pancakeminezz In reply to FoxboyPrower [2016-04-05 21:18:55 +0000 UTC]

No problem!

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pancakeminezz In reply to Cynderthedragon5768 [2016-02-28 14:19:03 +0000 UTC]

Oh hey!  Things are going well.  You?

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-02-05 23:48:02 +0000 UTC]

No problem!  Any picture with elites that are either really badass, or just flatout lovable deserve to be favorited!  Unless they have that ugly next gen elite look (Halo 4 and 5 elites)... They are the worst.

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-02-06 23:59:19 +0000 UTC]

I'm really glad you like it then!
And yeah, I'm also not too fond of the Halo4/5 design on Sangheili. Just looks too brutish and hunchback lizard-like. That's why I stick with the traditional design. Btw. if you like Sangheili that much, you may want to check out my other Halo fanart I did of them. It ranges from funny over badass to fucked up, so maybe you like one thing or another as well ^^

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-02-08 17:19:16 +0000 UTC]

I agree, honestly they look too much like the Locust from Gears of War (almost same exact skin design).

But yeah, I'll totally check it out.  Always looking for good Halo stuff to take in... seeing as how bad the Halo community has gotten, it's nice to see some parts of it are still good. lol  I digress of course.  I'll take a look at your gallery when I get a chance!

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-02-09 03:39:49 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, there's a lot of fans who were once good but lately it's all just tittie art and shitty Sangheili porn. Just a few really good and sane fans who remain. Pretty much reminds me of my latest Halo parody art about the fandom XD
But anyways thanks a lot for checking it out

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-02-09 22:40:58 +0000 UTC]

I was mainly talking about how divided the community in general is (like the new gen Halo fans vs the veterans of the series)... However, would you have a link to this tittie art and sangheili porn?

XD I'm kidding.  But I do get what you mean.  I've seen one too many 3D renderings of... *shivers* Erm... Let's just say Jackals and Elites should'nt CANNONICALLY be affiliated with each other in such a fashion.

All that aside though, I'm gonna drop you a watch.   Stay frosty out there!

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-02-10 03:34:44 +0000 UTC]

Well yeah, that of course too. It's a huge bitchfight between old trilogy vs. new trilogy fans but I tend to stay out of that multiplayer crap, even though I witness a lot of it, since I'm a mod in the biggest German Halo forum and have to keep things calm in some way. It's really cringy how they act as if this and that is the end of the world. Personally I honestly don't care what "true Halo fans" are supposed to like and what game is worse than cancer according to some people. I like the games I like and evade the games I dislike. Maybe I write a review about it but I won't run around commanding people what to like and what not. I just intervene if they start to get all dickish about their opinions, by attacking others for it or stuff like that. Well at least it's not ac childish as the CoD fandom I witnessed.
However since I see myself as mostly part of the fanart part, I'm rather observing that part of the fandom. It was really awesome in the past with people like Etoli who did amazing Halo fanart but nowadays there aren't much regular Halo artists left. Most either quit with Halo or moved to Halo porn instead and whilst that may was amusing when the first parody porn pics showed up, it went fast pretty bad. And as you said, there's only so much shitty doodles of chubby Sangheili getting fucked by Kig-yar I can stand

Mhm, that's the newest shit apparently. I mean even though I consider the sexualization of any fandom quite fucked up, drawings at least got some artistic value I can respect, whilst most of those 3D model pics are just cheaply made crap. That's about as artistic as posing two action figures as if they were fucking each other and take a shitty picture of it to put it online. There's a lot of that stuff on rule34 and furaffinity. You can't miss it. Occasionally some of that sexualized stuff appears on DA too but it's mostly censored enough to pass and not the worst of the worst.

Thanks for that!

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-02-11 04:53:51 +0000 UTC]

I completely understand.  I myself am of the "older" mindset when it comes to Halo however.  Halo has been a HUGE part of my life.  I grew up on it, and just about everything was perfect about the game series in my eyes.  However, what truly killed Halo in my opinion wasn't the change of the old gameplay formula to conform to every modern shooter (however, it was a big component), but it was the killing off of the art style.  Halo's art style is what drew me (and my dad) to the Halo games in the first place - the elites being our favorite species in the game!  From Halo CE to Halo Reach, the designs only got better and each weapon, vehicle, and character had a nice evolution... Until Halo 4 where 343 decided it was a PERFECT idea to stray from the old art design.

