I was listening to a podcast recently where they went off on how much they disliked the new specialization armour for Halo 4. I knew these feelings were around, but this was the first time I had ever actually heard someone talking about it. I went back and had another look at the armour after listening, and while I agree with some of their problems, I just have to say “So what?”
I think we all agree that this stuff looks funky. No, it doesn’t look like all the other armour we’ve seen in Halo for the last 10 years. Is that necessarily a bad thing? Personally I love the idea of total customization. However in Reach I find that there really isn’t much difference between the pieces, except of course a few obvious stand outs. If you want true customization, why not go the funky route? I’m sure there will be lots of people who use the crazy stuff just to stand out. As far as the visor issue goes, I’m sure the cannon heads will think of a great explanation why they don’t have an ordinary visor. More armour plating over the face = more protection? Also, I would think this would be easier to explain than having a flaming helmet, floating hearts, or lighting clouds.
Will I use the funky armour? Maybe. Maybe not. Does it matter? No. It’s there for those who want it, and for those who don’t I’m sure there will be lots of generic Mark series suits.
“This isn’t my Halo!!” you say. No, it’s not. you don’t make Halo games and if you did, they would be awful. “This isn’t Halo!!” You say. No, the fact is this game isn’t Halo. It’s Halo 4. If you want Halo, they just remastered it, go play that. I’ll be playing the new shiny.
I love how in Halo 4 every piece is different, most notably the chest. In halo 3 and Reach, all you did was add little details onto the basic armour, such as satchels or a knife. Changing the torso in Halo 4, for example, actually changes your entire armour.
I know that the armour is very different and out there, but I like it. I think 343 has breathed some fresh air into the armoury
EDIT: I know people are fond of the visors, but the way I justify it to myself is that this is Generation 2 MJOLNIR armour. There have been advancements in technology. If it looked just like GEN 1, what’s the point? Besides, we’ve probably only seen 25% of all the armour.
THe reason many people complain, is it looks like half of these helmets were ripped from that old gundam tv show.
A lot of them look as though hayabusa (halo 3) was made out of forge blocks and painted green.
Many of the people like the helmets of old with the visors, the shape, the colour.
Now it looks like we have Hayabuse mixed with the gungir helmet from reach, ugly robotic and visorless.
If you ask me, they’re straying to far from the visor look, with a good 80% of the helmets having no noticibal visors, and instead look more lik full helmet heat vision goggles. Its irking to look at really. The full visor was a great look, and with only 4 or 5 helmets released that have any kind of visor what so ever (and only two of those with big visors) we’re starting to stray from the spartan look to one more attuned to a different game.
I realise its a different game, but I haven’t seen hide nor hair of the MK V armor, and the ODST stuff that I have seen looks like they asked a five year old in a lego factory to make them.
It feels like my identity and helmet since I started (halo 2, even though I couldn’t wear it) has been mauled. Combine that with the loss of my second favourite armor going missing, theres almost no helmet in this game I like.
There are a total of three helmets in this game that I’ve seen that I will actually wear. Scanner (Clone trooper ftw) Recon (Even then, its pretty weird) or Warrior (default)
I’d like to have just a tad more variety, and maybe a nice looking helmet that ACTUALLY HAS A VISOR.
The Recruit armour that comes with the Limited Edition looks pretty normal to me. Sure, it doesn’t look like the Reach armour, but I’d be disappointed if it was just same old, same old. It looks like upgraded Spartan armour.
I get why people are complaining. It’s change and change is scary. Will we still be talking about it a year from now? Hard to say.
In all fairness, nobody complained about GUNGIR in reach having no visor. I honestly like most of the new helmets they look much more futuristic, however I prefer helmets with a visor, however a small one just near the eyes, like on the warrior and soldier helmets.
> In all fairness, <mark>nobody complained about GUNGIR in reach having no visor</mark>. I honestly like most of the new helmets they look much more futuristic, however I prefer helmets with a visor, however a small one just near the eyes, like on the warrior and soldier helmets.
> THe reason many people complain, is it looks like half of these helmets were ripped from that old gundam tv show.
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> A lot of them look as though hayabusa (halo 3) was made out of forge blocks and painted green.
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> Many of the people like the helmets of old with the visors, the shape, the colour.
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> Now it looks like we have Hayabuse mixed with the gungir helmet from reach, ugly robotic and visorless.
