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Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene
Posted By: Peptuck <peptuck3@hotmail.com>	Date: 2/19/07 10:09 a.m.
In Response To: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happened? (Major Silva) : A "wow moment" springs up (what I like to call moments in : videogames that actually make you feel or think about what's happening) : with the medics attending to the Lieutenant, and one says "I'm : calling it, it's almost 1700", meaning the el Tee had expired. Once : following Corporal Perez up the ramp leading to the upper floor, you see : two Marines firing through a blasted out hole in the wall, one being the : spotter and one on a turret as the gunner. : Following Perez a little farther, you come to another "wow" moment. : Perez asks another Marine if it's clear, an explosion occurs, blasting out : a large piece of building wall. The Marine answers, "You tell : me", and the MC and Perez move out to the first battle of presumably : the game. : Many more "wow moments" occur in this old demo, like the : "flash and clear" of a group of Covenant, to a Warthog skidding : across a group of Jackals in formation, not to mention the Brute jumping : onto your Warthog and tossing everyone off. Like I said before, the level : design of this demo was just.. superb, in my opinion. Wide open, and in : the city? Not to mention the glorious backround of towering skyscrapers : that appeared both strange yet familiar. With the demo, Bungie definitely : created a look that made it believable that what you were seeing was a : future Earth, but the designs were also slightly alien when you look at : things like the "ant hill" and other aspects. : So my question here is, what happened to all of these "wow : moments" and the generally beautiful design of New Mombasa? I know : Bungie had to scrap everything and start over, trying to finish in 10 : months, but couldn't they have kept some aspects that appeared in the : demo? At least a few building designs or some of the "wow : moments" would've made the Mombasa elements of the game so much more : enjoyable than they turned out to be. Heck, I'd suffice for just the cool : moments. Extremely, supremely and unbeleivably scripted events. I play a game to play a game, not to watch a series of static, scripted events take place around me, which was every single thing that happened in that E3 demo.

Message Index

The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happened?	Major Silva	2/19/07 8:09 a.m.
NO WAI!	Jordan117	2/19/07 9:23 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	The More Deluded	2/19/07 9:42 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Leviathan	2/19/07 10:12 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Peptuck	2/19/07 10:17 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Leviathan	2/19/07 10:33 a.m.
Isn't most of Halo 2 scripted anyway?	tucsonbatman	2/19/07 10:53 a.m.
Re: Isn't most of Halo 2 scripted anyway?	Peptuck	2/20/07 12:58 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	mnemesis	2/19/07 10:22 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Leviathan	2/19/07 10:36 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Sep7imus [subnova]	2/19/07 1:50 p.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Leviathan	2/19/07 2:13 p.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Sep7imus [subnova]	2/19/07 2:38 p.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Cthulhu117	2/19/07 3:34 p.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Narcogen	2/19/07 11:32 p.m.
Re: NO WAI!	mnemesis	2/20/07 12:02 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Leviathan	2/20/07 1:01 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	mnemesis	2/20/07 10:28 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Jordan117	2/19/07 10:45 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Leviathan	2/19/07 10:49 a.m.
Re: NO WAI!	The More Deluded	2/19/07 1:34 p.m.
Re: NO WAI!	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	2/19/07 10:03 p.m.
Yes...	Jordan117	2/25/07 1:49 p.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Peptuck	2/19/07 10:09 a.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Leviathan	2/19/07 10:14 a.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Peptuck	2/19/07 10:20 a.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	The More Deluded	2/19/07 1:37 p.m.
yeah next time i'll read the whole thread :) *NM*	The More Deluded	2/19/07 1:38 p.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Peptuck	2/20/07 12:55 a.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Endbringer	2/19/07 10:27 a.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Leviathan	2/19/07 10:40 a.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Endbringer	2/19/07 10:51 a.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Leviathan	2/19/07 12:20 p.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Major Silva	2/19/07 5:20 p.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Endbringer	2/19/07 5:58 p.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Dojorkan	2/19/07 10:24 a.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Baratos	2/20/07 1:49 a.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	scarab	2/20/07 7:33 a.m.
Linear much?	darthbob	2/25/07 12:26 p.m.
Re: Linear much?	Major Silva	2/25/07 2:00 p.m.
Re: Linear much?	Neo-genesis	2/25/07 4:22 p.m.
Re: The Art/Level Design in Halo 2 -- What Happene	Smurfa	2/25/07 12:23 p.m.
Wow moments... (long post)	tucsonbatman	2/26/07 8:29 a.m.
My wow moment list	delta3	2/26/07 6:16 p.m.
Re: My wow moment list	The Meep	2/26/07 9:56 p.m.
Re: My wow moment list	delta3	2/26/07 11:03 p.m.