Halo Anime Series
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owen saber
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Adam said:
me to. they had a good idea about giving the Spartans space vehicles, but what they came up with is terrible! it looks like a steel beam with a bunch of propane tanks strapped on the back! totally out of proportion.
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xalener said:
The Halo Graphic Novel was also a collection of shorts done by different people, and it was fantastic. The difference I am starting to see more clearly as time goes on is that the Graphic novel was closely directed by Bungie, as such, the stories all fit the established continuity and universe wonderfully, and added things to the Halo mythos, without ret-conning anything that came previous or feeling like they made any grand departures from the feel and style and of the universe, even though the all didn't look the same and ran the gambit from almost cartoony in Last Sunrise over New Mombasa, to Manga, the story of how Johnson escaped..
What it feels like I am seeing here is Microsoft, not Bungie, just saying, "Make Halo Stories" to the directors without any real creative control or guidance being given to maintain the feel of the Halo universe, and as such we get Spartan Space Crotch rockets, Samurai Elites, and Gundam-esque sets of Armor for the Spartans, with massive guns hanging over their shoulders. None of which I feel can be said to fit well with the established Halo universe.
I never said hate, though, I said wary, but I will not get my hopes up. I am almost certain I will buy this, just like I will buy and play Halo:Reach, even though I am skeptical at what feels like a loss of maintained continuity and creative control.
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Yuki Kedamono
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yea there are some things we say we may not like in some of the looks, but alot of the action an look is still very bad ass, an we know we're all going to give in and buy it anyway, lol
i know i will.
i know i will.
Overlord Ian
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This looks so badass!! I'm so exited for the release now!!! 
I dunno, I had mixed feelings on the graphic novel, first 3 stories were good, but the 4th one made no sense at all and the art was horrible. I guess what I'm saying is don't judge the anime just because one out of 7 animations doesn't appeal to you...
Cadet said:
I dunno, I had mixed feelings on the graphic novel, first 3 stories were good, but the 4th one made no sense at all and the art was horrible. I guess what I'm saying is don't judge the anime just because one out of 7 animations doesn't appeal to you...
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BenStreeper
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[media]http://www.gametrailers.com/player/53158.html[/media]
Looks like they have a pretty good mock up of the cyclops project in there
Looks like they have a pretty good mock up of the cyclops project in there
Yuki Kedamono
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i still think it's going to be awesome.
i mean even if someone isn't a fan of anime they can still appreciate the hard work put into it and the imagry at least.
i'm not a huge fan of alot of different types of art, but all that is is another imagry to express a story. i can't go doggin on different styles telling a story just cause i don't particularly care for it.
just like the half animation have CG bit, i don't like it, but if they got it, so long as they did their best i'm sure i'll still like it for other reasons just fine ^__^
no need to be such harsh crits guys. gotta lubs teh haloness XD
though it probably would have been better if bungie had a direct hand in it ^^
props to the artists that took time to make these short films. i know I couldn't do it nearly as well
i mean even if someone isn't a fan of anime they can still appreciate the hard work put into it and the imagry at least.
i'm not a huge fan of alot of different types of art, but all that is is another imagry to express a story. i can't go doggin on different styles telling a story just cause i don't particularly care for it.
just like the half animation have CG bit, i don't like it, but if they got it, so long as they did their best i'm sure i'll still like it for other reasons just fine ^__^
no need to be such harsh crits guys. gotta lubs teh haloness XD
though it probably would have been better if bungie had a direct hand in it ^^
props to the artists that took time to make these short films. i know I couldn't do it nearly as well
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As I have stated before, I don't "Hate this" becuase it is anime, I don't hate it all, I can't hate it, I haven't seen it, I have stressed that I am "Wary" becuase it looks like so many of their stories are vast departures from the Halo Universe and will not fit in with established continuity, and perhaps will even fly in the face of, disregard, or contradict some of the established facets of the Halo Universe.
There is a difference between artistic license and art style, and not even making a token effort to keep your story within the established universe. I am being "Such a harsh critic" becuase what drew me into Halo in the first place was the rich and well established universe. I read Halo of Reach before anyone I knew owned an X-Box, and long before I ever got to play Halo, and fell in love with the series becuase of that book, that is why I remain wary of projects like this that have the high potential to disregard all that good fiction.
There is a difference between artistic license and art style, and not even making a token effort to keep your story within the established universe. I am being "Such a harsh critic" becuase what drew me into Halo in the first place was the rich and well established universe. I read Halo of Reach before anyone I knew owned an X-Box, and long before I ever got to play Halo, and fell in love with the series becuase of that book, that is why I remain wary of projects like this that have the high potential to disregard all that good fiction.
Yuki Kedamono
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i'm only saying "such a harsh critic" because even though it isn't in exact detail with all of our expectations it's still worthy of being enjoyed for many reasons.
there's the art aspect, the music, the voice acting, that environment, whatever the case may be.
in the end i guess we'll just see how this turns out when it comes out, for now though, we really only have this trailer to work off of. I don't want us debating on the good an bad of something that isn't even out yet, lol.
maybe one short will have awesome story that flows with the original intent, an maybe another will flop, who knows. but i do know i'm anxious for it to come out so i can find out for myself ^^
there's the art aspect, the music, the voice acting, that environment, whatever the case may be.
in the end i guess we'll just see how this turns out when it comes out, for now though, we really only have this trailer to work off of. I don't want us debating on the good an bad of something that isn't even out yet, lol.
maybe one short will have awesome story that flows with the original intent, an maybe another will flop, who knows. but i do know i'm anxious for it to come out so i can find out for myself ^^
Overlord Ian
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xalener said:
Not everyone, I still think its badass
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I don't mind some of the art, but I really despise anime. If I see one of those stupid anime face expressions, then I will really hate it. Appleseed style wouldn't be so bad, but I really don't like this at the moment.
I would have preferred a short CGI style movie like the Halo Wars cinematics.
I would have preferred a short CGI style movie like the Halo Wars cinematics.
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Enrisan said:
but you do understand that it's not all in the same style? an im' sure it's not ALL anime, like how there's one in there i spotted that was purely CG. i love anime but i'd kill someone that gave ANYONE in this collection a signature an overly goofy chibi expression.
there are some animes i think look cute with those goofy expressions, but i have my limits. i love beautiful anime that's got such a realism to it. ^^ kinda like appleseed ^w^b
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Dagger06
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Enrisan said:
Hah, Xalener just complained about this type of generalization. =P
As Yuki pointed out, there's plenty of anime that doesn't have cutesy expressions and such in it, plenty of more serious style animes, so I wouldn't fret.
Anime does refer to primarily Japanese animation, not cartoons in general, and it does have trends that run through it. But, as Xalener pointed out, it just means animation in the end, not pokemon-dragonballz-naruto version of Halo.
Or so we all hope.
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Yuki Kedamono
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Trooper0621 said:Hah, Xalener just complained about this type of generalization. =P
As Yuki pointed out, there's plenty of anime that doesn't have cutesy expressions and such in it, plenty of more serious style animes, so I wouldn't fret.
Anime does refer to primarily Japanese animation, not cartoons in general, and it does have trends that run through it. But, as Xalener pointed out, it just means animation in the end, not pokemon-dragonballz-naruto version of Halo.
Or so we all hope.
exactly. but i seriously doubt they'd do that to us an make it pokemon-dbz-narutard style XD
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