I’ve never seen this discussed, and I really would like to know some of your favorites or favorite Level caption.
My favorite is “… And The Horse We Rode In On”
Whenever I go back and play that level with the soundtrack in the beginning cutscene it just gives me nostalgia like crazy. That is literally one of my most favorite level captions ever. Returning to where you woke up, started the fight, ensuring the safety of your soon to be best friend AI Cortana.
I can’t even begin to describe the feelings the soundtrack gives me. It’s just so amazing.
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> Explain this to.me. What do you mean?
Well – I suppose I should preface that it’s not just in the captions, and I was only bringing it up as specifically in the captions because those are what we’re talking about. Multiplayer maps like Hang 'Em High (named after a western film) and Sidewinder (a sort of rattle snake) draw on that wild west theme. The western captions of note are Flawless Cowboy, It’s Quiet, Rolling Thunder, Well Enough Alone (in that it’s the parlance of a southern accent in a game where no one has one). There may be western motivations behind others (e.g., “Light Fuse, Run Away” may have been with dynamite sticks in mind, “Under New Management” could well be a reference to one western or another).
So, why did it impact my appreciation of Halo: CE? Well, the answer doesn’t have to do with an advanced education in the genre of the Western. I was young enough to just not have much of any awareness of the genre, at the time. But words have meaning – and all of these captions and terms carry with them a sort of flippant bravado, lonerism, and lawlessness that characterized the game for me. They helped convey that sense of being alone and self-reliant even when you had fellows. I didn’t know that so-and-so is a quote, so-and-so is a film, but these things were given their names by and large because they spoke to a set of notions. That’s what they all tap, is those Western notions.
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> Well – I suppose I should preface that it’s not just in the captions, and I was only bringing it up as specifically in the captions because those are what we’re talking about. Multiplayer maps like Hang 'Em High (named after a western film) and Sidewinder (a sort of rattle snake) draw on that wild west theme. The western captions of note are Flawless Cowboy, It’s Quiet, Rolling Thunder, Well Enough Alone (in that it’s the parlance of a southern accent in a game where no one has one). There may be western motivations behind others (e.g., “Light Fuse, Run Away” may have been with dynamite sticks in mind, “Under New Management” could well be a reference to one western or another).
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> So, why did it impact my appreciation of Halo: CE? Well, the answer doesn’t have to do with an advanced education in the genre of the Western. I was young enough to just not have much of any awareness of the genre, at the time. But words have meaning – and all of these captions and terms carry with them a sort of flippant bravado, lonerism, and lawlessness that characterized the game for me. They helped convey that sense of being alone and self-reliant even when you had fellows. I didn’t know that so-and-so is a quote, so-and-so is a film, but these things were given their names by and large because they spoke to a set of notions. That’s what they all tap, is those Western notions.
Very insightful. I didn’t pay any attention to that at all. Thank you for the explanation.
…sir.****