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| Re: Here's why: there Are *NO* Establishing Shots | |
| Posted By: Epyon MX | Date: 1/27/08 5:12 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Here's why: there Are *NO* Establishing Shots (elpolloguapo) : Um, if you pay attention during the levels, you see In Amber Clad (it's a : frigate, not a cruiser BTW) fly right over your head and Cortana yell : "it's in amber clad!" It's not during a combat part, either, so : it's hard to miss. : There's an exterior shot of Shadow of intent before every single shot of it's
Not in relation to Halo or to the fleet or to the enemies fleet. I never know where the Shadow of Intent is. : There is a decent one at the beginning of the Ark. Fair point. : It pops up in front of your face, right out of that big pit in the middle of
I want a big wide-angle of the entire Installation 00 and the new Halo. But this would require a separate cinematic, one that doesn't show the Chief. : There is one, it's hovering (estimate) one to two hundred kilometers above 00 Farther back would be nice. The one in the game is adequate, I'll admit. But come on, the beauty of the Installation and everything is immense, I want to see more of it. : It flies by behind you in the first cinematic, and it's not important other
Okay. Fair point. But since it's so critical that it is, why could the Dawn have landed anywhere else. It just felt arbitrary so you could have the badass Warthog run at the end. : The bow crashes into the ocean, the stern is lost in space. The point is that
Exactly, you see the bow crash into the ocean. You don't see, that I recall, the moment where the thing was split in half. One moment the Chief is in the cargo bay. The next there's something falling into the Ocean. I recently played through co-op with a few friends and I asked them after we beat the last level what they thought. None of them realized that it was the bow that fell. The shape of the ship is so unique that they didn't realize that it was only half of the ship that fell into the water. That's a problem. It's not until after the end credits that you go back and see the Chief still in space and figure it out. : Or, you need to watch and pay attention to understand. I deserve that remark for the tone I took. I'm saying that for the amount of attention you have to pay shouldn't be necessary for a story that isn't that complex. You can tell the same story, dumbing down nothing, and invest considerably less attention in just figuring out what happened and more on figuring out what things mean and how they affect the characters and story in the future.
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