Halo: Reach Discussion

[Pooky]

Didn't like anything I saw, including the engine. Hopefully this won't be shit, but I'm not getting my hopes up. At least there's always Mass Effect 2.

[Siliconmaster]

Why didn't you like the engine? I mean, disregarding the grayish color cast, it finally has AA, nice depth of field, high res textures, and what looks like a nice drawing distance. What isn't there to like?

[BobtheGreatII]

So... you want a newer game to look.. worse?

YES!

[Pooky]

Why didn't you like the engine? I mean, disregarding the grayish color cast, it finally has AA, nice depth of field, high res textures, and what looks like a nice drawing distance. What isn't there to like?

I dunno, something about it just felt wrong to me. The characters seemed to pop out awkwardly from the background, like DOOM sprites in a Crysis screenshot.

[=sw=warlord]

Is it just me or does the Commander resemble Sgt Forge?

Yeah no...
Similar but doubt their related, forge was a marine not a spartan plus he got got split to atoms by the mini sun going super nova, Carter has blue eyes forge has brown.

[Lateksi]

The trailer reminded me of the Unreal Tournament game intros!

[Kornman00]

omfg, I edited your post by mistake think it was a quote . Hopefully u still have the link to that picture...

Yeah no...
Similar but doubt their related, forge was a marine not a spartan plus he got got split to atoms by the mini sun going super nova, Carter has blue eyes forge has brown.

Is it just me or does the Commander resemble Sgt Forge?

I was just remarking at how they looked a like, in the artsy kind of way.

But...

What if Sgt Forge was really a flash clone who by magic sauce survived being a clone and this is the real "forge"

[Warsaw]

The trailer reminded me of the Unreal Tournament game intros!

This does not bode well.

Good point actually. The thing is, I think they want to show that she does have a prosthetic arm and really shove that information in your face. If they hid it under the Mjolnir's arm piece, most people wouldn't really know the difference.

And it was in the Fall of Reach that James lost his arm, and he is seen later on with the Chief during the actual invasion of Reach when Blue Team was sent to secure the NAV date in the Circumference.

And then he goes flying out into space after a needler shard detonates his jet pack.

I don't remember any other Spartans having prostheses, and any prosthesis would probably be inferior to the original arm it replaces.

As for the current state of the Mk. V: the main thing making it look fugly is the lack of shoulder plates...seriously, the lack of them changes the profile dramatically and it looks weird.

[ejburke]

A lot of the shoulder armor looks weird. Like they took car parts and hydraulic motors and bolted them onto the arms.

This is what I mean with all these permutations killing the iconography of the MJOLNIR armor. It's all a mish-mash of mediocre, instead of a crafted, specific look that is tweaked until it's damn near perfect.

[Kornman00]

I don't remember any other Spartans having prostheses, and any prosthesis would probably be inferior to the original arm it replaces.

As for the current state of the Mk. V: the main thing making it look fugly is the lack of shoulder plates...seriously, the lack of them changes the profile dramatically and it looks weird.

Of course, all of this goes out the window if this is indeed the SIIIs. Since they aren't trained from childhood, they could have had the artifical limbs either before or after attending the augmentations.

One should also note how this may play into the game. The arm may be detachable to allow other attachments to be...(wait for it) attached. Hence why it is so noticable, because her character (maybe she represents a certain class if this is class based game) is the baseline or the default permutation for this SIII type.

If they are SIIIs, they wouldn't be rocking the same armor as the SIIs of course.

Like I said earlier, I highly doubt bungie would be making TFOR into a game. They don't do those sorts of things. They'll do books/games which expand upon existing media, but they won't reinvent the wheel. You should all consider this before you go off naysaying everything with assumptions.

A lot of the shoulder armor looks weird. Like they took car parts and hydraulic motors and bolted them onto the arms.

This is what I mean with all these permutations killing the iconography of the MJOLNIR armor. It's all a mish-mash of mediocre, instead of a crafted, specific look that is tweaked until it's damn near perfect.

The SIIIs were meant to be mass produced like ammunition. Thus, they weren't developing armor for a specific set of soldiers who were hand picked from child hood. Instead, they would be using whatever resources (who knows, the SIIIs may even build their own) to build their armor, especially on a huge military planet such as Reach. Hell, all of their armor may be various prototypes for specific SIII subject matter experts (could be hinted at the fact that the LT is a 'lone-wolf').