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« on: November 30, 2014, 02:58:27 AM »
Disney i retarded. Dat moment when Noelle shreked herself
To be fair, she only missed one letter. And no, I probably wouldn't have pointed that out if she were a guy.
6962
« on: November 30, 2014, 02:55:50 AM »
it will engulf the whole forum
Ooh, that sounds fun.
6963
« on: November 30, 2014, 01:54:55 AM »
Her demise was an inevitability. Not really though, they could have plot'd out some way to save her. Anticlimactic? Sure. But at least we could still have more interesting plots. She was only in half of the Bungie Trilogy. half of the trilogy ...? Here's the thing though, Chief is not Cortana's mule. Neither can complete the objective without the other. They're both dependent on one another. That's...exactly what he is, actually. Most of the time he's just carrying her from place to place so she can be plugged into some computer/mainframe/whatever the plot demands. If she had some way to move around without him he would be completely unnecessary. See, that's the thing. We never saw her reaction to the Librarian because she's not the protagonist. Everything seen up to Halo 4 hinted at her being something special, up to Reach indicating that she was partially based off forerunner tech or somesuch. Then she died in Halo 4, with none of that buildup leading to anything. Turns out John's the 'chosen one' instead. And nothing in the lore hinted at or implied she would meet Mendicant Bias. You could say the same for John and the Librarian. Did you just really marginalize and trivialize Johnson's role in Halo into being Chief's sidekick? You not wanting to hear more about Johnson =/= lack of stories to be told. I hope you understand that... Other than prequels, there's not much more they could have done with the character aside from him tagging along with his pal the Chief. There was, however, much more they could have done with Cortana from Halo 4 onward. 1. Halsey would never, EVER be allowed possession of the UNSC's most powerful AI while incarcerated. Master Chief has enough influence that he can apparently ignore direct orders from a superior officer because he saved the galaxy, and get him relieved from command for trying to arrest him. If he tells HighCom that it's very important that Halsey take a look at Cortana, they would listen. 2. As soon as Chief and Cortana get paired up again, Chief would sink back into his shell. Making his "development" meaningless. Not if it was written well. You did though.
"I'll take a few seconds of Thom doing something badass and establishing what kind of man he was than Cortana throwing a fit and dying just so 343 can show they're not fucking around." As in, how he acted, what his personality was like - not that he was manly. He could have been female and I'd have said what kind of woman she was instead. You mean attempting to escape the coming inferno? Watch the trailer again, he sprints away. Yeah, that's not a sprint. More like a light jog. He went for a jog just before getting blown up. Any Spartan is. Just, y'know, some more than others. And in regards to one of your earlier posts, apparently Kat is incompetent for being incapacitated by getting her arm blown off by a Banshee. Thom wouldn't have gotten his arm blown off by a banshee. He'd probably dropkick it if somebody tried. Yeah, but that's not really a special trait. All Spartans are that way because they're indoctrinated that completing the mission comes first. Never said it was a special trait. Just part of his characterization. You do realize you're basically saying you like him because:
1. He does something generic. Not really, though. 2. We no nothing about him. *know Yes. That's why he's so interesting. He's an enigma. He showed up, detonated nuclear bomb with his not-quite-bare hands, and died in the process. That's just nuts. It's the sort of action that tells you all you need to know about him: he was the Leeroy Jenkins of Noble. And Batman. And Yarrick. At once. Thus, we could replace Thom with practically anyone who we know nothing about and you would feel the same way. Ah, no. No other side character did anything even remotely as impressive as throw a nuke with their bare hands. So you're saying if the hypothetical books didn't fulfill your fantasy of Thom being like Yarrick you would be disappointed. Yep. Sounds a lot like you've got a serious case of headcanon... Nope. I'm just saying, that'd be an awesome story. Because it's much easier to capture someone's attention for 60 seconds as opposed to 8 - 10 hours. If a story is done well, I'll pay attention all the way through. Glitching occasionally? You do realize her little "glitches" nearly cost the Chief his life on a few occasions, cost the lives of hundreds of humans, and nearly resulted in the digital enslavement of the human race. And yet in the game itself they really are just occasional glitches. I know what they're supposed to be, but apart from her occasionally commenting on her impending rampancy, putting on a voice filter, screaming at Del Rio, and spawning a bunch of Clonetanas to slow down Didact, not much was really made of it. She still snarked and told John where to haul his ass and did all the things she normally did. If genericism induces awe and wonder for you, I'm concerned for your ability to be engaged in entertaining material. Not every day I see somebody lob a nuke with their own arms. Only other time I saw that was with Liberty Prime. So Thom is like Halo's Batman/Yarrick/Leeroy Jenkins/Liberty Prime. He's that cool. And maybe that's because you don't have anything to relate to in regards to Cortana's demise? Maybe, dare I say, it's because you were never emotionally attached to her in the first place? Au contraire. I warmed up to her snark through Halos 1 and 2 and felt a sense of accomplishment after saving her in Halo 3 (though other than that Halo 3 had a threadbare plot at best). Once again, I can appreciate emotional scenes when they're done well. But it does though. Otherwise we wouldn't have come up with the concept of an "attention span". Even the longest story can be boring as ass right from the start. If you want to trivialize it like that, then sure. It's not just trivializing, that's exactly what I saw. I know she was doing some hijinks behind the scene that were probably very interesting, but in the game itself she just disappeared for a bit and stalled the Didact. Wait, you consider
"In that case, you won't mind if we return the favor."