Not saying the new art design is bad by itself.  In fact, I love alot of the designs 343 has made, but they were aweful art design decisions for Halo.  Only a handfull of weapons, or vehicles resembled their former selves (and in Halo 5 they took to all new extremes).  Now you'd be lucky if they even saved any of the original designs.

I apologize for the rant.  I have a strong dislike of 343 for some of the choices they've made to Halo.  I don't hate them, or anyone who likes their decisions, but I hate it when people sit and look at the new gen Halo and call it "Halo".  I mean, by now the only thing (gameplay, art style, and foley included) that the new gen shares with the old gen is lore.  Nothing looks the same or feels the same.  And it's a shame too because 343 CAN make an awesome game.  Halo 5 is atestament to that.  The game feels awesome and handles well, and should deserve its own PI.  But the thing sit added don't belong in Halo.

(Rant over, I promise, lol)

It's kinda sad I know exactly what you're talking about with the chubby elite and jackal... -_- XD I won't lie, as odd and awkward as it is, something about seems weirdly cute to me.  I dunno, just ignore me. lol

Now the 3D models that is... that just needs to stop.  Not only is it cheaply made, but it's just flat out awkward to watch (all perviness of watching porn aside).  Like have you actually sat, out of curiosity of course, and watched a full gif of one of thes epoor animation play out? It's so... Ugh...


Also, no prob! Look forward to seeing what you got coming!

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-02-12 04:33:51 +0000 UTC]

My problem I have with the newer games is that they changed the setting in a very weird way. The first games were all about humanity's struggle to survive a theological alien genocide through the Covenant with a bit of Flood, whilst there was this big mystery about the Forerunners and their technology in the background. Now they took the background and made it the main character and it feels boring and clumsy. I don't have a problem that humanity "won" against the Covenant and that the war is "over", since there is still a lot of fighting going on but it simply has too much Forerunner stuff in it, whilst the UNSC became imba out of nowhere and the Covenant is kind of a joke, even though humanity barely made it through the war. Cortana becoming Skynet just made it weirder. It's not that bad but it's clumsily told and to me Halo is UNSC vs. Covenant with a bit of Flood and Insurrectionists, whilst the Forerunners are just presenting a mysterious landscape or task that has to be done in the background. Halo5 got it better than Halo4 but it's still too much Forerunner along with a strange Cortana story.

Yeah, I have my problems too with some newer designs. Whilst I still love the Covenant and the Forerunner design, the UNSC design became really bland and standard space stuff design. Especially the armors from Marines to Spartans were really iconic Halo, even for people who never played it but ever since Reach they became more and more boring sci-fi stuff. I really dislike the almost anime Spartan armors since Halo4 and god, why didn't they just left the ODST armor alone? It was perfect the way it was! And yeah, the Sangheili and Grunts really look ugly now. They were perfect in Reach but now they look way too hunched and bulky with weird skin conditions.

Well I can't really hate 343, since it is for the most part made up of ex-Bungie employees who came up with Halo in the first place. It's basically the same bunch of people just under a new name. They already started their weird experiments in Reach but went too crazy with Halo4. Halo5 was really fun for me due to gameplay and leveldesign but the story is really weak. They just need to get their shit back together.

Some erotic stuff can be really cute, especially Sangheili pairings in the past but since most of it nowadays is straight up porn, it just bores me and has nothing to do with cute love stuff. It's just sex (really fucked up sex in many cases) to get horny teenagers to jerk off to it. And speaking of the chubby Sangheili with Kig-yar stuff, that shit is just horribly drawn and illogical to the core. I'm sorry but to me that's one of the worst examples of Halo porn XD

Yeah, I've seen some gifs in the past. Really badly done. Whoever made those has no idea about anatomy and uses way too much fantasy, since he probably never had sex himself in his life. I've seen shitty porn vids with way more realism than that stuff. Well I can just hope that the "market" soon gets overflown with the garbage to the point nobody wants to see it anymore and goes back to drawn porn or moves away from porn completely. To say it with Leafy's words "WHO THE HELL IS THE MAN BEHIND THIS CRAP?!"

