post halo 3 bungie

Halo 2 is better

>>738165020
he was
that ending is because they were taken out one by one

reminder than Jun is voiced by a jeet

>DUDE there were hundreds of upgraded Spartans that kicked so much ass
>NO you can’t see them, uhh they all died right before CE so THERE.
>DUDE humans aren’t forerunners, who told you that? A guy who worked for them?
>UH no he was crazy, he MEANT to say that forerunners were these ugly grey dudes and this one guy turned himself into a HECKIN VAMPIRE
>DUDE, DUDE, the Flood? Get this. They’re not some sort of bioweapon left behind by human forerunners
>They’re from BEFORE the forerunners
>They’re FORERUNNERS to the FORERUNNERS. Is your mind BLOWN?
Fuck prequels, fuck tie-in novels, fuck expanded universes. Everything post CE ate away at the whimsy and wonder of traversing the first Ring in Halo CE. Yes even Halo 2 and 3 were guilty of this to a lesser degree. Its the Star Wars effect

Combat Evolved stands on its own as a weird scifi love letter, and everything else only served to diminish its charm

>>738165448
It is funny that even when the franchise was at the top of the world it felt like they were never able to recapture the basic cinematic quality of your first intro to the flood

>>738165448
Humans being Forerunner was only implied in 2 and 3, dipshit. Jaimie Grisemer has confirmed this multiple times and said Jason Jones only got it in his head during the dev cycle for 2

>>738165448
Before Halo 4 dropped I rolled my eyes at each new Spartan reveal.
Its like how Palpatine ran the shittiest genocide ever and Order 66 has 150 surviving Jedi Masters, Knights, and Padawans running around before A New Hope
Reach sucked but the custom games were god tier

>>738165590
>Humans being Forerunner was only implied in 2 and 3, dipshit
Very true. We cannot forget the asterisks in guilty spark's dialogue, sisters.

>>738165770
What fucking dialogue in CE implies that humans were Forerunner?

>>738165838
>Last time you asked me, if it were my choice, would I do it? Having had considerable to time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. There is no choice. We must activate the ring.

>>738165934
THAT IS 3 YOU FUCKING RETARD. YOU ARE PROVING MY POINT. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU. WE ARE NOT DISCUSSING "IS THERE AN IMPLICATION IN BUNGIE HALO THAT HUMANS ARE FORERUNNER", WE ARE ASKING IF THAT IMPLICATION EXISTED PURELY IN CE AND THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUSLY NOT

>>738165838
NTA but doesnt Spark call you a reclaimer in Halo 1? Reclaimer seems like “hey, this incredible shit belongs to you, remember?”
He hands him the Index, instead of the Elites (who actually wanted to fire Halo)
He treats your arrival like it makes total sense
Is genuinely taken aback when you don’t want to fire the rings. “But of course you knew that. I mean, how couldn’t you?”
Sure he didnt come out and say it but the implication is there.

>>738166065
That line is from The Maw in CE

>>738166129
Two betrayals. Another Two Betrayals line as well:
>Monitor: More or less. Technically this installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty five thousand light years, but once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life, or any least any life with sufficient biomass to sustain the Flood...But you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?

>>738166124
>>738166129

lol humans are just the inheritors of the forerunners, that makes them present forerunners. get it? is not that complicated.

>>738166209
>Two betrayals.
The fuck? I thought it was one of his monologues he gives while you're fucking up the engine room

>>738165164
If he were a team player that wouldnt have happened

>>738165448
It's really insane how much they limited their universe while trying to expand it

>>738165838
Replay the game. Like half of the motherfucker's dialogue is implying it. The title "Reclaimer" implies it (unless you work at 343). It was clearly always either meant to be at least a possible interpretation or an implication.

>>738166235
>present forerunners
Who are we forerunning for? Uplifted cat girls manufactured for domestic ownership?

