Growing up in the 2000s fucked my brain hard. The sexism, homophobia and racism coupled with the free-range parenting that was simultaneously neglectful while gaslighting everyone into thinking that it was too coddling, and an internet that simply did not give a fuck who it traumatized. All topped off with a resurgence of Western jingoism from the “war in terror”.
The only good thing about that period was some of the videogames were okay I guess but only if you avoid ANYTHING remotely military flavoured. A lot of shit outside of Nintendo was afraid of colour and everything was that washed out brown. Just a miserable time. Everyone was so uncreative and the world had some fucked up Southpark brainworms.
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