e9caa9 No.15009254
After the shitfests that were 4 and 5 are we ever going to see another good one?
e9caa9 No.15009259
>>15009254
Not counting that Halo 3 PC multiplayer hack which we should play again sometime.
bff3f2 No.15009278
>>15009254
Nope. Have you watched that trailer its fucking Halo Cry.
e9caa9 No.15009284
>>15009278
I've been avoiding looking at anything about the new one to be honest. Got a hooktube link?
e9caa9 No.15009308
>>15009284
>>15009278
Forgot to add: the only reason I'm even mildly interesting is that they seem to be going back to the classic art style. I mean that might just be a desperate attempt to pander to old fans but still.
9fc4ed No.15009423
>>15009254
>Halo 4
Good writing, bad gameplay, bad multiplayer
>Halo 5
Bad writing, better gameplay, actually fun multiplayer. Forge was also top-tier.
e880c4 No.15009434
>>15009284
I'm in the same boat.
9b0164 No.15009435
Can't wait for Halo Battle Royale in Halo Infinite!!
19acf8 No.15009468
>implying Halo was ever good
9b0164 No.15009484
>>15009468
As far as casual multiplayer shooters, it's about as good as it ever got.
Key word: casual.
89cfc4 No.15009580
>>15009423
>halo 4
>good writing
c0dbf5 No.15009599
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>>15009284
>Got a hooktube link?
<"Game Engine Demonstration"
<"Powered by the Slipspace Engine"
c0dbf5 No.15009605
>>15009599
<Meanwhile, Halo 3's game engine demonstration showed actual gameplay.
9fc4ed No.15009610
>>15009580
By halo standards.
e880c4 No.15009611
>>15009599
>It's literally nothing
Welp.
6a94f1 No.15009618
Halo was never good.
Anyone on /v/ who "likes/d halo" is a early 2010s transplanted faggot who doesn't belong.
e9caa9 No.15009630
>>15009618
Hello cuckchan.
e9caa9 No.15009633
>>15009599
Thanks. Doesn't exactly look great though.
6a94f1 No.15009634
>>15009630
You sure got me, OP.
6a94f1 No.15009657
>>15009636
Sorry you couldn't handle an opposing opinion, OP. Maybe >>>/reddit/ is more your speed where opinions you don't like are downvoted into oblivion.
cbaf9a No.15009678
3f4186 No.15009745
>>15009636
People who dislike a game are just as justified to post in a thread about said game as those who like it. This isn't a hugbox board where you can only talk in a positive way about everything you like you fucking manchild.
6f16b5 No.15009801
>>15009254
No. ODST was the last good halo.
5f044e No.15009842
Why care about CURRENT YEAR Gaylo when you can play Reach, 3, El Dewrito, Project Cartographer, SPV3 and (maybe MCC if 343I makes a miracle) with me
bad223 No.15009843
>>15009636
This image has been getting posted a ton since E3. It's just a cuckchan way of disregarding criticism. Take this logic for what it is and we'll be allowing EA threads here and no one will be allowed to criticize them.
6f16b5 No.15009850
>>15009842
Host it faggot.
dd644b No.15009856
>>15009254
That is a womans leg if I've ever seen one.
I have
3f4186 No.15009875
>>15009843
inb4 OP nukes the thread in butthurt.
05ae24 No.15009885
>>15009278
What's wrong with this? Huge open areas were my favourite part of Halo CE and 3.
a7fdcf No.15009912
>>15009843
Problem is most people don't make an argument or criticism and stay to discuss it. They just hit and run "THING SUCKZZZZZ!!!!!". Waste of bytes.
f0aa60 No.15010004
>>15009423
>Forge was also top-tier.
That is really the only thing I have to say that is positive about the 343 Halo games. How fucking sad is that.
>>15009856
I said the same thing. All the halo faggots on YT think it was MC though.
>>15009885
Probably the bit that comes with the FC games being bland uninspired formulaic shit that helped make open world games boring. It is pretty much guaranteed to be uninspired with MS at the helm too.
