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“To say more would spoil be it’s overall its a game that needs to be played.” - Aristotle
Posted by: whoppersandwich
The explosions could be the UNSC nuking the planet where covenant ships troop concentrations are. Once the super macs are down nukes become fair game.
True, but there are two problems with that. Primarily, UNSC personnel were extremely surprised when whole cities started going up in flames. On top of that, we know that the UNSC's nuclear arsenal was surprisingly low at the time, mainly due to efforts to vacuum-seal the nukes so they could be used as effective weapons in space. No... I find it incredibly unlikely the UNSC resorted to using their nuclear arsenal.
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Posted by: eryx eleet
One thing that everyone seems to be ignoring is they never actually say anything about the covenant being the "them", for all we know this game could be the story of the civil war that happened that led to the creation of the SPARTAN project. Also the spartans in the game could be spartan 1's and Chief and his team. Even though I think this game is going to be a game version of the fall of reach book, and the non MC bits from first strike. Maybe if we are lucky it is both books wrapped into a freaking awesome game.
I agree with you, which is why I hesitantly put "enemy" in the OP and not the Covenant specifically. I find it much more likely that this is something "else" that has nothing to do with the Covenant, be it before or after the Great War. I tend to think after, judging from the inconsistencies in the trailer.
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Posted by: RhomprStompr
Who says that the planet in the trailer is even reach?
They could go to previous battles like in halo wars before reach.
That's really the main purpose of this thread, to discuss if this planet in the trailer is actually Reach or not and, if so, from what time period or dimension.
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Posted by: swashbuckler91
Why do you take everything so literal? Seriously, that's is why this trailer is called a teaser trailer. Bungie created Halo; the canonical books do not. Why does Bungie have to follow the book's rules? They can do whatever they want.
Who cares if it doesn't follow canon? Let it go. It's just a teaser trailer to get the gamer hyped up for the next Halo game. We didn't even know about this game (except that it was called Halo: Chronicles or w/e); this just simply notified us about the name (not official?), and that they are creating something after Halo 3: ODST.
The trailer is one year before the game is released. The trailer is not going to show everything; thus, you shouldn't analyze it as you are now.
As stated before and in your post, this trailer is supposed to cause hype about the game. It is merely there to cause people to talk amongst themselves.
Did I say once that I expected Bungie to conform to any specific standard? No. I've been here for nigh on three years now, and I have dutifully and happily gone along with every move that Bungie has made. I have great respect for them, and the way that I am showing that respect happens to be through theorizing over their new trailer and getting hype up for their new game in my own way. If you have a problem with that, I suggest you take it elsewhere.
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Posted by: KAGED
You say the battle has been going on before the covenant got under the grid and started bombing.
But what you dont mention is that in the trailer you can clearly see the planet is already seared, burned, or in flames.
Im sure the UNSC didnt do that to themselves.
It's extremely likely (almost 100%) that the voice and video don't match up exactly. It's more like the voice is a guide for what the UNSC's doing while the video is a guide for what's happening. The UNSC reacts to the video. At least, that's how I view it. There are a few who say it's completely disjointed, however.