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| Re: You people are confusing me. | |
| Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net> | Date: 6/14/11 1:21 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: You people are confusing me. (Louis Wu) : You're assuming it's an error. I'm suggesting it might be utterly : intentional. : As in... they WANTED you to allow yourself to be misled. If that's the case, then that's the error. That's something Bungie might have gotten away with. It would have been relatively easy to rein in the speculation, and trust that something else will come that will make sense out of apparent nonsense. Some here have argued just that. Bungie has a twenty year track record of making mostly excellent games. 343i doesn't have that. It has legal custody of a beloved property, and the two E3 trailers are the only substantive evidence we have so far of the level of care it is receiving. If 343i actually intended to create confusion by making it appear as if this is what happens next, but there was actually crucial action in the interim that explains apparent continuity inconsistencies, I think that's a lot worse. 343i doesn't have, at least not with me, that kind of goodwill to spend yet. Although frankly, even if inconsistent, the jetpack stunt I think is silly and unnecessary. He could have grabbed jets from a crate and it wouldn't have made any more sense. The more I go back and look at the ending of Halo 3 in order to compare to this, the more convinced I am that Halo 3 ended well and the less convinced I am that Halo 4 needs to exist at all, from a creative, rather than a commercial perspective. If that's the impression they intended to create, that's even worse than just having pushed in the jetpack where it didn't belong. This kind of attention isn't helping; the critics are, from several sides, saying that they don't think this trailer works, and those defending it can only say that maybe the apparent problems will be worked out later, through any one of a number of methods that the critics don't find any more palatable than the problems themselves.
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