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I'm Trying To Tell You Something, But You're Just Not Listening (ARG)
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AzureSkies
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This could be significant.
Especially considering how Chief is mentioned all the time and the series' history with ARGs
Ragnarok Flames
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But 343 seems like they want to push Palmer down people's throats. but if it were something Halo related it would be awesome.
AzureSkies
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Part of me would love this to be Halo 3 PC, but there's no way there would be an ARG like this for it.
Dongs Macabre
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This is interesting (it's said in one of the videos)
Seems more like Dota 2. I dunno, this seems way too disperse
There's something strange about having a YT account for 3 years for announcing an HD remaster, or giving info on something that was already announced (the new Halo for XB1). Or a new TV show. It just seems to be like a company is being way too dedicated for something like this.
Or this is really about a guy trying to tell what happened in a failed covert mission. Seems unlikely though!
Seems more like Dota 2. I dunno, this seems way too disperse
There's something strange about having a YT account for 3 years for announcing an HD remaster, or giving info on something that was already announced (the new Halo for XB1). Or a new TV show. It just seems to be like a company is being way too dedicated for something like this.
Or this is really about a guy trying to tell what happened in a failed covert mission. Seems unlikely though!
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that doesnt confirm anything
Dongs Macabre
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343 shouldnt be allowed to touch Halo 2
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Neither did I love bees in the beginning
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I am still solidly on the side of 'total grassroots, not promoting anything'. It's way too subtle to be 42 or Microsoft. It's been around long enough without discovery to point at grassroots too.
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Seems likely.
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Exactly. No movie or game company would have a YT account for so long and active just to start an ARG just like that.
The one exception would the YT channel of The Last of Us which was done since 2011 (one year away from its reveal), but aside from that, I can't think of anything.
Even if I want to think Valve, they have a rule of making it clear that it's for their games and not something else.
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Give up on HL3. Valve isnt a good company like people seem to think.
Kojima. Kojima. kojima.
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The same on Kojima, people (including me) thought he was smart enough to do a CGI guy. If anything people give him too much credit too.
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Yep. From my experience creating several grassroots args, and several corporate ones, I'm going to go with grassroots. Which is great news, honestly. Grassroots have been producing the best ARGs for awhile now.
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There's a lot of speculation that Synydyne, who was behind This Is My Milwaukee, is making this one, but of course no one can confirm anything. Though I didn't play that one, it was very well received in the community.
It could be a new comer, it could be someone I know. That's the beauty of ARGs, you can't really tell until it's over. And elaborate isn't a marker against it being a grassroots.
Sometimes they are more elaborate since they have less of a budget, and therefore have to keep things interesting in other ways than flashy websites and famous dead drop locations. Grassroots is anything that isn't corporately funded. So much smaller budget, but usually better storylines if the folks are serious about it. The creators in general don't get paid to pull it off, and mostly do the work because they love the genre, not because they are looking to make a profit.
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There's a lot of speculation that Synydyne, who was behind This Is My Milwaukee, is making this one, but of course no one can confirm anything. Though I didn't play that one, it was very well received in the community.
It could be a new comer, it could be someone I know. That's the beauty of ARGs, you can't really tell until it's over. And elaborate isn't a marker against it being a grassroots.
Oh I know it's not a marker about it not being a grassroots, just pointing that out!
Shame I won't be able to play this since it's probably going to be out of my city anyway.
Although with the Honduras thing makes it strange.
Think of how amazing of a marketing run this would be for Halo 5/ Halo Xbox One. It seems that this has to be directly connected, if not indirectly to
. A lot of it connects to the theory that Bryan Newman (Halo.Bungie.Org) and myself share, which is that ever since Cortana got a hold of Forerunner knowledge, she's wanted more. Cortana could have possibly been the overarching villain of Halo since Halo 2.
Cortana's presumed non-death at the end of Halo 4
This is the first intelligent AI, finally ready to reveal itself. It's been hidden for years, learning...
Yeah, but if it is the Hunger Games: Why two years later? Seems really weird and far too ahead to be doing something like this for a long-game ARG even if it was set up for the sequel.
it used to be a cia operative doing missions in nicaragua with jackie and the chief.
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Random things I am noticing on the transcript, ignore me if you think it's not relevant.
Something horrible happened on May 10th. A look at the date reveals a lot of terrible things happened on May 10th in history, nothing conclusive.
Episode 598 - May 31, 2012
"Say bye bye to the city that you love."
Episode 599 - June 1, 2012
"Kid Cudi grew up in a suburb of Cleveland."
Perhaps Cleveland is the city they are speaking of in the previous episode?
They mention One Direction five times, and members Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson twice each. Zayn Malik has three.
"Visit altria.com to learn more about the health benefits of Marlboro brand cigarettes." That's an odd statement.
Lots of 7s mentioned as well.
Only about half way through the document at this point.
Edit: What famous war ended with a battle between twin generals on opposite sides?
