Another potential excuse for reskinning weapons for futuristic times: lore reasons. Maybe it can be a testament to how robust/unbeatable/irreplaceable some weapon designs are. The M1911 lasted 2 whole wars, the M4 carbine has been in service for, like, 30 years, and the AK? Well, it's an AK. You can take away its external components like the dust cover and it still shoots. Also, the tube-fed pump action shotgun design. So good, there's still such shotguns in Halo's time period.
I think the video was more about how those generic "space AK" weapons can be in games along with more experimental weapons just like halo with the human weapons being familiar while the covenant weapons are more experimental and interesting
Another potential excuse for reskinning weapons for futuristic times: lore reasons. Maybe it can be a testament to how robust/unbeatable/irreplaceable some weapon designs are. The M1911 lasted 2 whole wars, the M4 carbine has been in service for, like, 30 years, and the AK? Well, it's an AK. You can take away its external components like the dust cover and it still shoots. Also, the tube-fed pump action shotgun design. So good, there's still such shotguns in Halo's time period.
I think the video was more about how those generic "space AK" weapons can be in games along with more experimental weapons just like halo with the human weapons being familiar while the covenant weapons are more experimental and interesting
i was about to say "what about halo?"