I really don’t like Halo 4’s design. Like, at all.
I recently decided to return to Halo 4 to see if my opinion of it had changed at all with the recent updates. It hadn’t, but it reminded me of how much I disliked Halo 4’s “redesigns”.
Like the covenant - what happened? It’s like they took all the color out of it and tried to make it “gritty sci-fi”. Maybe it’s just the graphics in general, but all the colors seem really muted and darkened.
And the sound design… why did they spend so much time and effort redoing the weapon sounds? Some of the UNSC weapons sound ok, I guess, but the new sound doesn’t like, WOW me or anything. And the covenant guns sound terrible! I never thought I’d care about the way they sound, but the “pew pew” plasma sound is almost iconic to Halo. Why do they all sound like oversized staplers? I cringe every time I shoot one.
I know this is a subjective topic, but Halo is a colorful space opera, with colorful aliens and guns that go “pew pew pew”. It’s always been that way. Don’t take the color and heart out of it.
I did like the look of the brute in the opening cinematic, I guess. That was pretty cool.
IMO:
Halo 4 definitely had the best graphics art-wise.
I didn’t see anything wrong with the enemies. Halo: Reach and Halo Wars had the best Elites though–those things looked scary.
I agree with the sounds, but I’d say all of the weapon sounds in Halo 4 are kind of ridiculous, especially the SAW, Battle Rifle, Light Rifle, and Suppressor.
> IMO:
> Halo 4 definitely had the best graphics art-wise.
> I didn’t see anything wrong with the enemies. Halo: Reach and Halo Wars had the best Elites though–those things looked scary.
> I agree with the sounds, but I’d say all of the weapon sounds in Halo 4 are kind ridiculous, especially the SAW, Battle Rifle, Light Rifle, and Suppressor.
Agreed. They aren’t pleasureful to the ears like they once were with the previous Halos. The Halo 3 BR used to be sweet music, now the Halo 4 one is just inane noise.
I really don’t like how the spartans look. It’s like they are half reptillian, half dejected promethean armor. I wish they would have done a better job with that.
