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I can't believe this guy has an almost 30 second intro devoted to himself. It's nothing but audio from WWE and TNA. :lol
The game shifts back to the Master Chief. Having accidentally unleashed the Flood (again), and without sufficient weapons to fight them, the Chief beats a hasty retreat back through the tunnels, hoping to find someplace to barricade himself for safety. The Flood forms chasing him are unlike anything we’ve seen before. They are very tall and very thin humanoids. They are Forerunner flood, the first ever infected. And although their brethren Forerunners locked them away, they were worshipped as gods. The Apollo AI tells the Chief this from analyzing the glyphs they had seen earlier. The Chief ends up in a domicile built into the side of the tunnels. He uses ancient furniture to bar the opening. As the Flood forms try to break their way into the room, the Chief uses all of his strength to punch a hole in the wall opposite. Apollo tells him that there are hollowed out areas behind the walls. So, once the Chief breaks through, he enters into the darkened regions of the caves. This area is very moist. Rivulets of war drip down the walls and the Chief’s boots slap against the ground with every step. The narrow tunnel begins to widen and opens out to a promontory. Chief stands at the edge of the promontory and looks down to see a field before him illuminated by light coming through cracks in the ceiling above. At this point, the Gravemind initiates conversation with the Chief in its usual poetic tone. The Chief begins to hallucinate events during his training sessions with the other Spartans in his generation (as described in the book The Fall of Reach). He sees himself and the other Spartans performing combat exercises; he can hear Cortana’s voice echoing in the cave walls and then transitioning smoothly into Gravemind’s poetry. The scene below him changes. He can see his parents and himself a young child. At this time, the player is free to move around. The promontory has a pathway leading down along the walls and onto the field below. The Chief makes his way down to the field where his younger self and parents are beginning to diminish. Cortana’s voice begins a statement we’ve heard at the beginning of Halo 3. “Like the others, you were strong and swift and brave. A natural leader. But you had something they didn’t.” At this point, the voice changes to Gravemind’s voice. And the sentence continues. “Something no one saw… but me. Can you guess? Destiny.” So, instead of saying “luck,” as Cortana had said, the Gravemind establishes Chief’s significance as a matter of fate. The Chief notices the field darkening. He looks up in time to see Gravemind’s tentacles slithering down towards him. The scene ends.
The scene changes to Dr. Halsey. This is most likely a cutscene for the game, but I would prefer it if Halsey was made a playable character, if only for a brief while. Halsey is still trapped in an air vent in an attempt to evade capture or death at the hands of the Brutes. She decides that the ship is a lost cause and must be destroyed. Her attempts to establish communication with the Master Chief or anyone within the UNSC have all failed. She wishes to destroy the Infinity and make a bid to escape on a small cruiser ship or emergency pod. She finds a bomb in the cargo bay, arms is, and grabs the remote detonator. However, upon suiting up (space suit) and navigating stealthily through the ship (stealth element to the game), she is disheartened to see that the UNSC Infinity has arrived at High Charity. High Charity is a beautiful, sprawling locale. Despite being abandoned for years, the city is being brought back to former glory by the Brutes. The Brutes have enslaved the Unggoy and Jackals, who are worked to death in rebuilding the ruins. Grunts and Jackals can now be infected by the Flood forms. As Halsey, the player must traverse High Charity. This section of the game contains vertical platforming gameplay, stealth, and rescue operations. It turns out that many Sangheili hostages were acquired from the invasion on Sangheilios. The Brutes are systematically torturing and executing them at their pleasure. Halsey watches as Elites are made to kill each other in gladiatorial combat in an arena not unlike the Coliseum. The leader of the Brutes, Tartarus, sits upon a throne like Caesar and watches gleefully as his archenemies disembowel one another. Halsey finds a corral holding the Elites, both males and females and children, and hacks a terminal to free them. Arming themselves with weapons, Halsey and the freed Elites stage a coup to kill Tartarus and escape from High Charity on a ship. It is important to note that at this time, Halsey is completely unaware of the Flood’s existence. Her belief is that the 12 Spartan IVs from the failed mission were killed by the Brutes. Their attempt to kill Tartarus fails and many Elites die, but Halsey and some survivors manage to escape from the arena and head through the streets (or equivalent) toward a ship. Once inside, Halsey detonates the bomb on the Infinity and this creates enough of a diversion that they are able to fly away unchallenged.
Halsey’s plan is to fly as close enough to Earth as possible to establish a communication with the UNSC and alert them of the situation. The Chief is lost and the Brutes are becoming a threat. This part of the game can be a cutscene or a flying mission with ship-to-ship combat against Brute enemy ships. Halsey fails to contact Earth and decides on a hunch to fly toward Installation 03.
The game shifts back to the Arbiter. The Prophet of Mercy uses his artifact to open the Library. The Arbiter is escorted inside by the Spartan Flood forms. It is here that Gravemind tells the details of the creation of the Precursors. Long ago, Gravemind created the first lifeforms in the universe. They worshipped him as a god and lived alongside him as equals. They experienced no toil and no suffering; their technology was unsurpassed. When they died, peacefully, they were assimilated into the Gravemind. The next race of lifeformthe Gravemind created was the Forerunners. They worshipped the Precursors and deified them. However, they feared the Gravemind and believed him to be an abomination. Gravemind claims they were arrogant. Among them was the Didact. He attempted to destroy the Flood forms of his Forerunner Brethren. The Gravemind decided to unleash the Flood in full force among his living creations as punishment for their pride. But the Didact was successful in sealing in the Flood, for a time. The existence of humans came as a surprise to the Forerunners. They wondered who had created them. Was it Gravemind? A war was fought between Forerunners and humans. The Didact believed that the humans would unleash the Gravemind and doom them all. The Didact transferred his memories into another being, a non-organic being immune to the Flood. He later fired the rings from a safe location and ended Forerunner life to prevent the Flood, and Gravemind, from spreading.