>>738165448
I love how Halo 2 expanded the Covenant internal politics and religion, but it felt so fucking rushed and incomplete for one game. It was a good opportunity to explain why the Covenant doesn't use robots and artificial intelligence in their army because the Prophets know about Mendicant Bias and how artificial beings were the demise of the Forerunner Empire, they don't want to repeat it. Or how we get to see the stunning and beautiful capital of the Covenant, High Charity, but it's just destroyed in a few missions like if it has no importance. And a few more things I would have liked if they expanded Halo 2 into three or four more games.

The brief pre-Halo 2 era was wild. I remember forum posts where people tried to figure out the Covenant leadership since the prophets weren’t a thing yet.
Some people thought the gold elites were essentially Covenant “Lords” which was funny.

>>738166682
Didn't Fall of Reach come out at the same time? It specifically said "hey we're sending you all on a mission to kidnap a prophet" at the end, no?

>>738165448
Respectfully, this is too much autism. The only true Halos are the Bungie ones, even if they played fast and loose with the canon there towards the end.

>>738165590
Dude 343 Guilty Spark outright stated humans were forerunner right before his boss fight in Halo 3.
https://youtu.be/HmKTXKyf-OY?t=112
Even if they weren't totally sure themselves, the line is there.

>>738165020
The entire team was dead by that point.

Fuck lore, lore killed Halo. Assigned reading for a video game? Fuck you I’m not doing my homework
>Marines: These guys are badass except sometimes not. They are from Aliens and they kick ass and probably take unisex showers with nude Army tomboys
>Cortana: Wowie zowie this girl is smoking hot. She’s naked all the time and everyone on the bridge gets a huge boner when she bends over. I love women so much bros
>Covenant: Fuck these jerks. They have great AI but they talk like foreigners so I must kill them. Did you ever read the Culture? I hate communism but the ship names were so cash money. “Truth and Reconciliation” fuck yes take my money
>Guilty Spark: Its The Culture time again, hes a sassy little drone like Cortana but not sexy (unless you are a freak). Awesome lore but fuck you lore sucks, unless this guy is saying it
>Flood: Alien soup? No dumbass they are THE THING but everywhere!! The Thing if the Thing thinged everybody on Earth! Fuck! They can make a spaceship just like that glasses nerd from the movie. Im shitting bricks just thinking about it
>Multiplayer: Fuck yeah, what could be better than pwning noobs and rubbing your big manly nuts in their face?
I love video games so much bros

>>738165448
>WHINE WHINE WHINE
Lol. No wonder the Halo fanbase is so divided, this is all they can do.

>>738166910
Jun lived

>>738166963
>anon discovers writers take inspiration from other works of fiction

>>738166065
Bad bait or mind broken retard?

>>738165448
>DUDE, the Flood? Get this. They’re not some sort of bioweapon left behind by human forerunners
thank god for that. making them some generic bioweapon would have taken away everything that made them interesting

>>738165020
>promises to be a team player
nigga in literally the FINAL MISSION he had the option to go onto the pillar of autumn but he decides to cover its escape that is quite literally being a team player

>>738166318
His team mates kept killing themselves

>>738167247
Well saying it was the dusty remains of the forerunner’s predecessors, which ancient Humanity for whatever reason used to help shine the coats of their pet alien dogs is even worse.

>>738166318
>kat died because she lagged behind everyone else instead of sticking with the team
>jorge died because he killed himself in a short sighted effort to save everyone
>emile died because he decided to separate from the team and get killed in an elite 1v1
>carter killed himself for reasons I don't really remember at this time
>jun fucked off with halsey or some shit
six literally did nothing wrong and joined a team of suicidal idiots

>>738165934
>Last time YOU asked me, if it were my choice, would I do it?
What last time? This is clearly a specific person Spark is recalling a convo with and not some vague race or society. How can Spark be a reliable source if he's deluded enough to think Chief is a specific someone from millennia past?

