general-chat

[hearty flame]

It's the same story just later in time

So it's a soft reboot which massively changes things imo

But at the same time a lot of the people who worked on it aren't with the firm anymore so now we're left with an Outer Worlds situation

[wise pecan]

👋

[naive turret]

This is actually really cool

[hearty flame]

The Marathon symbol strikes feelings in me

[naive turret]

It reminds me of the green digital maps they had in GitS

[chilly summit]

i forget those are free

[zinc bear]

yeah

[chilly summit]

might peep

[small mauve]

I wonder how the original 3 marathon games are tbh

[hearty flame]

I think the TES and Fallout games are free too but I just can't get past the MSDOS clunkiness

I'll never be able to play games that came out before 2000. Modern gaming spoiled me.

[small mauve]

Just the first 2 elder scrolls games are

[hearty flame]

I miss Ocarina of Time.

[zinc bear]

also had the scariest moment of my life yesterday
tried to install an old computer program. it then installed like 4 different adware programs on my computer and turned my antivirus off
im good now but i thought i was cooked

[jade gust]

Aye. The fact it's so faithful to the design from the original is what makes it so cool

[hearty flame]

Fallout 1 and 2 aren't?

[naive turret]

I love that one guy from Fallout 2

Tripping over his words cause he gets so mad

[small mauve]

No

[hearty flame]

F

[jade gust]

Also, they have teased a Compiler in the Vidocs and from what I've heard from people who played og Marathon, it's pretty faithful to the designs from the original games

[zinc bear]

i need to force myself to play the OG fallout games
i feel like a poser for not wanting to, but fallout 2 is about the enclave and i love them

[small mauve]

Aren't the enclave like, the bad guys in fallout?

[zinc bear]

yeah, but theyre still interesting to learn about

[jade gust]

Like, this is the one teaser image we've had of the Compilers and I really hope it lives up to the expectations people have

[zinc bear]

i shouldve rephrased that

[naive turret]

I love this, such an interesting species they are too

[jade gust]

So I have heard

[naive turret]

I wanna get to the second game so I can learn more first hand

[jade gust]

When I am well enough, I am gonna try playing the trilogy

[naive turret]

Oh I didn’t see earlier get well soon btw

[jade gust]

The original trilogy are all free on Steam!!

[jade gust]

Thanks, I am doing better than I was earlier but I'm not 100% sure if standing up is a good idea right now

[zinc bear]

i will def try fallout bakersfield when its out. it looks like a very fun way to paly fallout 1 for me

get sell woon

[jade gust]

I will be sure to sell... woon... Whatever that is...

[zinc bear]

dont worry about it. just sell it.

[naive turret]

Yeah I got to The Rose, cute name and the layout is literal

I just saw how many levels are in that game jfc I’m barely in at all

[jade gust]

Oof, fair. Hopefully when I finally start, it won't take too long for me to figure it all out

Also, just learnt this can happen in NuMarathon, nice to see death by standing on enemy dropship is a thing in this game https://bsky.app/profile/marathonthegame.bungie.net/post/3mgnngmlqgx2c

Marathon (@marathonthegame.bungie.net)

This is not the way into orbit. Happy Monday.

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[waxen rose]

Oof says the roboloxian when they die

[jade gust]

Fun fact, the death sound in Roblox was stolen. There's a really good video about the guy who stole it

[chilly summit]

the cod zombies evil witch laugh was stolen too

[jade gust]

There's witches in COD zombies?

[chilly summit]

you know the evil laugh that plays when you die

[jade gust]

I thought that was a kid laughing

[chilly summit]

naw that's when you get the teddy bear from the mystery box(also stolen lol)

[waxen rose]

Stealing an audio file im laughing

yeah ik its stolen but who cares

[chilly summit]

just a fun little factoid bro

[naive turret]

The classic Sniper sound was also used for a building explosion in Oni.

but that's just a stock sound tbf

[jade gust]

The guy who stole it did. He loved to claim his mother was proud of him too (Even though that was never relevant to him being asked about where the sound came from)

[waxen rose]

Yk he has nothing better to do so he says his mom is proud of him taking a sound effect 😭

[night lodge]

what channel can i post my twitch ?

[zinc bear]

#1076327824924872755

[night lodge]

ty

[flat gyro]

morning chat

well it is 1pm but still

[bitter sequoia]

I’m having trouble with mcc, I can’t do any multiplayer thing because it says contacting server validating license information. Please wait“ and Ive had it up for a hour and nothing has happened. My internet works perfect and my xbox is connected and I can do other multiplayer games what do I do?

[zinc bear]

This is a better question for #1075989764026675210

[bitter sequoia]

Ok thx

[marsh blade]

hello darkness my old friend

[dense orbit]

hey how's it going guys

i wonder when is the next update for halo mcc

[haughty cedar]

hey guys

[dawn jasper]

is it bad if i think infinite is good

[vagrant kettle]

Nope

[ocean herald]

Is what bad?

Oh I understand now. No lol

[chilly summit]

yes it is absolutely HORRIBLE to think that delete that thought NOW‼️‼️

[dawn jasper]

the grapple hook cool

[chilly summit]

True...

[dawn jasper]

i want to do halo 2 laso but

im scared

[naive turret]

D'you like moving boxes

[coral yoke]

depends entirely on what's moving the boxes

[chilly summit]

what the employer asks me at my amazon job interview

[misty marsh]

Some form of kinetic force I'd imagine

[zinc bear]

Reach? Yeah. I need to hate on reach now. Reach is terrible.

[dawn jasper]

jackal snipers are scary\

[naive turret]

On laso they're really not gonna be the issue you think they are

It's like, two sections of Regret you actually have to deal with them and that's it

[coral yoke]

the kamikaze grunts are scarier man

i have more trouble against grenades than i do against snipers

[dawn jasper]

theyre scary on heroic bro

[cedar turret]

Still take jackal snipers over rocket flood

less random spawns.

[dawn jasper]

Cortana h3 is GENUINELY the worst level oat hot take

[misty marsh]

Still beats anything and everything that happens on mombasa streets

[dawn jasper]

the flood that latch on the walls and shoot you are GENUINE demons

[coral yoke]

the humble two betrayals

[cedar turret]

Cortana has a unique space in that it is awful to play, but is very good storytelling

You can't play that level and not realize Cortana is near the abyss and looking to jump in and swim

[hearty flame]

Her story was always so funny to me

A couple years in service. Abandoned. Recovered a month later, immediately lost in space for the remainder of her life.

So sad 🙁

Always boggles my mind that the entirety of the original trilogy takes place over the course of a few months

[dawn juniper]

Never

[dawn jasper]

yo how do i get that role

[steady jolt]

#roles

[dawn jasper]

thanks

oh nah im blind

[cedar turret]

⠗⠕⠇⠑⠎

[hasty zinc]

⠁⠁⠛

[coral yoke]

is this loss.

[haughty cedar]

we all hate socrates right

[coral yoke]

who?

this ain't something political again is it?

[naive turret]

He'd probably be a Caster.

[haughty cedar]

what? no its a meme on tiktok

[dawn jasper]

thanks

[haughty wraith]

| | 󠁰 󠁰 | |

| | 󠁰 󠁰 | _

[dense orbit]

have you tried out halo mcc mods?

[dawn juniper]

Stop it, you've messaged me countless times on xbox dms about this

[dense orbit]

wait lol did I?

whats my GT?

[dawn juniper]

sher with a bunch of numbers

[dense orbit]

whats my GT then?

[dawn juniper]

shaban95

[gusty sparrow]

hellooooo

[dense orbit]

lol

curious how do you know me?

[dense orbit]

hey whats up, i am also big fan of gmod

you wouldn't believe what I've just ported into halo 3

you played half life alyx?

[gusty sparrow]

no-

[dense orbit]

ok regular half life's?

[gusty sparrow]

My PC can barely handle GMod with COD weapons

[dense orbit]

ahhh

[gusty sparrow]

only hlf 2 dud

[dense orbit]

ok gmod, so you remember those zombies right?

[gusty sparrow]

yeeah

yo put the headcrabs as floods ?

[dense orbit]

yep 🙂

[gusty sparrow]

no way

[dense orbit]

and the one from Half life alyx. i posted it #1076327824924872755

[haughty cedar]

hello

[gusty sparrow]

Does it also include the transformation of headcrabs upon infecting someone?

