Just noticed this, and I love how the H2A marine armour is stylised/ the same as the Halo Wars one;

Halo Wars


Halo 2A

Specifically, the chestplate has the same shape (+ the addition of ammo pouches) and the little bit with the UNSC in block and the serial bar.

Awesome touch, I love that they remembered that. Though it makes more sense when you remember that blur did the cutscenes for Halo Wars, too, so I guess it's only natural that they use the same/ similar designs in both versions.

I was really blown away by the H2A cutscenes, they did a great job.

Yeah. I really hope 343i sign them on for future Halo titles. Also, the Spielberg series so we don't get Nightfall level cgi.

I don't understand how we went from this;



To this:

Quote from: Bacon's Shelf on January 17, 2015, 09:38:55 AM

Quote from: Raptorx7 on January 17, 2015, 09:31:09 AM

I was really blown away by the H2A cutscenes, they did a great job.

Yeah. I really hope 343i sign them on for future Halo titles. Also, the Spielberg series so we don't get Nightfall level cgi.

I don't understand how we went from this;

To this:

I havn't watched any of the Nightfall series, but yeah that looks terrible.

It's weird with nightfall. Some bits look amazing, some look terribad. I won't spoil it for you, but nightfall was trying to do too much I felt, whereas FuD used it's smaller budget more effectively by reusing existing assets and stuff.

I agree. For me personally the marine armor goes H:CE>H2>H3>Reach>H4. I miss those green HUDs from Combat Evolved.

But the green HUDs are a little silly, considering far superior tech is in existence (see Halo: Forward Unto Dawn) before the events of CE, it makes no sense

Quote from: Sprungli on January 17, 2015, 03:40:16 PM

Quote from: RomanGladiator on January 17, 2015, 03:08:09 PM

I agree. For me personally the marine armor goes H:CE>H2>H3>Reach>H4. I miss those green HUDs from Combat Evolved.

But the green HUDs are a little silly, considering far superior tech is in existence (see Halo: Forward Unto Dawn) before the events of CE, it makes no sense

Until you realise, of course, that CE was released before anything else bar TFoR, and I doubt they could look into the future to make it coincide.

Besides, the Corbulo cadets required an entire visor, one little plate in front of the eye (Which appeared again in Reach's Army and CE's Reach-Based BDU, mind) would be superior, if nothing else apart from the fact that it is lighter and less bulky.

I know what you are saying. Another thing is aren't neural implants a thing too though? They appear in Halo Wars and in the Cairo H2A cutscene it clearly shows an implant on Hood's neck.

Sorta dodgy

Quote from: Sprungli on January 18, 2015, 06:54:10 AM

Quote from: Bacon's Shelf on January 17, 2015, 04:28:27 PM

Quote from: Sprungli on January 17, 2015, 03:40:16 PM

Quote from: RomanGladiator on January 17, 2015, 03:08:09 PM

I agree. For me personally the marine armor goes H:CE>H2>H3>Reach>H4. I miss those green HUDs from Combat Evolved.

But the green HUDs are a little silly, considering far superior tech is in existence (see Halo: Forward Unto Dawn) before the events of CE, it makes no sense

Until you realise, of course, that CE was released before anything else bar TFoR, and I doubt they could look into the future to make it coincide.

Besides, the Corbulo cadets required an entire visor, one little plate in front of the eye (Which appeared again in Reach's Army and CE's Reach-Based BDU, mind) would be superior, if nothing else apart from the fact that it is lighter and less bulky.

I know what you are saying. Another thing is aren't neural implants a thing too though? They appear in Halo Wars and in the Cairo H2A cutscene it clearly shows an implant on Hood's neck.

It varies. Spartans get full once that allow them to interface with their suit, officers get them so they can interface with the ship, maines (to my knowledge) only get basic ones that contain their FOF tag and their medical information, such as name, blood type and so forth.

I presume it'd also allow them to interface with their armour (as shown in FuD), which would make a physical, simply illogical eyepiece useless. I mean, it's very 2001 and more reflective of 80's sci-fi than the rest of the Halo lore, charming but canonically sorta silly. Especially considering those marines had just left the UNSC's tech hotspot, Reach