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Spoilers for all Halo works preceding this one will be left unmarked. You Have Been Warned!Halo 4 is the fourth mainline game in the Halo franchise, and is the first to be developed by 343 Industries instead of Bungienote unless you're counting Ensemble Studios' work on Halo Wars (or Halo Anniversary, which was developed by 343 Industries, for that matter). It was released on the Xbox 360 on November 6, 2012.Taking place four years after Covenant/Flood conflict, the Master Chief and his AI companion Cortana have been left adrift through space in the partially destroyed frigate Forward Unto Dawn. Having placed himself into hibernation, Chief is woken up by Cortana as they come upon an artificial Forerunner planet called Requiem, in which they and a Covenant remnant are then pulled inside.After crashing landing inside the planet, the two soon discover that they have a more pressing matter on their hands: Cortana reveals that she's in the stages of Rampancy, a condition in which A.I.s that are in service for longer than they're intented to start to deteriorate. But if they can get back home, there's a chance that her condition can be cured.As they try to find their bearings and reestablish contact with the UNSC, Chief and Cortana learn more about the Forerunners and meet new allies along the way. But in the midst of dealing with their new friends and foes, Chief's true test is whether or not he can race back home and save Cortana, before it's too late.While the gameplay for both campaign and multiplayer have gotten an overhaul, the developers consider it to be an natural evolution of the series rather than a full revamp. It takes cues from both the classic trilogy and the changes made in Halo: Reach. Armor Abilities return with both old favorites and some new selections, including Promethean Vision, extended energy shields and deployable turrets. Health packs are removed once more and you can only wield one weapon at a time. For the first time in the series, sprinting is an automatically equipped function (in Reach it was an optional Armor Ability). The player also now has an entirely new selection of weapons to choose from that are Forerunner in origin.In the multiplayer titled "War Games," etailed armor permutations, customized load-outs, and weapon skins are available as you level up your character, and as you gain points in battle you can call in ordinance that gives you more powerful weapons and other upgrades to aid you. Your loadouts are also split between several factors: Primary Weapon, Sidearm, Grenade, Armor Ability, Tactical Package, and Support Upgrade. Most have precedent in previous games, with the exception of Tactical Package and Support Upgrade, which are passive boosts to your character that can give them an edge in certain deployments including: spawning with additional grenades, less points needed for ordinance drops, increasing shield recharge rate, improving vehicle operations (including ejection from vehicle if destroyed), and even gaining more experience per game.The game has a Spin-Off live-action series called Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, which features a group of naval officers-in-training as their school is attacked by the Covenant in the early days of the Covenant war... until the Chief shows up. The first episode was released on October 5th, 2012, with the next four parts released over the following four weeks.In addition, the story of the campaign is expanded upon through Spartan Ops, a co-op campaign which effectively replaces the Firefight mode of ODST and Reach. Its storyline, which takes place six months after the single player campaign, has the players assume the role of the Spartan-IVs of Fireteam Crimson as they fight for Requiem's key locations. Spartan Ops was designed to be expanded upon throughout the game's lifespan, with more stories and chapters that would have bridged the gap to Halo 5: Guardians; however, it only lasted one season before being cancelled, with its story being continued in Halo: Escalation instead.The Xbox One port was published on November 11, 2014, 2 years after the original release as completion of The Master Chief Collection, then the Xbox Series X/S as well as the PC port was published on November 17, 2020. | |
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Aliens Speaking English: Averted, and for the first time it depicts a real language barrier between humans and the various Covenant aliens. Jul 'Mdama is shown speaking in Sangheli with subtitles and switching to broken English so that a human captive can understand him. Previously when Covenant aliens (including Elites such as the Arbiter and Half-Jaw) spoke English and not Black Speech, they were fluent and even eloquent; whereas even when speaking English, 'Mdama has an animalistic sound to his voice and says only one word (as opposed to when addressing his troops in their language, where he is rather eloquent). | |
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Abusive Precursors | |
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Abusive Precursors: The Didact, one of the Forerunner's highest military leaders, is the game's villain. In ancient times, he defeated humanity's fleet, viewing them as a invasive race. To keep them down, he forcibly devolved their species, and later harvested their bodies to build mechanical Prometheans. Soon after being awakened, he resumed these plans upon finding humans are once again a space-faring race. | |
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Abnormal Ammo | |
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Abnormal Ammo: Almost all the Forerunner guns use Hard Light ammo, which take the form of everything from bullets to rockets. | |
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Instantly Proven Wrong: As you open the blast shields aboard the Forward Unto Dawn, Cortana notes that the Covenant boarders aren't outfitted like standard military, and suggests that they may just be from a rogue salvage ship. Then the shield opens to reveal what's going on outside, and she adds, "...or, we might have stumbled into an entire Covenant fleet." | |
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Heroic Mime | |
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That said, Fireteam Crimson, the player characters in Spartan Ops, are silent, stoic types reminiscent of the Master Chief from the previous games, and also known to be among the most competent of the IVs. Also, in a conversation with Thorne, Halsey expressed mild approval of his level-headed nature, even suggesting that some Spartan IVs are closer to her original vision than others. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Being a game after the war, where Cortana, John-117's closest friend, is in distinct danger of going rampant, this seems to be in effect. There's also the fact that, unlike in Halo 3, the Chief is unable to prevent the Composer firing, though he does stop it before it makes it past one city. The Covenant have been redesigned to be even more alien and animalistic, even more so than in Halo: Reach. Also like in Reach, Grunts don't speak "wacky" English. | |
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You Can't Thwart Stage One | |
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You Can't Thwart Stage One: You fail to stop the Didact from leaving Requiem, then fail to destroy the Composer before he can take it, and by the time you reach a place you can stop him, he comments on your failure and fires the Composer at Earth. | |
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Hidden Agenda Villain | |
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Hidden Agenda Villain: In a way. The Didact makes his motives very clear: enslave humanity as punishment for their war with the Forerunners hundreds of millennia ago. However, certain comments and his speech in the epilogue hint at a deeper motivation: a fear that humanity (or any other species) will rise to take the Forerunners' former place and abuse the galaxy, which is confirmed by Halo: Silentium. Those who have read The Forerunner Saga might discern an even subtler reason for enslaving humans in the present rather than killing them, considering he had done so formerly to defeat the Flood: if Halo: Primordium is to be believed, the Flood will return. | |
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Dialog During Gameplay: Unlike all previous campaigns save Halo 3: ODST, the Master Chief speaks freely in and out of cutscenes, though he retains his air of stoic professionalism. | |
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Villain Team-Up | |
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Villain Team-Up: The Covenant and Prometheans team up under the Not Quite Dead Didact to destroy humanity. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Since her appearance is so brief, Admiral Osman's background as a former Spartan-II is never mentioned. Her background is explained in the novels. | |
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Goal-Oriented Evolution | |
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Goal-Oriented Evolution: In the opening cutscene Halsey strongly hints that this is her ultimate endgame in creating the SPARTAN-II program, with the whole Covenant war being simply a minor setback rather than the main event. Essentially she's setting humanity down the same path as the Forerunners, with John-117 as her Messianic Archetype. The Librarian's imprint reveals she planted gei in humans that would eventually lead to them creating Spartans, MJOLNIR armor, and AIs; Halsey could simply be the embodied activation of these seeds. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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The justification for why there are anachronisms in the first cutscene is that Halsey is imagining them. However, she depicts all the Spartans to be wearing John's customized armor, which she's never even seen. Also, in the past she's shown distaste for modified armor. The Essential Visual Guide explains it off as Cortana basing her redesign off yet another variant of Mark IV (presumably the very armor we see in the prologue). | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: If you activate certain Easter Eggs during Spartan Ops, some UNSC dialogue gets replaced by the Blood Gulch Reds and Blues. Episode 10 also has Agent Georgia announce over the radio that he has found jetpacks and will use them to board the Lich. | |
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Villain Ball | |
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Villain Ball: 'Mdama is so entranced by the activated Forerunner shrine that he fails to notice Dr. Glassman escaping behind him. | |
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Advanced Ancient Humans | |
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Advanced Ancient Humans: We get our first visual depictions of the prehistoric spacefaring humans introduced in The Forerunner Saga, including key figures like Forthencho, the Lord of Admirals. The weapons and armor of the ancient humans look oddly reminiscent of the modern Project GUNGNIR products (the GUNGNIR armor variant and Spartan Laser), with visorless helmets for their combat skins and shoulder-mounted energy weapons that project red targeting beams. | |
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Ãœbermensch | |
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For example, John has spent most of his life tasked with saving lives and protecting the human race at all costs, which causes a unique personality clash when he was interacting with civilian scientists he had just saved. In addition, his "bred for combat" nature and superhuman abilities make him distant even to his fellow soldiers. | |
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Tragic Intangibility | |
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Tragic Intangibility: Halo 4 reveals that Cortana has always wanted to touch Master Chief, but couldn't because of her nature as a holographic AI. Moments after she can finally touch him, she dies. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Del Rio towards the Master Chief. | |
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Unnecessarily Large Vessel | |
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Unnecessarily Large Vessel: Mantle's Approach, the Ur-Didact's flagship, is larger than any other spaceship in the series except for High Charity, and is flown by a grand total of one Promethean Warrior-Servant. | |
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Trilogy Creep | |
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Trilogy Creep: Since Bungie never intended to go past a third game themselves. According to 343 Industries, this will be the start of a whole new saga, with the expectation being that the series will go up to Halo 6, which means there will be at least eight FPS games in the official canon. | |
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For Science! | |
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For Science!: Dr. Halsey. She wants to know everything so she can solve everything, and hates having secrets kept from her. As she puts it: | |
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Dragon Their Feet | |
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The Covenant Remnant consider Jul 'Mdama to be this to the Didact, addressing him as the Didact's Hand in Spartan Ops. Considering the Didact's apparent demise, Jul's actions in Spartan Ops may be an example of Dragon Their Feet; as he's more or less the BigBad of Spartan Ops, he's also an example of Dragon-in-Chief. | |
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Hurl It into the Sun | |
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Hurl It into the Sun: In Episode 9, Jul 'Mdama, having obtained what he needed from Requiem, sends it on a collision course with the nearby star. This occurs in Episode 10, destroying the planet. | |
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Uncertain Doom | |
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Uncertain Doom: Given the campaign epilogue, this was pretty much the situation of the Ur-Didact; Escalation later revealed that he did indeed survive the events of 4. | |
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Gravity Screw | |
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Gravity Screw: In Episode 10, after deactivating the artifact Crimson must escape, but find themselves being flung in the air or off to the side as Requiem's gravity fluctuates. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: DeMarco of Fireteam Majestic is awfully cocky at the start of Spartan Ops, especially given that he and his squad has done nothing extraordinary. To be fair, the reason why most of Majestic qualified for Spartanhood to begin with was because they had already proved themselves to be Badass Normals. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Easter Egg: In several chapters you can trigger audio snippets from Red vs. Blue that vaguely match the story instead of the more appropriate audio actually written for the story. Thus it is quite funny to hear about Caboose apparently being on fire after touching the Big Red Button (the related audio being scientists admitting they have no clue what they are working with) and Palmer dryly commenting on how that doesn't sound good. Taken to ridiculous levels in Chapter 5, Season 5. Sarge berates Grif for dropping the sports equipment. Over the drop site, the ammo icon appears, but next to it is Sports Equipment. You get to the drop, and find ONLY Gravity Hammers. Even more ridiculous is that the Gravity Hammers aren't nearly as effective in dealing with the Hunters and Wraiths as the Spartan Lasers that the Infinity normally sends are. The mission is actually complicated by Grif screwing up. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: An easter egg can be found with two marines talking about an inverted stick on "Composer", which pokes at how most players use non-inverted sticks anyway. It also acts as a nice, subtle nod to Redvs Blue during the "This One Goes to Eleven" episode of season 8 with the "not a fighter" bit. | |
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Could Say It, But... | |
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Could Say It, But...: Lasky, after he and the crew of the Infinity are ordered to arrest John-117 and take in Cortana for termination: | |
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More Dakka | |
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In multiplayer especially, the classic fully-automatic Assault Rifle (AR) is now much more powerful than it was in previous installments. Not only did 343i up its damage, but they also increased its accuracy by quite a bit. At close range it now greatly outperforms the DMR and BR, and even at mid range it's easier to score kills with it than before, by virtue of its fast damage output and controllable bloom. A sufficiently skilled player could use nothing but a standard AR/Magnum combo given to you at the very start of both the campaign and of your multiplayer career and easily come out on top. Both of these basic weapons are capable of very fast kill times that can be traded off for mid-ranged precision, and in the hands of a player with fast reflexes and situational awareness, they can be used to deadly effect. | |
