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Posted by: Lord Slade
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
I may not be an expert on anime, in all actually that would be privet caboose, but it seems like you have a narrow experience with anime in general. Yes, crap like Naruto does clog up airwaves more than it should. Yet pictures done by the likes of Hayao Miyazaki are simply stunning to say the least. Nasaka and the Valley of the Wind, Hals Moving Castle, and Princess Mononoke are some of the best anime I've seen.
And no offense, but why is the Japanese culture idiotic? What aspect exactly?
And once again for Noble Team, why no second chance? It can go two ways, if they make a good story with those characters, we we get a good story, if not, well then you would be right. If the books can make Chief somewhat more interesting and likeable, Noble should get the same chance. It's only fair and wouldn't hurt anything.I've seen Hal's Moving Castle. It certainly wasn't worth watching. No story, weak characters, weak animation, weak soundtrack--a very poor film to say the least.
Medieval Japanese culture is idiotic when you apply to it an alien race designed to be religious extremists, not goddamned Samurais.
As for Noble Team, the characters are beyond forgiveness. As I mentioned, only one of them had a single likeable aspect, and he died. They've had their chance, so it's time to let better characters get a visual representation. I'm talking characters from the books, the ones where it would actually be worth watching to see more about them. They certainly shouldn't entrust Halo to the same awful studios that they gave it to last time. For the mostpart what they delivered resembled the motion comics for the Evolutions stories, but with less movement and worse stories.
I'm not an expert on Anime at all considering I've only seen one (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood), two if you count Halo Legends (actually I'd say three since Avatar the Last Airbender is similar enough to be safely considered an Anime even though it was made here in America), and all three of those had an excellent portrayal of style and art, albeit quite different from Western styles, but it was good all the same. I really don't get your irrational hatred of it, I mean sure you can dislike it, but you always come across as just irrationally hating it for no apparent reason.
Except the Elites have always been compared to Feudal Japan, I think Bungie has even made that comparison themselves, and this has been way before Legends came along. And the Elites are far more than just religious extremists, if that's all you see in them then you are sadly out of tune with the threads woven in Halo's story and universe.
I think you are letting your dislike of Reach overtly color and bias your opinion of every facet of the game, the more I replay Reach and watch its cutscenes the more I notice characterization and a wonderful depth of character for all the different members of Noble Team and their relations with each other. Further stories featuring the members of Noble Team and getting to explore more of their character is an excellent idea. A game is not exactly the best place to tell a completely story and character driven tale, not a first person shooter at least, so of course Noble Team aren't going to be all that they ever could, especially not on their first appearance. Looking at any of the Halo games by themselves you have the exact same situation, Noble's character depth and characterization are no worse than in any of the other installments to the saga. ODST certainly had the best characterization, but I think that was more from the voice actors having a lot of experience and 3 of them had worked together already before, so they would have already had some chemistry and friendship from working together all ready.
I think further stories centered around Noble Team would be excellent additions to the series.