6:37 AM on 09.17.2007
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Thanks to the various people who sent this to me -- and Toneman who managed to put it up in his clog while I was busy sleeping -- the above video is a YouTube clip of the supposedly leaked ending to Bungie's upcoming Halo 3. Obviously it contains a truckload of spoilers so if you don't want to cry about how horribly I've ruined the experience of a game whose story has often been compared to the finest works of Hemingway and Steinbeck (by those who have an incredibly cruel grasp of sarcasm), do not press play, read the comments below, or log onto the Internet for the next week.
Then again, since Microsoft has an army of lawyers made of molten rock and pure hatred at their beck and call, I give the clip roughly six hours before it disappears into the ether. Enjoy it while you can!
[UPDATE: Backups now exist, so even if the YouTube clip is drowned in a flood of C&D orders, we'll still have it for you.]
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Honestly, after 2 I didn't expect an amazing ending. I think their writers have issues with closing stories / wrapping it up. I mean it's pretty hard to make out the video but at the sametime I think the "important" tidbits were clear.
I'm super cereal!
He dies, boring funeral.
Oh, lol, I got banned from Game Trailers for posting the link to the video. Oh the sweet sweet sound of me LOL'ing.
Of course, the clip above is totally devoid of context, so there's probably more to the ending than just that final cutscene. Too bad I'll never play Halo 3 to find out!
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Anyone care to enlighten me as to what they were doing a close up on during the last shot before the credits start to roll? The quality on the vid I could get to play was not so good. I saw the "in memory of those fallen..." but couldn't make out what the camera was focusing in on.
While usually it doesnt, I play Halo for the single player experience. It seems that the gameplay will be more of the same ol' so no reason for me to drop $60 on a game that I already own two copies of - Halo and Halo 2 respectively.
If the ending is that lame, I can save myself the trouble of finishing the fight.
There is a fade to white explosion, and yeah, there is a funeral but its more like a mass death memorial, and someone scratched John 117 on the stone, but there is no body. So, in corproate speak, look forward to the new Bungie franchise: The Master Chief Chronicles!
Its a pathetically weak, you get a dumb "Maybe he dies, maybe he dont!" ending, a pat on the back for ending the war, move along now, nothing else to see.
Rumor has it the extra bit at the end thats not in the clip is MAster Chief and Cortana drifting through space and master Chief stepping into a cryo-chamber to freeze himself until they get rescued.
I hope not, that would make the ending even WORSE and the dollar-irises in Bungie-dev's eyes more obvious.
Halo 2? I have no idea what was going on there. I just shot at things and occaisonally saw pre-rendered footage of the chief kicking a bomb in space, clutching an earth-bound shuttle in space. By the end I knew I'd won, but I wasn't sure what.
I think endings in videogames rarely if ever satisfy. Unlike other means of story telling, we bring so much of our own input to the story, that what the game makers decide is the end of game rarely live up to our unique expectations. Even if it's only pulling off a paticularly satisfying combo or using a strategy that annihilates the A.I competition, thanks to advances in the technology (and the ever-overactive human imagination) we can find pathos and plot in our actions more than the design team have the scope to depict.
Ocarina of time, for example, was a perfect journey, a wonderful videogame experience, but I felt the ending was lengthy, tedious and in general sucked eggs. Wind Waker's ending, on the other hand, was brilliant. The plot was explained to you as you battled through. By the time you'd stuck your sword into Ganon's forehead there was little else to say apart from "flood Hyrule".
I hope Halo 3 is the shiznit. I sincerely hope that the ending (whatever it turns out to be) is definitive and that the master chief horse is not flogged for whatever cash can be made (TIME TO MOVE ON, bungie). Inspite of all the bollocks, this is a solid, enjoyable first person shooter. For me though the inspirational moments were never the story, but using the limited resources to out-think and out-flank a bunch of elites.
One day there will be a really worthwhile ending to a videogame. Maybe there is and I haven't seen it. Please tell me if so...
Your double-posting glitch! It's gone!
The commenter's ruining the plot probably don't even own a 360 but have some complex where they feel better about being fat friendless slobs by spoiling games they have no intention playing, anonymously. Awesome! Now go eat one of your siblings.
It's all your fault Dtoid!! Just like is my teacher's fault i do bad in school, Mcdonald's fault that i am fat and my parent's fault that i fail in life.
Teachers, Parents, and McDonalds ARE alot worse then they used to be.
No, you are.
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