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Artifact Title | |
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Artifact Title: A Halo, Installation 03, does briefly show up, but it serves little purpose in the plot. That said, it is somewhat more important in the background, being where the UNSC got a lot of the Forerunner technology they are now applying. | |
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Awesome, but Impractical | |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The sticky detonator gun in the campaign. It can usually kill Hunters in two hits provided you hit their weak spots from behind, can even kill an NPC-driven Mantis in 3 shots, the bomb sticks to the enemy if you hit them with it, and it has quite a nice explosive radius, making them very useful for taking out groups of enemies bunched up together. That said, you can usually only carry 6 rounds at best (5 rounds + 1 in the chamber), and the guns themselves are pretty rare and generally only appear in the game's second-to-last level, so their usefulness is limited. The railgun in campaign as well. It has perfect aim, hitscans, and deals heavy explosive damage, killing any Elite or Knight in one shot. You also can only carry a maximum of 6 shots for it, it does trivial damage against heavy vehicles, and despite seemingly like a sniper weapon it lacks a scope and needs to be charged for about half a second before firing. You also never fight any Hunters in the few levels where you can pick one up, which are just about the only infantry-level enemy that would be justified using it against over a simpler sniper rifle or beam rifle. On a similar note, human weapons fall victim to this too in the campaign because first, max ammo capacity has been reduced compared to the other Halo games. Second, you don't run into human weapons or even ammo caches for them in most of the levels very oftennote In contrast, other games often have dead marines laying around with lots of weapons/ammo strewn around them as a convenient excuse to give you ammo (and show that some marines made it to various places before dying). And third, their power levels are about the same as the alien weaponry, so there's not much point in choosing them over alien ones during most levels. | |
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Vocal Evolution | |
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Vocal Evolution: Steve Downes still voices Master Chief and his voice has noticeably aged. The game itself is meant to portray a more complex and dynamic Chief and thus the evolution makes sense. | |
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Glass Cannon | |
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Glass Cannon: All of the higher-tier Elite Mooks are this compared to regular Elite Mooks. Elite Zealots aren't much tougher than regular Elites, but often carry one-hit-kill energy swords and cloaking devices. Elite Warriors likewise are fairly easy to kill, but sometimes wield fuel rod cannons. Promethean Knights armed with Inferno Cannons likewise aren't much tougher than regular Knights, but can vaporize you with one shot. | |
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Final First Hug | |
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Final First Hug: In a variation, the first time that Cortana manages to physically touch John-117 (by making a Hard Light body for herself following the detonation of the Havok nuke) is what is assumed to be the final time they see each other ever again. | |
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Statuesque Stunner | |
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Statuesque Stunner: Sarah Palmer is the Spartan Commanding Officer, officially standing at 6'9 and is obviously catching the attention of her fellow soldiers. | |
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Ramming Always Works | |
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Ramming Always Works: In Spartan Ops, we catch a glimpse of the Infinity coming out of Slipspace and smashing through an RCS-class armored cruiser. This collision takes place immediately upon leaving slipspace. | |
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Previously on… | |
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Previously on…: At the very beginning of the game, you can interact with a semi-hidden terminal which recites John-117's service record, which serves as a concise recap of the original trilogy. | |
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Helmets Are Hardly Heroic | |
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Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: The Spartan-IVs practically never wear their helmets while on board Infinity, although they do wear them during actual ops on Requiem. That said, it took until episode 9 before Palmer's helmet was seen, and Thorne was certainly not helped by the fact that he didn't have his on (and wasn't carrying his weapon) when he got translocated through the artifact and landed up right in front of a group of Elites. | |
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Super Drowning Skills | |
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Super Drowning Skills: If the Chief goes into water that goes above his head, he dies instantly. This is rather jarring, as earlier in the game he's shown perfectly fine breathing in space. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: The Hacksaw commander in Spartan Ops just can't seem to figure out where he's from. | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: As tea-bagging is practically a Halo pastime, the developers even acknowledged it, as you can create a hologram over somebody's body which will then begin tea-bagging it. | |
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Magnetic Weapons | |
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There are a few emplaced MAC batteries in the background of the level "The Composer", which add some visual flair as they fire at invading Covenant ships in the background. If you can escape the level confines, you can take manual control of them. | |
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Sequel Escalation | |
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Sequel Escalation: Each episode in the second half of Spartan Ops aims to try and top the previous one in terms of story and threat level. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: Elites in Halo 4 demonstrate far fewer variations, but are overall generally more well-rounded than in previous games. Even the Storm Elites, the Remnant's equivalent of Elite Minors, can throw grenades and occasionally use energy swords, tactics that were generally reserved for higher-ranking Elites in previous games. | |
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Character Development | |
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Character Development: Master Chief himself does not change a whole lot, but there is a great deal more elaboration on his personality and character. Bucking the previous tradition of him only speaking in cutscenes, here he is more willing to talk during gameplay. The personality he displays is consistent with the personality he is shown to have in the Expanded Universe, with an unfailing sense of duty and a strong protectiveness over Cortana. This game brings these elements closer to the surface. For example, John has spent most of his life tasked with saving lives and protecting the human race at all costs, which causes a unique personality clash when he was interacting with civilian scientists he had just saved. In addition, his "bred for combat" nature and superhuman abilities make him distant even to his fellow soldiers. | |
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Ragnarök Proofing | |
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Ragnarök Proofing: Given that the Forward Unto Dawn has been floating through space while cut in half for close to five years, it's impressive that any of its systems work, or that there's still power to run them. Granted, it's probable that Cortana turned off most of the functions not essential to her or the Chief's cryo-pod until the start of the game, as Artificial Gravity returns not long after Chief wakes up and the presence of frost on every surface suggests that life support systems and other heat-generating devices were disabled for the duration. Really, there wasn't much to corrode the ship in space to begin with. Also, basically all of the Forerunners' tech. However, unlike the Dawn, all of this was deliberately Ragnarok-proofed and maintained by a variety of machines and automated foundries. | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil | |
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Then Let Me Be Evil: Halsey's reaction to Palmer's assassination attempt. | |
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Fighter-Launching Sequence | |
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Fighter-Launching Sequence: The very first episode following Infinity's Dynamic Entry arrival at Requiem, wherein it proceeds to scramble Pelicans carrying Spartan-IVs to the surface, Broadswords to provide cover against Covenant fighters, and even Charon-class frigates stored in internal bays, which proceed immediately to engage the Covenant fleet in orbit. | |
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Captain Obvious | |
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Captain Obvious: Jared Miller has a severe habit of pointing out new enemy threats the player(s) couldn't possibly have missed, often after the shooting has already started. This gets so bad it's lampshaded twice, once by Palmer, who tells him to cut it out (he doesn't), and later by Roland, who throws in a sarcastic parody (and he still doesn't stop). | |
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First-Name Basis | |
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First-Name Basis: Even though he's her commanding officer, Lasky and Palmer are apparently this as shown in the Spartan Ops cinematics. It helps that six months ago (that is, during the campaign) they held similar ranks. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: At the end of the main campaign, the Chief prevents the Didact from destroying Earth, but Cortana sacrifices herself in the process to ensure that Chief survived the nuclear explosion aboard the Didact's ship. Spartan Ops ends with Jul 'Mdama and his forces escaping Requiem with half of the Janus Key and Dr. Halsey, who seems to have made a Face–Heel Turn after realizing that the UNSC had ordered her death. On the other hand, the crew of the Infinity has the other half, without which Jul's half is uesless, and they also managed to escape Requiem. | |
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Motion Blur | |
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Knight Lancers, distinguishable from other Knights by the large white fins on their carapace. When they've taken enough damage from ranged weaponry, they'll quit the Lightrifle fire, do a quick preparatory animation and... lance at you at tremendous speed with their blade-arms, leaving a Motion Blur behind them and, depending on the difficulty, either taking out your shields or killing you outright if the attack connects. After that there is a short period where they are vulnerable to Counter-Attack, before they teleport out and recharge their shields. | |
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Voodoo Shark | |
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Voodoo Shark: Word Of God is that John's Mark VI suit looks different because Cortana upgraded the suit with nanomachines at some point. Yet despite completely remodeling the armor, the chest still has a gash on it from Halo 3, meaning she never actually repaired it despite the upgrades. That said, since the Chief's rebuilt armor isn't shown in full until the first cutscene of the second level (just after he survives a rather nasty crash), it presumably got damaged AGAIN in the interim. The justification for why there are anachronisms in the first cutscene is that Halsey is imagining them. However, she depicts all the Spartans to be wearing John's customized armor, which she's never even seen. Also, in the past she's shown distaste for modified armor. The Essential Visual Guide explains it off as Cortana basing her redesign off yet another variant of Mark IV (presumably the very armor we see in the prologue). | |
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Alien Sky | |
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Alien Sky: On Requiem. Mostly because there's a roof, as you're primarily fighting inside the planet. | |
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot | |
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John gives one to Cortana when she drops the turret placements holding the Didact's Cryptum in place in a rampant incident regarding "imprisonment". However, after one line, he seems to let it go, knowing she can't help it and is very upset about what happened. | |
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Mecha-Mooks | |
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Mecha-Mooks: This is the first game to feature openly hostile non-Monitor-controlled Forerunner constructs; namely the Promethean Watchers, Promethean Knights, and Promethean Crawlers. | |
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Fade Around the Eyes | |
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Fade Around the Eyes: The closing cinematic ends with the Master Chief taking off his helmet. On most difficulties, the Fade to Black is done with a wipe that hides his face, but on Legendary difficulty the area around his eyes is visible for a few seconds before the Fade to Black. | |
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Two Halves Make a Plot | |
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Two Halves Make a Plot: The Librarian gives Dr. Halsey an artifact called the Janus Key, which records the location of every Forerunner relic in the galaxy. The device is activated by connecting the two halves, and in the scuffle after 'Mdama gets one half while Spartan Thorne gets the other. | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! | |
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Lasky, again. After Palmer goes to kill Dr. Halsey on Osman's orders, he sends Fireteam Majestic to reach Halsey first so they can save her. | |
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Professor Guinea Pig | |
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Professor Guinea Pig: The Didact uses an experimental cure for the Flood on himself, but it doesn't work. It does result in him looking more animalistic, as well as immune to the Composer, and is implied to have contributed to his Sanity Slippage. | |
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Honor Before Reason | |
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Honor Before Reason: The Didact views upholding the Mantle as his greatest duty, and feels that firing the Halos would be abandoning it. As such, he turns to dozens of other experiments, including Flood cures, super-advanced AI, and the Promethean droid armies. All of them are unsuccessful. | |
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Badass in Distress | |
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Badass in Distress: Happens twice: Fireteam Crimson is captured by the Covenant at the end of Episode 5. However, right at the beginning of Episode 6, Roland disables their bonds, and they proceed to quickly arm themselves and cut their way through their captors. Thorne is accidentally teleported right into the middle of a group of Elites, who end up capturing him. However, Thorne is also able to free himself by pretending to be unconscious until he has an opportunity to steal a rifle from one of his captors. | |
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Drop the Hammer | |
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Taken to ridiculous levels in Chapter 5, Season 5. Sarge berates Grif for dropping the sports equipment. Over the drop site, the ammo icon appears, but next to it is Sports Equipment. You get to the drop, and find ONLY Gravity Hammers. Even more ridiculous is that the Gravity Hammers aren't nearly as effective in dealing with the Hunters and Wraiths as the Spartan Lasers that the Infinity normally sends are. The mission is actually complicated by Grif screwing up. | |
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InsurmountableWaistHighFence | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_480ee6dc | comment |
