Comment on How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief?

• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Green is the universal color of soldiers. The regular soldiers in Halo were wearing green. Master Chief’s armor was green because he was a soldier. It made perfect sense to me.

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  • StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If I remember the Halo books correctly (it’s been a while) the Spartan armor started out a golden color but dulled to green hue due to hits from Covenant energy weapons over time. Not particularly relevant to this discussion but I thought it was an interesting bit of lore.

    I need to go back and reread them. Great series and well written for the most part.

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The protagonist in Halo: Reach wears gray armor with blue accents and he looks just as badass as Master Chief.

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just want to add that, yes, Noble Six’s default armour is very cool; but you can also have them wear whatever armour and colours you like. (Including making them look basically like the Chief)

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sure, but they had to start somewhere. Reach is the 6th Halo game.

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    • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Halo reach came out way later, and doesn’t look half as good as master chief but that’s not due to the coloring and instead the worse looking armour

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• BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  John Halo and the Marines are Marines and not Soldiers. Though, I’m not certain Halo ever shows a non-Navy Servicemember in 1-4.

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  • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For what it’s worth, the Army briefly shows up in Reach.

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