[dense orbit]

I am working on this NPC for the community

[gusty sparrow]

sup dud

[dense orbit]

its possible 🙂 it can happen

[haughty cedar]

nothing much wbu

[ocean herald]

sure bud… whatever cope gets you through the week

[ocean herald]

All I know is that I don’t know

[gusty sparrow]

halo spartan assault its better dud

[dense orbit]

I sent the DM

[gusty sparrow]

🔥

[haughty cedar]

should i play that?

[dense orbit]

basically my goal is to bring all of the half life NPC's into halo 3 @gusty sparrow

[summer karma]

What’s y’all’s favorite weapons? Mines either the SAW or the Reach nade launcher

[gusty sparrow]

no, just kidding, that game is terrible dud

[haughty cedar]

uhhhh i got to go reach dmr

[summer karma]

Love it sm

[dense orbit]

hey sup how's it going

[summer karma]

My favorite dmr of any game ever

[summer karma]

HSA is fun

[dense orbit]

anyone here play halo mcc mods?

[haughty cedar]

i a console dude

[ocean herald]

H4 dmr or the SAW. The SAW is what I feel like the AR should be

[summer karma]

SAW is my goat

[gusty sparrow]

in reach is the dmr, in halo ce is the shotgun, in halo 2 is the battle rifle or the carbine, in odst is the silenced smg, in halo 3 is the battle rifle and the shotgun and in halo 4 the saw an the carbine

[haughty cedar]

the H4 is just the reach one tho ✌🏻

[ocean herald]

It was better tuned in h4

[summer karma]

Nice dude! I personally do not like the smg but to each their own

[gusty sparrow]

in personal, i suffred with that game-

[summer karma]

It’s very different but I still liked it

[dense orbit]

@haughty cedar its in halo 3 now

[haughty cedar]

i thought it was just the same because of the animations…

[faint mantle]

Stop promoting it, please. You're spamming.

[summer karma]

People are too harsh on 343… the games they made aren’t anywhere near the quality of bungies but not comparing them they are pretty fun

[ocean herald]

Just my preference. I wasn’t really talking about the animations

[haughty cedar]

… i have to disagree

[summer karma]

I’d still rather not play them tho

I don’t get the sprint hate

[haughty cedar]

because there not good..

[gusty sparrow]

The only Halo games I don't like are the non-FPS ones, mostly because of their difficulty—and CE, which I found impossible on Legendary difficulty.

[dense orbit]

they could come back to halo mcc still

[vagrant kettle]

There?

[dense orbit]

if the next halo game doesn't work out well

[haughty cedar]

am dyslexic ✌🏻💀

[summer karma]

I’m excited for the new game but why the hell is it on PlayStation

[dense orbit]

Not even sure it could bring the population back.

[summer karma]

Microsoft hates us man

[dense orbit]

If they do come back to halo mcc, it could help likely

[gusty sparrow]

I honestly still love the saga even if bad things come out or not; for example, my favorite Halo games are Halo 3: ODST and Halo 5.

both from diferent studios

[summer karma]

Halo 5 multiplayer is fun

I also had fun playing the campaign but not as much as one of bungie’s games

[dense orbit]

halo mcc population is killing it

[ocean herald]

I enjoyed h5’s mp more than the campaign

[ocean herald]

Microsoft’s focus has largely become gamepass/software. They want to get their first party games on as many platforms as possible

[dense orbit]

The 59% rating on Steam honestly says a lot about how people feel about Halo Infinite right now. The core gameplay is still good, but the damage from the early years hasn’t really gone away. When the game launched it was missing a lot of basic Halo features like Forge, co-op campaign, and proper progression, and that really hurt the community’s trust. Even though the game improved later with updates and new modes, first impressions matter. A lot of players left early and never came back, and many of those negative reviews are still there. Halo should have launched as a complete experience. Instead it felt like a live service game that took years to finish. That’s probably why the Steam rating still sits around 59% for recent reviews.

Halo MCC rating is very very positive, it's a good sign that people still want to be on there.

[ocean herald]

Was that for me? I didn’t say anything about infinite lol

I do agree though that forge, custom games, co op campaign should be r2g day 1

[gusty sparrow]

It's unrelated, but I would have liked to play Halo: Megablocks

[dense orbit]

it was meant for you👍

[summer karma]

Yesss

[gusty sparrow]

I don't want to scare you, but did you know that the Halo ce elites say "el pozole"?

[summer karma]

AHH

[gusty sparrow]

and reach grunts say " aguacate "

[summer karma]

wort wort wort

[gusty sparrow]

🗣️ 🔥 WORT WORT WORT

[summer karma]

El pozole 🥶🥶

[gusty sparrow]

They should make a channel where we all just speak Sangheili and say "wort wort wort".

🔥

[gusty sparrow]

imthemehimthemeeeh

🗣️ 🔥

el pozole

🙏

ezmozstawmezididle

What is your favorite Halo race and why?

in my case is the grunts an huragoks, thei are adorable, well, only the Huragoks, because in the lore Grunts ate humans and were also the size of one.

If I remember correctly, in one book Brutes, Grunts, and Jackals devour civilians on a planet crystallized by the Covenant. How creepy

[haughty cedar]

very creepy 😭

[coral yoke]

oh that's nice. infinite just turned on hdr for me even though my screen doesn't support it

i was wondering why it looked so gray suddenly

[zinc bear]

How is ts even possible

[dawn jasper]

infinite lwk peak

not the best but its good

[unique raven]

Too bad that is never going to happen since that toyline and the Mega company are basically dead now.

Especially since that game was originally envisioned as a Toys to Live game to compete with Lego Dimensions.

[dawn jasper]

im scared to click on that

[ocean herald]

It’s just an ign article, but alas it’s politics and can’t be talked about here

[coral yoke]

it just is ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[dawn jasper]

ahh

whats yalls favourite halo

[blazing idol]

Don't be. Steve Downes is just being clear about not wanting his voice used in such a way

[blazing idol]

ODST probably

[dawn jasper]

ah nice

extremely hot take i like infinite, i also like ce and 4

gameplay infinite or ce story 4 for me

[regal stratus]

Hey Guys how do I get those Legendary emblems in Infinite? The ones with Arbiter, Chief, Cortana, and the Grunt with 2 stickys?

[dawn jasper]

no idea

[thick furnace]

5

[dawn jasper]

you do you bruh

i dont own an xbox so sadly i cant play it

[pliant hatch]

and he's correct

[blazing idol]

100%

[dawn jasper]

nah i was js concerned ab like alot of ppl tryna steal accs with links now

[pliant hatch]

referring to Steve

[blazing idol]

He has every right to be unhappy with how his voice is used (especially in a video like that) anybody who think this is somehow him throwing a tantrum needs to go finish Highschool

[small mauve]

Man, that regret boss fight was tough

[deep night]

i wanna report mod abuse for saying h4 is bad

[chilly ingot]

in what way

[deep night]

plus I was ban for no reason

[calm fiber]

For server moderation concerns, please send a direct message to @bleak yoke.

[deep night]

Hopefully I fixed this server to give free opinions

[blazing idol]

Military Propaganda

[small mauve]

And man, halo 3 still looks quite good for 2007

[deep night]

It does yea

but if they make a remaster, no sprint/slide

[small mauve]

Ye ima be honest, trying halo infinite mp coming from the older halo games felt a lil odd at first ngl

Like the older halo games got me more used to left trigger being for grenades than for aiming lol

[vagrant kettle]

I genuinely can’t stand halo 3 controls
“Let’s switch reload from X to RB, it’s not like every other shooter game uses it as a reload button”

[long nimbus]

Guys what are the banned words? i tried to make a post in #1039633978841374720 and it just said it included banned Terms

s it hyper lnks

reddit

ah, its markdown links. The bigt should tell you.

[deep night]

When does a warning show up here cause I didn't see any

[long nimbus]

Bot deletes the post and sends me a DM saying

NOTE: Your message has been deleted for containing prohibited text.

[coral yoke]

warnings are dmed to you by the bot, and not through discord's built-in automod

[deep night]

Ah I wonder it didn't come through

[cedar turret]

Questions about moderation can be taken to modmail. Any discussion of it doesn't belong here.

[calm fiber]

For server moderation concerns, please send a direct message to @bleak yoke.

[vagrant kettle]

Be original

Someone literally just said the same thing

Like I get it you’re being helpful, but someone already answered the question

[calm fiber]

To discuss issues related to server moderation, DM @bleak yoke with your question.

[small mauve]

Just chilling watching a lil arby n the chief rn

[deep night]

Hm

Btw does losing in halo infinite give less SP?

[coral yoke]

nope it's the same 200 SP every time

[gloomy plover]

Hello everyone.

