I miss the days of Marines being Green and militaristic, now they look like they play paintball. The new Spartan armor is over thought. Too many curves, too many sharp edges. Bring back the Mjolnir style and incorporate it into each and every set. Get rid of these new silver shiny guns. We’re a powerful futuristic yet classic looking army. We aren’t star ship troopers! Wtf happened to the grunts? They used to be sorta adorable and fun to fight. Now they’re horrifying monstrosities. Wtf did you guys do to the Elites? They look more like brutes now. Bungie set up a very distinct art style and all you did was ruin what Halo was meant to look like! It’s not all bad, but try to imagine a marine from HALO 3 holding a SAW. Would it fit? No, it wouldn’t. Don’t give me that “technology evolved” bs. HALO Wars 2’s art style is what we want. We want grit! We want realism! The point of HALO’s style was to combine futuristic and modern properties. Now it is purely futuristic, and that needs to change.
No. Different models can coexist, and go on different periods. But there’s a lot of new great stuff. The new covenant vehicles? The spirit is amazing looking!
YOU want that. Not everyone, I for one would love to see the two art styles clash like 343i wanted to do before Halo 5 launched but couldn’t due to time.
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> YOU want that. Not everyone, I for one would love to see the two art styles clash like 343i wanted to do before Halo 5 launched but couldn’t due to time.
Yes! I like when different styles are together! Halo wars 2 does it! New and old grunts!
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I will go for that. A hybrid art style would be interesting. Classic BRS and smgs and saws and the rocket launchers at disposal.
My biggest gripe with the 343 art style is the Marines and Spartan armor. Like you said the Marines look like they’re going to play paintball or something, and this might be more of a texture thing but several people say the Spartan armor looks plasticy or like clay. The Halo 3 and H2A/Halo Wars Marine designs were the best IMO, they looked futuristic but not alien, yet they were still believable as the evolution of a soldier’s armor. The new Marines look far too “modern”, I mean they’ve got MOLLE vests and minimal hard armor plating.
Don’t worry, Halo wars 2 is on it’s way.
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> My biggest gripe with the 343 art style is the Marines and Spartan armor. Like you said the Marines look like they’re going to play paintball or something, and this might be more of a texture thing but several people say the Spartan armor looks plasticy or like clay. The Halo 3 and H2A/Halo Wars Marine designs were the best IMO, they looked futuristic but not alien, yet they were still believable as the evolution of a soldier’s armor. The new Marines look far too “modern”, I mean they’ve got MOLLE vests and minimal hard armor plating.
Don’t forget about the helmets. Spartans and Marine helmets look bad.
You came from LNG didn’t you…
What we need is a merging of BOTH art styles because your right, UNSC armor and structures do look silly now but 343 did give us the jewels that are blue teams and osiris’s armor sets.
The grunts look fine in halo 5, they are comparable to pugs but I do wish we could have both grunts in game. And the elites don’t have to look noble to be noble, in the lore there was a 10 foot tall monster of a elite and he was one of the most respected sangheili along with Thel.
I agree with forerunner stuff being too shiny, imagine if all of the prometheans had different types of stone textures and when the armor took damage it would crumble and expose hard light. And what’s your problem with the SAW? It looks like it cane straight from misriah armory. And a gritty halo art style isn’t all that great, in reach I was questioning where did all the color go? Not to mention reach gave us the monstrosity of a AR redesign because it looked more “tacti-cool”.
TL;TR like I said just combine the best aspects of both art styles and work from there!
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I’ve been playing just about every Halo campaign a lot lately and for every game, I just stop and look around on how beautiful everything looks, and no other game has done that. Normally, I run straight through, but on every Halo, no matter what the art style is, it’s always mysterious and so beautiful.
I agree. No more floaty shiny tron buildings.
I agree that seeing the two art styles clash would be great, but after that I think it would be best to see the original style stay. I don’t know about you guys, but IMO the halo wars 1 art style was the best. The marines wore ski masks typically (which I liked for some reason) and the Spartans looked big and beefy. (Even the female) But I’d be happy with the art style going back to the Halo 2/3 days. (Mainly because HALO 3 was my favorite HALO)
As everyone has already stated, it should be a blend of both. I would prefer the blend to be of halo 5 and halo 2A.