Sure! I hope I won't disappoint you

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-02-13 01:00:18 +0000 UTC]

I completely agree with you there.  Honestly, I'm actually a little pissed they showed off the Forerunners like they did.  I had always thought before Halo 4 that forerunners were supposed to be early, advanced humans.  I mean, the games alluded to that fact very heavily, but then Halo 4 came along and was like, "lol nope, space Voldemort!"

I have mixed feeling with the forerunner weapon designs.  On one hand, I think the whole floaty, lazer, shiny weapons do look really cool.  However, to me they just don't look like they fit into Halo, let alone Forerunner design in general.  In Halo 1-3, the Forerunners have had such an interesting design about their architecture and what little weapons were actually shown (Sentinel beam, sentinels, Enforcer sentinels).  Then 343 decided to make the forerunners look like Michael bay Transformers and add all of this weird floating structure crap... Eh.

Everything about the covenant designs have died in my eyes, especially in Halo 5.  The Plasma Rifle is long dead (we'd be lucky to see it make a comeback at all at this point), the plasma pistol's design is dying a painfully slow death, and the wraith... my God... Eww...  Then there's the horrific Banshee design that they decided to tear straight our of Reach (which Halo 4 did ALOT).  Now, to 343's credit, they did make the banshee look better in 5, but it still isn't the classic banshee.  I think the only Covenant design they haven't messed up with is the energy sword and carbine (however, the carbine has had the little detail I originally loved about it stripped away).

I absolutely agree about the UNSC stuff.  The Marines used to look amazing up until Halo Reach, then 4 came along and I just forgot they even existed.  And oh God yes, that Spartan IV armor needs to die.  Only design I actaully like from the SPartan IV armor was Recruit helmet (and that's only because it resembled the marine pilot helmets from Halo 3, in the mission the Covenant), and Helioskrill armor from 5 (and thats because the armor is supposed to resemble Sangheili armor, with an awesome backstory).

343 USED to be comprised of old Halo members.  But now, there are only a handfull of people who even touched the design of the original trilogy.  Most, if not all of the art team left with Bungie (or just left entirely), which is one of the reasons I suspect they just tore the Reach models of so many items in 4 straight out of the game into 4, and one of the reasons why the art style changed so drastically. As it stands now, I think there's only new devs working on Halo now, which is sad to me because that only means less people who understood why Halo was so great are working on it.

I agree it was horribly drawn, but the models itself... Eh, I dunno.  Maybe it was the concept. Udunno.  I'm not trying to defend it, but explaining it seems a little awkward now. lol  As for the 3D modeling crap... may we never speak of its abominable presence again.

I doubt you will dissappoint!  Now

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-02-15 04:00:15 +0000 UTC]

I have more of a problem with the Forerunners being waaaay too present in the newer games. They are supposed to be background actors, not the main actors. I honestly prefer the Didact's ugliness over the Librarian looking like a Pokemon though XD

It really depends to me. Some of that stuff is quite cool and creative but then again, some stuff is really bland like the Crawlers. I do however like the Knights for some reason. Soldiers then again are boring designt to me. Reminds me a bit of Chappie from the movie with those ears. I consider the Forerunner designs at least more creative than most space stuff out there.

Oh yes, how many Covenant weapons are missing now really is bugging me. I loved the plasma rifle, carbine and needle rifle along with the traditional Covie sniper gun. Well at least the carbine returned and the needler and sword look more badass. Still grunts and elites nowadays look really ugly. They don't top the ugly as hell orc brutes from Reach at least XD
I really like the different Kig-yar designs. Hell I want the Skirmishers to return! Those were some awesome enemies! Well at least the regular Kig-yar got more agile in Halo5 now as well.

I thought the marines already looked in Reach as if they'd have shit their pants and be fat in general for some reason. No wonder humanity is loosing if everybody looks as if he's chubby. The ODSTs had an awesome upper armor but the lower you go, the more random it gets. The Spartans looked really good there too! It's a shame they look so weird since Halo4. Never change a running system!

I hear more and more Bungie employees go to 343, since they aren't happy with their new slave owners, but that's just what I've picked up. Staten seems to have returned to Halo as well.

It's somehow cute but most of it is vulgar as fuck. That to me has nothing to do with love or compassion anymore. I however came across some porn that looked very cute to me. I think the blowjob animation was one of the few from that "artist" I liked.
Agreed. 3D porn is the current cancer...

Glad to hear ^^

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-02-18 01:35:37 +0000 UTC]

I do agree and prefered it when they were the mysterious background players.  Now all of the mystery about them has been syphoned out.