Insurmountable Waist-High Fence: There is an odd bit in one level where you encounter a stream. Despite the stream only being a few feet deep and not moving very fast, so much a dipping a toe into it will instantly kill you. While someone does warn you that "That stream is bad news!", there's still no explanation as to why it is so much more dangerous than it looks. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_485eb589 | comment |
Sealed Evil in a Can: The Didact, who is released from his imprisonment inside a Cryptum at the core of Requiem by John-117 during the latter's attempt to keep the UNSC Infinity from crashing into the planet due to the intense gravity. Given that he's a Forerunner Super Soldier, he's also a case of Sealed Badass in a Can. | |
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Dual Boss | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_486466ee | comment |
Dual Boss: Two Phantoms in Chapter 3 Episode 2 of Spartan Ops. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: The intended direction behind the game is to recover the sense of mystery and wonder about a Forerunner planet that made the original Halo: Combat Evolved so memorable. A scene early in the second level where the player emerges from a tunnel into the light on a cliff edge overlooking kilometers of Star Scraper buildings hanging from the sky is a notable example of this on full display; it's used as an Establishing Shot for the inside of Requiem. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Kinda. When the Chief first awakes in his cryotube, you're given the instruction to "Hold X to activate emergency release." The emergency release level is marked with a rather large X right behind it. | |
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Unwilling Roboticisation | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_4cb71cf9 | comment |
Unwilling Roboticisation: At first the original Promethean Warrior-Servants willingly volunteer to become machines. But when their numbers begins to run low, this trope manifests as the Didact turns to creating more by harvesting humans. | |
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Wham Line | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: From Episode 7: From Episode 8: From the Epilogue of Episode 10: | |
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Evil Makes You Ugly | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_4ee487f2 | comment |
Evil Makes You Ugly: Also happens to the Didact: Again, compare this◊ with this◊. | |
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Previews Pulse | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_4fe592e9 | comment |
Previews Pulse: The recovered Forerunner artifact in Spartan Ops Episode 5 gives ominous pulses as the crew approaches to study it. | |
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Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_4ffde1e0 | comment |
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: A new armor ability is the Hardlight Shield, a large square sheet of hard light that you can pull up to protect your front, granting immunity to all weapons save for vehicular splattering, at the expense of speed and the ability to shoot. The idea of the player getting to use this (though with a Jackal shield) has been toyed with since Halo 2. Promethean Watchers can also project Hardlight Shields to protect other Forerunner constructs, particularly Promethean Knights when their regular shields fall. Your Hardlight Shields of course have to be powered by your own armor, so your normal shields cannot recharge while the Hardlight is up. | |
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Body Horror | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: The Composer peels away skin, muscles, and skeleton, one at a time, to leave its victims as digital shells of their former selves to be made into Prometheans. | |
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Unexpected Shmup Level | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5098e87 | comment |
Unexpected Shmup Level: Of the 3D variety. The beginning of the final level feels like a affectionate gameplay throwback to the likes of Terminal Velocity (1995). | |
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Sinister Geometry | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_514cba56 | comment |
Sinister Geometry: The Didact has a glowing, orange Spheroid Dropship that is used for transportation and hacking on Requiem (revealed to be a "combat" Cryptum). | |
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Bookends | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The first and last episodes of Spartan Ops are called "Departure" and "Exodus." | |
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Flash Step | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_53c37297 | comment |
The Promethean Knights are the new additions to this installment, and are legitimately tough. They're only slightly more durable than a Covenant Elite, but have an assortment of special abilities (including spawning autosentries or Watchers and a couple different Flash Step attacks) and are armed with hardlight weapons. Even the basic Knights are able to survive a sticky grenade explosion on Normal difficulty or higher. | |
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| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_53c5f30e | type |
Happy Ending Override | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_53c5f30e | comment |
Happy Ending Override: The end of Halo 3 had the Elites and the UNSC finally defeat the Covenant and come to peace with each other; humanity was still somewhat bitter about the war crimes committed by the Elites, but ultimately, both sides are grateful for each other's help. Master Chief and Cortana may not have gotten a very happy ending but they still survived and were finally allowed to rest, rather than being unneeded in a time of peace. Halo 4 and related media shows that there is still fighting against various Covenant remnants (including several Elite-led ones) and that remnants of the Forerunners themselves are returning and have an old score to settle with humanity. | |
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The Dragon | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: The Covenant Remnant consider Jul 'Mdama to be this to the Didact, addressing him as the Didact's Hand in Spartan Ops. Considering the Didact's apparent demise, Jul's actions in Spartan Ops may be an example of Dragon Their Feet; as he's more or less the BigBad of Spartan Ops, he's also an example of Dragon-in-Chief. 'Mdama himself has his own Dragon, Gek, who can be told apart by his lack of helmet. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: For most of Spartan Ops, Spartan Palmer isn't shown in much action besides some brief firefights on Infinity. Episode 9 shows her finally donning her helmet (revealing it as the Scout helmet) and going out into the field commando style. | |
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Nostalgia Level | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_56b5a6b7 | comment |
Nostalgia Level: "Ragnarok" is a remake of "Valhalla" from Halo 3, while "Pitfall" is a remake of "The Pit" from the same game. | |
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| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_56f6d892 | type |
Injured Player Character Stage | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_56f6d892 | comment |
Injured Player Character Stage: There's a part at the very end where the Chief is too injured to stand and must crawl toward the objective. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: The Didact dismisses the Elites bowing to him on his awakening as "beasts" and "primitives", and comes to the conclusion that humans are not worthy of the Mantle yet simply because we haven't enslaved them yet. | |
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Charged Attack | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_589e54d3 | comment |
Additionally, there's the Forerunners' standard-issue sidearm, the Boltshot. While its normal fire mode acts as a fast, headshot-capable but otherwise not very powerful semi-auto pistol, it's also capable of a Charged Attack wherein one can hold down the trigger to charge up and fire off a powerful short-range blast that, while not quite as strong as a full Shotgun, has a slightly longer effective range. Hence it is very commonly used as a secondary close-combat weapon in multiplayer, where it is capable of one-hit-kills. | |
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| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5973f24f | type |
Unplanned Manual Detonation | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5973f24f | comment |
Unplanned Manual Detonation: You could make a drinking game out of the number of times this happens to Chief. In fact... | |
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| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032 | type |
The Un-Reveal | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032 | comment |
The Unreveal: As per tradition, in the end Master Chief gets his armor removed, and just as his helmet is taken off the scene goes black. But the Legendary ending glimpses the area around his eyes. | |
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Meaningful Background Event | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5b565147 | comment |
Meaningful Background Event: While Halsey talks with Jul 'Mdama in the Episode 7 intro, Roland does the same splitting Cortana did in the last level of the campaign to regain control of himself. | |
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| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5b9925f7 | type |
Curiosity Killed the Cast | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5b9925f7 | comment |
Curiosity Killed the Cast: The Forerunner artifact Crimson brings aboard the Infinity for research purposes ends up causing a ton of headaches for the good guys: Glassman messing with the artifact in Episode 2 of Spartan Ops causes it to teleport him straight into the Covenant remnant's main base. Something similar later happens to Thorne, who gets teleported right into the middle of a squad of Elites who end up capturing him. The artifact also regularly interferes with the Infinity's systems, and is later responsible for teleporting an army of Prometheans and Covenant straight into the ship. Finally, [Jul 'Mdama uses the artifact to forcibly anchor the Infinity to Requiem... right as he's sending the latter into the nearest sun. | |
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Disney Villain Death | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: An Elite wrestled with in the first level is thrown by the Chief down an elevator shaft. The Didact gets pushed off his light bridge by the Chief's grenade, causing him to fall into a slipspace portal. | |
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Sealed Badass in a Can | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5cb5fe11 | comment |
Sealed Badass in a Can: How the Master Chief starts the game, similar to his first appearance. | |
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Suddenly Shouting | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5ce2c9c6 | comment |
Suddenly Shouting: Due to her rampancy, Cortana occasionally dips into this. However, she's aware of it, and apologizes when she does so. Captain Del Rio also goes into this after the Chief finally loses patience with him: | |
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Super Prototype | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_5e782d0c | comment |
Super Prototype: In Spartan Ops, the Spartan-IIs are regarded as this compared to the Spartan-IVs. The IIs may be several decades older in comparison to the more recent, better-equipped, and more mass-produced IVs, but it's fairly clear that the average S-IV is significantly less badass when compared to the sheer skill and power of the Master Chief - and if Fireteam Majestic is anything to go by, a lot less disciplined. The creator of the IIs, Dr. Halsey, has nothing but contempt for the newer inductees, seeing them as buffoons who aren't really Spartans: That said, Fireteam Crimson, the player characters in Spartan Ops, are silent, stoic types reminiscent of the Master Chief from the previous games, and also known to be among the most competent of the IVs. Also, in a conversation with Thorne, Halsey expressed mild approval of his level-headed nature, even suggesting that some Spartan IVs are closer to her original vision than others. | |
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Shoot the Hostage | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_608bf5a0 | comment |
Shoot the Hostage: Jul 'Mdama holds Halsey as a human shield. Unfortunately, he doesn't know that Palmer is trying to kill Halsey. Luckily, Jul calls for his Knight bodyguards and Palmer only manages to wound Halsey. | |
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| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_60ea2a89 | type |
Starter Villain | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_60ea2a89 | comment |
Starter Villain: Parg Vol, being the first major Covenant Remnant leader faced by Crimson. | |
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Sacrificial Lamb | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_61996785 | comment |
Sacrificial Lamb: Castle Squad. | |
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We Have Reserves | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_61c683d2 | comment |
We Have Reserves: Though Prometheans attack the player by the hundreds in-game, in-story they're implied to be dwindling in numbers. As such, Knights are one of the less common enemies in the game, outnumbered heavily by the throwaway Crawler bots and various Covenant units, and Watchers prioritize the protection of Knights via Hardlight shields or resurrection whenever they can, making the already-very-powerful units harder to keep down and leading to inevitable cases of Shoot the Medic First. The reason why is explained in the Terminals. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: The Terminals are about the Didact's fall into evil. | |
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Sequel Hook | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | comment |
Sequel Hook: Chief's meeting with the Librarian is full of subtle sequel hooks; namely, the "plan" (presumably for the Precursors' test). Also, whatever the mutation did to Chief, besides giving him immunity to the Composer. The Didact's speech in the epilogue, which indicates that he may have survived his defeat, and is now attempting to convince a surviving population of Forerunners living beyond the confines of the galaxy to prevent humanity from becoming strong enough to take possession of the Mantle. If nothing else, Silentium confirms that a number of Forerunners did survive the activation of the Halos. Word Of God later claimed that said speech was recorded before the firing of the Halos; however, this creates a plothole because the Didact's speech subtly references events from the game such as humanity's experiments with the Composer. Either way, the speech can fit either the past or future. Even later, Halo: Escalation revealed that the Didact did indeed survive the events of Halo 4.invoked | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_62f9d08e | comment |
Freeze-Frame Bonus: Pause on the Spartan trainee shown in the first cutscene. On his shirt, one can make out the name "John". | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: Cortana. When Chief himself tries to do this (by manually setting off a nuke on board the Didact's ship with no way, or intention, of escaping the ship himself), Cortana uses her last bit of energy to protect him in a hard light shell. | |
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Fighting from the Inside | |
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Fighting from the Inside: In Episode 7, Roland gets put under Halsey's control. However, the override doesn't last long before he starts to fight it, and eventually he manages to regain control. | |
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Villain Override | |
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Villain Override: Halsey activates a hidden trapdoor phrase in Roland that puts him and the Infinity's systems under her command. | |
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Invisibility Cloak | |
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The way that the Forerunner Vision activates when Cortana turns it on in the gameplay trailer to see invisible Forerunner constructs is very similar to the multi-vision modes from Predator in look and the visual of activation. | |
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Expecting Someone Taller | |