19acf8 No.15010042
>>15009484
That's what a really meant. Halo on PC was just a faggot port from CasualBox that ran like shit, plus Halo only like 4 weapons and just different color skins, it was so fucking empty I never understood how people liked that shit when there was nothing in the fucking game, Quake Arena had more shit in it FFS
118471 No.15010047
>>15009843
>criticism
>the retard in question didn't actually criticize anything, just posted a no true Scotsman fallacy and a shitty goon meme
Right on, /v/rother! This place has turned into a cesspit
6f16b5 No.15010052
>>15009843
Point out the criticism that faggot made then.
f1bbe2 No.15010150
>>15009605
This makes me feel warm, thanks for posting
1961e1 No.15010170
>>15009605
>the bodies float down the stream
My cousin and I always used to make fun of the fact that a man in literal one ton armor would float in water lol
5f044e No.15010189
>>15010150
Would you like to know more?
4968ec No.15010207
>>15009618
>>15009630
You do realize that Halo CE is pretty old right? People who hate Halo CE are faggits.
6a94f1 No.15010208
>>15009912
>>15010047
>>15010052
It's almost like nobody wants to regurgitate the same conversation every week when someone remakes the thread.
It's almost like after years of pointing out flaws in a game and letting fags know why the game they like is actually a piece of shit, one gets tired of doing it.
It's almost like every single time this thread comes up, everyone who doesn't like the game is expected to write an essay about its faults only for some new snot-nosed fag to repost the thread and start it all over again.
I've been ragging on Halo for over 15 years and I'm sick of repeating myself to every single anon who holds it up as an example of an excellent game series. It should be clear that somewhere along the line, many people got tired of putting up endless shitposts about halo and simply defaulted to mocking said poster and making sure they lurked more.
Over time everyone forgets and it just becomes a fat meme to not like (or like) X game. Newfags agree for the sake of agreeing and oldfags are too worn down to do this yet again for another thread, in another week, in another month, in another year, in another decade.
I don't give a shit anymore, it's been discussed for years on years why. If you weren't there then your loss, newfag. Lurk more.
<yeah sure mr oldfag anonymouse
>ain't that the point of being here? :^)
5d52f5 No.15010213
>>15009599
Where the vidya?
4968ec No.15010218
>>15010207
>>15010208
>It's almost like nobody wants to regurgitate the same conversation every week when someone remakes the thread.
>It's almost like after years of pointing out flaws in a game and letting fags know why the game they like is actually a piece of shit, one gets tired of doing it.
>It's almost like every single time this thread comes up, everyone who doesn't like the game is expected to write an essay about its faults only for some new snot-nosed fag to repost the thread and start it all over again.
If you hate these threads so much why do you keep coming back into these? I don't like overwatch or siege and therefore don't enter those threads. Unless of course those threads are focusing on lewds, I love those.
dbc746 No.15010232
>Watching a playthrough of Halo 2 on legendary
>Remembering when games were fun
>Remembering when girls like Cortana were allowed to be hot
5f044e No.15010234
>>15010208
Maybe you'd be less stressed if you didn't attend the thread discussing them about anons who enjoy it. Does every game have to be the pinnacle of engineering? Does every game need to be the best game ever made? Maybe you should calm down and play some video games anon
a80517 No.15010248
>>15010208
>I've been spending 15 years getting mad online because people like a video game
Never change, /v/
54d93f No.15010273
>>15010208
>I have spent 1/5th of my life arguing with people on the internet about a video game that came out in 2001
You know, I'd insert some witty comment or poignant quip here but you're an adult, you know what you did and you can fucking live with it.
118471 No.15010296
>>15010208
>Just because a lot of people here used to not like it that means that you haven't been here for a while because you don't share that opinion!
Fuck off with that literal reddit mentality. Sheep-ass herd mentality piece of shit
6a94f1 No.15010297
>>15010273
>>15010248
>>15010234
>>15010218
>Just leave
>Stop getting mad
You're stuck with me forever, asshats.
54d93f No.15010306
>>15010297
>filter post+id
Whew, solved that issue.
