xbox360fanboy.com— It's rumored that Brutes will be a playable class in Halo 3. Even better, a video confirming this should be released on Xbox Live Marketplace on Dec. 20th.
Dec 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
They'd better balance them for multiplayer. Elites have enormous heads that make them easy sniper pickings from the front and either side. Only idiots use Elites anymore. Brutes would be giant targets too for body shots and their tiny heads would make them impossible to snipe. I don't think this is a good idea. They should just stick with Master Chiefs.
Why was it ruined? Playing as the enemy you were fighting against was a nice change in the gameplay and a complete WTF....SWEET! moment when the dropships landed on the heretic stronghold and here I am surrounded by elites and grunts...and I'm one of them!And subtitles would have been lame. Better to just keep it in english.But to each his own I guess.
@Nobi-WanThe master chief is no soldier, he's a marine. Don't let a real marine ever hear you calling them a soldier, they'll give you an ear full at the least.
Maybe things have changed. Or maybe it just shows that they have poor attention to detail when it comes to the execution of simple things like rank and maybe they convienently came up with a stupid excuse instead of admiting that they made an error. Anyway, he can't be a marine because at the beginning of halo2 you get intoduced to your new gear by a master gunnery sargent ( who johnson calls "master guns," which is a correct an acceptable term for that rank) who later gets killed in the armory. That rank is an E9, and is equivalent in grade to a Master Chief. If the chief were a marine, he would probably hold this rank instead of master chief. You might argue that he could be a sargent major, which is another E9 marine rank, but sargents major are specifically commanders of enlisted troop units and directly handle the troopies - which isn't the chief's bag, baby.
Update: Bungie's Frank O'Connor, under his NeoGAF alias, Stinkles, has debunked part of this rumor (twice). According to Frankie, Brutes will not be playable characters. The video may still come to pass, though. We'll just have to wait and see.
@whickywhickyjim I agree that bungie did get things a bit wrong, but to suit the game. I think we need to look at the bigger picture. The Halo series as a whole is rated very highly. Perhaps people who disagree just need to GET OVER IT. It is interesting that the people that say they hate they games seem to know a lot about it. Hence "at the beginning of halo2 you get intoduced to your new gear by a master gunnery sargent ( who johnson calls "master guns," which is a correct an acceptable term for that rank) who later gets killed in the armory."Kinda' hypocritical really...Anyhow, today Bungie has confirmed that a video will be available on XBL marketplace from 20/12/06. Sorry, 12/20/06 (I'm not American...)<a class="user" href="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9340">http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9340</a>
skeletallamaDec 14, 2006
They'd better balance them for multiplayer. Elites have enormous heads that make them easy sniper pickings from the front and either side. Only idiots use Elites anymore. Brutes would be giant targets too for body shots and their tiny heads would make them impossible to snipe. I don't think this is a good idea. They should just stick with Master Chiefs.
Closed AccountDec 14, 2006
Why was it ruined? Playing as the enemy you were fighting against was a nice change in the gameplay and a complete WTF....SWEET! moment when the dropships landed on the heretic stronghold and here I am surrounded by elites and grunts...and I'm one of them!And subtitles would have been lame. Better to just keep it in english.But to each his own I guess.
konrad9Dec 14, 2006
Bungie doesn't hype it, the idiot fanboys hype it.
kisstheringDec 14, 2006
@Nobi-WanThe master chief is no soldier, he's a marine. Don't let a real marine ever hear you calling them a soldier, they'll give you an ear full at the least.
whickywhickyjimDec 14, 2006
Maybe things have changed. Or maybe it just shows that they have poor attention to detail when it comes to the execution of simple things like rank and maybe they convienently came up with a stupid excuse instead of admiting that they made an error. Anyway, he can't be a marine because at the beginning of halo2 you get intoduced to your new gear by a master gunnery sargent ( who johnson calls "master guns," which is a correct an acceptable term for that rank) who later gets killed in the armory. That rank is an E9, and is equivalent in grade to a Master Chief. If the chief were a marine, he would probably hold this rank instead of master chief. You might argue that he could be a sargent major, which is another E9 marine rank, but sargents major are specifically commanders of enlisted troop units and directly handle the troopies - which isn't the chief's bag, baby.
goonbagginsDec 14, 2006
The Brute part is false. It was smacked down by Bungie's community manager.<a class="user" href="http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=17427">http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=17427</a>
shinynewDec 15, 2006
Update: Bungie's Frank O'Connor, under his NeoGAF alias, Stinkles, has debunked part of this rumor (twice). According to Frankie, Brutes will not be playable characters. The video may still come to pass, though. We'll just have to wait and see.
monchsterDec 15, 2006
Well, so much for that rumor. It did stir quite a bit of attention though, huh!?!?!? Lol...
Closed AccountDec 20, 2006
@whickywhickyjim I agree that bungie did get things a bit wrong, but to suit the game. I think we need to look at the bigger picture. The Halo series as a whole is rated very highly. Perhaps people who disagree just need to GET OVER IT. It is interesting that the people that say they hate they games seem to know a lot about it. Hence "at the beginning of halo2 you get intoduced to your new gear by a master gunnery sargent ( who johnson calls "master guns," which is a correct an acceptable term for that rank) who later gets killed in the armory."Kinda' hypocritical really...Anyhow, today Bungie has confirmed that a video will be available on XBL marketplace from 20/12/06. Sorry, 12/20/06 (I'm not American...)<a class="user" href="http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9340">http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?cid=9340</a>
blandymanDec 22, 2006
@ MackPrime546 years, to be exact :)