wesleyshark
Banned
I want less pixels. Halo would look better if it were Minecraft. 343 sucks.
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Halo |OT 23| Thruster is Love, Thruster is Life
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I want less pixels. Halo would look better if it were Minecraft. 343 sucks.
Awesome wallpaper must have triggered.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
User 73706
Banned
That partially lends itself to
A) the size, and
B) the number of unrelated assets used to make it.
They combined a veritable fuckton of graphics to get that image looking cohesive - you can even see hints of the old Sanghelios concept art, complete with the Arbiter statue. Filters and film grain help mitigate that, and ultimately the image is going to be shrunk down to such a (relatively) small resolution of 1080p on average that the noise and grit will be negligible.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
We need some paint.net warriors to show 343 how colors should be done!
TOO MUCH FOG/HAZE!
the paint.net warriors made Lockdown/Bloodline look better and the 343 haze is a real issue.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Can we just get the CE Pistol in every game please?
User 73706
Banned
As an ain't shit graphic artist myself, I can confirm doing a self-contained "native" piece featuring original art for every element of that wallpaper, at that size, without any post-processing such as filters or grain, it would take at least over 9000 hours in mspaint. Even the latest ReclaimerHub(r) Pose As A Team(c) Wallpaper(tm) was only 1080pees, but still took a fuckton of filmic filters and sparks to look cohesive.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Doesn't work for me
Doesn't work for me
Get good. (OSX bro)
®™©
Also I just hacked this piece of shit together,
that'll be $1.99
You just sound nervous they might rek Blue team
lol
Again, I love their look though. So bad-ass. Like old vs new. Legend vs the new toys.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I like them. visually distinct. I think we are adverse to smooth looking armor cuz that at art style is usually cliche and overused. Like a power ranger.
They still look like spartans to me, so I'm okay with it.
With those designs Kelly could probably break their legs with 2 fingers
Welfare
Member
New toys are fragile. Old toys are resilient. Locke's team is fucked.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Old school muscle vs. new school tuners.
H5 is an adaption of the The Fast and the Furious confirmed.
Forerunner
Member
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Jem2.0
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Old toys made out of steel versus new toys made out of plastic.
Therefore, Blue Team wins
I actually like the way Locke's (Red?) Team looks as well. The contrasting styles is very appealing actually
wesleyshark
Banned
This is the true representation of Halo before 343 added too many pixels.
wesleyshark
Banned
Hey, there's nothing wrong with being hyped.
Also I've never been disappointed by a Halo (except the MCC) so I'm not too worried about keeping hype in check
One of the advantages of not really giving a shit.
Well jokes on you b/c I was kidding as well
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Hey, there's nothing wrong with being hyped.
Also I've never been disappointed by a Halo (except the MCC) so I'm not too worried about keeping hype in check
Missed you dude. And no there isn't! Im super excited!
=D
Original cover art:
You can put a green armor and gold visor on a turd and you would think it looks awesome.
I don't think I've heard a negative criticism toward anything Halo from you.
User 73706
Banned
When I illustrate that "one-dimensional kneejerk good" is just as bad as indiscriminate salt, you're the exact type of poster I'm talking about. You are in no way obligated to try and shield 343 from literally every criticism thrown their way. Name one thing you don't like about the Halo franchise.
What I'm worried about for Halo 5 is a cohesive story. We know there is no way this is a straight up fight between chief and locke, that there will be some twist to get them fighting (sigh) covenant. This could up being cool, but it might not make any sense.
I actually like Halo 4, but for the must part the story was confusing as presented and having read the forerunner trilogy actually made it worse as the didact seemed like a completely different character.
Where this all leads me to is a concern that this cool lead up to release will not pay off in the game.
My optimistic side causes me to hope they learned from their previous endeavors and it all comes together, because there is some high potential here.
I actually like Halo 4, but for the must part the story was confusing as presented and having read the forerunner trilogy actually made it worse as the didact seemed like a completely different character.
Where this all leads me to is a concern that this cool lead up to release will not pay off in the game.
My optimistic side causes me to hope they learned from their previous endeavors and it all comes together, because there is some high potential here.
<3
I'm massively excited for 5, however it release like a month after I start Uni. So I have no idea when I'm gunna be able to play it
I noticed this, since when did the Didact become such a dick?
wesleyshark
Banned
Let's see:
- The terrible multiplayer fiasco that is the MCC.
- The lack of solid linkage of the extended lore to the Halo 4 campaign so that people who didn't read the books would know what was going on.
- SMG starts. AR starts.
- Killing off Sgt Johnson
- The retcon that occurred between Fall of Reach and Reach.
- The inexcusable mixup of Kelly and Linda in Escalation.
- Some of the ridiculously poor artwork in Escalation.
There's quite a number of things, actually. 👍
did that actually happen?
Everything I see and hear about the comic makes me want to laugh and cry. What are they doing...
They swapped their roles in one panel, it's not the worst thing in the world.
Poodlestrike
Banned
It's pretty dumb, though. It's like... you had one job, guys. Don't fuck up the Chief's reunion with Blue Team.
wesleyshark
Banned
Definitely not world-ending, but for a franchise that is usually pretty anal about details, this was an unexpected lack of oversight haha.
Welfare
Member
Is there any sight given to Escalation?
wesleyshark
Banned
It seems like to me that the people who are tasked with the comics are given story outlines and some sort of skeletal script and they are creating it without any further input than that. The plot beats themselves are fine, but the execution of them, and the artwork that represents them is uh.... Nowhere near as good as it should be, or even up to par with previous Halo comics.
woah woah slow down there cowboy
JoeDanny
Member
You guys can't seriously believe that having 7 different scopes glued to Linda's head is not visual clutter. Or the broken silhouettes for the sake of cramming in more polygons because muh next-gen.
Fahzgoolin
Banned
I see what all you mean. Like I said though, it was primarily a jest. I just found the comments humorous because concept art is typically "busy" and not representative of the final product anyways.
*shrug*
Oh god, all of my money.
I thought we were talking about Halo?
all of my yes.