My issue with their design is that they don't follow original Forerunner designs.  Sure it all looks cool, but I could say that about anything in the new games that don't follow the destinct design the older Halos had.  That being said, this is of course my opinion on the subject.  Had the designs been anywhere else, I probably would've been in love with them.  However, the fact they are supposed to be following the Forerunners, they should've at least tried harder to match the specs of pre-existing  forerunner tech like Sentinels and Enforcers.

Needler looks cool, but sounds just... Ew... If there ever was a weapon that sounded like "pewpewpewpew" that gun takes the cake.

I think just about everything in the covenant looks ugly now.  And it really sucks because when I first saw the elites in Halo 2 Anniversary I was pleasantly surprised.  The elites looked somewhat normal (I like their new body proportions, but they need to scale back on the neck length and their mandibles left a little something to be desired, but better than 4 and 5 elite mandibles...).  I'm just glad at the very least 343 didn't screw up any of the designs in Halo 2 anniversary, in fact they actually came out with some awesome, updated designs that I wish they'd use in the main stream of Halos.

Yes, the Skirmishers need to make a return (assuming their species hasn't been killed off in the lore or whatever).  My only issue with them is they kinda seemed like a useless unit.  I mean I get they are supposed to be a heavier class of Jackal, but they still died just as easily.  Maybe if they were equipped with a light overshield then they would've been less redundant (at least you wouldn't be able to one hit them with DMR like Grunts and Jackals).

If Bungie members are coming to 343, chances are they aren't the same people.  If I recall correctly, quite a few people left Bungie during Destiny's development, an those people needed to be replaced.  I don't know, and I'm not going to pretend like I do.  Regardless, I don't care who is working on it there is one fact I care about and it's: Is the product being released a game WORTHY of the Halo title?  Does have the same art style of its legendary predescessors?  Does it innovate in the right ways? Can it bring the feeling of a true Halo game?  If the answer is yes to all of those (and of course there are other things), then for all I care, fricken Infinity Ward could work on Halo... figuratively speaking of course.

My point is 343 and 343 fans can try to convince me to like their games by saying, "Oh, we have so and so back, it's going to be real Halo", but until those employees at 343 start showing me that they and their team have what it takes to buckle down and give me the Halo experience, then they might as well talk to a brick because a name is not enough to convince.

Perhaps we should stop speaking of the porn area of Halo, as he side of it that does exist isn't all too good anyway.  Some of it is, but it seems to have devolved into... well, what porn actually is... PORN. lol

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-02-23 01:51:51 +0000 UTC]

Plus Cortana is playing Skynet all of a sudden.

I don't know, maybe I don't give that much about the Promethean design, since I'm not that interested in Forerunner in general, as long as they come up with some pretty scenery.

I thought Rtas 'Vadum got a really ugly horse face in Halo2 Anniversary. And for some reason all Sangheili are super scaly now, even thought they seemed to have more of a leathery skin in the previous games. I prefer them the way they looked in Reach as some sort of space shark dinosaur squid and not just random space lizards.

As a heavy DMR user, I never really had problems with Skirmishers, even though they raise their arm shields as soon as you don't headshot them on the first try. Many of my friends who prefer less accurate weapons however say that Skirmishers are a real pain in the ass to them so I guess they are only a seemingly useless unit to players like us. Still, I considered they really fun and challenging fast enemies in Skirmigeddon. Gruntpocalypse is way too easy for me with all those slowly moving grunts

True, as long as they care for Halo it doesn't matters who works on it. I just consider the argument "343 ruins Halo, Bungie was so much better" kind of a weak argument, since they're about 50% or more now after Destiny still ex-Bungie employees. People change over time, so it's more of a problem that the fathers of Halo tried some funny ideas with it, rather than sticking to the roots. Well at least Halo5 turned out better than Halo4 when it comes to gameplay, so that's a plus to me.

Haha, that's why I don't give a crap about hype and won't judge until I played the never games

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-02-23 03:46:46 +0000 UTC]

I don't know, a part of me kind of liked the whole plot twist where Cortana is now the bad guy.  It's interesting and at the very least original.  I mean, if I told my younger self when all I had was Halo CE and 2 on the original Xbox that Cortana would be a bad guy, I would've laughed at myself.  lol Just my opinion though.  However, I was kind of pissed that after such an emotional scene of her dying, that she was immediatly ressurected.  Her death meant NOTHING.  It may as well not have happened.

