Still fired up from those leaked Halo: Reach images? Then sit down, and prepare to immediately stand up in just a second. Probably.
Along with the list of nominees for the Spike Video Game Awards going out today, we have also been informed that the show will be the source for all of your Halo: Reach reveal needs. That'll be happening during the live show on December 12, but don't worry about remembering the exact date.
I'm sure there will be plenty of commercials to remind us when the VGAs are going down. And, knowing how these things usually happen, you can bet Spike has secured a number of other world premieres beyond Halo: Reach. Are you ready?
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11:45 AM on 11.18.2009
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1) The book was really good.
2) We can actually see Master Chief interacting with other Spartans
3) Alledgedly the gameplay is team based
There's a few reasons to watch. Wether you should "expect" something or not...well...that's kind of the point of them showing you the game isn't it?
Anyways I may watch. Or wait for it to get YouTube'd. Either way I look forward to it.
Yeah I feel ya. 3 sucked. ODST was decent. I'm just a really big fan of the book mostly. :P
If Reach can have firefight or something better, I will do a happy.
I can't WAIT for Reach. It's looking like it'll bring Halo back to it's former glory. But then again, I'm sounding kind of like a Sonic fan right here.
What is with the book, by the way? I am not a bookworm but I cannot imagine how it could envelope a good story out on it. Are they just text versions of the game or they have their own chapters?
Funny you should ask as I just recently blogged about it.
Now if you don't know The Fall of Reach is the first Halo novel and it covers the creation of the superfreak Spartan-117 also known as Master Chief. The book follows him as his emotions are gutted out of him, Cortana befriends him, and his fellow Spartans (seriously they're like his family) begin their first fight against an unanticipated invasion of Covenant.
I love Laser.
@Zeta- Agreed
I'm not going to speculate on them until Bungie confirms, if they were fakes I'd have expected Bungie to dismiss them quicker.
Anyway, I like the direction they were going with ODST, trying new things within the Halo universe. I got the feeling that ODST was an experiment of sorts, with Reach being the refined version of that experiment, only with more features (Perks, squad gameplay, etc.). I have high hopes for Reach after ODST (The campaign was easily better than Halo 3), and I can't wait for this reveal.
Actually I think Bungie did confirm them fake.
HOWEVER...
Bungie confirms everything, and I do mean everything, fake unless they say it. Not even a "Maybe." Everything's always "fake" with Bungie. Even if it turns out to be true the 6 months before Bungie said it, it was fake.
And hell I just love the bright colours and taking pictures of mah lazor.
Still, I hope this game turns out well. Not an expansion pack like ODST.
I once read a sample of one of the Halo novels in a gaming magazine and my impression was that is was pretty lame. It ended with a reveal that this spartan we'd seen fighting was actually a 12 year old girl.... apparently trying to rip off Ender's game like you said, but completely missing the point that the "child soldiers" in Ender's Game did not act as actual foot soldiers. Yes, in the sequel taking place on earth they did participate in combat, but this was not their planned role, and such a thing would make no sense. Child soldiers exist in real life, but again, this is done out of desperation, not an ideal arrangement. Just a stupid idea in the case of the Halo novel; a misguided attempt to rip off EG that compeltely misses the point.
I'm really, reeeeeally ready to see what ELSE Bungie can Fing do. I think they're afraid they can't come up with another successful franchise. Hell, even just some ACTUAL INNOVATION on Halo would be good enough. I consider the advances made on the formula with each sequel so far to be about the equivalent of Malibu Stacey getting a new hat. And who actually cares about the story? Could the campaigns in the last 2 games have been any weaker and more boring? I couldn't have cared less what was supposed to be happening in Halo 3, my memory of it is just a confusing mess.
I went in with zero expectation and was pleasantly surprised. They weren't the most original novels in the world, but they were highly entertaining. At the end of the day, the novels surpassed the source material. But to be fair, surpassing what passes as "plot" and "characterization" in those games isn't a hard thing to do.
Also, the "child soldier" trope wasn't invented by Card. It's a narrative device and, ugly reality, steeped in bloody history. It wasn't magically created in 1985.
So it was a failed attempt at ripping of Ender's Game? Now at all , oh I dunno, just a coincedence? Since clearly you've shown flaws in the "ripping off" as you say.
I mean god forbid two pieces of work on the same medium share any similarities. In which case every alien movie is clearly a ripoff of War of the Worlds since they all have aliens and War of the Worlds had aliens.
I think i thoroughly acknowledged that Card didn't invent it, I'm guessing you didn't read my entire post. I can forgive that, I know it was a long rant. Bottom line is though that, as I said before, it just doesn't make any sense here and I just saw it as a lame attempt to add a "twist" to the story, but it just doesn't make any sense. Physically mature young adults would obviously make better soldiers. I hate repeating myself..... CHILD SOLDIERS EXIST IN REALITY YES, BUT IN DESPERATE SITUATIONS, NOT IDEAL ONES. Spartans would be an "ideal" situation, they are specially engineered, they can use whoever they want, why would they choose to use small children? It's fucking retarded.
I don't KNOW that he ripped off Ender's Game, that was just a theory that occurred to me when i read his story; I could easily imagine this hack writer reading EG and saying "oh, child soldiers, that's a nifty little plot device that would make my story appear more unique" while completely missing the point.
You do realize that the people writing the writers of the Halo novels were "inspired" by truckloads of money from Microsoft, right? This is the truth, doesn't matter if they said in an interview that they care about the material. It's all stuff they were getting paid to say. Your money is all they care about, so maybe real sci fi writers are more worthy of your attention. Just a thought
You don't think that the extinction of the entire human race at the hands of a genocidal extraterrestrial collective qualifies as a "desperate situation"? The Spartan II program was a response to the long training times required by the original band of adult Spartans. As they were a stop gap measure to buy time, they were meant to be cannon fodder and thus expendable.
Also, the series on a whole is not meant to be high literature. Nyland wrote "Reach" in seven weeks, and "Onyx" in fifteen weeks. They're meant to be popcorn entertainment, and there's enough wiz-bang Buck Rogers meets Platoon shit in there to satisfy.
So you imagined that they ripped off EG and decided to post here about it? And are you implying that authors shouldn't get paid? or that "Real Sci-Fi authors" do it for free? Just because these books weren't the literary form of the original Star Wars trilogy means that they were "lame"?
Y'know you cant really make a literary critique if you've never read more then one or two chapters. Also, the Spartan IIs didn't really do any fighting till many years after they were originally recruited as children.
honestly if you just hate Halo, why dont you just come out and say it? I dont hear you complaining about Battlestar Galactica ripping off Star Trek due to the mind melding thing. (which btw doesn't happen in real life unlike the child soldier thing.)
This is a nice quote. I'm still laughing. I can't say I was satisfied though; most of the action sequences were written like a Halo walkthrough. It would be more exciting if the Master Chief weren't always Combat Jesus.
"More like Halo: Reaching" is also awesome, though I'll probably end up buying the game.
I'm bitter because they didn't telepathically know that I would have written better novels. That's all.
I'm glad there are others who recognized the obvious references with all soul and style unceremoniously ripped out. Doesn't mean we hate the games. The games are still awesome.