Hey
>Yeah?
You ever wonder if Red vs Blue threads fit on /co/?

>>149225607 (OP)
they have, and will, and always will be.
dunno why anyone liked this shit though, my friend still mentions it to me sometimes.

>>149225607 (OP)
It was fun before THE PLOT with Tex kicking their asses

I prefer to end the series at season 8, but I'll watch up until season 13. Everything after that is just shit.

>>149225707
>>149225607 (OP)

I couldn't watch this unhinged nonsense after they left Blood Gulch.

>>149225719
I really disliked seasons 9 and 10.

Recollection=Blood Gulch>Freelance Saga=Chorus Saga>>>Shisno>>>>Shit>>>>Zero
The Anthology season was okay, I have not watched restoration.

>>149225607 (OP)
whats you favorite machinima /co/? For me its darkspirefilms

>>149225707
>>149225779
>series peaked with Season 8
BASED take
That ending makes me tear up every time. Full circle endings always do. Everything after just isn't canon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXgKLC5P-RY
>>149225779
I like the Anthology as a "bonus season" after 8

Goeff was my favorite character
He saved the show basically

>>149226347
Correct
His chemistry with Church in all the PSAs is a neverending treat. It's weird considering Geoff and Burnie never really hang out on camera outside of RvB

>>149225707
I enjoyed Season 14 because it was just an anthology and I liked them trying new styles like animation or stopmotion, once they shifted to Halo 5 with Season 15 it went to shit

>>149225643
>>149225719
>>149225727
Absolute tastelets

>>149225607 (OP)
Zero is garbage, it was RWBY with an RvB skin, which is bad because RWBY is garbage.

>>149225719
Even by season 5 they were building up to the recollection arc by bringing up Carolina and stuff.

>>149226804
Yeah, they should have just kept doing anthologies or called it quits altogether after season 13.
Glad they basically retconned all the garbage that came after with restoration, as bad as that was.

>>149228060
how did they retcon things? I didn't bother with RvB after the first few episodes of Season 15

>>149228197
Everything after season 14 was just Church running simulations trying to find the best way to escape the Staff of Charon at the end of season 13.
They also never reveal if Restoration itself was just another simulation, so you can still treat the S13 cliffhanger as the canon ending if you like. (Which I do, because restoration was basically just a rehash of season 8)

>>149225607 (OP)
Why were they Halo?

>>149229367
it's...a machinima series made in Halo multiplayer

>>149225607 (OP)
Only if the goats are in as well

>>149229367
zoomie trash

>>149225607 (OP)
I don't know, it's one of life's great mysteries. Is machinima merely a niche application of videogame content that belongs on /v/, or does it constitute a proper animated medium that would make it /co/ material? I don't know, OP, but it keeps me up at night.

Animation is animation. You're just using a game engine to do it.

Puppets are also /co/.

>>149225845
https://youtu.be/SpxCSul9szk?si=qpePIEvYmWFopF2M
Relevant since Hayabusa is coming back.

>>149229705
>Y0ur no m4tch f0r th3 ch33f mob1l3.
>*Gets in a Warthog and slams.*

Shit, an actual Halo(is) thread.
Does anyone want to hear my schizo theory connecting Halo to Marathon?

>>149225607 (OP)
Man those were the days

>>149230597
Did you know there are still private Halo 2 servers up?

>>149230660
I didn't like Halo 2. Loved 3 though.

>>149230407
sure, always love those

>>149225607 (OP)
Griff is my favorite fat ass.

Enjoyed RvB a bunch. Rewatched it recently and while its aged, I still enjoy it.
I dropped it once Reach came out and they started doing full animated stuff instead of the typical machinima.
I liked the freelancer stuff before because it wasn't super fleshed out and vague, so seeing the new season doubling down on it burnt me out.

>>149231114
Alright so, as you know, Marathon came before Halo. It is also heavily implied that Pathways into Darkness, the FPS they made before Marathon, is connected by way of the Jjaro having contacted Bill Clinton in the 90s to tell him about the W'rkncacnter under the temple in Peru.
When Halo was being developed, back in its early TPS/FPS phase after they decided to change, they began working on the story. With the Marathon logo featured prominently, many people on the design team began to see Halo as a spiritual successor to Marathon, but many others began putting bits of hints inside it to say that it WAS a Sequel to Marathon, such as having Cortana be the villain of first Halo, as well as originally having been constructed from remnants OF Durandal. Lets look at the Parallels.
>Jjaro = Forerunners
>Pfhor = Covenant
>S'pht = Elites
>Tycho = 343 Guilty Spark
>W'rkncacnter = The Flood
>Durandal = Cortana
>Mjolnir Recon 54 = The Master Chief.
My theory is this:
Marathon Infinity ends with Durandal at the final moment of the universe's existence realizing what the player was before blinking out of existence. Taking the idea of the cyclical universe into account, the Big Bag/Big Crunch.
Assuming that the PC of Pathways into Darkness was eventually turned into the cyborg Mjolnir Recon 54, and that Master Chief was originally envisioned as one as well, I have the idea that more than just Durandal originally survived.
Mjolnir Recon 54's Soul managed to traverse Marathon's universe, survive, and was reborn as John when he did because that was when Humanity would need him most. Durandel was the legendary sword of Roland, and as such he was the player's shield and sword in Marathon 2 and Infinity. In Halo I-IV, Cortana(also named after the legendary sword, Curtana), was the Master Chief's Shield and Sword.

