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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

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 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

yeah i think there’s space for both and the other way definitely won in the long view of the series lmao but halo 2 contains the seeds of something actually good and thoughtful that the rest of the series, even the other bungie games, are too scared to really approach

it’s also like. a tension running through the depiction of the covenant in general. are they the catholic church doing the crusades or are they islamic jihadists doing super terrorism. bungie kind of want to have it both ways even though one of those lenses is interesting and one is insane racism