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Hi Gamers !
...Hum...
...Hum... I apologize for having, last week
forced my voice in a useless way.
and for having deteriorated the "quality" of the show.
May you accept my apolgies.
Thank you
This week on "Le fond de l'affaire" all the secret of...
The Halo series
The Halo series
The first episode, Halo : Combat evolved was released at the begining of the 2000s
The 15th of november 2001 on Xbox in United States.
Halo was influenced a lot by the game "Marathon" by the same developer "Bungie Software"
In this game you're a security Cyborg
Who was created to defend a spaceship,
named the "USC Marathon" of an alien attack.
This scenario is close to the introduction of the first Halo.
Your character also wear a mogni... morgni... rhooo...
A Mjolnir 4 armor.
Like the masterchief on Halo
Marathon was one of the first game to offers you the possibility to have to guns at the same time.
We found that too in halo 2.
They choose the easy way at Bungie. That's recopy and tape.
Copy and paste.
Whatever!
Halo's developpment was pretty chaotic.
Indeed, Bungie wanted at first a strategy game
telling the story of a desesperate war on an hollowed-out planet called "Solipsis".
A Dyson sphere, like the name of his creator, a physicist, Freeman Dyson.
This sphere can collect all the energy of a star and keep it.
That's a bit like lottalollies!
But a very strong one.
At this time, the game had few names :
Star maker
Star shield
Hard Vacuum
The cristal palace
and even, the Santa Machine.
Oh, it was the name of my highscool rockband :
Hard vacuum and the star maker
[...]
At a moment of the development, a team member had the idea to fix a camera on a tank
to have an other point of view.
Because of this, the game turned into an FPS.
The project also changed his name.
At first it was named "Monkey nuts".
But, because of the meaning on this title.
"Couilles de singes" in french.
One of the founder of Bungie decided to change the name.
All of that to talk about it to his mother.
I bet she didn't like monkeys.
The new name "Blam !" was choosen because of a designer, Robert Mclies
who found funny, when there where car accidents,to shout "Blam !"
Ha, a good guy this Robert
I knew a Robert who...oh, nevermind
He was a ***.
Later, the studio turn the planet Solipsis into a Dyson ring.
The project was renamed "Halo"
like rings we can find on Iain M.Banks's novels.
At this time of developpement, the game's hero could manipulate dinosaurs and ride them.
I wonder if the wanted to put ponies.
It's so sweet a little pony.
For a lot of peoples Halo is the ambasador of Xbox.
But, at first, the game belonged to Take Two Intercactive (the creators of GTA), and Apple.
Infact, Steeve Jobs even presented it in 2000
Then, the game was bought by microsoft
at first with a partnership with Sega for the dreamcast,
before being an exclusivity of Xbox.
I don't understand anything, you speak way to fast.
No, you understand slowly.
The second episode was reworked a lot.
So much that after the E3 presentation in 2003,
the team started all over again.
They deleted two huges parts to respect time limits.
For examle, they deleted a mastodont and some areas,
but they used them for halo 3.
The quite abrubt ending is because of thoose ruched changements.
The realese of Halo 2 on PC was moved of two weeks because of a photo of a guy showing his as...
Bottom!
It reminds me LaRedoute's best picture. (Once they published a picture of a naked guy on a french shopping magazine)
Halo 3 was at first also supposed to be realesed on PC
But Microsoft preferred to made it only on Xbox 360 for better sales.
In this episode, you can find some weird monkey-mans.
You can find one at the end of Halo 3 at DST
They are a humorous representation of Marcus Letho the artistic director of Bungie Studios.
They look like of the characters from the movie from the book of Pierre Boule
Who's french ladies and gentlemans !
*French national Anthem*
The serie was supposed to have a game on nintendo DS.
The game was never officialised by Bungie or Microsoft and stayed a technical demo.
Maybe because there was a picture of a naked guy on it.
A MMO of Halo named Titan was abandoned in 2007 before being anounced.
The game was thought to surpass World of Warcraft.
and used an innovative gameplay with cover system and public quests.
Is it innovative a cover? I got one in my bed and that was never too technical.
Another game named Halo Chronicles was comfirmed in 2008.
The game was an interactive movie expanding the halo universe
realesed with partnership of Peter Jackson.
They wanted to show the realistic side of war.
For sure, a purple thing who shoot lasers doing Pew Pew, that's so realistic.
Was there elves, hobbits and kingons too ?
Klingons aren't from Tolkien's universe.
Same thing, they all have plastic ears right?
Bungie is opsesed by the number 7.
They have a guide to rule the world in seven steps.
And their fan club is named the 7th Column.
We can find that in Halo.
Indeed there is seven halo on Halo's universe.
The names Cortana Saprtan and John 117 have seven characters.
When the shiel of the masterchief is desactivate it takes seven seconds before it starts to reload.
There are a lot of other 7-things on the game we will not talk about.
But...The 7 capital sins, the seven wonders, the seven dwarfs, the seven comandments, everithing is connected !
Stay calm !
No, i will not stay quiet, this is impossible.
Oh ! They got me.
Hummm....
Haha, a got you, i'm not afraid of the number 7.
All of that was a joke.
Seven ! Ahhhh !
Er...hm....well...I...stay tuned and keep to surf on the net.
Seven seven seven seven... No no no no no no no no...
Subtitles : Théo Maugère Ciupa.