Well, how did he make it home in one piece?

This will be our secret thread, OP. Because no one will reply to it except you and me.

So whatcha wearin'?

That elite he hugged In the legendary ending probably had banshees for them to escape with.

>>385385508
he's self aware of his plot armor, meta character

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>>385385508
He made out it out on a Pelican with a group of marines, he then linked up with Master Chief in a long sword where they all hijacked a Covenant flag ship. After they secured it they went back to Reach to pick up any surviving Spartans and Vice Admiral Stanford, while there they realized that the Covenant are aware of where Earth was so they left Reach and went to a Rebel base in an asteroid field for repairs on their covenant flag ship, the base got trashed by covenant so they high tailed it over to the Covenant's assault force that was gathering to attack Earth, they hid in the ranks for as long as they could and they went into a covenant space station in the middle of the fleet where Vice Admiral Standford drew in the entire fleet with his ship as the space station exploded, destroying almost the entire Covenant strike force (around 500+), after that they probably followed a shit ton of protocol and ended up on Earth.

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>>385385508
They cover it in First Strike. Also explains how Chief and Cortana made it home in the equivalent of a bomber jet.
Basically he escaped the area surrounding the Library since he's that good, and hitched a ride with one of Foehammer's pilots. Hijacking hijinx ensued, they went to Reach, and then blew some shit up.
Then they were home.

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>>385386881
>>385386808
>incidentally, parts of First Strike were retconned by the (fucking amazing, pic related) Breaking Quarintine comic in the Graphic Novel.

Namely, all the flood immunity stuff was retconned. He was just so badass he escaped without getting infected

>>385387728
>incidentally, parts of First Strike were retconned by the (fucking amazing, pic related) Breaking Quarintine comic in the Graphic Novel.

Didn't mean to greentext this part

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>>385387728
>>385387769
another page

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>>385387728
That's probably one of the first retcons I'm not bothered by, he wouldn't be the first marine to have gotten that far without being immune.

There was that one marine that had gotten super fucking far in the Library where at the same point Master Chief was completely exhausted. He was practically at the index.

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Halo 2 > every other halo game.

This is fact.

>>385387891
I loved reading that part. Imagining some dude being that badass just made me want a story about him next

>>385387974
ok

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thats classified

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>>385387974
Forge in Halo 3 remains the bar for true player freedom in video games

>>385387974
>*doubleshots in front of you*
>*BXR's behind you*

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>>385388592
>implying

Halo 2 had better customs then 3 because of the forced creaticity. Reach/H2A had a better forge and customs then 3 because it;s forge was SO much better that the creativity could go wild. 3's forge was in an awkward phase where it didn't force creativity, but was also too clunky to actually be used for anything really creative.

Also, Halo 5's forge blows them all out of the water, webm related

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>>385388990
another example of how sick h5's forge is, both in the webm and another example in the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKRx-DkxuiQ

wasn't johnson a first gen spartan as well

>>385389154
Yes, though "Gen" actually means something else in the context of Halo/Spartan programs he's not a part of

He was a part of the SPARTAN I/ORION project, is what you meant

>>385388990
>halo 2 having better customs than 3
>when halo 2 didnt have forge

kys halo 3 was superior in EVERY WAY you stupid shitter

>>385385508
He escaped with dustin echoes

>>385389093
You show me duck hunt and hungry hungry hippos, and say you're creative? Less than inspiring. The same principle was demonstrated on a more impressive level with Jenga in Halo 3. Also, Duck Hunt was just as easy to do in halo 3 on Standoff or Foundry.

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>>385388990
>halo 5 SP and MP is dogshit but they ported over the best version of forge to PC for free

>>385389542
The SP is dogshit but the normal MP is good. Thank fuck more then like 5 guns are actually useful for once.

>>385389509
Nigga, it's not about how interesting the gamem\ode is, it's about showing how powerful the forge is. It'd literally be impossible do make maps like that in even H2A's, or reach's forge, let alone Halo 3.