Deep Space Anomaly #0198.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcKTIsUtHZU

>>738165448
>>UH no he was crazy, he MEANT to say that forerunners were these ugly grey dudes and this one guy turned himself into a HECKIN VAMPIRE
This is literally where Halo's soul died. Non-canon dogshit.

>>738165448
This is pretty accurate

Marty dropped on twitter how the story was meant to go originally, it's a straight up bible parable and the microsoft guys really didn't like that. Everything after Halo 1 was basically microsoft execs trying to chip away at the core christian themes

>>738167440
the shit with the space dogs was stupid, true, but those predecessors were not. the best thing about the flood is the fact they're not a bioweapon that someone forgot to program a killswitch in and they're not some animalistic hive race that's only going off instincts to expand and get biomass. they're cool because they're fully malicious and they're going out of their way to make everyone suffer because punishment is their only goal

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>>738167623
>emile died because he decided to separate from the team and get killed in an elite 1v1
He was staying behind to give the Autumn (and Six) the opening they needed to escape Reach. It was a sacrifice through and through, he just didn't get the chance to fully act on it.

>carter killed himself for reasons I don't really remember at this time
Same as above. The scarab had Six and Emile pinned. He was fucked as it was and saw kamikazing the scarab as his best option to save them and the mission

>jun fucked off with halsey or some shit
Pretty much, although they split sometime before Halsey made it to Castle Base for SOME reason that has yet to be explained

>>738166963
The flood aren't The Thing, they are The Vang from the starhammer novels.

Bioweapon that consumes people and retains their memories and everything. It's a straight rip from the novels besides minor adjustments. Jones even literally listed it as one of the books that inspired him.

>>738167623
Jorge didn't die he just got teleported with half a covenant carrier and a fully working dropship to fuck knows where

>>738168565
with no helmet

>>738168565
Armor items in Infinite imply he either ended up isekai'd to the nippon halo universe or flooded

>>738168604
and?

He has half a covenant ship filled with breathable air that he took with him

>>738168649
infinite isn't a real halo game

>>738168202
>Marty
Sad how he's saddled himself to the Trump bandwagon. I still love his music and respect his stance on Halo, but getting kicked out of Bungie must have really mind broken him.

>>738168713
I can tell he's not really fit for politics

He's got a sort of lolcow personality, it just doesn't work and he's too old to read the room. Heart's in the right place but not enough grass touched.

>>738168676
bold of you to assume the hangar doors would still be functional in a floating piece of debri 4000 light years from its power source

>>738166754
Yes it did. But they don't get physical descriptions, there was nothing to indicate they weren't a higher tier of elite. Engineers make an appearance in the book however, and didn't in-game until ODST.

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whatever happened to dustin echoes?

>>738165020
not inconveniencing your team is a team play, loser.

>forerunners
>human
Are bungieniggers retarded?

>>738165590
343 Guilty Spark flat out says humans are Forerunners.
>nooo he was rampant!!!
Rampancy doesn't officially exist in the Halo games themselves, but if we take it to exist by implication thanks to Bungie's earlier Marathon games and thus use it as described in them, it is not "AI go crazy" it is an emotional process that AIs undergo as a stage in their existence. Not insanity. So there's no reason to suppose that he said that because he was crazy.

>>738168807
Bold of you to assume a spartan 2 can't seal the doors on the human dropship literally right next to him.

And vacuum isn't particularly dangerous in any case. Even normal people can handle it for minutes if they exhale first. The real danger is holding your breath during decompression rupturing your lungs from the pressure change, and then after that reverse gas exchange from your blood into the vacuum if you don't keep your yap sealed.

Spartan 2 wouldn't have a problem in either case. Especially not while wearing a pressure suit already.

>>738169069
ok he's trapped in a pelican cockpit which is 3ft wide and 9ft tall as an 1.5ft wide and 8ft tall spartan in deep deep space bumfuck nowhere

now what

>>738165838
>You can't imagine how exciting this is! To have a record of all our lost time! "Human" history, is it? Fascinating...

