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| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | |
| Posted By: gspawn | Date: 9/17/10 1:21 p.m. |
In Response To: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) (Cody Miller) : Notice how in Halo, the plot is steadily advancing all throughout the game? : Now notice in Reach, how only the very beginning, and the very end of the : game move the story forward at all? Disagree here. The main theme in Reach is futility. So like the Pelican mission- everything you do on that mission is entirely futile. Even if you get these people into Orbit, the Covenant's just going to use their ship's hull to help decorate the atmosphere. But that's the point. You're making this stand, even knowing you've already failed, because it's just something you have to do. The orders really don't make any sense, and it really is just a series of "go here do this" missions. But that's all Noble 6's life is at that point, scrabbling for survival and following orders along the way. I think that's actaully pretty powerful. I remember a similar argument in Halo 1, when people were complaining that the Flood were just yucky zombies and weren't fun to fight. They're not supposed to be clasically fun to fight like the Covenant, they're not supposed to involve your aesthetic pleasure like the semiorganic forms of Covenant tech, the Flood is supposed to impress upon you how important it is keep the rest of the galaxy safe from them. (although this wore off entirely for H2/H3- the Flood wound up being drab, poorly designed, and downright annoying instead of icky / terrifying). In being nasty and terrifying and you bastards aren't leaving this rock, Halo 1's Flood was an amazing enemy. That still doesn't excuse the missions in Reach that really don't advance anything, like the mentioned communications tower... thing... deals. It's really just a callback to Halo and Foehammer picking up Marines, which I can enjoy as a fan, but objectively I see how it doesn't really do anything.
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| Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | Cody Miller | 9/17/10 11:57 a.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | General Battuta | 9/17/10 12:15 p.m. |
| good thoughts *NM* | Schedonnardus | 9/17/10 12:17 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | terminator182 | 9/17/10 12:34 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | General Battuta | 9/17/10 12:56 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | DHalo | 9/17/10 6:02 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | Ducain | 9/17/10 12:43 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | General Battuta | 9/17/10 12:57 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | uberfoop | 9/17/10 1:03 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | NeoN | 9/17/10 1:19 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | General Battuta | 9/17/10 1:32 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | gspawn | 9/17/10 1:21 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | NeoN | 9/17/10 1:38 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | BanditORR | 9/17/10 2:41 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | tln | 9/17/10 1:40 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | bluerunner | 9/17/10 1:54 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | gspawn | 9/17/10 2:03 p.m. |
| Let's take a better look at that... *SP* | BlueNinja | 9/17/10 2:01 p.m. |
| Re: Let's take a better look at that... *SP* | bluerunner | 9/17/10 2:05 p.m. |
| Oh snap! *NM* | BlueNinja | 9/17/10 2:09 p.m. |
| Re: Let's take a better look at that... *SP* | Hawaiian Pig | 9/17/10 8:07 p.m. |
| I beg to differ. | munky-058 | 9/17/10 2:31 p.m. |
| Re: I beg to differ. | Ducain | 9/17/10 5:26 p.m. |
| Re: I beg to differ. | Hawaiian Pig | 9/17/10 6:03 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | bluerunner | 9/17/10 2:40 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | Cody Miller | 9/17/10 2:52 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | Ze Moose | 9/19/10 12:38 a.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | DEEP NNN | 9/17/10 2:53 p.m. |
| Agreed on out of bounds msgs and plot presentation | reprobate | 9/17/10 5:37 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | General Vagueness | 9/17/10 5:42 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | Hawaiian Pig | 9/17/10 6:00 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | General Vagueness | 9/17/10 6:34 p.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | Crab | 9/18/10 11:26 a.m. |
| Re: Thoughts on Reach (4K words) | Hawaiian Pig | 9/19/10 12:40 a.m. |
| DropShield is most useful on Legendary by far. *NM* | c0ld vengeance | 9/18/10 10:17 a.m. |
| Character investment | kapowaz | 9/18/10 5:34 p.m. |
| Re: Character investment | Hawaiian Pig | 9/19/10 12:37 a.m. |
| Re: Character investment | Louis Wu | 9/19/10 8:08 a.m. |
| Re: Character investment | Hawaiian Pig | 9/19/10 4:14 p.m. |
| Re: Character investment | Ze Moose | 9/19/10 12:44 a.m. |
| Re: Character investment | kapowaz | 9/19/10 3:11 a.m. |
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