YAY (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 16:43 (1 hours, 28 minutes ago) @ Avateur

All of that can easily be disregarded by the simple sentiment that Halo fans are fucking morons, in so much as any sufficiently large group of people is stupid.

I don't think 343 ever really nailed it, but their games have largely been fine, even good. The sentiment around their games isn't really that different from that around the Bungie games. Lots of folks hated the Arbiter and Halo 2 and the non-ending. Lots more hated Reach and its retcons and bloom and whatever else.

People would think the exact same thing about Bungie as they do about 343 if Bungie had kept making Halo. Hell, the opposing reactions to everything that ever happened in Destiny proves that. Halo would have never maintained the massive popularity it enjoyed during its peak all these years later. Nothing ever has. Bungie never had to deal with the scourge of dipshit youtubers bitching about literally anything and everything during their Halo days, either.

I'm with Kermit, though. I can't fathom just never letting it go.

As for the news--I can't say I have so much of an opinion, either way. I mostly liked the 343 games, but I'm also eager to see someone else get a crack at it, just because I think that's neat. I don't particularly have high hopes, just because, at this point, I genuinely don't know what the hell you would do with Halo at this point. I'm not sure it's possible to make a Halo game that will garner the positive reception they want. You'll have people claiming it's just a bad copy of what it used to be, or you'll have people bitching that it's not faithful enough to Halo.

I'm interested to see what they make of it, though.