[deep night]

whew

[gloomy plover]

Is there a picture channel I can send images in?

[naive surge]

#1076327824924872755

[autumn shoal]

Hi

[rain knot]

as a helldiver I relate to the immediate aggression towards robots

[novel depot]

Hi all,
Wish me luck, im going to be at the Atlanta Scifi Expo this Friday giving away some art and sharing some Bungie and old videogame dev stpries. (Hah, like the very first Halo Deathmatch, thats one of my favoritesand a good lesson there). Its my first time doing a speaking thing or panel at convention

Um.. anyone want to share some really cool CE multiplayer screenshots? Like just send me a DM
https://atlantascifiexpo.com/

[dawn jasper]

i have no idea what youre talking about but goodluck

also halo ce is awesome

[small mauve]

Ye after I get through with the rest of the bungie halo campaigns (and halo wars 1).. idk rly about continuing with the 343 ones

[dawn jasper]

are the halo wars good

i dont have a console though but maybe ill get one

[gusty sparrow]

i want halo 3 anniversary 💔

[small mauve]

Haven't got to em yet

[dawn jasper]

so real

[small mauve]

But ik I heard some.. not so good things about the 343 halo campaigns and such compared to the bungie ones

[dawn jasper]

have u played them yet

[thick tangle]

Guys am I crazy when I say halo infinites multiplayer is good now

[gusty sparrow]

In my personal opinion, I don't like hl wars games. They're not bad games at all, it's just that I'm terrible at RTS games.

[gusty sparrow]

well, the halo 5 campaing is disappointing

but the multiplayer is awesome

[dawn jasper]

i dont have the console or money for 5 right now unfortuanely

[small mauve]

No

What do y'all think about the 343 campaigns? Mainly rn 4, 5, and infinite. Maybe halo wars 2 is okay

[dawn jasper]

love 4s story and infinites gameplay

havent played the others though

[small mauve]

Yk, for halo fans, y'all are cool. I've seen quite a few toxic halo fans tbh, straight up hating the 343 games and anyone who plays and likes em and such

The gatekeeping and toxicity can rly suck fr

[dawn jasper]

some people only look at the bad parts

[gusty sparrow]

Question: How did you discover Halo? I discovered it in 2014 through an Xbox 360 that had boring games or games that didn't interest me. Among them was Halo 3, and when I played it, it was simply glorious. On that Xbox 360, I finished it seven times, and now with the TMCC, I've finished Halo 3 three times, meaning ten times playing that incredibly slow game, which I still love.

[dawn jasper]

my dad

[meager linden]

Good morning people of Halo

[gusty sparrow]

Lately I've seen many Hispanic fans who literally want a reboot starting from Halo 3.

[dawn jasper]

i havent met a toxic halo player before actually

[small mauve]

I don't remember tbh

[dawn jasper]

more specifically i remember when i was young my dad playing halo ce before and it looked awesome but i just got them recently

[small mauve]

And rly look into the negative, calling those who enjoy 343's halo games "mindless consumers" or smth, even if they also like the bungie ones

[gusty sparrow]

the original ce ?

[dawn jasper]

yes

[gusty sparrow]

in the original xbox ?

[dawn jasper]

i think at the time halo 2 was out though

[dawn jasper]

yea he still has his old 360

[dawn jasper]

343 honestly their games werent that bad in my opinion

the grappleshot in infinite was crazy cool

i gotta look for the older one

he was an s now and plays infinite multiplayer

[dawn jasper]

still playing after 24 years

ah

[gusty sparrow]

ah

[dawn jasper]

i really dont like the halo 4 cortana look

i mean everythings fine but

they did a little too much

[small mauve]

So the main games are with master chief and other games are like prequels or things that happened in between some games with chief

Right?

Like with the first 3 games then halo wars 1, odst, and reach

[misty marsh]

Mainline games are CE, 2, 3, 4, 5 and infinite

Reach is a prequel to ce

Odst is a side story

[thick tangle]

Yea but reach is def still a mainline game

[misty marsh]

How are u defining mainline lol

[thick tangle]

Just like part of halos main story I guess

And like the large multiplayer

[small mauve]

And what about halo wars?

[misty marsh]

I mean yeah it's still part of the main story but mainline in this case means primarily following chief

[thick tangle]

Yea fair enough

[misty marsh]

Reach is just a prequel not a mainline even if it holds story telling significance

[misty marsh]

Also spin offs

[sour sparrow]

Halo infinite is ahh wonder if halo 7 will also be ah

[opaque sable]

This is spartan 2 from UNSC

[vapid path]

Reach is goated, im gon play those assasination games in those servers again

[opaque sable]

Back to work

[vapid path]

Zenitsu

[opaque sable]

😳 noo

[vapid path]

This is the Hope Of The Universe speaking

[vapid path]

Yes yes 🙂

[opaque sable]

Hmm

[opaque sable]

Btw did u completed all halo games?

[vapid path]

Not 5 and infinite

[opaque sable]

Yeah same halo 5 in on console I haven't tried

But i completed halo infinite it's really amazing

https://tenor.com/view/kimetsu-no-yaiba-sabito-smile-anime-happy-gif-16423152

[vapid path]

Imma get some new graphic card for it, altho ive played the multiplayer a lot

[opaque sable]

Zenitsu 😳 no only chief john 117 🎀😳

[vapid path]

Siera 117

[opaque sable]

U still play without gpu bro

U can still play without having gpu

[vapid path]

I need it anyway tho

[opaque sable]

Buy from Amazon when it comes to sale

[granite breach]

That's such an awesome addition to Master Chief's armor. Would be cool if Spartans wearing Gen 3 had at least 1 unique armor feature.

[opaque sable]

I also have saying

[granite breach]

Wait what?

[vapid path]

Yea

[dawn jasper]

true

it was so much fun ussing it

[blissful cloak]

Who would win john halo or john covenant

[opaque sable]

U forgot your place

[dawn jasper]

?

[opaque sable]

Ignoring me

[dawn jasper]

clarify

[vapid path]

?

[blissful cloak]

John halo doesnt afraid of aliens but john covenant is alien thats scary

[dawn jasper]

halo

[granite breach]

I'm still confused.

[vapid path]

Demon

[dawn jasper]

real

[granite breach]

Probably John 1,000.

[granite breach]

That's the correct answer.

[blissful cloak]

Keep it 1000

[dawn jasper]

imagine flood john hell nah

[blissful cloak]

John flood is too stinky and old because he wanted to eat but got rings instead

[opaque sable]

Halo reach has gen 3 and 4 and 2 unique armor features

[vapid path]

" tell that to the covenant"

[dawn jasper]

REAL

[opaque sable]

https://tenor.com/view/the-boys-billy-butcher-billy-diabolical-that-was-uncanny-gif-8216317875470492398

[blissful cloak]

But what if you miss

[granite breach]

Okay.

[vapid path]

I wont

[granite breach]

I like your style.

[granite breach]

For a brick, he flew pretty good.

[blissful cloak]

Dear humanity..

[granite breach]

Okay serious question time.

Master Chief VS The Demon

Who wins?

[dawn jasper]

wake me when you need me

[opaque sable]

Improvised

[dawn jasper]

thats a real hard one

[blissful cloak]

Trick question they’re both john halo

[opaque sable]

I need you

[granite breach]

What if she woke him up after she reached rampancy?

[granite breach]

Exactly.

[blissful cloak]

Im gonna crack the gravemind

[opaque sable]

That's too fast for zeta prime

[dawn jasper]

if john knew what was going to happen would he have stayed instead of going in cyro

[granite breach]

Bumblebee can catch up.

[dawn jasper]

thats a question for yall

[granite breach]

He'd probably start getting depressed after being lonely for a while.

[dawn jasper]

he would be with the big C tho

[granite breach]

Wait, does that ship even have any food?

[dawn jasper]

uhhh... "you had something the others didnt, luck."

you feel me

[opaque sable]

Probably He is just assaulter , for foc metro Plex can handle every piece by piece

[opaque sable]

Yeah in liquid formation

And zelly type cubes

[granite breach]

Welp, that's good enough for me.

[dawn jasper]

true

[granite breach]

Are you feeling it now Mr. Krabs? Are you feeling it now Mr. Krabs? Are you feeling it now Mr. Krabs?

[dawn jasper]

wort wort wort

[granite breach]

Hahahahaha, LOL.

[opaque sable]

We should call backup

[dawn jasper]

would you guys rather have a continuation storygame or the campaign evolved coming out

[granite breach]

No need, Master Chief is all the backup we need.

