damn. I'm gonna play Fez but I need to go back and beat that. Home Run is a fun course, short and sweet.
The #1 overall guy did it in 21. shit is intense.
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Halo |OT3| Remember Reach?
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damn. I'm gonna play Fez but I need to go back and beat that. Home Run is a fun course, short and sweet.
The #1 overall guy did it in 21. shit is intense.
ElRenoRaven
Member
I'll just say all of them. I haven't met a cutscene yet I've hated. Hell single player wise the only thing I've hated was 2's ending. Other then that the campaigns have been almost perfect for me. Everything from story to cutscenes, to gameplay, etc all just amazingly awesome.
However if a gun was to my head I'd say I have two favorites. The I'm going to send them back their bomb one from Halo 2 and The one where MC gets Cortana back in Halo 3.
The #2 guy is on my friendslist. Yeah, not gonna beat that. :/
The Librarian
Banned
The ending?
None of them were really spectacular or had outstanding direction, but then they were intentionally subdued. Some were confusing or badly directed (such as the first-person Zealot attack on the first mission).
That said, this is my favorite. Great interplay between the characters and I love the framing and lighting.
Lone Wolf is great. None of the cinematic work really stands out.
Edit: the launching sequence on Long Night of Solace is great. Though, you can't skip it for some reason.
Der Flatulator
Member
ElzarTheBam
Member
Yeah, I like this one as well, especially the little details like Jun scratching his face.
I'm not even sure the Didact needs to be introduced in the marketing campaign...
Halo 4 is about the Chief/Cortana, insisting on their perspective should give the marketing campaign an excuse for not explaining and letting us discover things with them.
We'll see new weapons, new places, new characters, new vehicles but the Didact will probably be just a glimpse, a payoff for watching the entire trailer.
His motives and story are a little too big to build his reveal in a marketing trailer I believe.
And we're up for a trilogy, so I expect a little slow burning storywise.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Carter sure gets pushed around a lot by Kat.
"You're in my light, commander"
"You're in my light, commander"
Zeouterlimits
Member
Yeah, Lone Wolf is my favourite Reach cutscene. Beautiful mix of serene but sad music and a both chaotic but still environment.
Joking or serious?Zeouterlimits, why U so gud at Trials
Two favorite Halo cut scenes: the intro to The Ark on Halo 3. The way the drop ships ahead fall one by one...then ours just drops my stomach every time. And dat music.
Halo 2: Whisper in the Storm opening cinematic (aka, the creation of the Arbiter). Bungie's dialogue and character development was so, so good in Halo 2, helped by superb actors and delivery. "...But ultimately the terms of your execution are up to me."
Halo 2: Whisper in the Storm opening cinematic (aka, the creation of the Arbiter). Bungie's dialogue and character development was so, so good in Halo 2, helped by superb actors and delivery. "...But ultimately the terms of your execution are up to me."
Eh. The one after that with the Covenant ships, maybe. But the Halo 2 one I posted was so much better at showing the Covenant invasion(and it wasn't even my home world or whatever).
The ending gameplay was great, but the cinematic was pretty meh.
Zeouterlimits
Member
Jorge's death is quite meh, but I do really like the satellite view of the main Covenant force arriving.
don't get me started...
The Librarian
Banned
"Reading multiple pings below the orbital defense grid."
Dammit, Bungie, the Covenant don't know the extent of their own technology. They're not suppose to be able to do that!
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I gotta wonder what was the decision to do away with this Truth. His dialog and his delivery has so much more nuance. Did they just need more eeeeeevil badguy to counterbalance Gravemind's philosophical rants?
Zeouterlimits
Member
I blame a lack of Jason Jones badassary.
The Librarian
Banned
Perhaps, but it could be because Halo 3's story was more narrow in scope, and so we only got to see one side of him. But ultimately I think it was shifting his character to an outright bad guy (addressing Crow's Nest, etc.).
Tha Robbertster
Member
For Reach, I really liked this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CJlhWVJ2Eo. At least, the part from the package.
Hitmonchan107
Member
Why'd you have to post this while I'm at work? I need to play through this game again right now. :^(
ElzarTheBam
Member
Actually, this is probably my favourite cutscene in reach.
The music, love the understated explosion and the mention of the POA (regardless of the lore issue).
Yeah, I can definitely see, the impact of that and question raised souring the immersion.
Zeouterlimits
Member
As soon as I saw Cortana immersion was shattered for me because of the canon issues.
