>That amazing community >Loads of chill people or banter

get in here faggot

eldewrito.com

>>382394431
>beautiful simple box art
>completely ruined by giant logos

ree

>>382394431
no. it will not. this was the peak of online gaming.

After having done a legendary run of every Halo (except 5, which I played the multiplayer beta og) I can tell you Bungie's Halo's, even Reach, have a decidedly different atmosphere than 343's. 343 weren't able to capture things that made Halo even as simple as the sandbox physics engine, I doubt they even understand their namesake.

>>382394431
I'd have to agree
It was my favorite era of online gamming. Most likely because I was a child and lived in a small town that was on fire for half the year so Halo 3 was life. Halo 3 was love

>>382394431
2007 was the year everything was ruined it will never feel the same again

That era of video games is over, it was a special time, unfortunately it's gone now
My best gaming memories were associated with that time and especially with Halo 3

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It seems that communities will never form up like this again, though I can't say why. I don't think we'll ever get a game quite like Halo 3 which was pretty damn good at its base and provided the tools and shit for a community to use and grow around. Halo 3 custom games were some of the best moments in my gaming time.

>>382395970
>343 ruined Cortana and changed pic related
>343 changed the artstyle completely
>modified Chief's armor
>Spartan IVs are both visually shit and donut steel tier
>ruined Buck as a character because now he's an Oni lapdog even though his whole character is that he's fed up with Oni's stupid bullshit
>Only good Spartan IV was in the side story
>Only good villain was killed off in a side story
>made a different subspecies of elites and they look like shit
>areas for fights are visually cool but are awful to play in, or just bad in both departments
>story is utter trash, threw out what they tried to do in Halo 4 completely
>the OST is probably the biggest offender because it's just a bunch of string instruments going on full repeat all the time, none of the halo charm
>tried to fuck over best boy by introducing a new character no one knew, or could warm up to
>arbiter just gives up his location randomly
im mad im so fucking angery

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>>382396721
>they killed off the rookie in a book

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>>382396918
>Cortana went from her best to her worst between one game

It's like the age of MMOs anon. It's over, especially because people dont even care about teamwork but just like to lonewolf. Or if they do try teamwork its only with their group of buds or people in a stream.

>>382394431
I miss halo and cod in their prime

Reminder that you can still look up your old profile to see stats and screenshots on Bungie's site

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Did they do a good job?

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https://youtu.be/uXcWxw7UHME
>the memories

>>382398357
Honestly, 343i is ONLY good at directing remakes for the games and even then it's more credited to the art studios than 343i itself. Halo CE:A and Halo 2:A were great. they didn't touch SHIT, but they just gave it finesse.

>we will never see an online shooter without loot boxes/microtransaction shit ever again

christ

>>382394801
huh, how popular is this

>>382394431
>Will online, multiplayer gaming ever reach this level of comfy, simple, fun again
No. For three reasons
You grew up
Online communities will never be the same because different audience nowadays
Games nowadays have microtransactions and garbage for profit instead of being comfy and releasing with a good amount of content.

Runescape was also a great multiplayer experience before 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9PujLoqiI
>you'll never be subscribed to machinma again

>>382396994
>best
the only good part of cortana in 4 was her va performance. 343 wrote a shitty ancient evil awakens and wants to kill earth because reasons story with absolutely no weight to it so instead of writing something more compelling they decide to kill off a major character which fans from the bungie games were emotionally attached to.
cortana was the only reason anyone cared about the story in 4 everything else was boring shit.

>>382394431
I only got into Halo 3 with the release of ODST.
I so wish I had started playing it sooner, because that time while the community was still at its peak was too brief for me.

Halo 3 was literally the swan song of the 360.
After that MS went full retard on the direction of the 360.

>>382399204
Did you play reach? The custom games were pretty fun in that too

>>382398725
They even ruined cod4 with that shit and DLC guns and knives.

