Really? I' m a sucker for a detailed shooter plots. It' s what sticks ' em out from the rest IMO.

Sure, I like ' em to, but in Halo I thought the lack of story was one of it' s good parts (like in Gears) and I think it would feel odd if they started trying to make something BIG, sotrywise in the last installment (I don' t really agree with you Alec, i thought both Halo' s had a very simple/non existent plot... but I haven' t read the books, which I hear have lots of it).

The monks are back on the soundtrack!!!!

Yos!!!!

That is awesome. If it wasn' t so far away I' d be over Gears...

Yeah, I did notice that! I just wish they' d release this stuff when the launch gets closer. I' m almost bored with it now.

Okay Calm Down I Want lie anymore yall know thats me in the suit right. I dident want to say shit you know just like superman I to try to keep the women off of me.

Women Go Crazy For a Man in A Suit lol

Are you serious? I thinks Halo has tons of story compared to other shooters.

Halo nor halo2 didn' t have a big story with plots in it?

You need to use the volume next time so you can hear what they said.

I think what he' s trying to say is that the storyline was perfect for carrying along the shooter aspects, and if they try to get all " in depth" and sh*t they' ll ruin the pacing of the game.

I agree, Dionysius.

Basically, " keep it simple, stupid" !

Sweet trailer...but it just makes me lust all the more for actual gameplay footage.


Halo' s story is one of the things that got me hooked on the series; I' m not a multiplayer gamer at all. I was even impressed with the whole Arbiter thing from part 2. It was fascinating to see the struggle from the other side.

I like a game that can give me an interesting storyline without falling into melodromatic cliche' s and pointless, time consuming cinemas...

Sure, I like ' em to, but in Halo I thought the lack of story was one of it' s good parts (like in Gears) and I think it would feel odd if they started trying to make something BIG, sotrywise in the last installment (I don' t really agree with you Alec, i thought both Halo' s had a very simple/non existent plot... but I haven' t read the books, which I hear have lots of it).

I wasn' t saying Halo was heavy on plot, I was simply saying that the plot was heavier than you are making it out to be. Gears of War is a good example of a simple plot, they really didn' t flesh out the characters in that game. However Captain Keyes and Master Chief are fleshed out, so is Cortana in the first game. The second tries to create a broader story, but really fails at it because of the lack of background. The only reason I played Halo 1 was because that Story was existent and it wasn' t DOOM. I can go more into detail and help prove to you that there was a story embedded in that game, but I' m really not in the mood at the moment. And really the reasoning for you liking the games for lack of story is the reason that Shooters are starting their descent into the shitter. Bioshock I sure as hell hope rejuvenates this, but Doom 3, Quake 4 and quite a few other generic shooters make me recoil at the lack of innovation in the genre.

The story of Halo wasn' t all deep and philosophical. It was all pretty standard and easy to get in to. That' s what I wanted to say. Nothing new, nothing that took active brain cells to understand. It was easy to guess what would happen, just like in many Hollywood action flicks... Which I found to be nice, as I weren' t a Halo fan and just wanted to move on, killing aliens. Sure there' s a story, but it' s not a big/deep one... it' s one we' ve already heard and therefore don' t need 5h long cutscenes to understand, so we dive in to action.

It' s sorta like when I and my friend played Gears, when I asked " Hey, wait a sec! Why are we in these tunnels, now again?" and he went like " Who cares?! Now shoot the F' CKERS!"

Oh! And I' m also looking forward to BioShock, partly for its story.

The story of Halo was indeed deep,since it let you get tons of question even when you' re done with the game,without feeling that you never had a good story to follow.

About GoW.

That story made much sense until the train level.

Quez, according to Blim you were one of the 100 Xboxyde chose for the Halo 3 beta. Is that right?

That' s a secret.

Cortana had to be based on someone initially.

Strange that he was chosen seeing as it was only US XBL members that would be given this round of beta testing. Europe and the rest have to wait.

Coratana letters basically spoiled Halo abit even before Halo was out.

The story and its plot is very deep,its seem as it was written for over 6 years ago.

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Strange that he was chosen seeing as it was only US XBL members that would be given this round of beta testing. Europe and the rest have to wait.

Nope, Xboxyde and XCN have a deal with Microsoft for 100 people and Quez ended up being one of them.

Yepp

Guess story is one of the things one cannot really rate. I never had any real questions at the end of the game, nor did I feel like I saw something I hadn' t before " and frankly my dear, I don' t give a damn!" . It was fine the way it was.

For me it wasn' t Hamlet, or Blade Runner, nor FF7 or even Half Life.

To me Halo was more like a Spiderman comic, Die Hard and Gears... And I dislike none of them, ' cause they serve their purpose.

Also, Gears did make sense... just that the story was so thin that I didn' t care and forgot about 2 secs after the cutscene had past.

Edit:

Quez, do you need to pay for it, or was that just bogus?

Yepp.

But for others Halo' s story and plot is one of the most intresting in a game ever.