343's art style is AIDS

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We all have our opinions on gameplay suffice to say, but I think we can all agree that the art is just bad.

For example, the shotgun. The original halo games had a very memorable look to em
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Now look at what 343 decided was a good look
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Halo 3 and Reach's art style allowed it to still look great with the technical limitations of the 360, sure the framerate is real crunchy, and the lack of anti-aliasing isnt all that great, but almost 10 years later Halo 3 and Reach punche above their weight in my opinion. I have a feeling 343's halo games won't age very well.

What ya'll think, talk about game art and shit cause thats cool.
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How did we go from this
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Gotta make sure we have 6969696 polygons and 300 bump maps or its not next-gen


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The shotgun looks like cheap plastic in 343's style.


 
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Gotta make sure we have 6969696 polygons and 300 bump maps or its not next-gen
I wasn't a fan of the Reach AR's design though. Looked like it was made out of legos.


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Gotta make sure we have 6969696 polygons and 300 bump maps or its not next-gen
I wasn't a fan of the Reach AR's design though. Looked like it was made out of legos.
True, its kinda grown on my tho


 
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At least they're not trying to change halo wars 2


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have you shown this image to the halo archive?


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The weird thing is there's elements in 343 games that I do think look cool but either get fucked over by the shitty lighting engine they have and end up looking like plastic toys or just don't fit the Halo aesthetic. Also square rocks everywhere for some reason.

P90 SMG, new Scorpion, that city warzone map, Wasp, the sanghelios desert stuff. I'd actually like some of the armours like Hellcat a lot more if they were in mass effect because they'd fit that a lot more.

Oh and I'm also not opposed to the new Covenant vehicles, I just wish they were faction-specific rather than outright replacement.


 
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I will never, ever, for the life of me, understand Fotus

It's literaly joke armor based on some Waypoint thing. It's good for making your Spartan look like an Evangelion at least.

But yeah 343i's artstyle went from what I felt was a mixed bag in Halo 4 to an absolute clusterfuck by the time 5 rolled around. There was really stupid shit already with the fucking Floppy-Disk-Eyes Man armor being the worst by far

I liked the promethians (although I think they should have looked less 'organic' and more angular). FOUS I like because of said ability to look like an Evangelion. There were quite a few armors in 4 I liked and the design John's new armor had grown heavily on me....

But then we get to 5 and it's just like...


Reach's artstyle was the best


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Also square rocks everywhere for some reason.

^This^

It has gnawed at me since Halo 4 but yeah the rocks in 343i's games are so disturbingly angular and blocky all the time that it get incredibly off-putting, and nobody else seemed to notice it which scared me.


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The grass looks like fucking shit



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The grass looks like fucking shit



Seriously why are the rocks so fucking blocky?


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Forge community: Hey 343 we want some non-shit forge spaces that aren't full of hills

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The prometheans are some of the most boring and uninspired designs I've ever seen in a sci-fi game. It really is a shame that they were ever introduced as mob enemies in the first place.


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God damn I had the image I swear I saved it. If someone else can post it please do but there's an image of a comic 343i did (Halo: Escalation) where in the story Chief destroys a piece of Gamma Halo to finally kill the Didact. The strip that shows the section of Gamma Halo disconnecting was the most laughably bad thing in the entire comic. 343i probably realized this because the image of the strip itself seems to have been completely purged online.


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God damn I had the image I swear I saved it. If someone else can post it please do but there's an image of a comic 343i did (Halo: Escalation) where in the story Chief destroys a piece of Gamma Halo to finally kill the Didact. The strip that shows the section of Gamma Halo disconnecting was the most laughably bad thing in the entire comic. 343i probably realized this because the image of the strip itself seems to have been completely purged online.

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Halo Escalation was, in general, really poorly illustrated.


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How can anyone after reading Halo: Uprising think that this was okay in anyway?

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Halo Escalation was, in general, really poorly illustrated.


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Yeah, I hate the style.  Everything has needless complications: nothing is sleek.  All the setpieces need to be massive and flashy with a million dongles protruding out of them, and all the characters need to have these unnecessary extra additions.  The spartan armor doesn't look like believable armor: we now have these people with massive batteries stapled to their armpits and floppy-disk drives coming out of their forehead.  And it looks cheap, like we're watching a cheesy 80s sci-fi movie.

It's as if the design team crumpled up pieces of paper and then asked the 3D team to model it with a visor.
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And then we got our marines here sporting gear by fucking Fisher Price



 
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Has the be the laziest map design in any game ever


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anyone who isn't a tasteless shill faggot has been saying this since before halo 4 even released

I know it might be a meme to hate it now, but most of you are cunts for even playing this shit heap series