Though the whole marketing effort has been set after the events of Halo 3, this particular ad is a true postscript to the events of the game. Wow, could we be more general? Sorry, we're really trying hard not to ruin anything. Maybe it would be better if we just showed the clip.
Spoiler alert: Halo 3 Believe campaign concludes
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Let's get this out of the way: Do not, do not, watch this video until you've finished Halo 3. That said, if you're already got the final battle in your rear view, this is required viewing, as Halo 3's poignant, class and, at times, even moving "Believe" campaign comes to a close.
Though the whole marketing effort has been set after the events of Halo 3, this particular ad is a true postscript to the events of the game. Wow, could we be more general? Sorry, we're really trying hard not to ruin anything. Maybe it would be better if we just showed the clip.
Though the whole marketing effort has been set after the events of Halo 3, this particular ad is a true postscript to the events of the game. Wow, could we be more general? Sorry, we're really trying hard not to ruin anything. Maybe it would be better if we just showed the clip.
Reader Comments (46)
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 10:05AM (Unverified) said
Wow...kinda sucks for those who haven't played/finished the game and are just watching TV...
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Posted: Oct 10th 2007 10:08AM (Unverified) said
Nah. That doesn't suck. Besides, as a casual gamer, I've finished it (solo) on Easy, Normal and Heroic. Now just doing Legendary on Co-op.
What WILL suck is when you finish it on Legendary, the ending is a little different and some co-op buddy decides to hit the A button and skip it! (arrrggg!!)
Now, where is CoD4?
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What WILL suck is when you finish it on Legendary, the ending is a little different and some co-op buddy decides to hit the A button and skip it! (arrrggg!!)
Now, where is CoD4?
Posted: Oct 11th 2007 3:15PM (Unverified) said
omg - this is what the 360 fans have been crying over? unbelievably lame - ooo, did you like how I used "believe" in a sentence? Did that make you cry too? haha..
Too funny how these "support our troop" tie in ads have you guys pulled in. Wondering when Jesus will show up...
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Too funny how these "support our troop" tie in ads have you guys pulled in. Wondering when Jesus will show up...
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 10:11AM (Unverified) said
~SPOILERS~
When you finish the game and watch all the credits without pressing A or anything, you can see the final cutscene which clearly shows that Master Chief didnt die. Instead he and Cortana stay "lost" in space.
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When you finish the game and watch all the credits without pressing A or anything, you can see the final cutscene which clearly shows that Master Chief didnt die. Instead he and Cortana stay "lost" in space.
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 3:13PM Triforceowner said
Argh! This is worse than when I found out Santa Claus wasn't real!
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Posted: Oct 11th 2007 2:53PM (Unverified) said
You don't have to finish the whole game on Legendary to see the full ending... you can just finish the very last part on Legendary, which is actually pretty easy to do.
Also, this ad doesn't really spoil the game... it doesn't say whether MC died *in* battle or whether he died at some point after the war, as it takes place 43 years after the fact.
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Also, this ad doesn't really spoil the game... it doesn't say whether MC died *in* battle or whether he died at some point after the war, as it takes place 43 years after the fact.
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 10:25AM PlatinumSkeet said
~SPOILERS~
They fall to a planet and some bad music starts to kick in. So something happens after MC lands on that planet we just don't know yet.
Plus this is 30 years after the fact if MC keeps getting cryogenicly froozen then he could come back 40 or 50 years from now depending on how long the battle and how fast the ship is...
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They fall to a planet and some bad music starts to kick in. So something happens after MC lands on that planet we just don't know yet.
Plus this is 30 years after the fact if MC keeps getting cryogenicly froozen then he could come back 40 or 50 years from now depending on how long the battle and how fast the ship is...
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 10:34AM (Unverified) said
they were falling to another halo
or maybe that was a different ship, i dunno
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or maybe that was a different ship, i dunno
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 11:22AM (Unverified) said
you can't just say **Spoilers**..
and have the text on the next line retards..
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and have the text on the next line retards..
