In the crashed sentinel factory there is a unique needler wielding sentinel that will attack you. A pretty small and easy to miss but interesting encounter in my opinion.

First, an excellent point about both the Prophets and the Elites only truly hitting that critical juncture, not when their faith is directly challenged, but when their sociopolitical status is directly threatened. Truth's name is peak irony because truth doesn't mean shit to him. Overall this is the best part of Halo lore imo. It is so much more terrifying to me that a major alliance of spacefaring species is being manipulated into committing genocide simply because those in control are terrified of losing their position than the alternative reason of genuine holy war. It's one thing to be caught up in religious fervor and to commit evil out of genuine fear, even if it's ridiculous, but the idea of an inner circle political effort subverting their own beliefs to cover up a truth that would naturally supplant them is something that as a kid made me feel very uneasy, and now as an adult is my greatest fear in America. I can absolutely see a theocracy being implemented in this country and its upper echelon of leadership being fully aware that it's mostly bullshit and just a convenient way to eliminate any and all opposition. I don't want another civil war, but I would absolutely condone and participate in violence against any faction or coalition that would drive this country into some archaic and/or nationalist bullshit.

Bungie's Halo games overall really never get talked about as critiques of theocracy. Great video.

All of this tracks for me, for sure. Part of the appeal is certainly nostalgia, but Battlefront 1 also runs into that subset of games that just seem to know what they want to be and execute that vision well. Sid Meier's: Pirates! is like that for me too. Just a good game with a modest scope that knows what it wants to be and does it well.

Halo supports religion and deliberately integrates certain fundamental truths that aren't obvious, part of why its symbolism is so powerful is because it basically returns certain religious symbols to form and is an opera about rejecting corruption, apathy, and understanding the glory of the individual in larger endeavors Some of the fun examples are a bit on the nose when you start to learn them. For example, lets look at the two main protagonists and the roles that bungie gave them. Arbiter: one protagonist has the player overthrowing abject "usurpers" (i.e., the "arbiter" being the soul that "judges" the "covenant" because of the evils that have 'usurped' their original promises, most important of which being a general responsibility for prosperity for their peope) in a redemption story Chief: John, 117. A messenger of god. 1:17 is an innuendo to mix Moses (the man that splits the water...calls back to Noah indirectly, savior of the flood...cmon now) and Jesus (humanity's savior that performed miracles beyond our comprehension) Chief is blessed with no other skill than "luck" in series, another innuendo to his place being higher in the universe than those around him ('Divine' * "foresight" * or *blessings* if you will) I havent watched your video but i appreciated your thumbnail, ive always loved the topic, and if you'd ever like to talk deeper about this subject it is DEEP in lore and other esoteric stuff - both in universe and in our real world. If you'd like to talk about this stuff I love this topic and would share mire in the future. Ill watch your whole vid in a bit, but know i wrote this out and liked it to support it regardless of if I agree with your interpretations of a theme most dont even see as significant

halo is not about religion at fucking all. keep your bible thumping hands the fuck off of halo.

Critiques religion yet praises the military industrial complex. Halo never stated anything beyond its world-building, I wouldn't say it's a "critique".

8:12 Jesus did not say "all those who draw the sword". He said "those who LIVE BY the sword". HUGE difference there.

His whole constantine thing was silly as hell

In its base halo is the perfect example of how no matter how developed you can become. If the base of your foundation is weak and instead of correcting it if you keep on perpetuating the flaws in your ideology. You will end up losing everything. And its shocking how our current world is exactly showing the hallmarks of such things occuring where religious fanaticsm has brought the ruin or has created hurdles in creating harmony among different religions but also create fractures in single religions also.

What caused the schism wasn't the demotions in my opinion. It was the lies. The Covenant was originally founded because the Sangheili and San Shy'uum recognized that combining their skills and knowledge was far more beneficial than trying to obliterate each other. Truth used Regret's death as an excuse. The thing about that is, in my opinion, Truth had been looking for a "justifiable" reason to remove the Sangheili from their seats of power. He knew the Sangheili were honorable and would turn once the true nature of the Halo Array was revealed to them. Plus, Sangheili had a history of discovering the truth about Halo and attempting to expose Truth as a liar. So what does he do? He uses Regret's death as a way to kiII two birds with one stone.

