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How could a Halo MMO be good?
By:Quirel
Date: 8/29/16 2:19 am
In Response To: Re: Which other one? (davidfuchs)

: There was plenty that wasn't cringe-worthy:

Not plenty at all.



Are you cringing yet? =D

: I'm pretty sure like how Serina didn't end up with a massive boob window the
: Spartans wouldn't have been walking around like naked WoW characters.

I'm not so sure. Different projects, different design teams and different people in charge. Additionally, Dusty Monk said that they were deliberately using a stylized heroic art style like WarCraft. For what it's worth, he also said that the last build looked a lot better than the screens and art that have been released.

Ultimately, Halo is a somewhat serious science fiction game that draws tons of inspiration from Aliens. It's hard to see that heritage in Titan's concept art. It just looks goofy and kind of generic, with a few icons from Halo thrown in.

: But with that said, an MMO format just doesn't fit with a lot of core Halo
: elements, and from a lore standpoint they really arrest momentum (look at
: what happened to Warcraft) so I'm supremely happy it didn't come to be.

What gets me is the psions. Like I said, Halo is a rather grounded sort of space opera that draws inspiration from Aliens. There's some oddball stuff in the first games and the first two Nylund novels, which was what was out at the time that Titan was in production, but there was absolutely no mention of ESP or psionics or any other kind of space magic.


Above: Space wizard saving some dumbass who lost his helmet.

Dumping psionics into Halo so that wizard classes could be implemented would've been as big of a genre shift as turning the UNSC into a federation of alien races. I don't know if this game was set to be in the far future of the Halo games, but it would've run roughshod over Bungie's territory. If they knew about Titan, it's no wonder some of them were pissy about Halo Wars.


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So now that Halo Online is officially dead...munky-0588/26/16 12:46 pm
     Re: So now that Halo Online is officially dead...Grizzlei8/26/16 1:15 pm
           Which other one?davidfuchs8/26/16 5:30 pm
                 Re: Which other one?Grizzlei8/26/16 5:38 pm
                       Re: Which other one?davidfuchs8/26/16 7:50 pm
                             Re: Which other one?Grizzlei8/26/16 9:28 pm
                                   Re: Which other one?Moorpheusl98/27/16 1:47 pm
                                         Re: Which other one?Quirel8/27/16 9:59 pm
                                               Re: Which other one?Stretchy8/28/16 12:37 am
                                               Re: Which other one?Grizzlei8/28/16 10:42 am
                                                     Re: Which other one?Quirel8/29/16 2:53 am
                                               Re: Which other one?davidfuchs8/28/16 12:10 pm
                                                     How could a Halo MMO be good?Quirel8/29/16 2:19 am
                                                           Problem?The Guardians8/29/16 11:42 am
                                                                 Re: Problem?General Vagueness8/30/16 7:46 pm
                                                           Obviously Claude would be involveddavidfuchs8/29/16 3:25 pm
                                                                 Re: Obviously Claude would be involvedThe Guardians8/30/16 12:02 am
                                                                       I don't think the original devs would be keenscarab8/30/16 12:50 pm
                                                                             Re: I don't think the original devs would be keenThe Guardians8/30/16 6:52 pm
                                                                                   The elites were the betrayeesscarab9/1/16 12:00 pm
                                                                             Re: I don't think the original devs would be keenQuirel9/1/16 2:56 am
                                                                                   Re: I don't think the original devs would be keenscarab9/1/16 12:28 pm
                                                                                         Re: I don't think the original devs would be keenGeneral Vagueness9/1/16 3:55 pm
                                                                                         Re: I don't think the original devs would be keenQuirel9/1/16 11:07 pm
                                                                       Re: Obviously Claude would be involvedGeneral Vagueness8/30/16 8:06 pm
                                                                 Re: Obviously Claude would be involvedLouis Wu8/30/16 12:52 am
                                                                 Re: Obviously Claude would be involvedQuirel9/1/16 3:24 am
                                                           Re: How could a Halo MMO be good?General Vagueness8/30/16 7:36 pm
                                                                 Re: How could a Halo MMO be good?Grizzlei8/30/16 9:16 pm
                                                                 Re: How could a Halo MMO be good?Quirel9/1/16 2:36 am
                                                                 Halo array should've been telepathy basedscarab9/1/16 12:10 pm
                                                                       Re: Halo array should've been telepathy basedGeneral Vagueness9/1/16 3:49 pm
                                                                             Re: Halo array should've been telepathy basedscarab9/1/16 5:39 pm
                                                                                   Re: Halo array should've been telepathy baseddavidfuchs9/1/16 8:10 pm
                                                                                         Nuking is easy and it's not essential to use thescarab9/3/16 1:45 am
                                                                                               Re: Nuking is easy and it's not essential to use tdavidfuchs9/3/16 10:14 am
                                                                                                     Re: Nuking is easy and it's not essential to use tQuirel9/3/16 11:03 am
                                                                                                           Unstable bombs are what you want if there'sscarab9/3/16 5:40 pm
                                                                                                                 Do you read Schlock Mercenary yet?Quirel9/5/16 12:07 am
                                                                                                     Re: Nuking is easy and it's not essential to use tStephen L. (SoundEffect)9/9/16 10:02 am
                                                                                                           *the more you know* *NM*davidfuchs9/9/16 11:32 am
                                                                       Re: Halo array should've been telepathy baseddavidfuchs9/1/16 7:53 pm
                                                                       Re: Halo array should've been telepathy basedQuirel9/1/16 11:11 pm
                             Re: Which other one?Joe Duplessie (SNIPE 316)8/30/16 6:41 pm
                                   Re: Which other one?davidfuchs8/30/16 7:52 pm
                                         Re: Which other one?General Vagueness8/30/16 8:23 pm
                       Re: Which other one?Cody Miller8/30/16 5:01 pm
                             ...go on.... *NM*davidfuchs8/30/16 5:54 pm
                             Yes, what do you know about the interactivescarab9/1/16 12:01 pm
                             Don't be like that.Quirel9/1/16 6:46 pm
     nope.avigamerguy20028/26/16 8:32 pm
           Re: nope.aviGrizzlei8/26/16 9:29 pm
                 Re: nope.aviThe Guardians8/28/16 4:59 am
           Can't stop the signal. *NM*Quirel8/26/16 11:25 pm

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