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| Topic | The covenant AI in Halo: CE is rather engaging |
| ParanoidObsessive 05/19/20 7:07:00 PM #40: | Lokarin posted... I just thought the eponymous Halos was a silly concept since your 2 options are Kill everyone or Kill everyone Because you don't really understand the choice. It's more "kill everything now, but save the future" versus "allow everything ever to be corrupted forever". It's a mass version of the "fate worse than death" trope combined with self-sacrifice. It's fairly common in a lot of fictional contexts. Like having to burn a city to keep a plague from spreading, or killing someone to prevent them from being possessed by evil. Halo's just on a much larger scale. In one outcome, everyone dies, but the Flood is (theoretically) destroyed forever, and new life can potentially evolve in the future. In the other outcome, the Flood consumes everything and the entire galaxy (if not universe) becomes giant zombie horde which no one can survive. It's not really a hard choice to make. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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