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Subject: Reach needs a darker, grittier, more emotional atmosphere.
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This is currently a work-in-progress, so this post is not finished. I will add to this, whenever I have time or whenever I feel like it.

No, I'm not suggesting a Gears of War style game with blood everywhere and steroid filled apes running around with chainsaws yelling "AAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHHHH YARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" and "NOW I'M REALLY PISSED ARRRGGGHHHHHHHH DOM!!!!!!!!"

What I'm suggesting is what the title says, a darker, grittier, more emotional atmosphere. We're talking about a planet that's going to be destroyed, mind as well be serious about it. I'll explain in sections about specific subjects.

Marines.
These guys need to be the tough guys that they're supposed to be. In terms of dialogue, they need to be serious, they're fighting for a planet that is doomed from the start. Now, does that mean they shouldn't crack jokes? No, but they shouldn't crack jokes every two seconds like in Halo 3. And when they do crack jokes, they need to be clever, not like the "In-your-face" style of Halo 3: "Hey, I almost had a triple kill!" "You ruined my achievements!!!!"

Also, they should be wearing their Halo 1 armor, because well, it actually looks like armor that a space marine would wear.

Covenant
Elites need to return, it is absolutely necessary. And they need to stand tall like in Halo 1, it makes them look more like an alien menace than the hunched dinosaurs in Halo 3. Ditch the translation software, have them speak in their native tongue, again it makes them seem more like an alien menace.

Grunts, well what can I say. They should remain as comic-reliefs, but build off their Halo 3 appearance. There should be multiple variants of grunts, not just in color though, in tank size and shape also. An example would be the "curl-back" grunt from Halo 1.

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  • 10.03.2009 7:31 PM PDT

The environment grittier, or are you also including Covie Weapons, Vehicles, and Rank Colors?

  • 10.03.2009 7:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: an emo orphan
Thanks for copying my topic... kinda.

Add my -blam!- to your -blam!- if you want. They're both good.
Oh, sorry, I didn't bother checking before I made this thread.

I'll add your stuff when I update the OP, and of course credit will be given to you.

  • 10.03.2009 7:37 PM PDT

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I agree with your points, especially about the Elites. Although, I don't know how the language of the Elites could be altered without the language of the Grunts being changed as well. If the Grunts are going to still be used for comic-relief, players should be able to understand what they're saying.

  • 10.03.2009 7:51 PM PDT

Agreed, you've read my mind.

  • 10.03.2009 8:12 PM PDT
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definetly. Reach was the place where majority of the Spartans died so it would be fitting

  • 10.03.2009 8:13 PM PDT

AVG

The people who want thiss Im with you, I've seen several threads like this, but they all die, or end up on the 1000th page.

I've always wanted Halo to be more of a serious, gory, gritty, game , the way I see it, Halo is too much of a kids game, I mean there is'nt even that much blood in the game.

  • 10.03.2009 8:16 PM PDT
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But seriously, I agree.

  • 10.03.2009 8:16 PM PDT

stuck u

ya when i shoot a elite in the arm with a sniper rifle i want its arm to fall OFF and when i stick some one i want blood to be all ova my screen and limbs and alien organs every ware, i can already see it....boom and nothing, but pices and parts

good ideas keep it up

  • 10.03.2009 8:22 PM PDT

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  • 10.03.2009 8:23 PM PDT

Posted by: Sticky 6585
ya when i shoot a elite in the arm with a sniper rifle i want its arm to fall OFF

Newton's Third Law states that that is impossible.

And when did OP say that Halo needs to have gore?

[Edited on 10.03.2009 10:00 PM PDT]

  • 10.03.2009 9:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: Plasma3150
Posted by: Sticky 6585
ya when i shoot a elite in the arm with a sniper rifle i want its arm to fall OFF

Newton's Third Law states that that is impossible.

And when did OP say that Halo needs to have gore?


Clearly Newton Never encountered anti-material rifles.

