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All News Marked with Halo 2 Spoiler TagFebruary 20, 2007 VGL hits GDC! GM in SF! Got a press release regarding the upcoming Video Games Live concert at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco on March 9th. This particular concert sounds like it's going to be big primarily for Nintendo fans, but the one, choice, Halo-related piece of news is that Dee Baker (the voice of Gravemind) will be doing an on-stage performance. Here's our chance! Somebody needs to get tickets to this, meet up with Mr. Baker, and see if he knows anything about the infamous poem. Yeah, there'll also be tons of great music and prizes and special performances and stuff but come on! Gravemind!!(mnemesis 04:54:47 UTC) (permalink)  November 2, 2006 Good Morning, Worm, Your Honor... I'd meant to post this yesterday, but things got busy... RVideo went to a little trouble to capture a full view of the Gravemind cutscene in Halo 2, using a devcam. (This is considerably more difficult than it sounds, because that particular scene already has scripted camera motion, rotating around the characters; it's a delicate dance to keep your focus in this environment.) The view he provides allows you to see the entire cave Gravemind is sitting in - and, in fact, all of Gravemind. It's a view behind the curtain; it's like a panning shot that shows you how a filmmaker created a shot in a movie. You see the props that don't normally make it onscreen. It's pretty cool, but if you're one of those that loves the magic of the presentation, you might want to give this a miss, because it definitely shows you where the limits are. (I'm putting a spoiler tag on this post, as well, because Gravemind himself is a Halo 2 story spoiler.) You can grab this in WMP9 format (28.6 mb) or QuickTime format (32.6 mb). I say thanks to RVideo for the peek!(Louis Wu 00:57:53 UTC) (permalink) June 23, 2006 Feed me, Seymour. If you don't keep up on all the forum doings, or you've been chased away recently by spam attacks (we're working on it), you might have missed a thread about Gravemind, and his full size. You would have missed Dojorkan's overview screenshot (or a lightened version), and you would have missed c0ld's rotating movie shot (and the subsequent 3D version), as well. Good stuff!(Louis Wu 12:59:37 UTC) (permalink) February 18, 2006 Repetition and Luck Narcogen has switched gears and returned to writing up his Halo 2 impressions over at Rampancy.net. Today he takes a close look at Gravemind. (KP 16:30:48 UTC) (permalink) September 19, 2005 Mommy Dearest (without the coathangers) It's certainly not the first time I've seen it speculated that Dr. Halsey (who has never appeared in-game, only in the Halo novels) might be the mother of Miranda Keyes... but it's the most thorough examination of the evidence I've come across. Kudos, Dark One.(Louis Wu 10:15:34 UTC) (permalink) March 2, 2005 Conversations %%! Universe Included with the Limited Edition of Halo 2 was a booklet titled, "Conversations From The Universe," detailing a few choice bits of interactions between various entities within the Halo universe. A number of folks have mentioned this booklet, and some of the information it contained, in forum posts over the last few months. Over at the Halo Story Page, we've finally completed a transcription of the text, available on our Resources page for your perusal. Unfortunately, we had a kind of electro-magnetic incident here recently and much of the original text was corrupted. We've put up as much as we can at the moment, such as it is, so go check it out and see what you think.(mnemesis 18:28:01 UTC) (permalink) January 29, 2005 Another Egg Down A few days ago, Starman343 posted a note on our forum, pointing to a far more detailed post on the High Impact Halo forum - he'd managed to hear a dialogue snippet that Marty O'Donnell alluded to a few weeks back. This was clearly added as an easter egg; it requires that you have possession of the IWHBYD skull (see the HIH Skulls Database for all known details of this mysterious skull), something extremely difficult to obtain. Even when you have it, hearing this egg isn't a guarantee; once Starman343 had posted, our resident dialogue guru, Captain Spark gave it a shot, but was unsuccessful on his first attempt, and Starman himself explained that he cycled through a lot of dialogue before repeating that tidbit. Last night, Cody Miller proved his Legendary prowess yet again... and posted three hilarious snippets on our forum - so Marty's egg has been found, and added to our Dialogue Databank for posterity. Go listen! They're hilarious. (And nice work, everybody.)