[granite breach]

Story game can come after with new multiplayer and everything. Campaign Evolved now so I can play with my brother-in-law sense he has PS5.

[opaque sable]

https://tenor.com/view/transformers-trypticon-war-for-cybertron-game-gif-25081053

[opaque sable]

But my brother has rich in heart

😳🎀

[dawn jasper]

i feel like i would choose the storyline thing a thousand times over. a majority of halo fans like classic ce anyways, so a revamp to a revamp is a little excessive for me, im definitely still buying it though

[granite breach]

I'm patient so I don't mind, they just rebranded after all so now they're locking in.

[opaque sable]

Do you know thel vadum and arbiter what did they do before heavy battles? Anyone knows?

[dawn jasper]

im not really mad im just scared the next game will take like 3 years

theyre hiring new devs and are most likely going to focus alot on the new storyline after campaign evolved is released, so hopefully unlikely

[opaque sable]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-happy-new-year-gif-24516985

[granite breach]

That's a fair point.

[opaque sable]

Han mere pass Tum raho , jane ki baat na karo

https://tenor.com/view/slow-smile-billy-butcher-karl-urban-the-boys-smiling-gif-25853850

[dawn jasper]

theyll probably release a new game in 1-2 years

my goal till then is every halo game LASO

pure torture, but a title so little people have

[granite breach]

I still have yet to play Halo 4, gotta watch my friend do a playthrough of Halo 5: Guardians, then okay Infinite. Though I have played Infinite multiplayer, specifically firefight.

[plain lagoon]

Halo 4 has a very fun BTB with the ordinance system

[hearty flame]

Woah! When did you get the job? Big congrats!!!

[blazing idol]

Missed opportunity not bringing back Dominion to Halo Infinite

[tight remnant]

I suppose something close to it could have been made in forge

[slender cedar]

@fluid tangle lock in

[glacial ledge]

How do yall play ranked h3? I can't find one singular match

[chilly summit]

gotta try stall at work for 8 hours 🕊️

[minor wind]

lets hope the game is good

[minor wind]

Halo 4 and 5 are so good ngl, infinite on the other hand 😐

[jade gust]

This is the first time I've seen someone who hates ODST

And hates Halo Wars

[minor wind]

Reach, 1 ,2 ,3 and 3 ODST are 11/10
Halo 4 is good but like plot is mid ( create a problem during first half of game and then solve it in another half)
Halo 5 is good and story is good too since its after math
BUT HALO infinite is trash

[minor wind]

im yet to play halo wars 2, altho i do know how story concludes ( had to research so find out what happened between halo 5 and infinite )

can you tell me why reach , 4 and 5 arent good?

not arguing, i just wanna hear from fellow halo player

[scenic venture]

Good morning

[minor wind]

i agree with this, adding to his- i exactly hate devs for runing infinite for this very same reason. Open world game where u can "choose to rescue people who are someone still surviving on ring for 6 months" is weird choice

it took out the core feeling of the game

[jade gust]

Not sure I'd call the sound design of the original trilogy grounded

[minor wind]

its like story is only 40min long, but extra garbage of roaming around makes game bigger

[jade gust]

And devs designing maps to fit with the abilities the player has access to is pretty much level design 101

[minor wind]

for me OG sound design is way better than what newer game has

whats your opinion on this?

the music in older game vs 5 and infinite

good point

i never play AC2 so idk about that

[chilly summit]

welcome to my tower master chief. It is where YOU will be turned into mountain dew gamefuel.

[jade gust]

I'm not, I studied level design, you can't just ignore things like what abilities the player will be given when designing an environment within a game

[meager linden]

Good day people of Halo
How it's going?

[jade gust]

I'd rather Halo not stay the exact same as it was 20 years ago

Like, the series would die if it refused to change its gameplay over the years

[tired sand]

Yo gng someone please launch halo infinite 2

[dense orbit]

How come Halo MCC has got more population than Halo Infinite exactly?

[signal wedge]

No

[steady jolt]

We don't have accurate population counts for either game

[signal wedge]

I will launch Halo 2 Remake

[signal wedge]

On steam? Yeah combining like 5 games would do that. Unless they separate the games when counting it

Oof 1.9k vs 700

Excluding all the console fellas

[fickle drift]

🐈 🐈

[minor wind]

i do hope they keep the story good coz thats exactly why im playing it 😭

i dont really care about other stuff like maps, ability, etc

[haughty wraith]

Because it's 5 games in one

Plus all of it's DLC, armor, new camos, etc for free after buying the game, just gotta earn them

[tawdry helm]

MCC is just massive in terms of what you get for the buck

[haughty wraith]

Yeah

Pretty good price for like 5 games

[tawdry helm]

That's not even counting custom game browser, modding and all the background things added for those 5 games over the years

Also I saw an xbox one s here for about 80 euros, is it worth it to get (mostly for halo 5 and OG H3, reach and 4?)

[haughty wraith]

H5 isn't on there, Reach, CE, 2, 3, & 4 are on there

but yeah i'd say it's worth getting

[jade gust]

In an ideal world, Microsoft would've started their push for releasing their games on PC again before Halo 5 was late in development and it would've had a PC release

Like, I just know there would've been some really crazy mods for Halo 5

[haughty wraith]

Yeah H5 might not be as dead if it had a PC release icl

[tawdry helm]

Xcloud isn't available here so i was looking to get an xbox one or whatever is the cheapest option to play it a bit and then maybe resell the console later

[minor wind]

facts

[rare cedar]

World Baseball Classic in Tokyo

[fickle drift]

Anyone miss the old halo 3 ranking system? Who remembers seeing generals in halo 3 and thinking to themselves... I am so cooked.

I could never get past a brigadier general, I just never had the skill to beat the higher skilled opponents.

[steady jolt]

Generals were the EXP ranks, not the skill ranks

1 to 50 was the skill rank

[candid tusk]

They were mixed in Halo 3 at certain points. I never played a ton of ranked back then and I was definitely locked at Field Major.

[zinc bear]

proud to have never played halo 3 ranked

[candid tusk]

Yeah. There were playlist ranks that were pure playtime/exp gain and then a general rank that was a mix of your maximum ranked 1-50 level and the experience you've earned. You could have 34000 experience and still only be a Master Sergeant if you hadn't played any ranked.

[waxen rose]

Amen

[steady jolt]

For EXP you got 1 point for a win, 0 for a loss, -1 for quitting.
You could get to the top eventually by winning more, but yeah depended on who your opponents were. As time went on, likely mroe higher skilled players were left making it harder

[zinc bear]

infinite ranked mogs (i dont even know how it works)

[chilly summit]

you lose all the time that's how it works

[candid tusk]

True.

[steady jolt]

I much prefer what Josh and the team did with Halo 5 - taking Halo 3's systems, exposing the top end of 50s and renaming the numbers with tiers

[zinc bear]

true

its like it evolved.. the ranked's combat evolved..

[waxen rose]

Bomat eevolved

[steady jolt]

Wish they'd carried more of that into Infinite. I'm not sure exactly what it was doing behind the scenes, but there were definitely changes from 5

[chilly summit]

week 1 infinite ranked when we had the option to solo queue 🕊️

got plat 5 in season 1 then fell off

[zinc bear]

i stopped caring after they announced the career system and my exp didnt carry over

[chilly summit]

been like mid to high gold/low plat ever since

[zinc bear]

im gonna get back into it tho

[chilly summit]

once i hit hero i'll probably dabble back into ranked a bit myself,said i was gonna quit infinite after getting hero but not so sure now

[zinc bear]

im like halfway to hero rn

[chilly summit]

i also miss mcc tho like alot all i've been playing is infinite lol

[zinc bear]

gotta rank up on halo toddler sim @waxen rose thanks for reminding me

[chilly summit]

i just reached onyx a couple days ago,a little way to go for me yet

[waxen rose]

No problem I always keep my friends in the loop

[rare cedar]

I always got a chuckle at the staff captain rank. The rank and insignia design were goofy to me

[waxen rose]

John halo learns his colors this is riveting gameplay

[zinc bear]

the baby bottle on patch 6.7 for halo toddler sim is BROKEN (UNPATCHED??) (DONT LET 343 KNOW)

[waxen rose]

Square block triangle hole speedeun time is 3.52 seconds can you beat that

[chilly summit]

can't wait to reach hero rank on halo toddler sim so i can unlock the master chief mark V diaper kit

[waxen rose]

Email a 343 dev and get recon for free

[zinc bear]

get into a game with 343 and youll get the special golden crib

[waxen rose]

You gotta buy a separate disk for multiplayer maps

[chilly summit]

judgement flame milk bottle

ghost of reach pacifier

[zinc bear]

343 PATCHED the new PACIFIER GLITCH in halo: TS (343 SUCKS!??!) (BUNGIE BETTER)

[waxen rose]

Find all 9 skulls (why put this in the halo toddler sim?) and you get 900 zooble credits

[zinc bear]

zooble like digital surcis

[waxen rose]

Zooble like our new halo currency

All these sci fi wanna be’s use credits so we gotta stand out

[zinc bear]

mcdonalds dollar menu theme for xbox 360 metro dashboard

[deep night]

zooble the messed up toy

[waxen rose]

You get home from your 11 hour shift at McDonalds after being threatened with termination after 5 years and you see it followed you home.