I guess to each their own on Forerunner crap.  lol

The Anniversary elites' faces did leave something to be desired.  As for their skin textures (certainly not as aweful as 4's lol), but they seemed pretty leather-y to me, albeit yes, a little scalier.  Reach I do think they looked awesome; they got the mix of fearsome and intelligent right, but their faces looked a little.... eh-ish to me.

Same.  DMR pretty much let you cheese anything that didn't have a shield.  The only times I had issues with Skirmishers was when the ultra skirmishers would use holograms in large numbers.  In a way it was intimiating, especially on legendary - All of a sudden the enemy team's numbers double for a few seconds. XD

I used to say "bring bungie back", but after the failure that was Destiny, I just can'ttrust game companies anymore.  I still think 343 ruined Halo to an extent (I don't care who is working with them, but all I know is Halo started its decline under their watch, making them solely responsible, no excuses).  Halo 5 fixed alot of the thing 4 got wrong, but only further changed the formula to fix said things.  If you're at all interested on the subject, you should check "Favyn" on youtube.  
His commentaries are pretty interesting, and he brings up alot of good points.  And don't worry, he's not just some ranter or "hater", he has alot of things to say and good arguments to back up his issues and arguments with how Halo is currently doing.  I don't know, maybe give him a watch if you ever have some extra time.  ^_^

Hype use to be a good thing for a game, now its a marketing tool that is killing the gaming industry.  In a way it's kind of sad.  I feel like there are only a hand full of games I can feel excited for (Dark Souls 3 and Uncharted 4 the only ones right now) and feel comfortable being hyped for.  

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-02-26 01:29:11 +0000 UTC]

Well it was kinda obvious to me that Cortana will return with Forerunner magic and that she'd still go total bananas due to rampage. What annoys me is that John's emotional troubles about her loss haven't really been explored. You only see a little of it in the first level with him and that's it. I don't consider the whole Cortana gone wild stuff necessarily bad but it was clumsily presented that irks me. That would have been a plot for Halo6 or a nice cliffhanger for the end of Halo5 to know that she's still alive and maybe dangerous, whilst the whole game is dedicated to John suffering and being hunted by Locke. Now both plots seem kind of rushed.

It's more those scaly spike things on the Sangheili's shoulders, arms and heads that I meant. I mean they never had such before. They all looked quite smooth and leathery until Reach and now all of a sudden in Halo4 and Anniversary they grew horny scales on their heads like Darth Maul. I think it's especially Thel 'Vadam who looks super scaly and wrinkled as if he's an old man XD
As for the faces in Reach, yeah their hanging mandibles looked a bit as if they got hit on their heads a few times as kids. Still, overall they're my favorites. Maybe their faces could have been a bit more like the faces in Halo3. Those were great, even though those were also pretty much the only good thing on the Sangheili design in Halo3. They looked like fat hunchback lizards there, instead of fierce and athletic warriors. If I want bulky warriors, I go with Brutes or Hunters but leave the Elites alone! Good that Reach went back to the Sangheili being towering athletic foes again... only to go back to bulky lizards in Halo4 again...

True, their holograms were a bitch but also the Skirmisher's speed was quite challenging at times. They were super good at flanking and attacking you from all sides in no time and if you wanted to beat them in close combat, those bitches just run away, since they're faster and much more agile. Really good enemies! I'm actually glad the Kig-yar in Halo5 got to be more agile like Skirmishers. It was always weird to me that Skirmishers were capable of such speeds, jumps and agile maneuvers, whilst regular Jackals just hide behind their shields, even though they should at least be speedy too due to their anatomy. Who knows? Maybe they'll add more subspecies than just the three we got now.

It's funny that I saw Destiny's failure coming all along. The hype was so big for it and old Bungie fans expected the second coming of Halo, whilst even from the first gameplay trailer I could tell that it's not that special and won't be for me, whilst everyone around me wanted me to join the hype. I heard the latest DLC did a lot better though.
Sure! I'll make sure to check him out. Thanks for the advice!

After the extreme failure that was Aliens - Colonial Marines, I only trust what I can see and play myself. It works way better for me than getting all worked up and then be disappointed when the game is here. That way I can also see the good things in the game instead of buying it with huge expectations that can't be fulfilled.