>>385389326
t. 3baby

>>385386808
>After they secured it they went back to Reach
>surviving Spartans
I think you're confused about a couple of thigs there. Shit got glassed.

>>385389682
Nigger, you showed me super basic variants. Just knocking a ball with the grav hammer. You had golf in halo 3. Show me something new.

>>385386808
>>385386881
I always wanted to know this. It was quite obvious that the little ship they escaped the Pillar of Autumn on the last level of CE couldn't do lightspeed jumps, although they do mention other groups were alive.

>jiacked a Covenant FLAG SHIP
Why did they skip this part?

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>>385389752
The section that the Spartans hid under wasn't glassed due to it containing a valuable piece of Forerunner technology.

>>385390452
It was in the books, silly.

>>385388362
ohh baby come on let me shoot off a couple of rounds of old times sakes

that's classified tbqh

>>385390750
I know it was in the books. I just wanted to know why they skipped this part of the story in the games.

I get it that they wanted to start Halo 2 with an absolutely hype scene that is the first three levels we got. But still, they could've given us an Halo CE expansion or side story.

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Favorite book and why?

I just fucking love sgt. johnsons character.

>>385390971
Oh, my bad. Same reasoning Bungie used for making First Strike & The Fall of Reach's story lines fuck off with Halo Reach; they wanted to make their own independent stories and not be "chained down" by the books.

>>385391032
The Fall of Reach, gives Captain Keyes and Chief a hell of a lot of character development, makes his death in CE all the more weight filled.

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I never read dem books but I like to post this.

>>385391232
In a scale from 0 to 10, how much "creative independence" has Bungie/343 taken while adapting the books?

>>385391263
you can clearly tell when the series went to shit

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>>385391263
That's a nice organization, saved.

Fingers crossed that post Reclaimer Saga gets retconned to hell someday.

>>385391369
I'm no good with number ratings. Though, if we're gonna compare Bungie & 343 then I'd say that Bungie took more reasonable creative liberties than 343 did. Bungie while making Halo 2 pretty much had the series in mind and knew what they were doing with the story, the EU just worked with what Bungie gave them and branched out.

343 worked with what the EU gave them and they just kinda kept throwing narrative putty at the wall hoping something would stick. The end result of each of 343's games are pretty indicative of that, I feel.

>>385391232
>Fall of Reach
>CAPTAIN FUCKING KEYES
>Tactical Genius
>Takes out 2 covenant cruisers with a single shitty beat ass destroyer
>Possibly bangs Halsey
>Halo:Reach takes out the dope ass space battle where they use the shipyards and shields

>>385386064
>johnson has CHIM
>he sensed the franchise was about to nose-dive and got the fuck outta there in time

wew lad, it all makes sense now

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>>385391697
Don't forget about all the crazy shit he did in orbit above Reach. Dude's an absolute madman.

What they should have done for Reach was just make the Covenant invasion begin immediately, maybe you could have helped take a Super Carrier out but while your flying the Longswords you can see the entire fight going down in some kind of skybox. Rest of the game is just a straight desperate sprint in an attempt to buy as much time as possible. Can tell Bungie didn't want to make that game.

>>385387728
>>385387827
This isn't a retcon though, both happened.

>>385391263
I still hope Halo Reach gets retconned one day, but at least they barely ever mention it and will never bring Jun back into the games so at least I got that.

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>>385391032
Contact harvest is probably my third favorite after the original edition of Reach but pic related takes the cake for continuing the halsey story, introducing the new shield world concept and the best part, making you feel for the disposable super soldier and the super soldier who had to train them and send them on suicide runs. its final battle is also something very much like you could actually fight in the games, you practically do so in the cavern level in reach

>>385391928
Jun was in the original leaked script for halo 5

>>385391882
>Can tell Bungie didn't want to make that game.
Other than the plot, there was more effort put into Reach than any previous game.

>>385392046
>reading book for the first time
>that intro scene with hundreds of Spartan 3's throwing themselves at an insurmountable covenant force and getting brutally slaughtered, and then fucking GLASSED

>then it's revealed that they were all only 13 years old, extremely hyped up on drugs and augmentations and brainwashing

>>385392146
Didn't mean that it paid off. Effort and passion aren't always on the same boat.

