Hot damn, for real? Love to see them back. Arguably the biggest Ensemble Darkhorses of Combat Evolved other than Johnson, lmao.
In other news, we now enter those agonizing moments of "the game was scheduled to launch 15 minutes ago steam, WHERE IS IT???"
EDIT: Listening to the audio drama and I'm actually really loving it. The second episode has an account from a civilian engineer in Mombasa who mentions that the city nearly flooded and she had to divert the overflow into the city's metro tunnels to save Chief and the marines who were fighting the Scarab... 12 years later and we finally get an explanation for why those tunnels were flooded in ODST!
EDIT: Oh my god Dubbo is amazing as ever. His interview is exactly what you'd expect. And he's confirmed to still be alive!
EDIT: Oh my god the protagonist of the audio drama is Chief's childhood friend who he promised to marry from that one short story from 12 years ago.
Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Dec 8th 2021 at 11:33:44 AM
Also, for listeners who haven't read much in the way of the books, the protagonist turns out to be Parisa from the Halo: Evolutions short story "Palace Hotel" (written by Bungie's own Robert McLees), who was a childhood friend of Chief in his pre-Spartan days (hence all the references to Chief's homeworld of Eridanus II). So very much a blast to the Bungie past (since all the interviews are referencing the events of the original trilogy).
Edited by UmbrellasWereAwesome on Dec 9th 2021 at 12:29:20 AM
World Whosball Champion 1945-1991To be fair, Dubbo is essentially a Recurring Extra and Foehammer is a Mauve Shirt who you might not even realize is a distinct character unless you pay attention to the dialogue and realize, "oh, wait, this is the same pelican dropship showing up over and over with the same pilot".
We never see Foehammer outside of her Pelican either. In the original CE she doesn’t even have a model, and CEA just reuses the Bumblebee pilot, who isn’t black.
Chips even appears in ODST at a time when he should be lightyears away in space with Master Chief. How suspicious…
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Dec 8th 2021 at 12:12:47 PM
While also sounding like a 70 year old Halsey.
I am really digging the game right now. The narrative choices are bold but brilliant. They decided to throw us into the fighting right away and go for almost zero exposition for the first two levels, making sure the the premise and motivations are spelled while letting the mysteries be answered slowly as the story progresses. It feels like we missed the actual sequel to Halo 5, but it makes this story so much more interesting.
The gameplay is so satisfying too, enemies, weapons and art design is so carefully crafted to be both familiar and revolutionary. I grapple punched the first boss enemy as a Finishing Move.
It's sad the game has had a rocky technical launch and battle pass issues, as it is clear how much love and artistry is put into it.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.Eh, I doubt it. Halsey's age, Miranda being an adult, and Soren already having washed out and apparently matured (though it's hard to tell ages with Spartans, really) all point to it being mid-war at least.
Heck, Cortana didn't even come online until a good 20+ years after the war started.
Though I suppose they could leap through time-they could spend a few episodes on young John and his early service, or even just do a parallel timeline thing.
The earlier press releases all mentioned that it's supposed to be a Human-Covenant War story; hell, one of the new human characters was even stated to have been raised by the Covenant
(weird, yeah).
Edited by UmbrellasWereAwesome on Dec 10th 2021 at 3:23:47 PM
World Whosball Champion 1945-1991- Author's Saving Throw: Part of the reason Cortana's Face–Heel Turn in Halo 5: Guardians was so disputed is that it undid the emotional impact of her death in Halo 4. In this game, Cortana is given another chance to perform a Heroic Sacrifice by destroying part of Installation 07 to prevent the Banished from using it to their own ends, earning her a Dying as Yourself moment with the Chief.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Despite Cortana having a reckoning with her actions and performing a Heroic Sacrifice, it ultimately all rings hollow as she's previously acted as a megalomaniacal A.I supremacist who killed an untold number of innocent people and sent whole planets back into the Stone Age in an imperialistic attempt to enforce peace on the galaxy while imprisoning Blue Team in a Cryptum for ten millennia after John refuses to toe the line with her agenda… all without batting an eye. The scene where Cortana spitefully uses the Guardians to commit genocide against the Jiralhanae on Doisac after Atroix refuses to submit to her (those Brutes having apparently done nothing to invoke her ire at all or even been planning against her) made many fans view her as undeserving of redemption after everything she's done and feel that her following Heel Realization was far too little, too late. In general, her apology seems like she is not upset about her actions themselves, but because of having no partners with her or about some of the consequences. The actual genocidal actions do not matter much to her as far as we are shown.
These seems like mutually exclusive reactions such UU cleanup said to take here for fan feedback if one or the other, both or neither apply.
UU can apply as the entry was since updated to note their Death Equals Redemption unintentionally came off less remorse for their evildoing than having to face consequences (does that reflect how it was treated in the game?). But it's also possible for AST to apply if fans find it Worth It to end the boondoggle of their turning evil. Thoughts?
Maybe wait six months and turn it into a Base Breaker entry? It could be both then.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet Unless I grew it. In that case, throw it in the trash.

343 dropping a new Halo audio drama
out of nowhere. Long time no see, Foehammer and Chips Dubbo.
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