The day has arrived. Halo: Transformations, a fan-created anthology of work about and set in the
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Universe, is now available. Enjoy!
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You aren’t going to gaslight us into hating the franchise we love in favor of a subpar adaptation, Paramount Intern
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Fans may have disagreements about what stories and writing they like the best, but no fan will pretend it was all bad in favor of junk.
“Dude, she’s totally gaslighting you. What does she mean she forgot what it meant to be a team? She tried locking you in an orb and blew up a planet, man. Put this chick’s voicemail in the trash, I’m not even kidding.”
The thing that gets me is Griffin apologizing to the Chief once he’s freed. So powerful is the burden of being a Spartan that Griffin feels he let down the man they all look up to. But Chief doesn’t care about that. He just wants to make sure a fellow soldier is safe.
If Halo Infinite’s multiplayer still had an actual story, this would probably be the moment a Banished force invades the Academy and we’d have to drive them out.
Instead, as others have joked, it’ll probably be mostly just $20 store bundles.
Woohoo 🎉
@ok_post_guy
Kids in the classroom means money for the schools and districts even if no learning is happening because of management issues. Suspensions look bad and can result in funding being reduced, so admin will do anything to avoid suspension.
Booted up Halo Infinite's campaign to get some screenshots and I ventured into this random cave and stumbled across this. Does anyone know what to make of this? Weapon made a comment I didn't catch about who made this or what it depicts and that it's over 100,000 years old.
This radiates “You have failed me for the last time” followed by a neck snap energy. I legitimately don’t think a damn person at Paramount or the folks from 343 helping them understand Chief.
Personally, I don’t really care that Chief doesn’t always wear his helmet in the show. But Pablo’s wrong. A character like Chief has made connections with fans through his body language and tone of voice for over 20 years. I felt more emotion in scenes like this than the show.
Pablo Schreiber, who plays Master Chief in the Halo show, explained why Master Chief doesn’t always wear his helemet: “You're not going to be able to bring an audience along in a long-form story without having access to a character's face, which tells you what they're feeling,
"Many grieving families of personnel aboard the UNSC In Amber Clad continue to push for information about their MIA loved ones. What the UNSC has been able to recover suggests they are better left not knowing."
Flood infected creature design by
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So long as adaptations like Cyberpunk: Edgerunners exists that fit cleanly in the world of the game and embrace the world, the argument the Halo TV show HAS to be radically different thing compared to its source material is a non-starter.
You mean to tell me a section of the galaxy that has long held animosity towards the UNSC might welcome the influence of one of the strongest anti-authority factions in the galaxy? Maybe some specificity would’ve helped, but I just fail to see why this generates outrage.
I know people accuse 343 of just making an excuse about phenotypes and vehicle/weapon designs to explain why their Covenant designs were different, but I think they deserve credit for actually showing the diversity when possible.
I think we’ve hit the point where if 343 Industries had brought back dual wielding for Infinite then there would be Halo fans who would say with a straight face that “isn’t Halo.”
I think the “number company bad” line is dismissive, but some of the takes I’ve seen are shocking.
Real Halo fans only have two things that need to be said about Bonnie Ross and her departure from 343 Industries:
1. Well wishes for the medical emergency facing her family being resolved and for a speedy recovery.
2. Well wishes for the new 343 Industries new leadership.
"Why do you care about customization in Halo anyway?"
Because it used to be a cool thing tied into the player experience. Beating Halo 3 on Legendary and getting EOD? Awesome! Beating ODST and unlocking Dare for Firefight? Cool. Halo 4 Legendary? Mark VI unlocked.
Hot Take: Fireteam Majestic are an ideal starting point as an introduction to Spartan-IVs. They are soldiers recently augmented and still carry the baggage their lived experiences bring with it. If they were all stoic clones of Master Chief, that’d be boring.
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I don't necessarily agree that the new spartans act like power rangers, but for the most part spartan 4s have had marvel tier vibe and dialog.
These guys as a prime example
“If 343 is changing store prices then they should reimburse those who bought things from the store!”
Your inability to have some willpower shouldn’t be rewarded lol. I’ve seen a few folks suggest something like this for Halo Infinite and wonder what world these folks live in.
Man, Brohammer was stranded in a sea of corpses. Imagine surviving whatever attack happened and seeing tons of people you couldn’t save. Really adds to weight of finding Chief and bringing him back.
Nothing I hate more than seeing Spartans with dope armor, like god. Can't you just leave it for the marines??? It would drive me crazy if some Spartans posted themselves wearing sick armor under this tweet. PLEASE DONT.
"Look, nobody considers Halo 4 to be the pinnacle of the franchise."
Well, it was for me. It was everything I wanted in a Halo game and that period from roughly 2010 to just before Halo 5 was the happiest I felt about the series. It's sad how that can genuinely confuse people.
While it’s on the wrong side, I like to think the scorching on Chief’s armor is a reference to the damaged portions of Chief’s armor from Halo 3 and 4.