>>149232252
If we went by the original Bungie Lore, there were no Precursors: The Flood just showed up one day. What if they were the remains of the W'rkncacnter we helped trap in Lh'owon's star at the end of Marathon Infinity? The W'rkncacnter are strange, eldritch abominations that bend reality and space by their mere existence. To keep them trapped in stars and blackholes are the only way to keep the universe in check.
Whose to say that when the Universe of Marathon finally died, that the W'rkncacnter didn't survive? The next point of my theory posits that the Flood are the remains of this creature, mutated and horrifically deformed from surviving the death of its universe and the birth of the new one. It also explains why, when as a Gravemind, it bears a grudge against The Master Chief(besides blowing up Installation 04/Stealing Cortana/Destroying High Charity).
>"Child of my enemy why have you come? I offer no forgiveness - a Father's sins pass to his son."
But this goes into my original theory of "The Humans were Forerunners but then 343 said 'Nu-uh!' and fucked up the lore", so he could be referring to 'Father' as the Forerunner, though in regards to my Marathon theory, he is referring to his original incarnation as Mjolnir Recon 54.
He remembers The Master Chief, he remembers everything he did to keep him in that star, burning until the end of the universe, driving him insane until all he had was horrific desire to consume all things.

And thats my Schizo-theory. When I was a boy I didn't know that things could be seperate universes, and playing through Halo after playing Marathon, my autistic and burgeoning schizophrenic mind told me "Hey, this is a sequel, cool! Look, theres my guy!" Some things are bound to be wrong, but in my heart of hearts, I know that Marathon is there within Halo, no matter what 343, Microsoft, or Nu-Bungie claims.
This was what was suppose to be:
>Pathways into Darkness -> Marathon -> Halo -> Destiny.
But things went wrong, the timeline split, Harambe died, say however you want but when Bungie left and essentially disowned Halo, they broke their established canon, and the cords of fate were left frayed in the wind.

The PSA on Tattoos is still extremely relevant advice. I'd go so far as to say it's timeless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2pSt2gACrc&t=10s

So Tex & Church were always an AI in robot bodies but never noticed that the other was clearly a robot?

>>149232392
I've no idea, I stopped watching when they moved from Halo 3 to Halo Reach.

>>149232392
Their first bodies were human (basically humans possessed by an artificial intelligence), after their first deaths they used only robot bodies.

>>149225607 (OP)
Tex is sex

i only ever watched up until the end of bloodgultch chronicles
what the fuck happens after?!
can anyone give a tldr

>>149233839
Eh, just watch it.

>>149225607 (OP)
This episode is a gem that people don't really think about. This is a Red Vs Blue espidoe that promoted the Microsoft 2003 PDC conference. This was a time when the future of computing was on a whole other level. That is... until Microsoft fucked up Longhorn beyond repair...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMcuxW6QzBM

Is Recreation any good?
On one hand, I know Burnie is back and write, and I am curious to see how that goes.
On the other, I just can't hear Caboose as anyone else but Joel.

>>149225607 (OP)
Nah it’s too big.

>>149235356
It's alright

>>149233650
My man

>>149235356
What, the series finale came out already?

>>149235356
It's okay. But it could have been better.

>>149235356
>anyone but Joel playing Caboose
Sacrilege

What was the season where at the end the blue spartan chick finds some sad old dude watching a video of him and his gf before she shipped off to war and died? I think I stopped watching after that. I liked the show up to and including that point. Didn't really enthrall me after that. I think I just got tired of the premise.

I hope one day we get a game about some ODST dude and an elite chick doing black ops stuff after the war.

>>149237027
We need more tex art here.

>>149237729
it was the end of the Freelancer saga I think

>>149238936
It was yes.

>>149225607 (OP)
wtf the last time i saw that was something like 20 years ago. i remember caboose is my favorite

>>149239594
Did you know his name is Michael J. Caboose, and he hates babies?
Also that they changed his voice?

>>149235356
>>149237628
>>149240007
>"the 2nd amendment is important and we should protect it also buy gold"
>"clearly we can't associate with this maniac any longer"
Late-stage Roosterteeth was beyond retarded, and I can't really see the reboot company thinning that poison

>>149240147
I miss when Rooster teeth was about a bunch of friends playing around on Halo.
Those were the days.

>>149225607 (OP)
Is the full series still available on Youtube? I did hear that some content had to be scrubbed, but I'm curious.

>>149225607 (OP)
of course they do

>>149225607 (OP)
I love it but I'm a season 1-5 puritan only.

>>149240147
I still don't understand what the new version of the company is actually supposed to be. Hasn't everyone who worked there moved on to other stuff now?

>>149241989
How come?

>>149237729
Suorce?

>>149243873
I don't care for Church being an AI, I don't care for Washington or any of the other Freelancers, I think Halo 3 was especially ugly and everything in that engine looked like play-doh so I was disappointed to see them move onto it, and the charm was simply lost without Blood Gulch, that canyon was peak Halo aesthetic in the day and Valhalla was a poor substitute.
Plus they started to repeat themselves soon after, Church's proclamation about his laser face was just a retread of Caboose' O'Malley fuelled rant about hating babies in Battle Creek.
I will compliment that eras use of Trocadero, Flying By Wire was a great album and the Halo 3 era picked some choice songs, especially the Metas theme.
Finally, the Monty animation era was not very interesting to me, for all of their boasting about how the limitations of the character animations in the base Halo multiplayer bred creativity in story telling they sure dropped that shit as soon as possible when it became convenient to do so.

>>149245406
Fair enough, niche opinion

>>149232252
>>149232293
>>149232349
The fuck was all this

>>149246814
>149230407
>Does anyone want to hear my schizo theory connecting Halo to Marathon?
Reading isn't hard, Paco

>>149240147
Voice change caboose sucks and feels like a bad fan dub.