I’m sure everyone at least once found themselves in the situation where they or someone in the lobby did more than half of the total amounts of eliminations to win a match. Quite the rare accomplishment for sure and whether it was due to kill stealing, the match being unbalanced or the player simply popping off why not celebrating the task with a brand new medal?
So I was thinking, what about a medal called “Keeping balance” or “Snapped” or something similar to reference the Avengers movies which, whether you like it or not, have definitely been a pop culture phenomenon that left the mark? The icon could be a Spartan armor glove snapping fingers or anything like that and people would gain it at the end of a slayer game type (or variants) where they got half of the total number of eliminations required to win. Kind of like the steaktacular medal, very situational but nice nonetheless. What do you think?
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> I’m sure everyone at least once found themselves in the situation where they or someone in the lobby did more than half of the total amounts of eliminations to win a match. Quite the rare accomplishment for sure and whether it was due to kill stealing, the match being unbalanced or the player simply popping off why not celebrating the task with a brand new medal?
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> So I was thinking, what about a medal called “Keeping balance” or “Snapped” or something similar to reference the Avengers movies which, whether you like it or not, have definitely been a pop culture phenomenon that left the mark? The icon could be a Spartan armor glove snapping fingers or anything like that and people would gain it at the end of a slayer game type (or variants) where they got half of the total number of eliminations required to win. Kind of like the steaktacular medal, very situational but nice nonetheless. What do you think?
The problem is that Avengers is a phenomenon now and might not necessarily be one 18 months from now when the game comes out. Also, it might not necessarily have the staying power of a cultural reference to last the 4ish years Halo Infinite will be the main Halo game (maybe longer, maybe shorter). So you have to be weary throwing current culture references in a game not coming out for 18 months that you expect to be played for 4 years.
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> > I’m sure everyone at least once found themselves in the situation where they or someone in the lobby did more than half of the total amounts of eliminations to win a match. Quite the rare accomplishment for sure and whether it was due to kill stealing, the match being unbalanced or the player simply popping off why not celebrating the task with a brand new medal?
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> > So I was thinking, what about a medal called “Keeping balance” or “Snapped” or something similar to reference the Avengers movies which, whether you like it or not, have definitely been a pop culture phenomenon that left the mark? The icon could be a Spartan armor glove snapping fingers or anything like that and people would gain it at the end of a slayer game type (or variants) where they got half of the total number of eliminations required to win. Kind of like the steaktacular medal, very situational but nice nonetheless. What do you think?
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> The problem is that Avengers is a phenomenon now and might not necessarily be one 18 months from now when the game comes out. Also, it might not necessarily have the staying power of a cultural reference to last the 4ish years Halo Infinite will be the main Halo game (maybe longer, maybe shorter). So you have to be weary throwing current culture references in a game not coming out for 18 months that you expect to be played for 4 years.
I actually like it. Definitely reminiscent of the bungie-era “funness” that marks their games. I’d make the argument less about being a nod to “an important pop culture icon” and more about being a stab of personality (from the developers) that you can’t help but chuckle at. I just mean that if I were playing the game and a medal like that popped up, I’d go, “Ha! I get it.” And I have to imagine that for anyone not in the know curious enough to look it up, it just becomes a fun little tidbit to discover.