Have you guys noticed any detail that could have gone unnoticed on the first viewing? I noticed snow/ice at the feet of the cryopods. This leads me to believe, considering those are surely made with the best of technology, that for them to leak like this, decades, if not centuries, have probably gone by between Halo 3 and 4.

Man, I am really psyched! Them saying that they want to get rid of the colour purple in the game makes me think that the game will feel different from its predecessors. I am excited.

The halo 1 pistol is there. Doesn't mean it's as awesome though. Also, he slapped something on the end of it, attachments??? Hopefully not. But I want the arbiter and Sarge to be in the game, so i hope it's just a few months after the third one.

I'll go ahead and assume that he's about to get pulled into a Shield World. If that involves encounters with Forerunners that have survived there over centuries, it'd definitely breathe new life into combat etc.

It looked like Galactus fused with a Reaper and he was aboard the Normandy SR2 and him and Shepard(USING XBOX EXCLUSIVE VOICE CONTROL!) to save the universe... Again.

Yo at one point Chief shoots a gun. That's my dissection

The massive nerd in me is kind of really annoyed that the Mark VI MJOLNIR apparently has rocket boosters now but whatever. As DarkFury said that planet is almost certainly a Shield World, and quite possibly the planet from the end of Halo 3 which fans did hypothesise was a Shield World at the time. This is all speculation but it may be possible that the Shield World is Onyx and that entering it will reunite the Chief with Halsey and the other Spartans who were trapped in the Micro Dyson Sphere in the centre of the planet at the end of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

It looked like he was flying into a mass relay at the end. friggin' universe crossing up in this bitch!

@Gamer_152: That would be great, but I thought that Bungie did not consider the books canon; rather, they inspired themselves from them. Reach does contradict a lot of stuff from the books, and throughout the last decade, the games have constantly reminded us that Master Chief was the last spartan alive, regardless of this being flatly untrue in the books.

There's no need of this, all you need to know is that at one point you'll be shooting aliens in the face.

@Gamer_152 said:

This is all speculation but it may be possible that the Shield World is Onyx and that entering it will reunite the Chief with Halsey and the other Spartans who were trapped in the Micro Dyson Sphere in the centre of the planet at the end of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

Would love that. Just finished novel number 6 today, what timing! I'm glad this picks up right where 3 ended, but yeah, were those rocket boosters in the cryopod or something?!

@AuthenticM: Actually Bungie do consider the books canon, the Joseph Staten interview here shows him declaring them canon, although there are probably also other sources out there saying the same thing. While the events of Halo: Reach did contradict some of the original Halo: Fall of Reach, the book was actually edited so that the canon of the game and the book fit together.

@Gamer_152 said:

This is all speculation but it may be possible that the Shield World is Onyx and that entering it will reunite the Chief with Halsey and the other Spartans who were trapped in the Micro Dyson Sphere in the centre of the planet at the end of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

i had this same theory after reading the book and watching the ending of halo 3

Remember the new mario 3DS reveal. Remember the racoon tail. Remember reach. Never forget.

@Gamer_152 said:

@AuthenticM: the book was actually edited so that the canon of the game and the book fit together.

What, so they republished the book? That's a little weird; retconning a book.

@Gamer_152 said:

@AuthenticM: the book was actually edited so that the canon of the game and the book fit together.

What, so they republished the book? That's a little weird; retconning a book.

The halo 1 pistol is there. Doesn't mean it's as awesome though. Also, he slapped something on the end of it, attachments??? Hopefully not. But I want the arbiter and Sarge to be in the game, so i hope it's just a few months after the third one.

The massive nerd in me is kind of really annoyed that the Mark VI MJOLNIR apparently has rocket boosters now but whatever. As DarkFury said that planet is almost certainly a Shield World, and quite possibly the planet from the end of Halo 3 which fans did hypothesise was a Shield World at the time. This is all speculation but it may be possible that the Shield World is Onyx and that entering it will reunite the Chief with Halsey and the other Spartans who were trapped in the Micro Dyson Sphere in the centre of the planet at the end of Halo: Ghosts of Onyx.

This time he gets it on.

That's right...it.

The halo 1 pistol is there. Doesn't mean it's as awesome though. Also, he slapped something on the end of it, attachments??? Hopefully not. But I want the arbiter and Sarge to be in the game, so i hope it's just a few months after the third one.

I think the gun came apart when fired, and he was just reattaching the nose. Kind of weird to have a pistol segmented in that way, but that's what it looked like to me. As for bring in old characters, I actually hope they don't do that. The proper Halo arc got it's trilogy, I want to see new stuff. I'm kind of pissed they are even calling it Halo 4 because it implies so much that I think it would be better to leave alone at this point. I doubt they will go that direction, but the positioning creates weird expeditions, and I suspect that there will be a fair amount of uninformed backlash because of it.   

@Trylks: Hm. After looking at it again, I can see it both ways, which probably means you're right. It looks enough like the classic Halo pistol with the end attached, but that's what I want it to be. A grenade round also works and makes more sense.

My bad.