{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Destiny 2 free on PlayStation this month, so dicking around\nIt\u2019s Halo campaign mode as Diablo, dunno who was asking for...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/177763594428/", "html": "<p>Destiny 2 free on PlayStation this month, so dicking around</p><p>It\u2019s Halo campaign mode as Diablo, dunno who was asking for that</p><p>(Borderlands, in contrast, was World of Warcraft as Smash TV, that\u2019s totally reasonable)</p><p>I know Bungie likes to reuse thematic and visual elements \u2013 several Halo weapon models have been getting steadily more hi-res each release since 1994\u2019s <i>Marathon</i>, and there\u2019ll inevitably be a trilogy where your AI companion Joyeux goes rampant in the end \u2013 but jeez it gets a little tiresome</p><p>One of the races that had a distinct design was the Hive, the one that thematically took the place of Halo\u2019s Flood, but even then they managed to simultaneously invoke several vidya alien enemies - Doom\u2019s imps, Metroid\u2019s Chozo, even Area 51\u2019s aliens and&hellip; oh, get close and they\u2019ve got Pfhor tri-eyes from Marathon</p>"}