>>385392064
You mean the fake one?

What is your opinion on Halo Legends?

It just made me love Marines more, especially "Be Human".

It pisses me off that Halo is what it is now

I think after the finish 6 they should either stop making it or completely revape the series and move as far away from chief and infinity

Also say what you want about reach i fucking love the armor system and how unique you could maie your spartan.
But Halo 4 and 5 just made it generic space armor youd find in a comic in the 80s and everyone just looking the same

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>>385392383
Origins 1 & 2 were fucking great, Babysitter was as well. Never hurts to have a Dutch cameo.

>>385392284
I can't see how it could have been fake since it explicitly mentions key places from the game, such as meridian and Genesis, and agent Locke was in there as well

And it was first discovered before halo 5 was even announced at all

>>385387974
Halo 2 is complete shit
Easily my least favorite, though I never played 4/5

>>385392460
Chief isn't the problem though, it's all these stupid OC characters they keep forcing in the spotlight. It took them 3 games to get why people didn't like Halo 2's campaign back in the day. You should also forget about them stopping at 6 and stopping with Chief, they already said they want to make Halo for 30 more years and after Halo 5's backlash, they said they are sticking with Chief, one of the actual good decisions they finally made for once.

>>385392570
Concepts were already revealed beforehand, plus the shit sounded more retarded than what we got. Jun as far I can tell die in that shitty prequel with his shit team.

>>385392687
I felt that Chief's story throughout the original trilogy was really fleshed out and really well done.

If they want to do Halo games, they should do Spinoffs. A Spartan 3 game, a Forerunner game during the events of the flood infection/activation of halo, Contact Harvest, Kig Yaar Space Pirate game. There is so many things you can do in the universe it is crazy.

>>385392815
But none of Halo spinoff games are good.

>>385392875
Halo Wars 1 was fine for a console RTS, Reach was Ok and you better not be shit talking ODST.

>>385391032
>tfw bought this and that old 3-pack of Halo Books but never read them
Should I give them a read?

>>385392786
Jun didn't die. He left the planet with Halsey

>>385392981
the Wars series are console RTSs nuff said, I thought ODST was shit, Reach was pure shit that I treat like it never existed, what were those phone games again? The only spinoff game that looked promising was that Megablox one.

>>385392687
Do people really play halo specifically so they can play as master chief? Not because they enjoy the gameplay or story? That is fucking retarded.

I'm not excusing bad characters like agent locke, I don't want those. But I also don't see why it has to be ONLY chief.

>>385393116
I don't like Reach so I treat it like it never happened, Jun is alive but in my mind, he died on Reach.

>>385393204
Maybe if the games that sidelined him or didn't have him had good campaigns, then maybe would play Halo for other characters. There's a reason Bungie and now 343 backtracked in the next game after the middle games.

SORRY, GUNS
CLASSIFIED

>>385393298
That's just your personal opinion though, isn't it? Disliking reach, ODST, (and I'll assume the arbiter missions of Halo 2)

>>385393298
Are you implying it's impossible to make a good halo game without chief as the main character? Because I'm not seeing what impact it has on the game

Odst was fun and reach was alright. Halo 4 featured chief only and was fucking garbage, and I wasnt fond of the Chief missions in halo 5 either. So that means that for me, 343 hasn't demonstrated they know how to do a chief game at all

>>385392815
How would they do a Spartan 3 game? Maybe like ODST where you play a different one from each company and then die at the end.

>>385394031
Yes

>>385394201
>Are you implying it's impossible to make a good halo game without chief as the main character?
When it comes to Bungie and 343, yes. How hard is it to make a space opera about traveling the galaxy without the Chief, they keep focusing on character driven stories and that's where they are failing. Halo's military only stories (ODST and Reach) are boring like the GF in Metroid, Covenant was more interesting when we didn't know shit about them, and who the hell asked to "hunt the truth"? I found Halo 4's campaign to be decent and Chief's sections were the only sections I liked in Halo 5.

