this seems like clinging at nothing, given how little regard *every other element of the show* has displayed for canon Halo narrative or any of its pivotal or iconic moments

I’m going to compile my group chat psychic-damage induced shrieking into a paper and publish after I finish rewatching the Blomkamp Halo commercials and dreaming of what could have been

It’s a single-player only game with a goofy name that would get you bullied at the Dungeons and Dragons table, and the target specs on PC limit the install base to something like 10% of steam users.

You wouldn’t know it’s not a bajillion dollar AAA titles in the moment to moment gameplay. The attention to fine detail, from weapons ejection unique shell casings with their own physics and collision to the bugs and bots limping and moving differently when you destroy various limbs is bonkers.

The mortar sentry and minefields are definitely high on my hate list. I die frequently when it decides a whole barrage is necessary to remove a single bug drone following me around.

Yeah, I was surprised to see that different weapons actually eject different casings when firing in first person. The first time I got yeeted off a plateau by launcher back-blast I just started cackling. I particularly like the way they handle movement and accuracy - the ways firing while moving, stationary, crouching…

I know this isn’t a solution for everyone, but I’ve found playing with randoms through matchmaking to be a generally positive experience. I imagine the community will inevitably get salty on high difficulty runs as people develop knowledge of the game, but right now it feels like you can drop in with random helldivers…

Technical issues aside, I cannot adequately express how good this game is. The interplay between all the different systems and abilities and cooperative mechanics makes it an absolute blast from the moment you drop into a fight to the moment you extract.

This is an absolute slam dunk if you are a fan of Deep Rock…

Hwachas and barrel bombs and greek fire and cursed treasure and ghosts are all things I can accept as part of the pirate fantasy. But from the footage they’ve shown off, that’s not really where they drew the line. Some of these things add to that fantasy, and make sense from a gameplay perspective. Players will get…

gonna be real: I should be the prime audience for this game. I love pirate shit. I loved Black Flag. I was polled by a Ubisoft rep at E3 once about my interest in a multiplayer pirate game before this was ever even announced. I was hyped to see the first trailer drop, and disappointed by the perpetual dev hell drama.

Bu…

He’s depicted this way solely in the confines of Bungie’s games - he is wrong and does make mistakes in subsequent titles, and in both Bungie and 343-era expanded universe fiction (the novels). I don’t know why we keep pretending there’s not 2 decades worth of fiction building on this character already.

it wasn’t interesting to unlock them at all - it’s a big shit on the source material. It completely erases the gravity of the moment when the Pillar of Autumn exits slipspace around Threshold and Alpha Halo. It completely eliminates any possibility of translating the “what does this weapon do” narrative that is core…

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.