and
"I'm not doing this for mankind."
to be techno babble? No, I consider 'I ejected my rampant personality spikes into the system' to be technobabble. She might as well have said she reversed the polarity of her rampancy which somehow stopped the Didact. But only he had the Jetpack. A dues ex machina. Him having the jetpack wasn't a deus ex machina. Question is, however, what was Kat planning to do with the bomb if she couldn't fly it up to the ship? Another example of incompetence from the rest of Noble. I doubt they'd be able to change their clothes without Thom. See, this is why I brought up sexism before. You're equating the AI equivalent of dementia to be PMS. Are you fucking serious? A debilitating condition that causes anger, tension, and mood swings at inopportune times? The comparison is apt. Also, you really do need to learn what sexism is. And how is that a deus ex machina? The Didact acknowledges the trouble he's having trying to stop Cortana because of how unnaturally affluent she is with Forerunner systems. Her ability to split off her rampancy and infect the ship's systems with it, on the other hand, was never alluded to or foreshadowed. So, yes, it was a spontaneous solution used to wrap up the plot. Actually, the remaining human presence was escaping on board the Truth and Reconcilliation before it was destroyed by a grenade detonating a fuel line near the ship's engines. You make it sound like John wouldn't have blown up Halo even if there had been more humans on the Ring. Seriously, he could have accomplished the exact same thing by flying up to the lift, chucking it into the grav lift, and then ordering everyone to retreat so no one was killed or injured in the ensuing explosion. It was already seconds away from going off - what would have been the point? Even if he had warned everyone (which he might have), it wouldn't have saved anyone. That's impossible because someone is dictating what is happening. There is always plot-armor in stories. Plot armor is where a character survives a situation they normally shouldn't have survived because the author doesn't feel like killing them off. If characters do not somehow survive against all odds, no plot armor is involved. Well, DeMarco, Ash, Olivia, Mark, Vladimir, Margaret, Roma, Otto, and Victor were all killed off recently. Lord Hood was critically injured and is now in a wheelchair, and the Didact was composed by the Master Chief. Most of those were mauve shirts, Hood is still alive so he doesn't count, and the Didact will probably show up again sometime in the future. It definitely could have been done better, I agree, but a lot of people honestly don't try hard enough to understand what's going on. Reading into the subtext to find details inside is nice and all, but exactly why he was inside some blue room is actually kind of a major question a lot of players would be asking. To a fan who isn't familiar with the series, there's nothing they could work with to figure out where the heck John is and what the blue background is going there.
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« on: November 29, 2014, 08:18:39 PM »
Beta-Ray Bill is the greatest anime character.
6965
« on: November 29, 2014, 07:54:51 PM »
How do you like it? Who's your favorite/least favorite character(s) to use?
Ares is my favorite so far.
GAAAYYYYYYYY
Hawkgirl and Deathstroke are the best /thread
And then Black Adam showed up, spamming lightning bolts like a bitch.
6966
« on: November 29, 2014, 04:18:52 PM »
Supersoldier proves humanity is superior by unifying aliens via sex.
