FF Seraphim
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Trailer looked cool then the announcer started to talk... god that voice did not fit that video.
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New Halo 5 teaser - Spartan Locke armor set
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kittens
Unconfirmed Member
That's the Gamestop dude. He's in all their commercials.
And yeah, he's pretty bad.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Gamestop announcer has always been lame.
PooBone
Member
Not angry so much as strangely un-enthused following footage from a new Halo game.
FF Seraphim
Member
They need to find a new dude or get someone who can fit the atmosphere of the video. I was watching it and was like: "Yeah if this was a live action movie it would...WTF That voice doesn't fit at all!!"
Totally killed it for me.
tattooed_dwarf
Member
Yeah, so cringeworty. Hopefully they upload and use that commercial without that voiceover too. Sounds like 20 year old dude bro overacting.
Enter The 36 Chambers
Member
Wasn't this armour already unlocked in the beta to carry over to the full game?
Pre order bonuses are wack.
Im still not over the Gears 3 Savage grenadier elite thing
Pre order bonuses are wack.
Im still not over the Gears 3 Savage grenadier elite thing
A different Pelican gets shot down, Locke goes in to investigate? Weird cuts don't help. Its probably from some larger video.
Yeah, that's possible. Bleh, weird way to show off something like that.
IncognitoPanda
Member
This. This is my core problem with 343i. Everything sounds so goddamn focus tested, and not made out of inspiration, passion or joy. Say what you want about Bungie, but they seeped with passion and inspiration back in the Halo days. Just the way they dealt with the community was unparalleled. It was like this little club we were all welcome to be a part of, where we could share and laugh, play and create.
Bungie was like a vintage vinyl shop, while 343i feels more like an Apple Store.
Jessie.Bristol
Member
I know. I hate when games fragment the community with Map Packs. Free maps would be best, then they could monetize other ways like with new Armor Sets and Forge Worlds.
Pretty amazing how much Bungie has changed with Destiny then community wise.
I actually really like the Locke name and can't wait to see what 343 has cooked up for Halo 5.
edit: People complaining need to remember this is a GameStop trailer for pre-order stuff, it's not an MS trailer for Halo 5.
Solidsoul
Banned
I love Bungie as much as the next guy but it's not like everything they did was perfect. They both have there strengths and weaknesses. One major strength I think everyone takes for granted is 343'a ability to flesh out the universe and keep everything together and making sense. Bungie kind of played fast and loose with continuity. Also, 343 has never downright told the community to deal with it the way Bungie had in the past.
On topic, this trailer was awesome. Keeping in mind this was your standard gamestop preorder commercial I see nothing wrong with the voice.
It would be nice but Microsoft like more revenue streams not one stream replacing another and are terribly short sighted, risk averse with the games. Front load those sales, maximise map DLC and move on to the next game. Would love to be proved wrong, community is always the right course.
Not a trailer, it's an ad for a preorder bonus
It's worth it for sure. For the most part I've had 0 issues in my re-playing of all the Halos for Halo 5. Multi seems to work really well for me now too.
Winterfang
Banned
Is not that bad, it's just that Locke voice is amazing.
For sure. You can get it for a massive discount too since it's so long after release. Buying it at launch was a nightmare due to all the issues.
Hmmm have you tried #HuntingTheTruth?
Definitely CGI. Possibly using in-game assets, which is why folks are second-guessing it.
RoyalLaFlame
Banned
Looks pretty bad. I don't like it at all... :/
The Gamestop guy's voice will do that for ya.
Dreadnought
Member
They keep trying to shove this new character down our throats
The entire thing is just so forced and cheesy
The entire thing is just so forced and cheesy
what lol
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Would you have liked the trailer if it was Chief instead of Locke? I'm feeling pretty neutral on Locke so far, but this trailer was dope imo.
Dreadnought
Member
I wouldn't like the trailer with any character. The entire thing is dude bro Spartan smash.
What do you mean forced down our throats. If you ask the casual, they don't even know who this is. Why is it forced? Just because the plot of H5 seems to be some sort of adversarial relationship with the chief?
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Hmm, I didn't get bro vibes, no more so than in other Halo stuff. It was a dude with a gun trying to look tough and cool, so yeah, there was a bit of bro-ness. It felt kinda anime inspired to me.
oh, so then you dont like spartans in general
Hate to break it to you but the main fanbase that's attracted to Halo is dudebro's.
I am personally a fan, Halo 1-3, and while I don't consider my tastes dude-bro-ish, that's definitely the game's main target market. Ads will target them.
You can like the Halo theme and still consider the trailer dudebroish. It's. If they changed his costume with that of Superman no one would of noticed it was a Halo game.
S0cc3rpunk
Unconfirmed Member
please 343i let the game look like this, if not i'm going to be like this all year & send you guys a picture of me crying.
Welfare
Member
This was how the beta looked back in December.please 343i let the game look like this, if not i'm going to be like this all year & send you guys a picture of me crying.
Awesome.
The opening, with the pelican, and many other assets looked like it could be in engine to me. Of course other things, specifically and especially, the smoke and dust, looked way to good to be anything but cg. Probably farmed out to a cheaper CGI studio with in game assets ala last e3's multerplayer reveal trailer
The opening, with the pelican, and many other assets looked like it could be in engine to me. Of course other things, specifically and especially, the smoke and dust, looked way to good to be anything but cg. Probably farmed out to a cheaper CGI studio with in game assets ala last e3's multerplayer reveal trailer
The most drastic example of "rewriting of the mythology" on Bungie's part was making a game whose events don't line up with the dates stated in a book that gets the year of its own events wrong by a decade for most of its chapters.
343, on the other hand, hired a celebrity sci-fi writer and used his talents to tell a gripping story about cavemen walking around and eating bugs for 300 pages. Is that an actual story? Because if so, stories suck and we'd be better off without them.
Wait, what? Did the books do something to their brains? I've only read up to Primordium, am I going to be okay? I don't want to end up like one of those poor souls.
Or you know... completely ignoring Fall of Reach in the game Reach.
It's multiplayer and it's a beta. I wouldn't infer too much about how Halo 5 campaign will look from that.
Darryl M R
Member
So I can only get this armor at GameStop, sigh. Well I wonder what the limited editions will have. I might go put 5 dollars down on it.
Welfare
Member
Halo campaign and multiplayer don't differ much in graphics, and I pointed out it was beta.
Eh, not really feeling it. Looks lore like a new Crysis or something than Halo to me.
343's strategy with Locke seems to basically "he's Palmer, but we're going to go way out of our way to show you that he's The Cool New Guy before the game comes out so you're not so hostile when we replace the Chief with him." Which I'll admit is an improvement, but they still haven't given much in the way of reasons to care about him other that he's a Badass hunting the Chief because of Reasons. I don't really see what part of that could cause people to declare themselves #teamLocke, but more power to ya I guess.
343's strategy with Locke seems to basically "he's Palmer, but we're going to go way out of our way to show you that he's The Cool New Guy before the game comes out so you're not so hostile when we replace the Chief with him." Which I'll admit is an improvement, but they still haven't given much in the way of reasons to care about him other that he's a Badass hunting the Chief because of Reasons. I don't really see what part of that could cause people to declare themselves #teamLocke, but more power to ya I guess.
How many reasons can they realistically give you before the character gets to star in their first game? Maybe let Halo 5 happen, and then start to judge the character. Maybe "because of reasons" will make more sense then?