- Doom Sticks
- |
- Exalted Legendary Member
My thumbsticks will be your Doom.... sorry 'bout that.
My Stats
I gotta agree with something there TRuemonkeyK. A knife wouldn't necessarily be a huge deviation from the already established Halo.
Like the flag or skull, or any other mellee attack at knife would just be another object in the Chiefs hand (they never let you use just your fist do they? If you have to have something in it why not a knife?). It wouldn't have to be as deadly as it is in the books (a Spartan with a knife is purported to be the deadliest thing alive - and I assume that this is where the "geeks" get these fandangled ideas like "hey, there should be a knife in the game").
Of course what is looking out to be an instant kill mellee weapon is the PLasma Sword, the one new addition to the game that I am most apprehensive about. This is because I am a fan of the books and I've noticed that Eric Nylund has written his stories in tandem with Jason Jones and the other guys on the story at Bungie. Never before has there been such corrolation between a work of fiction and the playable options of it's game (granted in this case; the game is first and foremost, but the point is- the story adds all that flavah to the momments when your just running around shooting and stabbing aliens). Therefore because of known elements in the story, i hope the PLasma sword is just in MP and the knife shows up at least in Campaign, keeping in mind that the two are by no way equal.
And hey, Geeks don't want all the stuff that's in the books to be in the game. If so, I'd want to be able suspend myself 100meters in the air with some rope and snipe out Banshees, cut thru Titanium A armor with the new plasma-sword, and I want my Sheilds to ripple whenever a high level of radiation was present.
"A knife just wouldn't be Halo" is just a closed-minded argument.
oh yeah and i think the sheilds are slippery to the touch but when severe force or energy is applied (lets just say concentrated like the tip of a knife or a bullet) the impact energy is dispersed through the rest of the shields surface area. When the energy is too much for the total surface area (surface tension) to handle it weakens, sputters, depletes and in extreme cases, shorts out.
As for sprinting, I think it will be in Halo2 and it will be cool. Just think, you know those parts on Attack on the Control Room where you have to cover a large snow covered area to get to a hog or some marines (or Med KIt!!). Wouldn't it be nice to realisticly lower you weapon and run faster? The issue is with the firing of weapons, will it snap you out of sprinting mode when the trigger is pressed? will it take long for you to raise your weapon back up while sprinting? Can you change weapons while running and will a melee attack with, oh i dunno, -lets say a knife, slow you down?blam
[Edited on 6/1/2004 7:43:51 PM]