I think Halo 2 was also a big (and divisive) surprise, much like MGS2 a few years earlier. People were not happy with not playing as MC for a huge chunk of that game as I recall (I didn’t play it myself but I remember hearing boys whine about it lol)
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Replying to @della_morte_ @StuartMWilke and
I think the Arbiter was voiced by Keith David though so he’s automatically more interesting than generic green armor man lolpic.twitter.com/OFm9zlJ1S3
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Replying to @della_morte_ @BootlegGirl and
correct and when I cooped this with my brother i played as the arbiter because first of all that name is way fuckin cooler than "Master Chief Petty Officer"
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Replying to @Cybren @della_morte_ and
Funny enough, in the recent comics there's straight up a part where they offer Chief a promotion straight to Admiral for all he's done, and he says "nah, 'The Admiral' doesn't have the same ring to it". And Ron Perlman's like "did...did you just make a joke"
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Replying to @StuartMWilke @della_morte_ and
Wait how can he be an admiral isnt master chief an enlisted rank
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Replying to @Cybren @StuartMWilke and
You can jump into officer with a good record. My dad left the Marines after failing to pull this off when I was a toddler.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @StuartMWilke and
Yeah but presumably not straight to ADMIRAL lol
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Replying to @Cybren @StuartMWilke and
Yeah but most people didn't save the Earth like 5 times
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @StuartMWilke and
That’s not a good reason to assume he’d make a good Admiral! They tried this with Kirk and it backfired! He wound up in the third worst next gen movie!
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Replying to @Cybren @BootlegGirl and
I don't think he'd actually do the job, I think they're thinking of it as being like an honorary doctorate
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A brevet promotion, that's the term I was thinking of Quick research says that being breveted purely as an honor for meritorious conduct used to be very common in the US military - most often as a posthumous promotion for someone KIA - but was largely discontinued after Vietnam
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
The most famous example being George Washington himself, who never actually rose above Lt. General while alive but was posthumously made a six star general in 1978 by an act of Congress, specifically so no US military officer will ever outrank him
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cybren and
Now I'm just thinking about how in SNL's Laser Cats sketches Andy Samberg is "Admiral Spaceship" and Bill Hader is "Captain Nitro" and they are, despite this, somehow equal partners
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