5d52f5 No.15010319
>>15010208
This is glorious
5f044e No.15010322
>>15010297
Well, if I'm stuck with you would you care to play some Halo with me?
a0a726 No.15010370
>>15009618
>x was never good
ae13dd No.15010375
>>15010208
>implying it's a chore to talk about a video game
If you actually gave a shit for the reasons why you disliked Halo it wouldn't be tedious to every once in a while. But sure, assume the world is as you see it in your head
6a94f1 No.15010403
>>15010348
I wouldn't want it any other way.
>>15010322
No :^)
>>15010375
>I didn't end the post with "I don't give a shit anymore"
I think you missed the point of my post, anon.
118471 No.15010407
>>15010358
Nice proxy, reddit
19acf8 No.15010426
>>15010370
If you actually like or used to like Halo then you, are the reddit fag. Every other game around the time it came out was better in every way
5f044e No.15010430
>>15010403
>No
O-okay anon, I hope you have fun with your video games
2b6386 No.15010456
>thread filled with shills unironically defending halo
>those same shills are calling others reddit
>random (1)-and-done posters pop up out of nowhere to support the shills
the absolute state of mark's moderation.
6a94f1 No.15010504
>>15010430
I am. I find time to post in between levels.
5f044e No.15010509
>>15010504
Great! And I'll have fun in mine, cheers
2a453e No.15010535
>>15009435
Technically speaking any deathmatch in a large map with weapons spread around could be loosely defined as a battle royal.
Really the only thing separating battle royal games from deathmatch is forcing the players to the center of the arena and subpar hunger mechanics.
35134f No.15010563
Halo was never good, please end your life, preferably quickly.
118471 No.15010566
>>15010456
>>random (1)-and-done poster
>posting same opinion
Absolutely hypocritical
668989 No.15010567
2a453e No.15010583
Also as far as games go Halo is good if your going in specifically for a casual experience, but the later ones get worse with making faction clones of faction specific weapons that don't really add much to the game.
2b6386 No.15010610
>>15010566
>someone posting to defend halo shills and never posting again even after an hour is the same as someone posting to point this out and then not posting for 3-4 minutes
k.
118471 No.15010644
>>15010610
>k.
Absolutely tumblr
c91677 No.15010682
>>15010535
Couple of differences, at least from what I understand having never played any of these so-called "battle royale" games, As far as I know you start these games with no weapon at all, or maybe you start with a knife or something similarly useless. The placements of weapons and items are randomized, or at least placed in a way that you are not expected to know where anything is. This results in a gameplay "explore" phase where you attempt to search for equipment withing encountering an enemy.
In large DM games you usually start off with some kind of generic weapon (eg a pistol or basic (sub) machine gun) and unless you are new to the map you know exactly where anything is. You CAN survive an encounter even before picking anything else up, even if your opponent has a high-end gun. Even if you've never played a map before items are usually placed in ways that are intended to be immediately obvious (with the occasional secret). It's a pretty fundamentally different gameplay dynamic even if it uses the same surface mechanics.
2b6386 No.15010785
>>15010644
>supports halo
>c-call him tumblr
halo is one of the games that dumbed down gaming as a whole, both mechanically and aesthetically.
54a077 No.15010869
>>15010785
>halo is one of the games that dumbed down gaming as a whole
Gaming or more specifically FPSs got dumbed down because of consoles and their use of analogue controllers as opposed to kb&m. Halo was the shooter that made FPS games the least shit out of all the others, and it was so effective that's why you still see its paradigms in use today.
tl;dr blame consoles and controllers
5f9655 No.15010876
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>>15009254
>playing gaylo
pleb
i still have fond memories of halo nights with my friends during high school
effe5a No.15010884
What the fuck even is Halo Infinite? New Halo? The armor is back to the original look so unlikely. A new graphically update Halo 3?
f42115 No.15010886
>>15010869
>FPSs got dumbed down because of consoles
And that was because halo was a major part of popularizing the console shooter. You're proving him right.
