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> Yes context does matter. Correct an excerpt isn’t the same as a book. Congratulations on not being mindless. It could, especially when you start looking at old school encyclopedias, but generally correct
No idea why you are bringing up encyclopedias because I never said a list of facts couldn’t form a book, I said it couldn’t be a novel.
> Correct not the E3 demo but the campaign marketing before the release of the game. As seen Here (check the date)Mission 1 and 2, Mission 8
Those are pretty bad, I wouldn’t recommend watching full levels of the final game. They still fundamentally different from trailers or E3 demos which are not “spoilers” which is the main point of contention here.
> The whole sequence was scripted whilst remaining similar enough to the actual campaign mission Battle of Sunaion (if I recall correctly) whereby you pass through the same locations and you fight the warden eternal in the same location of the scripted cutscene of the warden eternal fight. Do you have evidence of them actively shuffling events to avoid specifically spoilers in regards to both h5 and h4? I’d like to see them for my own curiosity.
You mean aside from the fact that the H5 E3 demo cuts out significant chunks of the level and Blue team is never on Sanghelios at that time? Or the fact that the Knights are not introduced during Infinity and that once again leaves out significant portions of gameplay and story?
> Revealing a new character who is also the antagonist, who leads an entire new faction (prometheans), and is part of the race that made galaxy wide super weapons before you play the game is not a spoiler, alrighty I’ll that in mind. Certainly, though I’m far more familiar with games taking the current trends rather than inserting basic plot descriptions to entice a new audience. Context, like you said before, due to that lack of information we got the whole Medicant Bias theory abundant, thusly that’s another reason why I feel it’s important to show off gameplay via multiplayer over campaign.
Correct, it isn’t a spoiler not any more than knowing the Covenant were an alien organization bent on destroying humanity for religious reason is a spoiler for CE. What exactly does rampant, incorrect speculation have to do with “spoilers?” Folks will speculate over literally nothing, so I don’t see how complete radio silence actually helps.
A multiplayer only reveal after the mixed(to put it lightly) reception to Halo 5’s campaign seems unrealistic to say the least. If someone wants to win back trust they need to show some evidence that they may have improved this time around.
> Spoiler: information about the plot that can take a person out of their sense of surprise or suspense.
> Quite subjective though I do believe this applies to the topic at hand of ‘campaign reveal’ unless if you would like to provide alternative definitions for the words we are using then that’ll clear up our differences.
If the E3 demos of Halo 4 remove someone’s sense of surprise of suspense then there the term spoiler has no meaning. At that point literally any information is a “spoiler.” The result of the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones could be considered a spoiler because the explicitly intended to surprise the audience. “Powerful families fight for the throne after the King’s death while great evil threatens to consume everything” isn’t a spoiler and you could go in a fair bit more detail before crossing that line. Even if that particular scene was spoiled if that was all there was to GoT than nobody would have cared in the first place.
If a persons enjoyment of any given piece of media be it a book, movie, or game can be “spoiled” by a back cover plot summary or a single excerpt out of context and with the order of events jumbled, then that piece of media wasn’t very good to begin with. If someone manages to just pluck a novel of the shelf at random and find something they absolutely love then that great good for them, but that just isn’t how your average person goes around picking media to spend their time on. If you live your live being completely paranoid about any information being a spoiler you are likely going to miss out on a lot of great stories you might otherwise enjoy.
> Quite the contradiction here, I can’t buy new games my friends recommend or I see at the gamestore because it’s silly whilst also not buying any more of my current games because I have no standards. Thank you for telling me how I should spend my money.
If you buy a game based solely on your friend telling you “its good” with no further details I would consider that silly still yes. You and your friend’s taste can of course be very similar, but they are not identical, but I digress.I don’t care how you specifically spend your money so much as I care that you are peddling this absurd notion of what constitutes a “spoiler” as it doesn’t do anything but give corporations ammo to smother criticism like we saw with The Last of Us Part II NDAs.