6967
« on: November 29, 2014, 01:59:58 PM »
So would I be correct in assuming you like Michael Bay movies because "BOOM EXPLOSION"?
Thom was undeveloped, and made absolutely no impact.
I can appreciate well developed characters when they're done well.
Those last four words are key.
On the other hand, I can appreciate undeveloped characters when they do something legitimately entertaining.
Like Thom did.
Entertaining and pretty badass? Sure.
Impactful actions and more developed and interesting than anyone else in the Haloverse? Most definitely not.
Never said he was more developed. Just more interesting.
Like, how? He's nobody that's done nothing.
single-handed
Sure. Totally didn't have people on the ground that made it possible for him to even get close to the ship.
It's not like Kat's impotent yet finely-shaped ass was helping him any. He had to clean up the rest of his team's mess while they stood by wishing they could be half as amazing as him.
Apparently you have low standards for what constitutes as interesting.
A supersoldier hand-delivering a nuclear weapon to an alien ship isn't interesting?
An undeveloped character with no impact on anything from a trailer created entirely for hype and le c00l factor isn't interesting.
To you.
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« on: November 29, 2014, 01:58:58 PM »
What Thom did is negligible to the plot. Sure, you may not find Siege of Charum Hakkor or Operation: BLIND FAITH particularly interesting, but the characters who defined those events have had an enormous impact on the story and plot, shaping the future of what is to come. And yet I said nothing about the plot. What I did say is that what Thom did was more impactful to the viewer. Deciding to nuke himself with absolutely no hesitation to destroy a ship he couldn't otherwise destroy had more of an impact on me than Cortana's rampancy. Who said I do? If I honestly was expecting you to think the same thing as me, I'd be throwing a tantrum. All we're having is a debate. A chance to flex our argumentative muscles and try and make our points of views more logical and understandable to the other. I just can't see any reason for you to decide to argue a subject based entirely on subjective opinion. All I said was that I found Thom to be an interesting character, so when I got 'BUT WASN'T CORTANA MORE INTERESTING IN HALO 4?' as a response, I was rather taken aback. Because those methods of saving her are cheap and hollow. True, but it'd preserve a character they could still wring more interesting plots out of. I'd prefer that over killing her just to build a bit of emotional value. Also, undignified? Do you even know what dignity means? She seemed very in control of her own actions at her demise, and very serious. That was mostly just for emphasis. "Most plot-critical character".
I'd equate that to Mendicant Bias actually for very obvious reasons. More critical to the plot =/= more critical to the story. The latter is more important to the lore as a whole; the former is more important to the immediate events. That is, the plot is the game in question, the story is the franchise as a whole. I don't think they threw her character away at all. All logical paths pointed to her demise. No attempts made by the UNSC to solve the rampancy issue have been effective. She is suffering extreme trauma from being tortured by the Gravemind, and the weight of the Forerunner knowledge she's consumed is crushing her. And weren't you saying a character who triumphs over their problems is interesting? In fact, her demise opens up many possibilities. Sure, you are correct that Chief will be emotionally affected by Cortana's death, but it's more than that. Chief's character could not adequately develop with Cortana in the picture. We all know how close they are to each other, and as a result, Cortana often acted as Chief's mouthpiece, answering for Chief instead. Hence why she was arguably Halo's real protagonist, not John. The series was always more about Cortana's development, while John carries her from place to place, like a reverse satellite character. It's a literary technique - the main character is deliberately left less interesting as the other characters so their personality quirks shine all the brighter. I understand that killing her allows John to develop more, I just don't agree with it. There was a lot of potential for Cortana. How would she have reacted to the Librarian? To Mendicant Bias? How about the John's 'evolution' midway through Halo 4? She never commented on that, IIRC. We could have seen how she and Halsey would react to one another now after Cortana's image of her was shattered in 'Human Weakness'. Killing her threw all of those potential stories straight out the window. It wasn't like Johnson's death - he was basically just Chief's sidekick, so there's not really a lot of stories you could get out of him by Halo 3 - but Cortana still had a lot of possibilities. If she were to still live, it would result in stagnation for Chief's development as a character. Now he must speak for himself, forge his own path, whereas before, Cortana was the one guiding him. They could have done that without killing her off, you know. Like handing her over to Halsey to see what she can do, while John goes off and does something else for a while. It'd give him some time fighting without his closest ally, and