21. Who said I've ever taken my helmet off? And how do you know who I am?

Posted at 3:56PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by DjDATZ

22. i read the first (i think it was the first) the one where they pick him and groom him as the chief. that was cool, and agreed, totally added loads. however, i found the book so explicit after playing the game, that i struggled to see them as the same story.

the book revealed things, it fleshed out the chief and those around him. it gave him emotions and a personality.

start playing the game though, and all that becomes completely irrelevant. theres no sign of the young guy who became the MC, theres no flaws or anything to make me beleive that hes real.

hes like superman, but without the essential character of clark kent, he just becomes a one dimensional being, unstoppable, unflappable and empty.

just like to say that i do really enjoy the games, one of my favourites of all time, but the only thing that sucks me in is the action.

Posted at 3:57PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Luke Valentine

23. Halo 3 will be the greatest game ever Luke, so get with the times there. Fontez knows things, SCARY things.

Ebase

Posted at 3:58PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by erivera3

24. Man you choades are actually talking about "being sad" that a few billion lines of fictional story code dies a fake death in a video game.

Dorks.

Posted at 4:00PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Boss Tempo

25. erivera,

Yeah, it's cool. Again, I'm not quite sure how they do it but they're very slick about it. I got completely wrapped up in the story, and the developers didn't even need to trot out standard video game cliches like too much exposition or overblown melodrama (a problem that many RPGs fall into, especially JRPGs) to catch me. It's especially surprising to me because I didn't come to the Halo party until late, and before I started playing it I couldn't figure out what the big deal was. I think there's a lot of subtext and hidden influences to the story that goes unnoticed, but helps it nonetheless.

Posted at 4:02PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Crashman06

26. Boss Tempo, have you every watched a movie and gotten into it where you've felt excited for someone, anxious for someone, sad for someone, angry for someone?

If so, you are equally guilty of being a dork.

If not, your an emotionless being.

Done. :D

Posted at 4:03PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by DjDATZ

27. confirmed at the HBO forums by frankie that this is total bs, the marketing guys who made this poster DON'T KNOW THE END OF THE GAME, it's just "flavor".

http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=821487

so maybe he does die, but the ad isn't a spoiler. its just bullshit.

Posted at 4:08PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by JLD

28. It follows a formula already set out in the Halo universe. Listen a minute.

Master Chief has believed all these years he really is alone, and the last surviving SPARTAN. We know, mostly through the books, that this is not the truth, but his perceived truth.

Perhaps something happens to JOHN-117 where he is sent offworld and is assumed to be dead, but in reality he still fights the good fight, only in another location, permanently away from humanity? That wouldn't damage the Halo playability if Master Chief ever were to be used in any future stories. Perhaps he would also have Cortana with him, and a human sympathizer clan at his side as well. It would make a great story arc!

Then again he COULD die. After all, he is a battlefield soldier supposedly the last best one we have, and little else is as glorious for a life-career military man than to be taken down in battle, protecting the innocent. I for one would be better satisfied for him to give his life rather than to win a war, return to Earth and raise children or something. Blah to that!

Posted at 4:23PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Toph

29. Toph,

That is an interesting idea for a story arc... honestly it is...

But you just proved to me that you haven't read the books... so don't say that you did...

John knows he's not the last Spartan...

And although the game is not as detailed as the books are... They were meant to be completely interconnected...

Which they are...

Joseph Staten and Eric Nylund practically wrote the books together...

The reason Bungie is not incorporating any of the elements from the books into the game is simple...

Bungie knows that the Majority of Halo Fans either can't read or won't touch a book to save their lives...

How the hell is the game gonna make sense to ppl that don't read the book if they use the same elements...

I'm gonna say it again...

The Master Chief Spartan John 117 does NOT die...

[email protected]

CCC is an idiot, boycott his posts by ignoring him...

Posted at 4:43PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Fontez

30. Luke Valentine (#3) read Fall of Reach... you...will...sympathize.

Ripped from his family when he was 6, subject to the most brutal training the military could muster, excruciating bio-augmentation at age 14 (killing half of his fellow trainees), battling Covenant at 15.

Go MC

Posted at 4:45PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by intRvenous

31. I can't find any character development in halo so far and just to piss off the fanboys Half life does a much better job at story telling. Its the truth, if you want to give a feeling of emersion remove cut scenes and put in scripted events, give your character a back story worth a dam.

Posted at 4:50PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by graddy

32. @31

No.

Posted at 4:58PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by erivera3

33. @29

Heh U said it all right there dipshit.

"Bungie knows that the majority of Halo fans either can't read(

Posted at 5:06PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by ccc

34. ahh that was in, fall of reach, thats the one. yeah, like i said, that totally opened up the halo universe, but like i said at 22, i just dont think the game capitised and and added any more to the universe.

Posted at 5:14PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Luke Valentine

35. Heh post cut off:(

Anyways #29

In ur #13 post U seem to say that if some1 dosn't like Halo they can Fuck off, actually thats exactly what U say.

U seem to be completly ignorant to a thing called freedom of speach. And to the fact that I myself and every1 else is entitled to thier own opinion.

Just because its not what U wanna hear or see U go crying like alittle baby. To some degree this actually is funny. This isn't Burger King little boy and U cant always have it Ur way.

U also ask me why I come to this web site. As if to imply that this entire site is supposed to be commited to the Halo franchise. What a scrub.

Your blind love for this Video Game is sad and may need serious medical evaluation.

Lets also talk about the fact that in my last post#20 I accuse U of wanting to preform sexual favors for a certain big bad spartan if he were real,Oh if only right Fontez, heh.
Cince U failed to acknowledge them or deny them in your last post #29 I and every1 else can only assume I am correct.
Im done toying around with U today,. I got grown up things to do kid so I'll be going now but leaving this for all to check out..

[email protected]

Posted at 5:20PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by ccc

36. I thought the same thing when I read it. Wouldn't really be a surprise if Master Chief were to die at the end, it'd mean there'd be no pressure for Halo 4.

Posted at 5:21PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by SirUrza

37. Master Chief will turn out to be Miss Master Chief

Posted at 5:21PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Joe

38. Chuck Norris is Master Chief

Posted at 5:26PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by octo INC

39. Please all of you halo haters out there STFU.

I hear things like this "if parents dont want their kids playing video games then they shouldn't let their kids play, they just wanna bitch so they can let everyone know how much of a bad parent they are."

then I say things like this "if people want to complain about how much a game sucks then maybe they shouldn't play it, they wanna bitch because they want people to know how much of life they dont have."

Posted at 5:33PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by GLewis

40. I posted this thing on BNet, most of the responses were shitty, and put the spoilers.... My thread ultimately got locked and a BNet "ninja" replied...

Anton P Nym Wrote

This is getting over-heated. Folks, it's an ad. I honestly don't know how "spoilery" it is, though I do know that some folks fear it gives away too much of the plot. If you're one who thinks along those lines, skip the ad.

-- Steve still plans on buying the upcoming EGM... when it's in his hands, then he'll decide whether to read the ad or not.

http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=12044805&postRepeater1-p=1

Posted at 5:55PM on Aug 2nd 2007 by Unr3alChi3f