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Subject: This is what I think would be a GREAT beginning to Halo: Reach!

Donuts > all other food

EDIT: I know, I know. I suck at writing dialouge.

Ok, I just thought of an idea. I think this would be great way to open Halo: Reach!

Ok, here it goes.

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It has been a whopping 6 MONTHS after the end of Halo 3. The chief is still in cryosleep. The UNSC have yet to rescue chief. This cutscene takes place on the frigate, still floating helplessly in space.

Cortana is VERY lonely, and after six months, she feels the need to communicate to Spartan 117 again.

Cortana: *opens cryo-tube* "Chief? Can you hear me? Are you awake?"

Chief: "Whoa. How long have I been asleep? Did the UNSC find the beacon yet?"

Cortana: "No. You have been asleep for six months. I've been lonely without you..."

Chief: "You woke me. What's wrong?"

Cortana: "I feel like talking to you. I've been lonely, as I said."

Chief: "What do you want to talk about?"

Cortana: "Let's talk about your past. Let's talk about Reach. What was that like?"

Chief: "Oh my god. That was terrible. Many lives were lost. The UNSC lost one of it's best colonies..."

Now the cutscene camera zooms in on Master Chief's visor, getting gradually closer, until the camera is all up in his face. Halo-ish music plays, and we go to black screen.

Master Chief is having a flashback of the Battle of Reach! This is when the game starts off!

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What do you guys think?

[Edited on 06.28.2009 7:48 PM PDT]

  • 06.28.2009 7:29 PM PDT

not bad...not bad at all

  • 06.28.2009 7:32 PM PDT

G-R-A-Y-M-8-8

Pronounced, Gray Em Eighty Eight

Except Halo:Reach is a confirmed prequel.. which cannot come a dozen + years after Halo : CE ?

  • 06.28.2009 7:35 PM PDT

"War does not determine who it right, only who is left." -Bertrand Russell

Dialogue could be a bit better but I like it.

  • 06.28.2009 7:35 PM PDT

wes smith

Posted by: Scrubinator
Except Halo:Reach is a confirmed prequel.. which cannot come a dozen + years after Halo : CE ?


apparenly u didn't read the guys whole post

Chief: "What do you want to talk about?"

Cortana: "Let's talk about your past. Let's talk about Reach. What was that like?"

Chief: "Oh my god. That was terrible. Many lives were lost. The UNSC lost one of it's best colonies..."

Now the cutscene camera zooms in on Master Chief's visor, getting gradually closer, until the camera is all up in his face. Halo-ish music plays, and we go to black screen.

Master Chief is having a flashback of the Battle of Reach! This is when the game starts off!

  • 06.28.2009 7:40 PM PDT

Ugh...

First on a BWU.. yeah, I'm cool.

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Dialouge was really bad. This could be conveyed in a much better way. Like, for instance flash backs from different perspectives.

(Right off the top of my head, here is a scenario..)

So, you are being guided through a museum (sp?) and there are a bunch of artifacts on display, and each one brings a flash back.

I dunno, but Cortana waking up chief to just talk seems a little, I unno, stupid. (No offense)

The dialouge just sounded really awful, like the beggining of an "Amateur movie", if you catch my drift.

  • 06.28.2009 7:41 PM PDT

as long as the main plot is about reach it doesnt matter how far u go like lets say at the end of the game u see life pods fling from the pillar of autumn and the autumn crashing... that takes place after halo ce but it will still be a prequel

  • 06.28.2009 7:42 PM PDT

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How can he have a flashback to something he wasn't a part of....? Howbout this for a good openning?

  • 06.28.2009 7:43 PM PDT

Donuts > all other food

I know I'm not the best writer. But I was hoping Bungie would take this idea, but Bungie up the dialouge to make it epic!

  • 06.28.2009 7:43 PM PDT

G-R-A-Y-M-8-8

Pronounced, Gray Em Eighty Eight

So you're suggesting the entire game be a -blam!- flashback? These ideas infuriate me.

  • 06.28.2009 7:43 PM PDT

Not a bad idea, but I do suspect time travel.

But you are a horrible dialogue writer ( i doubt it's that you don't know the charatcers). Because chief wouldn't say woah.

  • 06.28.2009 7:45 PM PDT

Decent idea but as you said in a post earlier the writing or dialogue is pretty poor. I wouldn't really mind them taking this route, but it's not really necessary. Chances are Chief isn't going to play a huge role in the game anyway, so it wouldn't make sense. Chief will have his story told another time and another place, no need for this.

Props for the original and creative idea though.

  • 06.28.2009 7:45 PM PDT

G-R-A-Y-M-8-8

Pronounced, Gray Em Eighty Eight

I'd rather see the early days of Chief, acquiring the original MJOLNIR, taking down Watts in that asteroid belt... rather then him walking around saying Woah and having flashbacks of a traumitizing battle which would probably be touched upon later. Plus the fact that the flashback thing is a complete rip from ODST, and that the whole game would have to be one giant flashback to be considered the already confirmed Prequel of the halo series..



A.I constructs dont get lonely and want to talk btw.

[Edited on 06.28.2009 7:48 PM PDT]

  • 06.28.2009 7:47 PM PDT

Donutt- great job, I think that would be an interesting ending. Since we don't know how long it has been for the Legendary Ending, it could work. I would prefer Chief dreaming it in cryo, because there have been various times when characters have relived past experiences through dreams in cryo... very cool idea. I would rather have a beginning like:
Officer-man: "All ships, incoming Covenant cruiser: Fire on that ship!"
Spartan: "Sir, this is Spartan Random Number"
Officer-man: "Spartan Random Number, you mind telling me what the hell you are doing on that ship?"
Spartan:"Sir, finishing this fight."
Screen cuts to black... credits roll.
But that is just me.

  • 06.28.2009 8:14 PM PDT

And So Forerunner And Flood Became One.

I think the halo reach games should be mainly on th other surviving spartans stationed on reach.Id prefer master chief to be mentioned,or part of a cutscene somewhere.

  • 06.28.2009 8:37 PM PDT