>>382398929
last i checked there was a larger population than h5 forge

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>>382399257
yeah i noticed after that they pushed the hardware too hard in general instead of working with what they had

>>382396721
>>made a different subspecies of elites and they look like shit
What? I played Halo 5 and must have totally missed this, explain please

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>>382399491
Maybe he meant the jackals

>>382398357
>buddy's bachelor party
>the whole gang is together for the first time in ~10 years
>everyone has a good buzz going
>having a great time catching up
>"hey anon we've got three Xboxes and Halo Anniversary, let's get play some classic CTF!"
>...
>fucking lag in a LAN game
>gameplay is subtly turned to shit
>everyone's spirits start to sink, no one's having fun
>one by one people quit the game and go to bed
>go to sleep with a bad taste in my mouth
>missing the good old days
Man fuck Halo Anniversary

>>382394431
>tfw I was the guy at school with the PS3

>>382398357
In CEA and 2A they fucked up the lighting on all the dark levels. They also made weird style changes like changing a foggy swamp into a rainforest.

>>382394431
Halo 3 PC when

>>382399892
that is insanely disappointing

The bloom effects were amazing

>>382400030
Even if they did it won't be the same

>>382400030
>>382394801
el dewrito is a modded version of some weird f2p pc version of 3 that was only released in russia.

>halo nostalgia thread

>>382400141
kids grow up, anon

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>>382399491
Not him, but basically the new Elite designs are completely overhauled in another direction than Bungie's designed and from what i can tell from the community, and myself included, for the worst. 343i is like that one person who draws anime and tries to make it more serious than it needs to be by going hyper realistic as possible without much need for it.

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>>382400141
I didn't play any of them until recently.
my favorite part is elite lewds

>>382400141
if you were 12 when halo 3 came out you'd be 22

>>382400126
That's cool and all, but unless it's a direct port of the game plastered on every outlet PC gaming knows of, it's useless. The magic of Halo 3 came from the flood of dumb kiddos playing it. It needs to be something legitimate and in the spotlight at least temporarily to attract the kids.

>>382394801
lmao fuck off with this abomination

>>382394431
No
For years now people don't use the game to talk to others because they'll be in a party / skype / discord / whatever.

Nowadays, if someone is using the game chat they are either autistic or complaining that everyone else is causing them to lose the game.

I used to think there would never be anything good again but then I started playing a bit of halo 5. They have a custom games matchmaking now and the online community is pretty decent. The gameplay is pretty fair since they decided to get rid of the classes and loadouts thing.

Campaign sucked a fat dick but the online in 5 is worth checking out. It will never be rushing home after high school to play halo 3 good but its still pretty decent. Playing it definitely brings back some good memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_qTXYuf9w

There are a couple decent Halo 5 Youtubers who post videos from custom games lobbies.

>>382400234
Agreed, Bungie basically drew anime when making Halo's art but they just went with a simple style to everything, I like that 343 continues that tradition but they tend to move more towards let's make everything over complicated and realistic and that just doesn't work with Halo. Seeing how they keep stating that Halo 6 will be ready when it's ready meaning most likely 2019, I hope they take into consideration Halo's art style and just used the art style they created for Halo 2 Anniversary and Halo Wars 2.

>>382396721
>>made a different subspecies of elites and they look like shit
Wait what? I never even bothered looking into anything at all about Halo 5. What's this shit?

>>382396918
That fucking pissed me off to the GODDAMN MAX. Especially because the Rookie was my favorite character out of the whole series.

>>382400870
>rookie was my favorite character
Seriously?

The fact that they didn't make the Rookie into a Spartan IV and then do a Halo 5 "ODST" style game where you play as the rookie again fucking kills me. Absolutely wasted opportunity.

If any of you faggots want to play Halo 5 customs games or something from the MCC add me.

GT: SittinInBarf

>>382400802
I played a bit at a friend's house. It seems like it's going even further down the Reach/Halo 4 path of becoming more CoD-like.

I have always hated the whole Halo franchise for its derivative and frankly fucking stupid single player campaigns, but admit that the multiplayer is great.

You can throw away the entire LOL MASTUR CHEEF singleplayer clusterfuck in every single Halo game and it'd improve the games 10000x.

