Posted by: Mikelp_1
Posted by: the pib
Posted by: Mikelp_1
Sounds much more possible in the sense that they probably just ripped a newer wraith model and based it off of that currently used model.
The HCEA shotgun looks like the Reach shotgun because the Reach shotgun looks cooler, end of story. Your theory of a big freaking plasma turret that's there just for looks is on a whole different level of weird.
When you look at the Reach quality detail they put into reskinning the AI, vehicles, weapons, skybox, scenery and cut scenes, do you really think it's possible that they just "forgot" to overhaul the Wraith? And I doubt it's even technically possible to "copy and paste" graphical assets from Reach or Halo 3 into a ten year old game.
You're calling MY theory weird when your theory is that the entire game is being played with and is different from what it used to be because there is a turret on a vehicle that wasn't drivable, or manipulatable, to begin with... Then you're saying that the shotgun got a completely different model because it looks cooler; but the wraith can't have a turret attachment that actually contributes nothing to gameplay because THAT looks cooler? Contradiction...
Your theory is that 343 just decided to add a ton of work to their plate for no reason, whatsoever, just so they could defy what they have repeated thousands of times to the public: the game runs the 10 year old engine, is an exact copy of the old game, with a new graphics layer. Thats it. Your only support for your claim that the turret is actually USABLE or MANIPULATABLE is that it is there aesthetically. You have the same logic as: "the health packs in this game require that you hold X to use them instead of just walking over them because they look just like the health packs used in Halo:Reach": you're mixing aesthetics with gameplay; a gameplay that 343 announced to everyone which is an exact copy of the game that was sold 10 years ago.
Also, the game is designed to allow people to constantly switch between old and new graphics whenever they want. With this knowledge, they must have added a turret to the OLD Wraiths too because otherwise, the player and vehicle models would just look like they were meshed together because the models wouldn't agree with each other if the Wraiths were suddenly made usable. So you think they just decided to make attachments to 10 year old models for no reason to allow a coexistence with the current models? On top of this, all they would accomplish with this is that they did a ton of work to tell people "this isn't the CE that everyone remembers, we actually started to play with it for no reason; we lied to you."
The biggest thing that 343 is marketing with Anniversary is NOSTALGIA. Aka this is the same 10 year old game as it was 10 years ago. Why would they do more work to completely screw with their marketing campaign and lie to everyone? The fact that you actually think that 343 did the above and think that any thoughts otherwise is a more strange theory than yours is absolutely absurd...What he said.