What Louis Wu says about the article "Inside Bungie" at EDGE magazine is one hundred percent correct; even those who have been peering at Bungie through spyglasses and telescopes for years can learn a lot of new things about the studio in this rare look behind the scenes. Go. Read. NOW.
This, like so many things, is basically HP's fault.
On the Twelfth Day of Halo Christmas, Bungie gave to me:
Twelve Drones a-droning,
Eleven Jackals sniping,
Ten Brutes a-battling,
Nine Helljumpers jumping,
Eight Elites ejecting,
Seven Scorpions shooting,
Six Grunts a-sleeping,
Five sacred rings,
Four Flood combat forms,
Three Prophets,
Two dead Hierarchs
And a personality construct in the Core.
Although the track "Siege of Madrigal" is actually from Bungie's earlier RTS game, Myth, it also appears in a hidden spot in the Halo level "Assault on the Control Room".
If you fly a Banshee to one of the ledges high above the pyramid structure at the end of that level, and stand on the far right hand side, you can hear this track play.
Spartan182 provided a separate transcription of this track as it appears in Halo. We have a separate page for this track as it appears in Myth, which is a photo of the score.
This one is machine and nerve, and will make a good tree-trimming;
This one is but flesh and faith... and will get coal inside his stocking.
Have a Merry Christmas... we'd rather not piss this thing off.
This one is machine and nerve, and will make a good tree-trimming;
This one is but flesh and faith... and will get coal inside his stocking.
Have a Merry Christmas... we'd rather not piss this thing off.
Have A Rampant Christmas!
Ok first of all I have recently found out that I will have a lot of free time after all, thus I will still be on this site a lot.
Anyway moving on to the subject. There have been several requests about a transcription for the halo 3 cg trailer's background music. Well I was not able to make it out so clearly but I can tell you that it is only the first part of the halo 1 main theme played a little faster. And that is that.
Ducain put up an interview at High Impact Halo where Shdw Shinobi and Mr. Sprout put questions to HBO's webmaster, Louis Wu. No, not the one with gorilla breath and the big hat, the other one. He gives some pointers on what it takes to run a big fansite like bungie.org.
For the people who like to skip to the end of detective novels: no switch to phpBB planned. Sorry.
I was listening to a song from Kingdom Hearts (Forze de male, in case you wanted to know) and noticed that the notes at 1:30--1:40 sounded like the opening notes to Halo. Things just snowballed from there...
Also at the Escapist today, a Microsoft "perception engineer" confirms something about Halo I've long been terribly annoyed by: the tendency of enemies that are far away and do not see you to luckily dodge just as you are about to shoot.
Buried near the bottom of an interview by Dean Takahashi over at the Mercury News interview with Microsoft's president of Entertainment and Devices Robbie Bach, comes the news that Microsoft will look for other studios to make the Halo film with, or give up the project.
Master Chief, in search of Captain Keyes and his squad, is searching a mysterious installation under a swamp. He has come across a fallen marine and is viewing his camera record.
Mendoza: Why do we have to eat this old stuff, sarge? This cereal tastes like bits of newspaper, and this milk has been sitting on the radiator for about eighty years!
Sarge: Watch your mouth, son. That cereal is your history.
A discussion about how heavily the Halo franchise was being marketed of course led to a "Halo: The Breakfast Cereal" joke as per a similar mention in the Mel Brooks movie, Spaceballs.
That spurred a few lines of marketing-speak that could be used to promote a Halo cereal. Most of that can be seen here:
http://quotes.pfordee.com/index.php?quote=1564
Afterwards I thought it might be possible to rewrite every Halo and Halo 2 cutscene as a long serial advertisement for this cereal.
The Chief enters the control room. There is a holographic control panel with several cabinet doors beneath it.
Cortana: That cabinet, try there.
The Master Chief opens a cabinet, places Cortana inside. Munching noises can be heard.
Master Chief: Is the cereal there? Are you all right?
Cortana: Never been better! You can't imagine the wealth of nutrition. So many vitamins, so fast... it's glorious!
Master Chief: So, what kind of cereal is it?
The Chief and Cortana are sneaking into an underground structure, accompanied by a group of marines.
Marine Pilot (on radio): Mayday, mayday! Dropship Bravo 22 taking enemy fire! Ground teams, you got two enemy dropships coming in fast!
Marine: Dammit! Okay, people, we got company comin', let's set the table.
Cortana: Marines, hold off the Covenant here while the Chief and I activate the map. There, that holo panel. Press it.
The Master Chief presses the holo panel and a holographic map appears.
The Master Chief and a group of marines are deep inside a Covenant cruiser. A door opens, and they enter the cruiser's detention area.
Cortana: This looks like the ship's brig. The cereal signal is strong. And we might find the captain, too.
Marine (in holding cell): Chief! We're starving, let us out, man!
Captain Keyes: (in adjacent holding cell) Stow the bellyaching, soldier. Remember, you're a leatherneck.
Master Chief: So that's what they're made of.
