- Big T Mac10
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Halo: Reach should be a reboot of sorts for the series. For 5 games and 8 years we've done the arena shooter with the PG-13 feel and visuals. And while they were great, I feel as though the arcade, arena gameplay has seen its peak in Bungie games. A new direction in gameplay would revitalize the IP and give Bungie the real chance to give us something new. With this shift should come a visual change as well. That's not to say much of the humor and wit should be removed from the dialogue, but actions should have more brevity and weight to them, and a artistic change would help convey this shift. Brutes should be dangerous like in the WETA shorts and the ODST commercials. Guns should have real power to them instead of the 80s cartoonish feel they have now. I want guns that truly pop and feel as though they are deadly; something more real. I want elites to be terrifying, deadly warriors who use cover like actual soldiers rather than simply strafing left and right. I want grunts to be more than comedic fodder there to simply spit out goofy one-liners. I want gravity. I want a world that isn't bright and colorful. Jungles and open grasslands are great battlefields, but they are not supposed to be extremely green and pristine and clean. It's ok for them to be ugly and inhospitable; hell, it's better that way. And I especially want humans to look like humans. No more Halo 3-style, off-putting marionettes with dialogue. Give their faces actual texture this time, and nostrils!
/threadjack :p
[Edited on 10.12.2009 10:56 PM PDT]