Sorry, I Felt An Obligation To Do This

I mean, its not like Chief is completely and totally unquestionably loyal to the UNSC. In Halo 3 he puts his trust in Cortana over Lord Hood's orders + the whole Del Rio plotline in 4. (I would use Halo 5 as an example but I don't like that game's story)

"Master Chief and Doomguy would be best friends." Master Chief was an abducted child supersolider created to crush human rebellions who is unerringly loyal to the fascist military that created him. Doomguy canonically beat his commanding officer to death for ordering him to shoot civilians. No they would not.

Total longshot here but- I am asking if anyone might know if there is a dialoge/sfx free version of Stewart Copland's score for the original cut of The Gathering out there anywhere, be that a physical release or somewhere online

While I have lots of issues with Halo 5, one of the things I absolutely love about it is the designs for the covenant. I have some issues like the Grunts' popped out eyeballs, or the Elites' designs carried over from 4. But I adore the look of the weapons and the ships. They are still very much in the spirt of the original designs but they have all been reworked and I really love the final result.

Another slow shift and i was feeling like drawing armour so i drew a bunch of Metroid fanart.

I can't believe Shadow the Hedgehog got infected with the Uroboros virus

Halo 5 Helmet Redesigns

A little project I’ve had in the works since the end of inktober.

There is a ton of criticism I have for the game, but one thing that’s bothered me a lot is the design of the Gen 2 armor variants and helmets. 

Many of them just didn’t look like Spartan armor anymore. By all means excellent designs by themselves, they weren’t really the best fit for Halo. This was probably to support differentiation of rewards in the card pack system in the game, but from an in-universe standpoint it makes no sense to me. 

Although it’s stated that production of power armor has been opened up to the private sector as well, there is something to be said about having compatible standards, especially in a military context and even more so when the people wearing these suits regularly get into extremely hazardous situations where damage to their armor is likely an replacements need to be made. Worse, Spartans often operate behind enemy lines without easy access to maintenance and having wildly different designs seems like a bad recipe for field repairs.

So that’s one thing I tried to do as a design exercise with this and create a more uniform look while keeping the icons that make the helmets unique: Where possible, all helmets share the same neck seal and neural interface port and a more straightforward visor. (Don’t get me started on Seeker.)

Variants where the main difference is some sort of add-on tech or visor have been redesigned to have one baseline frame with these additions on top (like back in Reach). 

Variants that were really similar in design (think EVA and Orbital) have been condensed into one.

Some helmets have been ignored entirely and ones with super-gimmicky designs (hello Warmaster) have been dialed back.

Armor designs will follow once I figure those out.

Oh hey, I remember this level of Halo 3

Tower I by goomi32

We are all so fucked

I think the main issue that I am trying to get at is how the original Halo series had one of the strongest development teams working at the time, whereas 343 never even had the chance for its team to fully grow, evolve, and iterate upon itself.

Halo 4 is probably the piece of media that I have the biggest love/hate relationship with.

It feels so close to being something great but doesn't quite hit the mark.

Not to mention how its a game that was the start of a storyline/trilogy that didn't really go anywhere, leaving the feeling that it was the start of something special that never got a proper follow up

Somewhere out there, there is a mock-Jar Jar Binks puppet sitting in a Lucasfilm warehouse.

It must be set free.