One of the writer’s comments in the comments section delved into the relationship between Kat and Carter. He pointed out that Kat was a huge part of Carter’s life since they were the longest surviving members of Noble team, that her death turned him into a shell.
She was also the one to suggest and convince Carter to use the slip space bomb on the Covenant supercarrier. You don't need a lengthy conversation to know how close those two were, sometimes non-verbal communication goes a long way in art.
An example of this kind of effective storytelling is in Halo Infinite when Master Chief immediately began the deletion protocols when he thought that the Weapon was going rampant. He was not about to let another rampant AI loose, not let his actions lead to more tragedy.
It's a shame Reach wasn't longer to be honest, the only death that ever hit me was Kat's and Six's, maybe followed by Carter's. Jorge and Emile just didn't really get enough screen time for me to care beyond spectacle, and at the very least Emile went out the way he absolutely wanted to.
Honestly, with the Chief its also how other people act towards him. All throughout Halo 1 he's treated as less of a man and more of a killing machine on the side of humanity, Halo 2's start has Johnson making a remark on how he said he was going to dress nicely, and by the end of Halo 2 Cortana has gone full teary-eyed emotional towards him, and they all do this knowing he's going to be able to understand and reciprocate somehow.
Jorge felt the most human of the team to me, and so he was the most tragic, especially since it was a death he willingly chose instead of the death the Covenant gave him. I never really liked Kat, so her death didn't hold me for me, Carter's was depressingly predictable, since of course the pilot is going to tragically yet heroically die in some form so we can crash land and fight our way through the Covenant instead of just flying there, and as someone who's a fan of Republic Commando I knew Discount Sev wasn't leaving that turret alive.
I found the original 4chan OP. 10gb of leak data and a nigger pun in the OP.
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For those unaware, this is part 2 of the Digsite leak. Seems to be the same guy, and this is a goldmine. This build we've got has a PC debug executable meaning you don't even need an Xbox to check it out (though the lighting and sound are broken sadly), and it has the infamous pstencil lighting/shadow system before they scrapped it. There's also a ton of source texture files from the development period. That may 11th build is also the entire original E3 build, not the recreation by Digsite.
Yet another Christmas miracle. A few years back we got Rayman 4 leaked and now we have Fallout New Vegas among early Halo 2, I like this tradition.I found the original 4chan OP. 10gb of leak data and a nigger pun in the OP.
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That's the one that was 100% faked, right? Should be interesting to research.
Yes it is. If you go off the beaten path or deviate from the scripted events, there's nothing there. It's smoke and mirrors, not a real campaign mission. The alpha that comes with it shows just how fucked Bungie was, they have basically nothing done after a year and a half of development. Not long after this, development would reset and a year or so of crunch would begin. Crunch so hard it ruined friendships and ended marriages. That's not an exaggeration. Halo 2 was a nightmare to make for all involved.
I did them all. Honestly, CE and ODST were the easiest, 4 had its bitch of a mission, same as reach. 2...well fuck 2 that shit sucked.
It probably speaks to Microsoft and 343's inability to keep Halo culturually relevant. Don't forget, the last time Halo actually mattered was 2010. Since then it's been a slow, painful decline for it and the Xbox brand as a whole.
I've stopped going there after they started region-blocking the upload of pictures.
Never done that. Only legendary runs on Halo 3, ODST, Reach and 4.
It's using similar techniques to what Doom 3 used. The reason why they couldn't pull it off on Xbox is because Doom 3 was narrow corridors, and Halo 2 has a ton of outdoor environments. Visually it would look wrong and performance-wise it'd be too costly.
