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| Re: Something else I don't like about "Halo 2.0" | |
| Posted By: scarab | Date: 1/8/13 11:13 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Something else I don't like about "Halo 2.0" (Quirel) : Agreed. It would also be a great way to highlight how devastating the war : was. : "See, it's alright to shoot them. They look like animals, they grunt and
: "Drones made from the enslaved souls of Humans". : That there is the whole idea behind Promethean Knights. Can't say that I like
There is pathos but what do we do in response? We can't sit them down with a cup of tea and a biscuit. We can't give them a hug and say, "there there" Maybe we get to free them later but that is a deferred pay off; that doesn't make them interesting to fight right now. : What makes them dumb and boring is they are frustrating to fight and have no
If they have character then it has not been expressed. They could be very confused and depressed cave men but we can't see it. If 343 tried to use the combat dialogue system to express that then they would sound like head crab zombies. As an aside Frankie has said how much he loved the funny moments that came about due to the combat dialogue system, especially when comments were very appropriate. Did the 343 Gus know how to leverage it? From a technical sense? Or did they just not think? They were a bit of a grind but weren't proposed as the Covenant's successors. Some people have asked for new Promethean classes to flesh out the Prometheans but I doubt that that will make them interesting. More dumb units are just more dumb units. But if you introduce talking Prometheans then what would they say? : Sentinels are at least somewhat interesting, but even Bungie
My two paragraphs above your comment above should have gone here. Bloody android tablets! How do you select text? : Do it. Yes. Do it now.
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