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Cortana has such a good vibe in the original, fun but professional and focused on the thing at hand, very much a military robot. In this she is ... not like that

It's so dangerous to change shit in a remake, you risk revealing that you didn't get it in the first place which is always going to be the case with these ones that come out of essentially a factory

There are these weird little changes like not revealing the halo until the end of the first chapter (they put it behind the planet instead of in plain sight), and doing so with this big dramatic gregorian chant "oh my god what is THAT?" moment, missing that in the original game nobody cared

Like that was the coolest part of the vibe of Halo 1. Yeah nobody has ever seen a colossal ringworld before, it has far-reaching implications for all sorts of things. We don't know anyone who cares about that shit though, we're in the middle of a war, we're just landing on it. Literally do not care

Literally it is a fucking joke bsky.app/profile/brke...

Also, look, I'm an Unreal guy, metahumans are sick, you can do a cool stylised metahuman, okay? Okay? Have that in mind when I tell you that Captain Keyes is the most dogshit Stock Metahuman you ever saw. The others all look better. Boring guy, boring voice, for some reason a lot of extra screentime

And he doesn't even smoke a fuckin pipe anymore. I don't know how you trick yourself into thinking your interpretation of "spaceship captain who smokes a pipe" is legitimate when you get rid of the pipe

The thing is they have done a good enough job that if it wasn't a remake I would just be like "oh cool, new Halo game". Just make a new one?!?! I suppose given it's on Unreal now maybe the pitch for this was "just remake 1 as a way to get all set up to make something new", optimistically

But they fire everyone every two years or whatever so

A thing they have fucked up that I would have thought anyone would know better is ammo economy...you can just use whatever gun you want forever. Instead of starting Truth & Rec with the sniper and ditching it for lack of ammo before you get to the ship, you never run out... I had like 50 ammo

WOW they changed the level design of the opening of silent cartographer...that's a lotta balls. It sucks

They fuckin...unblocked the way so you can just drive the warthog effortlessly up to the security booth...like literally warthog the two hunters in the clearing AND the ones inside the security station AND the invisi-elites... you only get off the hog to use the control panel. God that's so dumb

AND YET they made the main facility door narrower so you can't get the hog in there

Well this is a good change

What the fuck is this by the way

there's this one Interesting Room in halo which for whatever reason has sparkly walls and cool reflections and shit. i was interested to see how they interpreted that. they just didn't lmao. they didn't even stop it from snowing in there

also the ice doesn't crack as you roll your tank over it

also this sick turret design where the seat hovers and rotates is gone. they never used it in any halo after 1, preferring shitter designs which were worse, and here the shit ones are retconned in

I should say by the way, it does play well and look good, it feels like halo, it's just every actual Choice they have made is bad... when they stick to the brief it's pretty decent. if you're interested, support your local pirate release group

Also to be fair I guess... a lot of the aesthetic choices I think are really bad are just in keeping with 343's other Halo games... the forerunner shit all being made out of stainless steel and covered in blue lights for instance. Just completely off-base but so were the last 3 of these games

like at least if it respawned they would be doing something? this is just like...yeah someone invented this crazy advanced cyberglass... it's not more resilient or anything it just breaks crazy

jesus...the part in assault on the control room where, in 1, you CAN reach a banshee before the guy who's scripted to get into it and steal it and skip part of the level but it's quite hard... in this, there are two and cortana tells you to do it. also not a land bridge anymore? a metal bridge

also just an extremely unreal developer thing to say here... they have fucked up all their physics assets...like the ragdolls...they have probably default clamping on all the joints...the ragdolls fall into stupid poses every time and their heads keep swinging around forever and shit