As I mentioned in the H1 beta/pre-xbox thread, I am interested in putting together a team to document all of Halo's Dialog. There are a lot of gems to be discovered, ranging from cut dialog, to cut ideas, to evidence of cut stories. Right now Vampire Girl and myself are both interested in assembling a team, so if there is anyone interested in doing so, make yourselves known. What we would be doing is breaking down all english speaking characters, all level dialog, and organizing it in a way that clearly documents the lines in the tags, who speaks it, and permutation weights if applicable to said permutations in each tag. I will have some example documents up later to show how each character or level should be organized.

Team
Masterz1337 (A30, C10, C20)
Vampire Girl (B40, C40, D20)
Echo77 (D40)
Sean (B30)
Mike (A10, A50?)

Edited by Masters1337 on Jan 17, 2014 at 07:07 PM
Edited by Masters1337 on Jan 18, 2014 at 12:24 AM
Edited by Masters1337 on Jan 18, 2014 at 12:24 AM

They've got the whole dang script here- dunno if there is cut content. Probably not very helpful, but eh:
http://uk.ign.com/faqs/2004/action-double-pack-game-script-454260

That's just a transcript, what we'd be doing is looking at all the files and documenting which line of dialog each one refers too.

This requires me to know all the marine names doesnt it ._.
*knows halo lore but doesnt know the marine names*

It's all listed in the tags, and in the tag name of each audio file. If you're in I can walk you through it. This won't be a hard project or require any advanced knowledge, it's just going to be time consuming.

I could help, methinks.

Just halo 1?

Halo 2 as well if the team isn't burned out from H1 when we're done.

b40 probably has the most goodies. I am doing the last of Cortana's a30 stuff and it's a nightmare. There are some nice things here though, cut Foehammer lines as well as talk of wildlife from Cortana, also some of the marines dying and asking Chief to take their sniper.

Neat, PM me what you have, I just finished A30. I am going to try to do C10 and C20 tonight as well. You still want c40?

pm me if i can do any thing

take a look at Zteam tha got a lot of Dialog form halo 1 2 3 some on thes 2 odst rech
did that help?

I'll help, even though im working on I01.

I dont think he means getting tags...
Edited by MEGASEAN2812 on Jan 17, 2014 at 10:52 PM

Right now, b30 and d20 are the only one not being worked on, so take your pick.

Will this be public when you gays are done? And is it going to be in a decent sound format available to everyone, or just .sound files.

b30 XD

Us gays are just making a text document that shows what every tag contains in it. If we document H2, then idk. Most of those sounds would be pointless to ingame anyway, unless you know what you are looking for.

D20 is the only mission left, unless you want to do a character instead. Or take a break, how much stuff was in c40?

This might be good for someone wanting to splice together a custom dialog using the original voices.
Permutations? Does that mean a dialog can be random, and if so can music be random too? Can we has breakbeat ui theme music too :o?

Some dialog has random permutations, yes. Any sound can have permutations

A30, C10, C20 are done, nothing new in the later too. I may start a character since it seems all the levels are covered.

Edit: Inspecting the grunt, there is a lot of unused dialog which I have never heard played in game... which makes me wonder if part of Bungie's system is broken. If so, we sure will have a lot of new tagslots to free up for SP projects, or we can try to find a way to fix it. Regardless, I think 1 character is to much for one person to do, and I also have no clue what the CM suffix stands for at the of some dialog fields... interesting things are afoot here.

Edit2: The Elites have some dialog in english that never plays...
Edited by Masters1337 on Jan 18, 2014 at 12:05 PM

Oh yeah the taunting. "COME ON TOUGH GUY"

I believe I've finished the dialogue from D40. I don't think there was anything in there that was unused.

Edit: Actually, there's more dialogue from the level, but it's in a folder marked "x70", and the files are named differently. What do I need to do with those?
Edited by Echo77 on Jan 18, 2014 at 02:04 PM

I wouldn't mind help extracting and going through halo 3 dialog if that was to ever be done.

x70 is the final cutscene afaik.

We'll deal with those later, I doubt there is anything important in them. Just do a run through them, see if anything stands out in them but we don't need to document them yet. I'll look at how we want to break down character dialog later.

There was some of that, and some of Chief's dialogue from his discussion with Cortana on the bridge.

My brothers and sisters still looking for help?

Indeed, I haven't heard back from Sean or Mike with their progress, but if they want to give you one of their levels, go for it.

NM forgot I need HEK and the rest of Halo editing tools.

Edited by PRPatxi on Jan 18, 2014 at 07:26 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_1eL3Zszuk

22-32 seconds. Do you all hear what I hear?

"I wanna rap-e men" ?

didnt have much time to use the computer. I only had time to model a 10 minute bsp XD

How many times did you listen to that to hear that? I knew what Im looking for and its still hard to hear

People with levels assigned, what is your current progress? Or should someone else take up your levels?

@Matt: Once actually, I thought i was going crazy, then I replayed it and realized I wasn't.
Edited by Masters1337 on Jan 20, 2014 at 08:06 PM

I got all of the dialogue that was in the folder "d40". It has most of the in-game dialogue from the level, but not all of it. Some of it is in a folder named "x70".