I found this great video that can serve as a refresher or a summary for those new to the series. I was not sure if it was worth a new thread or if I should have dropped it in the Halo Lore thread. Please lock the thread if it shouldn't have been made.
The video was already packed with details, but it's odd that they skip over ODST entirely, especially since it seems that the cast of that game play a significant role in H5.
The video was already packed with details, but it's odd that they skip over ODST entirely, especially since it seems that the cast of that game play a significant role in H5.
Only really Buck and him being ex-ODST is basically all you need to know.
The video is good, time constraints means they have to miss a tonne of stuff out that could late be relevant but it's a good catch upp.
I'm completely lost on Halo's extended fiction. I read a few of the books but none of the forerunner trilogy or the KT stuff, and now it seems like comics are taking a big role in telling the story.
Thanks for the heads up, This certainly filled in the wholes I had with the Halo world. Looking forward to seeing the story unfold even more. I want to know all about the Guardians.
The fight takes place on a forerunner hard light bridge aboard the Didact's ship "Mantle's Approach" which houses the composer a weapon that turns people into AI so they can make up his Machine army.
Cortana has interfaced with Mantle's Approach's systems and is in control of the the hard light bridge. She uses it to tether the Didact in one spot for chief to attack him and then she wraps the hard light bridge around him in a bubble and projects a hard light copy of her self so she can "touch" him.
Decent recap. There is still alot more information to go through. Good brief overview though.
What would really be interesting is if someone did an Extra Credits: History type video series where they just go through the entire timeline of the universe. Would be pretty cool.
The fight takes place on a forerunner hard light bridge aboard the Didact's ship "Mantle's Approach" which houses the composer a weapon that turns people into AI so they can make up his Machine army.
Cortana has interfaced with Mantle's Approach's systems and is in control of the the hard light bridge. She uses it to tether the Didact in one spot for chief to attack him and then she wraps the hard light bridge around him in a bubble and projects a hard light copy of her self so she can "touch" him.
What she does to the Didact makes sense, but the whole nuclear bomb scenario was stupid, machinery would have to project the hard light, so when that got blown up there would be no hard light so Chief would die too, it's best to let it go I guess, but that always bothered me.
So, I think this was a very good introduction for homies hopping in on Halo 5, but I have one real qualm with the information presented.
When he gets to Ancient Humanity, he says that they were fleeing the Flood and so thus, attacked Forerunner worlds.
From what I understand, Humanity encountered the Flood before the Forerunners did. In their battles with it, they found it on Forerunner planets, as the Forerunners were still unawares. Instead of informing the Forerunners and giving the Flood time to multiply, they cleansed planets, regardless of potential casualties.
This engendered the bitter hatred of the Ur-Didact, who believed the Human's methods to be far too extreme. This lead to his "punishment" of the downgraded humanity, by using them as war puppets against the Flood. Of course,
while all of this is taking place, the Ur-Didact imprinted himself on another Forerunner, who became the Iso-Didact, the one who eventually fired off the Halo Arrays.
Ur-Didact is the one who is in Halo 4, who continued to believe that his warriors could defeat the flood, with more numbers.
Of course, to stock his army, he composed the defeated humans who have been biologically downgraded, much to the horror of his wife, the Librarian. This lead to a rift between then that eventually lead to her shooting him in the back literally and placing him in a protective stasis on Requiem. She hoped that by exiling him in his comfy-pod with direct connection to the Domain, he would come to see sense and emerge a changed Forerunner down the road.
Unfortunately, the firing of the Halo Arrays destroyed the Domain (?) leaving the Didact to stew in his own hatred and insanity for 100,000 years. Whoops. Hence he wakes up even angrier and more insane than before.
With the Prophets defeated, the Brutes had no direction, no guidance. They're simple beasts - they need a strict regimen to keep them in line. Without that they just lost much of their ability to coordinate as a species. That and the fact that all Sangheili (loyal to the Arbiter or not) consider them scum, and never thought to bring them along for the ride once they didn't have to.
What really bugs me about playing the series one after another is the art direction changing significantly game to game. I mean, the original Halo looks pretty bad in terms of graphical, so the jump to Halo 2 is pretty extreme, but holds the same general art direction. With Halo 2 to 3, it's less of a jump, but still basically an upgrade of the art direction they had since the original. You could accurately say it's an HD version of 2's art direction with minor alterations But each version seemed to be an update of the last, and you could see a unified thread of art direction between the 3 games. But then Halo Reach comes out, and it's elites look nothing like the Elites of previous games. The departure is to make them look far scarier and more intimidating than the elites of the main series looked. Which was fine by me, I just interpreted that playing from the perspective of a different character gave them a different look. Maybe Noble 6 was more scared of them than Master Chief was, which made sense to me atleast. But then they update Halo 1 with Anniversary, but when they update the look, they make them look like Halo Reach, as that's the last game to come out. Then Halo 2, being updated to the xbox one, has far greater detailed models to them, but I feel they remain fairly accurate to the original style, unlike Halo 1 that borrowed too heavily from Reach's character models. The problem is now when you go play Halo 3, it's a significant downgrade from what you had in Halo 2.
I just want a consistent look for the franchise (or atleast the aliens, since I don't mind them prettying up the environments at all)
Same here, I never know what is happening. It doesn't help that the foundation for the franchise is just cliche space marines versus aliens, then they tried to make it more mature and made it convoluted.
I also felt the game play has not evolved well. I recently tried to play Halo 4 and just could not get into it. I missed the mechanics that more modern games like COD or Destiny have. It doesn't help that the guns in Halo are lame and more times than not you have to pick up a crappy alien weapon due to lack of ammo.
So, I think this was a very good introduction for homies hopping in on Halo 5, but I have one real qualm with the information presented.
When he gets to Ancient Humanity, he says that they were fleeing the Flood and so thus, attacked Forerunner worlds.
From what I understand, Humanity encountered the Flood before the Forerunners did. In their battles with it, they found it on Forerunner planets, as the Forerunners were still unawares. Instead of informing the Forerunners and giving the Flood time to multiply, they cleansed planets, regardless of potential casualties.
This engendered the bitter hatred of the Ur-Didact, who believed the Human's methods to be far too extreme. This lead to his "punishment" of the downgraded humanity, by using them as war puppets against the Flood. Of course,
while all of this is taking place, the Ur-Didact imprinted himself on another Forerunner, who became the Iso-Didact, the one who eventually fired off the Halo Arrays.
Ur-Didact is the one who is in Halo 4, who continued to believe that his warriors could defeat the flood, with more numbers.
Of course, to stock his army, he composed the defeated humans who have been biologically downgraded, much to the horror of his wife, the Librarian. This lead to a rift between then that eventually lead to her shooting him in the back literally and placing him in a protective stasis on Requiem. She hoped that by exiling him in his comfy-pod with direct connection to the Mantle, he would come to see sense and emerge a changed Forerunner down the road.
Unfortunately, the firing of the Halo Arrays destroyed the Domain (?) leaving the Didact to stew in his own hatred and insanity for 100,000 years. Whoops. Hence he wakes up even angrier and more insane than before.