118471 No.15010889
>>15010785
>>supports halo
Absolutely strawman
5f044e No.15010892
>>15010884
They showed absolutely no content so whatever you see here is just speculation. Can't imagine whatever it is will be good however.
54a077 No.15010913
>>15010884
The trailer was a tech demo of their new engine.
>>15010886
Yes I know he's right. As a shooter it requires less skill than something that was made for PC primarily. That said, Halo is fun as hell especially the custom games.
a80517 No.15011127
>>15010297
I'm not complaining, I just think it's hilarious.
a002fc No.15011139
>>15009856
Thank fuck I'm not the only one who thinks this. That does not look like the leg of a man.
>>15010876
At the very least get better taste in art, anon.
1e93a4 No.15011205
>>15010892
>Don't adjust the scope in the field or you're dead
What? What if the target moves away?
a002fc No.15011287
>>15010567
>>15011191
Not him but Halo was always pretty overrated.
It was one of the first good console shooters a lot of people's first FPS.
The first two games aren't bad by any means, but I always felt they were unfairly loved.
a002fc No.15011290
>>15011287
*and a lot of people's
2b6386 No.15011334
>>15011191
>you don't like dogshit? hahah you must like cowshit then xdddd!
there are more alternatives than microshit, soytendo, and sonyshit.
c0dbf5 No.15011336
>>15010886
>halo was a major part of popularizing the console shooter
10c139 No.15011418
Halo Infinite: Blood Tides of Installation 00
`The narrative begins as if large parts, if not all, of the events in Halo 5 had not happened. The story involves the player "jumping" between alternative realities via surreal dream sequences, seeking to prevent a chaotic entity known as The Flood — an eldritch abomination — from being released from The Ark.`
ae13dd No.15011430
>>15009254
Nope. 343 have misprioritised the game at every step.
Halo 4 almost had something with its campaign, but it sacrificed AI for visuals, which hindered the Promethean faction from being comparable to the Covenant. The already neutered Covenant. I won't lie, I liked what they did with Chief and Cortana, but in hindsight that's the only thing that holds up. Halo 5 continued the wrong tradition, though, and lost what little experience they'd gotten from Halo 4's campaign since the people who worked on it had left.
You can still see how antsy Microsoft are though, no? How many years has it been since Halo 5? This teaser is all we've seen since. Compare that to the gusto they had leading up to Halo 4's release, where they talked about having a Halo every two years. That's because they realised how fucked up their approach was to building a successor to Bungie.
You don't hire people who hate your game, who don't get it.
You don't treat your team as expendable, as people you can just fire or let leave before you're done winning the public over.
The smartest thing 343 have done is let the series rest for as long as they have. It'd be smarter still if Infinity was a spinoff instead of Halo 6, because for as divisive as Halo 4 was, it had built some goodwill, and 5 burned it all away.
cf863c No.15011445
>hurr wen we gunna git anoder instawwment of da franchize dat killed da shootahs, yo
c0dbf5 No.15011478
>We still have a long way to go until we ship the game, so things will certainly evolve between now and the release of Halo Infinite, though the engine demo is a clear indication of the direction we are heading with our next game and a great snapshot of where our tech is right now.
>It’s hard to believe that 343 Industries was formed just over a decade ago. Over the years, the team has learned a lot from creating Halo 4 and Halo 5 and from you, our community. I hope you can see nods to some of that in our demo, such as the approach to some visual elements. Halo Infinite will feature Sparth’s (Art Director, Nicolas Bouvier) new art style that draws significant inspiration from the most iconic and historic parts of the Halo franchise and your feedback, all while modernizing and taking advantage of the full power of the Xbox One family. The new Master Chief helmet directly showcases our new art style.
>The team also heard feedback loud and clear on the amount of time spent playing as the Master Chief in Halo 5. In Halo Infinite, the game will focus on the Master Chief and continue his saga after the events of Halo 5.
