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A family can be a tired dad, his ex, four chaotic sons and their stinky balloon pet
@scarecrane suggested I draw alpha nine because their models from ODST are not the most glamorous reference for how they look so I did a family-photo-esque thing!
the sad photo belongs to buck and is me being bitter about how they broke up alpha nine and made me mad >:/
(please don’t repost or use w/o permission, and leave my description; thanks!
I’m flipping through Awakening: The Art of Halo 4 looking for some references of Infinity’s interior when I came across this quote from Kenneth Scott, Senior Art Director, regarding the Master Chief’s armor design in Halo 4:
“The goal was simple: player connection. We needed to make the player feel like a bio-engineered super soldier wearing 800 lbs of tank and jetfighter. Familiar details from real military vehicles helped immensely with the Master Chief’s physicality. Finding that sweet spot where a new team with fresh vision could take ownership yet remain familiar enough to make a comfortable homecoming was the biggest challenge.”
Comparing this quote from the inception of both 343 Industries and the Reclaimer saga to the recent quotes regarding art style for Halo Infinite just further breaks my heart for 343i as a studio that put some much time and effort and thought into their armor design, only for them to face unrelenting backlash for it; which in my eyes, is wholly unwarranted.
Obviously not enough time into the armor design, given that it was a complete disaster and only alienated fans further. 343i changing literally EVERYTHING about Halo when they took the helm hurt the franchise in a way that was unthinkable in the glory days of Halo (circa Halo 3). The music, the visuals, everything iconic about the Halo franchise was chucked into a wastebasket. Halo Wars 2 started to mend the wounds by somewhat returning to the older style, while also giving a new look to the enemy faction that wasn’t just “bulbous and insectile” like the Covenant Storm.
If you keep adding senseless drivel to my posts, I’m blocking your stupid ass.
One more time, buddy. One more.
Can’t take a little critism I see? I guess other’s opinions are worth squat to you.
When I didn’t ask for them? Absolutely.
When you post on a public microblogging website, one that allows you to reblog a other’s post, then you should expect to see people put their own opinions into the fray, as it where. Stiffling other’s opinions just because they don’t match yours isn’t the way to go about things. It makes you seem rude and frankly rather stuck-up. If you don’t mind me saying.
Constantly adding to my posts although being fully aware I’m going to disagree is also rude and stuck-up. Did your mother never teach you “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all?”
You–shocking, I know!–don’t have to keep adding your opinion to my posts! Make your own and leave me the hell out of it!
Hey, just because your thin-skinned, that’s no reason to point the finger of blame at me. 😉
What…what suggests I’m thin-skinned lol
Get lost, honestly, you’re a joke
“being fully aware I’m going to disagree”, if not thin-skinned then you are at the least quick to trigger. You chose the worng person to get into an argument about Halo, because Halo is one of my major SpIns and I hate what 343i did to it.
(I’m the joke? You’re the one who thinks 343i era “Halo” is good.)
Hey buddy, the kind lady has already suggested to you multiple times to leave her posts alone. Why dont you go ahead and do that.
Also, clearly the only one here who’s thin skinned is you considering your so offended over someone over a SpIn(I know what that’s like too bc Hey it’s my SpIn too and I may not have like the sudden change between 3 and 4 but that’s bc a company suddenly decided to wash their hands of it because some people(cough the fanbase and microsoft) thought they could bully the dev’s into making the game what they wanted
Oh hey doesnt that look like what the fandoms repeating to do with 343, and essentially what your doing to Mrs.Chief?
Just ignore her blog. It takes zero energy(zero spoons even) to block something you don’t like.
It’s literally so easy I wouldn’t be suprised if you blocked me immediately after I reblogged this to disagree with you without even giving the thing the time of day because your too twisted up in your thin skin to believe your in the wrong for constantly adding to someone’s posts after they’ve told you to stop.
Very uneasy about Halo Infinite. I’m glad 343 is returning to John’s story and essentially acknowledged their mistake with H5 ignoring him. But the return to the classic music and art style is alarming. I love the Reclaimer style. I love the architecture and the armor and everything about it. I love the original trilogy games, but I think they are aesthetically horrifying.
Seeing a studio revert to an old art style to appease those who distrust them with a franchise is sad, and they’re ignoring the bigger storytelling issues. Halo 5’s story was a dumpster fire. The armor wasn’t the issue. The style wasn’t the issue.
But the armor and the style WHERE a major issue, the entire feel, the “air” if you could say, of Halo was changed for the worse with 4. Seemingly for no other reason than 343i wanting to change things for the sake of change.
Many of the stylistic choices that where made make little to no logical sense:
-Why on Sangheilios would the Sangheili wear less armor now? Notably the Zealot and Minor Harnesses (the term for Sangheili armor) leave the entire arm exposed, like they are wearing some sort of metal wife-beater tee.
-The “Spartan” IV armors look like hunks of plastic glued to a body glove, and not a shell of protective armor plating. It doesn’t help that most of the armor lacks a distinct outline, thus making many armor sets pretty same-y. Remember back in Halo 3, when you could tell even from a glance the various armor configurations apart? Scout looked vastly different than Rouge or EVA, for example.
-Why does the BR look like a futuristic version of a FAMAS rifle? And not a natural progression of the Battle Rifle? The BR was a sleek, rounded weapon, not a bulky square cube.
-I don’t even want to get started about what was done to the various Covenant races…. (What the H#LL happened to the Unggoy?)
If you’d die for classic Halo, then play it. You don’t have to play the 343i games, 🅱️
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The last time 343 bent over backwards for the toxic majority of their fans, we got Halo 5’s campaign: a game which undid every good thing that 4 started, completely ignored the Hunt the Truth promos, and brought back Cortana as a textbook villain(and a shit one at that), alongside an overdone a.i. uprising subplot. As Mrs. Chief said, style and armor isnt the issue.
I don’t know where Halo will go from here, and I’m both excited and nervous thinking about it. I just hope that 343 can pull it off: I shudder to think of how awful the community would be if Infinite flops too. 😥
Well we’re not gonna be getting halo infinite anytime soon as it’s still a work in progress and what we got at e3 2018 was just a demo of what the new slip space engine can do.
“Halo Infinite will feature Sparth’s (Art Director, Nicolas Bouvier) new art style that draws significant inspiration from the most iconic and historic parts of the Halo franchise and your feedback, all while modernizing and taking advantage of the full power of the Xbox One family. The new Master Chief helmet directly showcases our new art style.“
No, it wasn’t “just a demo of the engine” it was a clear-cut example of the new art style.
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