>>382401325
ehh I don't see it that way. In matchmaking everyone starts with an AR and a magnum. Everyone has the same 5 spartan abilities (clamber, thruster, ground pound, air aim, and spartan charge) so there is no unfairness to it like there is with CoD classes. It actually takes skill to effectively use those abilities rather than simple button mashing. The only complaint I have about matchmaking is that nobody ever talks. 343 in their infinite wisdom decided to make it so you can't party up after a lobby unless you manually invite someone to a game and you also can't talk to other players in lobbies between games. So fucking stupid it discourages so many people from plugging in the mic which is one of the things which has always made Halo great.

>>382401351
I guess the single player story was derivative, but it was pretty new in terms of level design and gameplay. The 'Halo Bowls' thing was a little cliche by the 3rd game but fuck those setpieces were fun.

Halo 2 had a better single player, writing, core mechanics, MP, map design, music, and community. The ONLY thing 3 has over 2 is forge, more custom game options, and online co-op for campaign.

>>382396994
>>382396721
>People think the left looks worse then the right

343 has fucked up a lot but you are foggy as fuck notalgiagoggles or just want to shit on them for the sake of it if you believe this.

Also, Halo 4's cortana was shit in every way other then fapbait. her personality is completely changed and her apperance, while sexy as fuck,. doesn't match either what her personality should be or what it was changed to.

>>382396918
This is also overblown, and there was nothing wrong with this. Killing the rookie didn't waste any narrative oppunirites, and it saved him from having his character ruined by becoming an S4 while giving him one last time to show up. It was a smart move, if anything.

You are just butthurt a character you like died. If you want an ACTUAL example of 343 incompetently killing a character off in a way that actually negatively impacts the state of the universe, look at them killing Jul Mdama off in Halo 5.

>>382400834
>>382400234
I think this is mostly an issue of their armor, not the elites themselves. The armor is retarded and gives them a preception of being super bulky, but if you actually pay attention to just the parts of their design that's their body or rip the models and compare, they are proportionally very close to bungie elites in terms of anatomy, and are actually, IMO, the best balance of muscle with litheness.

Reach, halo Wars, and Halo 3 elites are all way stockier and bulkier, H4 and 5 elites are tied with CE and 2 elites as being thin, while also disturbing the muscle mass in such a way that they look more powerful then they did in CE or 2.

You just wouldn't know it without looking for it because the armor is so fucking stupid.

>>382400802
This, Halo 5's SP is trash but the MP, forge, and customs are great.

>>382401351
The sells drop for Halo 5 tells a different story because that sure as hell wasn't because the multiplayer. Whether you like it or not, fans love playing Master Chief and they love Halo's single player. Halo's single player is what got many people into the series, the multiplayer was always a bonus.

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>>382401086
This would be worse then killing him. making him an S4 would ruin what little personality and character and appeal he has.

>>382401709
whoops, forgot my image here

>>382401063
Yes. I don't know why but I just have this appeal for silent characters. I mean yeh I liked a shit ton of others like Johnson, Six, Arbiter, Kat, etc, but I liked him out of the batch.

>>382401709
Fuck off, Majora.

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i think one reason shit got so lame after halo 3 is i notice a HUGE drop in people willing to use their mic's in online games.
back then you were almost required to have a mic or people would literally vote kick you from games, L4D for instance was one of those games.
Now no one communicates except the random little kid who just got his first mic, the nig who screams every time he gets a kill, and the angry white college age kid telling everyone to STFU

>>382401780
>the multiplayer was always a bonus
This so much. I bought halo 3 for the story. Stayed for the multi-player.

>>382401086
ODST was the best fucking Halo campaign ever. Real exploration and some of the best mass battles in the series. Plus actually good atmosphere and voice acting. Slept on game.

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>>382401709
>Halo 3 elites are all way stockier and bulkier
Were Halo 2 Elites with enhanced graphics

do you think if they made a remaster of halo 3 for pc things could go back to how they were or was that just one of those things that will never be the same

>>382399892
>>382400048

>bullshit the post

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>>382394431
>plays an elite on team SWAT

>>382401808
>making him an S4 would ruin what little personality and character and appeal he has
I don't see how it would. Literally just make him the same silent character except now you're a spartan IV who is facing some sort of lone wolf situation like you were in the original ODST.

>>382401910
*Halo 3 Elites were

>>382401709
>singleplayer
2>1>3
>multiplayer
3>2>1
without a doubt 3 had better multi than 2, not just for balance but overall fun.

