So I decided to put my friends through a special kind of torture: Golf with your Friends. I picked out the worst, most painful maps I could from the steam workshop for your viewing pleasure! Link Below:

Shout out to Halo Legends, the Animatrix of the Halo franchise. 7 stories all packaged into one fantastic collection. Everyone has their favorites, but mine are Prototype, Homecoming, and Babysitter. In that order. Origins gets a special mention for being incredible too, inspite of its artistic liberties it takes. Best part is? It's free to watch on Youtube. So if you haven't seen peak Halo anime, do yourself a favor and give it a watch. If you have seen it already, then watch it again!

Just recorded a full playthrough of the game! Video is already in the works and will hopefully be out soon

A sacred place... for now #Halo #HaloSpotlight

Remember, the Halo Assault Rifle is actually plausible.

Glad the OG sound is back, but the shells are ejecting out of the front-cowling of the gun...

So tired of seeing this exact take worded almost exactly the same way. People are allowed their opinions and their concerns. The average halo fan is voicing them in pretty tame and respectable ways. There are outliers and people who clearly don't know what their talking about, sure. There always will be. But you can't sit here and tell everyone their all wrong because they're unhappy about the state of their franchise. Look around you, look at the state of several other franchises. Notice multiple communities upset at the recent remakes to their beloved games? It's not just a halo problem, this is a gaming problem. There are pros and cons to any remake, let alone any new entry to a series. People are entitled to their thoughts on them and the ability to voice that. If you're so stuck in your own echo chamber that you cannot entertain an opposing opinion for even a second, then please do yourself and everyone else a favor and log off.

𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁, 𝗦𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲, and 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 brings 𝗻𝗼 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 to Halo Why is it even called "𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱" movement, it does the 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 It diminishes velocity/physics based sandbox movement techniques for blandness and unnecessary slows down the game

The later recons obscure this, but Halo’s Human-Covenant war is absolutely a mythologization (not 1:1 allegory) of the ascendant Church and its contention with the Pharisees. John, who is both savior and apostle, is the exceptional seed of the creator race which the Covenant worships. He comes to fulfill what the Forerunners built while thwarting the misguided zeal of the (old) Covenant to make way for the new reign. The arbiter being chief persecutor of “heretics” only to then join them after a conversion is, as the quoted post suggests, a strong parallel with St. Paul.

Another small nitpick-The animation direction isnt even consistent with how the Grunts hold themselves in-game? Like, dude. I can see the Mocap suit. Why you standing like a Human with Hulk Gloves on his hands?

The reason why there's such a huge flow of "negativity" amongst halo fans and Campaign evolved isn't just that they're remastering CE again. It's more detailed than that. Needless changes to art style mechanics, and hand holding that wasn't needed in the original. People are criticizing the remake, and nitpicking at these fine details because they're asking the developers to justify the existence of this remake. It's even rumored that the new Xbox CEO tried to can the remake early on. Likely because she saw no real justification for it existing. The biggest thing that people complain about with this remake is the art style changes. CEA as much of a shitty remaster as it was, at least tried to maintain consistency with CE. And you can even see comparisons between the 3 different remakes how CEA blows campaign evolved out of the water. Sure it adds needless details, but you can still recognize it as a structure from Combat Evolved. But both newer versions suffer from the same problem. Lack of restraint with lighting, needless changes, and lack of good contrast between enemies and the environment. Realism for the sake of realism even if it damages game play. Then there's the reuse of infinite enemies. While I personally have no issue with the use of infinite elites, an upscaled halo 2 elite would have done better. Then there's the grunts. At the very least, they could have upscaled Reach grunt models, and given them CE Esque addons like masks and back tanks. I was able to knock something like that out in 2 hours. Surely devs with billions of dollars and degrees in game dev can do the same. Then there's the sound scape. It's inconsistent, and lacks the soul of the original. Sometimes they'll use Bungie era sounds, other times they won't. But when they do this wishy washy approach to the sound design it makes the soundscape feel incomplete. They spend god knows how much on this sound design and what for? Just for people to say it sucks, and it doesn't sound like a halo weapon. You would be saving so much money just engineering over the og halo sounds to start with. With that said, we have Campaign Evolved, and we have the OG more accessible than ever thanks to the MCC and Halo insurrection a brand new fork of Halo Custom edition with multiplayer, fire fight, and customization. TL;DR: The remake won't be perfect, and we can't expect corpos and their devs to do anything right anymore. All we can do is enjoy it for what it is (or don't) and let it fade into obscurity. Meanwhile, there's many different ways to experience Halo CE. some of them being objectively better than campaign evolved. Relevant Links: x.com/doom_halo/status/20651… x.com/doom_halo/status/19948… discord.shadowmods.net/

A cinematic artist in the gaming industry gave harsh critiques of this Halo Campaign Evolved cinematic on LinkedIn: “It's hard to believe that this Cinematic for one of gaming's most iconic levels is what Halo Studios is shipping, but it appears to be. From the original 18-second cinematic, which had: -A great establishing shot, showing the scale of the area, reinforcing the rings grand architecture -Sleeping grunts, foreshadowing upcoming ambush gameplay (you're making a game, remember?) -A quick gag of the grunts running scared We now have a bloated 30-second cinematic of: -A more constrained establishing shot. -Doorway framing, a cinematic language of its own not appropriate for a scene like this -Grunts awkwardly... arguing? Standing around? Flailing their arms? What are they even doing? Why are we watching them do this for so long? -A stupid compression-effect shot on the grunt, so clearly made by someone just ITCHING to make a shot like this -Inappropriate for Halo, an enemy, and for a character who you cant even see the face of. -The cherry on top is the fully disconnected lighting between the cinematic and the gameplay space as the cinematic ends Stuff like this needs to be rightly criticized, and all the more for remakes, which should have none of the confusion and cross-department bickering as new games might. You're remaking a game. You know the space. You know the story. You should know the intent.”

I might make a video covering how to install Halo Custom edition with CE Refined and Chimera included if there's enough interest. Some day, it'll be up to us to keep these games alive.

More marketing we will never get again. Starry Night (2006)

PIGFACE from @titolovesyou is awesome, and I made a video talking about it! It's also the first video with my new XLR Mic, so let me know how it sounds! New Video Link Below:

Honest question why did they go to the effort of putting his first person hands onto the third person model but not fix any of the UV issues or tweak the fp arm bitmaps so that the armour tint would be consistent? (Or even just pre-tint his asset for that matter)