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Subject: How the world should really end... And how the trailer should be.
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IF YOU ARE GOING TO POST YOUR RESPONSE PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST FIRST. YOU MAY HAVE CHANGED YOUR MIND.

Truthfully, I was somewhat disappointed about the content of the trailer. The music was awesome and the fact that they left you another cliff hanger was good, but think about it, it didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. We knew Master Chief was coming back, we new the ark (or forerunner structure) was on earth, we knew the covenant was sworming the earth, and we knew Cortana was coming back because she plays too big of a role in the series. The only things that were new concepts were the assault rifle and MC's armor. In the Halo 2 Trailer they came up with over 20 new things that they were working on. Bungie said they have been working on Halo 3 since Halo 2 was finished. That's a long time for just a 2 min. "teaser." It did get me pumped a little for Halo 3 but the music really caused that. Watch the trailer without the music and tell me you were pumped, some how I don't think so.

The first 30 seconds was zooming out of the scenery (WoooHooo) then Cortana began to talk, than MC came out. This was the highlight of the trailer. He was nice and shiny and was holding the "Assault Rifle." He walks to the edge of the cliff and gazes at the "forerunner structure." This is when I get pumped, because the music kicks in. Then the structure opens, glows, and explodes or shoots something, we don't know. THE END.

Yes there is some in depth setting and everything but, Thats not really what the viewers are looking for. Or at least what I was looking for. After I saw it the first time I was like "I can't wait until this comes out. Crap I need a 360 first." After seeing it a 4th or 5th time I began to think "1 1/2 years they've been working and this is what they have to show for it? Thay worked on Halo 2 for less time and they were able to come up with like a 10 min. trailer that kept viewers up at night thinking of it." I know it's just a teaser and everything, but aren't they supposed to tease us with something? Because all I wanted to do was play Halo 2 again, not anticipate on Halo 3. They need to give us a new idea that not many have thought of so we can be teased with something. In my 3-D Modeling class at my High school I can come up with that trailer in about 2 months no lie. (no I am not a nerd it's just not that hard to do) It took them 18 months to make this one. This is ALL THEY DO AT WORK, create Halo 3. give us something to work with. Give us something to cry about wishing the game would come out tommorrow. For Halo 2 they showed us boarding, dual wielding, turret use, interaction with marines, and many new guns and vehicles.

I'm not asking for all that, I'm asking for something like:
The MC flooring a warthog packed with marines trying to rush to the structure before the covenant does. Driving off the gorge and down the cliff, the warthog begins to become unstable and skids on it's tusks. Master Chief bails and tumbles down 50 feet in a ball of dust. All but one marine is dead. Master Chief gets up and looks at the bruised and battered marine stand up and gaze at the structure in terror. The ground begins to shake and the structure begins to open. Both of them fall once again. Master Chief turns to see a white beam form from the structure and sees two banshees on their way towards them. He realizes they don't see half the population of earth below them. So he grabs on to a wing and so does the marine. They manage to boot the being out of the banshee and begin to fly towards the structure. When they get to it both their faces become drained of blood and they become terrified of what happens next...how the world ends.

That is what I'm looking for.

PS: This is not "leaked info." these are my own ideas of what a real teaser should be. And yes, I turned my response to another forum into it's own forum.

[Edited on 5/17/2006]

  • 05.17.2006 6:19 PM PDT
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my opinion is the same as halo2rules2.

  • 05.17.2006 6:24 PM PDT
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This really doesn't make me want to get it, it makes me want to get a 360 because of graphics, thats about it. This trailer makes me want to go up to bungie and dump freezing water over them and say "Wake Up."

And thanks for agreeing thebrandon721

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  • 05.17.2006 6:26 PM PDT
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Well, first off, they have to make a brand new engine that is compatible for the 360 system.
That takes a while.
Then they need some environments to place MC in, a storyline that will not give too much but allow the viewer to want to see more ( therefore "teaser"), and then they need to keep the trailer open so they can allow themselves what they want the game to do.

Screw the fact that people wish for some things to happen, I can wish for the grunts to go ontop of hunters like they wanted them to do for Halo 2, but that don't make them change their minds.
I personally found the trailer just enough to make me look into Halo 3 more then what I did originally, (first post!), but that don't mean I'm going to take a trailer over the top and get too excited. People got too excited for Halo 2 and literally killed their form of "awe" for the game. They expected too much.

