@TheIgnominiousX @TheUnaButters > the protagonist rugpull didn't neuter the game's popularity.
What? I’m directly talking about the argument that outside of the abrupt ending, no one back in the day had any criticisms for Halo 2’s story
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Denit
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@Denit41 @TheUnaButters The difference is that, like Sons of Liberty, the protagonist rugpull didn't neuter the game's popularity. Halo 2 was a phenomenon despite its flaws whereas Halo 4 sank like a rock weeks after launch & is still seen by most as a franchise killer today.
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>They hated Halo 2 back then too.
Nah, you ain't gonna try that Empire Strikes Back revisionism here.
The most hate Halo 2 got was people were let down about the ending. Other than that the game was dubbed a masterpiece.
Call of Duty Zombies Fan Omega Shenron@RealOmegaShenny
I think the reason that Halo fans hated on Halo 4's story is because they couldn't handle anything with more depth than a shallow pond. "WhAt aBouT HaLO Two!?" They hated that back then too lol (and that's why every character from Halo 2 lost 85% of their braincells in Halo 3)
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Ninja Theory stopped making games like Heavenly Sword and Enslaved immediately after Heavenly Sword and Enslaved came out, they essentially peaked 16 years ago.
They had a talent issue long before they had any kind of management issue.
Yorch Torch Games@YorchTorchGames
The Xbox brand is the most incompetently managed in gaming history. Ninja Theory, the studio that gave us classics like Heavenly Sword and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, is now facing closure. What a waste of talent and resources.
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@TheUnaButters It was the same response as sons of liberty where the advertising didn’t match the game with a new secondary protagonist
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@TheUnaButters > The most hate Halo 2 got was people were let down about the ending
I like Halo 2 as a game, but that’s nonsense. There were plenty of People genuinely disappointed that half of the campaign was Arbiter’s and that there were only two Earth levels.
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@RazorFist Let me know when they add on the expansion with all the seven sacraments
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The lack of aliens in the series showcases that Tony Gilroy think's he's above the material and that aliens would get in the way of his serious political show. When we do see aliens they are for the most part the same generic looking awful one's that most of Disney's Star Wars movies and series have. When you have a universe full of so many iconic and well known species of creatures it's a damn shame to shrink it down like this just because you'd clearly just be making some generic sci-fi show instead.
The Mighty Dud Bolt@mightydudbolt
Here, Tony Gilroy is asked yet again whether he actually likes Star Wars. To what I'm sure is all of our shock and surprise, he stumbles through an entire minute-long answer without once indicating that he likes any Star Wars other than Andor, the show he made. Gilroy: "I didn't have the energy to invest... It couldn't ever get outside of my five-year block [of Andor]. So those five years is like, I know everything. I'm a fan of those five years. It's what's after and what's before [i.e. every single one of George Lucas's Star Wars films] that either confuses me or it's not worth my while to get involved in it..."
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Denit retweeted
This is ironic because it’s precisely how atheists explain away the fine-tuning of the universe.
Atheistboi@athiestboi
This explains it perfectly
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Denit retweeted
Well, for one thing, they had children singing literal worship songs about Obama.
🍁🍁Screenplaya🍁🍁@Screenplaya
@Soulstalker98 @ReviewsPossum In what way do they do that? What are they doing to make you say something like that?
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@CactusFuturist And that has absolutely no relevance to the actual stories being told because they don’t exist concurrently in the same universe
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Halo 4 is functionally a hard retcon of the entire franchise. It's not the same universe anymore. And no amount of forced sad scenes where a violin plays in the background while Cortana goes through AI-schizophrenia (never how rampany was meant to work) will help it in isolation.
Call of Duty Zombies Fan Omega Shenron@RealOmegaShenny
I think the reason that Halo fans hated on Halo 4's story is because they couldn't handle anything with more depth than a shallow pond. "WhAt aBouT HaLO Two!?" They hated that back then too lol (and that's why every character from Halo 2 lost 85% of their braincells in Halo 3)
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@CactusFuturist No, they aren’t. That’s the point. AI in marathon go rampant with too much information the AI in Halo short out after a certain amount of time. They are objectively different.
Do you wanna talk about nonsense? Let’s talk about halo 3 and Cortana/Gravemind rampancy/visions.
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@CactusFuturist > Cortana visions affirm more Marathon’s depictions of rampancy
Why would affirming marathons depiction of rampancy matter if the canon of Halo and Marathon are different?
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@CactusFuturist > Actually, Bungie’s depiction of rampancy in Halo was THEMATICALLY consistent with Marathon’s
But it isn’t LITERALLY, which is the far more important part. It is objectively different
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@CactusFuturist Marathon isn’t Canon to Halo. Not to mention that rampancy is objectively different with AI from marathon going crazy after experience and AI in Halo going crazy after a certain amount of time
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Denit retweeted
I was the product marketing manager for @GearsofWar 2. We did zero focus testing on the ads. The team was locked in together. Total trust in each other and in what we were making. Taste and confidence.
SlonkYap 🇵🇷@Slonk01
Genuinely, what were they feeding Xbox 360 marketing
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More marketing we will never get again.
Starry Night (2006)
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Burger King also says "have it your way." But nobody pretends that Burger King is a high quality meal. The best meals are often from Chefs who make what they want to make because they probably know something you don't. Modern gaming is junk food.
James Vargas ➡️ Halofest@CryptumZetaXV
We live in this weird age of Halo where you can customize your gameplay in anyway you want but people still complain. Don’t want sprint? Turn it off Want a 60 round AR? Do it! Want third person? Go ahead! Don’t like the HUD? Change it! Don’t want a remake? Go play MCC!!! #Halo
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