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Subject: Marines: Techy or Tactical?
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Poll: Future or Modern Day?  [closed]
Futurisic (Halo 1 style):  61%
(43 Votes)
Modern Day (Halo 2 style):  27%
(19 Votes)
Other (Explain please):  13%
(9 Votes)
Total Votes: 71

THIS IS TO DO WITH LOOKS, NOT AI!

With the marines, we saw a big change between Halo 1 and Halo 2.

Halo 1 had cool looking marines with armour and a pheriferal screen that acted as a HUD for them: http://www.ukgamer.com/images/reviews/halo/marines.jpg

The marines in Halo 2 looked more current time, and in my opinion, a bit less cool and less futuristic: http://media.teamxbox.com/dailyposts/halo2bios/05marines.jpg

So in Halo 3, would you want current time style marines with military fatigues, or more "futuristic" marines, akin to that seen in Halo 1?

  • 06.11.2006 12:17 PM PDT
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i think they were supposed to be space marines in haloCE, hence hte badass looking armor. i prefer that look, a more space adaquate suit for battle. but i guess we have ODSTs now as well.

the marines in CE remind me much of the ghosts in GRAW. very cool indeed.

  • 06.11.2006 12:22 PM PDT
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the only cool marines are odst and there not even marines

  • 06.11.2006 1:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: VELOCITY 7000
the only cool marines are odst and there not even marines


ODSTs are part of the Marine Corps, so they are Marines, just with different armour and choose to plummet into battle rather suidically.

Marines definitely look and sound tougher in HCE, in H2 only the unnamed (to my knowledge at least) black Marine (not Johnson) sounded tough. I didn't like their dialogue or their appearence in Halo 2 most of the time.

  • 06.11.2006 1:55 PM PDT
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I like the marines, not just ODST
i think the marines should look like a mix of the new FFW (US army) and the Halo 1 marines. Plus this is wierd: Halo 1 more outdoors and the marines are gray, halo 2 more indoors, marines are green...someone please slap the General.

  • 06.11.2006 1:59 PM PDT
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i like the halo ce marines better the armor with the metal looked bad-ass

  • 06.11.2006 2:00 PM PDT
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I'd like a combo of both. Kinda like the one that was modeled in the Halo 3 Documentary trailer.

  • 06.11.2006 2:03 PM PDT
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I like the halo 1 marines. They more up to date on the battlefeild with the little veiw screen on their helmets. Mybe just add a bigger backpack to carry supplies.

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  • 06.11.2006 2:19 PM PDT
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I wanna see robat marines.

  • 06.11.2006 2:22 PM PDT

The Halo CE Marine's armor looked like something actually used to withstand withering hails of plasma, seeing how it was a bunch of plates. This is unrealistic technically, considering those plates would be unneccessary baggage, but it made sense in Halo.

  • 06.11.2006 2:31 PM PDT
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Well plasma is preatty strong. In the halo books, a plasma bolt from a hunter could melt a whole warthog and one needler round could really damage a marine.

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  • 06.11.2006 2:41 PM PDT

Posted by: Dranei
The HUD over their eye will be a reality in our time in a few years.


Lol, a few years, no its already here bud atleast the prototype model.Check this out, especially the third pic on the right.

http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_Warri or,,00.html

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  • 06.11.2006 2:47 PM PDT
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Link still doesn't work.

  • 06.11.2006 2:53 PM PDT

Posted by: The Lone Heretic
Link still doesn't work.


work now? I had problems with my -blam!- ass computer, im on my older 1 atm.

[Edited on 6/11/2006]

  • 06.11.2006 2:54 PM PDT
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Well it seems you all want more "tech" style marines, which is what I would prefer myself as well, although the point of a combination is very valid as well.

  • 06.12.2006 11:00 AM PDT
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I want them to be Halo 3 marines.

Honestly, I've seen toddlers that cling to their mothers less than some of you cling to Halo 1.

  • 06.12.2006 12:05 PM PDT
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why even bother with halo1or 2? mostly every 1 i've talked to has been cling to ideas for halo3 and all that...

  • 06.12.2006 12:08 PM PDT
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I was proud to have served with such a great Conservative Republican Hero like Private Corporal Pat Tillman, and as me and PVT were doing night raids on enemy maneuvers in Southern Afgansitan, Private Tillman charged the enemy forts, one of the Iraqi insargenants launced a volley of MRE Rocket Machine Gun fire in our direction! "MARINE DOWN MARINE DOWN!" I yelled in a manly Marine voice as I saw Private Tillman on the ground with lots of blood.

I held Pat Tillman in my arms, looked into his Eyes of Marine Steel, and he whispered to me "I did it for my country!...please tell me why stupid liberals hate brave troops like me who give their lives for their country and dye Gloriously in Battle...I did it for my counrty.." then he went limp and dyed in my arms

Later on that day back on Camp Base Freedom, I took a picture of Private Pat Tillman and put it in my helmet, those last words of a patriot haunting forever more in my brain : "I did it for my cuountry...why do liberals hate the troops?"