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>>738168604
His helmet is literally at his feet in the cutscene

>>738169020
to be frank theres no evidence at all that guilty spark was every rampant anyway
>literally programmed to preserve the rings and utilise them against the flood
he does not give a fuck if 3 organics and their slut AI want to preserve their own existence and kamikaze an under construction ring. guilty spark can wait 3 days, its chief johnson and arbi who are selfishly risking the future for their own sake. naturally he would take efforts to stop them destroying the installation, its literally in his programming

>>738169192
people dont breathe through their feet hope that makes sense

>>738169262
He put it back on before hitting the button

>>738169118
Pablo from Infinite managed to last six months in a pelican and presumably could've kept going even longer had he not found Chief

>>738169298
source: my asshole

okay my helmet is on let me teleport half a ship to deep space, ok now i'll squeeze inside the pelican cockpit and seal it, ok now lets see i have 3 years worth of fuel if burst in 1 direction and idle the rest of the time, and i have 0 weeks worth of food because no one anticipated any kind of prolonged mission statement. i will be fine :D

>>738168713
Idk how this is a surprise
Everyone who was the OGs at Bungie were Republicans or in the closet besides Alex Seropian. Scraped Cheneymania medal.

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>>738169368
>infinite
even if we assume this dogshit is canon, 6 months wow not even 1 light year worth of distance covered give this man a clap congrats lil buddy you're 0.000000001% closer to the nearest salvation

>>738169394
He wasn't in the covenant carrier but actually aboard a separate covenant escort ship that was wholly teleported intact.

So he's got his helmet
He has a working slipspace drive
He has a working but damaged pelican
He has whatever transports were on the covenant corvette
He has the covenant corvette itself (which has its own power source that isn't destroyed)
He has half the covenant carrier that's the size of a literal city to scavenge whatever else he needs

He's smart and dangerous and while the ship he's on was mostly cleaned out by him and six there might be covenant he could rescue/take hostage from the carrier who could help him work the corvette, plus engineers that just don't give a shit about anything and will fix covenant tech like autists

There is genuinely zero reason to just assume jorge died.

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>>738169742
>There is genuinely zero reason to just assume jorge died.

>>738169928
That's not even a halo game m8

like writing yourself some fanfiction and going: SEE

>>738167946
"You" is not always specific, ESL-kun, and can be used similarly to the "Royal We"

>>738169742
>makes a shitload of assumptions even going as far as a make shift alliance between never before mentioned covenant survivors
>>there is genuinely zero reason to just assume jorge died

you are a genuine stupid person pal sorry for the inconvenience

>>738170012
He is literally talking about a specific Forerunner asking him if he would light the Halos if it were his choice. A collective society cannot ask a literal question to an individual in a conversation.

>>738165020
Why didn't he just hop on the pelican?

>>738170370
The guy that was supposed to give them covering fire for their escape got shanked by an eight foot tall dinosaur man

>>738165448
The intro sequence to the first Halo was so fucking great
>grand music as alien ring is shown
>conversation between snarky AI and Captain lays out the desperate situation
>Johnson's speech to the Marines in the weapons bay show how slapdash this whole thing is
>then they finally unleash (You), Captain King the ultra badass alien slayer
Halo 2's was pretty great too. Halo 3's intro was incredibly weak by comparison. And everything beyond that is a fucking joke.

>>738170325
>when my people condemned me, i knew i was right
>when the enemy tortured me, i stayed strong
>when the bloods killed my cousin, i got my revenge
>when the supermutants raped my wife, i jerked off with the tears
>when aliens stole my cow, i beat my wife
>when etc etc
what the fuck are you on about saying a society/group cant question an individual, thats literally what halo is, two clashing societies, three if you include forerunner, FOUR if you include gravemind
masterchief (and humanity as a whole) is the representation of modern day forerunner
>when YOU (forerunners) last asked, blah blah blah
anon is right you are most certainly brown and lack cognative ability

>>738170578
All those examples, even though they ostensibly are about a group, describe actions committed by specific individuals in that group. Not every enemy tortured you, not every single crip member in the country killed your cousin, not every single alien in the universe stole your cow, etc. Even if Spark is speaking like this, there is still a specific individual or individuals in that group he's talking about having a convo with. This all being a metaphor on top of the unspecific wording makes zero sense.