the conflict between Cortana and Halsey could reap some drama as well. Hey, it just seemed off to me about you being a Thom fanboy and referring him to being awesome because he did something 'manly'. I never described it as manly, though. And it's mostly how he had the stones to turn and walk away after throwing the nuke that interests me. I mean, from the 30 seconds we saw of him, we learned three things: A) he was the reliable one of the team. B) he isn't afraid to get his hands dirty if it means winning. C) he isn't afraid to kill himself, either, if need be. My first thought was 'who is this mysterious soldier, who has absolutely no shits to give about his impending demise?' The fact that he's never given any real personality beyond that is what piques my interest. And it's not like he needs any other characterization - that would just ruin the moment. So, yes, he isn't a complex character like Cortana, but then, he doesn't have to be a complex character to be interesting. They could have a set of prequel novels filled with nothing but Thom being Halo's Commissar Yarrick and I'd buy the hell out of them. No shit a commercial is going to be entertaining. But it's a shallow piece of crap in comparison to Cortana's plot in Halo 4. And yet the former was more interesting to me. The latter had the potential to be interesting, but, well, all it had was the potential. In fact, I wouldn't even describe it as a sub-plot. I see it as THE plot of Halo 4. To me, Halo 4's story is about Cortana's descent into madness, and the wrapper of the Didact and Infinity are what pokes and prods the plot into its eventual endpoint. Mm. The Didact is the main threat, and most of the conflict revolves around him and the Prometheans, so I'd call that the main conflict. That said, the twin plots merge toward the end of the game. Chief and Cortana could have hitched a ride on Infinity to make it to Earth and try whatever they think could save her. But, Cortana and Chief know they can't do that. Their relationship must suffer as Cortana ever so slowly begins to crumble apart because they know they need to defend Earth when no one else can or will. But in practice this amounts to her glitching occasionally but still functioning as the game's exposition fairy. It sounds good on paper, but it wasn't so interesting when I got to the game itself. Me, I find that satisfactory on a much deeper level than, Thom throwing a bomb at a ship. Again, good on paper, not so good in practice. Deep, emotional plots only work well when they audience reacts in the way the storyteller wants them to react. Thom's commercial was made so the audience would feel a sense of awe and wonder at what he did. And it accomplished that. I reacted in the way they intended for me to react. Cortana's plot was made so the audience would feel a sense of sadness and loss. And I didn't feel a thing. I did not react in the way they intended for me to react. The thing you don't seem to get is the scale of the story being told has no bearing on how interesting it is. Even a little half-minute clip can be more impactful ( to the viewer) than a multi-hour plot. Not really. We already know from the beginning of Midnight that what the Librarian did to Cortana has had profound effects on her ability to navigate and understand Forerunner networks. Enough to evade the Didact and even lock him out of his own ship's computer. Then you've got her ordering Chief to merge her into the vessel and her updating your HUD and whispering to you signifying she's still alive. Yeah, but in practice she still just pulled some shit at the last second and yadda yadda yadda. I know what she did in the last level, but it still just amounted to her disappearing for a while and spouting some technobabble before John put a grenade on the Didact and ended the game. The premise was more interesting than Thom's trailer, certainly, but the portrayal was not. At least to me. A deus ex machina if you will. Not really. Kat was already surrounded by other soldiers - it's not too farfetched for Thom to run up and take the bomb from her. Cortana replicating and using her computer PMS to stall the Didact, on the other hand, is a deus ex machina. A last minute bit used to write the protagonists out of the mess they're in. All he did was attempt to move an immovable object, and in the process, inflicted friendly casualties. So did John at the end of Halo 1, but nobody ever talks about that. Seriously, he could have accomplished the exact same thing by flying up to the lift, chucking it into the grav lift, and then ordering everyone to retreat so no one was killed or injured in the ensuing explosion. There was a song playing over the whole thing and nobody said anything at all. Maybe he did and we just didn't hear it. So basically have another contest of who can have the coolest death? No, a story where plot armor is nonexistent. It'd have to have much more character-building than Reach did, certainly, but I think it could be done well. 343i has already been very liberal at killing off or seriously incapacitating the characters in Halo's story. I find that almost anyone is at risk for death. They killed Cortana, and...who else? Characters that matter? If they killed off the Didact at the end of Halo 4, I'd be impressed. Maybe if they killed Halsey, sure. How about Thel? 'Mdama? The evident reason is fairly obvious.
