Came to watch just that bit and ended up watching much more. BLUR's stuff is great.
Agree with you though. Any time someone can figure out how to make a scene just as effective if not more so without shot reverse shot, usually a good path to take.
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Agree with you though. Any time someone can figure out how to make a scene just as effective if not more so without shot reverse shot, usually a good path to take.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
We have to. No way would 343i miss that opportunity, would they?
theofficefan99
Junior Member
In my opinion, go all-out with beautiful CGI or stick with in-engine. Not a fan of this strange mish-mash.
theofficefan99
Junior Member
I know I'm technically using incorrect/informal terminology, but you know what I mean.
But this way, they achieve the crazy moments like this cinematic and yet also give people the in-engine they always complain about no? I personally loved H2A and Halo 4 cinematics. Never before has the world been so built and detailed in my mind.
I'm curious though, if 10 years from now, we make fun of the in-game/in-engine cinematics the way we make fun of Hood's face from Halo 3 or the Miranda Keyes run etc.
Honestly that picture is both meaningless and meaningful. It's a Rorschach test.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
I think the best scene in the intro was the part where Locke hops on one ghost, then another and just rips the Elite driver out of it. Gif please?
Haha. Gotta be quick.
Awwwww yes.
Haha. Gotta be quick.
Awwwww yes.
AllIsOneIsNone
Banned
Are you my shadow? I'm gonna catch ya!
Twilight Gap
Member
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Amazing.
hnnnnnng the music
hnnnnnng the music
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Half the things you are complaining about happened over the span of like, six years.
lmfaooo
LegalEagleMike
Member
this has bish potential
Would love to be able to rip a player out of a vehicle like that as an option instead of taking over the vehicle.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Watched the cinematic again and that atmosphere transition when Osiris first jump is so perfect. The colour shift, the music, the scale...hot damn beautiful work.
this has bish potential
It needs to slow down just before hitting the ground and then the words BANNED appears.
Gif Lords of GAF. Make it so.
Half the things you are complaining about happened over the span of like, six years.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
I literally asked for precisely this around the time I first saw the trailer. I've literally become so damn excited to play as Locke and Fireteam Osiris now. I'm still firmly in the #TeamChief camp, but I'm starting to get very excited about what Locke and Osiris will be up to.
Twilight Gap
Member
It needs to slow down just before hitting the ground and then the words BANNED appears.
Gif Lords of GAF. Make it so.
snickothemule
Member
Pretty good cinematic, looks like a Halos, captured the slight floatiness well, good camera work.
I'd love it if they retooled it for Legendary difficulty and had every enemy soak clip after clip, team mates dying left and right, one dude hiding in the background waiting for a respawn...
I'd love it if they retooled it for Legendary difficulty and had every enemy soak clip after clip, team mates dying left and right, one dude hiding in the background waiting for a respawn...
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Awesome, the new default Windows 10 photo app plays back gifs perfectly. Saved that banned gif. So good!
SaganIsGOAT
Junior Member
Yup, the back to back ground pounds from Buck to Tanaka are my favorite part. Buck looks so fucking great as he gears up for his. I still don't understand how people can say ground pound is out of place or goofy. Shit looks dope.
LegalEagleMike
Member
I love it as well. I really cant take any major complaints about it seriously since it is not even overpowered.
My only real issue with it (and keep in mind I think it's awesome) is that it looks duuuumb when you go for really long ground pounds because instead of speeding up as you fall or showing some kind of reaction to the fall, you'd character falls at the same speed and stays in one pose the whole way down. Looks derpy as fuck.
It looked rad in the opening thing though.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
But seriously though, this right here is what you expect from Spartans that are pretty much heavily enhanced superhuman soldiers wearing extremely advanced combat armor. Sure they haven't been enhanced to the same degree as a Spartan II (as far as we know), but they've obviously received some type of important augmentation or enhancements, and when you factor in the next generation Mjolnir armor they become that much more insane.
Some are looking at this as too overthetop, but it's almost like we haven't been paying attention to what the Master Chief as a teenager was capable of doing against full grown ODSTs in a fist fight. I had already read about that incident in Fall of Reach, but to hear it described in Hunt the Truth made it sound even more amazing, and even more inhuman. They didn't believe a normal human being, or any human being for that matter, was capable of such speed, raw strength and response time. If they can do that as teenagers just imagine what they can do as more fully grown adults wearing Mjolnir armor?
Well, this would technically be true for all experienced NCOs vs. junior officers, including Marines/naval infantry.
