Dude, who even knows.
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Sometimes I chuckle about how directly, explicitly, not pathbreakingly at all Destiny is “what if the Halo guys made a Diablo”
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Destiny 2 free on PlayStation this month, so dicking around
It’s Halo campaign mode as Diablo, dunno who was asking for that
(Borderlands, in contrast, was World of Warcraft as Smash TV, that’s totally reasonable)
I know Bungie likes to reuse thematic and visual elements – several Halo weapon models have been getting steadily more hi-res each release since 1994’s Marathon, and there’ll inevitably be a trilogy where your AI companion Joyeux goes rampant in the end – but jeez it gets a little tiresome
One of the races that had a distinct design was the Hive, the one that thematically took the place of Halo’s Flood, but even then they managed to simultaneously invoke several vidya alien enemies - Doom’s imps, Metroid’s Chozo, even Area 51’s aliens and… oh, get close and they’ve got Pfhor tri-eyes from Marathon
First read Wikipedia on Pont du Gard, the “Literary Visitors” part especially
Played Halo 4 recently. Hear it was 343 taking over from Bungie. They put a lot of effort into beying loyal to the identity. A little too pastiche sometimes. The 3-way symmetry of the gun lineup, the levels retroactively justifying Halo 3 MP maps. The plot’s serviceable, nouns go to the Halo mythology and paragraphs to Marathon. I was a Mac kid, I appreciate it.
Now that Bungie’s free when do we get a story about a rampant AI named Joyeuse?
Or Myth III. Ooh.
Wait, there was a Myth III? There was not a Myth III.
Oh: point being. It was so cool to be educated modern but then just Oh God The Romans, sometimes. Now that we’ve passed them that’s a fun fantasy we like to have fun with, but now the only place to project it is space.