#halofarm

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halofarm replied to your photoset: Feather & Bucky (that’s what she named the Elk)

Is the Elk a WINTER SOLDIER?

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halofarm replied to This dude kinda looks like Kaidan Alenko.

Vani, you’re sick. You’ve been diagnosed with an illness known as “ME brain”.

I-is it bad, doc?

wanakoplays said:

seek help 

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Inkhaven and Empt’s Shack

today I don’t care about your lore and therefore, ft. Ioke as Faith.  today I also wish tumblr’s dash font made a better distinction between l and I. Yes those are two different characters.

Two very nice mods from @halosmods :)

I prefer Inkhaven just on grounds of “this is my house mod aesthetic” but both have some pretty nice spots to break out your pose mods and are quite good. At least for me the interior lighting is spot on, also.

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halofarm replied to My absolutely least favourite argument...

But Vani, don’t you know, it doesn’t have Shepard in it, so all those things we overlooked for 1-3 are no longer overlookable!

Oh, right, I forgot it’s not Mass Effect if it doesn’t have the Space Jesus. So in that case it’s okay to repeat the same three memes over and over and call it a legit argument. My bad.

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halofarm replied to You know, after playing what the first F.E.A.R. has to offer... 

FEAR 2 isn’t as good as FEAR. Not as spooky, in the environmental sense or the jump scare sense. It’s alright.

I’ve had the opposite experience so far and found F.E.A.R. 2 to be the superior game. (Well, I’m still somewhere in the middle - currently in the school.)

F.E.A.R. was only scary to me when I was very young. I never finished it until like 2016, because I always got to the parts that were just shooting through loads of mooks without much horror to go with it, so I always put it off and then forgot about it. When I finally finished it, I didn’t find it spooky any more. Which is a shame since I played it for its horror elements mostly. The game had a promising start but then kind of wasted its potential with being quite monotone with constant flood of Replica soldiers. They’re boring! And I’m kinda sick of them at this point. The DLCs seemed to focus on horror more, but they were worse in other ways.

F.E.A.R. 2 isn’t brilliant or anything, but I find it much more engaging because it doesn’t let me fall asleep like the previous game did. There’s always something pushing me forward and keeping me on my toes. All its story isn’t just focused into conveniently scattered phone calls and laptops, either. The breaks between the creepy moments aren’t that long any more and there seems to be a more immediate sense of danger to them, too. Unlike in the first game, here I can’t tell which part the game might use to attempt to actually kill me. The paranormal enemies are creepier than before, while the flying tar men and such in the previous game were kind of just... weird.

However, that’s just me. I’m yet to finish the second game and its DLC, so who knows how my experience might change. I don’t really love either of the games, honestly. F.E.A.R. 2 has plenty of its own bullshit. In the end, both seem all right, and of course different things work for different people. That’s always interesting to read. (Well, unless it gets nasty, you know how it is.)

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halofarm replied to Look at her face.

I ended up romancing him… again, on my last replay. I CAN’T STAY AWAY.

lol, I feel this. They give us all the varied options, and I do enjoy playing most of them, but in the end I always come back for more fluff. (punches the wall) JUST LET MY GUYS DEVELOP A HEALTHY, HAPPY, LOVING AND MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIP, GODDAMNIT, make me go

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halofarm replied to Kal survived dancing with the creepy lady, both physically and verbally.

I WAS ONE POINT OFF. ONE POINT OFF IN MY LAST PLAYTHROUGH. 99%. FFFFFFF

My sympathies. Don’t know if that’ll make you feel better but my Lavellan couldn’t do it, either. She wasn’t really meant to make it...

(... sets everyone on fire.)

Better luck next time?

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halofarm replied to It’s freaking hilarious (and so cringy) how no matter how badly the graphics in games generally looked in the past, they still had to have “sexy” stuff. 

Well, the proportions are pretty much in line with the cartoonish “sexy” characters like Jessica Rabbit, which I’m pretty sure is what they were going for with her originally, before realism started being important. The square head was honestly what bugged ME the most.

I’m not so sure. I’ve read quite a bit about TR’s development and from what I gathered, the dev was aiming for a fit, attractive woman. The boobs are more of a mystery. Various articles I’ve read mostly explained that either they accidentally set the wrong value on the boobs, found it funny, and ran with it, or Lara’s designer did it, either because he found it funny or because boobs, and they ran with it anyway. It sounded like it wasn’t the original intent, though. Hard to say what was their main inspiration if so. (Barbie dolls came weirdly shaped like that, too. At least when I was a kid.) Of course, realism was out of question for a video game back then.

Curiously enough, Lara’s designer got super upset when they started with the “sexy” shenanigans (as pictured in my previous post) - so upset actually that he left the studio soon after finishing the first game.

Either way, whether true or not, I don’t think that makes the look of it any better. It still looks ugly overall. Which was my original point - that not even horribad state of CGI stopped people from trying to make lady characters “sexy”. The eldritch proportions mostly make it worse, as far as I’m concerned, because then it’s ugly and deformed. As if the uncanny-valley, alien-like face wasn’t enough. It just hasn’t aged so well. Of course, different people, different pet peeves.

So fan, but not a fan. :D Still, the design is iconic, and I don’t think about it over much unless for fun like now. When I played it as a kid, I didn’t think about it at all - I was happy enough I had a game with Lara Croft, one of the few characters I could look up to back then. It’ll always be one of my soft spots.

rishiko said:

my eyes……………. why would you do this to me…. the low res hair and face… oh god… 

My job here is done. :P