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Subject: Perhaps we'll play as Master Chief Again?

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Halo 3: ODST's trailer is 1.17 too, but we don't play as John in that...

  • 07.27.2009 2:16 AM PDT

I am a penguin. Every day I boogie on down to the water, and eat fish. Once, while fishing in the deepest depths, I saw great Cthulhu... And he said to me "Shine, to thine own self be true. They can't tell you what to do once you've gone guru." Also, I should tell you, "slide".

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Posted by: Pozerac
This is when Reach falls, but they never said that that's all the game will cover. I forget where I saw it but somebody from Bungie answered a question of where the game will take place and he responded by saying that it will take place on or near Reach, therefore many different perspectives could be played, one of which very well could be the Chief.


Indeed, if there was anytime to play with various characters in the Halo universe, this is it.

  • 07.27.2009 2:21 AM PDT

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Posted by: TheUseless0ne
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Who keeps saying its based on the 'Fall of Reach'? because that was never confirmed.

I reckon it will take place in both 'Fall of Reach' and 'First strike' where you will swap between Spartans, ie john one mission, Fred the next...... and so on. Its called Halo Reach!..... therefore taking place on Reach most likely. If you've all read the books as you have all claimed you'd know, that John returns to Reach in search of his fellow Spartans, which means theres a HUGE chance that John will be a playable character.

Im almost willing to put money on it.

[quote]In the trailer, they show Reach in a condition that looks fine... And the people on the radio are surprised to see covenant... This is when Reach falls, sir.

And by fine, I mean undestroyed.

And what happens later on in the trailer??? hmmmm oh thats right its getting blasted to hell, isnt it??? perhaps you should finish watching the trailer before you comment.

so that means it could be as i said based on both novels 'Fall of Reach' and 'First Strike'.

  • 07.27.2009 2:30 AM PDT
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well i for one have one alot of reasearch on the matter and my conclusion is you will most likly play as the master cheif or a sparton who spend alot of time fighting with the cheif.

this is due to many factors including if you look carefully at the center carecter in the top pic it is and exact silouet of master cheif in halo 1

second if you have played halo wars and looked at the time line the battle for planet reach is the first time that sparton mark 2 s where used and the battle itself is what caused the pillar of atutum to flee being folowed by many covenant ships along with the one remaining sparton seirra 117 the master cheif where apon they find the first halo hence the begining of the first game.


also for those fans of rreading there is a book called halo the fall of reach witch entails the cheif fighting for the planet reach and and its downfall and destruction of all other spartons


so this leads me to belive that for the most part you will play as the cheif

my speculation however is that you fight ina squad or along side sevral other spartons due to the fact that you will not be the super sparton in halo3 but more like you where in halo 1

and from this i thought that maby they will give the same gamplay as they do in odst where the cheif is fighting alone and withe the odd other sparton atimes and flasing back to others and there series of events and maby quiet maby tithink it would be cool if they put in a bit where you are in the middle of a large army of spartons fighting across a debri strune feild toward a large covenant force.

as well as this i recon the game will take you right through to the start of the first game
and that they may well put a game inbetween halo 1 and 2 so then you have the master cheifs story plus how affects the war from others perspectives from start to finish (if he really is dead)
so it would go like this
halo reach, halo, unkown, halo2, halo odst, halo3 and more if he isnt realy dead.



[Edited on 07.27.2009 2:38 AM PDT]

  • 07.27.2009 2:33 AM PDT

I am a penguin. Every day I boogie on down to the water, and eat fish. Once, while fishing in the deepest depths, I saw great Cthulhu... And he said to me "Shine, to thine own self be true. They can't tell you what to do once you've gone guru." Also, I should tell you, "slide".

Inventor of the Bombstache avatar!

Posted by: Johnny Badfinger
Posted by: TheUseless0ne
Posted by: Johnny Badfinger
Who keeps saying its based on the 'Fall of Reach'? because that was never confirmed.

I reckon it will take place in both 'Fall of Reach' and 'First strike' where you will swap between Spartans, ie john one mission, Fred the next...... and so on. Its called Halo Reach!..... therefore taking place on Reach most likely. If you've all read the books as you have all claimed you'd know, that John returns to Reach in search of his fellow Spartans, which means theres a HUGE chance that John will be a playable character.

Im almost willing to put money on it.

[quote]In the trailer, they show Reach in a condition that looks fine... And the people on the radio are surprised to see covenant... This is when Reach falls, sir.

And by fine, I mean undestroyed.

And what happens later on in the trailer??? hmmmm oh thats right its getting blasted to hell, isnt it??? perhaps you should finish watching the trailer before you comment.

so that means it could be as i said based on both novels 'Fall of Reach' and 'First Strike'.


I did see the whole trailer... And no, it didn't get glassed (or blasted to hell) because there is a big ground battle before it gets glassed. Spartans are involved, so is the local UNSC militia... The trailer only shows the very beginning of what will be a hard and engaging battle that will claim scores of casualties, and even Spartans, and end with an escape, and a glassed planet. This, is the fall of Reach.

