The funny thing is this was ultimately reciprocal - the beginning of Halo 4 noticeably took a bunch of inspiration from Metroid Prime (and you can then see echoes of this in the beginning of Doom 2016)

Having decent NPC troopers was one of the things the Halo: Infinite campaign made sure to include. I appreciated that.

Are the "elites" being discussed smart people? It seems like we're talking about high-status guys at the head of institutions.

That's a cool bit of trivia, and is important context for the fact that I usually see it with an overlayed sniper's scope.

Along "real-life Killmonger" lines, I'm sure.

"There is a special providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children, and the United States of America."

There are some white guys in California who are about as racist as you'll find in the South or whatnot (especially in the parts nobody wants to visit), but the rest of us outnumber them so much they can mostly just sit there and pout about it.

It does seem like some of the arguments for big pushes in red states amount to "what if the math is fake, and we can just win with our pure hearts and righteous language" sometimes.

Does a giant machete count as a big sword?

Far Cry 3 REALLY did a number on this industry.

If anything, this seems like the opposite problem - a game portioned out to a bunch of different teams and fused together in committee, without a clear central vision.

That just sounds like the combined bugbears of three different groups of people on this website. It's like defense tech nerds were getting drunk and joking about ideas for a Call of Duty story in the same room as a monkey's paw.

which would all be funny, if not for the fact that this pharisaical story is distracting from what Trump actually did, and every second we joke about him sucking dick is a second not explaining to people who haven't heard that he is in fact a pedo-rapist.

Oh, it is. Real fuckin' dumb.