✨limited edition✨ Halo: Combat Evolved Xbox console (2004) 🛸

Hunter from Halo: Combat Evolved

Combat truly has evolved.

finally playing halo, one game down a million to goo OORAH!!!! (ignore how hes holding the plasma rifle in the wrong hand)

Cortana original flavor

Let's keep adding more queer representation in Halo <3

HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED (2001) dev. Bungie Studios

Cortana, all I need to know is did we lose them? I think we both know the answer to that.

remover

I never post this painting but considering half-way done is a big milestone u figured I might as well.

Here's the top fourth

And here's the bottom fourth

The first 2 sections were more or less me figuring out how to use paint so they're not as good, imma go back and redo them later.

Also this is in lore-based chronological order, so far what I have are Halo Wars; Reach; CE; 2; ODST; 3.

Saw someone on Reddit theorize that the reason the Halo show is Like That is because it was supposed to be a Mass Effect show but they couldn’t get the rights so they just licensed some other famous science fiction game series, did some rewrites, and went from there. And I’m intensely disturbed because of how much sense this theory makes, because so much of the show feels like “Halo pretending to be Mass Effect”:

The general focus on internal, smaller-scale human conflicts, intergalactic politics, and relationships with the bigger alien threat building largely in the background.

The Covenant’s motives and reasons for attacking humanity being built up as a mystery like how Mass Effect makes a big deal out of nobody knowing why the Reapers do what they do (in contrast to the Halo games, where the Covenant’s motives are more or less known from the start). Also, how the Covenant aren’t really humanized in comparison to the games, being portrayed more like inscrutable beings using brainwashed human servants like the Reapers.

The frank depictions and discussions of sex and nudity. Halo’s generally always avoided outright sexual content beyond the occasional silly joke (e.g., “he was my lover!”), whereas Mass Effect never shied away from that subject.

The sheer fact that Master Chief fucks at all, and especially that he fucks a woman aligned with the aliens (and is speculated by some to be originally intended AS an alien). Fucking aliens is one of the bread-and-butters of Mass Effect, but can you ever imagine that in a Halo game beyond obvious non-canon gags like Johnson hugging the Elite in CE?

The portrayal of AIs. Cortana is a mix of EDI (AI made by morally dodgy group that slowly aligns with the good guys) and SAM from Andromeda (implanted into Chief’s nervous system rather then just carried in a chip like in the games). More vaguely, the Spartans’s portrayal as basically human robots “rediscovering their humanity” feels eerily similar to the Geth and their whole arc of developing individuality, with Chief filling the role of Legion.

Halsey acts a lot like a female Illusive Man, manipulating people for “the greater good” and lacking a lot of her more sympathetic traits from the games. Similarly, the guy playing Captain Keyes looks and acts A LOT more like Captain Anderson from Mass Effect (seriously, Danny Sapani is the perfect pick Anderson aside from getting Keith David to reprise the role; he’d be an amazing casting choice if this were a Mass Effect show). And just to cap it off, this Makee character is suspiciously similar to Benezia, serving the villains, the sex appeal, and it would explain why so many people get the vibe that she was intended as an alien.

The fact that the whole plot is kicked off when Master Chief goes to colony to find it was attacked by aliens and touches an ancient alien device that gives him a vision… just like Commander Shepard going to Eden Prime and touching the Beacon at the start of Mass Effect.

The way Parangosky is portrayed, arguing with and seeking respect from a Council while also covering for undercover black ops stuff would make a lot more sense as the Citadel Council and the whole subplot in Mass Effect of humanity having to prove themselves as newcomers who have only just got onto the Council (which would also explain Parangosky being made a lot nicer then in canon Halo; she’s a stand-in for the first human councilor in Mass Effect, taking elements from both Anderson and Udina).

This one is kind of a stretch but Kwan and the Madrigal subplot feel ever so similar to Tali and the Quarians (younger girl from a culture on the outskirts of galactic society leaves home and ends up working with her peoples’s perceived enemy and learning they’re not so different — again, lining up with the ”Spartans as Geth” idea). Kwan also seems to take a bit after Ashley, being survivor of the heretic Geth Covenant attack on Eden Prime her hometown and having similar ”angry tough girl” characterization.

Like, no, completely unironically I am one hundred percent sure that this was a Mass Effect script at some point in its production. If so, man, BioWare really dodged a bullet for once, huh?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED!!

On this day, November 15 2001, the game that started it all saved the Xbox from death and changed the medium with its stunning vistas, layered story, and exhilarating gameplay.

HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED ANNIVERSARY (2011)

More Halo for the funsies.

I call this piece “Just Little Guys”. It’s just a bunch of little guys.

I started on this when I was sick, just trying to get back into making art since I was so exhausted all the time, but it slowly evolved into this project lol. I feel like I’m finally done with it though.

I do not feel like tagging any specific characters and I’m sure I’ll run out of tags, so I’m just gonna tag the IPs I’ve included.

It do be like that though.