  • 07.27.2009 2:45 AM PDT

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You must be your English teacher's favorite student...

  • 07.27.2009 2:48 AM PDT

I am a penguin. Every day I boogie on down to the water, and eat fish. Once, while fishing in the deepest depths, I saw great Cthulhu... And he said to me "Shine, to thine own self be true. They can't tell you what to do once you've gone guru." Also, I should tell you, "slide".

Inventor of the Bombstache avatar!

Posted by: Pozerac
You must be your English teacher's favorite student...


I graduated '07. A good year.

I was good at English, specifically the grammar portions. Less so with spelling unfortunately, as that has followed me so much so I practically rely on the spell check. I'm even better at artistic, physical, and scientific pursuits, with the former two being my favorites.

[Edited on 07.27.2009 2:59 AM PDT]

  • 07.27.2009 2:53 AM PDT

Mind, body and soul, possibly my sole properties

Ahhh, wrong person, I was referring to the guy who posted before you.

  • 07.27.2009 3:00 AM PDT

I am a penguin. Every day I boogie on down to the water, and eat fish. Once, while fishing in the deepest depths, I saw great Cthulhu... And he said to me "Shine, to thine own self be true. They can't tell you what to do once you've gone guru." Also, I should tell you, "slide".

Inventor of the Bombstache avatar!

Posted by: Pozerac
Ahhh, wrong person, I was referring to the guy who posted before you.


Oh, I'm sorry, I enjoy rambling on about myself... I'm a narcissist like that.

  • 07.27.2009 3:02 AM PDT

The original BADFINGER! (the second)

Posted by: TheUseless0ne
Posted by: Johnny Badfinger
Posted by: TheUseless0ne
Posted by: Johnny Badfinger
Who keeps saying its based on the 'Fall of Reach'? because that was never confirmed.

I reckon it will take place in both 'Fall of Reach' and 'First strike' where you will swap between Spartans, ie john one mission, Fred the next...... and so on. Its called Halo Reach!..... therefore taking place on Reach most likely. If you've all read the books as you have all claimed you'd know, that John returns to Reach in search of his fellow Spartans, which means theres a HUGE chance that John will be a playable character.

Im almost willing to put money on it.

[quote]In the trailer, they show Reach in a condition that looks fine... And the people on the radio are surprised to see covenant... This is when Reach falls, sir.

And by fine, I mean undestroyed.

And what happens later on in the trailer??? hmmmm oh thats right its getting blasted to hell, isnt it??? perhaps you should finish watching the trailer before you comment.

so that means it could be as i said based on both novels 'Fall of Reach' and 'First Strike'.


I did see the whole trailer... And no, it didn't get glassed (or blasted to hell) because there is a big ground battle before it gets glassed. Spartans are involved, so is the local UNSC militia... The trailer only shows the very beginning of what will be a hard and engaging battle that will claim scores of casualties, and even Spartans, and end with an escape, and a glassed planet. This, is the fall of Reach.
Ok maybe your saw a different trailer then to what i saw, but did you or did you not SEE explosions on Reachs surface?? and the entire planet turning red???

If you are as smart as you claim to be, you would understand that the trailer is not of a live feed but more a fast forward, or else you would just be looking at a planet.

I never said it was getting glassed i said blasted to hell, which in the trailer is an accurate description of what is happening down there.

Also, there was never really a BIG ground battles, except for the MAC staitons reactor complex which Red team was protecting(who by the way were to late to that fight and all that remained were 4 marines), then later Fred decided to take the fight to the Covenant, all up that ground battle your refering to only lasts about 40 minutes when things start going wrong (Joshua MIA, MAC station Complex overrun by Covenant forces etc..)

  • 07.27.2009 3:32 AM PDT

Perhaps MC will be in it, but not necessarily playable, there are other spartans and plenty of odsts about, perhaps we play as a grunt and hes our guide etc, or if he is 6 years old (ive not read the books) perhaps the whole point is to try and protect him?

And for whoever said early that we dont play as MC in odst, probably won't but you never know, bonus mission on the forerunner ship maybe? we played as the arbiter in halo 2, and its been done before, look at metal gear 2?

gonna be a sweet game whatever it turns out to be!

  • 07.27.2009 3:41 AM PDT

Mind, body and soul, possibly my sole properties

Please do read the books, helps to know what you're talking about...

  • 07.27.2009 3:46 AM PDT

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I don't want to join your group.

Posted by: Phoenix9508
Well, for other reasons, it's very likely we'll play a young John. Look at the first top forum topic on the list.

Dude. Is what you're saying that we might go through Spartan training. That would be cool as a training mission, like the first level.

  • 07.27.2009 3:47 AM PDT

Why are we Called Humans? Shouldnt we be the ones who are called "Animals" scince we are the ones Acting like "animals", making war agianst any and everything that is "Unfair". Well i got news for you, Life is Unfair so deal with it. so lets stop acting like "Animals" because they are more Human than any of us...
So put down ur WOMD(weapons of mass destruction).

How long would it take to read all the books????