[meager linden]

It's so strange seeing dareal without nitro

[waxen rose]

He had it for a month

[zinc bear]

yeah 1 month with nitro changed me

[chilly summit]

xbox 360 pizza hut app

[zinc bear]

new xbox will be named "Xbox Two" as they announce its just a remake of the "Xbox One" (totally real btw)

[zinc bear]

better plot than the entire halo trilogy. amazing app.

[chilly summit]

truth nuke

[chilly summit]

xbox series Y

[zinc bear]

xbox series z

[waxen rose]

1000 dollars

Now y'all just saying Pokemon game names

[chilly summit]

microsoft gaming system

[coral yoke]

and with it, the xbox series T

[zinc bear]

xbox series testrostrone edition

[waxen rose]

They should just name it ‘xbox xbox xbox’ and you have to say it three times or it'll brick your console

[chilly summit]

xbox leafgreen edition

[zinc bear]

xbox on

[waxen rose]

Where can I buy this

[candid tusk]

You just need to play enough Gears of War.

[zinc bear]

freak youre in luck

[waxen rose]

I'll become a real boy if I play gears of war 2…

[chilly summit]

the special edition gears of war xbox 360

[zinc bear]

yes thats why we need to beat it together

[waxen rose]

Inject testosterone (gears of war) directly into brain stem

[zinc bear]

marcus fenix becomes transgender in gears of war 7

[waxen rose]

Just like me…

[coral yoke]

it's just an xbox with a pizza tower skin even though pizza tower was never released on it

[chilly summit]

marceline fenix

"no dom,my name is marcy now"

[waxen rose]

Pizza tower is rotting the brains of our youth

[zinc bear]

domina santiago

[waxen rose]

Something something I wanna be mercy

[chilly summit]

latina dom

[waxen rose]

I think the trope of “mtf character? Okay just out a ‘a’ or ‘y’ at the end of their dead name” it's so funny to me

[zinc bear]

my iwfi

[zinc bear]

you shoulda pick any kind of support

sorry my wifi went out for whatever reason

[waxen rose]

Where?

[chilly summit]

gears of war? more like gears of WOKE 😠

[zinc bear]

grrr they made it WOKE

even tho we've had poc since the FIRST GAME!!

[waxen rose]

Song so bad it got stuck in my head for 3 hours

[analog knot]

You all are meming but someone was screaming this in a game at me yesterday feelsbadman

[zinc bear]

song is fire you just listen to dog water music

[waxen rose]

Yk what I say to that person? Blocked and reported 💕

[zinc bear]

scratch that you listen to burger music

[chilly summit]

can't believe the devs didn't consult ME personally before making the game,my favourite franchise is dead!!!

[zinc bear]

the main character is a WOMAN now

[waxen rose]

Freddy hop on the mix
We're waiting every night

[coral yoke]

i'm so tired the first thing that popped in my head was the pizza theme from spiderman 2

[chilly summit]

NOOOOO!!!!

i lowkey think 4 and 5 story wasn't as interesting tho ngl

apart from unc cole

[waxen rose]

You're going to be sent to the mines for that

[balmy pagoda]

What did I just walk into

[hearty flame]

Sarcasm isn't looked upon kindly here about that stuff, I honestly do think the mods make that obvious

[chilly summit]

the usual

[minor wind]

WHAT?

[waxen rose]

Shrug

[minor wind]

When did that happen?

[chilly summit]

oh im so sorry dareal if you can still read this

[hearty flame]

4's story is actually goated, while 2 and 3 do touch on their relationship, due to the story of the game, it doesn't really get expanded on and I think it added a depth. I'd imagine part of the problem for some people is that it deleted the idea of John being a self-insert

[balmy pagoda]

-# right...

[candid tusk]

They're not talking about Halo in that message.

[hearty flame]

Oh they mean Gears

[minor wind]

Whats gears?

[waxen rose]

Holy context clues

[hearty flame]

Now now, no need for sass

[balmy pagoda]

Gears Of War

[chilly summit]

what

[waxen rose]

Gears
Like the ones in war

[chilly summit]

2

[candid tusk]

If they're not from the Americas and are new to Xbox games, I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't heard of Gears.

[waxen rose]

Gears like the ones in cars

[minor wind]

Oh a different game

[hearty flame]

Yeah GoW hasn't had the weight it used to since 3

[waxen rose]

Something something emile in gears of war 5

[balmy pagoda]

I hope that changes a little with E-Day

[hearty flame]

It probably won't honestly

[balmy pagoda]

No. But one can hope.

[coral yoke]

and people wouldn't have felt the same about rookie, noble six, and technically the spartan(s) on fireteam crimson had they gotten this treatment?

[hearty flame]

Literally what are you talking about

[balmy pagoda]

It's a fun franchise honestly. Even the less popular ones I find worth my time.

[coral yoke]

sorry let me explain,

[waxen rose]

I dont feel anything for rookie
He can blow up in front of me and I wouldn't care
He is cardboard to be used as a prop to hold up my coffee table

[hearty flame]

Me when I don't understand that changing a character's aura leads to a disconnect from people who liked the old one, so I use an example of characters who existed for one game to retort

[balmy pagoda]

Literally...

[waxen rose]

Master chief looking like a bug in halo 4 my silly

[deep night]

only I can understand why 343 liked h4 cortana 😏

[hearty flame]

Stale

Everyone liked Halo 4 Cortana. The depth of her character and (actual spoiler) ||eventual sacrifice|| was cool

[minor wind]

Not just 343, count me in

[deep night]

true

[deep night]

fair

[minor wind]

Its a story mode game too? Or a PvP shooter ?

[waxen rose]

Everyone but me

[balmy pagoda]

Both.

[deep night]

why not

[balmy pagoda]

And the gameplay is a third person cover shooter to sum it up.

[waxen rose]

I aint discussing it with you

[hearty flame]

Yeah that's one of the reasons it got left behind

[deep night]

lol

[coral yoke]

you imply that some people didn't like the idea of chief gaining his own character and all as he looked more or less like a self-insert before. incidentally i noticed people don't really like the characters that were actually self-inserts

[hearty flame]

That's great. Don't know how you got your data but whatever.

[obsidian wyvern]

?

[balmy pagoda]

Yeah I can see that. To me I've always found its gameplay engaging, especially in 5.
But to each their own I suppose.

[minor wind]

Oh, ill give it a try

[obsidian wyvern]

just being around lets you see that's true

[minor wind]

He is lying, just read his name

[waxen rose]

Huh

[deep night]

yea obviously

[balmy pagoda]

I will warn you in saying it is pretty gory. Like Doom.
If that's something you're not into.

[waxen rose]

Whatever you say

[tawdry helm]

Maybe this is a super molten take, and maybe this is because i got into halo after MCC came out on pc, but i genuenely don't think any of the Halo games are bad or have bad multiplayer, like H4 MP is really not that bad

[hearty flame]

Arctic subterrestrial 30,000 year-old ice core sample take

[deep night]

Master freak hates h4 cortana cause she's "pretty"

[tawdry helm]

Lmaoo

[waxen rose]

Why are you implying things about me

[obsidian wyvern]

halo reach multiplayer pvp genuinely does suck

[candid tusk]

It's fine in a vacuum and after all of the updates are taken into account. Halo 4 MP's release was whack.

[balmy pagoda]

Just play what you enjoy honestly. Who cares if you like it or not.

[deep night]

for me in east us servers it is

[calm fiber]

For server moderation concerns, please send a direct message to @bleak yoke.

[tawdry helm]

Super understandable I talked to allot of people that like hate H4 mp

[deep night]

:3

[minor wind]

Dont worry about that, as long as plot is great i can play games like genshin too

[tawdry helm]

Yeah maybe that's why 343/Halo studios has a tendency to release games with lack of content but then by the end it's always like a super feature rich game

[minor wind]

Well ngl, the only reason im playing halo is its campaign. I never tried the multiplayer tbh

[balmy pagoda]

Oh then you'll enjoy it. 1 is kinda dull but the plot and story I think is very interesting for the rest.

