they've effectively tripled their work. They've gotta introduce new players to:
Agent Jameson Locke (For those who didn't watch Nightfall or play Halo 2 Anniversary)
Blue Team (Fred, Kelly and Linda have been known to Halo geeks for ages, but their not known to the general population, a failing of Bungie's Halo era I'd say.)
Locke's Fireteam (Romeo, Buck, Tanaka(?) and/or Macer(?))
I hope they're up to it. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, going by how well they've merged expanded lore with the Hunt the Truth podcasts, but ... I'm still worried.
They can't afford repeat Halo 4 where they introduce a major antagonist with barely any explanation about who he is, besides "He's in the books!"
Especially now, since they've effectively tripled their work. They've gotta introduce new players to:
Agent Jameson Locke (For those who didn't watch Nightfall or play Halo 2 Anniversary)
Blue Team (Fred, Kelly and Linda have been known to Halo geeks for ages, but their not known to the general population, a failing of Bungie's Halo era I'd say.)
Locke's Fireteam (Romeo, Buck, Tanaka(?) and/or Macer(?))
I hope they're up to it. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt, going by how well they've merged expanded lore with the Hunt the Truth podcasts, but ... I'm still worried.
OrbitalBeard
Member
His role is clearly very prominent, based on everything we've seen since Halo 5's reveal.
I'm really not sure why 343i handles storytelling they way they do though. The books and other Halo media should be used to enhance the universe, not be required to understand what's going on in the main entries.
Master Yoshi
Member
How hard would it be for me to sit through all of Nightfall to learn about Locke?
Foolishfellow
Banned
There's going to be a hell of a lot of knockoff Hans Zimmer music. A vague prologue scene about betrayal, and some "heartbreaking" scenes where we see our beloved protagonist in a new light (that is completely unfitting with the original spirit of the first three games).
Everything that followed ODST in the Halo universe is like the George Lucas Star Wars prequels.
Obliterator
Member
I wonder if Locke will actually be the real, main villan in Halo 6. I see a lot of people, including myself, thinking by the end of Halo 5 him and Chief will somehow be on the same side but what if he's not? Like what if he is the main bad dude in Halo 6
Ricky Ricardo
Member
Knockoff Hans Zimmer music? I can tell you're no musician just by that statement.
king grimlock
Member
shh man he can't tell us the future if he is arguing with you.
FollowTheWind
Banned
What in the world? The general concept of Halo, of a super soldier that fights alien monsters to save humanity is what... an original inspiring tale never seen before? Why complain now with Halo 5... Oh yeah its 343 and you, so why the fuck not? Plenty of games out where with unoriginal worlds/stories which still manage to have the best story (TLOU?).
"This box art is emblematic of how uninspired the 343i's game design philosophy is." Wow, un-aware or purposely ignorant?
(wow hero points at screen with gun
(wow hero looks into this distance in heroic pose)
(wow hero has another heroic pose)
But hey, lets SPECIFICALLY complain about 343, and not act like its not been a thing in the past???
BeforeU
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