"I only held enough back to get you off the ship."
Not to mention, after the sheer amount of Forerunner techno-porn in Halo 4, I think anyone could easily deduce they were in a hard light box.
There were still people inquiring what happened back when the game first came out. If the audience is clueless, the scene was not clear enough.
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« on: November 29, 2014, 04:01:00 AM »
So would I be correct in assuming you like Michael Bay movies because "BOOM EXPLOSION"?
Thom was undeveloped, and made absolutely no impact.
I can appreciate well developed characters when they're done well.
Those last four words are key.
On the other hand, I can appreciate undeveloped characters when they do something legitimately entertaining.
Like Thom did.
Entertaining and pretty badass? Sure.
Impactful actions and more developed and interesting than anyone else in the Haloverse? Most definitely not.
Never said he was more developed. Just more interesting.
Like, how? He's nobody that's done nothing.
single-handed
Sure. Totally didn't have people on the ground that made it possible for him to even get close to the ship.
It's not like Kat's impotent yet finely-shaped ass was helping him any. He had to clean up the rest of his team's mess while they stood by wishing they could be half as amazing as him.
Apparently you have low standards for what constitutes as interesting.
A supersoldier hand-delivering a nuclear weapon to an alien ship isn't interesting?
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« on: November 29, 2014, 03:43:36 AM »
So would I be correct in assuming you like Michael Bay movies because "BOOM EXPLOSION"?
Thom was undeveloped, and made absolutely no impact.
I can appreciate well developed characters when they're done well.
Those last four words are key.
On the other hand, I can appreciate undeveloped characters when they do something legitimately entertaining.
Like Thom did.
Entertaining and pretty badass? Sure.
Impactful actions and more developed and interesting than anyone else in the Haloverse? Most definitely not.
Never said he was more developed. Just more interesting.
Like, how? He's nobody that's done nothing.
single-handed
Sure. Totally didn't have people on the ground that made it possible for him to even get close to the ship.
It's not like Kat's impotent yet finely-shaped ass was helping him any. He had to clean up the rest of his team's mess while they stood by wishing they could be half as amazing as him.
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« on: November 29, 2014, 02:47:08 AM »
So would I be correct in assuming you like Michael Bay movies because "BOOM EXPLOSION"?
Thom was undeveloped, and made absolutely no impact.
I can appreciate well developed characters when they're done well.
Those last four words are key.
On the other hand, I can appreciate undeveloped characters when they do something legitimately entertaining.
Like Thom did.
Entertaining and pretty badass? Sure.
Impactful actions and more developed and interesting than anyone else in the Haloverse? Most definitely not.
Never said he was more developed. Just more interesting.
Like, how? He's nobody that's done nothing.
He destroyed a Covenant ship single-handed by flinging a nuke into it with his bare hands, and didn't even stop to care. That speaks volumes.
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« on: November 29, 2014, 01:14:20 AM »
So would I be correct in assuming you like Michael Bay movies because "BOOM EXPLOSION"?
Thom was undeveloped, and made absolutely no impact.
I can appreciate well developed characters when they're done well.
Those last four words are key.
On the other hand, I can appreciate undeveloped characters when they do something legitimately entertaining.
Like Thom did.
Entertaining and pretty badass? Sure.
Impactful actions and more developed and interesting than anyone else in the Haloverse? Most definitely not.
Never said he was more developed. Just more interesting.
6973
« on: November 29, 2014, 01:13:30 AM »
If you didn't know, the majority of the characters in the series have all done things more impactful to the story and universe than that. More impactful to the viewer, not to the plot. And? And the fact that you expect me to think the same is baffling. Listen, I totally get if you didn't feel anything. I was absolutely unphased by it. No reaction out of me at all. But that doesn't deny the fact it was well done. If a scene that was supposed to get a reaction from the audience fails to do that, then it was not well done. It was a good idea, no doubt about that, but it was not done well. Finishing a plot-point that was planted in Halo's lore all the way back in October 30th, 2001 is handling the story differently?
