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Gameplay Reasons. Also Jackal stuff.
Posted By: Rice <Riceamike@gmail.com>Date: 11/12/12 12:27 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Halo Designs through the years. (kapowaz)


Gameplay - The Promethean forces are the new enemy in Halo 4, and are treated as the 'Big Bad' when it comes to scenarios. They're the leaders, and they have more numbers. You fight them more than the Covenant and the game is tailored to create an illusion that they're more difficult by lowering the combat effectiveness of the rest of the enemies.

Jackals - I honestly can't make a post about Jackal changes. Aside from the head, nearly nothing has been altered about their design since 2001. Hell, they even have the same armor. Aside from some slight changes to their feet, they've remained the same exact creature outside of head design for years.
The change in Halo 4 isn't even all that much different. Below the neck it's almost taken from Reach.
Granted, the head has changed a couple of times. It really took on an avian form in Halo 3, and stayed with that in Reach. The head in Halo CE isn't really birdlike nor is it directly saurian in appearance, but in Halo 2 I'd argue it's more akin to a reptile than a bird. Especially with all the hissing it does.
Halo 3 cemented that bird idea into our heads, and I feel that's where a lot of the ideas we have about design comes from.
Not really Reach, which aside from a few things (Brutes) really just continued the Halo 3 style. Halo 3 created our current image of a lot of the Covenant, and around that time a lot of the fictional descriptions were really being hammered down about them. Before 3, I wouldn't have called the Jackals 'Avian', nor would I have said the Grunts were 'Arthropods'. But those words were thrown at us by Bungie and it stuck, even if they didn't have any grounding in the design before.

Can someone photoshop the traditional mask on the new Grunt's head? Also maybe color it the same shade as it was originally? I'd like to see how that changes one's perspective on the design if it was made to resemble previous iterations.

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Halo Designs through the years.Rice 11/12/12 7:46 a.m.
     Re: Halo Designs through the years.Bry 11/12/12 8:38 a.m.
           Re: Halo Designs through the years.Rice 11/12/12 9:23 a.m.
                 Purposeful inconsistencyLeviathan 11/12/12 12:31 p.m.
                       Re: Purposeful inconsistencyIbeechu 11/12/12 1:14 p.m.
                             Jackals no longer awkward to killscarab 11/12/12 2:25 p.m.
                                   Re: Jackals no longer awkward to killRagashingo 11/12/12 3:41 p.m.
                                         Re: Jackals no longer awkward to killscarab 11/12/12 3:55 p.m.
                       Re: Purposeful inconsistencyscarab 11/12/12 2:19 p.m.
                             Re: Purposeful inconsistencyJDQuackers 11/12/12 2:46 p.m.
                             Re: Purposeful inconsistencyLeviathan 11/12/12 3:40 p.m.
                                   Re: Purposeful inconsistencyscarab 11/12/12 3:57 p.m.
     Re: Halo Designs through the years.kapowaz 11/12/12 9:50 a.m.
           Re: Halo Designs through the years.Azo 'Galvat 11/12/12 10:12 a.m.
           Re: Halo Designs through the years.Ragashingo 11/12/12 10:13 a.m.
                 Re: Halo Designs through the years.kapowaz 11/12/12 10:20 a.m.
                       Re: Halo Designs through the years.Ragashingo 11/12/12 10:31 a.m.
                             Re: Halo Designs through the years.kapowaz 11/12/12 10:44 a.m.
                                   Gameplay Reasons. Also Jackal stuff.Rice 11/12/12 12:27 p.m.
                                         Re: Gameplay Reasons. Also Jackal stuff.kapowaz 11/12/12 12:31 p.m.
                                               Re: Gameplay Reasons. Also Jackal stuff.Rice 11/12/12 12:34 p.m.
                                                     Re: Gameplay Reasons. Also Jackal stuff.kapowaz 11/12/12 5:04 p.m.
                                   Re: Halo Designs through the years.Quirel 11/12/12 2:54 p.m.
                                         Re: Halo Designs through the years.Ragashingo 11/12/12 3:47 p.m.
                                               Re: Halo Designs through the years.scarab 11/12/12 4:12 p.m.
                                                     Re: Halo Designs through the years.Ragashingo 11/12/12 5:47 p.m.
                                                           Re: Halo Designs through the years.scarab 11/12/12 11:29 p.m.
                                         Re: Halo Designs through the years.kapowaz 11/12/12 5:07 p.m.
           It's still an Elite.Rice 11/12/12 12:49 p.m.
     Miniature cave trollRockslider 11/12/12 4:49 p.m.
           Re: Miniature cave trollscarab 11/12/12 4:54 p.m.
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