Bungie, I miss you
Nov. 15th, 2011 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
norcumi... WOW. So... Quindar and I picked up the CE:The more colons the better for the release drop today.
I have never wanted to throw a controller at the screen in my life so much, and that includes while watching Quindar play through Deus Ex on the playstation.
So. Much. HATE. *
Specifics, vitriol, and gratuitous stealing of some great lines from Quindar to follow.
Whoever cut the video together should be shot, with extreme prejudice. I finally get what's going on with the Star Wars folks who went freaking berserk with the re-release. Han Solo shot first, and Captain Keyes has a pipe. It is not a prop so Captain Chin (these MODELS! Why are all the spacers fat, and how do they think that someone who looks like this could be a father, which is a freaking plot point for the rest of the series?!) can look awesome. Keyes (or Captain MacGuffin, as I liked to call him) is an older gentleman, who's just learned his ship is doomed and it's more than possible that his whole freakin' planet is going down now.
In the original cut, Keyes gets a sit rep of "oh shit". When he learns this, he closes his eyes and clutches his pipe. In the new cut, he just turns to the side a little. It's amazing how the same lines, delivered the same way, can come across so. damn. differently when it's animated differently.
In the original, Cortana first greets Master Chief, and they flirt. He makes a comment, and she shoots one back, and it's a sweet, cute bonding moment. In the new cut, he makes a comment, and she shoots him down. The body is rigid, the posture indifferent, and it's clear she's a "sassy gal" who is an AI who is UNAVAILABLE AND UNINTERESTED. PISS OFF NOW BAI.
If you have gotten this... thing, there is a redeeming value, in that you can play with the classic visuals, and in higher resolution than before. It IS lovely, and -
Oh. Yes. That part. I forgot to mention that there's "incentive" for people to play through with the "new visuals." You can discover terminals, and videos, or something like that. We found the first one. Totally new content. And the visuals were... pretty. Well rendered, I supposed.
And it was creepy as fuck. It also MADE. NO. SENSE. It's clear that this new content is meant to pave the way for Halo 4 (.... really not interested ifTin Ear 343 Industries continues to make games along these lines), and to put in some pipe for the later Halos, but it wasn't necessary, and while some things in the later games were murky, so it life. Clear cut, obvious answers usually aren't available. I used to love to hate Guilty Spark. Now they're making him a cackling villain who needs a pasted on mustache to twiddle. Ugh.
All told, it made me want to cry out of sheer frustration. Cutting corners to make a game work with a different engine? I'll grump, and mock, but I can get my head around that.
Butcher the visuals, and thus lead to completely different story and characters?
That's fucking sacrilege.
So this is maybe worthwhile as a purchase if you like the original game and want prettier graphics - just play on the classic visuals, and not with the new animation.
Ok. I'mma gonna stop now and finish eating dinner. And cuddle a plushie, since while that might not make things better, I'm less likely to maul something that way.
* Quindar suggested that it might be wise to mention that the above ranting is based upon about 10 minutes of gameplay (give or take) and basically the first two major cutscenes. And he's right. So now you know. And knowing is somethingoranother.
I have never wanted to throw a controller at the screen in my life so much, and that includes while watching Quindar play through Deus Ex on the playstation.
So. Much. HATE. *
Specifics, vitriol, and gratuitous stealing of some great lines from Quindar to follow.
Whoever cut the video together should be shot, with extreme prejudice. I finally get what's going on with the Star Wars folks who went freaking berserk with the re-release. Han Solo shot first, and Captain Keyes has a pipe. It is not a prop so Captain Chin (these MODELS! Why are all the spacers fat, and how do they think that someone who looks like this could be a father, which is a freaking plot point for the rest of the series?!) can look awesome. Keyes (or Captain MacGuffin, as I liked to call him) is an older gentleman, who's just learned his ship is doomed and it's more than possible that his whole freakin' planet is going down now.
In the original cut, Keyes gets a sit rep of "oh shit". When he learns this, he closes his eyes and clutches his pipe. In the new cut, he just turns to the side a little. It's amazing how the same lines, delivered the same way, can come across so. damn. differently when it's animated differently.
In the original, Cortana first greets Master Chief, and they flirt. He makes a comment, and she shoots one back, and it's a sweet, cute bonding moment. In the new cut, he makes a comment, and she shoots him down. The body is rigid, the posture indifferent, and it's clear she's a "sassy gal" who is an AI who is UNAVAILABLE AND UNINTERESTED. PISS OFF NOW BAI.
If you have gotten this... thing, there is a redeeming value, in that you can play with the classic visuals, and in higher resolution than before. It IS lovely, and -
Oh. Yes. That part. I forgot to mention that there's "incentive" for people to play through with the "new visuals." You can discover terminals, and videos, or something like that. We found the first one. Totally new content. And the visuals were... pretty. Well rendered, I supposed.
And it was creepy as fuck. It also MADE. NO. SENSE. It's clear that this new content is meant to pave the way for Halo 4 (.... really not interested if
All told, it made me want to cry out of sheer frustration. Cutting corners to make a game work with a different engine? I'll grump, and mock, but I can get my head around that.
Butcher the visuals, and thus lead to completely different story and characters?
That's fucking sacrilege.
So this is maybe worthwhile as a purchase if you like the original game and want prettier graphics - just play on the classic visuals, and not with the new animation.
Ok. I'mma gonna stop now and finish eating dinner. And cuddle a plushie, since while that might not make things better, I'm less likely to maul something that way.
* Quindar suggested that it might be wise to mention that the above ranting is based upon about 10 minutes of gameplay (give or take) and basically the first two major cutscenes. And he's right. So now you know. And knowing is somethingoranother.
