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So, uh, the crazy buttocks on a train (CBOAT) is back?

WJD

Member
Here it is: (might have already been posted but don't want to go trawling)

One sleep till I tell you a small and possibly boring fact. If someone reminds me.

Doesn't sound like anything particularly exciting, so TV show looks likely.
 

Neuro

Member
In the Halo 4 OT2.



Don't ask me. I have no idea. Literally as context-less as you can get.


This is what I feel its going to be, the television show leads into halo 5...so there will be a trailer for the TV show and it'll end with a shot of master chief from Halo 5...

my best guess would be the TV show will center around the spartan ops program and those characters will return in the plot elements of Halo 5
 

Hunter D

Member
I'm guessing they bring back some of the other Spartans for combat. With Halsey gone I would think the others would want to look for her. I also hope they bring back the Spartans that couldn't make it through the augmentation, but serve UNSC in strategic roles.
 

manual4

Banned
shinobi says the guardians poster is a hint for the game... maybe the story of halo 5 follows a group with chief being the leader?
 

manual4

Banned
offtopic; but cant create thread,

upcoming xbox update has external hard drive by xb1 dev on reddit

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Oh come on. You can be a fan of a company, but you can't honestly believe companies don't react to the market accordingly, especially when they are losing in a market they once dominated handily over their direct competitor.

I worded it poorly, I was referring to halo. Obviously there have been plenty of 180s (forced due to Sony's actions and now being outsold by them) but with halo I don't think they have been forced to do something halo related now. Although I guess that depends what this is and what happens at e3.

Reasoning is, if this is halo 5, why not do something related to h2a which is (presumably) this year? Doesn't really make any sense to me.

Although that again depends on what this is
 
I worded it poorly, I was referring to halo. Obviously there have been plenty of 180s (forced due to Sony's actions and now being outsold by them) but with halo I don't think they have been forced to do something halo related now. Although I guess that depends what this is and what happens at e3.

The reason it was shown at E3 last year was a last gasp attempt at clawing some hype back.
 
Damn if a halo announcement is coming now, they must have some bombs saved for e3. Some sort of 3rd party exclusives would be my guess. Otherwise why reveal it now? Or is even tomorrow's alleged news gonna a leak?
 
Damn if a halo announcement is coming now, they must have some bombs saved for e3. Some sort of 3rd party exclusives would be my guess. Otherwise why reveal it now? Or is even tomorrow's alleged news gonna a leak?

Makes sense to announce a date and some details now, before E3 drowns those sounds out. To be honest, before last year (when there was so much secrecy surrounding the new consoles), most E3's only had three or four announcements, and publishers crammed important information into the month/s before.

Then they can demo it or trailer it at E3.
 

TechnicPuppet

Nothing! I said nothing!
Damn if a halo announcement is coming now, they must have some bombs saved for e3. Some sort of 3rd party exclusives would be my guess. Otherwise why reveal it now? Or is even tomorrow's alleged news gonna a leak?

Things can get lost at E3 with so much going on. It looks to me like they are trying to get good news out bit by bit. At E3 they need one megaton that hopefully won't be leaked beforehand.
 

WJD

Member
Damn if a halo announcement is coming now, they must have some bombs saved for e3. Some sort of 3rd party exclusives would be my guess. Otherwise why reveal it now? Or is even tomorrow's alleged news gonna a leak?

Gives more credence to the claim that this announcement is TV related. I'd imagine they want to try and steer clear of too many TV related announcements at E3 so it makes sense.

Announce H2A and Halo 5 release date in June, keeping the TV stuff separate.
 

jelly

Member
Is it not a nod to the Halo 2 box art, dual wielding Master Chief?

or, as seen in Halo 4, humans are sprawling out into the galaxy on the offensive which could be seen as guardians of the galaxy.
 

RulkezX

Member
I know nothing? Why do you think that? I am making the same bad assumptions as everyone else :) If I gave away that impression then sorry!

:) just the reaction to your post about the actors. It's hard to keep track of insiders sometimes , sorry.

In that case hype levels restored !
 
Well, while it has nothing to do with Halo, I might be able to explain why he might have reason to believe Iron Man is in Guardians of the Galaxy.

During the unveiling of Disney Infinity : Marvel Super Heroes, they showed off a GotG skin for the Iron Man figure - leading a lot of people to assume that he has a cameo appearance. It's in no way confirmed - and might be nothing more than a fun alt skin. But I could see his assumption.

Now, let's ask why he's posting it in a Halo thread. If he just wanted to say "Marvel Studios is somehow involved with Halo" - he could've just posted the straight GOTG artwork. Though an edited version does fit his incomprehensible style. If the answer is "Robert Downey Jr is in the Halo TV show", then why not just straight Iron Man? Or another RDJ franchise? And could Microsoft really afford the biggest star in Hollywood for a web project?

Perhaps the answer is closer to CBOAT's seeming insider knowledge. He knows the backstage operations (or so he claims). If we're looking at Iron Man and GotG, maybe the answer's bigger than Marvel. Maybe - Disney's got its' hands on distribution for the Halo TV show. Which wouldn't make much sense - they lack a proper network to handle it. Their most adult content channel is ESPN - everything else is family oriented. But still, content is content, and Disney may be as good a partner as any in the production of a high-quality scifi project.

Or he's fucking with us, as the guy has for months. But considering the looming possibility of Halo news, we mgiht as well just wait and see.
 
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