It was just announced on a podcast that Halo Infinites so called trailer is the opening cinematic.
Hopefully we get a little more than that. Seems rather short.
A lazy link for those that are interested, around 47 seconds into the video. Interesting way to show part of the story in a trailer. Takes off a bit too much of the freshness and the mystery of the game for my liking. I simply prefer trailers to be something out of the game itself an example of a type of trailer that I can approve which includes marketing. Obviously there have been many more Halo trailers in the past that are more story related, but not in the game itself, one such example is here, which sadly seemed even wasted as simple background for the menu of the game.
Still, both preferable over having section of the game spoiled, before release even.
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> A lazy link for those that are interested, around 47 seconds into the video. Interesting way to show part of the story in a trailer. Takes off a bit too much of the freshness and the mystery of the game for my liking. I simply prefer trailers to be something out of the game itself an example of a type of trailer that I can approve which includes marketing. Obviously there have been many more Halo trailers in the past that are more story related, but not in the game itself, one such example is here, which sadly seemed even wasted as simple background for the menu of the game.
> Still, both preferable over having section of the game spoiled, before release even.
I wouldn’t say it spoiled anything, personally it left a lot more questions. Like who’s attacking them or what happened before?
I hope the trailer isn’t the full intro, as it’d be far too abrupt, and wouldn’t bridge the gap between Halo 5 and Infinite. Maybe after Chief leaves the Pelican, it’ll flash back to a prior date…
I understand wanting to distance themselves from 5, due to it’s reception, and doing a soft reboot, but Halo 5 is canon. It should be repaired by Infinite’s story, not swept under the rug.
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> I hope the trailer isn’t the full intro, as it’d be far too abrupt, and wouldn’t bridge the gap between Halo 5 and Infinite. Maybe after Chief leaves the Pelican, it’ll flash back to a prior date…
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> I understand wanting to distance themselves from 5, due to it’s reception, and doing a soft reboot, but Halo 5 is canon. It should be repaired by Infinite’s story, not swept under the rug.
I’m sure it’s a shortened and it’s some kind of foreshadowing.
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> > A lazy link for those that are interested, around 47 seconds into the video. Interesting way to show part of the story in a trailer. Takes off a bit too much of the freshness and the mystery of the game for my liking. I simply prefer trailers to be something out of the game itself an example of a type of trailer that I can approve which includes marketing. Obviously there have been many more Halo trailers in the past that are more story related, but not in the game itself, one such example is here, which sadly seemed even wasted as simple background for the menu of the game.
> > Still, both preferable over having section of the game spoiled, before release even.
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> I wouldn’t say it spoiled anything, personally it left a lot more questions. Like who’s attacking them or what happened before?
If it’s truly a part of the game then dont you think it’s spoiling that part of the game? And I dont see why would something not be a spoiler if it raises questions. For example, if a death of an character is spoiled in a for of media then that could raise such questions as to why the character was killed but nevertheless it still remains a spoiler.
There’s probably a prologue before this scene, that normally is the case with Halo games. Though maybe not. We’ll have to wait and see.
It’s also possible we get more cutscene after John jumps out of the pelican. I don’t think the first gameplay moments would necessarily be in Zero G.
who knows? Maybe we’ll board the Guardian, blow it up and ride a piece of debris to the surface Halo 3 style.
I guess 343i have abandoned Halo Infinite opening up on Sanghelios, as Halo 5 implied it would.
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> I guess 343i have abandoned Halo Infinite opening up on Sanghelios, as Halo 5 implied it would.
For shame, too. Sanghelios looked nice.
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> A lazy link for those that are interested, around 47 seconds into the video. Interesting way to show part of the story in a trailer. Takes off a bit too much of the freshness and the mystery of the game for my liking. I simply prefer trailers to be something out of the game itself an example of a type of trailer that I can approve which includes marketing. Obviously there have been many more Halo trailers in the past that are more story related, but not in the game itself, one such example is here, which sadly seemed even wasted as simple background for the menu of the game.
> Still, both preferable over having section of the game spoiled, before release even.
I do agree to a point.
Most likely we’ll get more than just that haha. Personally, I think that after that it could show a short cinematic of him possibly jumping out of the pelican (like H5’s intro), with a quick tutorial once he lands.
This explains “I know I saw something in here to check your armour’s diagnostics,” it’s the section right at the start where the player has the option of inverting the joysticks.
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> I hope the trailer isn’t the full intro, as it’d be far too abrupt, and wouldn’t bridge the gap between Halo 5 and Infinite. Maybe after Chief leaves the Pelican, it’ll flash back to a prior date…
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> I understand wanting to distance themselves from 5, due to it’s reception, and doing a soft reboot, but Halo 5 is canon. It should be repaired by Infinite’s story, not swept under the rug.
The whole point of a soft reboot is you break continuity. Maybe drop some exposition tying up loose plot points, but that’s it. Guardians had a weak story, it’s the right move to make a fresh start. A flashback/info dump right at the beginning would ruin the reboot and ruin the sense of mystery they’ve built up, let us discover why we’re floating around a broken Zeta Halo in our own time.
