Quote Originally Posted by Arteen View Post
Doesn't hurt to try, though. 343i just isn't trying. This isn't the labor of love they claim it to be.
That is dismissive of my statement. Clearly, if someone fails at an unfair, contradictory task, you cannot judge their level of passion by the result. Failure is expected.

I made a Mark V helmet last year. I never finished and I haven't really shown it because of my own dissatisfaction, but no one can say I wasn't trying. Even if I had finished and been happy with it, I'm sure that if I polled 10 hardcore Halo fans, maybe 1.5 of them would think it was acceptable work and represented the idea in their head of the Master Chief.






Form is supposed to follow function. Trying to inject function into a pre-existing form is working in the wrong direction. It's especially hard with the original MC, because he was just such a mess upon close inspection. Even gently trying to straighten things out and line things up is enough to make him subjectively "not right".

With Anniversary, they stuck more closely to the original "mess" than I'm happy with, but hey, I get it. It's almost a no-win scenario.