Arbiter in Halo 3! 4 sure

If you look closely at the gameplay footage of the halo 3 documentary you can see some brutes charging the arbitor in a corner. Does this mean he will take over half the game again? What do you think?

- I hope not, Master Chief missions were/are a lot better

Of course he's in it. They can't just make him disapear.SymphonicWaves

Or can they? :roll:

I sure hope so.  The addition of his character was one of the overt ways that the campaign attempted to do more than the first game and I felt it was quite successful. 

The first Halo strongly hinted that the true evil in the Halo universe was The Flood and Halo 2 all but confirmed it.  The Elites are now an integral part of the victory story and I sure would like to play that part instead of simply seeing it in a cut scene.

This is what SHOULD happen.

In the intro movie, you see the Arbitar, jumping over ledges on earth, trying to run from a group of phantoms. Suddenly he jumps, mis calculates, slips, falls and dies.

I think we may fight along side the arbiter in this game even, I dont think they should have him in the game though. Lot of people didn't like it as the same happened with MGS with Raidon and look what happened to their userbase after it.

Same thing won't happen but just saying stick with your guns when you got a good thing like MC. People love him and when you play seperate character you change the game a bit in that FPS are usually you are the character and you become that person. In halo 2 you were 2 people so it's not the same thing. Although I didn't mind the Arbiter I think the MC alone would be better as I do prefer playing along side the human army and as MC
kcpp2b

I can't stand those Arbiter missions they were boring as hell. I do believe he is a part of the story, but why the hell did bungie have add him? Now playing as an elite, makes u feel sympathetic to their cause, when before we all hated those elites and their shields, so u couldn't wait to drop the first one that u saw. I hope u don't use his sorry a** again. If you recall the arbiter mission "The Great Journey" was the last mission in the game. The arbiter had more missions than Chief did, 7-6. I think Halo 2 was more about the covenant and their civil war. I just wanna kill some aliens, please?mr_tobizzle

QUOTE] What are you 8? If you want some brain dead, plotless shoot em up, go play Unreal Tournament or something.

It's not like the arbiter made the story epic. Halo's story is far from a masterpiece. Plus the story was just better from the human point of view.

I think the story would be a lot better, without the immortal sgt. and the English speaking aliens.

Immortal sgt. You mean the white elite? And the English speaking aliens? Eh, who cares. SymphonicWaves

No johnson

[QUOTE="SymphonicWaves"]Immortal sgt. You mean the white elite? And the English speaking aliens? Eh, who cares. mrarmagedon

No johnson

Well since the Arbiter is Essential to the story now, he has to be in Besides he's a cool character. They just gotta make his missions betterKash_1095

I loved the arbitor and i love the fact that Bungie made it where we were able to play the "bad guys" and learn their story. The only problem i had with him was the fact that when i started playing as him i had to fight the fu***** flood which i personally thought hurt the game more than the ending.

[QUOTE="Kash_1095"]Well since the Arbiter is Essential to the story now, he has to be in Besides he's a cool character. They just gotta make his missions betterAgent_Kaliaver

I loved the arbitor and i love the fact that Bungie made it where we were able to play the "bad guys" and learn their story. The only problem i had with him was the fact that when i started playing as him i had to fight the fu***** flood which i personally thought hurt the game more than the ending.

Or maybe in co-op one person will be MC, and the other will be the Arbiter, I think that would be pretty cool

This is what SHOULD happen.

In the intro movie, you see the Arbitar, jumping over ledges on earth, trying to run from a group of phantoms. Suddenly he jumps, mis calculates, slips, falls and dies.

gamerking178

Course it's no masterpiece, but that doesn't mean it has to suck and be another run of the mill game where you shoot aliens.  They show'd that in the 2nd.  The first was nothing more then a shooter.  I was all the gameplay, and for a AAA game, it seriously, seriously lacked in the narrative department.  They try to improve that, and what happens?  People cry.  SymphonicWaves

[QUOTE="SymphonicWaves"]Course it's no masterpiece, but that doesn't mean it has to suck and be another run of the mill game where you shoot aliens. They show'd that in the 2nd. The first was nothing more then a shooter. I was all the gameplay, and for a AAA game, it seriously, seriously lacked in the narrative department. They try to improve that, and what happens? People cry. blue-fish

[QUOTE="Kash_1095"]Well since the Arbiter is Essential to the story now, he has to be in Besides he's a cool character. They just gotta make his missions betterAgent_Kaliaver

I loved the arbitor and i love the fact that Bungie made it where we were able to play the "bad guys" and learn their story. The only problem i had with him was the fact that when i started playing as him i had to fight the fu***** flood which i personally thought hurt the game more than the ending.

Am I the only one who thinks if they had you killing Marines and blowing up Warthogs as the Arbiter instead of the Flood and other Covenant, that it would have been MUCH more fun and you would have actually felt like you were one of the bad guys--instead of feeling like you're the Master Chief with a different skin?

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[QUOTE="Kash_1095"]Well since the Arbiter is Essential to the story now, he has to be in Besides he's a cool character. They just gotta make his missions betterraze182

I loved the arbitor and i love the fact that Bungie made it where we were able to play the "bad guys" and learn their story. The only problem i had with him was the fact that when i started playing as him i had to fight the fu***** flood which i personally thought hurt the game more than the ending.

Am I the only one who thinks if they had you killing Marines and blowing up Warthogs as the Arbiter instead of the Flood and other Covenant, that it would have been MUCH more fun and you would have actually felt like you were one of the bad guys--instead of feeling like you're the Master Chief with a different skin?

i could of swore that i read an article on bungie.net saying that the arbiter would not be a playable character, but im not 100% sure.etbny22

It was Brutes, not the Arbiter.

This week got a little mental, when some of our friends in Belgium "revealed" that a documentary feature would be on Xbox Live Marketplace next week, and "reveal" that the Brutes were playable characters in Halo 3. Well, they're not playable characters.

The fact is, Brutes in Halo 3 will be significantly more exciting, clever, graphically impressive,  terrifying, numerous and angrier than in Halo 2, but they won't be playable, especially since you, in the role of Master Chief, will be spending a significant amount of effort and ammunition reducing their population.Bungie.net

You think Halo 1 had a good story?  I mean video games aren't normally know for them (mgs being the huge exception) but Halo was, there are aliens, we have to kill them.  You didn't care why they were doing it.  You didn't care about the ring, you just wanted it gone.  And your entire first paragraph has nothing to do with the arbitor.  MC has no past.  No future, no nothing.  He's just another soldier, only he's stronger.  He's boring.  He has no background whatsoever, he's quite possibly the most generic, uninspired character in a AAA game yet.SymphonicWaves