[tawdry helm]

Like Halo infinite at the start vs at the end is a night and day difference

[minor wind]

[hearty flame]

Halo Infinite had content on release... it just wasn't very good

[coral yoke]

i don't disagree actually. hell even reach isn't horrible if you replace armor lock with something else

[candid tusk]

I believe that's simply mismanagement in the dev cycle. lol

[hearty flame]

Didn't they remove the tank head EE or something

[obsidian wyvern]

armour lock is the least of reach's problem

[deep night]

i wish weapon models were free, cause they look awesome

[meager linden]

Armour lock kinda meh

[obsidian wyvern]

it's such a funny problem too because you're just bringing it on yourself for using it

[steady jolt]

Briefly, then it was returned

[hearty flame]

Ah, never heard it came back

[balmy pagoda]

I mean if you're talking MLG then yeah. I can see your point.
Plus bleed through is annoying.

[candid tusk]

Reach's biggest problem in the modern day world of MCC is having Invasion be a ranked playlist. 😭

[tawdry helm]

I'd say the playlist was lacking, and my god the content output at the start was horrendous compared to every other live service and MP game on the market, like i think originally they wanted to do 6 month seasons and content drops meanwhile COD and fortnite were literally doing maps and weapons and other drops per month

[obsidian wyvern]

MCC removing the reach smear and then patching it back in to make it more like the original was a huge L

I appreciate trying to keep it 1:1 but we were better off without it

[hearty flame]

CoD did not do a new map and weapon every month until MW3 or BO6

[tawdry helm]

Halo reach MP BTB is amazing

[hearty flame]

Which were long after Halo Infinite came out

[balmy pagoda]

This is why I just go to CGB and play it casually with friends.

[tawdry helm]

Then my mistake if that's true but i do remember MW2 had mid season drops?

Like either way it was still about every 2 months you had a big feature drop for all game modes

[minor wind]

Guys Halo CE remake is gonna be same plots as original Halo CE right?

[hearty flame]

MW2 was still a year after Infinite

[tawdry helm]

MP and BR

[hasty zinc]

no other games exist now. Pokopia forever

[candid tusk]

Oh. We're talking about the new MW2. Right right...

[tawdry helm]

Sure but infinite was still lacking either way, still cold war, vanguard and mw2019 still had relatively big drops after 2 months for all game modes

[balmy pagoda]

Should be for the most part.
I think the only thing that'll be different will be the 3 extra prequel missions they add on.
Plus or minus a few cutscenes and maybe some new ones.

[coral yoke]

see what i mean? nobody even has the dignity to bring the fight to the face of the covenant

[minor wind]

Sheesh, im already excited for it

[meager linden]

What you all talking about?

[candid tusk]

I'm looking forward to Campaign Evolved retconning the retcon of Forerunners to be Humans again. Maybe those will be the three new missions. Master Chief's great-great-great^10 grandfather lighting the rings with his best bud 343 Guilty Spark.

[balmy pagoda]

Me too. I'm excited to run it with some friends of mine.
We were thinking of just jumping straight into legendary for fun lol

[hearty flame]

Infinite had far too many problems from development to end of life which disallowed a fast enough content schedule. It spent the primary part of its release putting out fires, and by the time Season 2 dropped I think they already decided to kill off the post-campaign story because there was so much restructuring going on.

Part of what made Halo Infinite so troubled in the public eye was the chaotic development it had, it goes far beyond just content availability, though I do still hold that if they'd added the classic weapons to the sandbox alongside the new ones, I'd have played it much more.

[balmy pagoda]

This has become such a huge debate that I can't tell when people are being sarcastic over it anymore lol

[deep night]

anyways I avoid mcc in general

[balmy pagoda]

The only reason I'm still with MCC is Reach MP and I clan on the game

[candid tusk]

I am 50/50 on it. I can live with the change, because it's been so long, but I'm still salty about it because it really would have been better thematically to stick to story boards.

[jade gust]

I just wish the whole human forerunner debate ended back when it was confirmed they were different species back in 2007 via Halo 3

[deep night]

sheesh, clans are still a thing?

[balmy pagoda]

-# finally someone gets it...

[jade gust]

I've gotten it since I first got into the lore

Like, regardless of original intents within Bungie (Which were all over the place anyway), the lore says they're different

[hearty flame]

I read through the Forerunner trilogy books and I still don't care whether the Forerunners were human or not

[waxen rose]

I was asleep for half of those books

[deep night]

of course the human forruner thing is different, it's not like if I was a superior human and say hi to a human caveman

[minor wind]

Sheesh that would be do fun ngl hahahahhaha
Unfortunately all my friends arent trying halo. They be playing everything else tho 💔

[tawdry helm]

Oh sure i don't really disagree with anything there, them adding more classic weaposn would be cool! Though honestly i'm playing it now way more than i used to just because of the available playlists and all the weapons they did add

[balmy pagoda]

Yeah. I'm a part of a few. Though I'm still considered young in the community for only being in it since 2024.

[hearty flame]

Rah rah bornstellar is the didact, rah rah his best friend is a floating head now

At the end of the day who cares whether they were human or not? It doesn't really change the story

[minor wind]

Facts

[deep night]

ah interesting

[hearty flame]

I just want to know what a War Sphynx actually looks like

[balmy pagoda]

The only game that's considered popular that everyone else is playing that I play in terms of multiplayer is Helldivers.
I'm not into the heavily popular games nowadays.

[meager linden]

Even Gravemind says something about "Son with father sins" or something like that
He clearly understand that Chief human, not forerunner
Spark said to Chief "You are Forerunner", means he's already crazy
I would believe better Gravemind rather than flying bulb

[candid tusk]

The face on it is still crazy cool.

[deep night]

yea true cause a flying tinker bell sees a super soldier as a forruner

[hearty flame]

I thought war sphynxes were battle suits not ships

[balmy pagoda]

I think people took the "you are forerunner" too literally without deep diving or mixing things up because Bungie's lore was very convoluted.

[jade gust]

That's what one looks like

[hearty flame]

Apparently they are classified as Battle Suits despite being ships

[candid tusk]

Fancy mech.

[jade gust]

People often forget Spark is quite literally rampant and wants to laser face Chief in that moment

[balmy pagoda]

That too. He was like that since CE or even prior.

[hearty flame]

"You ARE Forerunner" gotta be the worst thing to happen to Halo's story

[meager linden]

Way more before he was already rampant

[hearty flame]

Not because it confused people but because that part of Halo 4 was lame

[deep night]

didn't spark come back as a forruner soldier or something

[signal wedge]

A walking forerunner would be called a Forewalker

[balmy pagoda]

That's what I was thinking. How long was he alone on 04?

[hearty flame]

Yes

[candid tusk]

A couple weeks at least.

[hearty flame]

That's a book iirc

[coral yoke]

sorry what game confirms this??

[deep night]

oh ok

[hasty zinc]

I never took that line literally. I always assumed we were descendants or just otherwise had some relation to them

[meager linden]

Like....
Almost 100.000 years I suppose

[balmy pagoda]

Way longer than that for sure

[hearty flame]

A year?

[deep night]

a book

[signal wedge]

did no one bothered asking former bungie devs wether humans being forerunners was what they were thinking

[candid tusk]

They have, and many state that they were.

[hearty flame]

No one cared to ask them. Wasn't their IP or game anymore.

[jade gust]

He was alone for way too long on Alpha Halo, eons of time passed and while he was meant to be in regular communication with the other Halos, they kinda just stopped communicating

[jade gust]

Different people at Bungie had different takes on the whole thing, it's not like they were all in agreement on the idea

[hasty zinc]

they flip flopped back and forth

[steady jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-sigh-gif-5895699729383201961

[jade gust]

I know Stckr, I know. I'm tired of it too

[balmy pagoda]

He also didn't know what happened. He went straight to thinking it was an outbreak like during the forerunner flood war and just went radical and sorta stayed that way.

[candid tusk]

It kills a couple hours.

[jade gust]

Granted some of the tiredness this time round might be me recovering from being bed ridden these past few days

[ocean herald]

No meme spam pls

[minor wind]

My friends want me to play these: League, valorant, CoD MW, overwatch, etc
Mainstream stuff tbh

[hasty zinc]

not meme, truth

[deep night]

how I feel seeing the didact getting compossed when he was supposed to be immune

[balmy pagoda]

That's mine

[candid tusk]

Any flood outbreak is something to be radical about.

