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You're not wrong but I will go to bat for Halo actually being cool and good
That franchise was pure War on Terror brainworms
Yeah, they gave the aliens a weird and wrong religion
Put emphasis on how they were willing to die to kill us
The only good alien is the one who figures out his worldview was a sham
If it wasn't intentional, it was still gross
The single player campaign is some of the lowest pulp military sci fi out there. But the couch multiplayer was top-notch, and brought me together with a lot of other friends in-person. I think Halo 2's online multiplayer was the beginning of the end, though - a lot of those guys I haven't seen in person since literally 2004.
akshually the earthgov canonically used the spartans to put down peasant revolts, so you're playing as the bad guy against another bad guy.
Ok, but so is cs (even more explicitly at that) and there's still a weird soft spot some people here express for it
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