And I think marines boarding idea is cool, but that would give away too much.

  • 05.17.2006 6:41 PM PDT
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so what do u want, like the one kid said its just a trailer bungie made to confirm that halo 3 is comeing, it wasnt ment to show u gameplay or tell you the whole story...there are gunna be more trailers before the game releases to make you want to buy it, this one is just ot let you know its comeing and give u a very little taste of the story

  • 05.17.2006 6:44 PM PDT
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I don't know about the rest of yall but when that thing exploded i got so excited that i cummed my pants

  • 05.17.2006 6:46 PM PDT
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not really... only nerds like u knew the ark was on earth... ive benn a halo and halo 2 pro player since it came out...and i didint know -blam!- about the ark... but im still awesome at the game... so ppl like me are happy because now we know about the ark... so not everyone has the same information as u buddy

  • 05.17.2006 6:47 PM PDT
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Bungie are keeping it a secret because last time they released a massive ingame footage sequence they were stuck into that plot line, then had to change it, and remove alot of features due to ram constraints. They are not doing that this time so that they call the shots.

  • 05.17.2006 6:47 PM PDT
Subject: What I want
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I said what I wanted, someting a little more. All I did was replace the MC walking around with him in a warthog with marines. It gives zest and it doesn't tell anything about the plot, and as for gameplay all it says is you can board a banshee and so can a marine.

BTW if you didn't know the earth was on ark you should have paid a little bit mor attention to the end of Halo 2 -Blam- not that many people are as unobservent as you Master Chi3f. For god's sake your name is master chief you should know -BLAM-

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  • 05.17.2006 6:48 PM PDT
Subject: How the world should really end
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i agree wow H2 made me wanna wet myself wit that trailer . but this one is too "DEEP". dont give us the ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER crap. i'd bet money on the fact there wont be anymore teasers until the game gets released. H2 had one trailer so will H3

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ohh... and second of all a lot of ppl didnt know halo 3 was kpt a secret or coming out...besides it was a 2 men teaser wich was basicly just to show us the graphix and new stuff... more vids are coming up in the later weeks son u will be seeing more

  • 05.17.2006 6:50 PM PDT
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and third of all... u said halo 2 was able to make a 10 min trailer..... not really... it was a gameplay vid of 9 minutes wich was figging awesome.... the real halo 2 trailer is 2:30 and reveals only the br and new armor and that mc is going to earth... thats it... both trailers are really awesome

  • 05.17.2006 6:56 PM PDT
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Read my response buddy.

  • 05.17.2006 6:57 PM PDT
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If you didnt see what Frankie said he stated that They used minimum time on it and very little man power making it. They didn't spend to much time on it.

  • 05.17.2006 7:05 PM PDT
Subject: How the world should really end... And how the trailer should be.
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i have a question and since i cant make my own topic yet (because i made this account an hour ago) i figured i would reply to the most relevant topic already existing.

in the trailer there is a triange shaped sign blowing in the breeze. is the picture on the sign of a grunt? for the love of noticing details, someone please say yes.

  • 05.17.2006 11:02 PM PDT
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One word, teaser. It was ment to tease, not give away plot or anything of the sort. And so what if the halo 2 tralir was longer, this is not Halo 2.

  • 05.17.2006 11:15 PM PDT

Chief's gunna kick a** and save the world, marines are gonna die, Sargeant Johnson's gonna kill a hell of a lot of Covenant, and yes, the signpost DOES show a grunt.

  • 05.17.2006 11:17 PM PDT

If at first you dont succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried

No offense...but on weekly updates the people who do them say that they have gotten to play some levels, and ect. They have actually talked about playing their "next project" (this was before they announced H3), but just couldn't say anything about it. And the announcement trailer was just that. An announcement trailer. It got the job done fine-it announced Halo 3 to us. It didnt need to say anything else.

  • 05.26.2006 9:42 AM PDT

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Posted by: Halo2Rules2
Thay worked on Halo 2 for less time and they were able to come up with like a 10 min. trailer that kept viewers up at night thinking of it."


You do realize that, before that 10 minute demo, there was a 90 second announcement trailer that showed the Master Chief, and not much else, right? That Halo 2 was not announced with that 10 minute demo, but with something cinematically similar to the Halo 3 announcement?