I do not know, Soldier, perhaps we will never know....

MARINE CORE OOOOO-YYYAAAHHH!!!

  • 06.12.2006 12:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: MARINE C0RE
I was proud to have served with such a great Conservative Republican Hero like Private Corporal Pat Tillman, and as me and PVT were doing night raids on enemy maneuvers in Southern Afgansitan, Private Tillman charged the enemy forts, one of the Iraqi insargenants launced a volley of MRE Rocket Machine Gun fire in our direction! "MARINE DOWN MARINE DOWN!" I yelled in a manly Marine voice as I saw Private Tillman on the ground with lots of blood.

I held Pat Tillman in my arms, looked into his Eyes of Marine Steel, and he whispered to me "I did it for my country!...please tell me why stupid liberals hate brave troops like me who give their lives for their country and dye Gloriously in Battle...I did it for my counrty.." then he went limp and dyed in my arms

Later on that day back on Camp Base Freedom, I took a picture of Private Pat Tillman and put it in my helmet, those last words of a patriot haunting forever more in my brain : "I did it for my cuountry...why do liberals hate the troops?"

I do not know, Soldier, perhaps we will never know....

MARINE CORE OOOOO-YYYAAAHHH!!!


How -blam!- DARE you?! How DARE you dishonor Pat's memory by posting such bull -blam!-, and saying he said it?! Go to hell, you -blam!- ignorant BASTARD.

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  • 06.12.2006 12:15 PM PDT
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I know all too well what it is like to be captured by Evil Al Qaeda terrorists and made to renounce America and our great Commander George W Bush.

When I was taken hostage on that dark day outside the Green Zone, I will never forget that Osama bin Ladin made me renounce my faith in our beloved President George W. Bush and denounce my beloved Republican Party...and that is when I just SNAPPED and REALIZED I had to ACT FAST before I too was A DEHEADED MARINE!

I was angry that they were forcing me to pledge my allegiance to Al Gore, and so I plotted my escape...as the knife slowly began to saw my head off, I gripped the knife with my strongly Marine Neck Muscles and began to deliver a deadly series of Helicopter Ninjistu Kicks in the room, sending the Iraqi terrorists flying!

After I finished kicking all the terrorist asses, I looked into the camera with a steely Marine Gaze and told Osama bin Ladin in my hard Marine voice "You're Next, punk!"

Alas, I will go back into Iraq next week to hunt down the mastermind behind Nick Berg's deheading...where will this intriguing mission lead me to? perhaps the DNC? Will my final showdoen be with the ULTIMATE MASTERMIND of Septemmber 11 himself: a mister globall worming zar Al Gore??????

BUSH 2008!!
MARINE CORE OOO-YAAAH!!!
SIMPERS DI!!


[Edited on 6/12/2006]

  • 06.12.2006 12:19 PM PDT
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Between H2 and Ce I'm going with CE, i like both the Marines and the officiers (the one with the bullet proof vest, not the oldskool Star Trek ones) ODST's are cool as well but I agree that there should be yet another style in H3. The should have camoflage suited for the New Mombasa area at least.

  • 06.12.2006 12:21 PM PDT

To Make Posts is Glorious

Some threads will get posts before others and it is the duty of the Leadership to ensure that posts are made that best suit the public welfare.

"heh"

Posted by: MARINE C0RE
I know all too well what it is like to be captured by Evil Al Qaeda terrorists and made to renounce America and our great Commander George W Bush.

When I was taken hostage on that dark day outside the Green Zone, I will never forget that Osama bin Ladin made me renounce my faith in our beloved President George W. Bush and denounce my beloved Republican Party...and that is when I just SNAPPED and REALIZED I had to ACT FAST before I too was A DEHEADED MARINE!

I was angry that they were forcing me to pledge my allegiance to Al Gore, and so I plotted my escape...as the knife slowly began to saw my head off, I gripped the knife with my strongly Marine Neck Muscles and began to deliver a deadly series of Helicopter Ninjistu Kicks in the room, sending the Iraqi terrorists flying!

After I finished kicking all the terrorist asses, I looked into the camera with a steely Marine Gaze and told Osama bin Ladin in my hard Marine voice "You're Next, punk!"

Alas, I will go back into Iraq next week to hunt down the mastermind behind Nick Berg's deheading...where will this intriguing mission lead me to? perhaps the DNC? Will my final showdoen be with the ULTIMATE MASTERMIND of Septemmber 11 himself: a mister globall worming zar Al Gore??????

BUSH 2008!!
MARINE CORE OOO-YAAAH!!!
SIMPERS DI!!


Oh gosh, it's you again.

  • 06.12.2006 12:30 PM PDT

The little HUD thing over the eye was wicked.

  • 06.12.2006 12:33 PM PDT

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