Sorry for the poor title. It was the only thing I could think of to make this thread sound as interesting as possible.
Anyways, it seems like Elites won’t be playable in Halo 4. I think that will further cripple Halo machinimas because a lot of action- and war-oriented machinimas revolve around Spartans and Elites. It seems like the whole “Elites vs. Spartans” thing won’t work in H4 so that’s one negative thing. There were even some machinimas that revolved around using Elites for a comical machinima, and now that won’t even be possible—which adds another negative thing.
Machinima was at its peak back in late 2007 to early 2009 due to how amazing Halo 3 was with gameplay mechanics and the customization overall, but it could have been improved further in later Halo installments. Halo: Reach had greater customization for Spartans, but for Elites it was poor and the whole MP maps sharing similarities to the Campaign didn’t help. The game certainly didn’t feel like an improved Halo 3. Now Halo 4 not only ruins my identity in the game because I prefer Elites over Spartans (side-rant)—and even though it looks like Spartan customization will be improved tenfold—Elites won’t be included in multiplayer and that’ll severely affect Halo machinimas.
So what do you think Halo machinimists? How will this affect you and how you think of Halo machinima and machinima in general?
P.S. Sorry if you notice a bit of some off-topic in my thread. I just had to let it all out. 