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levyjl1988
Banned
I wonder if this game will be bigger than Destiny?
Shrennin
Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
Probably not if only for the fact that Destiny is available on five different platforms. If you're talking about just the platforms it's on, then I think Halo 5 very well could be.
I should caveat this, I don't think Halo 5 can be bigger than Destiny UNLESS perhaps Microsoft released it or a version of it for Windows 10. It would need other exposure outside of the Xbox platform to get that big, but Halo will be one of the definitive franchises for Xbox. It'll probably sell a lot of Xbox systems too. I think so far it deserves to be bigger than Destiny if only for the free maps! Any game that doesn't split the community should get high praise and recognition.
ProvenDeadly
Member
rokkerkory
Member
Hoping for halo 5 bundle with white console!
Aim higher. Clear....green? Blue? Something "rad" colored.
Your definition of "shit posting" is clearly very different from mine.
BTW i finally saw that shot of Locke in front of the cliff face, those rocks. Shit!
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
lol why would they go boring route?
Inevitably we are getting custom Halo 5 console.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Anyone ever wonder that they began hearing the Didact's voice in the Chief's head after the Librarian accelerated his evolution? Wonder if the Didact was communicating to him through the Domain?
Even Cortana couldn't hear it.
Even Cortana couldn't hear it.
killer rin
Member
Purple Covenent Addition? Greyish Blue Forerunner? Whatever Colour the Guardians are?
I hope they release it in multiple bright translucent colors so I can see the chief and cortana scream in agony from outside the box
I miss translucent junk.
wesleyshark
Banned
No, it is going to be awesome.
I'm still under the impression that the voice wasn't the Ur-Didact's, but the geas of the IsoDidact starting to awaken within MC.
Captain Friendo
Neo Member
Didn't that voice directly communicate with him and stuff though? Even threatened him at points I believe.
wesleyshark
Banned
It was by no means a "friendly" voice in the sense of good vs bad. I could be very wrong on the theory, which is fine haha, but that Cortana couldn't hear it really bothers me.
Even with Chakas- the Lord of Admirals' geas wasn't all that friendly with him either as the birth pangs began.
Edit:I'm not saying this is definitive or anything... Just a theory that I can't shake because the Cortana bit still nags at me.
wesleyshark
Banned
From Human Weakness, by Karen Traviss:
And, also:
The Domain, though long to be considered utterly lost at the firing of the Halos, may still exist...in some capacity...far beyond the reaches of anyone at the current. Cortana, though thought to be lost at the destruction of the Mantle's Approach, may still be out...in some capacity...just out of reach of the Master Chief.
Or is she?
More from Human Weakness:
Your human creators imprisoned you in a machine and enslaved you to inferior mortal flesh so that you could never exceed them so that you would always know your place.
Your mother made you separate. She placed a barrier between you and the beings that you would be encouraged to protect, a wall you could never breach. She even let you choose a human to centre your existence upon, a human to care about, yet never considered how you might feel at never being able to simply touch him.
From Halo 4:
Whether Chief will succeed or not in finding Cortana or bringing her back remains to be seen, but it's pretty safe to assume that will be part of what he's up to in Halo 5. Perhaps seeking out what remains in the shadows of Gravemind's assimilation, and what possibly hitchhiked in the Ur-Didact's ancilla receptacle is must be gathered. Perhaps finding Halsey and seeking out these other cloned brains is part of the answer. Perhaps it's none of this, and Cortana is lost forever. We cannot be sure, or say for sure, at this point.
And then something brushed against her face, almost like the touch of fingertips, and she found herself turning even though she didnt need to in order to see behind her. It was that forest she couldnt identify again. The picture didnt reach her via her imaging systems, but had formed somewhere in her memoryand that memory wasnt hers. She was seeing something from within the Gravemind. Behind it, like stacked misted frames stretching into infinity, there was a fascinating glimpse of a world she had never imagined, a genuinely alien world.
Knowledge, so much knowledge
There, the Gravemind said. Would you not like to know more?
Yes, this is how I see myself. I have limbs, hands, a head. Do I need them? Yes, of course. My consciousness is copied from a human brain, and that brain is built to interface with a human body.
The structure, the architecture, the whole way it operatesthought and form are inseparable.
Knowledge, so much knowledge
There, the Gravemind said. Would you not like to know more?
Yes, this is how I see myself. I have limbs, hands, a head. Do I need them? Yes, of course. My consciousness is copied from a human brain, and that brain is built to interface with a human body.
The structure, the architecture, the whole way it operatesthought and form are inseparable.
And, also:
The name of this place
it matters little except to those who love the knowing of it, the Gravemind said, fading up from a mosaic of pixels in front of her. He resolved into a solid mound of flesh, superimposed on the tree trunks. Beyond the alien forest, Cortana saw exotically alien buildings in the distance. So many have been consumed. Such a waste of existence to be devoured and forgotten, but what is remembered and known
becomes eternal.
The Domain, though long to be considered utterly lost at the firing of the Halos, may still exist...in some capacity...far beyond the reaches of anyone at the current. Cortana, though thought to be lost at the destruction of the Mantle's Approach, may still be out...in some capacity...just out of reach of the Master Chief.
Or is she?
More from Human Weakness:
Your human creators imprisoned you in a machine and enslaved you to inferior mortal flesh so that you could never exceed them so that you would always know your place.
Your mother made you separate. She placed a barrier between you and the beings that you would be encouraged to protect, a wall you could never breach. She even let you choose a human to centre your existence upon, a human to care about, yet never considered how you might feel at never being able to simply touch him.
From Halo 4:
Ive waited so long to do that.
Whether Chief will succeed or not in finding Cortana or bringing her back remains to be seen, but it's pretty safe to assume that will be part of what he's up to in Halo 5. Perhaps seeking out what remains in the shadows of Gravemind's assimilation, and what possibly hitchhiked in the Ur-Didact's ancilla receptacle is must be gathered. Perhaps finding Halsey and seeking out these other cloned brains is part of the answer. Perhaps it's none of this, and Cortana is lost forever. We cannot be sure, or say for sure, at this point.
SolarMystic
Member
Playing halo 4 made me realize I needed to brush up on the extended lore outside of the games. I thought I had done that, knew enough to follow along with halo 4, who ur didact is and the early human history, precursors, reclaimers, all that stuff.
But these past couple pages have made me realize I'm still far behind. What's the recommended reading to be "in the know" these days?
But these past couple pages have made me realize I'm still far behind. What's the recommended reading to be "in the know" these days?
It was by no means a "friendly" voice in the sense of good vs bad. I could be very wrong on the theory, which is fine haha, but that Cortana couldn't hear it really bothers me.
Even with Chakas- the Lord of Admirals' geas wasn't all that friendly with him either as the birth pangs began.
Edit:I'm not saying this is definitive or anything... Just a theory that I can't shake because the Cortana bit still nags at me.
That's not a bad theory. The voice that only Chief hears says several ambiguous things. When it's definitely the UrDidact, Cortana can hear him.
Transcript here: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Shutdown
Heh, I wonder if that's what the Librarian did to him - imprinted him with IsoDidact or just accelerated it.
wesleyshark
Banned
Well, he is already imprinted with the IsoDidact's geas as MC is a descendent of Riser, who was the one originally imprinted. I think the Librarian helped accelerate the process, perhaps.
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