Dude, Rampancy's been in Halo's lore since it was first available to the public. You missed the point. Why didn't 343 have John get Cortana back to Halsey, have her say some technobabble, and have John toady about getting stuff for her to fix his AI? Why not have Cortana reach metastability through her own willpower? Why have Halo's most important and plot-critical character, arguably Halo's real protagonist, die off in such an undignified way, and so soon into 343's venture into the Haloverse? To show their fans that they're not pulling their punches, that why. Sure, they're trying to build drama so John will have emotional baggage in the next game, but the whole thing feels like they just threw away their most plot-critical character just to establish that the series will be darker this time around. Did they just run out of ideas as to what they could do with Cortana? First off, that sounds rather sexist.  You seem to be implying that a character struggling through emotions and prevailing is somehow a negative thing. It isn't, when it's done well. It just wasn't done well. Secondly, Thom destroyed a single CCS-Class Battlecruiser (the resulting explosion of which most likely inflicted numerous friendly casualties given the proximity of UNSC forces to the Covenant ship when it detonated. Yes, but he did so in an entertaining way. I found the commercial entertaining. I did not find Cortana's subplot entertaining. Meanwhile, Cortana on the other hand, in the deep throws of rampancy, on the verge of absolute destruction, pulls herself together, to not only save Chief, but all of humanity from the Didact. Yeah, but in practice she pulled some shit at the last second and deus-ex-machina'd the story to a close. I know it sounds awesome on paper, but it wasn't so awesome on my TV screen. Or, at least, not as awesome as Thom's death. A character without flaws is better than a character who must triumph over his/her flaws. To be fair, he died before we could find out if he had any flaws. That's why he's so interesting to me - he showed up from nowhere, did something cool, and that's all we know about him. I think the need to point out the interchanging members thing is a bit redundant since that happens with every military unit and has happened with SPARTAN teams before.
Sam died, and Kurt replaced him. So on, and so forth. I know, but I think 343 could get a lot of mileage from having a new Noble show up and see how their roster changes. It'd build suspense, like, we'd know somebody is going to die, but not who. And who would replace them? There could be a supporting cast of Spartans, any of whom is a viable replacement member. That'd be an awesome story. Well, she literally says Chief is no longer on the ship, and given the Didact used the Approach's teleportation grid a minute earlier, I think it's safe to say Cortana teleported, a concept which is well established in the lore. The blue box around them, on the other hand, is never even commented on. We know Cortana is shielding him from the blast using the ship's hard-light projector, but for the casual observer, this is never brought up. They just showed up in a shimmering blue Purgatory for no evident reason.
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« on: November 29, 2014, 12:25:43 AM »
So would I be correct in assuming you like Michael Bay movies because "BOOM EXPLOSION"?
Thom was undeveloped, and made absolutely no impact.
I can appreciate well developed characters when they're done well. Those last four words are key. On the other hand, I can appreciate undeveloped characters when they do something legitimately entertaining. Like Thom did.
6975
« on: November 28, 2014, 11:26:27 PM »
What Thom did is probably the most generic thing I've ever heard. That was also more impactful and interesting than the majority of the series. Meanwhile, you're over here, trivializing an amazing character arc that has real emotion poured into it. Yeah, see, here's the thing. You're the one who thinks it's amazing and emotional. I thought it took stones to kill Cortana off, but beyond that the whole scene was handled so poorly I couldn't feel much of anything. And the thing is, the main reason 343 did that was to show their handling of Halo will be different from Bungie's. Changing the status quo of the story to coincide with the change in management, if you will. I'll take a few seconds of Thom doing something badass and establishing what kind of man he was than Cortana throwing a fit and dying just so 343 can show they're not fucking around. I get that you prefer the story itself establishing personality, but I prefer characters that show rather than tell. Not just that, but we don't just have to have Cortana. Practically the majority of all the characters from the games are better than Thom. Better established, maybe, but they're still dull. The only characterization Thom has is that he was an unstoppable behemoth, and therefore more interesting by default. He's like Halo's Batman, if Batman were a martyr. Also, I like the idea of Noble Six being a legacy character. I'd love it if 343 introduced a new Noble Team with interchanging members every time one of them dies. Because Thom has literally no development, and only serves one purpose in the Halo franchise, and that is to die, so you get to play as Noble 6. Well, he still went out in a blaze of glory, instead of a sputtering mess of a scene with cliche dialogue and little given explanation as to how John was even still alive to talk to her.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 11:06:17 PM »
Who the hell is Lasky?