Years later, the next race of lifeform, the Covenant, were fated to discover the rings and encounter the humans. Gravemind had waited 100,000 years to assume his mantle as god. The Arbiter doesn’t know what to make of the information. The Prophet of Mercy admits his failure and the failure of the Covenant to understand the true purpose of the rings, and the glory of the Gravemind. Of course, at this point, the Prophet’s mind is infused with that of the Gravemind, so it is unclear whose opinion is being expressed. This entire scene is told in real time as the player walks through the library halls, examining more glyphs and artifacts.
The game shifts back to the Master Chief. Gravemind finishes telling the Chief nearly everything the Prophet of Mercy was telling the Arbiter. The Chief refuses to believe it and attempts to extricate himself from the Gravemind’s tentacular grasp. Suddenly, AI Apollo sends a jolt of electricity coursing through the surface of the Chief’s MJOLNIR armor. The Gravemind is momentarily shocked and lets the Chief fall. Using thrusters, the Chief flies up and out of the cavern’s cracked ceiling and emerges in the desert. The Gravemind roars in anger, but the Chief is already tearing through the desert to head back to the ship in an attempt to send out an emergency beacon from the downed half of his ship. Because the ship is of alien (Brute) origin, the player must hack the system to get the signal out. Once this is accomplished, Apollo is able to establish contact with Dr. Halsey, who flies down to the Installation to retrieve John.
Meanwhile, back at the Library with the Arbiter, the Prophet of Mercy and the infected Spartans become aware of the Gravemind’s anger. The Prophet of Mercy claims that the Gravemind forgave him, and that he is also willing to forgive the Arbiter for his transgressions. The Prophet activates a wall, which slides away to reveal an ancient Forerunner ship. The Arbiter’s new task is to chase after the Master Chief. The Arbiter lies and agrees to do this so he can get on the ship and escape. As they begin to board the ship, the Arbiter draws out an energy sword and decapitates the Prophet of Mercy. The Spartan IV flood forms charge out at him, but the Arbiter briskly enters the ship and flies through an opening. As he is flying above the surface of Installation 03, he is attacked by other ships, flown by the Spartans. This part of the game is a combat flying mission, but the unprecedented agility of the ships should make it different than the kinds of flying missions in Halo Reach and Halo 4. Upon, destroying 3 of 6 ships, the other Spartans mysteriously retreat and the Arbiter is able to communicate with Halsey’s ship and set up a rendezvous point near the Chief’s downed ship.
Meanwhile, the game shifts back to the Master Chief. The Gravemind’s bellow awakens the large scarab beetles from the dunes of the desert. They are driven into a frenzy and attack the Chief. The Chief finds a Brute equivalent to an RPG inside the wreckage and stands atop the ship to fire rockets at the incoming creatures. After a few successful hits, the remaining beetles spread their wings and reveal that they can fly. The Chief uses his thrusters to level the playing field. In the mean time, the Gravemind is getting closer and closer to the ship. His main body is hidden beneath the sands, but his tentacles approach like snakes fondling the sky. The sands begin to shift and sink. A volcanic eruption from the mountain nearby was triggered by the Gravemind’s growling. The air fills with raining ash. Halsey’s ship arrives just in time to pick up the Chief, while the Arbiter arrives just as soon to provide cover fire against the Gravemind. The two ships fly out of the Installation and head for Earth.
They arrive at the Sol System and hail the UNSC but receive no response. Once they get closer, they realize that Earth’s outer defenses have been penetrated by none other than the Prometheans. The Prometheans have arrived in search of the Didact, their leader. They have begun composing the humans on Earth. From the other direction, High Charity erupts from slipspace and Tartarus’s voice is heard on the ships’ radio. And just as soon as that happens, another Slipspace opens up and from it emerges a mysterious fleet of ships that look unlike anything seen before. It is the Precursors. They have returned.
The game ends like this, on a cliffhanger.
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=509475
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GOTTA STAY UP FOR NITNENDO DIRECT THE FUTURE OF MY NEOGAF CAREAR DEPENDS ON I HOPE NINTENDOSAN DOESNT FUK THIS UP
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penis
dear god :rofl
http://s9.postimage.org/q4kt3xz4v/prom_kaz.jpg (http://s9.postimage.org/q4kt3xz4v/prom_kaz.jpg)
This is a great image, but I don't really know what it's supposed to mean.
Kaz is some kind of shit, albino mutant. Having seen the movie I assume he's going to drink that black stuff, disintegrate and seed life in the ocean?
Is the primitive ocean (and the life that dwells within it) a metaphor for the subhuman pond life that is your typical Sonytard? Is the fact its a photoshop of a shitty, disappointing movie and a silly piece of passively consumed entertainment supposed to be a metaphor for QuanticDream's next game? Are we supposed to remember how ripped off we felt after paying for such a movie at the cinema, and then recall our now distant, repressed memories of how mercilessly deceived and wallet raped we were at PS3 launch?
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I enjoyed Prometheus tbh. Plot holes be damned
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entertainment value
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Someone post them on GAF, I want to see bannings and crying
I've seen people say that here for years and I still don't know what it means. Leper borys.
Here's another image (laboriously long) from the realm of console war, this time, featuring some kind of homicidal Vin Diesel.
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Someone sat and made it.