You my friend need much more recognition for the work you do

I had never thought that Halo was about religion at all. It includes a lot of Christian names and themes and even includes a religion of its own. I always felt like that was used more as a backdrop to tell the story of Halo.

Takes me back to a simpler time. Thanks 🙂✌️

These bite-sized little videos are great, and I enjoy that you use the original graphics. Thanks for making 'em!

The speed of this fight is how it shouldve gone. Really shows why Obi Wan was a Master and Anakin was a gifted Jedi Knight and why Anakin Failed to defeat his master. Song was just icing on the video. Good choice.

Awesome! Rock and duel sound great!

theme music of detroit

This took me back to my lonely nights as the courier back in high school. I still remember playing this game late into the night sometimes even on school nights waking up hella early just to get an hour or 2 in before I had to go to school. This game helped me get through it all and for that I’ll always be grateful.

Exactly what I was looking for, now I can patrol the Mojave in style.

wooooooooooooooooooo! history a la veraxienne <3

I still play I have the disc and everyrhing same with Melee on the Xbox as well glad they're backward's compatible on 360. I discovered Emulation now but still I'm glad I have these game to begin with.

I always tear up in the end song. Love Halo 3 so much. Wish I could relive those happy times as a teen again 😔

I think if Sony would release and advertise this on their PS Plus subscription it would find new life. It’s worth a second chance

Save the earth is my Absolute favorite Godzilla game alongside Unleashed. Since I'm a HUGE Fan of the Pipeworks Trilogy. Also MireGoji (2000 Millennium) Is my Personal favorite iteration of Godzilla

The real ending in the the game is when you beat it on hard mode with Godzilla 2000

They need to re release this game with the monsters from Unleashed added in.

We need another godzilla game like this.

They don’t make them like this anymore. Creative, unique, fun, and works.

Aside from winged hussars, can someone PLEASE explain why Poland is attacking with tanks and horses AGAIN? One would think they learned from the first failure.

Really fun game, though definitely flawed and unfinished. If anyone who hasn't played it yet wants to give it a go, without spoiling anything you should just know that if you see any gnomes anywhere, eliminate them. Immediately!

a second play thru is almost a different game. using a mage with speak to dead adds a lot.

Good stuff. Took me a while to get it running when I got it back in the day. Even longer to get anywhere! good luck in your youtuberness

Incredible game, I first played Arcanum near to release and immediately loved it - one of those games where I'd sit down to play it for an hour before bed and end up playing through 'til dawn. (Dear God, was that really twenty years ago now?) Pretty sure I still have that disc here somewhere, sadly didn't keep the box or manual.

This game is so good. It could use some balancing and bugfixes, but the stories and art style are really outstanding. Such a shame it never got a sequel.

Such an amazing game, the world building was absolutely amazing and it's one of the last games with a whopping book as a manual.

So well said

Good luck job hunting!

I know your pain. It's worse when we were kids and had all these dreams about what the sequel would be like. For me it was The Last Ninja 3. Total let down compared to the first two.

🫡 my brother and i had this game but we just imported the mons from Platinum play through to battle the NPCs in PBR

Steampunk Not cyberpunk

Oh the shit cut scene the game

The Tesla aspect was really inspired.

1886 had an awesome premise and setting but the execution was just so wrong. Cause of death? Trying too hard to be a movie game to the point entire chapters are cutscenes. Heck the werewolf battles (all two of them) are basically proto-Callisto Protocol now that I think about it, and that’s not a compliment.

A sequel/soft reboot of this game with modern tech for an open world steam punk England has so much potential. The lore/world building is already there. They just have to make it at least 30 hours.

im simple, i see retrospective and i click. however this game was criminally underrated

Thank you for making this. We never hear enough about this game.

I like the video but the music is just to loud.

It was a mash of ideas that weren’t quite fleshed out but it has potential

Till this day I want to play this game but don’t own a ps4. If Sony could port this game to pc I would buy it.