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i'm glad the boycott is stopping me from doing something stupid like actually buying the halo remake and being sad about it. what a dark fate for a once classic series

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It's crazy how long they've been running this series like it's some shoestring budget fan project. The amount of people saying it looks incredible while I'm seeing the image reconstruction make Chief's hands fully phase through his weapon is driving me especially insane

Was watching a friend play through it (it's on gamepass and they had a one year subscription) and it just feels so modernized in the worst possible way. Loot beams on weapons, hitmarkers, extra dialogue that just explains mechanics… The cutscenes look like something out of a neocranium video!

i've seen a few clips of cortana's classic lines and the voice direction on them is so crazy she's like your chipper ai girlfriend. not who cortana is but ok.

i'm so familiar with the dialogue in the original halo that watching footage of campaign evolved and hearing new recordings of the same lines has an effect that i can only describe as "audio uncanny valley"

being someone who got really invested in the lore of halo 2 specifically in the mid 2000s is a fate i wouldnt wish on anyone. longest suffering heroes on the planet

the bonus mission literally opens with chief doing his 'boo' to scare a grunt in the covenant hangar then immediately it starts playing impend and gives you a battle rifle its like losing chess to a dog

even halo 3, which is mostly a classic, i'm like. you got scared. you blinked. you lost something. this is too 9/11 never forget. arbiter and chief are meant to be twin solid snakes on opposite sides. did you forget the unsc are evil. get marty out of the writers room

idk I guess it gets worse but i'm not sure they ever thought the unsc were bad in the actual games, the first game is about the virtues of stoic heinlein militarism vs organised religion (also how you can be an emotionally closed off teenage boy and the cute girl will definitely still like you)

i was really hoping they'd make the cave entrance look natural in their UE5 paintover and add an extra layer of confusion to it instead they just deleted the weird ramp bit from inside and made the walls in the big room more visible to kill the atmosphere

it ended up on piracy sites the day it dropped, so i downloaded it for hater research. i spent literally an hour on the first level because stuff kept annoying me and i needed to complain to my friends.

Imagine being one of the most landmark important games in the 2000’s and be relegated to remake fodder like the rest of the classics getting modern remakes that bastardize the original intents of the game. Cruel times we are living here.

Say what you will about Final Fantasy 7 remake at least it's trying to be a different experience from the original and they make it really clear that they want people to still play the OG. I wish more remakes were weird and completely different more often as long as the original is super accessible

I’m not talking about FF7 Remake specifically. I’m talking about remakes like this one, Silent Hill 2, Crash N.Sane and many others being shitty inferior versions of their respective originals and how they’re the only accessible versions to play said games, which is fucking infuriating.