Comments on: What is Peter Jackson’s, Halo: Chronicles ? We look a little deeper

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:55:02 +0000

I care a lot about the Halo story. I own al the games, books and comics. And this concerns me. The game cannot be cannon when there are so many outcomes. I love games with different endings (KOTOR, Mass Effect….), but I don’t want it in one of my favourite stories.

By: twodogsz

twodogsz — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:04:39 +0000

@Angel

Nice to have helped with your excitement!

The funny thing is that I’d never really realised what Halo: Chronicles intended to be.

It was only whilst researching and gathering notes for my E3 coverage that I started to realise the potential and aims of the project. Which in turn prompted the article for the benefit of others… because quite frankly we haven’t heard a peep out of MS or PJ since the initial announcement.

I’d be willing to bet on odds of 4:1 that PJ will be up on stage come tomorrow morning unveiling what is no doubt going to be a high cost, high concept piece of interactive art as entertainment.

Can’t Wait!

By: AngelicLionheart

AngelicLionheart — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:39:37 +0000

All I know is that I have been wanting a more specific kind of the experience that you generally described above for a long, LONG time. And that it was only in spring of ’05 that I really started trying to design it myself. Let me tell you, it’s really freaking hard. From the original Deus Ex to Breakdown to BioWare’s stuff to Valve’s approach with the HL2 Episodes, it is both challenging and rewarding to navigate the approaches to designing and writing for interactive fiction.

This cannot get here soon enough. With what pretty much comprises the absolute dream team of people on planet earth (Bungie, PJ, Weta, and backing of one of the richest companies in human history) I find it hard not to expect to be absolutely, utterly, completely, and without exception FLOORED when I see this work come about. Even if it were rough around the edges at first because the medium is so newborn, I would be able to tell what it was capable of.

PLEASE announce something at E3, guys. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE.

~Angel

By: Optimus Danny

Optimus Danny — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:11:44 +0000

I cant wait for what PJ can make of this, he has great talent and with him doing Halo: Chronicles, Wow, just wow is all i can say, i reckon he is going to do a spectacular job and i seriously want to see this at E3!!!!!!

By: twodogsz

twodogsz — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:45:20 +0000

Not necessarily. If it achieved truly branching story lines (more Chrono Trigger than Mass Effect) it could really work. Or even better if they did it as a episodic series where you download a 2-4hr episode and make decisions that you then have to stick with through the following episodes.

It has a lot of interesting possibilities, it could be a revolutionary success (which is what I expect from PJ and Bungie) or it could be less successful in reaching its ambitions and simply be an enjoyable single playthrough.

But my gut tells me MS and PJ wouldn’t waste their time and money if the latter is all they got! lol

By: Shadow Wave

Shadow Wave — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:36:25 +0000

lol it would have TERRIBLE replay value as awesome as the first experience would be..

By: twodogsz

twodogsz — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:28:06 +0000

I’m a big fan of Peter Jackson and Weta’s work, and having read a number of interviews with the man I’m pretty confident in my understanding of where PJ is heading with Halo Chronicles.

But then again, we’ll just have to wait and see…