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-02-26 03:11:28 +0000 UTC]

Obvious, but pointless.  Wasn't the point of her death to set up Chief's human side to come out?  I was hoping for her to be dead, and maybe have her appear in short flashbacks or scenes like she did in Halo 3 (you know, those quick flashes where she'd appear on screen making odd quotes).  However, I agree that the story should have been as you described.

I know what you mean as far as 4's design goes, but in Anniversary I still don't see it.  Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, I don't know. lol  I agree, the Halo 3 body proportions seemed a little odd.  Parts of it I liked, like I think the elites looked really awesome in all of Halo 3's cutscenes, ESPECIALLY R'tas.  Althought, I do think they should've scaled back their arm length a little... a little too lanky if you ask me.  But yes, Reach's body proportions and build were perfect.

I hope they just don't go crazy with subspecies.  Is it nice to add diversity amongst the species?  Of course.  But when you have like five types of jackals running around, you might end up questioning why the battlefield is so crowded with unimaginative variants of one species.  lol

I'm sad to say I was the conductor of said hype train.  In our defense though, it's easy to say you saw it coming, but no one could've forsaw how much of the game they were shaving off to try and sell back to us.  And on top of that, their marketing campaign was quite brilliant.  They did an excellent job covering the numerous flaws witht eh game, and by the time the community was able to even pick up on them (for example, little to no end game content) it had been a month already.  The DLC fixed things because it was originally cut from the main game to sell back to players.  I know for sure Destiny 2 is on my "watch out" hit list.  I got burned once... it would be foolish to stick my hand in the fire again.

As I'm getting older, I'm learning to be more wary of the gaming industry.  At first it was hard, as I grew up on Halo and devs who were truly there for the players... until devs and publishers decided to abuse that trust to make a quick buck.  In a way, I'm glad I got burned by Destiny, as it taught me that even the most trusted brand can turn on you (however, I hate that it had to happen in the first place).  It made me more aware.

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-03-13 00:52:42 +0000 UTC]

Exactly. That's why I say that it would have been way better for her to only return at the very end of Halo5 or in Halo6 if she had to return that badly at all. John and Cortana have always been the main characters, so it would have really bold of Bungie to kill Cortana and actually leave her dead.

Oh yes, they hunched the elites so much in Halo3 that it looks like their arms are super long XD What I don't get with Halo3 is that they changed Rtas' eye color from green to regular brownish yellow. The green made him unique and more awesome aside from his missing mandibles and it was plausible as well. I really don't get why they changed that...

Yeah, they really have to be careful with the Kig-yar subspecies to do not overdo it as if they were Pokemon. Still I think they handled it quite good up to now with the current three subspecies. There's a lot of potential there for example a subspecies that's more adapted to colder climates and therefor got a more stubby snout/beak along with a body that's almost completely covered in bright feathers/dino fuzz for thermoregulation. Or maybe a subspecies that's more adapted to swampy habitats and therefor got padded/webbed feet and more of a cormorant/heron posture. Of course those only make sense in games if they have some game mechanic that makes them valuable for the gameplay. Otherwise they may only be something for novels or comics.

Well I didn't saw how badly Destiny would fail of course but even when the first descriptions of the gameplay released, I could see that it isn't at all what most people expect and that it certainly won't be for me. A lot of fans expected a second Halo and seemed to ignore all the signs that it wasn't. Also I was quite critic to Bungie's claims that they were creating a huge new franchise for the next ten years just like that. You don't create a franchise along with the fandom just like that. You actually need to mobilize fans to get a franchise running. I don't know, I just really hate marketing campaigns claiming that their product will be a revolution and the greatest game/movie ever just because they say so and commercialize it a lot. Well I'll see how Destiny 2 will do but for now I'm not impressed by it. It doesn't looks bad but it doesn't look interesting enough to me as well for me to buy it.

A lot of the game design students at my university predict that the gaming industry will soon face a fatal crash again due to all their bullshittery with microtransactions, immediate DLCs, CoD-copies and so on. Sadly a lot of it wakes the same idea in me...