Absolutely Halo 4, all the way. Narratively, it was everything I wanted in a Halo game with great dynamics between Chief and Cortana and wider connections to the universe with characters like the Didact and Librarian. I haven’t had an experience like it since.
Name a game that many games thought was disappointing or bad, but that you actually really loved.
Infinite Warfare's trailer managed to become the most disliked video ever on YouTube, only for it to have easily the best campaign and story in the entire series.
Just note that if your first instinct is to go “Erm, you aren’t ACKSHULLY being watched!” or “Ugh, this is so cringe!”with this then you are a complete fucking loser.
I’ve had this weird thought for years:
When revisiting an old game, do you ever feel like you’re being watched?
I know this has been expressed with old source game maps, but I just get this from old video games in general. Feels like I’m entering a ghost town. (1/5)
Bungie: We don’t see the Halo expanded universe as canon.
Also Bungie: We’re going to use really specific things from the expanded universe like Spartan-IIIs for Reach and make contextualizing this game a nightmare for fans later on.
Can’t imagine why I like 343’s approach.
343, you should know better by now that Halo fans aren’t going to forget the things you say so quickly. Did you think you could put wool over our eyes and hope we didn’t remember your commitment to move closer to cross core? Because this is blatantly not doing that.
Halo Fractures: Entrenched
Evoking a special sense of disgust by human forces, Covenant mutant "Elites" are born from the turncoat alchemically-augmented warriors of the UNSC. Scaly tumors along with the remnants of EALGESTRIKE armor make them tough foes to put down.
This whole thing with Hyperius and Locke’s gear still drives me bonkers. I know most aren’t going to shed a tear for Locke, but introducing characters just to kill them off or throw them in story jail in the next game is something I hope 343 quits starting with Infinite.
Anyone who argues Halo is “woke” is a loser who:
a. isn’t an actual fan of the series
b. probably can’t explain what woke means
c. is just trying grift ya for engagement
Don’t be a sucker, folks.
Look,
@Halo
, you really have to step up these “narrative” events for Halo Infinite. While the mode itself had flaws, how did we go from Spartan Ops quality of cutscenes to the pointless 20 seconds Alpha Pack starts with?
“Oh? Spartan Ops is being liked now? Must be the Halo cycle…”
Look, Spartan Ops was rightfully criticized for repetitive settings and bland missions and objectives. But Infinite’s MP narrative is nearly non-existent in comparison to SpOps having an actual story with stakes.
No, your Chief is an entirely different person. Chief knew what happened to him was wrong, but also believed it gave him purpose and made him more than he could’ve been. Which is still tragic as hell and a testament to his indoctrination and far more nuanced than the show.
Maybe take a lesson from the Costco hot dog, 343. Intentionally sold at a loss yet it generates loyalty among customers by being a good deal AND incentivizes further spending. I promise, despite what corpo bean counter tells you, you can still make revenue without charging $60.
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Frank O’Connor: You only think Cortana was evil in 5 because you don’t understand subtlety and are just expecting Darth Vader.
Halo Infinite: Cortana blows up a planet like Darth Vader.
This will never not be ironically hilarious to me.
Halo: New coating? Grind tons of challenges and you can only put it on one thing.
Destiny: New shader? Just use some of the free in-game currency and use it on whatever. Hey, also want to use that currency on a weapon skin?
Epsilon Spring Bundle > Coatings for cores and weapons > $14
Seven Sisters Shader > Shader that is universal for player gear > 300 Bright Dust in-game currency (effectively free with some gameplay)
This is pathetic.
I love how certain fans say 343 doesn’t care about the Flood as if they didn’t create a book trilogy showing their true power at their height, incorporated them in Spartan Assault, featured them in Halo Wars 2, and consistently hint how potential outbreaks are a high priority.
No surprise, but I’ve seen plenty of “Reboot Halo and remove all 343 influence” takes due to the recent layoffs at Microsoft. They argue 343 has produced NOTHING good. I might have tried debating them in the past, but they are and always will be bad faith actors first, not fans.
Some fans never believe me when I tell them Halo 3’s community experience wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. I can find plenty of threads and articles talking about how it sucks and vividly remember folks wanting Shishka fired for how he managed Halo 3’s matchmaking. The memories!
I just can’t imagine 343 would legitimately think their customization system for Infinite would be well liked. So many weird restrictions with coatings and armor (not for bots though somehow) and jacked up with ridiculous pricing. It’s all a joke. Has to be.
Tell ya what, I’ll consider giving Season 2 of the Halo TV show a go if Pablo Schreiber ever apologizes for insinuating folks who criticized the show weren’t real Halo fans. Can’t really respect someone’s opinion right after disregarding their appreciation of the franchise.
Amazing how 343 is just deadset on shifting the campaign and story side of Halo Infinite. While I don’t doubt the sincerity of the difficulty of the choice, I’m so sick of this being the one area they continue to screw over. It’s exhausting.
PSA: As we've refined our top priorities and shifted resources internally this year, we had to make the decision to forego seasonal narrative cutscenes to make room for the team to continue focusing on highly requested features, content, and improvements for Halo Infinite.
