We, all of us, color the past with our present. (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Thursday, March 22, 2018, 15:18 (2515 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Is it already time for the annual deep dive into the archives of HBO that I lose an evening to?

lol - I'm glad this is a thing. :)

I don't think you're wrong. I was young and dumb back then, but I do remember the outrage around Halo 2. It still seems different. As with the critique you posted--it was mostly people disappointed with the game in a general sense, and not people feeling like they were delivered a game that was completely different from the one they were sold. Actually, that's not true, I guess. There was tons of "Bungie lied to us!" about not spending the game defending Earth.

Maybe things are just still the same. In fact, I'd wager this exact conversation happened back then too--"Guys, the community has grown and changed. They're the biggest developer on the planet from making Halo, they're not making Marathon anymore, we can't expect them to be as open as they were back then."

Yeah, the whole 'you lied to us that we'd be protecting Earth' was a HUGE one.

I don't think they're the same, though. As I said, I feel like Halo fans were Bungie fans in those days - and today that's been disconnected. So the outrage over being sold a false (or lacking, more accurately) bill of goods isn't mitigated by a willingness to see what comes next.