@johnstribe@Flank_Em@JesusisChristX It means everything to a church that is supposed to represent the Word of God. That is literally the subject at hand, not what some secular atheist believes. The issue is CHURCHES misrepresenting Scripture and committing blasphemy.
@TungS77872@Halo2better You literally said they made some of the tracks "objectively" better, and now you're backtracking trying to claim you were making a subjective statement lmao. I completely disagree with your assertion anyway for the reasons I've already stated.
@joeybeastmarket The Forerunner structures look like shit. Totally gone are the ancient, weathered aesthetics of the original. Relative to modern standards, the gameplay and animations look much more cartoonish than the original CE did for its time too. Microsoft literally doesn't get Halo.
The later recons obscure this, but Halo’s Human-Covenant war is absolutely a mythologization (not 1:1 allegory) of the ascendant Church and its contention with the Pharisees.
John, who is both savior and apostle, is the exceptional seed of the creator race which the Covenant worships. He comes to fulfill what the Forerunners built while thwarting the misguided zeal of the (old) Covenant to make way for the new reign.
The arbiter being chief persecutor of “heretics” only to then join them after a conversion is, as the quoted post suggests, a strong parallel with St. Paul.
@vaaniellis@ReactionaryLuma It’s a Christian allegory and the Covenant is another Abrahamic religion trying to snuff out the truth with their false prophets. The Arbiter and other Elites convert after learning the truth.
You’ve been trained on a form of pattern recognition your entire life (to recognize liberal themes in media, but NOTHING ELSE), without gaining the requisite breadth of knowledge and esoteric meaning to see deeper.
Halo is not only built around a conceptual framework of biblical allegory and Christian symbolism. It’s also the distilled essence of Proto-Indo-European mythology: of the warrior-trickster archetype who steals fire from the gods, and the serpent eating its tail, symbolizing the inevitability of chaos and entropy destroying the works of men, and of the dragon slayers who resist this. It is the ancestral memory of the deluge and our collective lost pre-history, which informs the patterns and rhythms of contemporary life.
Mjolnir, Spartans. Sleeping Kings. Ancient inheritances. The kóryos. Halo is a collective shotgun blast of genuine Western culture.
@TungS77872@Halo2better Don't even get me started on how they removed the licensed music from the original, especially Breaking Benjamin's Blow Me Away, completely changing the atmosphere of the sequences they were supposed to play in. The music they replaced them with was subpar in every way, too.
@TungS77872@Halo2better Lol the only thing "improved" about that Gravemind scene was the graphics. The atmosphere was just as strong in the original and wasn't upgraded in any notable way just by making it look better through pre-rendered cutscenes.
@TungS77872@Halo2better Many of the tracks were WORSE, because they didn't obtain the original sheet music from Marty and couldn't faithfully reproduce the nuanced countermelodies resulting in watered-down arrangements. As a musician myself, I haven't heard a single track that was "objectively" better.
@fardedhard@BARBEDWIREDEATH@Halo2better I freely admit the Blur cutscenes themselves looked good while asserting that H2A missed the mark of honoring the design/artstyle of the original Halo 2. I also loathe the fact that 343 interjected a prologue cutscene alluding to Halo 5's story that didn't belong there at all.