Obviously Call of Duty given how much it’s funded by the US military. Alternatively Halo since the UNSC is literally a fascist state squashing communists in the expanded lore (and briefly mentioned in Reach) but the games present them as our heroic troops and le badass Master Chief.
Yurp. The Spartans were designed as death squads to crush home rule movements in the colonies. All that shit about goebbels Halsey forseeing the Covenant is ret-con bs.
They actively say that in Halo 4 as well. Halsey tries to justify the Spartans because of the Covenant and they just say “the Spartans were around for 25 years before we knew about the Covenant, stop lying”
Genuinely really bitter about Halo 4’s reception. It explicitly talked about Halsey as a war criminal and was focused largely on humanizing Master Chief somewhat, and the fans hated it for that. There are mods to take out most of his dialog so he can continue being a stoic tacticool machine (and also to take out the one time a woman makes a slightly dismissive comment about him). This also led them to overcorrect and make Halo 5, and we don’t need to talk about that
I like Halo, too. The colorful, fun design of the first game, the mixture of open combat, the horror elements, the cool world design. Halo:CE is one of my favorite games. It’s just, yeah, the fans. “Space fascism is so cool!”
Even beyond the way they paint space fascism as So Cool, there’s this stagnancy to the Halo fandom. They demand every subsequent game just be Halo 3 again, explicitly, in those terms. Which would be dumb even if 3 was good but IMO 3 is the second-worst game in the series (haven’t played Infinite tho)
Obviously Call of Duty given how much it’s funded by the US military. Alternatively Halo since the UNSC is literally a fascist state squashing communists in the expanded lore (and briefly mentioned in Reach) but the games present them as our heroic troops and le badass Master Chief.
Yurp. The Spartans were designed as death squads to crush home rule movements in the colonies. All that shit about
goebbelsHalsey forseeing the Covenant is ret-con bs.They actively say that in Halo 4 as well. Halsey tries to justify the Spartans because of the Covenant and they just say “the Spartans were around for 25 years before we knew about the Covenant, stop lying”
Nice. I didn’t know that.
Genuinely really bitter about Halo 4’s reception. It explicitly talked about Halsey as a war criminal and was focused largely on humanizing Master Chief somewhat, and the fans hated it for that. There are mods to take out most of his dialog so he can continue being a stoic tacticool machine (and also to take out the one time a woman makes a slightly dismissive comment about him). This also led them to overcorrect and make Halo 5, and we don’t need to talk about that
I genuinely like Halo a lot, but Halo fans suck
I like Halo, too. The colorful, fun design of the first game, the mixture of open combat, the horror elements, the cool world design. Halo:CE is one of my favorite games. It’s just, yeah, the fans. “Space fascism is so cool!”
Even beyond the way they paint space fascism as So Cool, there’s this stagnancy to the Halo fandom. They demand every subsequent game just be Halo 3 again, explicitly, in those terms. Which would be dumb even if 3 was good but IMO 3 is the second-worst game in the series (haven’t played Infinite tho)