Halo 3 - "Believe"

Bakurei · Sep 16, 2007

I guess it's just a matter of taste. I played the first Halo online and never liked it. Dull map desing etc.

But I guess I'm one of the few Xbox owners who think Halo series is below average :/
Even my room mate was shocked when I said that the Halo series isn't even average IMO

Cheomesh · Sep 16, 2007

Halo 1 was ok. Haven't played Halo 2 yet (no Vista.). I've actually LOST potential friends for not liking the Halo series much.

Atomic_Piggy · Sep 16, 2007

Cheomesh said:
Halo 1 was ok. Haven't played Halo 2 yet (no Vista.). I've actually LOST potential friends for not liking the Halo series much.

If they don't want to be your friend because of game, then you proboaly woulnd't want them as friends at all.

Warbie · Sep 16, 2007

Bungie drive a real warthog

I want one!

knut · Sep 16, 2007

Man, that thing is awesome. But looking at the guy on the back literally clinging on for his life makes you think how impractical the design is. Imagine trying to gun the chaingun going at high speeds over rough terrain with only the weapons handles to hold on to.

Warbie · Sep 16, 2007

heh, I was thinking the same. He was shitting his pants.

DEATHMASTER · Sep 16, 2007

Warbie said:
Bungie drive a real warthog

I want one!

Better have original sounds

Cheomesh · Sep 16, 2007

Warthogs where the coolest. Oddly in the live action short the ODST guy gets in the passenger seat...

Sparta · Sep 17, 2007

Who wants to know the ending?

Well if you do, check out this link

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2627690&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2

One of the guys who got Halo 3 early in Norway is posting screenshots of the multiplayer and spoilers for the campaign. Enjoy.

Dalamari · Sep 17, 2007

ARGH, I don't have an SA account

Oh well, I guess I can just play the game and find out

Sparta · Sep 17, 2007

I can pm you the spoilers if you'd like

Stigmata · Sep 17, 2007

I'd like a PM please, but only of the multiplayer stuff. Or just send everything and I'll filter it myself.

Dalamari · Sep 17, 2007

That'd be cool of you could copy/paste the whole thread into a PM for me

Stigmata · Sep 17, 2007

Better yet, just post everything here in a spoiler tag.

[edit] And don't image-link the images, just post direct links to them. All my PMs are filled with "NO IMAGE LINKING" images

Sparta · Sep 17, 2007

Yeah i'll do that now.

Halo 3 spoilers.

So, we start off with Cortana telling us why she picked John 117, and what he had that no one but her saw: Luck. We then witness our dear Spartan crashlanding into a jungle. Sergeant Major what's-his-name (the cool black dude everyone's so fond of) and his squad pick John up and bring him back to normal, at which point he also gets to see the Arbiter again, and find out that "they're with us now". You then fight yourself back to base, where Master Chief barely gets briefed before the whole place is overrun by Covenant forces. You get to shoot some guns and throw some 'nades and before you know it you've armed a bomb that's gonna blow the whole place to smithereens. Enter: Level 3, where you're going hog wild with the Warthog, racing down highways, beating stuff up, et cetera. You do a bunch of semi-important "oh and btw uhh new objective" stuff such as taking down an Anti Air cannon, while the Covenant is still digging happily into whatever the hell it is that's buried deep under Africa.

And then they light it. Now, the general theory is that, duh, that's The Ark, and it's here on Earth, and goddamn did the Prophet of Truth just fire all the goddamn rings in the entire universe from The Ark? But **** us, we were all wrong. Turns out that wasn't really The Ark after all! Instead, it lighted up the sky, and brought upon us a mother****in black hole teleport portal, which some Covenant ships dive into to figure out just what the **** is going on. However, there's a ship coming out of the portal as well ...

Yes. The ****ing flood, they're back again, and goddamn if you're not gonna backtrack through the area you just finished to fight some more flood. I'm being completely honest when I say that they're not nearly as annoying as before. Could be that you now actually have people on your side as well, could be that they're better balanced, could be lots of things. Anyway, you eventually board the godawful ship the crashed into your beautiful planet, and lo and behold, there's a message from Cortana aboard.

