Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: roraj 196
Posted by: RKOSNAKE
You still think it's epic?
I can't believe anyone actually drew that thinking it was a good idea. Why? How is that even Halo?! It's just some cheap rip-off! The chainsaw... I mean, come on, Halo isn't some trashy, Saturday morning try-to-be-cool cartoon! And that AI, I mean seriously?!
If Bungie had done a Halo MMO, I'm sure it would have been great.
And if 343 do one, I have equal confidence in it.
The thing you have to remember about MMO's is that there needs to be all kinds of mind-blowing variety in it to keep it interesting to millions of people, to appeal to millions of people simultaneously. It needs to have the big government factions, and a -blam!- load of options in between the "good and evil" groups. It needs to have every aesthetic from functional to unconventional, to realistic to ethereal.
Bluntly, Halo's universe is not suited for an MMO. It is not diverse enough, it is too streamlined, and there aren't enough possible stories when the entire universe is built only off of one story. It is simply not big enough, and as the backlash towards Halo 4 "not being Halo" from the fans will tell you, the fanbase itself won't let the universe get big enough to ever be suited for an MMO. With that in mind, you can better understand the really bizarre look of some of these concept arts. They're the only way that a Halo MMO could ever work, which is to do something that wouldn't work in the Haloverse.
I disagree that the haloverse isn't expansive enough, I think it definitely is, but that being said, those designs are absolute god awful atrocities.
I don't see why they'd do that, the Haloverse is very militaristic, but you have that floating, AI looking female, that bulky guy in Spartan armour with the Chainsaw integrated, the middle guy, is the only one that, if redesigned, could fit into the haloverse. Even then it would have to be a complete redesign, he looks stupid and the gun unlike anything you would find in Halo.
All that said though, if you stuck to the core of Halo, no stupid stuff that would mess up the timeline, continuity or anything like that, it COULD work.
An insurrectionist rebel faction, an overzealous covenant faction, a standard UNSC faction and a heretical covenant faction.