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Subject: New enemies look like bionicles...

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Posted by: flamedude
I'm still not entirely sure why they are so BIG. They are massive compared to a Spartan, perhaps even bigger than a fully standing Hunter.


Forerunners themselves were extremely tall. The smallest a height a Warrior-Servant would be was 7 feet tall, some would grow to about 12. The Promethean Knight is 10 feet tall, that's a relatively balanced height between the Warrior-Servants.

I feel that its just not really very practical. Forerunners seem like practical people who believe in mechanics and physics, having a weapon system that relies on floating appendages just doesn't seem Forerunner to me.

Onyx Sentinels? Enforcers?

  • 06.06.2012 5:12 AM PDT


Posted by: Sailfish 3052
These new bad guys in the game play look like bionicles and im hoping they would make new cooler looking enemies. Honestly, i dont want to run around killing bionicles in halo.

Honestly, that's what i thought at first, too.

  • 06.06.2012 5:31 AM PDT
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Posted by: Xd00999
They look more like Warp Spiders than Bionicles to me.
They really do look like that!

[Edited on 06.06.2012 6:05 AM PDT]

  • 06.06.2012 6:05 AM PDT


Posted by: Xd00999
They look more like Warp Spiders than Bionicles to me.


NO!
Warp spiders looks way cooler than promothean AI.
1 Warp spider could easly solo the Halo Universe.

  • 06.06.2012 6:11 AM PDT

They look like a mixture of Covenant (the knights at least) and Bionicles. I think their armor looks awesome though.

  • 06.06.2012 6:15 AM PDT


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Posted by: Xd00999
They look more like Warp Spiders than Bionicles to me.


NO!
Warp spiders looks way cooler than promothean AI.
1 Warp spider could easly solo the Halo Universe.

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  • 06.06.2012 6:32 AM PDT

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Those prometheans things look horrible, a mix between space-pirate and Crysis robots, i strongly dislike the art direction taken by 343i. the best design of Forerunner soldiers is this to me...

  • 06.06.2012 6:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: CanineThewolvie
Those prometheans things look horrible, a mix between space-pirate and Crysis robots, i strongly dislike the art direction taken by 343i. the best design of Forerunner soldiers is this to me...


In an alternate universe where 343i went this way, everyone is screaming "LOL we're fighting geth in Halo wtf, I don't want to fight geth this isn't Mass Effect!".

The Promethean Knights to still have some similarities to this design, the arms for example are almost exactly the same. Even still, you need to keep in mind that what you posted IS AN ACTUAL FORERUNNER and what we're battling are creations of the Prometheans.

  • 06.06.2012 6:59 AM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: CanineThewolvie
Those prometheans things look horrible, a mix between space-pirate and Crysis robots, i strongly dislike the art direction taken by 343i. the best design of Forerunner soldiers is this to me...


In an alternate universe where 343i went this way, everyone is screaming "LOL we're fighting geth in Halo wtf, I don't want to fight geth this isn't Mass Effect!".

The Promethean Knights to still have some similarities to this design, the arms for example are almost exactly the same. Even still, you need to keep in mind that what you posted IS AN ACTUAL FORERUNNER and what we're battling are creations of the Prometheans.

Many people forget that all forerunners don't look the same.
There are many guilds and ''factions'', ofcurse the builder guild will look different from promethean guild.

  • 06.06.2012 7:01 AM PDT

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Posted by: flamedude
I'm still not entirely sure why they are so BIG. They are massive compared to a Spartan, perhaps even bigger than a fully standing Hunter.


Forerunners themselves were extremely tall. The smallest a height a Warrior-Servant would be was 7 feet tall, some would grow to about 12. The Promethean Knight is 10 feet tall, that's a relatively balanced height between the Warrior-Servants.

I feel that its just not really very practical. Forerunners seem like practical people who believe in mechanics and physics, having a weapon system that relies on floating appendages just doesn't seem Forerunner to me.

Onyx Sentinels? Enforcers?


I know what you're saying.... but they're just not the same. A Sentinel, Enforcer or Monitor is a floating self-contained platform it seems that the ability to fly is simply just a useful way to move around. A Promethean Knight has elements of floating with some floating Rayman parts but with none of the practical advantages. They can't fly like Sentinels and yet they have pointlessly suspended parts, what is the advantage of having separate legs?

To me they are simply bad designs..... but then I am getting used to this with H4.

  • 06.06.2012 3:20 PM PDT

I don't like them either. Hopefully they won't be the main enemy, I don't want to spend the game fighting robots - give me some actual Forerunners to fight.

  • 06.06.2012 3:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: flamedude They can't fly like Sentinels and yet they have pointlessly suspended parts, what is the advantage of having separate legs?

To me they are simply bad designs..... but then I am getting used to this with H4.
If i had to guess i'd go with when one gets blown off your pelvis is still intact without any trauma, and if a leg gets crushed you'll still be (relatively) okay.

  • 06.06.2012 3:26 PM PDT

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I think I recall 343i saying they have guys from Retro Studios working at 343i, this pleases me.

