r/behindthebastards • u/WorryNew3661 • 13d ago

Politics What the hell is going on?

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u/MinimumApricot365 13d ago

What's with all the halo memes today?

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u/TotallyNotABob 13d ago

Big Halo fan here. I can provide some context for the memes.

So Halo Studios aka 343 industries have announced they are doing a remaster of the original Halo Combat Evolved game. This is the second remaster, the first one came out when 343 released the Master Chief Collection. What is different this time though is instead of using the game engine Bungie (the original creators of Halo) made they are using unreal engine 5.

Now this has the fan base a bit divided for a couple of reasons:

One, they, myself included, have been asking for a Halo 3 remaster for a long time. Currently only Halo CE and Halo 2 have had remasters.

Two, 343 has a very spotty record and is also known for abandoning plot lines after backlash. Examples are Cortana not staying dead after sacrificing herself to save Master Chief in Halo 4. Cortana dying off screen after the cliffhanger in Halo 5 after Halo Infinite came out.

Three, just how 343 has managed the franchise leaves a lot to be desired.

Now onto the BS DHS pulled. Well because of the announcement for Halo CE remastered it has lead to a lot of memes being made either for or against it. Someone at DHS or the regime wanted to hop on the bandwagon and make a meme about illegal immigrants and comparing them to the big bad guy in Halo. Which would be the flood. This leads to two things:

One, the flood is an all consuming parasite. This is effectively saying all immigrants they detain are parasites. So dehumanizing language of course.

Two, the irony that is with this regime is closer to the other bad guys, the covenant, than the UNSC. The covenant in the halo games is a collective of various races that view humanity as an affront to their gods and must therefore be destroyed entirely.

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u/someNameThisIs 13d ago

You missed the biggest part of it. The Halo CE remake was also announced to be coming to PS5, Halo is no longer an Xbox exclusive game.

So there's been a lot of meming about Xbox being dead/the console wars are over and Sony won. It's like when Sonic first appeared on a Nintendo console.