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Expecting Someone Taller: Commander Palmer says as much about John-117 upon meeting him for the first time. Even though he's canonically about an inch taller than her!note The degree to which Chief's taller than Palmer in the game itself tends to vary; a few cutscenes show him being at least a foot taller than her. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: The interrogator questioning Dr. Halsey raises many valid points in his criticism of her rose-colored justifications of the Spartan-II project, especially considering it was originally designed to crush human resistance. As Chief's interactions with Captain Del Rio aptly demonstrate, if you create a group of superhumans and they suddenly decide they don't want to follow your orders anymore, there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. However, it's later implied his objections to the Spartan-IIs aren't due to caution about the dangers of transhumanism, but rather fishing for political ammo to smear the Spartan-IIs in order to boost support for the Spartan-IV program. | |
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The Reveal | |
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The Reveal: Humans are thought by the Foreunners to be Scary Dogmatic Aliens. The truth is that they were destroying planets not to colonize or for xenocide, but because the Flood had spread to those planets and was risking escape. | |
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Painfully Slow Projectile | |
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Painfully Slow Projectile: The Scorpion's main cannon now fires these, making anti-air play more difficult as you have to account for the projectile's arc and lead your target. It's still faster than the shots fired by the Rocket Launcher, though. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: Knight Lancers, distinguishable from other Knights by the large white fins on their carapace. When they've taken enough damage from ranged weaponry, they'll quit the Lightrifle fire, do a quick preparatory animation and... lance at you at tremendous speed with their blade-arms, leaving a Motion Blur behind them and, depending on the difficulty, either taking out your shields or killing you outright if the attack connects. After that there is a short period where they are vulnerable to Counter-Attack, before they teleport out and recharge their shields. Also, the first and last campaign missions: "Dawn" and "Midnight" respectively. While the first is ostensibly named for the ship Forward Unto Dawn on which the campaign starts, the campaign can also be seen as a single day in the life of the Master Chief. | |
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Hard Light | |
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There's also the aforementioned new Forerunner Lightrifle. Belonging to the same family as the DMR, Battle Rifle (BR), and Covenant Carbine, it's the Forerunner equivalent to the human DMR; a semi-automatic rifle with a 3x zoom scope. It has a fairly large clip size, is very accurate, and has two firing modes; a 3-round burst of miniature Hard Light bullets when firing unscoped, or a single three-in-one hardlight bolt when scoped in. It packs a solid punch, with its bursts being weaker but denser than the BR's bursts, and its single-shots being stronger but slower to fire than DMR or Carbine shots. It retains its versatility and usefulness even on Legendary in the campaign and in Forerunner-focused Spartan Ops missions, where ammo for it is plentiful thanks to it being the standard weapon of Promethean Knights and widely available at Forerunner ammo caches. In multiplayer, the weaker aim assistance, close-range inferiority, and higher visibility of the Lightrifle as compared to the DMR make it relatively uncommon despite its superior long-range damage. | |
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Nominal Importance | |
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By the second half of Spartan Ops, cutscene power is a fairly clear factor of Nominal Importance. Named characters like Thorne, Palmer and Lasky are able to cut down opponents with weapons that normally would not be so effective, whereas nameless Marines with Assault Rifles are still just as weak as you'd expect them to be. | |
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Cosmetic Award | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709 | comment |
Cosmetic Award: Similar to Reach, but much more expanded. They don't have the same helmet variations (such as adding a visor or breathing apparatus), but there are dozens of new and old armor pieces and helmets, many new visor colors (and variations, such as matte or reflective), and lastly armor and weapon skins. All of which are unlocked either by straight Spartan Rank or by special achievements like the Mastering the Assistant Commendation (1500+ assist medals). | |
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Base on Wheels | |
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Base on Wheels: The UNSC Mammoth, which is both larger and faster than the Elephant from Halo 3, carries more vehicles and ordinance, and is equipped with a railgun/mini-MAC (both terms are used interchangeably) for line-of-sight artillery strikes. The MAC merits some notice - according to its weapon specs, it is capable of hitting targets in planetary orbit. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "The Mantle", sometimes "the Mantle of Responsibility". A drinking game could be made out of it. | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_7570a10c | comment |
Bond Villain Stupidity: Twice, the Didact decides to telekinetically lift the Chief and monologue to him rather than killing him outright. The second time, all he had to do was shut off the hardlight bridge and let the Chief fall. He also doesn't bother carrying any weapons. | |
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Rocketless Reentry | |
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Rocketless Reentry: Master Chief makes one more drop from orbit after his ship falls apart before he can reach the escape pods. Fortunately this time he has small thrusters on his suit he can use to slow his fall a bit. | |
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Action Prologue | |
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Action Prologue: "Dawn" functions as this. Not only is it noticeably shorter than the rest of the game's levels, but the game's Title Card is placed after it. | |
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From Bad to Worse | |
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Cortana gives one to Del Rio when the latter belittles what her and Chief had learned from the Librarian's memories. Then she has a brief rampant incident. | |
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Hearing Voices | |
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Hearing Voices: After the Librarian activates her "gift" in the Master Chief, he begins to hear the Didact's voice in his head. He asks Cortana where this is coming from, but she has no idea what he is talking about. | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Sending a Forerunner Shield World into a star doesn't produce a very subtle reaction. | |
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Animation Bump | |
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Animation Bump: Previous games always rendered cutscenes using the game engine itself, which has always been cutting edge in power and quality, but there are specific cutscenes that are clearly made from a dedicated animation software. | |
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Bullying a Dragon | |
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Bullying a Dragon: Captain Del Rio gets into a disagreement with Master Chief regarding the danger of the Didact and Cortana's oncoming rampancy. Eventually, he orders Cortana confiscated. Master Chief's stern "No, sir" in response prompts Del Rio to order ship security to arrest him — the silent, unmoving response of the entire command deck makes it clear that no one wants to even try. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Osman orders the assassination of Dr. Halsey for her supposed Face–Heel Turn. Palmer's attempt to carry it out caused her doctor to pull an actual Face–Heel Turn. The fact that this happened immediately after she passed the Janus Key to Thorne (the whole reason she had been conversing with Mdama was to obtain it for the UNSC [or possibly herself, it's unclear]), and forced her arm to be later amputated by her Elite captors likely didn't help matters. | |
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Airstrike Impossible | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_7fc8cf2c | comment |
Airstrike Impossible: The final level opens with one of these. Master Chief, piloting a Broadsword fighter, must dart close enough to the Didact's ship to remain within the protection of its shields as it traverses through slipspace, dashing closely past shifting geometry and point defense fire. In co-op mode, anyone crashing into the wall will make the other players' screens shake with the force of the impact, making it much more likely for a series of crashes to follow soon after. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_7febc23b | comment |
In Mission 3, Master Chief gets tackled by a Forerunner Promethean Knight and he punches it in the face, all shown through first person. This is nearly identical to one of the defining early moments of Noble Six in Halo: Reach, a Spartan suggested to be very similar to Master Chief in that regard. The only difference is that the Chief manages to throw off the assailant on his own (the Knight then rather politely teleports away to be faced later in a straight-up gunfight). | |
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Super-Soldier | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_80b57bec | comment |
The Didact is a Super Soldier by Forerunner standards, being from a caste dedicated to the role. | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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The Broadsword sequence is clearly inspired by the trench run on the Death Star in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Like Luke Skywalker, John-117 must pilot a one-man fighter through a system of narrow chasms, (dodging point-defense fire along the way), to destroy a superweapon. He cannot travel above the surface of the trench because the Broadsword cannot survive in slipspace, much as Luke must stay below the minimum angle of the Death Star's surface guns. Both protagonists receive timely assistance from allied ships, clearing a path to their objectives, which allows them to destroy their respective targets. Both John and Skywalker are greeted by honor guards after rendezvousing with their peers. | |
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Compensating for Something | |
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Compensating for Something: Cortana's assessment of the Mammoth. | |
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BFG | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_8344209e | comment |
BFG: Alongside the old standbys (Spartan Laser, Rocket Launcher, Fuel Rod Gun), we get two new examples. A man-portable Railgun is available on the UNSC side of things, and the Forerunners have the Incineration Cannon, the unholy fusion of a rocket launcher, flamethrower, and shotgun. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
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A new armor ability is the Hardlight Shield, a large square sheet of hard light that you can pull up to protect your front, granting immunity to all weapons save for vehicular splattering, at the expense of speed and the ability to shoot. The idea of the player getting to use this (though with a Jackal shield) has been toyed with since Halo 2. | |
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Ambiguously Evil | |
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Ambiguously Evil: The Master Builder Faber, who shares the leadership of the Forerunners with the Didact and the Librarian. In the books, he's a more dangerous foe, but here he has a smaller role and thus is limited to just sounding evil and agreeing with everyone's decisions. | |
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Portal Network | |
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Portal Network: This is the big reveal of Episode 4, which shows how Jul 'Mdama is using Requiem's network to stay just out of the reach of UNSC forces and gain the advantage in confrontations. | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: What exactly did happen to Science Team Gargarin? | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: Palmer has this to say regarding the Covenant on Requiem: | |
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Badass Decay | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_86c9b9b9 | comment |
On the other hand, the Covenant Elites are... not so elite this time, having suffered a Badass Decay wherein they are now both more numerous and, with the exceptions of the Zealots and gold-armored Warriors (who actually are elite among the Elites), relatively easy to kill (similar to Halo 2 and Halo 3, without their shields they're no tougher than a Grunt or Jackal, and they don't even have the resistance to plasma weapons they had in all previous games). | |
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Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_88472ef3 | comment |
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: The Covenant remnant, who are completely adrift now that the Great Journey has been proven to be a lie. This is emphasized by the message they've been broadcasting to Requiem for the past three years, which is just an Elite crying out "Didact! Didact!" in a sad, lost, and desperate voice. | |
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Hitscan | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_88b58b0b | comment |
Hitscan: All precision rifles and sniper rifles of all factions are hitscan, as are the human Assault Rifle and Magnum. The human Spartan Laser also has a hitscan damage-over-time property, as it had in its previous appearances. Covenant plasma weapons are still projectiles, as are all non-precision Forerunner weapons. | |
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Audience Surrogate | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_8ace85ef | comment |
Audience Surrogate: Gabriel Thorne isn't a playable character but in the cinematic episodes he is clearly meant to be the most sympathetic individual learning the magnitude of what the cast is getting involved with. This is in contrast to DeMarco's huge ego and Palmer's Seen It All demeanor. | |
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Your Size May Vary | |
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Your Size May Vary: Depending on the cutscene, the Chief's size relative to other characters varies. In most cutscenes, he's a quite a fair bit taller than any other human, but in the intro and ending, he's gigantic compared to the Spartan-IVs and especially the ordinary humans (compare the intro scene where the technicians surrounding him to the one where Del Rio and him are arguing). Palmer also displays this: In the ending the Chief is towering over her and she doesn't look much larger than ordinary humans, but in the first cutscene set on the bridge of the Infinity she's far closer to the Chief's height and obviously a lot bigger than Del Rio and Lasky. Chief also looks quite a bit smaller without his armor than would be expected. The current version of the armor appears to be a lot thicker than previous incarnations, but even considering that, the armor itself doesn't appear to actually take up any more space with John inside it than older versions. Elites in Halo 4 are huge compared to previous games, being nearly twice the size of a human and a good two or three heads taller than Master Chief. Elites in Halo 4 are even larger compared to Master Chief than the Elites in Halo: Reach were compared to Noble-6, bear in mind Noble-6 is a Spartan-III and somewhat smaller than Chief. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: Episode 5, "Memento Mori": Halsey is arrested for subterfuge. Jul 'Mdama is revealed to be The Chessmaster. The Promethean Knights on Requiem are revealed to have been made from the murdered of New Phoenix. Gabriel Thorne is teleported to enemy territory without any weapons. Dr. Glassman manages to partially activate the shrine of the Librarian. Also, Episodes 7 to 10, finishing off Spartan Ops in dramatic procession and introducing a potential game-changer to the entire 'verse in the Janus Key. | |
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Self-Serving Memory | |
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Self-Serving Memory/Unreliable Narrator: The first cutscene is full of inconsistencies from how events actually occurred in the canon. | |
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Cliff Hanger | |
