343 Industries RUINED the sound of man cannons

Which Halo game do you think has the best sounding man cannons and gravity lifts?

343 absolutely ruined the magic of them.

The ones in Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo: Reach all sounded so alien and otherworldly. They had really distinctive sounds and were so memorable. I've never heard anything even remotely similar in any other game or movie. Bungie's entire body of art was exceptional and unique, everything in the Halo universe felt coherent and consistent.

In Halo 5 and especially Halo Infinite, they sound like a typical blast you'd hear in a sci-fi movie. 343 just tries to make everything look and sound unnecessarily "beefy" to sell the impression of "power." They sound too mechanical, human, machine-like, bland, and lack the alien texture that gave the originals their memorable characteristics. If anyone was to ever ask you about man cannons in Halo, you'd probably visualize the ones from the original games.

Change for the sake of change, I guess.

[perfectxzero]

You also can't hear people taking the lifts in 343 Halos which is one of the trade offs of being able to travel so far/fast around the map. Which is kind of ironic since 343 is all about competitive

[OccupiedMuffins]

The weird punch they add to like 80% of their sounds is so annoying

[aainx]

I don't mind the new sound, but it does make it sound more like a "human-developed" mechanism, while the Bungie sound made it sound more "mysterious" and gives off an "alien-technology" feeling.

[BlairSantos]

Wow, that does make a difference... :(

[LBBubba]

H3’s man cannons are engrained in my head. They truly did have that “magic” to them, both in look and sound.

It’s beyond fair to say man cannons lost their identity now. I still can’t believe they turned them into angled treadmills, there’s just so much wrong with that… 🤦‍♂️

[NickTemperistic]

I really don't know why they thought the need to add an extra kick/punch to the audio in Infinite for most things. Definitely wasn't necessary.

[Terrashell]

Doesn't make me nearly as upset as the travesty that is the wraith noises. I don't know what 343 was thinking with these sound effects

[KenyaSG]

343 lost the sci fi theme and went to the roots of call of duty as they admitted and kept it. We were mesmerized and entracned by bungie, dont change things if it doesnt need to be changed. 343 was confident, we exiled them in trial.

[lofiseeker]

It used to be a treat to touch those things and go as you get sent thru the air with the sound. Now its just a whoosh and no floatiness

[livingfives]

Breaks my heart what became of this franchise

[Alexander-ncvy]

It almost sounds like they smashed some things together without thought and called it a man cannon sound.

[RETSZTIRF]

It's graceless just like the spartans intro to every match. I wish I could just go straight into the game because of how shitty the sound design is.

[evanreakes]

Many little inadequacies equal a bad game.

[BasedCowboyGun]

The OG Halo 2 sound was pure perfection. Then again, all of the sounds Bungie used were perfect.

[clutchhaze]

343: Player collision? What's that?

[daaaaamn]

Halo fans when 343i doesn't reuse audio from 20 years ago

[masturchf]

Bungie's Halos always had unique sound design (Vehicles, guns, etc.) setting it apart from other games and making it recognizable to anyone. 343's sound effects don't have that same uniqueness of the Bungie Halos.

[geraldhuff]

Doesn’t really surprise me. Especially with a company that has been so disrespectful to the legacy it inherited.

[HAL-mgwy]

Hard to find something 343 didn't ruin in general.

[blarspars]

Dont fix what isn't broken is all 343 has done the last 14 years, one of the things i loved about halo was the atmosphere and sense of mystery in these vast unknown maps with the only noise being eerie sounds whispering in the wind or ancient alien like noises of equipment and structures and the combat of you and your enemies. Even human bases felt mysterious and otherworldly
Now it's just filled with dull movement based maps with bland modern designs and even the structures such as the grav lifts sound human made and gone are the days of listening to the atmosphere and instead filled with annoying ass ais that repeat the same lines and soldiers yelling back and forth to fill the air
Feels like call of duty and not halo