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> If you ask me, they’re straying to far from the visor look, with a good 80% of the helmets having no noticibal visors, and instead look more lik full helmet heat vision goggles. Its irking to look at really. The full visor was a great look, and with only 4 or 5 helmets released that have any kind of visor what so ever (and only two of those with big visors) we’re starting to stray from the spartan look to one more attuned to a different game.
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> I realise its a different game, but I haven’t seen hide nor hair of the MK V armor, and the ODST stuff that I have seen looks like they asked a five year old in a lego factory to make them.
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> It feels like my identity and helmet since I started (halo 2, even though I couldn’t wear it) has been mauled. Combine that with the loss of my second favourite armor going missing, theres almost no helmet in this game I like.
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> There are a total of three helmets in this game that I’ve seen that I will actually wear. Scanner (Clone trooper ftw) Recon (Even then, its pretty weird) or Warrior (default)
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> I’d like to have just a tad more variety, and maybe a nice looking helmet that ACTUALLY HAS A VISOR.
Are you kidding me though. I’m not understanding why almost no 1 calls out Orbital to give it credit. Scanner has VCR strapped to the front, which doesn’t really do much justice for the visor at angles. Orbital has the biggest visor in game currently and looks freaking beast. It looks like a 10x better version than Eva.
> > In all fairness, <mark>nobody complained about GUNGIR in reach having no visor</mark>. I honestly like most of the new helmets they look much more futuristic, however I prefer helmets with a visor, however a small one just near the eyes, like on the warrior and soldier helmets.
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> Pardon?
Correct me if i’m wrong but I dont remember anyone complaining and I remember GUNGIR as one of the most commonly used helmets by high ranking players.
> > > In all fairness, <mark>nobody complained about GUNGIR in reach having no visor</mark>. I honestly like most of the new helmets they look much more futuristic, however I prefer helmets with a visor, however a small one just near the eyes, like on the warrior and soldier helmets.
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> > Pardon?
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> Correct me if i’m wrong but I dont remember anyone complaining and I remember GUNGIR as one of the most commonly used helmets by high ranking players.
There wasquite the uproar on bnet. No matter how ugly or stupid, people will use it. Being of high rank changes nothing.
I really love how they’re handling it, guess I’m in the minority this time.
Each helmet is completely different from anything before or currently in the game, each has it’s own identity. You won’t confuse any helmet for another one, (except MAYBE ODST and whatever the spartans in the story are wearing) and I love that. In reach it’s all robot arms and security shoulders, (Horrible idea keeping the knife on it) and very few people are truly different, which is partly on fault of the game and its # of armor pieces, so no one stood out. But now, I see someone pull something awesome, I’m gonna remember how they looked.
(or the guy in wetwork who keeps camping with the sword, he’s on my list)
> THe reason many people complain, is it looks like half of these helmets were ripped from that old gundam tv show.
>
> A lot of them look as though hayabusa (halo 3) was made out of forge blocks and painted green.
>
> Many of the people like the helmets of old with the visors, the shape, the colour.
>
> Now it looks like we have Hayabuse mixed with the gungir helmet from reach, ugly robotic and visorless.
>
>
> If you ask me, they’re straying to far from the visor look, with a good 80% of the helmets having no noticibal visors, and instead look more lik full helmet heat vision goggles. Its irking to look at really. The full visor was a great look, and with only 4 or 5 helmets released that have any kind of visor what so ever (and only two of those with big visors) we’re starting to stray from the spartan look to one more attuned to a different game.
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> I realise its a different game, but I haven’t seen hide nor hair of the MK V armor, and <mark>the ODST stuff that I have seen looks like they asked a five year old in a lego factory to make them.</mark>
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> It feels like my identity and helmet since I started (halo 2, even though I couldn’t wear it) has been mauled. Combine that with the loss of my second favourite armor going missing, theres almost no helmet in this game I like.
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> There are a total of three helmets in this game that I’ve seen that I will actually wear. Scanner (Clone trooper ftw) Recon (Even then, its pretty weird) or Warrior (default)
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> I’d like to have just a tad more variety, and maybe a nice looking helmet that ACTUALLY HAS A VISOR.
I think ATM their just showing the funky armor as its new and they’ve mad it themselves hopefully when the game ships it will have most of the helm from reach in it aswell… hopefully…
As for gungir it was only one helmet so it wasn’t such a biggie. In h4 it seems like the opposite.
I’m kinda hoping that those satchels and canvas gears are available for the new Armor. I always liked Jun’s ragged neck garb and I hope those little current military details are available. But I won’t fall into a deep depression if it isn’t there.
