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Evening Reading
by Garnett Lee, Feb 01, 2011 5:00pm PSTOver the weekend I started up a new game of Halo: Reach for a solo run. A post I read somewhere recently--I think in chatty but can't recall for sure--got me thinking. In it, the author proposed that compared to Call of Duty, Halo puts some players off because it requires more hits, and hence more skill, to get a kill. After a couple days of playing with this in mind I can see the argument. Getting into good tactical situations to win firefights takes some thought. I always know when I've gotten a kill, and likewise, almost always know when and from where I've been tagged when I go down.
I'm curious to see how I'll feel as I get later in the game. I played Reach co-op originally, so taking it on solo also brings a different perspective. But Cinematic as it may be, the chaos of Call of Duty seems to me like it would be every bit as potentially off-putting as any perceived difficulty in Halo.
Meanwhile, back at the Shack, here's today's video game news:
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This movie is a goddamn national treasure.
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co-opting the Starship Troopers name was a shitty, underhanded move on the part of the filmmakers. They claim to satirize the novel, when they, in fact, do no such thing, all in order to promote the movie. The entire thing is a self-serving strawman farce, that is lapped up by people like Serpico74.
What the movie is criticizing is not the novel... it is some smorgasbord of gungho american, neoconservative and fascist thought that has little to do with Heinlein's work. (check out Caoster007's link below)
The saddest part is that it would've been soo easy for Hollywood to make a kick-ass action movie, with tons of powered armour goodness that would have completely pre-empted the watered-down archetype that is Halo. Instead, that IP is flushed down the toilet and gone forever.
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