I just wanted to commend 343i on their work in pertinence to this specific terminal. Honestly one of the saddest, most horrifying and downright brutal things I’ve ever seen. Made me start crying and I had to stop playing the game after for a bit because it was so visceral.
“It…huuuurts”
“Don’t…let…me…forget”
The voice acting was bone-chilling. Who ever Keyes’ is played by needs some recognition after this (if he doesn’t already).
Having read The Flood, it was amazing to see this scene finally have a visual for it but I was not expecting that. :’(
> I loved that terminal too, they did a fantastic job on all of them.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, they all have had a tremendous amount of work put into them and it shows. The Keyes terminal just stands out to me more-so because of how tragic it is. Keyes doesn’t realize that he is doomed until the very end… from the viewers perspective it is mortifying because we know that there is no hope for him from the beginning.
I would also like to say that the music used could not have meshed any better with the visuals. High Charity is one of, if not the saddest-sounding Halo tracks in the games (also happens to be my favourite song from any of the OST’s), and it fits perfectly with probably the darkest moment in Halo lore.
In my opinion Halo has had some of the best and well know voice actors, so I just thought I would share this is you haven’t already seen it, P.S. I can’t believe the gravmind’s voice was done by a REAL person O_o! epic.
I gotta say that this terminal is by far the best one in CEA. It’s disturbing to watch as Keyes is slowly being picked apart only to satisfy the wants of the Proto-Gravemind. I couldn’t imagine being in that situation. Not only is his mind being torn to pieces, but his body is basically being digested alive to sustain the Proto-Gravemind. That there is very mind jarring to watch. Yet I can’t help but watch it more than once…
It fleshed out Keyes a bit more and made you a lot more sympathetic towards his plight. A LOT MORE. The terminal was brilliantly voiced.
Before to me he was only really seen as “Mr Exposition” who kept on getting captured. I know you have your books and stuff but 343i took the opportunity to give Keyes some character that we can watch brilliantly. I loved the retconning.
> > You want to thank SEQUENCE, not 343, SEQUENCE made the terminals.
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> But 343 wrote them.
No. William C. Dietz wrote that terminal. Everything that happened in the terminal had already been explained in Halo: The Flood, which was released in 2001.
> I just wanted to commend 343i on their work in pertinence to this specific terminal. Honestly one of the saddest, most horrifying and downright brutal things I’ve ever seen. Made me start crying and I had to stop playing the game after for a bit because it was so visceral.
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> “It…huuuurts”
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> “Don’t…let…me…forget”
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> The voice acting was bone-chilling. Who ever Keyes’ is played by needs some recognition after this (if he doesn’t already).
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> Having read The Flood, it was amazing to see this scene finally have a visual for it but I was not expecting that. :’(
Yeah, the Keyes terminal was really sad, I didn’t think it would be that brutal. 343i did a terrific job with it.