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Re: Legends: What's up with the ruins?
Posted By: White Rabbit <cornelius_pr@hotmail.com>	Date: 11/8/09 2:36 p.m.
: There has already been a lot of discussion regarding the ruins, but i : consider it so large an error i thought it deserves its own thread. : Seriously. The ruins are obviously not Forerunner; if they are, i have to say : i'm unimpressed with the artists' ability to follow established designs. : Now Delta Halo had some unexplained ruins. But those were distinctively : Forerunner in style; angular and geometric surfaces instead of pagodas or : dragons or buddha statues and stuff like that. : The thing is, why would any ancient extraterrestrial culture utilise exactly : similar architecture and decorations as a culture on earth? The most : probable explanation is that the artists thought it'd be cool to throw in : some asian architecture, because they're asians themselves. Even if it : doesn't make the slightest sense in the setting. : I hope we won't be seeing anything like this in the future, 'cause i consider : it an error, even if it was explained somehow. There's really no excuse : for stuff like this. If they are supposed to be remnants of some other : culture, please, make them look more believably alien instead of ripping : off something as recognisable as japanese/asian architecture. You might : think that aesthetics don't matter. Well they do. And things like this can : really break the suspension of disbelief for people like me, and probably : many others. There is a purpose for that architecture in the episode. Bungie is basically saying to us that Forerunner architecture were not always the same and that it look very similir to our architecture in asian culture and when you see that you ask yourself hmmm looks a lot like human architecture maybe the forerunners were humans.

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