HALO Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/category/halo Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Tue, 20 May 2025 22:50:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 182200397 Bungie jumped https://didacticmind.com/2025/05/bungie-jumped.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/05/bungie-jumped.html#comments Tue, 20 May 2025 22:50:55 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22180 For those of us who love HALO, the name, “Bungie Studios”, is one that we treat with great reverence. HALO fans – who make up a significant portion of this site’s readership – regard Bungie as the producers of the three greatest FPS games ever made. (Plus HALO 3: ODST, and HALO: Reach, which are […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/05/bungie-jumped.html/feed 1 22180 The new era of HALO https://didacticmind.com/2021/10/the-new-era-of-halo.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/10/the-new-era-of-halo.html#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2021 20:42:03 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=13560 The new campaign trailer for HALO Infinite dropped yesterday – and so did my jaw, when I saw it: Jen Taylor’s voice. Epic graphics. Amazing cutscenes. Innovative gameplay. Loads of new weapons. Endless ways of achieving specific objectives. An open sandbox environment taking over from the sort of “HALO on rails” feeling that we got […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/10/the-new-era-of-halo.html/feed 2 13560 Let the Reclamation begin https://didacticmind.com/2021/06/let-the-reclamation-begin.html https://didacticmind.com/2021/06/let-the-reclamation-begin.html#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:18:50 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=11985 The new E3 2021 HALO Infinite campaign trailer is out, and… well, just watch – though you’ll want to skip through the first 2min of it, because of Bonnie Ross flapping her trap: First things first… Wow. We have waited nearly SEVEN YEARS for a HALO game that truly respected the Master Chief, and his […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2021/06/let-the-reclamation-begin.html/feed 2 11985 Officially blacklisted https://didacticmind.com/2019/10/officially-blacklisted.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/10/officially-blacklisted.html#comments Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000 Commenter NewTunesForOldLogos gave me the best news that I’ve had in a long while on my previous post about Red Bernie’s heart attack: Congratulations on being banned from Facebook! I tried to share a link to this post, and your whole blog is blacklisted. Right, here is exactly how the Didact feels about this momentous news: […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2019/10/officially-blacklisted.html/feed 4 782 HALO needs a major revamp https://didacticmind.com/2019/07/halo-needs-major-revamp.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/07/halo-needs-major-revamp.html#comments Sat, 27 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000 Seeing as how HALO Infinite is slated for release in 2020, a full five years after HALO 5: Guardians was released – which is by far the biggest gap between flagship HALO games in the franchise – here is an interesting perspective on the ways in which the current stewards of the series have “ruined” it: I […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2019/07/halo-needs-major-revamp.html/feed 2 934 Five years sure feels “Infinite” https://didacticmind.com/2019/06/five-years-sure-feels-infinite.html https://didacticmind.com/2019/06/five-years-sure-feels-infinite.html#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2019 08:00:00 +0000 The new HALO INFINITE trailer dropped yesterday. I’ll just shut up now and let you absorb the awesomeness: Right. Here is my sober, calm, carefully weighed, objective, and totally unbiased reaction to this trailer: ‘MURICA. The God-Emperor, Donaldus Triumphus Magnus, is such a figure of awesomely awesome awesomeness that he’s even making HALO great again!!! First and […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2019/06/five-years-sure-feels-infinite.html/feed 2 1038 The Ecumene https://didacticmind.com/2018/09/the-ecumene.html https://didacticmind.com/2018/09/the-ecumene.html#respond Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:00:00 +0000 I was going through some of the posts that I have written and turned into multi-part series yesterday and I realised that some of them really should be collected and organised. So I went through and updated the “Didact’s Ecumene” page to accommodate such a collection. You will now find on that page collections of various […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2018/09/the-ecumene.html/feed 0 1560 HALO Infinite https://didacticmind.com/2018/08/halo-infinite.html https://didacticmind.com/2018/08/halo-infinite.html#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2018 17:17:00 +0000 New HALO game. Which as far as I’m concerned is almost as important as the question of who’s going to be the next freakin’ Pope. I can’t believe I missed the announcement trailer dropping at E3 – that was two months ago and I’m only now getting around to it. Being in the old country tends to have […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2018/08/halo-infinite.html/feed 3 1652 Music for breaking things https://didacticmind.com/2018/06/music-for-breaking-things.html https://didacticmind.com/2018/06/music-for-breaking-things.html#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2018 06:17:00 +0000 Sent to me by a reader, here is something to start off your Sunday morning the right way: Oddly enough, the song title features in the last line of the introduction to the book that I am writing. I posted up that introduction a while back, then went through and revised it a bit, and […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2018/06/music-for-breaking-things.html/feed 3 1748 Shredfest https://didacticmind.com/2017/06/shredfest.html https://didacticmind.com/2017/06/shredfest.html#respond Sat, 10 Jun 2017 13:29:00 +0000 Nothing serious this morning, I’m simply in the mood for some epic guitar heroics- starting with: I first got introduced to IMPELLITTERI at the tender age of, like, 15 by the friend who turned me into a metalhead. I’ve never forgotten that feeling of being hit between the eyes with a cattle-prod that came from […]

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