>>385391263
Forward Unto Dawn is pre reach, shitters.

>>385393849
DEAR HUMANITY

>>385394757
Reach was pretty character driven, I'll agree, and I didn't like the characters. But the setting, art, gameplay, and music were all there

Odst wasn't so much "character driven" as "it just has a lot of characters in it". Again the art, music, gameplay, and setting felt like halo to me. The overall story did as well, it fits nicely into halo 2's mombasa arc.

Meanwhile halo 4&5's campaigns are just utter garbage in almost every aspect. Chief should have stayed in his cryopod, it was the perfect ending for him and it would have been the perfect ending to the whole franchise honestly

>>385394757
Halo 4 was extremely character driven, and so was chief's levels in halo 5

If that's what you disliked in reachh and ODST I don't see how you like it in 4&5 where they made it ten times more obnoxious

>>385395194
Reach looked bland as hell, it's gameplay was shit, the art was shit just not Halo 4 and 5 level shit, and Marty did his worst in Halo Reach. I never really understood where ODST's praise from story comes from, because it doesn't start until Dare calls and all the Rookie does is grab items and then just throws them away, over and over again. I liked with Halo 4 did with Chief's character arc. In Halo 5, Locke and Osiris just fucked that shit up.

>>385395314
Halo 4 wasn't a boring ass military storyline.

>>385387974
Story wise you are absolutely right, Halo 2 was literal kino, no I'm not memeing. Every Covenant cutscene was pure, distilled awesome cliches and badass lines, plus every fucking voice actor sounded orgasmic. The human side was also fantastic even though Miranda is boring.

But that aside, Halo CE has better campaign levels, 3 better multi. I still love every Halo until 4 though. Bungiefag for life.

>>385395407
Most "master chief only" campaign people I have argued with before say that they like chief precisely because he DOESN'T have a character and is supposed to be a shell for the player to put themselves in

Considering how you enjoyed halo 4's take on chief which heavily changed how he behaves compared to the trilogy, is it safe to say you disagree with those people?

>>385395074
YOU WANT BREAKFAST?
YOU GOTTA CATCH IT

>tfw always wanted to fly the Pelican
>by the time we were able to do that (other than an Easter egg) was by the time the series became shitty and it barely felt like how a Pelican should feel
plus that garbage new design

Why did 343 have to kill my shipfu /v/? Pelican never did nothing to nobody.

>>385395474
All the halo games are military storylines involving the navy and the marines&battles that happen in these crazy space environments

CE was heavily focused on the soldiers & crew of the pillar of autumn and their operations and tactics on the surface of the Halo ring

Halo 2 was all about the military defense of earth at the start, the invasion of new mombasa, and then eventually the infiltration onto Delta halo to assassinate the prophet of regret

Halo 3 is again about the defense of earth, from the flood and covenant, and then the operations and battles which take place on the Ark that lead to the covenant's defeat

Half of Halo 4 is about a lost soldier trying to regroup with a ship near the planet, then you group up with them, meet an abundance of military characters, and plan on what to do about the didact

ODST&Reach you covered yourself

Need I even mention halo wars?

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You can probably make a drinking game of every Halo 4 subplot botched by 343.

>>385395614
Hell no, I love Chief in Halo 1-3, I also like what 343 did with him in Halo 4. It's a Metroid Fusion thing after Metroid 1-Super, it's hard to understand.

>>385395934
Halo 1 focused on what Halo was, why was it created, and what secrets did it hold.

Halo 2 was about finding out why the Covanant came to Earth and why are they so interested in Halo and are the Covenant fighting for the right purpose.

Halo 3 was about finishing the fight with the Covenant, the Flood, and the Halo Arrays before the Galaxy is destroyed.

Halo 4 was about trying to get back home to Earth but then it became stop the Prometheans from enslaving humanity and conquering the galaxy.

Not really about the military, that plays second fiddle in the mainline games. ODST and Reach are the outliners.