The Energon Pub

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 2:37 pm

Psycho Warrior wrote:I'm glad to see more of York.

But my hope is this is all Wash telling the reds and blues about project freelancer, not just a jump back in time.

Could be a bit of both. The Blood Gulch Regulars all appear in the Trailer, though the fact that Church and Donut are both still alive as well as everyone being back at Blood Gulch means it could be a straight prequel. Or it's a setup for a joke. ("Yes, Wash, we know. We were there.")

Psycho Warrior wrote:Also getting to see more reasons behind why Wash shot south in cold blood is a good promise.

Most of the Freelancers were already antagonistic towards each other. That, and Recovery One showed that not only did South leave her own brother for dead just to save her own ass, (basically handing over North's AI to the Meta in the process) she also did the same to Wash, and likely would have kept doing it. That, and Wash has a tendency to overreact to certain things. (Did he really have to kill Donut?)

by **The Happy Locust** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:36 pm

Just saw the season 9 trailer. Wasn't expecting a prequel story, nor that they take this farther and farther from the concept of Machinima. But rather than be a purist, I will just say this: This looks epic! :grin:

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Tue Jun 14, 2011 1:44 pm

Hey, the first episode is up! And it's pretty vintage RvB, too, at least until the last couple seconds.

One note about this series: It's both sequel and prequel. The sequel stuff takes place after last season, and will be done entirely in traditional machinima, using Halo Reach, as well as a handful of special effects done in post. (Which the series has been doing since forever, so it's not like it's a new thing) The prequel bits take places...well, before Season 1, obviously, and those will be done entirely in Monty Oum style.