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| Re: Interesting Frankie Quote | |
| Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net> | Date: 6/10/11 1:57 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: Interesting Frankie Quote (DHalo) : But see, let's assume we played the game tomorrow, and the explanation is : altered gameplay. The game itself would serve as explanation. That isn't : outside, that's the product itself, is it not? Yes, it is. It is outside the trailer. Right now, there is no game, there is only a trailer. We're judging the trailer on its own merits. One cannot be simultaneously criticized for unfairly criticizing the game based on flaws in the trailer, and then also for not excusing flaws in the trailer based on speculation about possible elements in the game! : The jetpacks were not added in haphazardly or by accident. It was deliberate.
Mistakes can be made deliberately. If the gameplay of Halo 4 is to feature (as we might be led to believe) integrated jetpacks, this would "explain" the trailer, but clumsily. A much better way would have been to introduce this as an armor modification, as this preserves all past data points inconsistent with such a jetpack existing prior to Halo 4, outside of Reach where it is included as an external modification. A gameplay change cannot explain the jetpack in the trailer, because events that happen after this trailer cannot explain what happened prior to this trailer. Even if the only intent here was to deliberately introduce a new gameplay feature my allegation is that this is poorly done within the context of a cinematic trailer that we are given every reason to believe occurs immediately after the ending of Halo 3, at least from the perspective of the Chief. : If the reasoning does require explanation outside of the game (as in, it is
And now I'm gritting my teeth because the logical rejoinder to that is that those making the decisions about the trailer should work harder so we don't have to, but that's a horrible, horrible thought to have. And now I've thought it and I can't un-think it. Thanks a lot. So on the one hand, your position is that this is not haphazard or accidental, but deliberate, so it must be part of a plan-- but on the other hand, chill out, it's just an advertisement, don't think about it too hard? Anybody else see that these are... well, sort of contradictory? Saying that they intended people to not think about it too hard is sort of antithetical to how Bungie used to pitch its products. I get the sense this is pitched to people who are going to think "oh, cool, a jet pack" and then stop thinking about it, and I have a hard time putting myself in that group after several years of spending at least as much time thinking and writing about Halo as playing it-- perhaps more so.
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