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Re: Purposeful inconsistency
Posted By: Ibeechu	Date: 11/12/12 1:14 p.m.
In Response To: Purposeful inconsistency (Leviathan) : The trade-off involved with accepting this approach as a fan? Although I'm : less frustrated by the changes, I'm also not paying attention to the : designs and details that I used to revel in anymore, because I know : they're going to just keep changing every few months. Man, realizing that is, frankly, depressing. I never really minded the subtler design changes that bothered most people. During combat, I couldn't tell the difference. My mental short-hand for Grunts in the Halo series has always been "cute, little, timid guys with vibrant pyramid armor and usually a cute gas mask and high-pitched voices." That was consistent from CE to Reach (though Reach did de-cute them a little too much for me). It never broke my short-hand. If you just showed me, by themselves, the silhouette or the colors or the voice, I'd instantly know it was a Grunt. The Halo 4 Grunts? Ugly, squat, mean guys with pale humpback armor, no gas mask, and scary robot voice. It's not just that it's inconsistent. It's that, because it's so different, none of the appeal that the original Grunt had carried over. If they're still appealing in some way, I haven't discovered it yet. Now they're just annoying.

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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 inconsistency	Leviathan	11/12/12 12:31 p.m.
Re: Purposeful inconsistency	Ibeechu	11/12/12 1:14 p.m.
Jackals no longer awkward to kill	scarab	11/12/12 2:25 p.m.
Re: Jackals no longer awkward to kill	Ragashingo	11/12/12 3:41 p.m.
Re: Jackals no longer awkward to kill	scarab	11/12/12 3:55 p.m.
Re: Purposeful inconsistency	scarab	11/12/12 2:19 p.m.
Re: Purposeful inconsistency	JDQuackers	11/12/12 2:46 p.m.
Re: Purposeful inconsistency	Leviathan	11/12/12 3:40 p.m.
Re: Purposeful inconsistency	scarab	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 troll	Rockslider	11/12/12 4:49 p.m.
Re: Miniature cave troll	scarab	11/12/12 4:54 p.m.
Re: Miniature cave troll	Rockslider	11/12/12 5:00 p.m.