Halo Graphic Novel In the Works 42
A new chapter in the Halo story was announced this past week, and it's not going to be a videogame this time. Marvel comics will be working with Bungie studios on a Halo graphic novel. The tome will include four short stories and a bevy of art from concept artists. Joystiq has overall impressions and some artwork, while Gamespot has details on the deal with Marvel. From the Gamespot article: "Marvel has said they will feature signature characters and weapons and be set against a backdrop involving the alien races of the Covenant and the Flood. Perhaps more interesting to comic fans is the roster of talent secured to put words and images on the page. Beyond renowned French comics artist Moebius, the Halo graphic novel will also feature the talents of Phil Hale, Ed Lee, Tsutomo Nihei, Jay Faerber, Andrew Robinson, Simon Bisley, and Lee Hammock."
Re:Semantics (Score:2)
Ahh, don't read during Star Trek... (Score:2, Funny)
Holographic Novel (Score:1)
(Although the classic Illuminatus Trilogy [wikipedia.org] comes close, in that cutting the book in half loses surprisingly little information, which as you may recall is one of the characteristics of a hologram. But real holograms would be even cooler.)
Blah Blah Blah (Score:3, Informative)
Why the dancing around these middleman sites that contain no additional information or insight? Does
Which perspective... (Score:2)
What's the fuss? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:5, Insightful)
Same with HL1 and HL2. Both are fine games, but they arn't overly special (HL2 right now is special, but give it a year or two and it'll be run of the mill).
Context, context, context. (Score:1)
Exactly.
So many games now have taken the good ideas from Halo that Halo itself isn't as great as it used to be, relatively. The same can be said for Doom.
But, Halo did a very good job on gameplay and weapon balance, and was actually fun to play. The same can be said for Doom.
And, I still believe the Halo campaign was a work of art.
Of course, the main complaint is that it's repetitive -- you know what? That isn't always so bad
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:2)
Half-Life 2 was fun, but not nearly as good as the first one. I think it mostly rode on the predecessor's tails.
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:3, Interesting)
Halo 2 = best console FPS since Halo.
The biggest deal is Halo 2's online play... in 2005. Good job being 10 years behind the PC.
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:2)
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:2)
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:1)
What games are you playing? Name one PC FPS that needs a subscription to play online.
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Dumbed down. (Score:2)
PC games don't assume you're retarded. They assume you can learn a little something about servers and ping times.
At least the other things that make Halo so accessible to morons don't get in the way. The constant "Press Y to dual-wield" messages don't prevent me from just holding Y as I run over the weapon. But the multiplayer element makes it impossible for me to find and remember specific servers, or find a server playing a specific map, or to find a group of people playing
Re:Dumbed down. (Score:2)
I generally don't like playing with random people I don'
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:1)
I agree, Halo 2's online play was amazing fu
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:2)
Halo is a PC game. It was designed to be a PC game and the original version always will be an unfinished PC game. Bungy made it, and they made it great.
Unforunately, not long before the game was ready, Microsoft bought Bungie studios and shelved Halo. They then ported whatever they could from the carcass to the then new XBox just in time for a Christmas release. Thus Halo/XBox was born.
A few
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:3, Interesting)
Halo started life as a new map renderer for Myth, and then Bungie decided that they could try large-scale cooperative games. After developing down that path for a while, they shifted focus to a single-player game with online matches similar to Marathon. The reasons I recall from that time were around development and game focus. Bungie was strapped for cash, so they looked arou
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:2)
You're kidding, right? A Microsoft department says that nothing has changed now that they are owned by Microsoft? What else did you expect them to say? "Our dictators have screwed us over and changed everything, now can we have a raise?". Do you really believe Bungie was developing Halo with the XBox in mind?
If Halo would have been such an amazing game, why didn't Microsof
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:2)
I think you're letting the conspiracy theory get out of hand. The game that was released is all that ever will be released for Halo, and from Bungie's own people, even those who left the company it was a Bungie decision to make the game what it was. Microsoft don't control these people, so why are the
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:2)
You completely missed the point. It's not that the PC version is crap, it's that it's crap for the system requirements. The xbox is a dumbed down PC, if I remember, it's a 700 mhz, 64-meg box. So why does the PC version require so much more than that?
The reason we want the original (intended) PC version is that it wouldn't suck as much as
Re:What's the fuss? (Score:2)
As for the apparent lack of performance on the eventual PC port of Halo when it was released - that could have something to do with the original Xbox version of the game being designed to take full advantage of the hardware it was running on. On the Xbox, you got ~30fps at 640x480 on appr
Halo Novels (Score:1)
Re:Halo Novels (Score:1)
Red vs Blue (Score:2, Informative)
http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/home.php [roosterteeth.com]
Can It Compare To... (Score:2)
http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/ [doomworld.com]
That one sets a pretty high bar. I can only hope a Halo is half as good.
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Doesn't this already exist? (Score:1)
Cut and paste job (Score:2, Funny)
no potential (Score:1)
Re:no potential (Score:3, Interesting)
Masterchief's name is John117 and you can learn about him and other members of the Spartan project, and see that he and cortana have been a long way together (remember the 'so you did miss me' line ?).
You'll also see Captain Keyes' prowess as a ship commander against unfavourable odds.
"no back story, no motivation, no personality, no vulnerability" ?
There is a limit
Re:no potential (Score:1, Funny)
Copyright (Score:2)
Re:Copyright (Score:2)
Further, the plots are vastly different. I think any case for plagiarism would be extremely difficult to make except at the most superficial level.
The Dan Brown case relies upon the extreme similarity between the book "Holy Blood, Holy Grai
Re:Copyright (Score:2)