- RhythmKiller
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Posted by: Sgt Raynor
Posted by: RhythmKiller
The elites were much more mobile than the brutes, and because they had energy shields and would retreat to recharge it made encounters with them better.
Too often in halo 3 you get brutes just standing there looking at your position, doing nothing.
That's realistic. Elites are smart, and thus employ smart battlefield tactics. Brutes are idiots whose only advantage is their, well, brute strength.
For one, realism is of no concern at all. Not because we're dealing with things that don't exist anyway, but because gameplay is paramount. The second a decison is made that takes away from gameplay but adds to the realism or fiction of a game, that's a bad decision. Don't you agree?
But secondly, brutes standing there doing nothing but pointing their gun at your position is not using their advantage of brute strength anyhow. I think they should have been more aggressive. They don't move around as much as the elites. I actually agree that brutes wouldn't tactically retreat as much and maybe wouldn't use cover as much either - but that only works if they're going to charge you down, which they didn't really.