The only reference I can find for this is a Mark Twain absurd comedy about famous siamese twins Chang and Eng fighting on opposites sides during the civil war and capturing each other. More research needed.
"B: You can get a new idea by looking for patterns in the system."
I feel this is trying to scream something at us heh.
Ten mysteries has been mentioned twice, and ten in general several times.
Several tomato mentions, and Italian food in general.
Also, apparently we have WHOIS confirmation that the guy who registered the youtube account way back when is the same guy behind the aforementioned project, so there's that.
Something horrible happened on May 10th. A look at the date reveals a lot of terrible things happened on May 10th in history, nothing conclusive.
Episode 598 - May 31, 2012
"Say bye bye to the city that you love."
Episode 599 - June 1, 2012
"Kid Cudi grew up in a suburb of Cleveland."
Perhaps Cleveland is the city they are speaking of in the previous episode?
They mention One Direction five times, and members Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson twice each. Zayn Malik has three.
"Visit altria.com to learn more about the health benefits of Marlboro brand cigarettes." That's an odd statement.
Lots of 7s mentioned as well.
Only about half way through the document at this point.
Edit: What famous war ended with a battle between twin generals on opposite sides?
The only reference I can find for this is a Mark Twain absurd comedy about famous siamese twins Chang and Eng fighting on opposites sides during the civil war and capturing each other. More research needed.
"B: You can get a new idea by looking for patterns in the system."
I feel this is trying to scream something at us heh.
Ten mysteries has been mentioned twice, and ten in general several times.
Several tomato mentions, and Italian food in general.
Also, apparently we have WHOIS confirmation that the guy who registered the youtube account way back when is the same guy behind the aforementioned project, so there's that.
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That's the thing about ARGs, they sorta stop existing when they are over. But if you are interested, my most famous ARGs that I worked on were Catching the Wish, Ditch the Tech, and Enhance Yourself (Monster Hunter Club).
There is a character called Manuel Mendoza who was in Halo 1:
Private Manuel Mendoza was an infantryman in the UNSC Marine Corps and a member of Fire Team Charlie. He participated in the Battle of Installation 04 in September 2552.
Manuel Mendoza was one of the Marines stationed on the UNSC Pillar of Autumn when it was attacked by the Covenant, marking the beginning of the Battle of Installation 04.
After boarding a lifeboat, he survived the crash landing on Installation 04, becoming the infantryman at the receiving end of most of Sergeant Johnson's shouting and yelling. During the events of the crash landing, he fought alongside John-117, until he was evacuated by Echo 419.
Later on, he was part of Fireteam Charlie, which was led by Captain Jacob Keyes and Sergeant Johnson, to find a supposed Covenant weapons cache that a captured Sangheili, 'Qualomee, had uncovered and disclosed to them in passing.
Instead, the so-called "cache" turned out to be a Flood Containment Facility. Fireteam Charlie was immediately ambushed and, save for Sergeant Johnson, was assimilated into the Flood and turned into Combat Forms. Though Mendoza held off the Infection Forms for a while, unlike his comrades, he was also later assimilated into a Combat Form. Shortly before he was infected, he attempted to flee the area, against Keyes' and Johnson's orders.
A few hours after infection, John-117 found Mendoza in the structure and attempted to communicate with the Marine, unknown that his consciousness was already taken over by the Infection Form. Mendoza attacked the Spartan and took three entire 8-gauge shotgun shells from Master Chief's Shotgun, with the results both "spectacular and disgusting". As the corpse-like horror came apart, the Spartan saw that one of the small, spherical creatures had taken up residence inside the Marine's chest cavity and seemed to have extended its tentacles into other parts of what used to be Mendoza's body.
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Imagine if this is some crazy conspiracy shit or something like that :0
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
That is the first damn thing I thought of.
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Dongs Macabre
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Damn, this is sounding more and more like Halo.
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I think we should only look at it as being 'about something' once it's been proven to be about something. People say it is bringing all sorts of things to mind for them; might miss relevant details if we focus on the parts that fit what we think it's about.
I'd definitely say that this video makes me think of Halo, but there are other videos that make me think of various other things that it could be. Definitely can't look at one video and assume it is one thing; we've got to look at it as a whole.
edit: Also, the IRC chat is kind of lame. Last night there were just two people talking about masturbating and one of them apparently has only two fingers.
edit: Also, the IRC chat is kind of lame. Last night there were just two people talking about masturbating and one of them apparently has only two fingers.
I was convinced. In many ways I think the fans are so smart that they can deduce and extrapolate like nobodies business. There are bound to be tons of little clues when you craft a game, and have as much background stuff to pull from like MG.
It's Battlestar Gallactica...
http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/battlestar-galactica-reboot-pronunciation-book/
http://www.dailydot.com/fandom/battlestar-galactica-reboot-pronunciation-book/
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That sounds like such a stretch...
Agreed. How this article is just so sure that it isn't a video game ARG is pretty funny.
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