Nikolai, servant of God

Smasher of windows. Struggling sinner. Hard Rock enjoyer.

[floppy @CactusFuturist]

I'll probably pirate that new Halo remake out of morbid curiosity on the new content, but no one should give these vultures their money in good faith

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

@Lunnzies If the latter two interfere with the former, then who gives a shit? Without artistry, a video game is just an interactive simulation. You’re proving my point further, obsessing over all of these graphical aspects/features.
This game is a glorified tech demo masquerading as Halo.

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

Wow. I am so utterly horrified.
What the ever-living fuck did they do to the Autumn?
It’s like they pendulum swung on things being too sleek in the sequels, and decided “well what if it was really bulky, the hull was crowded as shit, and it was all fuck-ugly?”

[Austin @Pfhorbear]

I found a ton of Halo: Campaign Evolved screenshots on the Xbox Press Site. Enjoy :) (1/5)

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

@Lunnzies Are we looking at the same photos? This is textbook UE slop, you’d be hard-pressed to find a single image that has good contrast. The Autumn’s mess hall literally looks like a forge map, it’s artistically bankrupt. But because “graphics”, tourist Halo fans’ll eat it up.

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

The specter of the wider audience shall haunt anything good or artistic for all of its days

[Jw @jwtweets058]

@probrickthrower Actually her, the rectonned one is far too short as you indicated. They just HAVE to destroy everything Bungie did and make it significantly worse.

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

There’s droves of people like this who are like “just play MCC” or “not that big of a deal”.
You are tourists. If you’re okay with the stagnation and death knells of the franchise just because there’s a new game, you don’t deserve to play anything related to it.

[shockwave brinson @shockwave2342]

@probrickthrower Eh I like it, also holy over reaction my god just say you don’t like it. That is completely fine but the way your talking sounds like they beat your grandma then put a bullet in her skull while making you watch calm down

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

@PixelCamouflage And yet they chose to continue to do it throughout the rest of the Bungie games, even as the tech got better. Strange, isn't it? Almost like it was essential to the art style.

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

There are real people that really exist that will look at this and say it “respects the original atmosphere” because the contrast is horrifically bad and it’s underexposed. The original level was dark, moody, and the carrier was a looming and sleek presence.

[〘 Shigure 〙 @ChoukaiKaiNi]

Truth and Reconciliation looks pretty ugly though. It's like an AI generated CCS.

None of the aura of the lone, dark mesa either.

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

@PixelCamouflage A defining aspect of Combat Evolved was that the fog was both an asset of the artistic and technical departments. It’s meant to convey a sense of monolithic scale, where the environment is so vast that it’s occluded by the “inclement weather”.

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

#TimeAndDateForHangingMyself

[Halo @Halo]

There's one more thing…

Join us tomorrow for the #HaloCE Story Trailer reveal, featuring your first look at some of the most iconic moments, reimagined.

Tune in at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 5pm CEST

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

@NickHaydt If you can unironically call this dark and moody, you either never played CE or have your brightness cranked down to a decimal point.

[VNanon | HALO IV @VNanon_]

Y2k aesthetics are possible in 4k.

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

There’s now only three distinct sections of the hull, noticeably shortening the profile and making it look stubby. They took away the cool bridge design in favor of “realism”, and the lighting sucks cock. EVERYTHING is too glossy and bright and someone please just shoot me now

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

@jwtweets058 This game is really only retaining enough of CE’s visuals to allow them to say they “stayed true to the original” while they apply their blobifying enshitification to every single aspect. Every screencap is noisy, cluttered, and has too many lighting effects.

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

@satelliteluvr_ My arteries look like yellow licorice and if yours look anything less you’re a sissy liberal

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

@Damac1214 “What if instead of a solid art direction we raped everything you love about the aesthetic and then make it realistic”

[nom👀👀👀 @nom2609]

$50 for a game you've already played before but with worse art direction and no multiplayer

mcc costs $40 fyi

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

@o_sneedy Is this an actual screenshot? Holy shit dude, it looks like it’s from Destiny. And the fuel rod…just shoot me now.

[Nikolai, servant of God @probrickthrower]

Every single image I see from this game is a twist of the knife and a perfect demonstration of why Unreal Engine is a gargantuan piece of shit that deserves to die. Art direction has basically died in western games and been replaced by a fetishistic obsession with graphics.