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Cliffhanger: 343 Industries shows surprising restraint by averting this, despite the fact they were already planning on making a 5th and 6th game before 4 had even come out. The Didact is dealt with definitively, Cortana and Chief say their final goodbyes before she is seemingly Killed Off for Real, and no loose plot threads are left obviously unaddressed. However, see the entry for Sequel Hook below. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: You can dish this out beautifully in the "Composer" mission. When you get to the air lock areas that often has an automated voice announce the "Exterior/Interior Airlock" activations, usually one can't do this for the first encountered area with the first set of airlocks due to the sheer amount of foes gathered there upon arrival, but in the second one you can. Once the Covvies enter from an exterior airlock, you can immediately vent them right back out, thus easily getting rid of the pests. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
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Apocalypse How: Although Didact is prevented from killing every human on Earth, he still manages to kill the entire population of New Phoenix. It's still quarantined six months later when Spartan Ops starts. | |
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Precursors | |
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Precursors: The Forerunners are upfront and center in this game. Abusive Precursors: The Didact, one of the Forerunner's highest military leaders, is the game's villain. In ancient times, he defeated humanity's fleet, viewing them as a invasive race. To keep them down, he forcibly devolved their species, and later harvested their bodies to build mechanical Prometheans. Soon after being awakened, he resumed these plans upon finding humans are once again a space-faring race. Benevolent Precursors: However, the Didact's wife, the Librarian, viewed humans as worthy to take the Forerunners' place once the latter were gone. In constrast to her husband, she planted gei to direct humanity's evolution, and has some saved for later with many hidden functions. | |
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Cutscene Boss | |
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Cutscene Boss: The Didact's abuse of a constraint field makes him impossible for the Chief to take him on in a straight fight, even after being augmented by the Librarian. The game doesn't even let you try. You end up just watching Cortana immobilize him before you yourself plant a grenade in his chest in a quick time event. | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness | |
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You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Halsey calls out her interrogator on this in the prologue, regarding him berating her for the Spartan-II program after it's already saved humanity. She also deduces that this is why he's questioning John's emotional capacity: so that he can justify the Spartan-IV program as "better" with the assumption that "the Master Chief is dead". | |
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Artificial Stupidity | |
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Artificial Stupidity: Vehicle gunners are pretty good about avoiding firing powerful area-of-effect weapons if friendly units or vehicles are near their targets, preventing collateral damage. However, they are not quite smart enough to know when this does not apply. For example, a Covenant Wraith tank will avoid firing plasma artillery at the player if the player is next to an empty Covenant hovering sniper-perch (since it counts as a friendly), while still lining itself up like it's going to make a shot on the player. The player may then fire through the gap between the raised perch and its base without the Wraith firing back or even moving out of the way. On a related note, allied vehicle drivers are as terrible as ever. | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory! | |
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Damn You, Muscle Memory!: The addition of sprinting has led to another button shuffle; the default controls are now virtually identical to Call of Duty's. Sprinting pushed crouching to the B button, which pushed grenade switching to the D-pad. Prepare to teabag the ground while you try to equip a sticky. Being shot no longer takes you out of zoom. So basically if you never bothered to scope in when taking fire before, you're at a huge disadvantage. | |
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Badass Bystander | |
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Badass Bystander: When the Covenant launch a full-scale attack on Ivanov station, most of the archeologists aboard grab pistols and do their best to defend the place. Several of them can be found in a room fighting a pair of Hunters, and actually managing to not die instantly. | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene | |
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The game often punctuates its firefights with moments between the Chief and Cortana. | |
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Shotguns Are Just Better | |
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Shotguns Are Just Better: Even the Forerunners grasped this, hence the Scattershot weapon (a short-range but highly effective energy spray that reloads round-by-round like a break-open shotgun). | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Jul 'Mdama. | |
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The Day the Music Lied | |
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The Day the Music Lied: Episode 5 Chapter 5. Fireteam Crimson has just defeated hordes of Covenant and is finally getting evac. "To Galaxy" starts playing and it looks like the end of another successful mission. Then the evac Pelican is shot down out of nowhere. The music cuts out, and looming out of the sky, comes a Covenant cruiser, several Phantoms, and flights of Banshees. What happens next... is not shown, and you obtain a completion achievement by the name of "Dedicated To Crimson". | |
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Crippling Overspecialization | |
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Crippling Overspecialization: The new Railgun. Classified as an anti-infantry weapon, it really is... just that. It's powerful enough to tear through the toughest of infantry, cutting down Knights and Elites, but does underwhelming damage to light vehicles and practically nothing to tanks. You also never fight Hunters in the couple of levels where you have access to it, which are just about the only infantry-level threats that would justify that level of firepower over a sniper rifle or beam rifle. | |
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Difficult, but Awesome | |
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Difficult, but Awesome: The Thruster Pack, which might seem like a useless short speed burst at first, vastly inferior to the other armor abilities... until you realize that it amplifies any movement in any direction, allowing speed-strafes, rapid retreats, accelerated falling, elaborate combinations involving jumps, man-cannons and gravity lifts, and basically whatever creative movement you can think of, with a fairly short recharge time as well. The Forerunner Lightrifle, which has the fastest kills of any precision rifle once you realize that its scope gives it a damage boost when activated, especially once you get used to using its orange-tinted 3x scope. The rifle functions as a combat rifle when fired from the hip and shoots a controlled burst of three small shots, but when zoomed, the indicator shows the columns of three bullets turn in a solid one bullet column, making it double as a sniper rifle. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
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Took a Level in Badass: Fireteam Majestic eventually prove themselves as being one of the better Spartan fireteams, although still not as efficient as Crimson. | |
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Evil Costume Switch | |
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Evil Costume Switch: Happens to the Didact: Compare this◊ with this◊. | |
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Hand Cannon | |
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Hand Cannon: While the pistols of Halo are well known for being more effective than the Assault Rifles, this game features the "M363 Remote Projectile Detonator", also known as the Sticky Detonator. This muzzle-loaded handgun fires a surprisingly powerful explosive charge that can be remotely detonated by the wielder, with the proximity of friendlies and hostiles to the bomb helpfully indicated by way of a built-in motion tracker. While sticking and blowing up enemies directly is one way to use it, it also facilitates clever traps, and packs enough punch to be a threat to heavy targets like Hunters or vehicles. In many ways, it is less of a traditional handgun and more of a compact Grenade Launcher. Additionally, there's the Forerunners' standard-issue sidearm, the Boltshot. While its normal fire mode acts as a fast, headshot-capable but otherwise not very powerful semi-auto pistol, it's also capable of a Charged Attack wherein one can hold down the trigger to charge up and fire off a powerful short-range blast that, while not quite as strong as a full Shotgun, has a slightly longer effective range. Hence it is very commonly used as a secondary close-combat weapon in multiplayer, where it is capable of one-hit-kills. And finally, the good ol' UNSC Magnum is once again quite powerful and usable at any range, but with a trade-off between rate of fire and precision due to its reticule bloom. Similar to Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo: Reach, the humble plasma pistol has been upgraded from the peashooter it was in Halo 2 and Halo 3 to a weapon that almost matches the magnum in stopping power. It can take out an Elite's shields in just a handful of shots and, thanks to the 4's Elites losing their previous resistance against plasma weaponry, can kill an unshielded Elite with just a few shots. The only drawback is the battery is significantly smaller than in any of the previous games. Thankfully, it's still a peashooter when Grunts and Jackals are using it against you. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: The short piano riff from the beginning of "This is the Hour" on the Halo 3 soundtrack (AKA the theme from the first Halo 3 trailer) returns at the end of Halo 4's main theme missing half of its notes, foreshadowing the death of Cortana. In the Prologue, Halsey tells her interrogator that her Spartans are humanity's "next step as a species." When Chief meets the Librarian, she "accelerates his evolutionary journey", literally turning him into humanity's next step. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: The Didact takes two shots to the chest from a binary rifle - a sniper rifle capable of killing a fully shielded Spartan in one hit - and is only stunned. He is even unarmored when he was shot! It might have been on some sort of stun mode, but it still took two shots to take him down. | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy | |
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Barbie Doll Anatomy: Cortana, as usual, but this time even more noticeable, given her . . . ahem . . . remodeling. | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Admiral Serin Osman, the head of ONI, is the same Osman introduced in the Kilo-Five books. | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: Lasky's response to seeing the entirety of the remaining Covenant fleet escaping to slipspace. He's right, since moments later Requiem starts moving on a collision course to its sun, which nearly takes Infinity with it. | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: After "Reclaimer", when Del Rio dismisses Cortana and John-117's warnings, Cortana snaps at him: Shortly after, Del Rio has his own when the Chief refuses to surrender Cortana: | |
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One-Man Army | |
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One-Man Army: Canonically, Crimson is made up of multiple Spartans. You can forego this, and play solo. Depending on player skill and difficulty level, naturally. | |
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Elite Mooks | |
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Elite Mooks: The Promethean Knights are the new additions to this installment, and are legitimately tough. They're only slightly more durable than a Covenant Elite, but have an assortment of special abilities (including spawning autosentries or Watchers and a couple different Flash Step attacks) and are armed with hardlight weapons. Even the basic Knights are able to survive a sticky grenade explosion on Normal difficulty or higher. On the other hand, the Covenant Elites are... not so elite this time, having suffered a Badass Decay wherein they are now both more numerous and, with the exceptions of the Zealots and gold-armored Warriors (who actually are elite among the Elites), relatively easy to kill (similar to Halo 2 and Halo 3, without their shields they're no tougher than a Grunt or Jackal, and they don't even have the resistance to plasma weapons they had in all previous games). In fact there are only 5 different variants of Elites in Halo 4; Storm Elites are similar to the blue Elite Minors from previous games, only they have the ability to throw grenades and occasionally use energy swords. Elite Commanders, the equivalent of Elite Majors/Elite Officers, aren't much tougher than Storm Elites, but often carry heavier weapons like concussion rifles and occasionally will pull out an energy sword when angered. Elite Rangers show up in space combat and tend to use precision weapons. Gold-armored Elite Warriors are slightly tougher than Commanders, and in addition to standard Elite weapons will occasionally use fuel rod cannons. Zealots are the toughest Elites in Halo 4, with slightly stronger shields and about twice as much health as Storm Elites (they can just barely survive a sticky grenade, even on Normal difficulty), as well as using cloaking devices and sometimes energy swords. On the UNSC side of things, AI-controlled Spartan-IV NPCs make occasional appearances, and are basically Marines that are a little smarter and, thanks to regenerating energy shielding, a fair bit tougher; their shields are in fact exactly as tough as those of the player. | |
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Competitive Balance | |
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Competitive Balance: The Loadouts mechanism helps mitigate the advantage of map-experienced players who rush to pick up weapons on popular maps, to an extent, but it remains balanced by being limited to a set of all-purpose general weapons: an automatic primary rifle, a precision primary rifle, a sidearm, and a grenade from each faction being the choices, along with a set of armor abilities and armor modifications. Any heavier equipment still needs to be found on-map or called down via ordnance drops, which also give the player some choice, and require them to earn their power-ups, albeit in a different way. There was a lot of pressure to start including a progressive level system similar to the Call of Duty franchise, but at the same time the primary concern was the potential of having god-like experienced players dominate the more casual players because the former have all the in-game perks, natural bonuses and weapon options. The solution to reconcile the problem was multi-fold: all bonuses are passive rather than aggressive, any damage or shield bonuses come in random ordinance drops, some gametypes offer universal loadouts instead of personal loadouts and the primary armor abilities are easy to unlock (with support upgrades not as vital to performance). | |
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Leitmotif | |
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Leitmotif: The Didact and his Prometheans have a noticeable leitmotif, "Revival", built around ominous but wordless chanting and an alarming central riff. The UNSC Infinity also has a recurring theme, "To Galaxy", a sweeping heroic piece heard in the introduction to the game's multiplayer mode (which takes place on board it), the menu background music, and the trailer for Spartan Ops. And then there's the track entitled "117". | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The subtitle for Episode 5 Chapter 2 is "Nothing Can Go Wrong". The subtitle for the chapter immediately afterward is "Everything Has Gone Wrong". | |
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Time for Plan B | |
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Time for Plan B: In the final level, after the Broadsword the Chief is piloting crashes. | |
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Disintegrator Ray | |