>I know waiting can be hard for folks who are excited for more info about the game. We are taking the time we need to make the right game and are making changes to how we approach things this time around. The goal of the entire 343 Industries team is to make a great Halo game for our fans that also invites new players into our franchise. We will have some new and unexpected directions to take folks in and I believe the way we achieve that is to build alongside our community, iterating and improving as we go.
>In the future, you will be able to join early flighting programs that will let members of the community play the game with us, and give direct feedback, much like the current Insider flighting program for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It will take some time for us to be ready to kick those flighting events off, but when we do they will start small and grow along the way.
>I would love to hear from you as we build Halo Infinite. You can hit me up @tefferlee on Twitter and let me know what you think about the engine demo. Keep in mind that I do have a game to build so you won’t see me out there on social media quite as often as other folks, but I will definitely be listening along with the development team. And don’t worry, our community team constantly funnels feedback and info to us as well. If you are someone who wants to directly help realize our vision for this game, check out our careers page at the brand new 343industries.com site to see if there is a role for you here at the studio and Halo.
>I’m incredibly proud of what the 343 Industries development team has done with the Slipspace Engine and this first tease of Halo Infinite, and I look forward to sharing more with you all in the future once we are ready. Thank you all for your support and passion for Halo. This is an exciting moment for all of us, and we look forward to embarking on this journey together!
https://archive.fo/ri9da
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/our-journey-begins
d40b78 No.15011852
Speculation time. Halo Infinite is the Bungie proof of concept they unveiled back at Mac World where you could exokore the whole ring and its open world
bee5a4 No.15011892
343 can't develop a gaylo game.
Even reach was infinitely better than 4 or 5.
b9687b No.15011902
No, you will never see a good Halo game ever again. It's time to accept that the franchise has been shit for nearly a decade, and move on.
000000 No.15011919
The only thing that ruined vidya more than halo is cowadooty.
e8ff4e No.15011944
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>>15009254
343 are a bunch of faggots, Bungie is all but dead, and Halo 5 was the epitome of being a bunch of shit being piled into the Asshole that is "Xbone is still alive! here's Hope!" with added levels of goddamn retardation, plenty of lying advertisements with the shilled "Master Chief vs Locke" that came out of Marvel's cinematic cock or making the game as generic as ever following ever trend that year.
a002fc No.15012074
>>15012041
>ass doesn't connect to thighs properly
48fca7 No.15012087
>>15012074
its aloot of cooshion
b2d55d No.15012103
>>15012041
>>15009842
I still don't understand how some people can get hard to medieval suits of armour, but goddamn does Halo make me want to fuck armoured ass.
000000 No.15012109
2a453e No.15012131
>>15010682
Eh fair point, I don't think defined weapon drops and starting weapons really change that much if you had to ask me. Most Battle Royal type games have those set pieces that tend to have nice weapons in them.
2a453e No.15012139
>>15011852
Or it's another multigame and since now it's coming to windows (if I remember correctly) this is what they tried to shut down dewrito for.
a002fc No.15012149
>>15012103
Armor fetishes are high-tier my man
ece0e4 No.15012249
>>15009254
More like Gaylo
dbc746 No.15012619
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Go play El Dewrito you fucking losers
ed62ba No.15012957
>>15010370
Didn't like it then and I don't like it now. Fuck off you cunt.
54a077 No.15013070
>>15012957
What don't you like about it anon
1d8e4c No.15016410
>>15009254
Found a good meme for this..
380c15 No.15016416
>>15012249
SLICK BLACK
THE BEST GAMES
19acf8 No.15016607
caa300 No.15016654
>>15011336
You do know your first image didn't come out right?
304927 No.15018033
>>15016410
>>15016436
Laughed so hard I pissed myself a little. Fucking do it you faggots.
c0dbf5 No.15018273
>>15016654
It might as well have. People were pre-ordering it left and right, and believed it to be the game that would show other shooters on consoles how it's really done.
c27576 No.15018443
Daily reminder Halo is a shitty slow quake clone that ruined the FPS genre beyond repair and was always terrible.
a874bf No.15018481
>>15018443
>quake clone
>ruined the FPS genre
How exactly did Halo do that? But more importantly, what makes you think halo is a quake clone? I wanna say that this is just bait, but huge part of /v/ is pretty retarded…
c0dbf5 No.15018524
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>>15018481
It is bait because Halo started as an RTS for the Mac, shifted towards being a bit more interactive/action-based when they were talking about making a Dreamcast version, and then became a full blown FPS when Microsoft acquired Bungie. There was a bit more to Halo:CE's development than this summary (Such as video related), but that's the gist of it.