>>382399769
No, 343 went into full damage control mode when people started getting pissed at the new elite style and said they were a different species.

>>382402013
Fuck man. That'd suck massive donkey balls.

>>382401661
Hmm, good to hear. Like I said I only played it briefly at a friend's. Honestly I probaly won't buy an Xbone anyway, but I'm glad 343 is still making it skill-based.

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>>382394431
Why don't they just port it to PC, and put it on Steam for like $20? They'd have millions of players instantly. It's money of the fucking table.

>>382402247
you never get headshotted surprisingly. people were only used to doing headshots on spartans. where as if you are looking straight at an elite his head is in the middle of his fucking chest

>>382401831
What?

>>382402018
Except there are a fuck ton of other silent SIV's, and what made the rookie cool was that he did what he did as a normal human

>>382402161
Nah, they are a subspecies/phenotype.

>>382402112
3's MP maps were worse, it was slower and more floaty, guns couldn't hit shit, etc. It wasn't as good.

>>382401968
unfortunately anon, that story is 98% true

>That amazing community
>Loads of chill people or banter in game chat

These are pure lies. You either grew up or have some arbitrary amount or retardation or disrespect you acclimated to.

>>382400234
Man the Reach Elites were perfection

>>382402374
MS would burn everyone who purchased an xbone again

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Bring back the fucking flood in halo 6 you stupid assholes. I would take a Halo game that was entirely flood based. Something like the plot of "The Mona Lisa" halo story would make for such a badass game. Could be like another halo ODST game.

>>382401351
It works with the first 3 games because MC was more or less a blank slate, with the Fall of Reach novel basically being there if you wanted to know more about the world. The conflicts were also simple to understand which was the beauty in them.

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>>382402402
>3's MP maps were worse, it was slower and more floaty, guns couldn't hit shit, etc. It wasn't as good.

Halo 5 is statistically slower than 3. Sprint is literally an illusion of faster movement. Base movement comparison showed that 3 was still faster, and the maps of 5 were stretched out enough to compensate for sprint.


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BkmA26fzSDaq4DFcAiKvXf3PazW4aAEoUZewlUm0trw/edit#gid=0

>>382402112
>singleplayer
3>1>2

>>382402484
>ctf
>halo ce anniversary

>lan with Halo ce
>can only up to 2 players in campaign

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>>382402586
They had the perfect posteriors as well. If only their jaws were fixed, I'd be content.

>>382402630
Seeing how they have returned in Halo Wars 2 and 343 stated Halo 6 will be ready when it's ready I can see the Flood playing a big role in Halo 6, fucking up Cortana's plans, plus we finally get to see Prometheans vs Flood.

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>>382402402
>3's MP maps were worse
H2 at launch had the shittiest map roster of any of the games minus ODST. Its best maps were eventually carried over to H3/Reach.

>>382402393
Their heads were glitched - even though they looked bigger, the hitbox was actually smaller so anyone trying to get to 50 in SWAT would pick an Elite for free wins.

>>382402402
>floaty
what does this buzzword mean

>>382402946
>Its best maps were eventually carried over to H3/Reach.

Did Reach have Beaver Creek? I sold my 360 shortly after ODST so I never got a chance to play that one.

>>382403027
Didn't they also have a missing hit box around their necks? You could shoot straight through.

>>382402946
>Halo 2 launch maps, worse than Reach
Not him but boy

It's a thread for the kids that grew up with halo 3
How grown up they are :^)

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Pre-party chat Xbox LIVE was a mini golden age of online gaming where there were so many people in game chat.

Halo 3 was pretty cool, but Gears of War was the greatest online experience I ever had where everyone was in game chat and you and the other team would have intense rivalries as you shit talked each other over 19 round matches, popping off between rounds, getting everyone salty.

After party chat it became a ghost town like the exact reason PSN was so shitty (other than it having no good online games).

>>382402638
I believe he was comparing H3 to H2.

>>382403165
It usually means that controls aren't tight, but H3 didn't have floaty controls in my opinion, unless he literally was referring to the low gravity.