Basically, she's saying that the solution to all this is through that portal, and that we must risk everything, blabla. Seing as Master Chief is one charismatic bastard, we go through, and my oh my, end up at some distant place in space, at another Forerunner built structure: No, not another Halo, but The Ark. It's kinda similar to the Halos, in that it's created by the Forerunners, but has a different shape I'm not quite sure how to describe. You crashland and fight some covenant shit, revisit places that remind you alot of Halo (you need to get a cortagropher, for example) and pull some wires to get inside some important places, and you even team up with the flood while you're rushing the Prophet of Truth (which is just chillaxin here at The Ark), which the Arbiter eventually kills. So yay, right? No, not yay, not yay at all actually, because Gravemind and the Flood just turned evil again, and goddammit you're so tired of this shit, and then another, unfinished Halo replacement ring (yes, yes, yes) rises up from the ocean of The Ark. So you're thinking "oh shit lets get out of here Gravemind is here remember" but then you're all like "oh shit Cortana I miss her" and you go on a journey deep within this hellhole to find Cortana, and you do. So you get the **** off the Ark, get on the Ring, meet up with 343 Guilty Spark at one point as well, and you're gonna light the ****er. As you guys remember, you need all 7 rings to blow up the universe, while a single ring will just blow up shit that's in its immidiate vicinity. So you board the goddamn ring (also forgot to mention, but that female captain you work closely with? Yeah, Prophet of Truth killed her), and the Flood is dropping pods on your ass like nobody's business, but you meet up with that black Sergeant Major (Johnson, is that his name? I'm real bad at names, sorry) and you're all set to activate the ring when 343 proclaims the ring to be ready in "a couple of days". After realising that you don't actually have a couple of days, shit goes bad and 343 tries to kill you all. However, you are the hero and therefore you win. However, activating the ring prematurely will result in not only the destruction of everything that's close by, but also, tadada, The Ark, for some reason. This however is just dandy, seing as Gravemind is still on the goddamn Ark.

So you activate it, and run like ****. PS: Johnson died. And so, the best ****ing finale they could have ever pulled off: The last section is a getaway on a warthog, just like in Halo. And goddamn, it's glorious. There's no timer (except Cortana frantically yelling "go go go go!" all the time), and even some checkpoints en route. So you barely make it, land in the ship Johnson left behind, Arbiter gets in the driving seat and speeds off towards the portal.

So, cut to memorial on Earth, where it's revealed that, yes, Master Chief is in fact dead. However, The Arbiter made it, which seems kinda funky, right? He also says something along the lines of "were it only so easy" when the General proclaims that The Arbiter was with him when he died.

Credits.

But wait, just like in this post, there's more after the credits! Turns out the Portal got blown up as well, and only half the ship made it through (ie Arbiter making it to earth, as he was in the driving seat up front, while Cortana and MC were chillin in the back), and yay, MC is still alive. Cortana drops a beacon but says it might be years before anyone picks it up. MC however, says "fuk dat" and goes into hypersleep in a pod like the one you woke up from in Halo, with his final words being someting along the lines of "Call on me when you need me". I forgot to mention, but along the way you fight several of those badass walkers you took down one of in Halo 2, visit areas almost identical to areas in Halo, participate in some huge badass battles, and generally having a good time. And no, you don't see his face, the Warthog getaway is the last gameplay sequence (before that it's just flood in corridors), and .. yeah.

And there you have it. Halo 3's storyline.

Vehicle, weapons and map screenies linked below

Stigmata · Sep 17, 2007

This marks the second time I'm able to read four words of an enormous spoiler and then stop myself from spoiling anything.

Moar MP plz

Sparta · Sep 17, 2007

Updated my previous post to provide links directly to the screenies.

Stigmata · Sep 17, 2007

Thanks again Sparta

Isolation is reminding me a bit of Ivory Tower.

Javert · Sep 17, 2007

As I've never played Halo series, I read the spoilers without batting an eye.

Absinthe · Sep 17, 2007

Fails for not having the best Halo 3 video.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWIw-a0GJw&eurl[/YOUTUBE]

Stigmata · Sep 17, 2007

I knew something was wrong with the voices.

Warbie · Sep 17, 2007

It's funny cause it's true.

Dalamari · Sep 17, 2007

None of the screens work, I get "403 Forbidden" on all of them

Stigmata · Sep 17, 2007

Just click in the address bar and hit Enter again.

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