It's still a little weird though, because the IIs and IIIs (conscripted slave soldiers and conscripted engineered cannon fodder) all used rank, while the IVs (professional volunteer troops) don't. They'd still need to interact with senior/staff officers for strategic or tasking purposes. Even modern elite special forces still use ranks. And, well, calling somebody "Spartan So-and-So" is pretty unwieldy.
Two-legged tank Spartans more true to the books rather than the floaty Master Chief from the games. Chief weighs just under half a ton fully outfitted, after all.
Please tell me that's how they refer to him.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I might be wrong, but aren't Spartan-III's geared with SPI rather Mjolnir. Cheaper versions of the original.
Originally.
Noble Team had MJOLNIR and S-III's that have been intergrated into the S-IV program use MJOLNIR. But before that, yes, they all mostly used SPI.
It is, thats their doing not mine.
They absolutely love the trailer (got to admit, I don't mind been "forced" into multiple viewings)
The 11 year old girl likes the fact theres women in the team, the 4 year old boy just likes all the action and the jumping while the littlest girl is all about "Space Castle"
MaxRealflugel
Neo Member
You can never have too much 'Space Castle'.
LMAO yeeeeesss. Ya done damn good work with them.
I can't think of him as anything else now. It's pretty great that there's some lady Spartans this time around on both sides.
"Space Castle", ahah.
We've been looking for nicknames for each spartan with friends, for our future playthroughs. I'm totally using that for Buck now.
Dictator93
Member
In engine non-prerendered CGI shows a confidence in the game's graphical capabilities (Halo 1). I think pre-rendered / high quality "blur-like" CGI is basically a marketing tactic.
Speaking of rendered faces... Weren't there like 2 challenges, where people could win an apperance in Halo 5? I believe one was in Halo 4 with the Infinity Challenge for playing SpartanOps like a madman (found it, allthough it just says future Halo title for the Infinity one) and the other one was for HuntTheSignal.
Would like to see the winners and how they look in the game.
Would like to see the winners and how they look in the game.
formasymphonic
Member
Osiris' diversity has been a great move from 343 IMO. They've made everyone different and allowed room for all of them to be "cool" / do cool stuff
LordOfChaos
Member
I've watched this through as a movie more times than I'd like to admit. Linking me to somewhere halfway through...Ah crap.
Frankie, stinkie, sprinkles, pal, Blur Studios Halo Movie, I'd watch the shit out of that.
The Spartan Ops movie version I've also watched through, though that's not Blur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX4TwxgOd6M
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Absolutely. It's so perfect.
Twilight Gap
Member
welp, i know what i'm doing today.
Halo 4's intro cutscene is only 3 minutes long (that video includes the cutscene in the Forward Unto Dawn) and is fantastic.
Eh, I'm not gunna judge it completely until we see the full intro. As a trailer, I think this was great, however had this been the full intro I would have been unimpressed. I would rather have more story exposition.
This was just a 3 minute action scene which, while rather pretty, adds very little.
Also I posted this 30 pages ago and you all reply now within minutes of each other, in a row
Halo 4's intro cutscene is only 3 minutes long (that video includes the cutscene in the Forward Unto Dawn) and is fantastic.
Eh, I'm not gunna judge it completely until we see the full intro. As a trailer, I think this was great, however had this been the full intro I would have been unimpressed. I would rather have more story exposition.
This was just a 3 minute action scene which, while rather pretty, adds very little.
Also I posted this 30 pages ago and you all reply now within minutes of each other, in a row
Lol I just happened to see you quoted.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
I see what you're saying jem, but we still don't know what's ahead of this. Until then, I don't think it's fair to draw that conclusion knowing that it's only part of what we'll see on launch.
hahahah yeah, frikkin shoreu!Also I posted this 30 pages ago and you all reply now within minutes of each other, in a row
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, I'm not gunna judge it entirely until we see it all.
I was speaking hypothetically in that post.
Lmfao I never look at the time stuff is posted I swear i wasn't trying to gang up on ya jem
Tactically, that would be a great addition... Sometimes we find ourselves in that unenviable position where we are being outmatched by a Ghost, so our shield is low, but jacking it won't really help us because the previous driver will be able to shoot us before we can kill or elude him...
If we could just kick him out, we could at least have a chance to even the odds in a gun fight...
Twilight Gap
Member
Some behind the scenes stuff in the bulletin
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/community-update-the-light-is-green
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/community-update-the-light-is-green