New Teaser Video. Halo 3 Campaign Extension?

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:52 am

Ok, I think that's a bit of an overkill on the evidence, guys.

xbox · Post by **xbox** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:01 am

Now philly, we all know that you haven't been around the halo 3 and xbox stuff before but that's no excuse for not knowing about rabid fanboys.

[IA]Paul · Post by **[IA]Paul** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:15 am

Woah, I just noticed the elevator. The origin of the bright flash of the slipspace jump is on the left, but in Halo 2, it was right by the Orbital Elevator. Continuity, man.

BIG FUCKING DEAL HURR

DEEhunter · Post by **DEEhunter** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:27 am

Woah, I just noticed the elevator. The origin of the bright flash of the slipspace jump is on the left, but in Halo 2, it was right by the Orbital Elevator. Continuity, man.

BIG *** DEAL HURR

Parallax

kibito87 · Post by **kibito87** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:45 am

I'm sure a few people here have seen the CGI movie's named "Appleseed". And to me, this teaser seems an aweful lot like the animation style. Now, i'm in no way referencing these two things into one god awful connection. I'm just wondering why this teaser seems so "appleseed" ish when Halo3 already had amazing graphics. Maybe I just fail to see why they went with this type of look than what they used for the actual retail game.

Does anybody have a logical post as to why they may have focused on this type of graphic or CG? I was just sitting here reading this topic and found this question to intrigue me.

Yodel · Post by **Yodel** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:54 am

My sentiments exactly.

Themandyou · Post by **Themandyou** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 8:47 am

kibito87 wrote:I'm sure a few people here have seen the CGI movie's named "Appleseed". And to me, this teaser seems an aweful lot like the animation style. Now, i'm in no way referencing these two things into one god awful connection. I'm just wondering why this teaser seems so "appleseed" ish when Halo3 already had amazing graphics. Maybe I just fail to see why they went with this type of look than what they used for the actual retail game.

Does anybody have a logical post as to why they may have focused on this type of graphic or CG? I was just sitting here reading this topic and found this question to intrigue me.

Maybe they're nowhere near done and that's what they're final product hopes to be like (not graphics, more of the whole cutscene part).

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:13 pm

kibito87 wrote:Does anybody have a logical post as to why they may have focused on this type of graphic or CG? I was just sitting here reading this topic and found this question to intrigue me.

Halo is a pretty game, but no longer the prettiest out there as it has been on shelfs for a year. To spark interest not only among rabid fans but also new potential customers, they may have gone with a CG approach to give it compelling "mass appeal" graphically.

Once it comes out, it's still Halo so it won't need to sell on graphics alone, but until then a large portion of the buzz among ... pedestrian gamers ... will be about how pretty it is in the teaser. That is, sadly, what will keep their interest in the new campaign until solid story and gameplay information gets out.

Nick

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:02 pm

Excuse my ignorance, but I haven't really read much into this... but if the end pod crashes before the others, how does that camera go from being cracked to fully operational.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:04 pm

The cameras are technically different, whether it be on purpose or not, they are shot from different angles, which would lead me to believe they are two different cameras. However, I suggested that it was a timestamp error, but Veegie told me no.

I still think the last pod is, in fact, falling after the others, and that the timestamp is not a reliable indicator.

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:08 pm

The cameras have the same name though.

Samusaaron3 · Post by **Samusaaron3** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:12 pm

I think it is a time stamp error. The Superintendent was freaking out, so it is very possible.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:13 pm

And there's smoke and debris around. I don't see how it can be justified that it's earlier, I was just listening to Veegie.

Veegie: That is the last pod that you see in the video
Veegie: but due to the time stamp, it shows that pod came in by itself 5 minutes before all of the others
-- Later --
Tural: Which pod drops 5 minutes before?
Veegie: The last one.
Veegie: In Impact.png
Tural: Interesting.
Tural: It shatters the lens, but that's the same camera that shows the large amount dropping a few minutes later
Tural: Internal clock messed up by slipspace jump?
Veegie: No.
Veegie: Slipspace jump didn't happen until they hit the atmosphere when the others entered
Veegie: after a bit
Tural: But if the last pod came earlier, and shattered the glass on the camera, how is the same camera taking pictures later, without the shattered glass?
Veegie: It's not the same exact camera
Veegie: They're not that literal

Geo · Post by **Geo** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:16 pm

They should have really been named differently then... quite misleading.

DEEhunter · Post by **DEEhunter** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:18 pm

chrishansen · Post by **chrishansen** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:28 pm

do you think we could be playing as covenant this time and the drop pod was just for looks?

Veegie · Post by **Veegie** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:30 pm

Most likely.
I like where you're going with this.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:31 pm

chrishansen wrote:do you think we could be playing as covenant this time and the drop pod was just for looks?

Definitely. I think they just have the human AI, the human drop pods, the human city, the human conversation logs, and the human formatting of information just for show.

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:38 pm

Hahahahahahaha. Man, sometimes, you just have to laugh.

But chrishansen, to save you some confusion, the answer is no.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 7:48 pm

Watch him be right. I will lol so hard. So very hard.