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rotating an idea that halo is the defining media franchise of the 21st century. i look at how its been mismanaged for 20 years, no one working on it has a job, its games don't even sell anymore but. they cant let it die. the IP must continue. everything becomes halo on a long enough timeline

halo is a grand epic vision of post 9/11 us militarism that was the biggest thing in the world for a hot minute. true american soft power asserting itself as the 360 stole games console dominance away from japan. all pissed away to nothing because microsoft cannot see its value it can only Extract

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And just like the military, after years of unwavering support and love, people now realize how shitty it's always been (the enemies are just an Islam stand in, and it's definitely pro war)

remember when they put master chief's digital clone of his abusive, adopted mother that helps him kill with greater efficiency and he is impossibly in love with inside everyone's windows start bar

A name that goes all the way back to some ARG "computer goes crazy and kills everyone" shit from Marathon

there was an era thread the other day re: activision halo that became an argument about if Halo was already US propaganda or not and the reasoning for the push back included "it's about a religious war" and "the games spend more time in africa than the US"

Microsoft got freaked out when everyone fell in love with the more naked military propaganda that just so happened to have one of the best first person shooter campaigns (heck, maybe the best set of sequential activities one after the other) and chewy MP ever devised

Its the same with any franchise, they lock onto the simplification of the series without trying to explore it. Like they think halo is master chief and the covenant, se even when their stories are over they have to come back, somehow. Its so limiting

"I thought we had a truce with the Covenant" you had a truce with a large group of Elites and there's likely thousands of Covenant warlord groups at his point Chief you're gonna have to be more specific