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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

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.

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

Halo never really reckoning with the fact SPARTANs are child soldier super weapons meant to curb stop rebellious colonists and weren't even *that* great at fighting the Covy was always annoying like they're so close.

This is actually the main thread of the TV Show that seemingly nobody but me liked lol.

my problem with the tv show is making it so all the main characters that you like start tutting and going this is not who we are about the unsc's fascism is also a cowardly direction to take the story

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)

thats why i like halo 2 the most its the one that gets the closest. opening by intercutting chief's military propaganda parade with the arbiter's public torture; the covenant and humans both have turned war into a religion. the one time halo felt like movie starship troopers not book lol

I always saw that as an aspirational thing not a condemnation of both! Our lovely civilised ceremonies vs their barbaric branding one etc especially in the 9/11 context. I guess i can see that other read too but i think i also might just be incapable of reading any halo thing as not 100% sincere lol