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by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 07:06 (3892 days ago) @ Fuertisimo

I'm not going to pass judgement on the writers at Bungie, but I think you're actually making a fairly strong argument against your own position. One of the reasons Star Wars is popular is because it is a modern incorporation of the heroes journey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth for more info on this, you can even scroll down and check out the star wars section!)

So far as tapping into the human condition in a significant way, part of the reason Halo is popular is because it allows the player to embody the hero archetype. Essentially the entire trilogy revolves around the idea that you (represented in game as master chief) are going to be the savior of humanity. A desire to be the hero is something that certainly exists in the human condition and I'd say that Halo's continued success speaks to its ability to engage people. Without the hero porn as I like to call it, Halo is just another game about shooting aliens, of which there have been plenty of before and since (spoiler alert: shooting aliens actually taps into part of the human condition as well!)

I'm sorry, but did nobody read this article that I liked here before? I'll link it again. Read it this time, then apply it to what I just quoted from your post.

http://criminalcrackdown.blogspot.com/2011/03/trouble-with-being-batman.html

Watching and playing are very two different things when it comes to storytelling.