[ocean herald]

Please reference #rules-and-guidelines

[signal wedge]

FORTNITE

[balmy pagoda]

True but what I was getting at was he went straight to the extreme protocols.

[jade gust]

Honestly, if one piece of media needs to be retconned, I don't think anyone would bat an eye over Next 72 Hours being retconned

[deep night]

true

[hearty flame]

We're all tired of inconsistent writing

[candid tusk]

As he should. lol ~One flood spore can destroy an entire species~ and there were FTL capable engines on the ring.

[ocean herald]

Bungie era the implication was that they were the same, albeit some room for ambiguity. Once 343 took over it was clearly outlined that they weren’t, so the canon become official.. they aren’t the same

[balmy pagoda]

No affense to people who enjoy it but I really don't like that game.

[candid tusk]

And even still, 343's flipping back and forth with ambiguity on if they're special cousins.

[jade gust]

Did you miss the terminals in Halo 3 which confirmed humans weren't Forerunner?

[meager linden]

At least Spark have fun time at his Halo installation
Throwing off the Halo surfaces to space

[deep night]

plus h5 ending started a story on a book then infinite came and called it canon

[ocean herald]

Did you miss all of ce and h2?

[signal wedge]

you dont have to

[calm lion]

i feel the didact should’ve had a real ending in the games

[deep night]

yea

[jade gust]

No but nothing in the first two games is confirmation of humanity being Forerunner

[signal wedge]

its just that it's one of the most popular games out there

[ocean herald]

Did you miss this, did you miss that. I know what I didn’t miss and that’s that the lore officially defined them as different

[calm lion]

he’s such a cool villain conceptually and 343i/halo studios could’ve done so much more with him its insane

[balmy pagoda]

Again Bungie's lore is all over the place. Even they were kinda going back and forth.

[ocean herald]

That’s the point I was making

[minor wind]

Like what?
Ngl that dude was exhausting

[balmy pagoda]

My bad lol

[hearty flame]

Why would they kill a villain???

[deep night]

didact vs cortana and warden would've been fire

[calm lion]

the concept is metal though

[hearty flame]

Halo hasn't killed any of its major villains on-screen in real time since Halo 3

[calm lion]

you can’t deny that

[jade gust]

I say this as a big fan of his novel from the other year and how it handled his character, but I do wish he had a second game appearance in an antagonistic role

[idle plume]

So what is the point of AH's existence if every human could unlcok every forerunner tech

[calm lion]

i agree

[jade gust]

Escharum and Harbinger both died in Halo Infinite on screen

[balmy pagoda]

Didn't the Didact die at the end of 4 or...

[calm lion]

yeah but who gives a hell about the harbinger

[meager linden]

Not every human can use forerunner things

[hearty flame]

Escharum is an Atriox standin and hardly major. The Harbinger doesn't really do anything at all except antagonize John

[ocean herald]

I don’t believe so

[hearty flame]

No, he didn't

[deep night]

yea mostly

[balmy pagoda]

Oh wait that's right he went into the domain.

[calm lion]

i also feel like cortana should’ve just stayed dead

[jade gust]

It's complicated, involves the death of Spartan Black Team in a pretty not great comic but TLDR he survived and ended up getting blown up after by Chief at Gamma Halo which led to him getting into the Domain for a really good novel

[calm lion]

i love cortana but its really weird how they just bring her back in halo 5 after everything that happens in 4

[hearty flame]

Why kill a character that makes millions when you can ruin a franchise in the eye of pop culture by destroying a key character?

[jade gust]

I wish Halo 5's story had it be revealed that the Cortana we were seeing was some other entity using the image of Cortana to manipulate Chief

[idle plume]

but every forerunner things can use human- wait that's not right

[balmy pagoda]

I need to read that novel. Isn't the Didact the reason Cortana stopped being evil? Or it was hinted at?

[calm lion]

my thoughts exactly

[ocean herald]

At the end of 4 she splits herself even further and the part that “wasn’t dead” comes back

[jade gust]

It's complicated and I'd need to reread Epitaph

[calm lion]

still
its really weird how she just “comes back” in the very next game

[jade gust]

It's a mess and I don't think there's many people in the community who thinks bringing her back so soon after was a good idea

[coral yoke]

and here i was thinking all the games were directly connected to each other

[minor wind]

For me the stuff on part 5 makes sense
But what happens in Infinite doesnt

Like wow u start the game and find the what happened with 0 context like damn

[idle plume]

she's immortal

[deep night]

so where's all the others?

[balmy pagoda]

I think the reason is because Forerunners jumpstarted human evolution and shared their technology with humans.
Which is why we can interface with it. I think...

[ocean herald]

I wouldn’t say weird, I think they were following the rampancy arc to its natural conclusion. I wish the created uprising didn’t get resolved off screen though

[calm lion]

i have my gripes with infinite too

[hasty zinc]

https://www.halopedia.org/Geas

[calm lion]

don’t get me wrong, i love the campaign so much
but the goal of the banished is really confusing

[meager linden]

It's just AI's, shut them down and you won the battle

[calm lion]

yeahhh
i agree on the created part

[balmy pagoda]

Oh. Was this also the reason we were assumed the mantle?

[ocean herald]

the forerunner domain I assume

[calm lion]

i love the concept of the created and i think 343 could’ve done a lot more with it

[deep night]

it kinda is when atriox just went back in time

[signal wedge]

the concept of evil AI. So refreshing and new

[deep night]

ah

[coral yoke]

what the hell is the created?

[hearty flame]

It is the reason we were forced the mantle, which is a dumb unnatural thing that shouldn't exist as established by 5

[meager linden]

Human created AI

[coral yoke]

so the likes of cortana?

[calm lion]

point being the reclaimer saga as a whole had great ideas for the most part that were executed flimsily

[hearty flame]

The Created is any AI that gets incorporated into the Created

[minor wind]

Yea

[calm lion]

that or the 3rd book you need to read to have any idea what the hell is even happening

[hearty flame]

She's their leader I think she created it

[balmy pagoda]

Wait but I thought we were granted that long ago. That's why forerunners sent our evolution backwards, right?

[signal wedge]

Chat GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama...

[meager linden]

Grok...

[minor wind]

Entire Infinite plot seems hald written ngl
Idk what they were trying to do, but the game had real bad impression on me

[ocean herald]

To build on the geas point, ancient humans fought against the forerunners and when we lost we were devolved back to a primative state. The librarian, the forerunner you see in h4, imprinted geas into humans to eventually have them carry out her mission and one day assume the mantle

[deep night]

so the ai's that cortana recruited in h5 and she dies in infinite. What happened to them

[minor wind]

The entire timeline in infinite is stupid tbh.
People defend it by saying banished were introduced in Halo wars 2 and the game gives u very little context about it

[balmy pagoda]

Ahhhhh okay

Dots are connecting now

[calm lion]

“the banished wanna fire zeta halo” why?
“we will make zeta halo home!!!” but if you fire it you die with it

what the hell are their motivations?

[signal wedge]

they alt+f4'ed

[deep night]

lol probably so

[balmy pagoda]

They wanted it as a weapon to threaten the galaxy and inevitably take control.
The Banished aren't necessarily evil.

[runic wagon]

@hearty flame 👎

[jade gust]

Sloan is out making cyborgs known as Executors (He has one so far)

[deep night]

TRUUEE

[meager linden]

I bet making new home because Doisac destroyed by Cortana

[deep night]

ah

[signal wedge]

But why a ring

[calm lion]

i’ll guess
this is from a novel right?

[hasty zinc]

big gun go boom

[coral yoke]

i was under the impression that they somehow weren't aware that they'd die on it even after the events of halo 2 and 3

[signal wedge]

cant they just find another world for the new monkey homeworld

[ocean herald]

And the didact was locked away in his cryptum by his wife (the librarian), which is why he’s pissed lol

He didn’t think humans should be tasked with the mantle

[minor wind]

No idea, thats how mid the plot is
It likes they want us to focus on destroying the banished on zeta halo and be happy with that

[indigo lotus]

Some continue to operate in other parts of the galaxy. Just because Cortana’s death doesn’t mean it is the end of the Created completely.

[hearty flame]

Ok, why?

[deep night]

ah ok

[hasty zinc]

they were big mad Dosiac was destroyed, why not get the galaxies biggest gun and new home in one swoop

[balmy pagoda]

Yes and also points from Halo Wars 2 and Infinite.
The only reason why we fight the banished is because they hate the UNSC. Not humanity.