>>382394431
>best selling Xbox game ever
>best selling game of 2007
>beloved by everyone
>perfect launch title for new console
>didn't get an anniversary remaster
Fuck this world.

>>382403437
Halo 3 (like Super Metroid) doesn't need a remake.

>>382403319
Why did party chat have to ruin games? Everything feels like a fucking ghost town unless you use text chat on PC, practically no different than bots.

>>382403437
halo 1 and 2 did already for master chief collection and thats enough.

>>382403437
It really doesn't need one. It runs at 60 on the MCC and 3's artstyle is miles ahead of 343 "slap some hexagons on it" industries.

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>>382402586
Honestly, they were. One thing i would've loved to see was a Reachified version of the Sangheili Councilors; with their own distinctive armor patterns rather than just the headdress. Also
>That Helmet
>apparently inspired by the Queens head from Aliens
>muh dick

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>>382398531

>Used to play Halo3 all the time with close friend
>Hanging out, watching dumb movies, eating shitty food, getting stoned
>Then he moved halfway across the country to plow some cow he met through WoW and didn't say shit to me about it
>Comes back 6 months later, different person
>Doesn't want to hang out as much
>Meets another cow with a kid
>Knocks her up
>Moves away
>Now cares for her kid and his own child
>Never really talk to him again

Life is a never ending tragedy with a few punchlines thrown in here and there to make it a little more bearable. Sometimes I feel like a walking punchline.

>>382403425
It was a comparison between Halo 3 and 5. Halo 3's games are faster, along with the times between each kill. Movement speed is also faster in comparison to the size of the maps.

>>382403207
Yeah it did

>>382401838

Party chat started the trend. It's not that people aren't chatting while playing games anymore, they're just locked behind discords or in party chats like the one offered on the Xbone. It sucks, because playing a game solo means no communication outside of text really.

>>382403717
It's called growing up, anon. It happens to all of us. I don't think there is one person here who wouldn't want to take a time machine and relive all those memories...but it's time to make new ones, rather than relishing the old ones

god damn i was a fucking beast

>>382404502
Same. Had my 50 in doubles, snipes, and team slayer. Was so close to a 50 in lone wolf but I got de-ranked from 49 to 47 and gave up. Had a 2.2 k/d ratio online. God damn I miss that shit. Used to play every single day of the week for hours. Halo 3 was my social life in high school. No ragrets.

>>382403734
>>382402638
I was comparing 2 to 3 anon, not 5. That being said, there's problems with your 5 comparsion as well.

>>382403712
>>382402586
>>382402757
>>382400234
Reach elites look like shit, it's just their armor is 10/10. It's the opposite problem 343 elites have, where the elites themelsves are fine but their armor is garbage.

Actually go look up what reach elites look like without helmets on, they look fucking awful

>All this talk about community and people not using their mics

Come to forza. We are a big happy family (as long as you are a clean racer)

I'll admit it's no where near halo glory days but it's relatively small group and you end up racing familiar faces and people who are shitbags get kicked really quick. We talk and circle jerk and go sonic fast

>>382403207
Yeah it did

>>382397173
This. Trying to make any connection with people online, even via comradery, is dead.

I was playing Black desert and server chat is just people arguing about how confusing the game is/"no it's great fuck off ree". Got into a guild and it's just everyone doing their own thing or talking about some uninteresting bs

>>382404894
Was talking more in terms with their armor designs. The new little details ALONG with the color scheme made them feel more unique than just "blue, red, and gold"

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>>382404894
>problem 343 elites have, where the elites themelsves are fine but their armor is garbage.

Defend this

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>>382394431
>Loads of chill people or banter in game chat
hahaha

>>382405156
Like mentioned earlier, this has to do with 343i trying to the franchise/series more serious than its predecessors so the pseudo-realism seems far mor alien than the actual desing OF the aliens themselves. People can call it nitpicking but as an artist if you picture looks good already then know went to stop adding details. Otherwise, it will only have those details exploited rather than appreciated.

>>382404894
>Reach elites look like shit
This

>>382405597

>People can call it nitpicking but as an artist if you picture looks good already then know went to stop adding details. Otherwise, it will only have those details exploited rather than appreciated.