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Disintegrator Ray: Many of the Hard Light Forerunner weapons have the quality of disintegrating their targets, such as the Binary Rifle, Incineration Cannon, and the Pulse Grenades, though the last two are not necessarily "rays". Given that prior to the activation of the Halo Array the Forerunner were battling the Flood, this was probably an intentional effect to make sure no organic mass was left behind for the Flood to infect. This is also the manner of function used by the Composer, reducing organic bodies to a pile of ash while doing a Brain Upload for later Unwilling Roboticisation. | |
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Doppelgänger Spin | |
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Doppelgänger Spin: The Hologram makes its return from Reach mostly unchanged, but now with the added trait that, if it runs forward on to an enemy corpse, it will begin to tea-bag it, making it even more distracting (and perhaps more realistic) than the previous version. | |
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Orange/Blue Contrast | |
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Orange/Blue Contrast: Forerunner constructs under control of the Librarian have blue Tron Lines, such as the Sentinels and the Prometheans when they first appear. After the Didact gains control of the Prometheans, their Tron Lines turn orange. In "Midnight" and some Spartan Ops missions, there are friendly Focus Turrets under control of Cortana and the Librarian, respectively. These Focus Turrets have blue Tron Lines and fire blue beams. | |
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No-Sell | |
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No-Sell: The Promethean Watchers can catch and throw grenades back at you if you don't either kill them first or shoot the grenades to detonate them early. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: In a gameplay sense: The opening level has a sequence of the Chief climbing and crawling in first person. This mechanic doesn't come back up again until the final level, where the Chief is injured and hanging off the edge of a light bridge, forcing him to climb up and attack the Didact. | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain | |
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Gek activates Glassman's explosive harness to keep him from escaping. However, Thorne simply tears the harness off Glassman and tosses it towards the Elites pursuing them, killing all the Covenant and allowing himself and Glassman to escape. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
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Oh, Crap!: Cortana's reaction when she comes back to her senses after her Punctuated! For! Emphasis! moment. | |
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Arc Villain | |
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Arc Villain: Episode 3 centers around tracking down an Elite named Parg Vol, who's a close associate of the Covenant Remnant's leader Jul 'Mdama. | |
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I Warned You | |
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The Pelican pilot leader in the "Reclaimer" mission is this to an absolute T. Despite Sarah Palmer's repeated warnings to lower their altitude due to being right in the firing path of one of the Forerunner Particle Cannons, he still continues to fly right into it along with the other group of Pelicans. No points for guessing what happens to them ignoring the aforementioned warnings. | |
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Artificial Gravity | |
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Given that the Forward Unto Dawn has been floating through space while cut in half for close to five years, it's impressive that any of its systems work, or that there's still power to run them. Granted, it's probable that Cortana turned off most of the functions not essential to her or the Chief's cryo-pod until the start of the game, as Artificial Gravity returns not long after Chief wakes up and the presence of frost on every surface suggests that life support systems and other heat-generating devices were disabled for the duration. Really, there wasn't much to corrode the ship in space to begin with. | |
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Face–Heel Turn | |
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Spartan Ops ends with Jul 'Mdama and his forces escaping Requiem with half of the Janus Key and Dr. Halsey, who seems to have made a Face–Heel Turn after realizing that the UNSC had ordered her death. On the other hand, the crew of the Infinity has the other half, without which Jul's half is uesless, and they also managed to escape Requiem. | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot | |
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The Prometheans Knights are essentially ancient undead human cyborg warriors created via Unwilling Roboticisation. As the Terminals reveal, the original batch were actual Forerunner Prometheans who volunteered to be Composed into Knights but lacked sufficient numbers, and as Spartan Ops reveals, some of the Knights fighting presently on Requiem were harvested only 6 months ago from modern humans, during the Didact's attack on New Phoenix. | |
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Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_b0194b51 | comment |
Standard Establishing Spaceship Shot: The Infinity gets several. In the multiplayer mode intro, it's seen flying over Earth with a fleet of escort cruisers and a small cloud of Pelicans, and in the intro to the first episode of Spartan Ops, it goes to slipspace from Earth, and upon arriving at Requiem, exits slipspace with shields already raised, rams straight through a Covenant RCS-class armored cruiser, and proceeds to immediately deploy ground and space forces to engage the rest of the Covenant forces in the area. Made even cooler by the fact that it's hot-launching warships like they were one-man fighters. | |
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Unique Enemy | |
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Unique Enemy: A single Crawler with a lightrifle can be found on the mission "Switchback". This may be a leftover from an enemy type that was not completely removed from the game, similar to the Needler Sentinel in the Halo 2 level "Quarantine Zone". | |
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Retcon | |
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Retcon: Despite 343's assurances to the contrary, Chief's new armor borders on this. Cortana only ever mentions updating the suit's firmware/OS at the beginning of the game, and the prologue depicts a bunch of Spartan-IIs wearing the exact same armor in a battle from earlier in the war. Eventually, the Essential Visual Guide brought it back full-circle by stating that Chief's new duds were actually based off an old Mark IV variant (presumably the armor we see in the prologue). The Forward Unto Dawn in this game◊ looks nothing like it did◊ in Halo 3. It's MUCH bigger, and the entire Halo 3 incarnation could probably fit inside the missile launch area. And while Halo 3 frigates were the smallest ships in the sky, just half of Halo 4's Dawn absolutely dwarfs the nearby Covenant cruisers!note That said, the Covenant cruisers in that segment were later stated to be CRS-class light cruisers, rather than the more commonly seen CCS-class battlecruisers. In fairness, this was done for gameplay reasons, with Word Of God stating that the original design is the canon one; the Halo 3 version wouldn't have been big enough to fill an entire level unless the developers wanted to add a lot of backtracking.invoked | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: The Pelican pilot leader in the "Reclaimer" mission is this to an absolute T. Despite Sarah Palmer's repeated warnings to lower their altitude due to being right in the firing path of one of the Forerunner Particle Cannons, he still continues to fly right into it along with the other group of Pelicans. No points for guessing what happens to them ignoring the aforementioned warnings. | |
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Ammo-Using Melee Weapon | |
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Ammo-Using Melee Weapon: The Energy Sword and Gravity Hammer, which have limited charges but cannot be reloaded. | |
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Archaeological Arms Race | |
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Archaeological Arms Race: Basically what the entire conflict on Requiem is all about. | |
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Ink-Suit Actor | |
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Ink-Suit Actor: Gabriel Thorne and Paul DeMarco of Fireteam Majestic are modeled after their voice actors: Ethan Peck and Travis Willingham, respectively. | |
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Tron Lines | |
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In "Midnight" and some Spartan Ops missions, there are friendly Focus Turrets under control of Cortana and the Librarian, respectively. These Focus Turrets have blue Tron Lines and fire blue beams. | |
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Came Back Wrong | |
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Came Back Wrong: The Composer was designed to digitize sentient lifeforms in order to escape the Flood. However, the process was flawed and the digitized consciousnesses turned into "abominations" when returned to physical form, with the Didact using the Composer to instead create his Promethean Knights. The Forerunners abandoned the device because of this, but the Didact decided it was still preferable to galactic mass suicide. | |
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Playable Epilogue | |
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Playable Epilogue: Spartan Ops takes place six months after the singleplayer campaign. It is, however, not quite an epilogue per se, as it focuses on a largely different cast doing their own thing seperate from the Chief's. | |
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Robot War | |
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Robot War: The main Forerunner enemies are advanced machines developed with the purpose of fighting the Flood, as their mechanical nature makes them largely immune to infection. | |
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Mission Control | |
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Mission Control: Spartan Miller is the one directing all of Crimson's ops, followed by Palmer as Chief of Spartan operations, with the ship's AI Roland stepping in a few times. | |
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Trophy Room | |
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Trophy Room: The Didact appears to have installed one on the Mantle's Approach, in which he appears to have placed examples of weaponry from the major players in the galactic scene at the moment: namely, Battle Rifles for humans, Covenant Carbines for Elites, and Gravity Hammers for Brutes (plus his own Forerunner stock). You pass through it just before the climax, conveniently allowing an opportunity to stock up on your preferred equipment before leaping into the fray. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: One of the ancient human soldiers fell to the Forerunners in that fashion. | |
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Hope Spot | |
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Hope Spot: A variant. Cortana and John mention several times about bringing her to Halsey as a way to cure her of her rampancy, or at least postpone it. However, Halsey never shows up in the campaign, as she remains in ONI custody for the entirety of the time between Halo: Glasslands and Spartan Ops, making the entire plan just a grasp at an impossible hope. That, and there's Cortana's line after Mission 7, where she says that a "new Cortana model" wouldn't be her, which indicates that she herself has lost hope in the plan. | |
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Gunship Rescue | |
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Gunship Rescue: Several, most notably in Episode 3, Chapter 4 where Infinity takes out a Covenant cruiser after you had to Hold the Line for a time, and the very next Chapter after that, where a flight of Broadswords eradicates a group of Phantoms closing on your position. | |
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Hologram Projection Imperfection | |
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Hologram Projection Imperfection: Played up with Cortana, who normally looks like her usual projected self, but when she is having a rampant episode, her outlines and color flicker unsteadily, representing her having trouble holding herself together. This also happens to the projection of Master Chief's Heads-Up Display when she is having an episode inside his armor. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The Chief battling through and defeating the crew of a Covenant Lich approaching Ivanoff Station. The screen cuts from him on the Lich's outer hull, to the final Elite hitting the floor as the Chief steps over his body. | |
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Mêlée à Trois | |
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Mêlée à Trois: Covenant and Prometheans can be found fighting each other early in the game, but this is much less pronounced than the original demo indicated, as the two forces both fall under the Didact's command after only a single level. | |
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Cliffhanger | |
| Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_c6b8d37a | comment |
Cliffhanger: Episode 5 ends with Spartan Thorne surrounded by sword-wielding Elites, Glassman activating the Librarian's "shrine", and Crimson Squad surrounded by Covenant with a cruiser hovering just above them. Episode 10: Requiem is destroyed, but half of the Janus Key and Halsey is in Jul 'Mdama's hands, and the now one-armed Halsey is not so forgiving toward the UNSC for trying to assassinate her. | |
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Mini-Mecha | |
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Mini-Mecha: The new UNSC Mantis is one of these, similar to the Cyclops exoskeleton of Halo Wars. It possesses missiles (reduced to dumbfire rockets in multiplayer for Competitive Balance reasons), a chain gun, and energy shields. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The Spartan-IVs getting their armor fitted on them is quite similar to how Tony Stark suits up as Iron Man. | |
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Cool Starship | |
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Cool Starship: The UNSC Infinity, being the highlight of this installment, and the setting for the entire multiplayer aspect of the game. Also the biggest and most powerful ship ever constructed by humanitynote For size comparison, the Infinity is over twice the size of the Pillar of Autumn or a Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyer, which are themselves about twice the size of a post-Star Trek: The Next Generation Federation starship, implementing all manner of Covenant and Forerunner technology reclaimed by the UNSC over the years. That said, its shields still glow golden just as Spartan shields do (instead of the blue/purple of Covenant and Forerunner shielding), and its armament is still centered around missiles and MAC weapons - albeit, very powerful, improved MACs and missiles that are capable of utterly tearing apart Covenant ships and forcing the Didact's Cryptum to flee even when the Infinity was grounded on Requiem. The Mantle's Approach counts as well. One of the fastest and most heavily armed ships in the Forerunner fleet, and thus at this point very likely the most lethal ship in the galaxy until Chief sets off a nuke inside it. 88 miles wide and 230 miles tall (as long as many U.S. states), with a re-configurable interior and exterior thanks to Hard Light, it's an impressive specimen to say the least. It was able to effortlessly blow through Earth's defensive grid and a good portion of humanity's entire space fleet. A defensive grid and space fleet that had been specifically upgraded to be superior to the Covenant's. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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Taking You with Me: In a very short, scripted moment early on in the campaign mission "Infinity", a Marine can be seen impaled through the heart by a Promethean Knight's hardlight blade and being held up in the air by the Knight. In his last breath, the Marine primes a frag, and shoves it into the Knight's face, blowing them both up, just as the Chief arrives. This Knight, incidentally, is the first one ever seen to drop a usable Promethean Vision module, and given the chronology of the event, probably enables the first ever human use of the technology (initially reverse-engineered by Cortana for use by the Chief, it's later co-opted by the Spartan-IV program as a loadout option). On a larger scale, this is basically the plan Chief and Cortana had to take out the Didact and the Composer, using a HAVOK nuke. Neither of them expected to survive and escape the Didact's ship after their fighter crashed, and while the Didact was supposedly killed by falling off the hardlight bridge, the nuke was the only way to stop the Composer from continuing its destruction of population centers on Earth, which it would have kept doing regardless of whether the Didact was alive or dead. | |