>>738170545
nta but i agree with you, 1 and 2 set the bar high. halo 1 basically sells itself as a franchise with the first level. halo 2 basically proves itself as a prope sequel with its opening level. halo 3 you just stumble around the woods and jungle semi aimlessly fucking around for a half hour without any sort of build up or excitement. i think part of the issue was making level 1 a fucking jungle level. it should have been something on a covenant ship or the forerunner ship he was on BEFORE he landed on earth. the end of level 1 could have been you escaping and having to jump off the ship at the right moment while fighting enemies. it would have felt right because up until that point level 1 is always a tense fight in close quarters on some sort of ship. i want to like halo 3 but i find it totally boring in comparison and the graphics engine they used is part of the problem where it looks like a psuedo pixar movie. halo reach over corrected and it looks like muddy desaturated lifeless bullshit. its ugly in a new way. halo 3 and reach have great armors though and theyre the only good things about those game other than the new weapons and vehicles designs they added to the halo universe.

>>738165590
>Humans being Forerunner was only implied in 2 and 3, dipshit.
No, retard.
https://youtu.be/AE4H7relFX8&t=171

>>738165020
He never promised that

>>738170802
yes society's are made up of people you are very smart, we are talking about the usage of the word 'you' to refer to a collective, which is valid and any white above the age of 6 knows this, sorry for your shortcomings

>>738170891
He also never told them to make it count.

>>738170941
heh

>>738170012
Projecting ESL or American who failed English (common).

>>738165448
Based

>>738170918
>society's
kek

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DMR is nice
But shotgunning Hunters is satisfying man
I like that the devs put a shotgun near every Hunter encounter because that's what they want you to do

>>738171124
buddy i'll take minor spelling mistake over not understanding what humanity is anyday, sorry about your skintone

>>738171247
im not even him lmao

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>>738171268
>i just go around /v/ interjecting on misplaced apostrophes

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>>738171183
why does MCC pc reach have this weird glow? I have it too and it just makes the game look dirty far off

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>>738166963
>Fuck lore, lore killed Halo
new lore isn't that bad. It's just 343 can't tell a story to save their lives. That, and they are soulless, greedy and hacks. I feel like they get handed an easy alleyoop of a story and just miss. Like you hear the premise and you're like "cool. Sounds interesting!". 5 and 6 sounded sick, but they executed it so poorly.

>Assigned reading for a video game?
As someone who's read a good amount of Halo books, most of the books are self contained and don't really need to be read to understand the story. The only one really important to the mainline games is the newest one 'Edge of Dawn'. It's pretty good. I was gonna say "it should've been DLC for Infinite", but I really don't want to look at or play that buggy mess ever again.

>>738165448
actually halo is just the plot of the old marathon games dumbed down for retards.

>>738171734
thats just how reach looks, dawg

>>738173417
What's the book about? All I know is that her name is revealed in it. Why is it important?

>>738174365
Chief takes out a lot of Banished leaders, he saves Browning(then he dies later), it explains what the Harbinger did to him, Chief briefly meets up with another spartan(iv) and a bigger UNSC group on the ring and Jega is revealed to still be alive. Jega makes it away with an infected engineer

That's just a brief summary of what I remember. Not super important now that I think about it, but more important than the other books as this book happens directly after Infinite and follows John.

>>738175756
Sounds like a bunch of side quests, dlc fits. Anyway, heard the next game will take place after that book, so I thought there would be more to it.

>>738165020
sigma mentality, you wouldn't understand

The forerunners were so advanced and smart but couldn't figure out that the best way to eradicate the flood would be to actually eradicate it instead of containing it in the ring.

