Star Raiders and Space Invaders

Since Rooster Teeth is working so close with 343i, they’ll be able to provide RT with the 3D models for everything in Halo 4. This would allow them to smoothly transition from machinimating and animating Halo 3 to Halo 4. They’d be able to use the official models and everything, right from the get-go. Which would be pretty fucking amazing.

Reach had a short lifespan in general, and was primarily used for Church’s memories in season 9, and I assumed that was why they never bothered getting any 3D renders for anything for animation. I had always assumed that they’d jump straight to Halo 4. And it’s looking to me like they won’t even be using Reach’s engine in season 10. Which makes sense, because, I mean, I don’t even see how they could go back to the Reach engine unless they were delving back into an AI’s memories or something. So I don’t see why they would even bother with animating anything in Reach. So… I dunno, I think it’d be pretty cool to see them go into Halo 4 for season 11, and be able to animate and machinimate side-by-side. Which would be pretty damn cool. I dunno.

Main point of this post: I think they’re going to be able to jump straight into animating Halo 4, which will bring about a much smoother transition.

FUCK YES!

Check out Halo Waypoint to watch it!

Ahhhh this is awesome! We really get to really see what Halo 4 looks like!

And I’m pretty happy with the way it looks. It really brings back the feel of Halo 3 for me, and I love it. If anything, the Spartans look a bit dull, but the game is still six months from release, so it’s probably not even in beta yet. It kinda reminds me of the alpha footage from Halo 3.

Seriously getting stoked for Halo 4.

YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!

But Steve Jobs’ death is literally the funniest thing to ever happen to the Rooster Teeth Podcast. Ever. Yet, when it happened, they only spent a minute or so talking about it.

Because throughout the podcast’s history, Apple always held their press conferences a few hours after Rooster Teeth recorded their podcasts, so they wouldn’t even be able to talk about it until the week after, at which point, it would be old news. This would happen every single time. They recorded the podcast Wednesday mornings, and Apple would hold press conferences on Wednesday nights.

And then Steve Jobs died like an hour or two after they had finished recording their podcast on that day.

So basically, it was just one final “fuck you” to the Rooster Teeth podcast. It was hilarious, and was like the funniest thing to ever happen to the podcast (even though it was about the death of a very important man). But they spent like no time talking about it.

THAT IS COMEDY GOLD. That is like the ONE TIME that it’s okay to laugh about a person’s death! And they blew it!

I really don’t know why I’m thinking about this right now, especially since this happened months ago.