Remember those ‘‘Chief vs Locke’’ ads? Yeah, they’re gone
https://youtu.be/9rd8FWUCCZk
https://youtu.be/tHQiYPiNVEE
https://youtu.be/V9D2HzbT9Pc
Without a word… classic 343 Industries
Does this confirm that Halo 5’s development was a mess and that the Campaign was not what it was supposed to be? I really don’t know why they would otherwise silently remove those ads.
Shhhh, let it disappear into the ether.
They still deserve hates for advertising a product that was not in it.
Wow, This is the only thing that came to mind when I read this and clicked on the links, way to go 343…
Eh, this could be good news and they maybe taking Halo in a better direction. It never should have been a Chief vs Locke thing.
Funny this one is still up lol. Never once in the campaign did it say the Chief was dead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCP0GSB2A8E
Those ads and Hunt the Truth audio files really interested me and I thought would be the best campaign yet. I wanted to see the perspective of how everyone reacted to Chief going rogue and disobeying orders but instead it was seriously anticlimactic. It’s just Locke hunting down Chief because he was simply just looking for Cortana without permission.
But I will add simply removing ads hardly indicates a game was a “flop”.
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> Funny this one is still up lol. Never once in the campaign did it say the Chief was dead.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCP0GSB2A8E
Man I remember when that AD gave me the chills, it still does. It has 4 million views for a TV AD! I honestly just watch these ADs again because they’re better than the actually campaign. LOL
These videos were unavailable months ago. But, thankfully we can still see them in other channels.
What is the third video? I know there is Locke ad, Chief ad, and I don’t know what is the third.
We remember, 343!
I mean, this isn’t the first game where the trailers were different from the final release.
coughHalo 2cough
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> I mean, this isn’t the first game where the trailers were different from the final release.
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> coughHalo 2cough
It’s a shame H2 didn’t take its original direction… Halo as a whole could’ve turned out so much better than it has…
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> Eh, this could be good news and they maybe taking Halo in a better direction. It never should have been a Chief vs Locke thing.
Why not? Everyone who watched the trailers were really interested in the story. It looked like the darkest and most dramatic Halo game ever, and almost everyone was on board. But then we got the game and realized that the team at 343 wrote the worst piece of Halo fiction yet(and that’s including Halo: Initiation and Mortal Dictata, two lackluster books).
Halo is not heading into a better direction, its already going into a downward spiral and if it keeps crapping on all the stories that came before Halo 5 and make Halo games as horrible as Halo 5s campaign was(characters acting completely different, disregarding previous established lore), then it will never recover. I’m still hopeful for HW2, though.
…But that’s just my opinion.
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> > 2533274833081329;11:
> > I mean, this isn’t the first game where the trailers were different from the final release.
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> > coughHalo 2cough
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> It’s a shame H2 didn’t take its original direction… Halo as a whole could’ve turned out so much better than it has…
I don’t remember the Halo 2 trailers saying anything about the game’s story, unlike the Halo 5 trailers. The H2 ones essentially tried to create hype for the new environments and themes, but never gave away a plot. They felt like typical video game ads. I still think that Halo 2 turned out to be a great game and had the best story in my opinion. Halo 5’s ads, on the other hand, turned out to be downright untrue. It’s like the people who made the game and the people who made the ads never interacted!
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> Remember those ‘‘Chief vs Locke’’ ads? Yeah, they’re gone
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> https://youtu.be/9rd8FWUCCZk
> https://youtu.be/tHQiYPiNVEE
> https://youtu.be/V9D2HzbT9Pc
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> Without a word… classic 343 Industries
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> Does this confirm that Halo 5’s development was a mess and that the Campaign was not what it was supposed to be? I really don’t know why they would otherwise silently remove those ads.
Well, the campaign that was advertised was not the campaign that I played.
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> > 2533274816788253;5:
> > Eh, this could be good news and they maybe taking Halo in a better direction. It never should have been a Chief vs Locke thing.
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> Why not? Everyone who watched the trailers were really interested in the story. It looked like the darkest and most dramatic Halo game ever, and almost everyone was on board. But then we got the game and realized that the team at 343 wrote the worst piece of Halo fiction yet(and that’s including Halo: Initiation and Mortal Dictata, two lackluster books).
> Halo is not heading into a better direction, its already going into a downward spiral and if it keeps crapping on all the stories that came before Halo 5 and make Halo games as horrible as Halo 5s campaign was(characters acting completely different, disregarding previous established lore), then it will never recover. I’m still hopeful for HW2, though.
>
> …But that’s just my opinion.
Every one was on board? All I saw were mostly ticked off people that another Spartan would dare hold a gun on Master Chief. Also most seemed ticked at even the thought of Master Chief turning into a villain or whatever.
Good.
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> Shhhh, let it disappear into the ether.
Agreed
“Flopped” usually means it made less money than it took to make. And in the case of Halo 5, that’s simply not the case. It was quite successful. There was no loss; rather, they earned money. Not as much as previous Halos, no, but it still raked in millions more than it took to produce.
Not sure what to make of the videos being gone. I loved that marketing and like most everyone, was quite disappointed with the abrupt turnaround with the actual story … even if it was all meant to be an ONI lie or something, it was way more interesting than what we got, IMO.
Now, you add “Without a word… classic 343 Industries” as if they go around deleting youtube videos all the time or something. What are you implying by that?
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> Funny this one is still up lol. Never once in the campaign did it say the Chief was dead.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCP0GSB2A8E
Other than “official story is he’s dead”, that trailer isn’t too far off compared to what we got.