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343 era fans are also probably defensive after over a decade of fans like Eckhart telling them their favorite games suck, that it isn’t Halo, that they must be fake fans, that their kids who didn’t grow up with the OG games, that they’re ruining Halo for liking 4/5, etc.
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Honestly, the list of 343's fumbles with the Halo franchise is so long, it takes less time to list the things they *didn't* fumble! Here are a few more of my favorite head-scratchers.
“I could write a better Halo story than 343!”
*proceeds to just say retcon out everything from the last 10 years and provides nothing else.*
Yeah, that’s not writing.
Awesome story. Three things for the fanbase though:
1. Would this have been cool as a playable thing? Sure.
2. Does 343 have a campaign team to make that a reality at the moment? No.
3. Reading is not going to kill you.
Have you ever wondered just how terrifying it might be if a Spartan got infected by the Flood? 👀
Celebrate Halo-ween with a new Waypoint Chronicle which answers that very question, titled Saturn Devouring His Son.
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Saw another “343’s Spartans all look like Power Rangers!” and it only further convinces me these folks have never watched an episode of Power Rangers in their lives. Just because it’s a commonly held opinion doesn’t mean it’s right.
Confession: Sometimes I hate how Halo is primarily a FPS video game. This isn’t to mean I hate video games or shooters, it just feels like sometimes the Halo story doesn’t go as deep as it could because the focus is on killing aliens. Which isn’t to say it isn’t great fun. It is.
>”Y’all are too sensitive. You’d never survive a Halo 3 lobby!”
>Proceed to shit their pants and throw a fit over free emblems in Halo Infinite for things like Disability Pride.
Curious. 🤔
I can only assume this is a masterful troll job, but at the same time Halo fans selectively forgetting things about the older Halo games is such a Halo fan thing to do I wouldn’t be shocked if that were actually going on here.
You are on Zeta Halo. You track Banished activity to a nearby cave system. Once you dispatch the enemy, you realize the walls are dotted with art as if from the distant past. You don't know what you are seeing exactly, but something about it is familiar...
Honestly, as fans of Halo themselves, I’m betting 343 Industries is just as upset over continued problems facing the MCC as we are. Small comfort I’m sure for many, but I think folks gotta dail back what seem to be them taking the issues personally. I don’t envy anyone here tbh.
The Didact turned over 7 million men, women, and children into Prometheans at New Phoenix and outside of an issue in Halo: Escalation, it’s pretty much a blip.
Just saw a post implying Escharmus’ writing isn’t Halo enough.
That’s it. Saying something “isn’t Halo enough” or “Doesn’t fit Halo” doesn’t mean a damn thing anymore. A villain respecting the Chief and yearning for a fight isn’t Halo? I can’t.
I’m sure a battle royale mode for Halo would be fun, but you’ll forgive me if I’m unconvinced about concerns for the longevity of Infinite coming from streamers whose careers are based on jumping from game to game so THEY remain relevant.
I just find it funny that 10 years later folks get so hung up on barely 20 seconds of button pressing spaced across a 6-8 hour campaign. I get it’s a joke, but people also act like it’s such a huge problem.
“I remember when people played a game just to have fun and not worry about dress up!”
I mean, cool, but even with Halo 3 the hunt for Recon armor was a big deal on top of the fun. I wish people would quit pretending intentionally that customization in Halo was never a thing.
Fernando Esparza.
To this day I still don’t understand why his name was kept so close to the chest by 343 Industries. I’m not hating, but I don’t get it.
Cast adrift in Pelican Echo-216 after the UNSC Infinity’s devastating defeat by the Banished at Zeta Halo, this lone pilot discovered Master Chief adrift in the debris after six months of isolation with nothing but a hologram of family and a pistol with one shot.
#FictionFriday
At this point, I’d say I’m in agreement. We have got to get more consistent campaign content because, as Luc says, waiting 6-8+ years just isn’t sustainable.
“Spartans, on me!”
After seeing the numbers of his fellow Spartan-IIs dwindle as the Covenant War took its toll, John-117 couldn’t help but crack a smile at being able to say those words again with a new generation of Spartans.
Confession: While I like the semi-open world Halo Infinite has and doing the various side missions is neat I probably would have preferred a traditional Halo campaign with distinct missions and locales. A big problem with Infinite is everything all blends together and feels samey
You sold three brand new armors in Halo 4 for $2.99. Do better than $20 for one set, an emblem, a coating and some accessories. Especially if we can’t even use it unless we dropped $10 for the pass so we can even use the Mk.V core.
The more I see certain fans refuse to think when they say nothing 343 has done for Halo is any good the more I’m tempted to write up a massive examination of what 343’s done with games, books, etc. to bring their good qualities to the table for all to see and evaluate.
I doubt Marty sincerely cares about humans and Forerunners. Nor do I think he really cares about 343’s performance as a company. Seems obvious to me he’s trying to butter up a segment of Halo’s fanbase to milk them financially for whatever future work he has planned.