  • 07.27.2009 3:47 AM PDT

I am a penguin. Every day I boogie on down to the water, and eat fish. Once, while fishing in the deepest depths, I saw great Cthulhu... And he said to me "Shine, to thine own self be true. They can't tell you what to do once you've gone guru." Also, I should tell you, "slide".

Inventor of the Bombstache avatar!

Posted by: Johnny Badfinger
Posted by: TheUseless0ne
Posted by: Johnny Badfinger
Posted by: TheUseless0ne
Posted by: Johnny Badfinger
Who keeps saying its based on the 'Fall of Reach'? because that was never confirmed.

I reckon it will take place in both 'Fall of Reach' and 'First strike' where you will swap between Spartans, ie john one mission, Fred the next...... and so on. Its called Halo Reach!..... therefore taking place on Reach most likely. If you've all read the books as you have all claimed you'd know, that John returns to Reach in search of his fellow Spartans, which means theres a HUGE chance that John will be a playable character.

Im almost willing to put money on it.

[quote]In the trailer, they show Reach in a condition that looks fine... And the people on the radio are surprised to see covenant... This is when Reach falls, sir.

And by fine, I mean undestroyed.

And what happens later on in the trailer??? hmmmm oh thats right its getting blasted to hell, isnt it??? perhaps you should finish watching the trailer before you comment.

so that means it could be as i said based on both novels 'Fall of Reach' and 'First Strike'.


I did see the whole trailer... And no, it didn't get glassed (or blasted to hell) because there is a big ground battle before it gets glassed. Spartans are involved, so is the local UNSC militia... The trailer only shows the very beginning of what will be a hard and engaging battle that will claim scores of casualties, and even Spartans, and end with an escape, and a glassed planet. This, is the fall of Reach.
Ok maybe your saw a different trailer then to what i saw, but did you or did you not SEE explosions on Reachs surface?? and the entire planet turning red???

If you are as smart as you claim to be, you would understand that the trailer is not of a live feed but more a fast forward, or else you would just be looking at a planet.

I never said it was getting glassed i said blasted to hell, which in the trailer is an accurate description of what is happening down there.

Also, there was never really a BIG ground battles, except for the MAC staitons reactor complex which Red team was protecting(who by the way were to late to that fight and all that remained were 4 marines), then later Fred decided to take the fight to the Covenant, all up that ground battle your refering to only lasts about 40 minutes when things start going wrong (Joshua MIA, MAC station Complex overrun by Covenant forces etc..)


There are explosions, visible from space, but the whole planet changes color, not so much. The sun comes from around the horizon. That's just the beginning. This whole thing is going to lead to the death of a planet, and lead 117 onto the Pillar Of Autumn, and we all know where that leads. This is where Reach falls (towards the end of the game with little doubt.)

I'm not saying we wont play as Master Chief, there is a good chance of that, this is, with no doubt going to show the fight where humanity looses Reach.

  • 07.27.2009 3:55 AM PDT

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Posted by: Bladez 0f Fury
How long would it take to read all the books????


That kinda depends on your reading abilities, and how much spare time you have. If you're specifically interested on getting caught up to speed as far as Reach goes just read Fall of Reach and First Strike, books 1 and 3. Book 2, The Flood, is pretty much just about the story of Halo CE, but it's nice to experience it with the amount of detail words can provide, but Dietz kinda blew it.

  • 07.27.2009 4:02 AM PDT
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the master chief doesn't even land on reach read fall of reach

  • 07.27.2009 4:55 AM PDT

has any one thought this could be a squad based fps? think about it

  • 07.27.2009 5:17 AM PDT
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i believe he went back in time from the slipspace he went into,and then he changes the future.

  • 07.27.2009 6:09 AM PDT
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Hope so.

  • 07.27.2009 6:35 AM PDT
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IF this follows the book, Fall of Reach, than the highest probability is that we will play as Fred for the majority of the game as he was in charge of Blue Team, the team that combated the Covenant on Reach before the planet fell. John, Linda, and Joshua were on board a space station making sure its NAV data got destroyed as the covenant could get it and find the location to Earth and all of her colonies.

Also IF this game follows the book than we will most likely be playing the roles of different Spartans throughout the game much like how ODST follows the action of several different ODST's.

I am hoping that the main events in Halo: Reach include the Spartans mission into the rebel colony without their MJOLNIR armor, Their first battle against the covenant in their new MJOLNIR shieldless armor, then their battle on Sigma Octanus IV with their MJOLNIR but again no shields and finally their battle on Reach with their Shields. This will mean that you will probably be playing as John and Fred for most of the game depending on the battle.

Also this will probably mean both a Health bar and a Shield bar like in Halo:CE as most of the battles will be without a shield.

  • 07.27.2009 7:16 AM PDT
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Also to add to my post above, we will most likely play the roles of WIll, Kelly, and Linda when doing four player co-op.

  • 07.27.2009 7:48 AM PDT

Maybe, but it's too early to tell yet. What we do know is that we WILL be playing as at least one Spartan.

  • 07.27.2009 7:58 AM PDT
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Technically we don't even know that. We don't even know if Reach is an FPS.

  • 07.27.2009 8:11 AM PDT

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