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-03-13 15:42:38 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I agree.  But it's funny how when Halo 4 was being advertised, it was all, "Master Chief needs to find his humantiy" this, and "Cortana is going rampant" this.  Then in the next game Chief is still as stoic as he's ever been (save for the fist fight with lock when he gets pissed, which is bullcrap btw that Locke ever stood a chance, but whatever) and Cortana just has her rampancy cured automatically. That was one of the parts of Halo 4 I loved most; Cortana's descent into rampancy.  It added urgency to the campaign and an emotional roller coaster both Chief and the player got to experience.  But then Cortana's all like, "lol, rampancy? My Forerunner homies hooked me up with the good stuff, I'm cured."

I think it was just an oversight.  I agree, they should've kept his eye green, but maybe it was one of those things that no one would've noticed.  I dunno, it's a small detail, but it'd be nice if it were there.

I think the Skirmishers were awesome additions, and they made them diverse but similar at the same time.  However, as far as games go, I think those two subspecies should only exist.  In the novels, it would make sense having varied species and races of Kig-yar (much like the human race has our own varied races and such), it adds depth to them.

Yeah, it's just that alot of us were overhyping it.  I overhyped in my own mind because Bungie was basically the pinnacle of my childhood entertainment.  Then after Halo 4, I could only hope that Bungie would come in and save the day with Destiny.  But... well, they didn't.  They haven't released anything on Destiny 2 yet, but seeing as they are just taking DLC that was planned (originally a part of Destiny 1) for Destiny 1, I don't have high hopes for it.  Plus, go on any forum or comment section for just the average player, and te game is met with mostly negative views.  I think Destiny 2 is going to tank.  I genuinely hope it doesn't pull the same crap.  I truthfully want this series to succeed, but seeing as in just one installment they have pissed off the fanbase in more ways than one, I just can't see Bungie getting their crap together in one game.

That's not surprising at all.  But maybe it won't.  I mean, sure, the older generation of gamers who grew up on the "gems" of gaming are catching on to these big companies, but the latest generation isn't, they are growing up on them.  They are growing up thinking that "hey, all of my games have this, thus, it is how it is supposed to be".  Of course, there's a chance that when they get older they'll see that they were being swindled, but I'm not so sure about that.  Humans are stupid... I have alot of hope for us, but we have failed before on much smaller things than this. I don't know, that's just me talking out of my ass.  Just a possibility.  To be honest, I would rather a another crash than let these huge companies get away with what they're doing.  I'd rather have a reviving of game ten years down the road with a plethora of new, better quality games than be force fed the horse crap we have now.

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-03-25 20:07:18 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, they should have played it way better...

Hm, well I would have preferred him to keep his green eyes.

I like to think of a snow variant of Kig-yar.

I don't think Destiny will be a really good franchise. Maybe bought a lot but not really interesting for my tastes.

I guess the gaming producers are just overdoing it with DLCs and crap to the point it all will crash...

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-03-27 21:05:43 +0000 UTC]

Agreed.

Agreed as well.

I think the snow Kig-yar would be better used if the next Halo had alot more snowy environments.  At least then it would make sense for them to be there for more than just one section or shoehorned in other, non-snowy sections.

I loved the gunplay for Destiny (think of the perfect mix of CoD and Halo controls, they nailed it there), and the background lore (and original story before it was plucked from the game,chopped up, and rewritten) are freaking epic and just as interesting as Halo's story.  However, the way the game was executed was just flat out horrendous.  Believe me when I say I wish I could have my money back.

It will, I'm sure. 

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-03-27 23:27:00 +0000 UTC]

True, they have to make sense in a way. Still, Halo always had it's snow levels, so it would make sense in those places.

Mhm, I heard nobody explains shit to you what happened or why you're doing all this. I watched a few cutscenes and the constant excuses characters have to do not explain to you what's going on is annoying as fuck. I don't know if shit gets explained during the gameplay but the cutscenes leave me mostly confused.

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-03-28 16:03:07 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that's what I meant.  Actually, Halo CE would've been a perfect place to add them, as you backtrakc through that one damnable, snowy gorge so many times (and those missions are long...).

In the Taken King expansion, they DO give you more a explanation of why you're doing it, but it all boils down to: Bad Hive guy wants to posses all humans... go stop bad Hive guy.  The grimoire cards are interesting, and I like how they tell the story in them, as they take the Dark Souls way of telling a story, where they tell only half the story and you have to fill in the blanks wth your imagination.  However, tey exectuted this very poorly for two reasons:

1) When you earn a grimoire card, there is no way to access it in game.  You are forced to read it on Bungie.net or the Destiny app.

