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Re: He is the demons!
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com>	Date: 11/25/09 8:22 a.m.
: I know, I know, and SOEIV is basically just a more complicated way of saying : HEV etc since they both pretty much mean the exact same thing, but you : take what you get. : Frankly I'd rather they just said all HEV/SOEIV pods were 'upgraded' to the : ODST standard, leaving H2 and H3 design as now inaccurate and obsolete : parts of the past. : If they just got on with it, but I think you'd find that even worse. : This is what I was talking about before in the Encyclo thread, that its : almost inevitable with video games as they progress over time that things : will change as the hardware and premise allows the 'artists' to come : closer to their original visions. So much of what we see in the Halo games : is influenced by processing limitations. : After all, the opening sequence in ODST is basically Bungie finally realising : a scene they wanted to make in Halo 2. And one that would have been : impossible in H2's final design since it lacked the windowed front. : Maybe in the future we'll also see SMG's with the originally intended : transparent magazine casing so we can see the actual bullets inside, : depleting as we fire. : The same goes for the Halo 3 Longsword which also received a visual upgrade : every bit as significant, if not more so than the Pelican or ODST SOEIV. : Difference being there has been no attempt to address that as a different : variant, just as-is. : That's fine with me though, the H3 one has a more refined and appealing : design. It depends on whether you're talking game chronology or game design chronology. The Halo 3 HEVs which were the same design as the Halo 2 versions are chronologically in use AFTER the events of ODST. Waypoint all but established there are 2 versions and that's fine. I'll look through ODST game data and see if the filename says HEV for the drop pod model. The Longsword didn't change much beyond graphics on the outer hull that I have looked at. The external hatches are still in the same place, the viewport structure looks similar.

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