Hitmonchan107
Member
If we get 4 people, then Legendary with some Skulls on. But I probably shouldn't play tonight. I have too much to do.
There's things I really dislike about that cutscene
Carter: I understand
Do you? Because I know more about what's supposed to be going on than you and I don't understand
And why does Emile's ass have so much grip? WHY? You should've slipped off your butt!!!
Edit: Still remember when I, Dani, Bagel and someone else wasted one hour doing the ghost run at the end of Halo 3. Good times
ViewtifulJC
Banned
On Co-Op, Legendary or bust
And I'm down for this whenever, even if that means playing through Cortana.
Serious!
The Librarian
Banned
Halo 3 co-op? Count me i--
Dammit. I left my copy at home.
Dammit. I left my copy at home.
ElzarTheBam
Member
I agree with this, dumbass emile sitting there like a turtle.
Tha Robbertster
Member
I wasn't sure whether it was Cortana or not. I noticed that the AI was Cortana when I heard I had to bring it to the Pillar of Autumn.
First time I saw this cinematic, I literally yelled at the TV when Carter said that.
In particular after Halsey threw the "are you a Spartan or a puppet?" line at Carter earlier in the game, that was a perfect opportunity for him to push back and demand details, for his team's benefit and ours. I'm still grouchy at how the critical details that drive the ending are entirely left out.
The Librarian
Banned
Reach was the easiest story to tell. All they had to do was follow the novel.
That's one thing that bothers me in Halo games. The worlds/stories/characters in them are great but always poorly written and explored
Reach was the easiest story to tell. All they had to do was follow the novel.
I'm glad they didn't. It would have been pretty boring to just play The Book: The Game. And I'd rather a game not be beholden to fiction written and released before the first game in the series came out.
It's not like they can't go back and do it still, anyway, but I prefer game developers do missions they've always wanted to do instead of being held back by a book's narrative.
IIRC Staten and/or Jones thought Halo 2 Truth was too obviously a bad guy, they wanted someone who sounded like they were old and wise and wouldn't stab you in the back. Or something like that. Truth's voice to me is still H2 Truth.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
Omg. Dead sexy. I wonder if they will be producing the Halo 4 equivalent of the Weta Halo 3 statues. I would kill for some nice Halo 4 diorama collectors pieces.
That entire scene is amazing, both in its presentation and content. The story for Halo 2 had an amazing feel, with well executed cutscenes that really set the feel for a sci-fi space epic.. Going from amazing scenes like this to Halo 3 was an incredible let down, it really deflated me that Halo 3's story was so...simple. And not even executed in a cohesive manner.
I really hope 343 takes inspiration from the story telling mechanics and scale of Halo 2.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I do hope Halsey is back in 4, I liked her portrayal in Reach. I want more sections with her like the books have. Reading Onyx now and she has some pretty good parts.
ElzarTheBam
Member
Holy shit, man sometimes I miss gems like this because I don't watch any tv.
Hopefully, that particular tradition will come to an end in Halo 4.
Such a fantastic scene, I hope 343 looked at Halo 2 for cinematics.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Oh, that figurine is awesome. FYI Ashley Wood did most of the Metal Gear art, some awesome stuff. Find the MGS Omnibus comic, goes through the first 2 games with all of his art I believe.
Hope that company does a Chief figure.
Hope that company does a Chief figure.
The Librarian
Banned
But it's not like Bungie could not have done any of the missions they released in the game because of the franchise's fiction. All they had to do was move the dates around and some of the levels. Bam. The fiction wasn't constraining.
It's fake anyway.
/realist
My hope was that Reach (the game) was going to tell the story of Noble Team within the framework of the events described in the book. The missions and story would be their own, showing how their role fit into the overall battle for Reach. With the narrative focused on their story, within the larger context of the battle for the planet, it could have been hugely compelling.
As it was, Bungie didn't do that, and the story they told wasn't anywhere near as interesting; either Noble Team's or Reach's fall. So we got a story that conflicted with established canon, and wasn't as good, either. Worst of both worlds.
Hypertrooper
Member
Right now, I do not know any deals with/between 343i and famous sex doll producers.
And then people would have bitched that dates and locations were changed. There's not a winning situation here for them in some people's eyes. But then again, The Fall of Reach was a pretty meh book for me.
Nowadays I just have my Halo lore-geek friend tell me the best parts of each book that come out.
I bet they could do a fantastic Arbiter too.
Actually, why the hell did they make Carter? :\
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