Chief's dudebro.
You meet him in Infinity. He's a main character in Halo 4. He's also the main character of Forward Unto Dawn.
Were people actually supposed to remember any of the boring characters from Halo 4?
As opposed to the badly done characters in the original trilogy?
I can understand this, but the Arbiter would like to have a word with you.
Aside from a small amount of characters like Thel, everyone else is badly done. Even Chief is badly done.
In the five seconds we saw of him in a commercial, Thom was a more interesting character than anybody in either trilogy. Or all of Halo, for that matter.
Nah
...Yeah?
Grabbing a bomb and throwing it into a hanger is more interesting than Cortana suffering through AI-dementia while struggling to keep the Chief safe?
Grabbing a bomb from one of his incompetent allies, flying it up to an alien ship using a jump pack that was never meant to be used like that, fighting through god-knows-how-many aliens to get to the hanger, and tossing a nuke into the lot of them without the slightest hesitation before turning around and walking away as though the fact that a nuclear weapon was about to vaporize him was too trivial to warrant his attention. Thom don't give a fuck. That beats the hell out of Cortana having AI PMS while John yells at her to stay focused.
6977
« on: November 28, 2014, 10:59:01 PM »
inb4thatbloodyquotefromfranklin
B-but...awwww. :c
6978
« on: November 28, 2014, 10:54:54 PM »
Who the hell is Lasky?
Chief's dudebro.
You meet him in Infinity. He's a main character in Halo 4. He's also the main character of Forward Unto Dawn.
Were people actually supposed to remember any of the boring characters from Halo 4?
As opposed to the badly done characters in the original trilogy?
I can understand this, but the Arbiter would like to have a word with you.
Aside from a small amount of characters like Thel, everyone else is badly done. Even Chief is badly done.
In the five seconds we saw of him in a commercial, Thom was a more interesting character than anybody in either trilogy. Or all of Halo, for that matter.
Nah
...Yeah?
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« on: November 28, 2014, 10:54:04 PM »
The best Bungie can do at this point is ask their fans what they want to see, and do what they can to put that into the game.
So the fans want Destiny to have a story. What do they want the story to be about? So the fans want more content. Like what? So the fans want some gameplay feature. How could that be best implemented given the gameplay Destiny already has?
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« on: November 28, 2014, 10:49:56 PM »
Who the hell is Lasky?
Chief's dudebro.
You meet him in Infinity. He's a main character in Halo 4. He's also the main character of Forward Unto Dawn.
Were people actually supposed to remember any of the boring characters from Halo 4?
As opposed to the badly done characters in the original trilogy?
I can understand this, but the Arbiter would like to have a word with you.
Aside from a small amount of characters like Thel, everyone else is badly done. Even Chief is badly done.
In the five seconds we saw of him in a commercial, Thom was a more interesting character than anybody in either trilogy. Or all of Halo, for that matter.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 10:47:35 PM »
Martian Manhunter is objectively better than Superman.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 10:46:30 PM »
I requested it a while ago.
I guess Cheat's decided I'm unworthy.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 08:03:30 PM »
Honestly, I think the question here is, who wouldn't fanboy over a genuine Spartan?
I wouldn't. Unless it was a Spartan-IV.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 07:08:02 PM »
The Japs truly need to be invaded by the Russians.
Y'know, Japan is a strange, strange place, but after hearing about a guy who let himself get fucked by a horse and a woman who shoved over two thousand toothpicks into her vagina, I can safely say America isn't any less odd.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 07:00:08 PM »
That's an Xbox controller.
I mean, I know it's for the Wii, but that's still a fucking Xbox controller.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 06:01:59 PM »
"We don't call them 'crusades' anymore. These days we call it...peacekeeping."
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« on: November 28, 2014, 05:45:36 PM »
I assume this is a shitpost?
You assume correctly.
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« on: November 28, 2014, 03:38:25 PM »
Wow, that's almost a century!
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« on: November 27, 2014, 12:40:46 PM »
What's going on in this thre- 
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« on: November 27, 2014, 12:33:59 PM »
Those eyestalks are fucking creepy.
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