As a Sangheili artist, the overall appearance strayed far from what made them an elite. Even if Reach had them depicted as terrifying, they still held the sleek appearance and gait.

http://i.imgur.com/WQbAeJJ.jpg

They are far too large and clunky it seems, and now the padding of their own jaws can latch onto their eye sockets.

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How did we go from this...

to THIS

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>>382406343
forgot pic

>>382405907
This anon gets it. The Elites look more gritty and more unnecissarily clunky-looking than the Spartan-IV counterparts. granted "lorewise" the UNSC is practically back to full strength with the small internal problems (in the grand scheme of things anyways). The Covenant Remnant are fighting an uphill battle guerrila-style not only with humans but amongst themselves as well.
So they switched role of Humans being nitty-gritty and damn near hopeless to being sleek and confident and the Covenant being sleek and honorable to damn near barabaric.

tldr;
>Humans now sleeker in design than elites and visa-versa with Elites.

I personally don't like this cause i'm a fan of the "last beacon of hope during an onslaught" trope the series had

>>382400484
What's wrong with it?

I'd play it if it wasn't just fucking one full game on at any given time never playing any classic team based games like CTF.

I heard the spawns are broken or some shit but it seems to work for the custom game modes just fine, but that shit gets old. My fondest memories were of CTF on blood gulch or vallhalla or whatever and I never fucking see them play anything like that

343 should have just used brutes more instead of making elites the new brutes

>>382401709
thick barefoot Cortana was great. everything else was shit.

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>>382405156
>>382405763
>>382405042
left is 4, middle is 3, right is reach

4's is basically identical proportionally, just with smaller eyes, and the mandibles are more defined and wavy

>>382403207
yeah it did

>>382407053
>4's is basically identical proportionally, just with smaller eyes, and the mandibles are more defined and wavy


The H2A Model is a step in the right direction. The Sangheili design is simply too far from what was intentionally made.

>>382406697
This makes a LOT more sense even on a lore-wise perspective. The one gripe i had
>End of war
>4 years later
>Opening scene of Halo 4 sets theme
>Covenant Remnant still their
>first Elite encounter cause well they are the key figures of the Covenant, duh
>ok it'd make sense to send Elites on a scouting mission cause their well "elite"
>all of the camaign not a single mention of the brutes
>brutes: the backbone of the Covenant just before collapsing
>wheretheyatdoe.jpg
The brutes were growing on me a bit in Halo 3 too. This was 343i cnance to improve an enemy where when low on health berzerked like crazy like Halo 2(when i first played the game, them berzerking was annoying yet challenging cause that damage tho)

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>>382407053


>>382406697
>>382406567
>>382405597
343 elites are the most lith and skinny they have been since Halo 2, stop repeating this meme.

The armor just makes them look bulky. Go download ajdutant and rip the models yourself, and remove the armor geometry and look.

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Defend this

>>382407131
>The H2A Model is a step in the right direction
I hope since they are taking their time with Halo 6, they use the H2A model for the Elites.

>>382407168
>343 elites are the most lith and skinny they have been since Halo 2, stop repeating this meme.
They were skinny in Halo 3 see>>382401910, Bungie just fucked up their designs in Halo Reach.

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>>382407168

>>382407131
There's actually 2 seperate H2A designs: The one generic elites, rtas, and thel before his torture use, and then a seperate one thel after the torture and heretics use.

IMO

Actual anatomy:
H2A generic > Halo 4/5 > H2A heretic >> Halo 2 > CE > 3 >> Reach > Wars

Armor:
Reach > Wars > 3 > H2a = H2 > CE > shit > 4 = 5

>>382407174
It's a shame, because other then the face and armor, the H5 grunts are pretty faithful to the 3 reach ones, they have an exoskeleton again and everything.

>someone defends 5 and shits all over the original trilogy while defending the new designs and story
wow i wonder who it could be........

>>382407367
>Actual anatomy
For the love of god, Halo 3 Elites look like Halo 1 and 2 Elites as I stated multiple times here>>382407354 and here>>382401910.

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>>382407367
The anatomy is best when you combine the Reach anatomy with heads similar to Halo 2's design.

