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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
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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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
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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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
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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