What would have happened if there hadn't been any gap moe in The Babysitter? Would O'Brien have cared as much? Halo Legends thread too, I guess.
Man I remember this stuff. Feels like it wasn't that long ago, even though it was.
embarrassingly I had to watch this twice for it to finally click that the human/forerunner relationship was>Forerunners put their DNA in the vault for cloning along with all the other species they'd 'rescued' on the ark>Forerunners kill all life in the galaxy including themself to starve the flood>Forerunner-built robots go around cloning all the extinct species archived in the arc and putting them back on their homeworld>The new clones of the forerunners were placed on Earth and were the ancestors of modern humans>Earth was always the Forerunner home world which is why the Halos and Ark all have earth-like environments, 1G of gravity etc
>>282077394Shame they retconned canned that idea. The whole Ancient humanity vs Forerunner war was and still is stupid.
>>282077640everything done by 343 should be dismissed out of hand. They fucked up even basic stuff like how rampancy works
>>282077394There was a time when it really was the plan. Before Frank and his small team of alumni made the terminals that would kickstart their own ideas of a plot line they carried with them into becoming 343 and hijacking that entire mess away.Honestly I still need to find a good place where I can watch Legends again.
>>282077919dunno how the hell they thought cortana turning evil, then getting replaced by a bootleg copy and killed off was a good idea that anybody would like or find compelling
>>282077919It's also a pity knowing that Bungie would've never have been able to pull this off the moment they let their ambitions get the better of them when they were making Halo 2.
Would you?
>>282077394>>282077919 Wait, I'm so confused about the Forerunners/Human relationship. I was under the belief that Forerunners were ancient Humans, which is why Humans are the only ones able to activate Halo, but in The Origin, Cortana says that the Forerunners are gone forever at 9:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-JSCbHAaJ8
>>282079116And at 7:52 you can see that the Forerunners are constructing the Portal while there are still ancient Humans.
>>282079116Forerunners as a society and culture are gone forever in the same way the babylonian empire is. you might be related to ancient babylonians but LARPing as one in your day to day life won't bring the actual babylonian empire back, be it one person doing it or millions. the point being that activating the halos was irreversible, all they could preserve was homo sapiens as a species, not forerunners as a people
>>282079224Okay, so what about? >>282079172It shows that scene at the same time you see the ancient species of Jackals, Brutes, and Elites and before it's explained that the Forerunners had catalogued species.
>>282079280those were other species of homo
>>282077913>They fucked up even basic stuff like how rampancy worksHuh, what was it supposed to work like?
Halo… it’s finished…
>"Can you just be human, anon?"
>>282076667Weird coincidence, I literally just watched a youtube video about Halo Legends.Also been playing through the entire MCC. Pretty fun. Wish I was around to experience the height of its popularity on Xbox.
>>282081184Hope you played CE with the original graphics
I'm so glad life overtook me to the point I failed to notice the releases of Halo 4 and onwards. I watched the cinematics later on youtube. And what a shitshow that was, turning Cortana into a PMSing bitch VR waifu was always going to be a controversial decision, but making that the whole of the plot is just ... something I still have no words for.
>>282076667Time for a rewatch
What was his fucking problem?
>>282081142I cry at this one every time. modern people are very focused on material status power and wealth so artistic ideas of heroism is sacrifice just don't seem to strike people anymore. Real sacrifice is hard, a choice between ideals and pressures. People have no sense of identity outside their "role" and what they consume and economically produce.
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>>282083159He was grumpy because the filter was driving him crazy.
Obligatory 1337 appreciation post. Unironically a better story and character than post-Reach Halo.
Oh hey the ODST collaboration Helldivers 2 did recently also got me feeling nostalgic for Halo. Or at least when Halo was cool and would get stuff like awesome anime anthologies.
