How Bungie Broke ODST's Mold
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Ouch. Oof. My brain...ouch. I think my skull is bleeding.wolfy098 said:
So let me see if I can get this straight, as your writing doesn't seem to have surpassed basic middle school.
Halo Legends can only be good in the anime style if it is based on mecha or romance? But anime clearly cannot do action, which is what Halo's strong suit is?
Has nobody heard of Ninja Scroll these days? Or Hell, DragonBall Z. Wait, no, you kids have Naruto these days, but even then it's all fighting fighting fighting with sluggish plot movement. Plus, considering I got into anime because of its varying sci-fi settings (Ghost in the Shell, Trigun, Evangelion, Legend of Galactic Heroes, Macross, Akira and so on) I'd say doing a space-war anime is right up their alley. So...what's the problem?
How old are you, anyway?
On topic: Halo 1 brought my brother and I back together for the first time since Contra and Ninja Turtle games on the NES and SNES. The setting was intriguing with a rather straight forward plot, but a lot of the combat scenarios were pretty cool in that War Is Hell sense (especially on Legendary). Halo 2 I liked the story, I can understand why Bungie chose to end it as they did, and while it was very linear with few open environments the combat was still fun.
Halo 3 fucked up hardcore. Straight forward story that was disappointing and sucked, trying to imitate Halo 1 all over the place but failing to grab what made it so excellent, completely linear battles and any large battlefield was pretty much nothing but a vehicle-vs.-vehicle brawl. Not a bad game, but it's just...so not that great.
ODST has me psyched. While I'm honestly sick of Bungie making Halo games (thank God Reach is allegedly the final one), I really love the concept of this. Even if the single-player isn't as different as I would hope, Firefight is gonna be another major time sucker. It's a shame people didn't start imitating the game mode when Epic did it in UT2K4, but at least they revived it in Gears 2 for Bungie to copy. Now it should start becoming a standard sort of game mode.
From the video it seemed like you spend most of your time as the rookie, in the city and by yourself. You then occasionally you will find clue items or flashback points. That's when you relive a key past point through either your own perspective or one of the other characters.Keenanr1234 said:
oh good. this might have to be the first game i get once i get a 360. Maybe it will have the story of an RPG and the gameplay of an fps... that would be nice, i hope it doesent end up as a rpg thing like fallout 3 was.
How do you know it doesn't work? It hasn't happened yet! Personally I'm curious of what they are going to do with the anime. Could be awesome, could be an abomination, but since it isnt out you cant say much about it. I'm going to agree with whomever said you are just trolling. I'll be picking up ODST at the end of the month on paydaywolfy098 said:
Also just to nit pick Anime is an Art style in animation
OK, this is interesting to me. They are finally (I hope) getting rid of the bite-sized, squarish uninteresting levels that to me were the weakest part of the Halo series and giving it a large space, a contiguous zone and keeping the fun sci-fi bits that attracted me to the game's world in the first place. I might have to go back and play 2 and 3 just to fill in the rest of the story. Unless someone can link me to an overview of it...
Please!
Please!
No, you are not wrong. The definition of what makes "Anime" falls under a person to person basis. The original wording was "Japanimation" but over time it changed to "Anime" Some see anime as a style, much like mosaic or abstract art forms. While others view it as more of a patent, for example how champagne is not actually champagne unless it is from a specific French region.SharPhoe said:
To me, Anime refers to animation in particular that originates from Japan. Because to claim one art style is Anime is rediculous. Try comparing pokemon to Samurai Champloo, try comparing FLCL's style to Ghost in The Shell. You will see a BIG difference.
Really? You went into Fallout 3, a game produced by BETHESDA, expecting a pure out FPS? LOL!Keenanr1234 said:
I don't think you understand. Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animewolfy098 said:
And I have no idea what you mean when you bring up cartoons. Cartoons are a much more broad spectrum than Anime. This has nothing to do with that.
There is no single Anime "art style". It makes no sense from an artist point of view or that of a logical thinking person.
On topic, the game seems more atmospheric each time I see it. It's exciting to see a darker side of Halo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvQUhzMHk98kibayasu said:
this is video of an AR-15 , the first few shots w/o the silencer then some shots with it.
Just listen to the sound of those shots. In a video game for the masses, giving people guns that doesn't give that hollywood feel may translate into poor sales. I'm thinking that is why they did that.
I'm wondering if the games will fall victim to the same problems other game have with silenced rifles. I can use a silenced rifle in FarCry2 at close to kill people w/o alerting the guy that is standing right next to me. That is bad.
On a different note, I played Halo to it's end and I remember the Master chief ship falling slowly into a planet. I understand that the prequel will the last Halo game but is there a sequel in the works that isn't called Halo?