(Louis Wu 13:42:48 UTC) (permalink) January 8, 2005 Paul is Dead. Whoa. IceWeasel listened to a section of the Whisper in the Storm cutscene that sounded odd to him... so he isolated it, sped it up, and reversed it - and found a rather odd prayer: "I wander the earth. I seek your forgiveness for my horrible crimes against God. Amen . I wish to seek death, destruction. the light, let the light that cannot be extinguished-" I reversed the audio myself, to make sure he wasn't faking this - it's really there. It's unlikely the Freewebs link in his forum post will hold up, so you can find his audio splice in its original .wma format, or a more compatible .mp3 format on our own server. If you listen to the reversed audio with NO other modifications at all, it sounds a lot like Gravemind... but what would he be doing in High Charity at this stage? This one is wild.(Louis Wu 20:49:59 UTC) (permalink) January 1, 2005 Helljumpers in the Cutscene Library One last bit before I leave for the day: we've got the next entry in our Cutscene Library for you. It's the Helljumpers cutscene, the beginning of Delta Halo, and there are two files: there's the cutscene itself (2:30 long), and a small composite file that shows the one change that occurs, depending on the difficulty you're playing at. It's a very short bit, so I didn't think it was worth releasing 4 separate versions of the cutscene - it made more sense to simply snip out the difference. As the Covenant guard the ancient ruins, there's a short clip where a Jackal dances in front of a Grunt - and what the Grunt is doing depends on how hard the game is for you. On Easy and Normal, he's just rubbing his hand in the dirt. On Heroic, he's playing with fire. And on Legendary, he's fiddling with what looks like a Grunt doll - maybe the fabled plushie that never got made! Thanks to BOLL for the difficulty help, and as always, thanks to Sniper 058 for getting this section started in the first place. And that - as they say - is that. I'm gone. Update: Ename nep (among others) pointed out that it's not just a Grunt doll that Grunt is playing with... his left hand is holding a Master Chief doll! Nice.(Louis Wu 16:50:30 UTC) (permalink) December 31, 2004 Odd NTSC/PAL issue When we posted the 'Hot Pursuit' cutscene (with the Heretic escaping in a Banshee), Jillybean mentioned that whenever SHE watched the scene, the Heretic crashed into a wall before flying away. I'd never seen this - but a couple of other Europeans agreed, that's the way it was for them. This seems to be a timing issue, based on the PAL/NTSC differences. (I thought Bungie had removed that particular constraint from the game... guess I was wrong.) BOLL was kind enough to send along some footage - I've put up small versions of the PAL cutscene (QuickTime and WMP9), so you can see the difference. Weird! Update: At least two PAL users have chimed in to say that the crashing does NOT happen on their Xboxes. Bottom line - we have no idea why he crashes for some people.(Louis Wu 12:13:14 UTC) (permalink) November 26, 2004 The Arbiter\'s Army David "Chubigans" Galindo continues his cinematic style of video narrative with 'The Arbiter's Army', a new piece putting the Spec-Ops Covenant forces fighting on Gas Giant and Delta Halo in a noble light. Really nice work! It's available in WMP9 format (21.4 mb) at Mythica.org and bungie.org, or QuickTime format (17.5 mb) at Mythica.org and bungie.org.(Louis Wu 15:41:16 UTC) (permalink) November 16, 2004 Give him your wallet. Now. BOLL has found (with the help of some new modding tools from TF6) a pretty cool unused character in Halo 2. Personally... I'm pretty darned happy this one never made it in... they seem NASTY.(Louis Wu 02:26:18 UTC) (permalink) November 15, 2004 February 9? Whoa. This is FIRMLY in the rumor category, until I see some evidence, but Slashdot is reporting that there's a note at the very end of the credits screen that states 'Coming February 9th' - if you finish on Legendary. Utopian Gamers, where /. got their info, suggests that it's a heads-up for Halo 3 in 3 months... I have trouble believing that. What it DOES mean (if it's even really there), though, is anybody's guess at this point. More if and when we learn something.(Louis Wu 18:50:16 UTC) (permalink) |
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