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> > > A lazy link for those that are interested, around 47 seconds into the video. Interesting way to show part of the story in a trailer. Takes off a bit too much of the freshness and the mystery of the game for my liking. I simply prefer trailers to be something out of the game itself an example of a type of trailer that I can approve which includes marketing. Obviously there have been many more Halo trailers in the past that are more story related, but not in the game itself, one such example is here, which sadly seemed even wasted as simple background for the menu of the game.
> > > Still, both preferable over having section of the game spoiled, before release even.
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> > I wouldn’t say it spoiled anything, personally it left a lot more questions. Like who’s attacking them or what happened before?
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> If it’s truly a part of the game then dont you think it’s spoiling that part of the game? And I dont see why would something not be a spoiler if it raises questions. For example, if a death of an character is spoiled in a for of media then that could raise such questions as to why the character was killed but nevertheless it still remains a spoiler.
Its spoiling that he is in a pelican and what else exactly? Nothing is truly being spoiled
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> This explains “I know I saw something in here to check your armour’s diagnostics,” it’s the section right at the start where the player has the option of inverting the joysticks.
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> > I hope the trailer isn’t the full intro, as it’d be far too abrupt, and wouldn’t bridge the gap between Halo 5 and Infinite. Maybe after Chief leaves the Pelican, it’ll flash back to a prior date…
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> > I understand wanting to distance themselves from 5, due to it’s reception, and doing a soft reboot, but Halo 5 is canon. It should be repaired by Infinite’s story, not swept under the rug.
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> The whole point of a soft reboot is you break continuity. Maybe drop some exposition tying up loose plot points, but that’s it. Guardians had a weak story, it’s the right move to make a fresh start. A flashback/info dump right at the beginning would ruin the reboot and ruin the sense of mystery they’ve built up, let us discover why we’re floating around a broken Zeta Halo in our own time.
The flashback was a suggestion made in jest. It’d be more likely we’d learn as we go through the story. I see Infinite starting more like CE or Halo 3, than Halo 2.
Both Halo 4 and 5 started with cutscenes involving Halsey. Perhaps the same will be the case, and she will elaborate on Cortana, and seeing Chief again.
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> > > A lazy link for those that are interested, around 47 seconds into the video. Interesting way to show part of the story in a trailer. Takes off a bit too much of the freshness and the mystery of the game for my liking. I simply prefer trailers to be something out of the game itself an example of a type of trailer that I can approve which includes marketing. Obviously there have been many more Halo trailers in the past that are more story related, but not in the game itself, one such example is here, which sadly seemed even wasted as simple background for the menu of the game.
> > > Still, both preferable over having section of the game spoiled, before release even.
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> > I wouldn’t say it spoiled anything, personally it left a lot more questions. Like who’s attacking them or what happened before?
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> If it’s truly a part of the game then dont you think it’s spoiling that part of the game? And I dont see why would something not be a spoiler if it raises questions. For example, if a death of an character is spoiled in a for of media then that could raise such questions as to why the character was killed but nevertheless it still remains a spoiler.
Technically, it does spoil some of the opening of the game. But we don’t know why Chief was in space, why the pilot was stranded, and who is now attacking the pilot and Chief. It isn’t a huge spoiler that ruins the mystery of the story.
By the same logic, Halo 5’s advertising spoilt that Master Chief was going to go “rogue”, and Locke was going to hunt him. Or that last year’s trailer spoilt that we’ll be on a Halo ring. Any trailer technically has spoilers, because it’s supposed to tell you about the product. That’s the point of it. Good trailers only have mild spoilers, such as the two we’ve received for Infinite.
It seems like a really intense start, i see they are gona hit the ground running for the story, bam, right into the action
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> This explains “I know I saw something in here to check your armour’s diagnostics,” it’s the section right at the start where the player has the option of inverting the joysticks.
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> > I hope the trailer isn’t the full intro, as it’d be far too abrupt, and wouldn’t bridge the gap between Halo 5 and Infinite. Maybe after Chief leaves the Pelican, it’ll flash back to a prior date…
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> > I understand wanting to distance themselves from 5, due to it’s reception, and doing a soft reboot, but Halo 5 is canon. It should be repaired by Infinite’s story, not swept under the rug.
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> The whole point of a soft reboot is you break continuity. Maybe drop some exposition tying up loose plot points, but that’s it. Guardians had a weak story, it’s the right move to make a fresh start. A flashback/info dump right at the beginning would ruin the reboot and ruin the sense of mystery they’ve built up, let us discover why we’re floating around a broken Zeta Halo in our own time.
I know it’s a reboot but I still hope they mention or at least are in it, the rest of blue team and Fireteam Osiris and arbiter. They weren’t very well for Halo 5 but they could be great characters for this.
My thought is that although this is the “opening cutscene”, it isn’t the prologue. Keep in mind Halo 4 and 5 both had prologues to set up the story before we get to the opening cinematics. Likely there will be some exposition before we get to this scene.
I don’t believe it’s exactly how the game will start. I imagine it has been modified and perhaps shortened. For example, I highly doubt the Chief is just going to jump out of the Pelican in outer space like that.