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[johnny5]

[META][SPEC] Halo2 Game characters

[Scumbag]

I don't think it'll be that overt.

No, its more likely that some character the MC is with for about 2 minutes is voiced by the same person. The ILB folks'll know its Jersey, right, but nobody else will.

[ajenteks]

It's campy enough that it just might work!

[gheritt]

I will be shocked if any of the ILB characters are in Halo 2.

[Scumbag]

[Anton P. Nym]

I would be absolutely flabergasted to see any of the ILB characters in any version of Halo 2. With the exception of Jan, none of them would control at all like a SPARTAN... and even Jan couldn't wear Mjolnir armour without injuring herself. (She may have the speed and reflexes, but she certainly doesn't have the training.)

C'mon, how fun would it be to play as a geeky computer nerd who needs an instruction manual to survive a date?

Also, the story developing is very different than the one being told around the Master Chief; much smaller in scale, much tighter in focus on day-to-day events. The two styles don't mesh too well, especially in a game environment. You can choose a character-heavy narrative with lots of exposition in a film-noirish game, but not too well in a first-person shooter.

The most I would expect to see would be an easter egg in the game making reference to ILB events. (A discreet poster advertising Aiden's services maybe? Or a wanted poster with Jersey Morelli's name and face on it?)

-- Steve's been wrong before, but it's best to keep expectations on this kind of stuff low anyway. Saves on disappointment later, and makes what actually happens a pleasant surprise.

[CoffeeJedi]

it'll be kind of like "enter the matrix", there were references to the game in reloaded and revolutions, but if you didn't play the game, you didn't miss anything, but those who did play it got the situations fleshed out a little more

i agree with scumbug, one of the characters will briefly appear in a cutscene... non-beekeepers will just accept the 'new' character, but we'll all yell "holy crap! it's XXXX!" when they appear

[PhatRick]

It is an interesting idea but I dont see it working. Sorry man

[Shyndy]

no janisary wont control like master chief and no she doesnt have the armor. However, i could be wrong but i think i remember reading that in this game there would only be one playable master chief even thought there are four playable slots in the campaign. Would it not work better to have an enhanced but armorless spartan III (like janissary, not necessarily her) fill the other playable slots rather than some weak, really super weak marines? It would still surprise me, and it would be hard to make the game work well, as was seen with brute force(although it had multiple problems) but, without having the mutliple mastercheifs as in the original Halo, the game would be a downer for those not playing as MC. They might balance out janisary not having armor by her being able to do some things MC cant, like hang from ceilings and run faster. Just speculation though.

[johnny5]

The new character will be called JaniSamus J'Aran

Having never played Halo, I see everyone's points. I was thinkning along the lines of Battlefield, where not everyone online can play the gun toting point man.

These audios must be from cut scenes or FMV of some sort, though.

Message to PhatRick: You need more RAM.


--john--

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[johnny5]

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[Shyndy]

im not sure why you need justification for speculation? isnt the point of speculation to throw all kinds of crazy ideas out there? Anyway, i feel that these files are halo 2, and its mostly from little things. The setting does feel like halo only more civilian in setting than what weve seen so far. also the mention of a razorback which i believe is the name of the atv that will be in halo 2. Mostly though, i just dont see bungie trying to push another game they may be working on that is also a futuristic game including some sort of cyborg (janissary). i was only speculating that janissary could be used in game as a playable character, but it may very well be that this story serves another purpose but i think it would be harder to justify that this isnt directly related to halo than an idiot like me trying to explain logically why i think this is halo.