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| Re: Something looks wrong with The Silent Cartogra | |
| Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect) <soundeffect@hotmail.com> | Date: 6/14/11 8:15 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: Something looks wrong with The Silent Cartogra (Narcogen) : I have a problem with assigning canonical value to anything that is observed : outside of the normal constraints of play, though. Except that the island was completely circumnavigable (is that a word?) and no landmasses were seen around it at all. That there are now is change for change's sake. That's what I object to. : Just because Bungie chose to place nothing beyond the areas they would
In a game, it's a real environment. Even if the clouds and mountains are 2D bitmap 'curtains' it's a visual description of the environment and depicts something far enough away that it's done to conserve game memory and resources while indicating there's actually a mountain or clouds present. Around the Cartographer island, there were no mountains before. There are now. BAD design decision. Do they really think no one notices these things? It can't be just me. : The Halo ring isn't large and far away from the PoA. It's small and
I could argue with enough computing resources, they would have made the Halo ring 10,000km across in-game and to scale. They represent a large item smaller due to game resource availability. This does not diminish anything. The vast, vast majority of items in the Halo games are built to a consistent scale. Only the thing either too far away or that would otherwise hinder game performance are scaled back. Those are few and far between. If you want the actual World Unit size of Halo, I can certainly provide it...but I'm at work at the moment. : What is served story-wise by having none present there? It's neutral. There's
But it very definitely wasn't there before, but is now. Here's something: when we play the Anniversary Edition, we'll see a distant mountain appear and disappear when switching back and forth between the classic and anniversary modes. : It's a change : Wait, what? : First of all, if it's important that the facility here be isolated from the
One door is opened to us, but I was under the impression from Cortana's dialogue that more was being shut down by this security system. I though it was the security system for the ring, not just the cartographer. I'll have to review the scene again. : The Ark's cartographer is neither isolated nor on an island. If we assume
The Ark is isolated. It's well outside the galaxy where there are no real density of stars. You need a Forerunner portal just to reliably get there. I can see security being less. To accidently stumble upon the Ark is a trillion to one shot (I didn't do the actual math) whereas the Halo rings are within the galaxy around stars that space faring civilizations may glean the coordinates to from strewn Forerunner artifacts lying about many worlds. The ring systems might be more secure because of that. : Again, I can only say what I've said before-- that this is such a high
: I also don't think that extreme isolation was ever a part of the design doc
: Hey, I don't know. I'm getting ripped a new one in other threads for
: So, clearly, there are plenty of changes that ruin my enjoyment and that
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