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Subject: "The Rookie"

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Posted by: Cpt Trotta214
Your worried if the Rookie is 14 when the Chief is 17? You sir FAIL at Halo.

You are about 25 years off.

[Edited on 08.12.2009 10:21 PM PDT]

  • 08.12.2009 10:21 PM PDT

hahahahahahahaha that would be funny

  • 08.12.2009 10:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: TFU244
Posted by: MasterJh
Posted by: Cpt Trotta214
Your worried if the Rookie is 14 when the Chief is 17? You sir FAIL at Halo.


?? Chief is most definitely not 17...He was born in 2505 as he was six when he was conscripted into the Spartan Programme in 2511 if i'm not mistaken...Halo 3 ends in 2553 so physically he's about 48.

EDIT: Got my dates mixed up; Chief was born about 2511 and conscripted in 2517.


for once i agree with MasterJH your clueless cpttrotta

I read the books, and the dates seem to say Chief is 17, he was 14 when he got his first mission and armor, 4 months later he gets the next set of armor, 3 years later he gets Mk.V, 5 months later is the fall of Reach, 4 weeks in slipspace and there is our first Halo.

  • 08.13.2009 5:59 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Havent you read the Field Guide thing about him?

He's supossibly 18, becouse that recuitment age, and he dosent have anything of a kid left, his hole ODST unit suffered near annihilation at New Jeruslem, so maybe he's just battle fatigued and that's why he dosent talk, like Lucy (Ghosts of Onyx) but he is at all not a kid.

  • 08.13.2009 6:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
Havent you read the Field Guide thing about him?

He's supossibly 18, becouse that recuitment age, and he dosent have anything of a kid left, his hole ODST unit suffered near annihilation at New Jeruslem, so maybe he's just battle fatigued and that's why he dosent talk, like Lucy (Ghosts of Onyx) but he is at all not a kid.

Well Lucy couldn't talk because she was fatigued, I think she went into some form of shock.

  • 08.13.2009 6:06 AM PDT

He's not really a rookie, he's been in service for 5 years in his record. So if he was like 14, he would have been nine when he joined up. That don't sound right to me.

  • 08.13.2009 6:08 AM PDT

Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Posted by: Havoc 101
Posted by: HipiO7
Havent you read the Field Guide thing about him?

He's supossibly 18, becouse that recuitment age, and he dosent have anything of a kid left, his hole ODST unit suffered near annihilation at New Jeruslem, so maybe he's just battle fatigued and that's why he dosent talk, like Lucy (Ghosts of Onyx) but he is at all not a kid.

Well Lucy couldn't talk because she was fatigued, I think she went into some form of shock.


Yeah, well she was going into shock and got Posttraumatic vocal disarticulation after the Pegasi Delta Op, cainda like the same with The Rooke, both units suffered near annihilation. So its possible The Rookie has the samething since even Buck says he never talks.

  • 08.13.2009 6:12 AM PDT

Posted by: Gamer Stix
He's not really a rookie, he's been in service for 5 years in his record. So if he was like 14, he would have been nine when he joined up. That don't sound right to me.


Lol. Yah, your right, If the Rookie was 14, I think I'd crap myself. He couldn't be, because I don't think they did anything to the ODST's like they did the spartans. So he wouldn't be bigger or anything. ODST are basically marines with better armor and better training. Maybe a little stronger, but that can come with the better/more training.

Also whoever said chief is 17. That's a FAAIIILLL.

[Edited on 08.13.2009 6:16 AM PDT]

  • 08.13.2009 6:15 AM PDT

Overeacting. Like somone said he is at least 18. There is no chance he is going to act young in any way during the game. This is no reason not to buy the game.

[Edited on 08.13.2009 7:18 AM PDT]

  • 08.13.2009 7:16 AM PDT

Posted by: Cpt Trotta214
Your worried if the Rookie is 14 when the Chief is 17? You sir FAIL at Halo.


What???

  • 08.13.2009 7:29 AM PDT
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Don't take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways.

this is what they did for master chief. they keep his age and face a secret so you can imagine yourself as the "Rookie'

  • 08.13.2009 7:33 AM PDT

My troll sense is tingling.

The fact that he is anonymous is the same reason as why Gordon Freeman doesn't have a personality. It's because you are him. Also he obviously isn't 14 years old.

  • 08.13.2009 7:47 AM PDT

My troll sense is tingling.

Posted by: Cpt Trotta214
Posted by: TFU244
Posted by: MasterJh
Posted by: Cpt Trotta214
Your worried if the Rookie is 14 when the Chief is 17? You sir FAIL at Halo.


?? Chief is most definitely not 17...He was born in 2505 as he was six when he was conscripted into the Spartan Programme in 2511 if i'm not mistaken...Halo 3 ends in 2553 so physically he's about 48.

EDIT: Got my dates mixed up; Chief was born about 2511 and conscripted in 2517.


for once i agree with MasterJH your clueless cpttrotta

I read the books, and the dates seem to say Chief is 17, he was 14 when he got his first mission and armor, 4 months later he gets the next set of armor, 3 years later he gets Mk.V, 5 months later is the fall of Reach, 4 weeks in slipspace and there is our first Halo.

Einstein is rolling in his grave.

  • 08.13.2009 7:49 AM PDT
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The reason we don't know anything about the Rookie is because Bungie wants us to imagine ourselves in his armour. (It was the same for Master Chief.) Making him feel young and unimportant just makes it feel more like we're in the game. I like it, personally.

  • 08.13.2009 7:52 AM PDT
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Laid low like i said so, think about THAT while sittin on your dead ass

think of it FNG not FNK

the rook is just a name, also you need to be +18 to even join the corp.

  • 08.13.2009 8:09 AM PDT

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Posted by: B4gle
I have to say.. I'm a little disappointed with the main character. The MC was a tough man, but when I look at this "rookie" guy.. I can't help but thinking that he looks like a kid.

And it doesn't help that his age is "classified" and that his occupation is a student.

Please, don't tell me he's a 14 year old kid. I was pumped for this game but I can't help but feeling a sense of childishness about this..

Halo was a mature game with a fairly deep story line. ( hence the rating.. ) but I'm definitely not going to buy this game for a while.. maybe after I watch a lot of gameplay videos on youtube and I make sure that it's good, I'll buy it.

Does anyone else feel this way? maybe I'm just overreacting.


Its first person, so you could make yourself think your MC.

  • 08.13.2009 8:46 AM PDT

Make me a sammich!

His name is the Rookie because he is new to the GROUP
and he is a Lance Corporal. If he was a REAL rookie he would be ranked a Private.

And if he enlisted at the Age of 18 then he is currently Age 23

But if he enlisted underage like Sergeant Forge did at age 16 then he could be 21

  • 08.13.2009 9:38 AM PDT

My honor student can beat up your honor student.

You're overreacting. Plus, the Rookie is pretty damn tall and muscular for a 14 year old kid, don't you think? Well I guess you could always blame steroids...

  • 08.13.2009 9:41 AM PDT

oh gawd

He isn't going to be 14 year old kid that's for sure lol

  • 08.13.2009 9:42 AM PDT

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