2) They do not tell stories that are very relevant to the main story.  There are some awesome stories that tie into some armor and gear you find. For example, there are exoic armor pieces with bones attached to them called [insert bone apendage] of the Ahamkara, and all the descriptions for these armos sets are disturbing, saying things like, "Let's fill the world with teeth, oh bearer mine", "Let us devour the world, oh bearer mine", almost like the armor is talking to you.

Then when you get the grimoire card that mentions the Ahamkaras, you find out that they are actually space dragons with limitless information on the universe, that also feast on reality itself.  Then out fear, the Guardians hunted them to extinction, and some of their bones made into armor.  Even in death, the bones still speak to its wearers, driving them slowl insane.

However, never once do you ever get to see these Ahamkaras.  Then you get some Grimoire cards that are so criptic, you'd think you were reading a page from the book of Revelations.  They do not fill the hole of story telling that needs to be filled.  Plus, they should've stuck to the direct story telling that they were good with in Halo rather than the passive story telling Fromsoftware uses in the Souls games.

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-04-17 21:57:43 +0000 UTC]

Oh well, I plan on drawing them again anyways!

Destiny got space dragons? What?! This story seems to get more and more fucked up...

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-04-19 01:49:48 +0000 UTC]

Sounds pretty cool, can't wait to see them.

That's putting it in the broadest of terms... comically in a way.  But it is a fantasy game afterall, and if you have space magic, you gotta have space dragons.

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-04-20 08:33:57 +0000 UTC]

I thought Destiny is Sci-fi?

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pancakeminezz In reply to Dragunalb [2016-06-12 04:01:51 +0000 UTC]

It's more fantasy in a sci-fi setting. But that's not surprising, as the game originally was going to be medieval fantasy, but eventually got transitioned into sci-fi fantasy. 

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Dragunalb In reply to pancakeminezz [2016-06-12 21:57:24 +0000 UTC]

Oh, I didn't knew that.

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pancakeminezz In reply to Cynderthedragon5768 [2015-04-08 04:27:16 +0000 UTC]

Pretty good.  You?

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Cynderthedragon5768 In reply to pancakeminezz [2015-04-08 04:32:51 +0000 UTC]

Meh, I've been both good a bad as of late xP Just trying to model through issues life insists on giving me. Namely broken items or injuries.
Glad to hear you've been good though c:

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pancakeminezz In reply to SHADOWSHAUN200 [2014-12-27 03:26:32 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!  Man, we haven't talked in ages!

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SHADOWSHAUN200 In reply to pancakeminezz [2014-12-27 04:38:01 +0000 UTC]

Yeah how have you been?

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pancakeminezz In reply to SHADOWSHAUN200 [2014-12-27 22:26:30 +0000 UTC]

I've been sick the past week, and over Christmas as well.  However, I'm getting over it.  It sucked at first because I was pretty much sitting up all night coughing my guts up.  But I'm pretty much better now, so that's good.  Plus I got the entire Red Dwarf BBC series on DVD for Christmas and a new flatscreen for my room, so I've been preoccupied  XD.


What about you?  How were your holidays?

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SHADOWSHAUN200 In reply to pancakeminezz [2014-12-27 22:51:15 +0000 UTC]

Pretty sweet I got a helicopter drone with a built in camera that can be controlled with my iPad it's pretty sweet and also I got a card that will let me see movies for free for a whole year 

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pancakeminezz In reply to SHADOWSHAUN200 [2014-12-30 07:24:14 +0000 UTC]

Nice!

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SHADOWSHAUN200 In reply to pancakeminezz [2014-12-30 16:15:50 +0000 UTC]

Hell yah!

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pancakeminezz In reply to SHADOWSHAUN200 [2014-12-30 17:52:34 +0000 UTC]

My friend's brother actually got one of those quad rotor drones.  It's pretty cool to fly.  But you lucky dog... Freakin' free movies for a year though!

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SHADOWSHAUN200 In reply to pancakeminezz [2014-12-30 18:10:14 +0000 UTC]

Yeah that was a present from my dad though he did have to pay alot of money for it lol XD

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pancakeminezz In reply to SHADOWSHAUN200 [2014-12-31 20:40:45 +0000 UTC]

I can imagine.  XD

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