11baaa No.15018579
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I hope the MCC updates turn out to be fun.
You all should also play the Marathon Trilogy.
2f9272 No.15018650
>>15009610
No not even then. 4 was a complete shitfest. At least bungie Halo was so fucking simple it couldn't have plot holes.
a97ce9 No.15018657
>>15009610
wut? It was by far the worse at the time, retconning even more than Halo Reach
095f4c No.15018662
>>15009278
The trailer was a tech demo.
>>15009423
This.
>>15011478
>Halo Infinite will feature Sparth’s (Art Director, Nicolas Bouvier) new art style that draws significant inspiration from the most iconic and historic parts of the Halo franchise and your feedback, all while modernizing and taking advantage of the full power of the Xbox One family. The new Master Chief helmet directly showcases our new art style.
I'm glad they gave Sparth another chance at establishing an art style that evolves from the iconic Bungie Halo. The Halo 4 direction was fine but they overdid it in H5 (I bet he hated being paid to make a thousand of shitty skins for the AR).
a97ce9 No.15018666
>>15018650
halo 4 writing was easily the worst, but don't pretend Reach didn't retcon or halos 1-3 had things that didn't make sense
2f9272 No.15018710
>>15018666
Reach is only technically a bungie Halo. What would become 343 had its claws firmly embedded in the series already, you can tell from many of the design aspects that didnt match 1-3, but were carried over to 4 and 5. And bungie wouldn't retcon their own writer's work voluntarily.
b2104d No.15019223
>>15009605
Damn. I never truly appreciated halo enough.
c7cde8 No.15025187
>>15019223
Halo-era bungie was pretty based. Back when I was in high school I wanted to be a game dev just so that I could work for them.
8af787 No.15025402
>>15010207
man, halo did end at 3
1b2351 No.15025434
>>15025376
How did calling something "based" turn into something completely sarcastic?
0b0813 No.15025615
>>15009605
>AAA games will never be this good again
5f044e No.15026008
>>15009605
MEANWHILE, AT 343I HQ
097033 No.15026014
>>15009435
I wouldn't be mad. A lot of players in a large map FFA is quite fun in theory, especially obviosu if you tried it in airsoft/paintball in real life. The main issues of popular br games is shit mechanics (which the Halo formula will remove) and relying on randomization to keep things fresh instead of actually making new maps (which forge should cover). Could you imagine the cool things the community could make in forge with 100 player count?
>>15009484
>>15009618
Multiplayer wise its probably the best non arena shooter hands down, about on par with battlefield 2. It has hands down the best campaign of any shooter besides F.E.A.R. (doomfags/dukefags may disagree, but I personally preferred Halo). Halo is probably the last good AAA game.
>>15010535
The main difference (besides the shrinking circle) is how looting works. A lot of those deathmatch games have the weapons hand-placed and a static map. In battle royale, the loot is randomized and sometimes the map itself is procedurally generated.
>>15018481
I liked Halo and while it definitely is not a quake clone (different fucking genre of fps) he's right about the second part. A lot of shooters aped mechanics from halo like regenerating health and motion tracker without really understanding how they worked in conjunctions with other systems that they didn't emulate, and teh genre got ruined as a result.
1f1350 No.15026018
Not a chance. Crowbcat's video clearly shows that the new devs give no shit about making a fun game.
09765b No.15026051
>>15025580
This. You're not allowed to hate Halo here. Fucking redditor cuckchan scum have no place on this board.
e32794 No.15026059
>the same people that only made bad games are making more of them.
what do you honestly think man?
bc9640 No.15026085
What amazes me about Halo is that the developers who left it destroyed their reputation with their follow up games and the studio that took Halo over destroyed Halo as an IP.
