: I'll go back to my original post: the aesthetics are what's important about
: this dare. Technically, I could be asking 343i for an original map with
: Halo 1's simple aesthetics. That's less feasible, though, since there's no
: "novelty/throwback" premise for 343i (and players) to fall back
: on if it fails. An original level (with any aesthetic) would also
: necessarily involve extra time designing it.

Ah, but you see that may not be possible in today's world. See, this is the thing that bothers me with the next gen- graphics. Who gives a shit. Sure, those new processors can cram a lot of textures in places where there weren't textures before but the question you pose is do we need them?

I'll agree and say that no, we don't. BUT the developers may not see it that way- I think its one of those things where its visual garbage for the sake of garbage.

It was either Korny or Six Min Whistle but they posted something in facebookland about the literal garbage floating around in the new CoD because they had to do something with that horse power.... right?

If 343 took a more simplistic (that word doesn't feel right, but its the best I got) visual approach I'm sure they'd win some fans back like Levi, and it certainly would make them stand out in the crowd of pixel pushers. But is that what Halo needs? Certinaly we all know that a game can *look* like shit but still be fun to play.

Idk. I see what you are saying though, there is a lot of visual bleh just because they can. It doesn't mean they should.