>Humanity recovers completely despite an entire continent on their homeworld being fucking glassed and likely billions dead from several decades of war with an opponent we didn't really get a grip on until like the last fucking few years, which we only won due to the Covenant splitting in half
Bullshit, I hate this meme. I hate the new Spartans, I hate the new """"VILLAINS"""", I hate the fucking new artstyle, and I might forgive them for all that except that the OST is the worst in the entire fucking series, and is fucking awful as a soundtrack anyway. Fuck 343 god fucking damn it.

>>382407873
Well they did acquire Forerunner tech.

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>>382394431
>This game came out Ten years ago

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remember me /v/?

the creator browses this board

>Machinma

Just in case anyone didn't know, Arby n' the Chief started back up on Johns personal youtube channel.

Glorious

>>382408542
digital ph33r comes here?

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>>382394431
Have you guys been by Bungie.net lately?

Holy fuck.

>>382409462
He's been going by JonCJG for a while now.
He still does Arby 'n the Chief because that series will never die and does some pretty chill podcasts / hangouts every now and then.

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Bungie is the Rareware of the 00's.

Made juggernaut game after juggernaut game to be THE studio of their decade, then partnered with some corporation that sucked the life out of them, all their talent left, and they were reduced to churning out shovelware for their corporate overlords.

>>382409528
The layout is complete garbage.


I went by Vien if you remember me.

>>382409563
neato. Ill have to look up his channel. I remember watching some of his stuff back in the day

>>382394801
There's like no one playing it.

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>>382396918
for what purpose.

>>382396721
>caring or paying one shred of attention to 343's literal fanfiction

I checked out of 343 Halo """"""""""lore"""""""""" after the shitheap that was Cryptum and never looked back.

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>>382401838
Nice grammar underaged.

>>382409616
More than just the layout, they basically undertook an effort to "sanitize" the site after the Destiny children got shit on so hard by the older community and did everything they could to drive out older members. A couple years ago they literally made a site update that straight-out barred any member that hadn't played Destiny on their account from posting on the site.

As well all the older moderators abandoned the site and are replaced by, surprise, leftist cucks with hurt feelings and a power trip.

What used to be the best gaming site got turned into the worst with just one release, and it was deliberate. Achronos and the webteam deliberately drove out Bungie's dedicated fanbase to try to water down the entire site to being a Destiny Help forum.

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>>382394431
>tfw played this during the golden age like everybody else but no fond memories because no friends

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>>382402374
because its the only franchise they have that'll get people to eat it up.

>>382410168
Someone made an offsite back in 2014 that mimics the layout almost spot on.
http://sep7agon.net/the-flood/

I wouldn't say you have to make an account, but at least take a look.

>>382410234

I legitimately feel sorry for you.

>>382409462
more like digital queer

>>382408542
high on lief arbiter

high on lief

>>382410325
The offsites are bretty gay desu but that's much better than (((Sapphire)))

>>382410508

>>>Bungle

>>382408542
This is still my favorite thing that show pumped out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3O51dud0t8

>>382394431
ah... bringing back memories i forgot i even had...

thank you OP.

>>382409920
Cryptum was fantastic though you fucking retard

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>>382412372
>Cryptum was fantastic

>>382410325
Not him but that's interesting. Been looking for another FORUM to be a part of ever since Bungie went to shit and my clan site died.

>>382394431
>didn't have any friends that played Halo
>after matchmaking went into the recent players tab and looked for someone in a custom game and joined them
>nobody ever noticed that nobody knew who the fuck I was, had a blast, made a few friends in the process

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>>382400234
I really don't see the difference as that big. The armor is different but the creature is relatively same. 2's iterations was the best one, but 5's version is still slightly better than Reach's or 3's hunched bulky design, imho.

>>382414092
>3's hunched bulky design, imho.
Why do you keep ignoring my post?
>>382407657
>>382407354
>>382401910

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>>382414092
very bulky

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>>382414220
I am not the same guy. Maybe the model inside isn't that bulky, but the armor, and posture give that impression.

>>382414702
Agreed

>>382409920
Wait cryptum was cool. Pretty dry though

>>382410979
hearty chuckle

>>382394431
>Would download the maps that were just guns shaped into nude women

It was a much simpler time.