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Subject: Halo 4 concept art - here (possible forerunner sentinels CONFIRMED?)

"A LIE is a LIE"


- Truly intelligent and deep Black ops trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Zo7WKRQ9g


Possible spoilers - interesting text from video.

GRANDEUR
Halo 4 will continue to capture spellbinding grandeur and spirit of exploration fans have come to expect from the series, as seen in this concept image of a starship technology prototype set against the backdrop of a beautiful alien world


MYSTERY
The shattered remains of the forward unto dawn drift towards a mysterious, artificial world, its ominous shape opening up to consume Cortana and Masterchief or reveal long buried secrets - or both


EXPLORATION
The vast alien landscape stretches out before you littered with impossible structures both massive and graceful - but do these giant sentinels serve as irritations or warnings? There's only one way to find out...


[Edited on 08.28.2011 1:04 PM PDT]

  • 08.28.2011 5:25 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 4 concept art - here (forerunner ships, FUD)
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

*from my memories*

Those look easily like the Cryptum structures.

I bet those are Precursor structures instead of Forerunner,they don't even look like any typical Forerunner architecture.


Ship looks like a baby between between a UNSC cruiser and a Forerunner ship.

Damn to bad i won't be able to watch the Halo 4 panel

  • 08.28.2011 5:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: hotshot revan II
Damn to bad i won't be able to watch the Halo 4 panel

I know! I really want to see what they show.

  • 08.28.2011 5:34 AM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

Those aren't Forerunner sentinels,those structures were called sentinels

  • 08.28.2011 5:34 AM PDT

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Where is there a single Sentinel in that video? No where. =/

  • 08.28.2011 5:41 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 4 concept art - here (forerunner sentinels/ships CONFIRMED?)

"A LIE is a LIE"


- Truly intelligent and deep Black ops trailer


Posted by: hotshot revan II
Those aren't Forerunner sentinels,those structures were called sentinels


You sure? look at the picture, you can see sentinels in the background.

However, if more people say otherwise I will change the text

[Edited on 08.28.2011 5:43 AM PDT]

  • 08.28.2011 5:41 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 4 concept art - here (forerunner ships, FUD)

"A LIE is a LIE"


- Truly intelligent and deep Black ops trailer


Posted by: King Nis085
Where is there a single Sentinel in that video? No where. =/


It said in the text - I put in up in the op for you guys

  • 08.28.2011 5:42 AM PDT

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They look to organic in the art work for me to consider them actual Sentinels of the Forerunners. Until I can see something up close, it's really undecided.

But, seeing as we know the Forerunners, we know how they work to an extent. We can almost certainly expect Sentinels in the game.

However, the text underneath that art work is not referring to the Sentinels we are used to seeing. Floating around and shooting lazers at us in game. Those are actual buildings being discussed in that tid-bit.

  • 08.28.2011 5:45 AM PDT

"A LIE is a LIE"


- Truly intelligent and deep Black ops trailer


Posted by: King Nis085
They look to organic in the art work for me to consider them actual Sentinels of the Forerunners. Until I can see something up close, it's really undecided.

But, seeing as we know the Forerunners, we know how they work to an extent. We can almost certainly expect Sentinels in the game.

However, the text underneath that art work is not referring to the Sentinels we are used to seeing. Floating around and shooting lazers at us in game. Those are actual buildings being discussed in that tid-bit.


Thanks for feedback, I will change the OP to something more appropriate

  • 08.28.2011 5:47 AM PDT

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Just my theories on the matter! No need to change anything if you wish not to!

  • 08.28.2011 5:50 AM PDT
Subject: Halo 4 concept art - here (forerunner sentinels/ships CONFIRMED?)


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Posted by: hotshot revan II
Those aren't Forerunner sentinels,those structures were called sentinels


You sure? look at the picture, you can see sentinels in the background.

However, if more people say otherwise I will change the text


I believe the word is referring to the immense size of the structures as if they're on overwatch, guardians of vast secrets.

All things considered, not the best choice of wording, but still.

  • 08.28.2011 6:22 AM PDT

Thus I refute thee

Those flying 'sentinels' remind me of the engineers a little

  • 08.28.2011 8:21 AM PDT
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The ship is probably a hybrid of UNSC and Forerunner technology. Using humanity's new found knowledge on them, they could've started to incorporate basic forerunner technology into ships.

  • 08.28.2011 8:24 AM PDT

"A LIE is a LIE"


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Posted by: superiorarsenal
The ship is probably a hybrid of UNSC and Forerunner technology. Using humanity's new found knowledge on them, they could've started to incorporate basic forerunner technology into ships.



Eh, I've never been a fan of the UNSC/ONI already on the planet.

  • 08.28.2011 12:49 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 4 concept art - here (possible forerunner ship CONFIRMED?)

That's a UNSC ship.

  • 08.28.2011 12:52 PM PDT
Subject: Halo 4 concept art - here (possible forerunner sentinels CONFIRMED?)

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

I think you're taking the term sentinel out of context here. In Forerunner terms, sentinel can just describe something big, ie those floating buildings.

  • 08.28.2011 1:06 PM PDT

"A LIE is a LIE"


- Truly intelligent and deep Black ops trailer


Posted by: DecepticonCobra
I think you're taking the term sentinel out of context here. In Forerunner terms, sentinel can just describe something big, ie those floating buildings.


But why would sentinels serve as irritations?(read OP) I think they are sentinels that are hostile. Almost every forerunner structure has sentinels guarding it.

[Edited on 08.28.2011 1:19 PM PDT]

  • 08.28.2011 1:19 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

Posted by: Pipboy 3050

Posted by: DecepticonCobra
I think you're taking the term sentinel out of context here. In Forerunner terms, sentinel can just describe something big, ie those floating buildings.


But why would sentinels serve as irritations?(read OP) I think they are sentinels that are hostile. Almost every forerunner structure has sentinels guarding it.


Forerunners have a habit of calling many things sentinels, like Mt. Kilimanjaro.

  • 08.28.2011 1:21 PM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

They may be referring to the term Sentinel in a purely situational manner. A statue standing near a pathway could be said to be "Standing sentinel over the pathway".

  • 08.28.2011 3:26 PM PDT

"A LIE is a LIE"


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Posted by: Xd00999
They may be referring to the term Sentinel in a purely situational manner. A statue standing near a pathway could be said to be "Standing sentinel over the pathway".
Perhaps, but they are describing sentinels as "irritations"

  • 08.29.2011 12:26 AM PDT
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SC = Supreme Commander/Supreme Canadian.

De Facto leader of the military of the APE (Allied Planets Empire).

Coup = Admiral Asskicker, ZPM hive ship

Open world gameplay plz?

  • 08.29.2011 9:53 AM PDT