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Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | |
Posted By: Riceatron <riceatron@hotmail.com> | Date: 9/26/10 4:49 p.m. |
In Response To: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story (General Battuta) : I want to make it clear right up front that I am not a big fan of Reach's
Hurr durr porp a worpa dorp.
: LE DIALOGUE! : Reach's dialogue has its moments. Its absolute best moments are when the
This, when people aren't speaking English, everything seems to go fine. Maybe the whole game should have been translated into Hungarian.
: It has many more bad moments. Definately. : Reach dialogue is redundant. "It's the Covenant, sir!" "Yeah,
>Find the marines
: Reach dialogue clumsily deploys military terminology. "We're being
"ENEMY BAD GUYS OVER THERE!"
Reach failed to deliver in a lot of places when it came to dialogue : My biggest issue with the Reach dialogue is that it's not dense with
Jorge "Three, Zealot class. Armor configuration matched"
Oh haha, Six thinks he's a people.
: Reach's plot is a mess. I'm gonna keep this simple and distilled. : The story opens with an opportunity for an Insurrectionist encounter that
OOOoooOooOOoooOOH. [snip]
: And wait, hold on. Vast swathes of Halo 3 contain VERBATIM QUOTES of The Fall
Well, most of those quotes happened at the BEGINNING of FoR... So... All clear?
: This contradiction does something dangerous, which is establish that all the
: Oh, and the fact that they SUCK. :D : Halo: CE implies that Cortana and the Chief know each other well and are sort
: Halo: The Fall of Reach implies that Cortana and the Chief only met days ago,
: Halo: Reach introduces a THIRD contradiction by suggesting that Cortana was
It just occured to me the players who don't care for Halo's story at all are gonna be like "Wait, Cortana chose Six? Is that what she was talking about in Halo 3's opening cutscene?" :
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A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | General Battuta | 9/26/10 1:25 p.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | General Battuta | 9/26/10 1:29 p.m. |
Fall of Reach Canon | Cody Miller | 9/26/10 1:45 p.m. |
Officially Licensed... | Riceatron | 9/26/10 1:53 p.m. |
Re: Officially Licensed... | Gordon Freeman | 9/26/10 2:16 p.m. |
Re: Officially Licensed... | General Battuta | 9/26/10 3:20 p.m. |
Re: Officially Licensed... | Tex | 9/26/10 3:25 p.m. |
Oh don't even. | Riceatron | 9/26/10 4:30 p.m. |
Re: Oh don't even. | DHalo | 9/26/10 4:46 p.m. |
;3 *NM* | Tex | 9/26/10 6:08 p.m. |
: | *NM* | Riceatron | 9/26/10 6:17 p.m. |
HBO: : | *NM* | SonofMacPhisto | 9/26/10 6:42 p.m. |
HBO: Riceatron is a faggot *NM* | Gordon Freeman | 9/26/10 8:13 p.m. |
Absolutely uncalled for *NM* | vlad3163 | 9/26/10 10:23 p.m. |
Agreed *NM* | Avateur | 9/26/10 11:07 p.m. |
Re: Absolutely uncalled for | Gordon Freeman | 9/26/10 11:13 p.m. |
Re: Absolutely uncalled for | vlad3163 | 9/26/10 11:26 p.m. |
Re: Absolutely uncalled for | Gordon Freeman | 9/26/10 11:31 p.m. |
Re: Absolutely uncalled for | vlad3163 | 9/26/10 11:42 p.m. |
Oh, you're one of those guys... | Jordan117 | 9/27/10 3:08 p.m. |
Dude, I love Louis CK. *NM* | Tex | 9/27/10 3:34 p.m. |
Re: Oh, you're one of those guys... | Spartan Jag | 9/27/10 4:36 p.m. |
Wait, what? | Jordan117 | 9/27/10 5:06 p.m. |
Re: Wait, what? | General Vagueness | 9/27/10 5:44 p.m. |
Re: Wait, what? | Spartan Jag | 9/27/10 11:20 p.m. |
Re: Wait, what? | gunluva | 9/27/10 11:29 p.m. |
Me neither. | Jordan117 | 9/28/10 2:23 a.m. |
And here I thot this thread was relevant to the OP *NM* | thebruce0 | 9/28/10 10:43 a.m. |
It's the Internet | Hawaiian Pig | 9/27/10 5:22 p.m. |
Re: Absolutely uncalled for | Avateur | 9/26/10 11:33 p.m. |
HBO: Absolutely uncalled for *NM* | reprobate | 9/27/10 1:35 a.m. |
This is what I wake up to? | Riceatron | 9/27/10 6:59 a.m. |
Re: This is what I wake up to? | Wayward Spleen™ | 9/27/10 2:13 p.m. |
Re: This is what I wake up to? | Crab | 9/30/10 10:55 a.m. |
HBO : Gordon Freeman is a dick. | Riceatron | 9/27/10 7:11 a.m. |
Re: HBO : Gordon Freeman is a dick. | RyanTheHeretic | 9/27/10 7:17 a.m. |
Re: HBO : Gordon Freeman is a dick. | Spartan Jag | 9/27/10 1:56 p.m. |
Re: HBO: Riceatron is a faggot | Frankie | 9/27/10 1:40 p.m. |
HBO: Makes Frankie ask "wtf"? *NM* | Wayward Spleen™ | 9/27/10 2:08 p.m. |
Re: HBO: Riceatron is a faggot | Quirel | 9/27/10 3:21 p.m. |
Re: Fall of Reach Canon | furiocity | 9/26/10 3:00 p.m. |
Re: Fall of Reach Canon | The BS Police | 9/26/10 3:04 p.m. |
Re: Fall of Reach Canon | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 9/26/10 3:12 p.m. |
Seriously, people! | General Battuta | 9/26/10 3:19 p.m. |
Upboated | kapowaz | 9/26/10 3:38 p.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | Avateur | 9/26/10 3:38 p.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | General Battuta | 9/26/10 3:59 p.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | Hawaiian Pig | 9/26/10 4:37 p.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | Riceatron | 9/26/10 4:49 p.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | BlueNinja | 9/26/10 5:30 p.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | Silent Knight | 9/26/10 6:45 p.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | thebruce0 | 9/28/10 10:51 a.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | General Vagueness | 9/27/10 12:28 a.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | Kermit | 9/27/10 11:55 a.m. |
Re: A Tiered Critique of Reach's Story | Wayward Spleen™ | 9/27/10 12:54 p.m. |
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