@Nectazumor@LancesLegion@interbellica Modern day France definitely suffered from Americanization within its Armed Forces after the Cold War which is unfortunate. France was one of the best European armies in NATO during the Cold War.
@madis259 Yeah, it’s pretty much what has happened to Star Wars. Everyone prefers stuff made in the Bungie (Lucas) years and ignores everything made by 343 (Disney) as unsalvagable
@madis259 There's a guy on Youtube Shorts that talks about 343 Era lore from the books and behined the games And every single Short reads like this
SpArTan tEam69, Operation Balls obliterator,
ONI War crime>Redacted, Didact, Humanity Chosen ones, Banished Plot Armor>11 million dead.
I might be reading into it too much, but i think it's kind of emblematic of how bad the current state of Halo's story is when the majority of Halo fanfiction I see explicitly labels itself as an AU and ignores 343 content because they see the current setting as unsalvageable
Master Chief's MJOLNIR Mk. IV from Halo Silent Storm, I used the book cover's design and modified it with the Mk. IV's depiction from Halo Legends. Though, Mk. V [B]'s profile, was undeniably the initial basis - recognizable, under equipment imo.
@oldhegelian1212 People making USSR some lgbt haven is always so funny when you remember article 121 of their criminal court where being gay constituted a 5 year jail sentence XD
@ChadowskiIsBack Multiple times the book says "Yeah humans need to be better to the environment, if for nothing else for our own sake. But being being an alarmist is wrong and in the long run will discredit your movement" and people who never read it say "This is saying climate change is fake"
@ReactionaryLuma@_EmpressCortana Bungie’s 5 masterpieces in a row are literally the whole reason Xbox was taken seriously in the 2000s, even with the red ring of death plaguing the 360 because the games were just that good. Once Gears/Halo tanked so did Xbox sales. That guy is completely retarded
“Erm, acktually, classic Halo always had quippy dialogue like this”
No, Bungie’s Halo had FUNNY dialogue. The modern audience’s brain has just been so rotted by lazy MCU dialogue that they can’t tell the difference anymore
Retcon everything (chronologically) after Halo 3. Chief is still asleep on the Dawn.
Have the rest of the series be a bunch of smaller scale stories about how the galaxy is adapting to a world where we are no longer at war (but also aren’t exactly at peace) with the aliens instead of just rebooting the war for no reason.
Hell, imagine a story about the everyday person having to put up with alien refugees living amongst them after years of them massacring their friends & families…. 343 could actually explore some mature & morally grey subject matter that people keep pretending they did in Halo 4
This is a good example of the artist not understanding the basic concept of reduced three dimensional depth and parallax caused by scale and viewing distance
For example:
Standing on a city street, nearby and distant buildings shift dramatically relative to each other as you move your head, creating strong depth
Looking at the same city from 30,000 feet, everything is so far away that those relative shifts are minimal, so the city appears more like a flat map
This is why the original design of the halo ring with the flat 2D texture looks so much more gargantuan and awe inspiring compared to this new “Artstation-slop” design