  • 10.03.2009 10:03 PM PDT

Posted by: BULLETSP0NGE
Posted by: Plasma3150
Posted by: Sticky 6585
ya when i shoot a elite in the arm with a sniper rifle i want its arm to fall OFF

Newton's Third Law states that that is impossible.

And when did OP say that Halo needs to have gore?


Clearly Newton Never encountered anti-material rifles.

Clearly, you don't know what the Third Law is.

"Any action has an opposite, but equil Reaction." Meaning that you would also be taking the same amount of force as the Elite. You would get hurt as well.

For example, a common mistake that Western Movies had. You know those scenes where a guy gets shot by a shotgun and flies back ten feet? For that to happen, the Shooter would have to be flown back ten feet as well.

  • 10.03.2009 10:17 PM PDT

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Posted by: BULLETSP0NGE
Posted by: Plasma3150
Posted by: Sticky 6585
ya when i shoot a elite in the arm with a sniper rifle i want its arm to fall OFF

Newton's Third Law states that that is impossible.

And when did OP say that Halo needs to have gore?


Clearly Newton Never encountered anti-material rifles.

Clearly, you don't know what the Third Law is.

"Any action has an opposite, but equil Reaction." Meaning that you would also be taking the same amount of force as the Elite. You would get hurt as well.

For example, a common mistake that Western Movies had. You know those scenes where a guy gets shot by a shotgun and flies back ten feet? For that to happen, the Shooter would have to be flown back ten feet as well.


Nope.

Recoil is that reaction.

Weapon makers have thought of that a long time ago, which is why they have several innovations to reduce recoil. People don't put a tube and a hammer inside a box without thinking of these things.

  • 10.03.2009 10:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: Plasma3150
Posted by: BULLETSP0NGE
Posted by: Plasma3150
Posted by: Sticky 6585
ya when i shoot a elite in the arm with a sniper rifle i want its arm to fall OFF

Newton's Third Law states that that is impossible.

And when did OP say that Halo needs to have gore?


Clearly Newton Never encountered anti-material rifles.

Clearly, you don't know what the Third Law is.

"Any action has an opposite, but equil Reaction." Meaning that you would also be taking the same amount of force as the Elite. You would get hurt as well.

For example, a common mistake that Western Movies had. You know those scenes where a guy gets shot by a shotgun and flies back ten feet? For that to happen, the Shooter would have to be flown back ten feet as well.


Yes but the sniper rifle can severe the arm, the bullet has enough energy. You just get recoil were as the elite gets a pointy piece of metal into his arm with the same force. Lets not forget the sniper most likely has some kind of a compensator to lower recoil. Nice physics fail. Do you feel smart now?

[Edited on 10.03.2009 10:27 PM PDT]

  • 10.03.2009 10:24 PM PDT

Okay to settle this, the current fifty caliber sniper rifles almost always use a free-float barrel system and compensators in order to keep you from blowing your own arm off. These current rifles CAN AND WILL tear people to pieces. Add whatever amount of years in there and you'll probably get some explosives or something too. It seems to me that someone has just watched too much mythbusters with no secondary research. I will say that I doubt anyone short of a spartan could fire more than one shot standing up though.

  • 10.03.2009 10:40 PM PDT

I like it :D

Makes me wonder what you mean by more serious dialogue/jokes for Marines.Also,since you said forget the translation gear for the Elites,how will Grunts provide comical relief since we will not understand them?

  • 10.03.2009 10:46 PM PDT

What a waste....

Yes, and get rid of everything from H2-H3. We need all the original weapons. And, also, the surface, if we fight there, should be burning and glassy, like it's ACTUALLY BEING BLOWN THE F**UCK UP! The Elites should have no translations. The Marines need to be going insane, like the three marines from H1, H3, and ODST. And, I also think a Covenant Campaign would be in order. Not a combined campaign-just two separate ones.

  • 10.03.2009 10:48 PM PDT