More customization in shooters.

[Substance-E]

Just as long as the options aren't unlocks. I hate liking an item only to find everybody uses it just because you need 1000 headshots with a spork for the pimp hat and they think it makes them uber leet or whatever

 

[repeating integers]

In Halo: Reach, my armor looks as tactical and realistic as I could get it to. My steel hue makes me difficult to spot in urban terrain, or simply in darkness, with a deep blue highlight to provide identification. My profile is low, save for a hardened uplink module on the side of my helmet.

My friend looks like an armored Heavy Weapons Guy.

Customization? Yes, I think Reach has that covered. And I'm pretty much content with that level of customization (the kind that doesn't affect gameplay).

This. Customisation in Reach through the Armoury is brilliant, every Spartan looks different. My guy, with an EOD-variant helmet and a whole lot of extra armour plates - which don't look big enough to impede movement - looks like some sort of spec-ops person built to move and withstand damage while dishing it out.

As an aside, those two customised looks sound awesome.

 

[Nouw]

Yes, the more the merrier. It'd be awesome to be able to color your entire character. Even if some immature basterd draws a penis or whatever, at least I can kill him and say some fancy one liner.

 

[Last Bullet]

I indeed think so. I love shooters, and I love customization. Might as well combine them, right? Hopefully Brink will be a step in the right direction. Hell, I hope it's a massive (parkour-style) leap in the right direction.

 

[Terminate421]

Its needed, other wise it just doesn't feel right

This is where Halo Succeeds. It can be almost any shooter. Hell, it can even not be a shooter at all (If you make the right map and game type)
If I had the right friends, it could be a good horror game (give the victims plasma pistols and make the "infected" a ton of health and make it dark and such)

Indeed. Especially with the new forge system. Now that we aren't so constrained by the physics engine, anything is possible. Personally I want to make an invasion map that focuses on rapid troop movement, while my friends are working on some crazy race tracks.

I should add you, then I could show you this sweet Idea I had, personally I think its the most original idea for a map.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Yes, or else everyone will think we are as presumptuous as we are poore and Irish. Tarnish notte the prestidigitation of having a hat wear a hat, which deserves to be behatted.

-Indeed.

 

[kouriichi]

Whats nice about this is that it accually servers a purpose.

Sure, reach had alot of Cosmetic customization, but it doesnt do anything. Hence "Cosmetic". And even worse, halo is always Red v.s. Blue, and its impossible to tell anyone apart! they all look exactly the same.

Atleast in Black ops, some of the Cosmetics are tied to accual effects, such as Flack jackets, and your person covered in body armor.

Or being able to change your red dot sight. I always hated the plain dot in the middle. I want a kitty face when i shoot someone.

 

[iBananaCrazy]

I think customization of what type of clothing/protective gear your character should wear should be mandatory for a game, but a boy can only dream.