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Re: Back up a second...
Posted By: Cody Miller	Date: 9/28/06 10:21 a.m.
In Response To: Back up a second... (Hawaiian Pig) : One of the main pullers of the Halo series, for me, was the amazing story : telling. Aside from beautiful cinematics, much of the story was conveyed : through the game. With an RTS, I find this a bit hard to fathom. The : perspective seems a bit disconnected. You are not a Spartan battling the : war on the field, you're this presence commanding an army and watching it : blindly do your bidding. I have never played an RTS myself, so I may be : way off here, but from what I've seen, it's basically "team A here, : team B here, fight." Cool... for about 20 minutes, at least story : wise. I can't see any story being more than "Humans and Covenant are : fighting over this land! *match occurs* Humans/Covenant have won this : territory!" Having played and loved Starcraft and Starcraft Brood war, I can say that those games exemplify the possibility of RTS story telling. Not only were the gameplay mechanics phenominal, but the story was well told and engrosing. Granted, a lot of the backstory is told in the manual, much more than in Halo, but it was worth the read, and that combined with the cinematics, pre game mission briefings, and in game events, the world that was created and the story that was told was very engaging. In starcraft, the heros are represented as single units on the battlefield. You cannot allow them to die. In games lke Myth, your army is smaller and thus individual units are easy to control and keep track of. However, the perspective it going to be interesting. In Starcraft for example, you play as an unnamed leader in each of the three campaigns and more or less watch the evens surrounding your actions. It's fairly close to a first person perspective, but not quite. The characters in the game talk to YOU, and in a sense, you're playing a character in the game much like you would be by playing the master chief by first person. Starcraft has got to be less than 10 bucks now, and ran on my 60mhz Powermac, so it'll work on pretty much any computer. There's even an OS X version available. Since you admit to never playing an RTS game, I suggest checking it out to get a sense of the storytelling possibilites for RTS games, and then perhaps you then might share my optimism that a Halo RTS could have an engaging story.

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Back up a second...	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 12:37 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	iDeNoh	9/28/06 12:55 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Xmoose	9/28/06 1:08 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 1:23 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	sorahn	9/28/06 1:41 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Cocopjojo	9/28/06 1:45 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 1:52 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Bry	9/28/06 2:11 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Cocopjojo	9/28/06 2:25 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Slith	9/28/06 3:02 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	HipboyScott	9/28/06 11:20 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Slith	9/28/06 4:12 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Bry	9/28/06 3:07 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Slith	9/28/06 2:55 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 3:11 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Narcogen	9/28/06 11:22 p.m.
My concerns excatly *NM*	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 11:33 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Bry	9/29/06 2:17 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Narcogen	9/29/06 4:43 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Bry	9/29/06 6:06 a.m.
Enhanced	Narcogen	9/29/06 7:17 a.m.
Re: Enhanced	Bry	9/29/06 9:41 a.m.
Re: Enhanced	Peptuck	9/29/06 10:09 a.m.
Re: Enhanced	Narcogen	9/29/06 10:34 a.m.
Re: Enhanced	Bry	9/29/06 11:06 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Document	9/29/06 1:07 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Hawaiian Pig	9/29/06 1:11 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Narcogen	9/28/06 4:55 a.m.
On the RTS	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 3:08 a.m.
Re: On the RTS	Bry	9/28/06 3:44 a.m.
Re: On the RTS	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 3:49 a.m.
Re: On the RTS	CupiD-082	9/28/06 1:14 p.m.
Re: On the RTS	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	9/28/06 11:21 a.m.
Re: On the RTS	HipboyScott	9/28/06 11:43 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	DHalo	9/28/06 5:32 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Peptuck	9/28/06 7:48 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Slith	9/28/06 4:27 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	raptor117	9/28/06 5:27 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Document	9/28/06 7:27 p.m.
I'm with the pig...	Ducain	9/28/06 8:00 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Mister Froggy	9/28/06 9:06 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 6:38 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Mister Froggy	9/28/06 8:11 p.m.
Something I forgot to add...	Mister Froggy	9/28/06 9:29 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 9:30 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Boxer	9/28/06 9:22 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Cody Miller	9/28/06 10:21 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Peptuck	9/28/06 12:10 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Slith	9/28/06 4:30 p.m.
Re: On story.	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 6:31 p.m.
Re: On story.	Peptuck	9/28/06 10:17 p.m.
Move up a second....	dolbex	9/28/06 10:44 a.m.
My 1 cent	Clefton Twain	9/28/06 12:27 p.m.
Re: Move up and right back again :P	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 6:27 p.m.
Re: Move up and right back again :P	dolbex	9/29/06 8:54 p.m.
Re: Back up a second...	BattleMaster2552	9/28/06 11:53 a.m.
Re: Back up a second...	Slith	9/28/06 5:01 p.m.
Summation?	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/06 11:31 p.m.
Re: Summation?	mnemesis	9/29/06 1:52 a.m.
Re: Summation?	Narcogen	9/29/06 4:26 a.m.
Re: Summation?	Sep7imus [subnova]	9/29/06 7:57 p.m.
back up a second...	frobie	9/29/06 10:35 p.m.