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>>738165020
>dies al-ACCCK

>>738176675
>actually eradicate
I thought that this was impossible, that was the whole point

>>738165129
I haven't played any Halo in so long but I recently bought the collection on Steam. One thing I loved about the Halo games was the music. ODST has some of my favorite from the series.

>>738168565
are you telling me he's just MIA?

>>738176675
>>738176821
The only reason we could wipe them out in 3 was because Hivemind sent all remaining flood to the ark to help prevent it from firing, if it wasn't for that then blowing up the ark wouldn't have eradicated them.

>>738165020
Is Noble Six the strongest human to ever live or do notable Spartan IIs still greatly outclass him? Like if he was a Spartan II wouldn't he be a demigod even among other IIs based off his feats as a III?

>>738176695
>the fuck lil humie gon do

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>>738176695
are the controls for webms gone on anyone else's screen? I can't see the filename or size or dimensions anymore

>>738177092
>all remaining
Wouldn't later games establish other facilities containing flood? So even if those at the ark are gone, some are still out there

>>738177559
Works on my machine. Seen other anons complaining about this though, something's off

>>738177092
>>738177623
It doesn't really make sense in the first place. You're telling me the literal galaxy-brained Gravemind didn't think to keep ONE infection form on ice in case this whole Ark thing went tits up?

>>738177559
>>738177679
It's 4chanxt that's borked with the new update.

>>738177753
frick

I just beat the first 2 Halos and couldn't find any skulls...

>>738178108
they are very out of the way and some in halo 2 need you to get outside of the play area and I think you need to play on legendary for some of them.

>>738177704
If the Ark fired they'd starve regardless

>>738169742
I like these implications.
I want a real halo 4 where it turns out John and Jorge got yeeted to the same place.

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>>738165590
Blatanly wrong.

>>738165020
Some guy did a video easay on the deaths of the team its suppose to represent what they all can do. Like how the sniper girl dies from a a headshot the leader goes down with the ship and shit

>>738169225
People just call it rampant because AI standards and he's going rogue in his own ways to the average player''s perception. Reality is that Guilty Spark only broke the rules to resist more Ring destruction and followed his orders to the letter; as much of a shit as he could be, yeah, he was totally in his faculties the entire time.

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That was awesome. I liked it a lot more than 3.

>>738177704
It doesn't matter either way. The flood aren't unbeatable. The forerunners made the mistake of underestimating it, mischaracterizing the threat and letting it spiral out of control. The Covenant then repeated this exact mistake. Nobody assumes the flood is intelligent, and by the time it starts exhibiting intelligence it's too late to stop it.

Wiping out the Gravemind, its army and its ships means any leftovers around the galaxy are effectively stranded on whatever planetoids they're on, without the hosts, equipment or intelligence to expand beyond. Any encounter can just be systematically glassed from orbit like they did to the outbreak on Earth because now every sentient in the galaxy knows what the flood is and what it's capable of

>>738165448
yeah cool, but does the suit jack him off or what?

>>738176675
The lore notes in Halo 3 describe it best. The forerunners ruled a whole galaxy of effectively demilitarized client races who were effectively defenseless.
When the flood happened, they treated it like a pandemic and tried to quarantine it while saving lives, only for the flood to repeatedly find ways around their quarantine and into new worlds and then ravage those worlds because they were defenseless. Hesitation let it spread basically unchallenged because the forerunners didn't realize the flood was intelligently finding ways to spread and not just acting like an epidemic.

Then they shifted strategies, drew a line across the Galaxy and basically abandoned every world on the wrong side of that line to the flood, intending to contain it with a space blockade. By now the flood had so many hosts and so many resources that it reverse engineered their technology and mass produced ships of its own. It was only when the flood showed up to the blockade with an Armada and fought with organized military tactics that the forerunners realized this was a war for survival and not just an epidemic, but by that point the flood had snowballed out of control and was actually winning battles. The remainder of the war was just the forerunners desperately buying time while they built their mass autism array, with the final race coming so close that the flood were literally overrunning the Rings when they fired.