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The Chains of Commanding | |
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The Chains of Commanding: Lasky continually tries to weigh the responsibility of being CO of all UNSC operations on the Infinity and Requiem against a moral code more idealistic than most officers. | |
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Word of God | |
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Word Of God is that John's Mark VI suit looks different because Cortana upgraded the suit with nanomachines at some point. Yet despite completely remodeling the armor, the chest still has a gash on it from Halo 3, meaning she never actually repaired it despite the upgrades. That said, since the Chief's rebuilt armor isn't shown in full until the first cutscene of the second level (just after he survives a rather nasty crash), it presumably got damaged AGAIN in the interim. | |
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Redshirt Army | |
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On the UNSC side of things, AI-controlled Spartan-IV NPCs make occasional appearances, and are basically Marines that are a little smarter and, thanks to regenerating energy shielding, a fair bit tougher; their shields are in fact exactly as tough as those of the player. | |
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Nightmare Face | |
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Nightmare Face: The true face of the Promethean Knight, further punctuated by the fact that the Promethean Knights you're fighting were once human, digitized and spit out by the Composer. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: Chapter Five sees a massive difficulty spike, Palmer nowhere to be seen (leading to less humor and complimenting of the player), Halsey being arrested, Thorne getting teleported to Requiem while unarmed, the Covenant Remnant making serious progress to finding the Librarian, less weapon drops and power weapons found, the possibility of failing objectives (including failing to protect the lives of several civilian scientists, which you're called out for), and a massive cliffhanger where Crimson is surrounded by the Covenant. It's subtly implied that Palmer being Mission Control is what kept every mission from being like Chapter Five (Miller instead takes Palmer's place, and Roland takes Miller's). | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
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An Arm and a Leg: Halsey's left arm is amputated by the Covenant remnant, due to complications from her bullet wound. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Every single player mission has a one word title; this is the only Halo game with this distinction. | |
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Secondary Fire | |
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Secondary Fire: Some weapons of the Forerunners, such as the Lightrifle and the Boltshot, have two firing modes depending on how they are fired. In the case of the former, non-scope shooting is akin to a battle rifle, while scoped shooting is akin to a DMR. In the case of the latter, not holding down the firing button results in a regular pistol shot, while holding it down results in something similar to a Brute Mauler or slightly weaker shotgun blast. | |
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Developer's Foresight | |
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Developer's Foresight: At the very beginning of "Dawn", there is an interactive terminal which describes the status of the ship's various systems, the first one being confirmation that the weapon systems are online. Whether you interacted with this terminal will change a conversation later in this level: If you can get yourself to it on the level "Reclaimer", you can commandeer a Pelican. There are a few emplaced MAC batteries in the background of the level "The Composer", which add some visual flair as they fire at invading Covenant ships in the background. If you can escape the level confines, you can take manual control of them. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: Cortana gives one to Del Rio when the latter belittles what her and Chief had learned from the Librarian's memories. Then she has a brief rampant incident. John gives one to Cortana when she drops the turret placements holding the Didact's Cryptum in place in a rampant incident regarding "imprisonment". However, after one line, he seems to let it go, knowing she can't help it and is very upset about what happened. FLEETCOM does this to Del Rio off-screen when he returns to Earth without John-117, stripping him of his command of the Infinity. | |
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Does Not Like Shoes | |
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Does Not Like Shoes: Most Grunts, although a few have spacesuits on. This time around, their feet look more like those of a turtle, with four clawed toes instead of three claws and a stub for the heel projecting directly out of the foot. Averted with Jackals, who now have proper footwear. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Very subtly. Roland calls out Halsey for subterfuge, saying "what has keeping secrets ever done for you?", while keeping secret from her the news that John-117 is alive. Palmer's "Orders are orders" line loses a lot of its meaning knowing that she completely ignored Captain Del Rio's orders six months earlier. | |
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Elites Are More Glamorous | |
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Elites Are More Glamorous: Though the Infinity's mission on Requiem involves thousands of operatives from multiple UNSC branches, Spartan Ops (naturally) focuses largely on the exploits of the Spartans. | |
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Mooks, but no Bosses | |
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Mooks, but no Bosses: Not only does Halo 4 lack any boss fights, like most Halo games (with the exception of 2 and 5), but (other than the usual Hunters) also lacks any Boss in Mook's Clothing enemy types such as the Elite Zealots from Combat Evolved, the Elite Ultras from Halo 2, or the Elite Generals and Brute Chieftains from Halo 3 and Halo: Reach. The closest are Promethean Knights armed with Inferno Cannons and Elite Zealots and Elite Warriors, all of whom only require a few more bullets to kill than regular versions of their enemy type. | |
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The Chessmaster | |
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Episode 5, "Memento Mori": Halsey is arrested for subterfuge. Jul 'Mdama is revealed to be The Chessmaster. The Promethean Knights on Requiem are revealed to have been made from the murdered of New Phoenix. Gabriel Thorne is teleported to enemy territory without any weapons. Dr. Glassman manages to partially activate the shrine of the Librarian. | |
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Symbolically Broken Object | |
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Symbolically Broken Object: Master Chief and his rapidly-deteriorating AI Cortana work together to destroy the Big Bad's starship. They succeed in the end, but it takes the last of Cortana's strength to save Chief, even though he was adamant she'd be cured soon. As she vanishes, the starship is seen falling to pieces behind him, representative of his shattered worldview. | |
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Famed In-Story | |
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Famed in Story: Oh my, the Master Chief. Walk into a room with troops under fire and you can hear and see the relief that he's arrived. His reputation is so huge that Captain Del Rio is fired by High Command for not listening to the Chief and instead leaving him behind on Requiem. | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Apparently, after being dropped out of slipspace at random at the end of the last game, the rear half of Forward Unto Dawn was close enough to Requiem, and heading on the right trajectory, to drift there within just four years, meaning it had to have arrived in Requiem's star system to start withnote As Isaac Asimov pointed out, if you were to make a Blind Jump within the Milky Way, the odds would be 250 quadrillion to one against arriving within a billion miles of any star, let alone stumbling onto what would quickly prove to be possibly the most important star system in the galaxy.. Not only that, but it got close enough both to trip the planet's automated scanners and to trigger an alert among the Covenant fleet — prompting Cortana to wake the Chief up — within just a couple of hours of Infinity's arrival. Must be Chief's legendary luck striking again. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Commander Thomas Lasky sees first-hand how much of an incompetent Jerkass Captain Del Rio is, and decides to allow Master Chief to escape arrest, even giving him a fully-loaded Pelican to carry on his mission. He's later rewarded when Del Rio is relieved of his command by FLEETCOM, with Lasky himself becoming captain of the Infinity. | |
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Just Following Orders | |
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Just Following Orders: When Admiral Osman orders Lasky to kill Dr. Halsey after she's captured by the Covenant, he refuses to do so. However, Palmer decides to do it herself despite Lasky ordering her otherwise, telling him that "Orders are orders" and that she doesn't want to see him court-martialed over Halsey. Of course, Palmer also genuinely hates Halsey and wants to see her dead. | |
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Benevolent Precursors | |
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Benevolent Precursors: However, the Didact's wife, the Librarian, viewed humans as worthy to take the Forerunners' place once the latter were gone. In constrast to her husband, she planted gei to direct humanity's evolution, and has some saved for later with many hidden functions. | |
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Mid-Season Twist | |
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Mid-Season Twist: For the first six episodes of Spartan Ops, the Infinity is using the Spartan-IVs to try and learn more about Requiem, and trying to keep a step ahead of the Covenant. Business as usual. But when Episode 7 rolls around, things aboard get shaken up. Prometheans teleport aboard, and the Covies board the ship as well. Additionally, tensions with Halsey further peak, as she reveals herself to have hidden backdoors in Infinity's systems. | |
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Updated Re-release | |
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Updated Re-release: The update for the PC version of the game on The Master Chief Collection polishes the game's graphics, introduces several weapon skins for multiplayer that were previously Dummied Out, and includes the Terminals and Spartan Ops cutscenes in-game rather than requiring players to watch them on the Halo Channel. Forge mode was also given an update which increases the object budget, along with adding new items and features. The Season 7 update adds a new helmet option for customisation, the "Keystone" helmet, which is brand new and based on the default multiplayer helmet in Halo Infinite. The same update also ports the armor effects from Halo: Reach to this game. For the game's 10th anniversary, official modding tools, the addition of new Skulls, and Theatre mode for the Campaign and Spartan Ops were all added. | |
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Continuity Snarl | |
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Continuity Snarl: The Didact here initially seemed to be at odds with his characterization in the Halo 3 terminals and the first two The Forerunner Saga novels, but Halo: Silentium clarified that there were two Didacts, with the original one turning evil. | |
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Shoot the Medic First | |
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Shoot the Medic First: Helpfully, the Watchers already look like flying targets. Unfortunately, the two "targets" on each Watcher are just there for show. The real damage is done by hitting the irregularly shaped floaty thingy between the targets. | |
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Humans Are Special | |
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While the Librarian is explaining the Didact's interest in the Composer: "A device that will allow him to finally contain the greatest enemy ever faced by Forerunners... You". This is especially true if you haven't read the novels. | |
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Mile-Long Ship | |
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Mile-Long Ship: The UNSC Infinity is three and a half miles long. It has four full-size MACs, as well as 1100 missile pods and serves as the launching point for multiple Pelicans, Falcons, Mammoths, and frigates. The Mantle's Approach, the Didact's personal flagship, is 371.4 km tall. And 142.7 km long. | |
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Glitch Entity | |
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Glitch Entity: In "Switchback", you can discover a Promethian Crawler carrying a Lightrifle, a weapon it is very obviously not meant to carry. This was probably either an experimental idea that snuck into the final game (like the Needler Sentinel before it), or a regular Crawler that was assigned a Lightrifle by accident. | |
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Bash Brothers | |
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Bash Brothers: All Spartan Ops missions are intended to be played with multiple people, as the typical enemy composition is significantly higher than the campaign's. Episode cinematics also show glimpses of the same thing with Fireteam Majestic. In regular War Games it is also in your best interest to work with the rest of your team instead of trying to solo the enemy. In general, Halo 4's game mechanics somewhat reduce the criticality of individual shooting skills and places heavier value on tactical awareness and coordination, as compared to previous Halo games. | |
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Featureless Protagonist | |
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Featureless Protagonist: Fireteam Crimson is the title of the squad you are a part of during Spartan Ops, who are depicted as being silent and exceptionally efficient at their jobs. Because of the armor customization you can do for your own Spartan-IV, they don't appear in any cutscenes, unlike in Halo: Reach with Noble Six. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: While they were never exactly beautiful, the Covenant are somewhat more grotesque in 4 than they were in previous games. Compare the Halo 4 Jackal◊ to the Halo 3 Jackal◊, for example. Forerunner architecture is also different: compare the blocky, flat geometry of the Ark's◊ citadel◊ to the more detailed and flowing shapes on Requiem◊. In both those cases though, Word Of God is that that the "old" designs are still canon, with the newer ones representing different phenotypes and subspecies in the case of the Covenant, and divergent design philosophies between the different Forerunner castes in the case of Requiem's architecture. Both Master Chief and the frigate Forward Unto Dawn received radical redesigns, despite there being no in universe justification for them. For Forward Unto Dawn, the ship was already a small frigate cut in half at the end of Halo 3, so they enlarged it to be more suitable as the entire first level. For Master Chief and the Mjolnir armor, previous games were designed to create a seamless blend of hard armor and flex points, making him look like a walking tank. In this game it's clear he is wearing a bodysuit with hard armor strapped over it (with the final moments of the story showing the armor being removed), along with enlarged booster pods on his shoulders he looks both skinnier and more top heavy. Cortana always had an evolving appearance in previous games, but was fairly subtle with much of the changes explained simply through the increased graphical abilities produced by the game. In particular her holographic body always evoked at least a skintight suit if not nudity, as well as clearly being projected light that isn't really there. In this game her figure is more exaggerated and a few more organic touches such as having toes, and the holographic projection looks more tangible. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: The Storm Rifle, a replacement for the old Plasma Rifle. It basically functions the same, but shoots much faster and is less accurate as a result. | |
