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Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: dahuterschuter
Wait, they are? Link? I haven't gotten to see that info yet.
Anyway, I'll be a bit disappointed if we're fighting Elites again, we've been blasting them away for more than ten years now, they got old a while ago. If anything though, I'm thinking they'll be a sect of Elites still believing in the Great Journey but moving away from the Prophets.
They're not the main threat, not even close. Having us fight some Covenant is just a caveat of game design; we've got a whole new trilogy after five years since the last 'main' game, and there needs to be anchors to the original trilogy other than just John and Cortana. Having us fight Covenant at the beginning grounds what will be a game full of the unknown and new, and it's a nice throwback to the first trilogy.
What's most surprising for me is just that they're there. I had thought the Forward Unto Dawn was way, way off the map. I guess not.
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And the new threat will not be like fighting a different skinned Covenant, they will fight differently than the Covenant. According to the GameInformer article:
"From a creative standpoint, in approaching that enemy we wanted to create something that played very different from the Covenant. We didn't want it to just feel like something that looks different bit still plays the same way. We wanted to create a set of enemies that work together in a collaborative way, where each one of those enemies builds on and accentuates the abilities of the others. So when you face an individual enemy they offer one challenge, but as you layer those enemies together it changes the experience in important ways and heightens the challenge. If anything, they're kind of elevated in terms of their intellegence and complexity relative to the Covenant."
From creative director Josh Holmes, 343 Industries.
[Edited on 04.29.2012 12:11 PM PDT]