Eh, I don’t give a crap. It’s a small change, better to get over it.
The US army doesn’t have a monopoly on horses in logos, you know. It’s not like it looks the same.
Actually, they kinda do
What? No they don’t. The horse is used as a military symbol around the world and has been long before the United States (let alone the US Army) even existed.
I meant the Army had the monopoly on it in the United States Military
Looking at the old HL1 beret model it occurred to me that I’ve never noticed this flash at all, assuming that the texture was too low res to make it visible. The HD pack model didn’t even have a flash from memory, so chances of me caring about this difference are nil.
touche
Well they are changing the HECU’s symbol. If you ask me, that’d be like changing the Combine’s claw symbol into a stylized crescent.
There’s a big difference between the combine & the military story-wise. In HL2’s story, the combine were the main enemy & their imagery was ever-present. The military in HL1 could have easily been removed from the plot. Not to mention that their ‘symbol’ was virtually non-existent except for an easily overlooked hat. Hell, if it were that important, than why would valve let it be removed entirely from the HD models?
EDIT: just noticed that I basically just rehashed baconeggs’s post.
You just said you could remove the military and it wouldn’t change anything? Next to Xen the Military was your biggest enemy. Besides, what I’m saying is, we’re re-branding an entire faction, and I don’t think we should. We’re not talking about a complete re-texture, It’ll take like 5 minutes to change the symbol to the one Valve made.
combine has a simbol?
The combine logo and the soldier logo are hardly comparable. The combine one is prevalent throughout the game, while the soldier one is only on one variant of one type of NPC’s hat, is of very low texture quality (making it hard to make out) and it’s not even in the game at all if you have the HD pack.
Okay I get it, it was a bad comparison.
My point about re-branding an entire faction (regardless of how prevalent the logo was) still stands.
Exactly. If you removed the military from half-life’s story it would still make perfect sense. All they did was show up for the clean-up go “oh-shit” aliens, then run away. The only thing of relevance that came out of it was the nuke, and with all of the explosives, weapons & crap in Black Mesa, the nuke almost seemed redundant.
It seems all Earth military is pretty unimportant to the overall story, other than miraculously losing to the Combine in seven hours. And even that wasn’t very important, since with or without the military the outcome would’ve been the same.
To me human military to the combine is like a bunch of tribesman to the US Army.
Without the Military Gordon probably wouldn’t have survived as long.
I mean, without the Military, their would have been a sever lack of weaponry. And I could argue that it is due to the Military that Black Mesa wasn’t completely overrun, and Gordon was able to use a teleporter to get to Xen.
No Military = No Resistance. No Resistance = Xenian Invaders can focus more effort of breaking into secure areas like the Lambda Complex.
Plus, multiple factions killing each other is pretty entertaining to watch. And it’d get pretty redundant to have to fight the same Aliens over and over again, the HECU just mix things up a bit, and I think their presence is key to the progression of the plot. Of course the government would respond and send a clean-up squad to obliterate everything from a 15 foot tall behemoth to a lab gerbil.
There was also the perfectly canon-sensitive plot point in Opposing Force’s prologue, that a special unit of marines and special forces were being prepped for an unknown mission at some place called “Black Mesa” weeks before the RC
Just a testament to the governments disregard for human life in the face of developing crazy earth-shattering war technology…and keeping a lid on it
I think the point was more that taking away the identity of the military wouldn’t change the story. If you throw in some other random faction that has the same role in the game, it would still be the same story-wise.