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Nerf | |
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Nerf: Human Marines are the weakest they've ever been in the series, being able to survive barely more damage than a Covenant Grunt. This is balanced out by the addition of Spartan-IV allies, who are slightly tougher than Elites. Elites themselves are noticeably less challenging than they were in Halo: Reach, being much less agile and maneuverable, with a reduced selection of weapons and fewer special units. Even their top-tier units, the cloaking, sword-wielding Zealots and gold-armored Warriors, only take a few more bullets to kill compared to regular Elites, while similar units in previous games could be 2 to 3 times more durable than regular Elites. This is explained by 4's Covenant being a rag-tag splinter faction with limited resources and a smaller and less experienced talent pool to draw from (though supplemental materials do state that their officers are mostly hardened veterans of the original Human-Covenant conflict; the Zealots at least are about on par with the Elites from Combat Evolved and Reach in terms of how much damage they can take). | |
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Percussive Maintenance | |
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Percussive Maintenance: In Episode 2, the artifact that Fireteam Crimson recovered at the end of the first episode activates aboard the Infinity, draining the ship's power, turning off the artificial gravity, and causing it to be caught in Requiem's gravity. Commander Palmer deactivates the artifact by simply kicking it. | |
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GameplayAndStoryIntegration | |
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Gameplay and Story Integration: This is the first entry in the Halo series that tries to justify the multiplayer component as taking place within the story continuity; both War Games and Spartan Ops. | |
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Press X to Not Die | |
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Press X to Not Die: This happens in both the first and the last level. | |
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Fanservice Pack | |
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Fanservice Pack: In the original games Cortana always had a vaguely nude appearance but her design as a hologram obfuscated actually looking naked; yet she did acquire a slightly curvier appearance as the graphical render improved. In this game her holographic appearance has a much higher visual fidelity, along with an even more exaggerated figure to where her Tron Lines look painted on. It veers away from an actual nude body, but comes close. | |
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Old Master | |
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Old Master: While not that old, the Master Chief is this in relation to the younger, higher-tech but less intensively trained Spartan-IVs, especially given the things he's achieved. It appears that the new Spartans do indeed look up to him as such. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Cortana's behavior in this game is irregular enough for John-117 to notice it almost immediately and call her out on it, resulting in him learning about her oncoming rampancy. | |
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The Battlestar | |
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The Battlestar: The Infinity is certainly this. It possesses very heavy armament of its own, but is also capable of deploying what is essentially a small fleet of frigates plus dozens of squadrons of fighters and dropships from its internal bays. | |
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Simple, yet Awesome | |
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Simple, yet Awesome: The DMR. A regular black semi-automatic rifle with a 3x zoom scope, it looks nothing spectacular and is not at all flashy, but can be unlocked very early into your Spartan-IV career (in War Games and Spartan Ops) and is incredibly effective - to the point that it is easily the most heavily used weapon in Big Team multiplayer, and is very commonly seen in other modes as well. Using it is merely a matter of pointing it at the enemy and firing a bullet when you press the trigger. It, like all precision weapons, can headshot unshielded infantry for instant kills, and has the second highest damage and second fastest kill time of any of them when facing shielded targets (the first being the scoped mode of the Forerunner Lightrifle). In addition, it has a large clip size, and has the longest aim-assistance activation range of any non-sniper weapon by a large margin, while still being useful at close to medium ranges. Indeed, its all-around versatility and statistical superiority to other standard-issue loadout weapons has caused it to be considered as overpowered by many, or denounced as a 'noob weapon' by virtue of its simplicity and very noticeable aim assistance. Finally, as a standard issue UNSC firearm, ammunition for the DMR (and the BR, AR, and Magnum) is unlimited in many Spartan Ops missions, which feature UNSC infinite-ammo crates. There's also the aforementioned new Forerunner Lightrifle. Belonging to the same family as the DMR, Battle Rifle (BR), and Covenant Carbine, it's the Forerunner equivalent to the human DMR; a semi-automatic rifle with a 3x zoom scope. It has a fairly large clip size, is very accurate, and has two firing modes; a 3-round burst of miniature Hard Light bullets when firing unscoped, or a single three-in-one hardlight bolt when scoped in. It packs a solid punch, with its bursts being weaker but denser than the BR's bursts, and its single-shots being stronger but slower to fire than DMR or Carbine shots. It retains its versatility and usefulness even on Legendary in the campaign and in Forerunner-focused Spartan Ops missions, where ammo for it is plentiful thanks to it being the standard weapon of Promethean Knights and widely available at Forerunner ammo caches. In multiplayer, the weaker aim assistance, close-range inferiority, and higher visibility of the Lightrifle as compared to the DMR make it relatively uncommon despite its superior long-range damage. In multiplayer especially, the classic fully-automatic Assault Rifle (AR) is now much more powerful than it was in previous installments. Not only did 343i up its damage, but they also increased its accuracy by quite a bit. At close range it now greatly outperforms the DMR and BR, and even at mid range it's easier to score kills with it than before, by virtue of its fast damage output and controllable bloom. A sufficiently skilled player could use nothing but a standard AR/Magnum combo given to you at the very start of both the campaign and of your multiplayer career and easily come out on top. Both of these basic weapons are capable of very fast kill times that can be traded off for mid-ranged precision, and in the hands of a player with fast reflexes and situational awareness, they can be used to deadly effect. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: At least half of the missions involve Fireteam Crimson rescuing Marines caught up in heavy fighting against the Covenant or Prometheans. Episode 5, Chapter 3 features Crimson on the receiving end of this, with Fireteam Shadow, another group of Spartans, disabling a Covenant Cruiser in the vicinity of Crimson. In Episode 6, Thorne pulls off a rather opportunistic variation of this to rescue Glassman. Specifically, while Glassman is attempting to escape captivity, he runs into a pair of Elites dragging Throne, allowing the latter to use the distraction to steal a Storm Rifle, kill his captors, and rip off the bomb strapped to Glassman's chest and toss it into a corridor filled with incoming Elites, whereupon Gek unwittingly detonates it. In Episode 8, just as Spartan Thorne and Glassman are going to be killed by Gek, Majestic Team shoots and kills the Elite from behind . | |
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Mundane Utility | |
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Mundane Utility: Ambient dialogue indicates the heavily armed military Mini-Mecha found on Ivanov station are there for lifting and transporting heavy crates. | |
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The Lost Lenore | |
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The Lost Lenore: You would never expect to find this trope in a first-person shooter, but this game ends with the realization that there has been a deep, meaningful, and quite real romance brewing in this series between the Chief and Cortana since almost the first scenes of the first game. And Halo 4 ends with Cortana becoming Master Chief's Lost Lenore. | |
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Sprint Shoes | |
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Sprint Shoes: The "Sprint" armor ability can be used without taking up an armor ability slot now, unlike in Halo: Reach. | |
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Capital Letters Are Magic | |
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Capital Letters Are Magic: A Halo staple. In addition to The Forerunners, this game gives us The Didact and The Composer. | |
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Heroism Motive Speech | |
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Heroism Motive Speech: Master Chief spends the entire game bouncing from one crisis to the other without any concern for himself; his entire life was spent being a hero and he has a hard time thinking outside of those parameters. Cortana at one point quips that at some point they will figure out who between them is the machine. After Cortana saves him from the Didact and they have a final conversation, she reminds him that he was not alone in his struggles and that they took care of each other. Later on, Lasky comments that Chief is not a machine and has the right to be a person. | |
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Diegetic Interface | |
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Diegetic Interface: As usual, the motion tracker, Deflector Shield meter and weapon readouts are painted on the inside of the Chief's visor. This game takes it one step further by adding some translucent artifacts and a few fins to screen, representing the visor and the edges of the helmet and creating the illusion that the player is genuinely wearing it. In multiplayer, all of this extra detail is toned down for better visibility. | |
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Right in Front of Me | |
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Right in Front of Me: DeMarco only realizes that Palmer is his Spartan commander aboard Infinity two seconds after he starts trying to hit on her. | |
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Game Within a Game | |
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Game Within a Game: War Games (AKA multiplayer) is basically a very elaborate holodeck simulator used by Spartan IVs to train (or play Grifball). | |
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Sufficiently Advanced Alien | |
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Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The Didact can seem as though he has seemingly magical abilities, such as levitation, telepathy, and telekinesis, as well as having his armor float by him when he's not wearing it. Only with a careful read through the expanded universe does it reveal itself to be Magic from Technology. | |
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No-Gear Level | |
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No-Gear Level: Shattered, the first chapter of Episode 6, which involves Fireteam Crimson being held captive. It's noted that this is the only Spartan Ops mission where the player is unable to select loadouts, and you instead start with a pre-determined loadout consisting of a Covenant Carbine and a Plasma Pistol. | |
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Darkest Hour | |
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Darkest Hour: The Didact recovers the Composer and uses it on Ivanoff Station, utterly horrifying Cortana as she nears her own death, and then heads to Earth in his uber-advanced flagship. And yet the Master Chief does his damnedest to stop him. | |
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Continuity Lock-Out | |
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Continuity Lockout: The previous games by Bungie had plots that were largely self-contained to the game series. The plot of Halo 4, in contrast, depends heavily on the player already being heavily familiar with the expanded universe material. Also see All There in the Manual. | |
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Laser Sight | |
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Laser Sight: Laser pointers are the preferred rifle sights for the ancient human soldiers. Justified given the human soldiers' visorless helmets. | |
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The Remnant | |
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The Remnant: Though the Covenant empire dissolved about four years before the start of the game, there are a number of remnants who still worship the Forerunners and remain hostile to humanity. The one fought in Halo 4 is an Elite-run faction led by Jul 'Mdama. | |
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Living Emotional Crutch | |
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Living Emotional Crutch: John becomes this to Cortana in the midst of her rampancy, being her main motivation to keep herself together. In the end, it's revealed she was this to John as well. | |
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Artistic License – Physics | |
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Artistic License – Physics: Requiem's "Gravity Well", which betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what gravity is. | |
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Brain Uploading | |
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This is also the manner of function used by the Composer, reducing organic bodies to a pile of ash while doing a Brain Upload for later Unwilling Roboticisation. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Didact himself, since he feels his ultimate duty to uphold the Forerunner Mantle. However, said Mantle is an imperialist doctrine that places Forerunners as the galaxy's supreme "protectors" with all other species being "defended" by them. His zeal leads him to forcibly de-evolve humans to prevent them from being a threat again, testing Flood cures on himself that mutate him, and harvesting humans to turn them into drones for his army. Silentium implies that his new drive to wipe out or enslave all potential threats to the Forerunners was due to Gravemind administering a Mind Rape to put him into an identical mentality to the Precursors. | |
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Was Once a Man | |
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Was Once a Man: The Prometheans, made from the minds and bodies of harvested humans using the Composer. | |
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Cutscene Power to the Max | |
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Cutscene Power to the Max/Cutscene Incompetence: Weapons appear to be stronger in Spartan Ops's cutscenes and shields appear to be nonexistent. Standout examples including Episode 6's opening cutscene, where two Elites fall from a single shot each from a Storm Rifle, and Episode 7, where Promethean Knights die from a single headshot. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: ONI toward Catherine Halsey, continuing their behaviour from the Kilo-Five books. They may have legitimate reasons for locking her up, but what really smacks of vindictiveness on their part? Deliberately concealing from Halsey that John-117 was alive. | |
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What Other Galaxies? | |
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What Other Galaxies?: Enforced. In the marketing campaign, the Big Bad Ur-Didact is announced as a threat to the universe when, in fact, he's "only" a galactic menace. | |
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Star Scraper | |
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A scene early in the second level where the player emerges from a tunnel into the light on a cliff edge overlooking kilometers of Star Scraper buildings hanging from the sky is a notable example of this on full display; it's used as an Establishing Shot for the inside of Requiem. | |
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