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  • 06.06.2012 3:34 PM PDT
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i think the new enemies looks awesome! i cant wait to play halo 4

  • 06.06.2012 4:52 PM PDT

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What kind of confuses/troubles me is to why the call them Promethean Knights. Why would they include the Promethean title into their names? Prometheans were supposed to be big-ass Forerunners in awesome armor. Don't get me wrong, the new enemy is really awesome, but I don't know why they are called that. Those aren't the actual Prometheans, they are AI. Hopefully we will encounter real Prometheans in the trilogy.




[Edited on 06.06.2012 4:58 PM PDT]

  • 06.06.2012 4:57 PM PDT
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Posted by: PISTOLSQUIRREL
What kind of confuses/troubles me is to why the call them Promethean Knights. Why would they include the Promethean title into their names? Prometheans were supposed to be big-ass Forerunners in awesome armor. Don't get me wrong, the new enemy is really awesome, but I don't know why they are called that. Those aren't the actual Prometheans, they are AI. Hopefully we will encounter real Prometheans in the trilogy.

The Prometheans probably used them as war machines.

  • 06.06.2012 5:29 PM PDT


Posted by: Sailfish 3052
These new bad guys in the game play look like bionicles and im hoping they would make new cooler looking enemies. Honestly, i dont want to run around killing bionicles in halo.
I heard someone say this on Kotaku, and I can see this becoming an overrated saying (which btw you clearly didn't come up with) so please don't be a hop-on just to complain, If anything they look like the Ceph from Crysis! Or the Reapers from mass effect.

  • 06.06.2012 5:49 PM PDT


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Posted by: flamedude
I'm still not entirely sure why they are so BIG. They are massive compared to a Spartan, perhaps even bigger than a fully standing Hunter.


Forerunners themselves were extremely tall. The smallest a height a Warrior-Servant would be was 7 feet tall, some would grow to about 12. The Promethean Knight is 10 feet tall, that's a relatively balanced height between the Warrior-Servants.

I feel that its just not really very practical. Forerunners seem like practical people who believe in mechanics and physics, having a weapon system that relies on floating appendages just doesn't seem Forerunner to me.

Onyx Sentinels? Enforcers?


I know what you're saying.... but they're just not the same. A Sentinel, Enforcer or Monitor is a floating self-contained platform it seems that the ability to fly is simply just a useful way to move around. A Promethean Knight has elements of floating with some floating Rayman parts but with none of the practical advantages. They can't fly like Sentinels and yet they have pointlessly suspended parts, what is the advantage of having separate legs?

To me they are simply bad designs..... but then I am getting used to this with H4.


The suspended parts are, supposedly, so the object can reconfigure itself. The weapons all reassemble themselves to fit human hands; Franke confirmed this in an interview. A static, single object like a human rifle could never do that.

[Edited on 06.06.2012 5:56 PM PDT]

  • 06.06.2012 5:55 PM PDT

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I don't know how you can say a Ceph from Crysis is similar to a Promethean Knight

  • 06.06.2012 6:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: RKOSNAKE
I don't know how you can say a Ceph from Crysis is similar to a Promethean Knight


Oh dear.... now I think about it if I saw a Promethean Knight in a Mass Effect game I wouldn't think it was out of place whatsoever.

I think the Knight is an ugly design, especially when compared to such design triumphs like the Chief, the Elite, vehicles and so on. It's such an ugly uninspired design.

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Posted by: PISTOLSQUIRREL
What kind of confuses/troubles me is to why the call them Promethean Knights. Why would they include the Promethean title into their names? Prometheans were supposed to be big-ass Forerunners in awesome armor. Don't get me wrong, the new enemy is really awesome, but I don't know why they are called that. Those aren't the actual Prometheans, they are AI. Hopefully we will encounter real Prometheans in the trilogy.




I dont understand that myself, Cortana said its forerunner not forerunner-promethean.
Forerunner tech weapons where not encountered in games so we have no idea what tier these weapon AI's are.
And dont forget that prometheans are really blam! strong, one can destroy a continent by himself.

Aswell as you can fully see that this is the defence system of the forerunner high proirety planet, not some elite system used by the best forerunner warriors.


Also why the hell would anyone want fight a precursor ingame ?
FFS i mean its a blam forerunner highest warrior class, i can understand that a spartan is superb strong but John has no chance against a promethean, even if its unarmed.

  • 06.06.2012 11:15 PM PDT

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I think they look like something off Lost Planet

  • 06.06.2012 11:30 PM PDT

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You have to laugh at the people saying that the Promethean Knights are a rip-off of enemies from other games. Halo CE, anyone? The basis for just about every aesthetic was heavily-inspired by Aliens, yet it was still a fantastic game...

  • 06.07.2012 4:43 AM PDT


Posted by: ajw34307
You have to laugh at the people saying that the Promethean Knights are a rip-off of enemies from other games. Halo CE, anyone? The basis for just about every aesthetic was heavily-inspired by Aliens, yet it was still a fantastic game...
Apparently, it's a big deal now. That's all.

  • 06.07.2012 7:19 AM PDT

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