Does Marty have a new job in the industry yet? He was the coffin nail for Bungie.
89cfc4 No.15026123
>>15025376
>let themselves be bought out by microsoft
This actually happened because they lost a huge chunk of money recalling copies of Myth 2 when they discovered a very specific but catastrophic bug that would wipe someone's entire HD if the game was installed in the root directory and then uninstalled using the uninstaller. They could have released the game to avoid the loss but chose not to risk fucking people over like that. The losses meant they did not have the funds to produce another game without approaching a publisher, which unfortunately turned out to be Microsoft.
>leave after Halo 2
They made 3 and Reach as well, also pick one faggot, they can't simultaneously suck for joining and leaving Microshaft.
>never touch old IPs
>implying they would have creative control when working with a publisher
>implying any result wouldn't be awful
The final nail was in the coffin as soon as Halo was a huge success, they inevitably became a massive studio after that and could never go back to being independent.
095f4c No.15026285
>>15026018
Yeah, out-of-context quotes will surely show the truth. /s
9f6fa1 No.15026994
>>15011336
>Timesplitters box cover had nipples
>We will never be able to do that without controversy today.
c7cde8 No.15027037
>>15026994
I can see it now…
THIS JUST IN: DEGENERATE LIBERALS SHOVE SEXUAL CONTENT IN THE FACES OF CHILDREN EVERYWHERE
177b13 No.15027076
>>15018666
Am utterly fucking sick of you bookfags. Reach didn't retcon shit. The books never mattered and were never canon. Only the games matter.
5f044e No.15027098
>>15027076
Anon come the fuck on, sure the games were good and while Reach was good, it most certainly fucked up the canon books put out. Retcons suck major ass but that doesn't mean the books aren't canon.
What it does mean is that Microsoft gave zero fucks about Bungie's artistic integrity and wanted to remake Reach as to appeal to the lowest common denominator and make more money. And with Bungie already a foot out the door with regards to the Reach game and 343I sinking its talons into it as is evident with the DLC released later in its lifespan, less care was even more evident and all original Halo fans were to suffer for it even if they did not realize it.
177b13 No.15027123
>>15027098
The books were never canon.
f27c98 No.15027131
>>15027098
Or maybe Bungie just treated the books the same way that Star Trek treats their books. They can be used as a framework for canon, but unless a game explicitly addresses up the events of a book it's not canon.
177b13 No.15027152
>>15027131
The books were utterly retconned by Halo 2. In First Strike the entire covenant armada were on route to earth but in Halo 2 it's just regret and his fleet looking for the ark.
The books never mattered.
f27c98 No.15027185
>>15027152
Well no, that's exactly what I'm trying to say. First Strike became a framework for canon, but isn't explicitly canon itself. The covenant still found Earth, but the games improved upon it by making it almost accidental, and therefore more interesting than just "oh no the evil bad guys have discovered our homeworld!"
c0dbf5 No.15027186
>>15027152
You do remember the message being sent to Regret saying that he jumped the gun with his attack on Earth, with Cortana adding a little joke of how Chief was doing the other two prophets a favor by offing him?
5f044e No.15027195
>>15027152
According to the Halo Encyclopedia, the 12 ships that survived the Hierophant explosion are the ships the Prophet of Regret brought with him to Earth.
47100c No.15027267
>>15027123
The Nylund books were better than the games, that's why I'm righteously angry about Reach retconning shit.
b8d7f9 No.15027328
Halo lore could be interesting if it had any sense of cohesion and didn't contradict itself constantly.
5f044e No.15027370
>>15027328
Isn't that TES lore?
47100c No.15027462
>>15027328
The pre-343 stuff (I gave up after Greg Bear's shitfest) was mostly consistent aside from the Reach retcon.
47100c No.15027492
>>15027473
>>15027479
This fucking bot right here.
5a51ce No.15027504
>>15027473
That made no sense at all. Your just coming across as a salty Halo fanboi.
460636 No.15036123