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 10:45AM (Unverified) said
No, they were falling onto another planet... It's not a Halo, there's a very clear inside of the planet.
Most people believe it to be Onyx, the planet of the Forerunners... Which is where Marathon takes place. Marathon takes place 200 years after Halo 3, which being in cryo sleep wouldn't pose an issue. Bungie has also said before during the Halo 1 era that the protagonist in Halo and Marathon is the same guy. Whether or not he has an adventure during that 200 year gap is TBD though...
Commercial sucks though. Kind of doesn't match up with the story - Since there was never a coffin in the ending ceremony. There was also a site to commemorate him at marked with a large piece of ship, so the site should still be known IMO. *shrugs*
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Most people believe it to be Onyx, the planet of the Forerunners... Which is where Marathon takes place. Marathon takes place 200 years after Halo 3, which being in cryo sleep wouldn't pose an issue. Bungie has also said before during the Halo 1 era that the protagonist in Halo and Marathon is the same guy. Whether or not he has an adventure during that 200 year gap is TBD though...
Commercial sucks though. Kind of doesn't match up with the story - Since there was never a coffin in the ending ceremony. There was also a site to commemorate him at marked with a large piece of ship, so the site should still be known IMO. *shrugs*
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 11:41AM (Unverified) said
Marathon and Halo are completely unrelated. They are not in the same Universe. Bungie has made this clear many times. There is no reason for them to be connected. Just because Halo has AIs and Rampancy (Halo never actually had any Rampancy, not in the Marathon sense of the term) and a few other tributes to Marathon does not make it the same Universe.
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Posted: Oct 10th 2007 12:24PM (Unverified) said
Alex Seropian once said in an interview: "I don't think you ever find that out, but [Master Chief is] the same character [as Marathon's player character]."
What were you saying?
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What were you saying?
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 12:26PM (Unverified) said
Also, I didn't think that was a coffin... I thought that was the half of the ship that made it through the portal, the part that the Arbiter crashed in. They used that as the grave site, and I guess in philosophical terms it could be seen as a coffin... But it was in no means an actual coffin.
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Posted: Oct 10th 2007 10:49AM (Unverified) said
here's an idea... putting all the awesome stuff that's in the commercials and website into the actual game. Seriously, Bungie, ever heard of a boss fight?
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Posted: Oct 10th 2007 10:57AM (Unverified) said
There are boss fights... There's no super health meter or anything, but IMO fighting a Scarab would be considered a boss fight - as well as fighting Truth, and the Orb thing. Not sure exactly what you're talking about...
They aren't HARD boss fights, but Halo isn't hard anyways. I mean, you die, all you do is restart back a few minutes. Overall I wish they made the game like 3 degrees crazier.
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They aren't HARD boss fights, but Halo isn't hard anyways. I mean, you die, all you do is restart back a few minutes. Overall I wish they made the game like 3 degrees crazier.
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 11:58AM Dr Stabbingworth said
The boss fight at the end of Halo 2 was lame. Do you really want more of that?
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Posted: Oct 10th 2007 12:59PM watership said
Boss fights are one of the things that are WRONG with gaming. Contrived force encounters where doors suddenly close and bosses make predetermined movements were you have to figure out the pattern in order to attack. Then repeat until you get right.
Wrong wrong wrong. Can we move forward in game design? Please?
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Wrong wrong wrong. Can we move forward in game design? Please?
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 1:12PM (Unverified) said
Agreed. I kept waiting for the insane battle from the commercials to start—guess I'll just keep waiting. I don't remember feeling like I was in the middle of an epic war for 99% of the game. At most, I felt like I was babysitting the Marine's Short Bus Troop through several battles as I tried to not kill the idiots myself before they ran headlong into enemy fire.
And fighting a scarab does not qualify as a boss fight, or at least not a very good one. You just attack it's weak point for massive damage and move on, easy as you please.
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And fighting a scarab does not qualify as a boss fight, or at least not a very good one. You just attack it's weak point for massive damage and move on, easy as you please.
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 4:21PM Telprydain said
mccomber: “And fighting a scarab does not qualify as a boss fight, or at least not a very good one. You just attack it's weak point for massive damage and move on, easy as you please.”
