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[DarkHalo003]

That AR....looks out of this world. The Decals on the upper part of the gun are a nice touch and I like the green lighting on the sides! Tell Dano I said "AWESOME."

[xalener]

You ever play with a different color strip? :P

I want you to take a look at these images and tell me how many of these rifles have the color yellow on them.

Yes, but which of those are from 500 years in the future? There are shitloads of reason a rifle could have a colored strip on them that far in the future. It could be a designation thing, or it could have something to do with the manufacturing process. Sure, Bungie designers didn't give a shit. The guy (he or she) probably just put it on because they thought it looked cool. The fact is, though, that we can't really draw 100% from current....stuff... as if it were a law in regards to this subject. It just makes you look like you have thick steel rebar up your ass when you start that, because It's like arguing the improbability of Cinderella marrying a prince while being bottom class. If you start that, then why are plasma weapons acceptable to you? What about the excessive metal used in the marine's armor? Wouldn't that be way too cumbersome and impractical? What about all the spacecraft being made up of a bunch of small panels of what look like sheet metal welded together with no planning or design or thought? Doesn't that seem a bit dangerous? What about the fact that the marines in Halo 2/3 don't have eyepieces? How do they even use the helmet uplinks in the guns to hit anything? There's no iron sights on em... Well maybe that's why they're so damn useless. Why don't the warthogs have god damn doors? There's NO protection on that thing. I can go on and on, but none of this matters at all. If anything, they ADD charm to the series. Halo wouldn't feel right if everything were functional and made sense, there's plenty of other sci fi that does that and it's fucking boring.


Either way, the model is too beautiful for something like the inclusion or absence of a colored strip to bring it down.

[Amit]

I still prefer the yellow strip. Funny how so many people complained about that and how it's unrealistic, but they didn't point out the huge fucking green button that glows. No human weapon would ever include something like that.

[=sw=warlord]

I still prefer the yellow strip. Funny how so many people complained about that and how it's unrealistic, but they didn't point out the huge fucking green button that glows. No human weapon would ever include something like that.

Agreed.
Only on modacity would you find people complaining about a worn yellow strip citing realism for a mod of a game where giant purple aliens roam like nothing unusual is happening.

[Kornman00]

If you're trying to bring plasma weapons, which are made by an entirely alien race, into this argument then you really don't understand the argument itself.

Just because time progresses, doesn't mean that tried and true practices will change. You wouldn't put shit that stands out like a sore thumb on standard issue infantry armaments. This is why you don't see any of the weapons Teekup referenced bling'd out like how Army of Two (e.g.) allows. As a soldier, you're the one who should have an upper hand on the enemy, not the other way around.

The marine's armor? That can be explained by the '500 years in the future' point you so eagerly wanted to bring up. Technology got better, extra strength armor that weighs very little can be produced.

But a fucking set of yellow stripes on a standard issue weapon makes no sense (and masters already gave an excuse for it, hth). The "reasons" you bring up don't make sense. Sure, there are "shitloads of reasons" why, but only the sensible ones count in an argument. Unless you thought the Chewbacca defense was a legit defense?

Designator? They have text engraving for such things. The manufacturing process? Probably need to hire a better contractor for your weapons at that point.


Also, I agree, the light for the flash light is silly as well. However, at the time of the initial posts (and still), the stripes didn't explain any kind of purpose. The glowing button for your light, sure, but just because I or anyone else didn't comment on it from the start doesn't mean we find it any better or approve. A person's silence doesn't prove anything when used in an argument other than the opposition running out of rope.

[xalener]

Just because time progresses, doesn't mean that tried and true practices will change.

http://www.cowanauctions.com/auctions/item.aspx?ItemId=44716

But they obviously have, and more than likely will.

[Arteen]

That's a hunting rifle, not military equipment.

[=sw=warlord]

If you're trying to bring plasma weapons, which are made by an entirely alien race, into this argument then you really don't understand the argument itself.

I was trying to bring up the fact that Halo is a game about science Fiction, not science fact.
Halo has never been about realism and I remember a time where the Halo community accepted that and embraced it, now though everything has to be strictly by the book with no artistic liberty allowed.

[Kornman00]

warlord, you post sniped me, I was replying to xalener

[Pooky]

I was trying to bring up the fact that Halo is a game about science Fiction, not science fact.
Halo has never been about realism and I remember a time where the Halo community accepted that and embraced it, now though everything has to be strickly by the book with no artistic liberty allowed.

I don't think the argument here is about realism, it's about blatant stupidity. If real life marines started wearing big red clown noses, people wouldn't bitch about it being unrealistic because it's real life. People would bitch about how fucking retarded it is. Like putting big yellow cartoon stripes on guns.

But whatever.