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In halo 2 bungie let us customize our characters a lot so we could create an image for ourselves, i say they go one step further. instead of just picking 2 colors for us and an icon, they should have patternsto choose from. LIke the following: Winter camo, forest camo, urban camo, custom camo (you choose the colors u want), maybe even hot rod flames on the chief, helmet decals, etc... they could even go super deep on the charact customization and breakdown the different parst of chief and let u customize him that way. Ex. u go to the menu for customizing, pick your character, and then it breaks it down:
1)Armor type-for the chief you can choose old skool(H1), badly damaged H2, or wutever they have now for H3 and if ur an elite there should be the arbiter, heritics (the armor with the spines on top), normal, and honor guards
2) the helment-choose colors, patterns (like camo, flames, or have like a skull parttern)
3)the body
4)arms
5)legs
6)icon
7)incase all those decisions are to hard u can choose Full body patterns
1)and if u choose 6 u can choose your colors
2)Icon
if they did that possibilities are almost unlimited, coming across someone with similar or exact patterns as you would be impossible. and who knows if bungie could get the physics and the gameplay to flow rite maybe well get to play looking like marines, hunters, brutes, etc...
but my brain is drained, so drop in ur ideas on character customization.

  • 05.12.2006 8:08 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

Would be nice, but maybe a little too complex. Maybe there could be skin downloads off Live every so often, like the map packs

  • 05.12.2006 8:10 AM PDT

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As much as I would love to see an H1 styled armored Master Chief, you have to remember, this is Halo 3. We don't need to be seeing something from the past (save for the Assault Rifle), if you want Halo 1 goodness, go play Halo 1.


Well, that's my point; feel free to argue against it.

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I would like to see the forza layer system. You could literally come up with anything you wanted. And there is way more incentive to make something impressive/cool/just plain awesome, than there is to make something inapropriate. And those people would get bad feedback.

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i think that we should basically be given all kinds of tools and then be able to upload our skins to live for other people to download, namely my clan

  • 05.12.2006 8:13 AM PDT

Posted by: darthbob
As much as I would love to see an H1 styled armored Master Chief, you have to remember, this is Halo 3. We don't need to be seeing something from the past (save for the Assault Rifle), if you want Halo 1 goodness, go play Halo 1.
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That's fine so long as you feel the same way about Halo 2.

To the thread creator, I see that it's not too much to ask for, but it could kind of ruin the look of the game when you've got spartans with pink polka dots or dennis the menace stripes running around. I think there should be a limit as far as patterns go.

My own customisation idea would be to use a two-tone 'flip' or 'chameleon' paint effect to the Mjolnir armour (like TVR use) so depending on how the light strikes the surfaces more of one colour or the other could be revealed. You could pick two colours, and they would make up your overall visual effect - it would be an excuse for some awesome lighting effects and would help distinguish between players further. Eg, you could tell at a distance between the blue-green guy and the the blue-purple guy, rather than just two blue guys.... useful if you know one of them has a shotgun, for example!

  • 05.12.2006 8:18 AM PDT

I dunno... I just think it could ruin the atmosphere a bit with all these fruity rainbow-coloured spartans running around

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full customization would really make the game stand out farther than its previous 2, oh yeah and if they get a chance, add the color black. that steel in h2 is not the greatest of dark colors that you can get

  • 05.12.2006 8:29 AM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

Black would be the only color people would choose in Rumble Pit matches. As for a high level of customization, it is not needed. The only place it would be seen is in Rumble Pit matches. Any type of team game would negate most of you customizing. You would also not see it in Campaign because you would only see MC's standard green color. I think they should use the time and effort of making you character more customizable, and use it to make the gametypes more customizable.

  • 05.12.2006 8:35 AM PDT
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i dont want ppl to get the wrong idea bout wut i said. the whole hot rod flames thing would be the wildest pattern to choose from, for the most part ppl can choose camo patterns, or no pattern. i think it would be stupid if somone had pink polka dots or dennis the menace stripes, it would ruin halo. but weve all seen that halo wallpaper with the desert camo chief, admit it that was pretty kick-A. i believe we should have at least a half dozen to a dozen patterns to choose from, whether it be camo, or just a different primary secondary color sys. (b/c the chief in H2, his secondary was barely visible) just nothing that would be straight up stupid

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  • 05.12.2006 8:38 AM PDT
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if we would have flames and skulls it would ruin the whole war and combat felling we should just stick to whatever they give us i dont care about my color i only really care about playing.

  • 05.12.2006 8:47 AM PDT
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Not everyone doesn't care about how their Sparatan looks. I don't see anything wrong with poca- botted Spartans. If certain people prefer to go into the battle field dressed as such it reflects the type of player they are , and will therefore receive the appropriate humiliation. In any case, I would much prefer Spartans dressed for the circus than modders, cheaters and de-rankers.

Anyway, apart from chaning the colour the scheme, what about actually customizing the armour? you could have different shoulder pads, helmets, boots, breast plates, gauntlets and so on. You could also unlock stuff: like finish the game on legendary, and get the option to use an elite skull for your shoulder pad, so the world can see how hardcore you are.

Also, you should have the option of where you want to stick your emblem: in the middle of the chest, or as a crest for example. Designing your own emblem from scratch would be nice, but I guess like you guys said, you would end up with people coming up with "un-Halo" stuff.

But remember, it always has to be done in a nice, simple and easy way

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  • 05.12.2006 1:30 PM PDT
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Toast always lands butterside down.
Attach to back of cat always lands on feet......

Result:Antigravity!

And you should be able to put lightning all over your suit!

  • 05.12.2006 1:36 PM PDT