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Re: Legends: What's up with the ruins?
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>	Date: 11/8/09 3:27 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. But it's not some new architecture that could be viewed as a cultural subset of the Forerunner. It's Japanese architecture on an alien world. Big difference.

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