[deep night]

true

[meager linden]

I doubt they could use the ring to fire, because they don't have the Reclaimer things

[runic wagon]

This

[signal wedge]

genius. you're so right

[jade gust]

Because having a Halo as your new home world means you can threaten anyone who may want to mess with you

[signal wedge]

banished humans reminds me of chickens for KFC

[balmy pagoda]

That I knew but with added context it makes more sense now.

[coral yoke]

this happens in halo 5 i'm assuming?

[hasty zinc]

plus you can teleport and that's a big w

[calm lion]

they could’ve showed this more in infinite
instead i was left confused on what their motivations even were

[candid tusk]

It's a whole new scale of MAD.

[hasty zinc]

we learn about Dosiac in Infinite

[signal wedge]

the one ring to rule them alll

[balmy pagoda]

Tbf, a lot was cut from Infinite.

[hasty zinc]

don't forget you can fire the ring as just a gun and not a reset button

[coral yoke]

oh well damn i haven't been able to finish infinite yet

[hearty flame]

Almost the entirety of the Created's story is told in backstory in Infinite

[balmy pagoda]

It's a power piece and a home. Makes sense.

[meager linden]

Some sorta of after Halo 5 and after Halo Wars 2
Since it's happened and described on "Empty Throne"

[calm lion]

another example of the context you need being shoveled to a book

[hearty flame]

More books! Less game content!

[hasty zinc]

I mean Halo is a book series first, then a game series

[deep night]

boorrnniinngg

[balmy pagoda]

While I agree with that, I think some things being left to expanded lore books is fine.

[jade gust]

I wouldn't really say you need to read a book to understand why the Banished are doing what they are doing in Infinite

[signal wedge]

Books are fine but they are too expensive! I rather have 60 dollar games eevry year!

[candid tusk]

It's a pretty big radius on that bullet.

[hearty flame]

Oh my bad, the books created to promote the game that had been in development for years is technically what makes this a book series

I thought bait was against the rules here

[calm lion]

im not entirely against it
i think the books provide extra context on things from the games
but they shouldn’t BE the context is what i’m saying

[balmy pagoda]

Kinda like Warhammer

[candid tusk]

Halo is an RTS first and foremost.

[ocean herald]

“Expanded” lore in books is perfect. The lore between games happening in books is the problem

[hasty zinc]

it's not that serious lol

[balmy pagoda]

This is what I was trying to say to his point.

[signal wedge]

Someone tell HBO to make a Halo show

[hasty zinc]

GoR

[minor wind]

EXACTLY

[minor wind]

It better not be mid 💔

[meager linden]

If I'm correctly understand then... Maybe some parts not correct
Halo 5 -> Halo Wars 2 -> Shadows of Reach(book) ->Empty Throne -> Rubicon Protocol - Infinite - Edge of Dawn

[ocean herald]

Funny enough paramount might be merging hbo and uhhh… they did make a show 😭

[obsidian wyvern]

no they didn't

what halo show

[minor wind]

The one which was trash?

[signal wedge]

Paramount is bad. HBO is better. Better than Netslop, Amazon rainforest and Disney+

[indigo lotus]

Many of Halo books are bridge connections leading up to said events including the games.

[fierce zephyr]

They should just stick to making another halo anime like halo legends

[foggy silo]

They did pretty much the same thing with the academy, they finished their Lore at way point, although it's accessible it was a lousy creative decision, but you can't ask much from Halo Infinite engine. 😭

[jade gust]

Oh what I'd do for Halo Legends 2

[hasty zinc]

pretty sure they said HBO is staying "independent"

[jade gust]

Like, give me a Studio Trigger made Halo story

[obsidian wyvern]

I hope if they do make an anime, it doesn't go with small stories again

[signal wedge]

they better be. I need 10 more seasons of Dunk and Egg

[jade gust]

Or Studio Orange in the style of Trigun Stampede

[fierce zephyr]

Would literally do better than most mainstream animes but they refuse to do anything beneficial 😭 ✌️

[balmy pagoda]

I'd love a 3D animated series. I feel like animated is the best way to portray Halo.

[ocean herald]

I haven’t seen much on what the internal structures will look like but this was from last week

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/paramount-skydance-plans-merge-paramount-hbo-max-platforms-rcna261287

[signal wedge]

Have you guys seen the 2D concept of Hoppers

I think we need more 2D animation for reals

[jade gust]

I don't think it's as simple as someone refusing. Stuff like this would need to be negotiated for some time. Sometimes it could take a decade to get something off the ground

[foggy silo]

I'm a Halo glazer, but I doubt that Halo Legends 2 can do much against top tier anime.

[hasty zinc]

yeah I think that's just the apps though

[ocean herald]

I actually thought s2 was turning things around some

[signal wedge]

What top tier anime?

[fierce zephyr]

Ya idk but the community been asking for one for a while it’s a good idea

[normal owl]

Happy Mar10 Day

[calm lion]

right

[hasty zinc]

https://tenor.com/sRWZlm0QaLt.gif

[balmy pagoda]

Happy Mar10 day

[fierce zephyr]

It definitely would 🤷‍♂️ just good animation and good story telling and it would pop off

[foggy silo]

Today, Demon slayer with its incredible animation, Jujutsu Kaisen being a tremendous hit, and one piece for example.

[hasty zinc]

I'm going to celebrate MAR10 day by playing Pokopia

[signal wedge]

Wait was the original Halo Legends originally in Japanese or English

[obsidian wyvern]

we may be delusional here

[foggy silo]

But I agree that halo it's better in all points tho

[calm lion]

the silver timeline is a decent concept (ON PAPER ONLY)
if only they had competent writers to actually do something with it

[jade gust]

I celebrated Mario day by surviving illness

[balmy pagoda]

I don't have a single Nintendo game but I wish I did

[hasty zinc]

I'm glad you're feeling better though!

[signal wedge]

I played Legends of Zelda for 2 days and sold it

[normal owl]

I celebrate Mario every day by using my office building's plumbing services. #TrueFan

[signal wedge]

tears of the kingdom or whatever

[fierce zephyr]

It’s not though if it was to be on Crunchyroll it would pop off

[foggy silo]

I accept it, but we have already seen how this is, I doubt that it has good animation, or even good storytelling, original legends skipped a lot of data at the time from the books

[balmy pagoda]

I miss having Smash Ultimate. I also miss my old Switch.

[jade gust]

https://tenor.com/view/dmc1-devil-may-cry-1-resident-evil-4-leon-s-kennedy-coughing-gif-7063944608660217486

[rare cedar]

Not a single mention about Mario was made here in Japan today.

Pikachu is the true mascot of Japan as seen here

[obsidian wyvern]

id like it to but it is not rivaling anything mainstream

[minor wind]

happy?? im dying from this fever

[idle plume]

Hear me out. Halo Legends but it's doomed yuri

[calm lion]

it would certainly succeed though

[obsidian wyvern]

probably

[hasty zinc]

I bet the Pokémon franchise absolutely dwarfs the Mario franchise now

[jade gust]

There's my boy! He's in the big leagues now!

[foggy silo]

😭

[fierce zephyr]

Ya but this just comes down to who makes it tbh if it’s gonna be opm level animation and meh storytelling it would like u said go nowhere

[balmy pagoda]

I got so confused with this gif lol

[obsidian wyvern]

but I don't think it being an anime would instantly mean it's good, we could have a solo leveling on our hands

[rare cedar]

Seeing how it’s constantly doing collabs with lots of Japanese businesses year round, absolutely

[jade gust]

I was trying to find a specific moment from Requiem but sadly nobody has gifed it yet

[normal owl]

Enough amine: start telling these stories in claymation.

[candid tusk]

The most hype anime ever for angsty pre-teens.

[idle plume]

Or what if they just do CGI movies like Starship troopers

[calm lion]

amine 🔥

[balmy pagoda]

Don't... Spoil... It...

[jade gust]

Can I say it's really good?

[balmy pagoda]

Yes

[obsidian wyvern]

solo leve... 💤

[foggy silo]

Imagine Demon slayer animation with actual book lore

[balmy pagoda]

Anything that's spoiler free is fine

[jade gust]

Like, really really good to the point that I have done multiple playthroughs of Requiem

[normal owl]

https://tenor.com/view/ben-wyatt-parks-and-recreation-requiem-requiem-for-a-tuesday-powerpoint-gif-15998010

[balmy pagoda]

Freiren is better

[foggy silo]

Is Re:Réquiem good?