1:06 AM on 10.10.2007
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The above clip is the latest in Microsoft's line of "Believe" ads for their mega smash hit Halo 3. Regardless of your feelings on the actual game, you have to admit the ads have been up there with similar output from Budweiser, Nike and other such companies notorious for shelling out millions for thirty second spots people spend hours talking about at their respective water coolers.
Of course, this latest ad kinda, sorta lets slip the bombshell that the Master Chief dies during the events of Halo 3. Of course, there's the ever-present air of mystery surrounding his passing -- as there's no corpse -- and like a similarly revered gentleman whose corpse miraculously vanished postmortem there are certain very powerful entities at work intent on ensuring that the Chief won't be gone for long.
Personally, I give him about three days. I call dibs on poking any spear holes.
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Master Chief Travels to the Middle of the Earth Christmas Special!
http://citizengame.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/helo-3-museum-ad/
...I get his room!
How is that insulting? It's a fiction thing, you know? It's not meant to downplay or insult anyone, and if you are insulted, go somewhere you walking, talking, vagina. Seriously.
How could you be so damned sensitive? Did the Resident Evil trailer insult you too?
You know, even if this WAS designed to compare the fight with the aliens to WW2, and give that sort of feeling, I don't really see how that is offensive, considering we've got a few dozen WW2 set games, and even more books and movies and literally tons of various fiction set in WW2.
/i will be the grouchy old vet one day throwing my cane at the tv screen.
Oh, and Volomon, I do slightly sympathize with you, but not too too much. I read that article, and it brought up some valid points. What I did not see though, was any mention that it was an actual WW2 vet in the ad. I also couldn't find any mention anywhere on these internets of actual vets in any of the adds. I'm not trying to be insulting at all, so don't take it the wrong way if it seems that way, things affect everyone differently, and I can see how these ads may rub people the wrong way. But, it does mention in one of the ads that the importance of this monument was that it wasn't showing a conflict of man against man, it was showing man's ultimate unity, and survival. Now that I'm finished discussing the philosophy behind Halo ads, I'm gonna cry myself to sleep.
And if you think the there's a parallel between WW2 and Halo that offends you, what about the buttfuck amount of WW2 fps's?
Noooooooo! You bitch!
But ok, I'm sure it would've been such a more succesful campaign if they used a bearded American muslim of Arabic descent to play the Fallujah veteran. So much more useful than hooking into the Greatest Generation.
He probably did.
chief isn't dead. stick around past the credits, which are past the "thanks for playing our game, noobz" screen.
"Let the man RIP"? Why? He's not dead.
How is this anymore offensive than Medal of Honor, or any of the games based on actual, real wars where real men died? To be offended by these Halo commercials, is to be retarded. I'm sorry, but it's true. If this bothers you, then you may as well say that there should never be any fictional depictions of fictional wars and fictional soldiers EVER.
These are tastefully-done commercials. The "veterans" they depict are portrayed as being distinguished, heroic gentlemen who are still touched and affected, both positively and negatively, by their wartime experiences. How is that offensive?
Spoiled?
Nah. You've got people saying he's dead, you've got (smart) people (like me) saying he's not dead. Just watch through the end credits, and maybe you'll see the confusion.
Besides, did you honestly not think he'd probably die? My prerelease predictions were far worse than what we got.
Since we're fully immersed in spoiler talk here, I'm just going to speak freely. Keep in mind that the Chief got into a "cryo chamber" - the same sort he came out of in the beginning of Halo 1. These tubes keep them frozen and, thus, could theoretically preserve the Chief for quite a long time, basically extending his lifespan. The only "threat" is that the power in the back half of Forward Unto Dawn (the ship) would give out and he'd wake up, but I assume that Cortana would be ensuring his safety.
So, yes, the Chief is alive. However, based on the quasi-canonical Believe commercials, one must assume that neither the humans nor the Elites find his ship for, at least, 30-or-so years. It seems likely that they'll end up touching down on the planet they're drifting towards, seen in the Legendary ending.