Or do you just enjoy skipping things like facts?

  • 05.26.2006 9:47 AM PDT
Subject: How the world should really end

Posted by: Game Over 1000x
i agree wow H2 made me wanna wet myself wit that trailer . but this one is too "DEEP". dont give us the ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER crap. i'd bet money on the fact there wont be anymore teasers until the game gets released. H2 had one trailer so will H3
That is completely incorrect.

Halo 2 Announcement Trailer from September 2002.

Halo 2 Gameplay Demo from E3 2003.

Halo 2 Cinematic Teaser from October 2004.

And then there was a bunch of commercials for the game. Please, if you want to make a bet, get your facts straight.

Edit: Damn, I took way too long getting all of the links... Shishka did it the correct way.

[Edited on 5/26/2006]

  • 05.26.2006 9:53 AM PDT
Subject: How the world should really end... And how the trailer should be.
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Posted by: Halo2Rules2
it didn't tell us anything we didn't already know.


I'm pretty sure that's what they wanted. Not to give away anything about the plot.

In the Halo 2 Trailer they came up with over 20 new things that they were working on

Yah. And then some of the stuff didn't end up in the game and all the kids cried about it. Can't blame 'em for keeping the content limited.

Yes there is some in depth setting and everything but, Thats not really what the viewers are looking for. Or at least what I was looking for. [/i]

Well aren't you special. I suppose Bungie should make the trailer to exactly what you want and ignore everyone else who loved it.



[i]In my 3-D Modeling class at my High school I can come up with that trailer in about 2 months no lie. (no I am not a nerd it's just not that hard to do) It took them 18 months to make this one. This is ALL THEY DO AT WORK, create Halo 3. give us something to work with. Give us something to cry about wishing the game would come out tommorrow. For Halo 2 they showed us boarding, dual wielding, turret use, interaction with marines, and many new guns and vehicles.


Yes. Because they worked for 18 months on the trailer. This was a teaser. If they wanted to show in-game footage, they would have. It's not like Bungie is obligated to release anything at all. Then you go and cry =-(
about what they do release.

I'm not asking for all that, I'm asking for something like:
The MC flooring a warthog packed with marines trying to rush to the structure before the covenant does. Driving off the gorge and down the cliff, the warthog begins to become unstable and skids on it's tusks. Master Chief bails and tumbles down 50 feet in a ball of dust. All but one marine is dead. Master Chief gets up and looks at the bruised and battered marine stand up and gaze at the structure in terror. The ground begins to shake and the structure begins to open. Both of them fall once again. Master Chief turns to see a white beam form from the structure and sees two banshees on their way towards them. He realizes they don't see half the population of earth below them. So he grabs on to a wing and so does the marine. They manage to boot the being out of the banshee and begin to fly towards the structure. When they get to it both their faces become drained of blood and they become terrified of what happens next...how the world ends.

That is what I'm looking for.


Why yes. That would keep every simple-minded person happy.
And it wouldn't look like every other teaser for every other FPS. Of course not.


EDIT: Don't even think about trying to reply to my post in order to avoid replying to Shishka's.


[Edited on 5/26/2006]

  • 05.26.2006 10:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: DSHiSTaH
Two words.

"ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER"

Not "Game Demo", "Cutscene" or "Full Length Movie"

It was general enough to make you want to get it. And specific enough to give you an Idea of what the game will be about and how it looks.

Jeez.

Yeah, it's not like they've been working on that trailer since Halo 2 came out...it was just announcing that Halo 3 was made...

  • 05.26.2006 10:29 AM PDT
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I don't know about the rest of yall but when that thing exploded i got so excited that i cummed my pants

Somebody has a fetish for video games. That's not healthy...

  • 05.26.2006 10:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: Game Over 1000x
i agree wow H2 made me wanna wet myself wit that trailer . but this one is too "DEEP". dont give us the ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER crap. i'd bet money on the fact there wont be anymore teasers until the game gets released. H2 had one trailer so will H3
You are kind a right here and wrong H2 had 2 trailers they had the one with him jumping out of the space ship then they had the one with gameplay i think it came out a the e3 before it did

  • 05.26.2006 12:17 PM PDT

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