this is backstory entirely invented for the show too, none of this mystical chosen one visions of Halo shit exists in the entirety of 20+ years of Halo canon

the Chief depicted in all other Halo media would testify in the court martial against TV show Chief after he sexually assaulted a prisoner of war who cannot give objective consent

Though it stumbled at times, I appreciated its attempts to flesh out characters like franchise lead Master Chief John-117, expand upon well-established Halo lore,

Ah, my bad. Thanks for the correction. That’s a real bummer. I have the gamepass version downloaded waiting for my work day to end but my group will be on the steam version.

Sucks ass when Game Pass versions of a title are watered down and lack feature parity or cross play with other PC store fronts.

That would be the console version, which doesn’t feature dedicated server support and only allows 4 people to play in a world together. The PC version supports dedicated servers with a capacity of up to 32 players per server.

It’s so much stupider in context than just “Covenant-sympathizing human” but there are Covenant-sympathizing humans in the actual Halo canon. Notably, there is an entire novel prominently featuring an Insurrectionist plot to trade the location of Earth to the Covenant in exchange for protection. The Covenant, of…

the Halo franchise is 20+ years old at this point. There is a wealth of material building on the Master Chief as a character outside the context of the games, and his humanity or lack thereof is a key component in his story. Wolfkill and the chuds running the show just have no desire to appeal to fans of the franchise…

she compared being dunked on for being conservative to being a holocaust victim and was an anti-masker when COVID-19 was killing tons of people every day.

the subset of people clamoring for a Gina Carrano revival aren’t doing it because of her acting or their love of the franchise, I promise you that

the original announcement trailer dropped right around when the Craftopia disappointment was hitting iirc, and looked largely like a bunch of generic assets slapped into Craftopia to grab a quick buck

everything I’ve seen of Palworld preview builds looks pretty fun though

there are plenty of actual Pokemon clones that stray far closer to the Pokemon IP in name and appearance than Palworld - they’ve been fine

What? This story is about them releasing fixes for the game, not content. They’re doing the opposite of what you are asserting.

FO76 has perhaps ironically evolved into a game very focused on the sort of gameplay experiences Starfield is mostly devoid of in terms of exploration content.

There is ample material to do an 8-10 hour season covering events from prior to the Fall of Reach to the events of Halo 1 in a continuous narrative. There is even more material if you shoot some 20 minute flashbacks to things like the selection of the Spartan candidates, their training, Halsey litigating the ethics of…

I don’t think Halo works as an example of why games and/or novelizations struggle to be adapted. The Halo show made no effort (the opposite of an effort?) to adapt the novel source material. They threw out basically everything but the proper nouns. I cannot stress enough how immense that show’s rampant disregard or…

I feel that. I love the game’s cooperative implementation. I already find it immensely satisfying every time I’m trying to chart a new delivery route and it turns out the equipment I brought with me is exactly the sort of thing I need to traverse an obstacle. But it’s even cooler when you see those likes pop up,…

“a roughly 50-hour game”

maybe if you’re speedrunning it

I expect it to be consistently uncompromising, frequently incomprehensible, and also incredibly pretty with a jawdropping soundtrack. I’m okay with that!

Hollywood didn’t get the most powerful, cataclysmic weapons in existence dropped on it - American cultural consciousness lacks the collective trauma of being subject to devastation through near incomprehensible elementary forces, so I think American disaster/apocalypse scenarios reflect that.

He’s somewhere between self-aware camp and earnest, whole hearted auteur madness, but I think it works for his projects. Death Stranding is the pinnacle of this. It’s not the best story and it’s not the best game, but holy fuck is it unique. It’s unlike anything else and it doesn’t *try* to be anything else.

In a world…