>>738184983
Doesn't make sense. You contradict yourself in explaining this and don't even realize it.

>>738184983
>realize the flood doesn't have that many actual military ships and just recreational vehicles that are basically dingies
>oh that's good
>realize they have 700,000 dingies and they're sending them all to you at once
>oh that's bad

The interesting to me about Halo is that while the game and the background lore constantly draws attentions to the Forerunners failings that allowed the Flood to spiral out of control and topple the galaxy, not a single character or bit of narration ever questions the Rings themselves. The idea of wiping out all sentient life to "protect them" from being food for a parasite is just completely unexamined and automatically assumed justified by necessity.

I always thought that was odd. Even if it IS the correct choice, surely at least one person in the setting would disagree. Who's to say the Flood wouldn't have used their galactic intelligence to create a utopian civilization.

>>738186962
like some kind of scenario where there are no unique cultures and where all life forms own nothing and are happy? interesting... well luckily this is just a science fiction game we're talking about here.

halo was better when the flood were in it. miss fighting them. the games lose a certain appeal without a truly unique 3rd faction to fight. the covenant remnants or the banished dont really do it for me. the forerunner robots you fight in halo 4 are almost cool, but it being a 343 game it didnt land for me. i think bungie would have executed it better unfortunately.

>>738189760
now that im thinking about it i think part of the reason it came off lame was half of the forerunner enemies you fight are gay robot dogs, and the forerunner drones look lame compared to the sentinels which is crazy to say but true. they didnt have good enough designs and it seemed low quality. bungie wouldnt have let it out like that.

>>738165590
I honestly enjoyed the “Humanity: FUCK YEAH” part of Halo even if it made little to no sense.

>>738165020
thats like all online players

>>738165590
forerunners being human or not the problem is that when they got canon appearances they looked fucking retarded. i always imagined they would either have some kind of incomprehensible form, or they would look really dignified and impressive looking. its like when one of those youtube streamers has a really cool voice and when you see their face when they reveal it they look like the chud meme.

>>738168972
>mesopotamians
>humans
Are you retarded?

Can't control who dies in war.

>>738165448
halo ce had potential but was mediocre

>>738190817
your post had potential but FUCK you.
>:^(

>>738186962
I mean the Rings were just weapons of last resort, the Forerunners didn't want to use them until the situation was utterly fucked if they didn't, and they had the remaining life in the galaxy preserved on the Ark so they could re-seed the worlds afterward

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>>738165448
>DUDE, DUDE, the Flood? Get this. They’re not some sort of bioweapon left behind by human forerunners
>They’re from BEFORE the forerunners
>They’re FORERUNNERS to the FORERUNNERS. Is your mind BLOWN?
Where have I heard this plot point before?

>>738165129
Agree, if they had made it longer and added the deleted ending it would've been even better. Fuck 343 and fuck nu-forerunners.

Being shot no longer breaking you out of zoom in Halo 4 is kinda op
You know what else is op
Cortana's plump ass

>>738192234
i give halo 1 and halo 2 each something like a 9/10 or 9.5/10 and give halo 3 something like a 7/10 or a 6.5, but im at least partially glad we got halo 3 because of some of the cool new weapons and vehicles it gave us plus the multiplayer armor. basically i like everything new from a visual design standpoint in halo 3, it made the universe better or cooler from that perspective. like the maulers or spikers etc or the spartan laser. but the levels and the story are boring to me and ive only played it like twice through versus the other games at least 10 times or more.

>>738167623
To be fair Spartan IIIs were made to die.

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>>738165020
Actually he was in a cave.

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>>738192971
Wait wrong one.

>>738176695
>female six

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>>738192971
>>738193052
I know these are jokes but I still hate them, they remind me of the TV show.

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>>738193361
The first one is a joke but the bottom one is real.