Any moral issue someone has with the killing of NPCs in TLOU2 should also have applied to Halo 2, and before people go "oh but the TLOU2 critics weren't around for the original release of Halo 2" yes they were most of them are my age or older
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By which I mean, they're both games about a relatively cosmopolitan but militarist-verging-on-fascist faction fighting some religious zealots when both of them really should be focused on the zombies, and you get surprise protagonist switched to the hero's worst enemy
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
Okay maybe you don't remember this because you were too young but people actually legitimately HATED being forced to play as the Arbiter They got REALLY MAD
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This why in Halo 3, theoretically the canon storyline is Master Chief and Arbiter fighting side by side, but the Arbiter only exists in-game in co-op mode if someone is being Player 2
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Yeah the Arbiter is also just pointedly a: a basically good person, and b: almost NEVER opposed by humans at any playable section. He is always fundamentally a heroic figure.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect
He was in command of all the forces you fought in 1 and also a lore thing I came across in the remaster said his forces killed one billion humans
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect
I'm talking about him as depicted, where he's constantly depicted as an atoner genuinely horrified by what he did once he realizes what it means.
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Yeah well That was a kind of predictable beat they kept coming back to, with the very nature of the Halos Like for half of Halo 1 Master Chief is earnestly following Guilty Spark's instructions to get the Halo restarted and is guilty of the exact same crime the Covenant is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Yeeeup, though at least he doesn't *actually* (I think?) commit genocide I mean high kill counts are also just an absurd result of the superpowered weaponry.
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Well yeah Cortana tells him at like the very last minute before he was about to turn it on and he freaks the hell out
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As with all extremely long-running franchises groaning under the weight of their lore I really do miss when Halo was fresh and new and everything in the setting was a surprise The chapter title fades in right after Cortana gives her speech and tells you what you were about to do
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"The Gun Pointed at the Head of the Universe" Chills, man
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