I’m pretty sure you just described every boss fight in every game, ever.
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I’m pretty sure you just described every boss fight in every game, ever.
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 8:17PM (Unverified) said
Tel Prydain beat me to it...
You seriously did just word for word explain the definition of a boss fight.
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You seriously did just word for word explain the definition of a boss fight.
Posted: Oct 12th 2007 2:25PM (Unverified) said
True, but normally there's a little more lead up to it, not just 5 seconds of shooting at one spot. There wasn't exactly a tricky pattern that had to be figured out and followed when it came to the scarabs beyond get on, fire, get off.
Besides which, I was trying to be a bit sarcastic...
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Besides which, I was trying to be a bit sarcastic...
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 10:53AM Endless Ike said
All of these believe commercials are stupid...I can't believe anyone would describe an advertisement as "poignant and moving"
you must be fucking kidding me
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you must be fucking kidding me
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 11:04AM hosaphat said
Best video game advertisements ever. Only those who are truly into the story and characters will appreciate it. It's nice to see video game commercials that don't have raging music and loud announcers. This series of ads feels like another piece of the story instead of the ad campaign.
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Posted: Oct 10th 2007 12:31PM (Unverified) said
I was actually kind of lost after the ending. It was really open ended until they have the cutscene at the grave. Admittedly, I didn't beat it on the hardest level, but am I the only one who didn't think it even felt like an ending? With each of these commercials, it feels further from the reality of the game, and to stress the single player story aspect of a game that's 90% multi-player... it seems about as genuine as one of those ones with screaming guitars and CG.
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Posted: Oct 10th 2007 1:04PM (Unverified) said
did you ever watch the cutscene that came after the credits?
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Posted: Oct 10th 2007 1:00PM (Unverified) said
Stop me if im wrong, but this is a TV spot, they are not gonna release a game spoiler on a tv commercial... he doesnt die of course
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Posted: Oct 11th 2007 2:24AM (Unverified) said
This commercial isn't a spoiler. Beating the game on Easy, Normal, Heroic, or Legendary...ALL these difficulties show the cutscene after the credits that shows Master Chief being frozen.
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Posted: Oct 10th 2007 3:07PM (Unverified) said
If you havn't finished the game then don't watch the video thats all there is to say. And for someone who just finished Halo, I can say that honestly if you thought the game needed boss battles play it on a higher difficulty, and I have to say what I know understand that I don't like is the fact that I can't watch cutscenes after viewing them during the game without play it again after pressing a accidently at the end
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Posted: Oct 11th 2007 9:24AM (Unverified) said
Smarten up Joystiq! That video is not a spoiler. It says nothing but that MC is MIA. Neither dead or alive.
Your as lame as Kotaku on this story.
Again, smarten up!
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Your as lame as Kotaku on this story.
Again, smarten up!
Posted: Oct 10th 2007 5:00PM Teknodweeb said
Don't some people think that the comment might be taken badly by those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families. I mean the US government is lying about how people have died in real life, and that went over badly. Now Bungie is literally saying, you died so what it is expected...dont expect any of us to really celebrate your service to our country. (Personally i know this isn't what they meant but the media and people are idiots)
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Posted: Oct 11th 2007 10:07AM (Unverified) said
If he hadn't been there for 43 years, how did he know where the ceremony was, if it was only five years ago?
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Posted: Oct 11th 2007 7:45PM (Unverified) said
SPOILERS (i think)
We have to remember theese ad campaing is from the UNSC point of view... NO ONE but the players know that MC is NOT DEaD... the soldiers and the rest of the planet believe he is dead... and this commercial is good... because he tells us that they say is MIA to deny that he is KIA (wich is what they believe).... =)
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We have to remember theese ad campaing is from the UNSC point of view... NO ONE but the players know that MC is NOT DEaD... the soldiers and the rest of the planet believe he is dead... and this commercial is good... because he tells us that they say is MIA to deny that he is KIA (wich is what they believe).... =)
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