Halo Infinite (XB/PC/Cloud/Game Pass) - Big Update out now.

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:
Photek wrote:It's an easy story to retell and I'm sure they will be explained.

Aliens = bad, humans = good?

More or less.

Splinter group from the Covenant that didn't believe in the profits so formed their own army. They kept on going after the Covenant lost to humanity and amassed quite a number of followers who didn't want to surrender with the rest of the covenant. Atriox, their leader is so far away from Installation 07 (infinites location) that we'll likely never meet him but his generals are just as cruel.

Pedz wrote:
Photek wrote:

twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1285942691822538752

Is his grapple his penis cause that's what framed in the tweet there

No it's on his left arm but interesting that you didn't notice it. :lol:

Halo lore is so bad. :lol:

Just give me some things to point and shoot at and I'll be happy. The basic Halo combat is borderline faultless, so if they can sort the shitty enemies and level design from the last two games we'll be all good.

more heat than light wrote:Halo lore is so bad.

It's a VERY brief summary....

Well, you'll mostly be fighting covenant type enemies again so that's sorted.

Photek wrote:Splinter group from the Covenant that didn't believe in the profits

Ah, so they're socialists?

Very good.

I think I want it to be fully open world now...

Things I expect will happen tomorrow:

1) The trailer will show Master Chief with his helmet off.
2) Master Chief will be a Black man
3) The undesirable parts of the internet and gaming community will melt the strawberry float down.

My problem with the Halo lore was when it got to number 4 it added elements from the books that I had no idea what they were and they never really explained that stuff well in game from what I remember. It’s what put me off playing 5

more heat than light wrote:Halo lore is so bad.

I did some reading of the wiki and the narrative knots it ties itself in trying to combine the game and EU lore is ridiculous. As bad as the worst of the old Star Wars EU.

For example, the Didact appeared in the Halo 3 Terminals as the Forerunner that lit the Halos. The Librarian was his wife. Then he appears in Halo 4, having been a captive at the time of the firing.

Sike! Not the same guy. See the Halo 4 baddie is the UrDidact rather than the IsoDidact who was an unrelated Forerunner who had his personality overrun by the UrDidact and it was he who...etc etc.

Also, 10000 years before Halo 1 the Humans and the Forerunners had a war which the humans lost and were de-evolved to our stone age ancestors

It's absolute pish

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The Halo Infinite box art has been released. It harkens back to the original game.

More like 100,000 years before Halo 1.... :shifty:

This games story appears to be more intimate and set on one Halo. That said, a lot of crazy stuff happened on this halo. 343 Guilty Spark crash landed there when he was a human 100k years ago...

Tafdolphin wrote:
more heat than light wrote:Halo lore is so bad.

I did some reading of the wiki and the narrative knots it ties itself in trying to combine the game and EU lore is ridiculous. As bad as the worst of the old Star Wars EU.

For example, the Didact appeared in the Halo 3 Terminals as the Forerunner that lit the Halos. The Librarian was his wife. Then he appears in Halo 4, having been a captive at the time of the firing.

Sike! Not the same guy. See the Halo 4 baddie is the UrDidact rather than the IsoDidact who was an unrelated Forerunner who had his personality overrun by the UrDidact and it was he who...etc etc.

Also, 10000 years before Halo 1 the Humans and the Forerunners had a war which the humans lost and were de-evolved to our stone age ancestors

It's absolute pish

That last bit :lol:

What. When did they add that?

I hope there's no Flood in this.

Mafro wrote:I hope there's no Flood in this.

Lore wise it’s unlikely but.... if I was gonna guess I think they’ll have them.. late in the game.

Venom wrote:The Halo Infinite box art has been released. It harkens back to the original game.

5 and a half hours later. :slol:

Tomous wrote:
Tafdolphin wrote:
more heat than light wrote:Halo lore is so bad.

I did some reading of the wiki and the narrative knots it ties itself in trying to combine the game and EU lore is ridiculous. As bad as the worst of the old Star Wars EU.

For example, the Didact appeared in the Halo 3 Terminals as the Forerunner that lit the Halos. The Librarian was his wife. Then he appears in Halo 4, having been a captive at the time of the firing.

Sike! Not the same guy. See the Halo 4 baddie is the UrDidact rather than the IsoDidact who was an unrelated Forerunner who had his personality overrun by the UrDidact and it was he who...etc etc.

Also, 10000 years before Halo 1 the Humans and the Forerunners had a war which the humans lost and were de-evolved to our stone age ancestors

It's absolute pish

That last bit

What. When did they add that?

That stuff was around when Halo 3 launched...

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Photek wrote:5 and a half hours later.

I’m out of the country, working and the Eurogamer tweets were not loading. I’m almost tempted to ask if just once you could turn your Photek-level down by one, but I wouldn’t want you to lose any of your ‘charm.’

Mafro wrote:I hope there's no Flood in this.

The Flood reveal in the first game is legit one of my favourite moments in gaming. Granted, following it up with The Library wasn't the best idea, but they're a million times more fun to fight than Prometheans.

Somebody Else's Problem wrote:Things I expect will happen tomorrow:

1) The trailer will show Master Chief with his helmet off.
2) Master Chief will be a Black man
3) The undesirable parts of the internet and gaming community will melt the strawberry float down.

Even worse for those type of people?

Halo 1 had the best story/lore because it showed so little of its hand. Keep things mysterious/hidden but frame that mystery in a good way and you're on to a winner as the audience is intrigued. It went wrong when they started trying to fill the blanks and it became clear that the writers had about as compelling a vision as those behind Lost and so that mystery gets filled with with bullshit and they throw stuff like Gravemind at the player and expect them to keep a straight face!

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