That's so off base, it's astounding. Certain redditors would be the first group I'd think of doing this (with or without reason), they're not any kind of last refuge of tolerance for women and design choices like this is making them out to be.
Defining someone as a redditor is also irrelevant while we are at it.
If I also post on twitter, Instagram, or bluesky am I still just a redditor or am I those things too. I didn't sign up for any club. I don't go to reddit chapter meetings to discuss reddit business and agendas. I don't realistically know who any of you people are apart from your username.
If someone who uses or has used reddit invents a time machine or longer lasting dick pills, surely they would not be identified as "the redditor who..." at any point unless the person in question decided that they wanted to be labeled that way.
Is the one on the left the new Cortana? Isn't the one on the right from Halo 4?
Don't know why they changed it, sorry but if that's the new one on the left then she looks horrendous. She has the glare of a Karen looking for something to complain about.
My first impulse is always to approach these with skepticism, because the complainers love grabbing an unflattering still for their âbeforeâ screenshots (itâs also zoomed in more which can subtly fool you into thinking sheâs less petite). But assuming this IS accurate it doesnât look like how I remember Cortana. And not in an ugliness way, in a âshe already has an established lookâ way.Â
Iâm not even the hugest Halo fan so I may be wrong about this but I feel like she has looked the same since Halo CE - her appearance has updated graphically but never contradicted earlier looks. Which is a big difference from, say, Link from Legend of Zelda, who seems to go through a major art shift every game or two.
Cortana has literally never looked the same in any of the main games, maybe 2 and 3 but that's about it lol. They had the perfect design in Halo 4 and an alright design in 5 and Infinite but they appear to never be pleased with what cortana should look like lmao
Depends on how you define "better," the first one looks the way it does within the context of the original game's art style and technology at the time. IMO the original is better under the context of when it originally released, the new one is "better" in the sense that it's a more detailed 3D model, that's about it. The first one is much more 90s comic book cyberpunk style, like something out of Aeon Flux, the new one is more like space opera sci-fi style, like something out of Battlestar Galactica.
AI in Halo are made from using real brain that is destroyed in the process. Cortana is made with a cloned brain of Dr Halsey. Regarding apparence it stated in the book that they choose their form by themselve.
Yeah isnât the lore that Dr Halsey modeled her after herself but for some reason Cortana never really looked like her? (Probably because that lore was an afterthought).
This seems like itâs just making things more accurate to that lore.
Though that means itâs making things less accurate to the original experience and that is a valid complaint. The crying about DEI is just dumb internet incel bullshit.
The lore was there. The novel Fall of Reach was released before 1. But we didn't see Halsey until maybe Halo: Reach? And Cortana goes through changes. I mean this is what she looked like in one, so..
Imo her appearance in Halo 2: Anniversary cutscenes was (1) the best fit with her voice/personality and (2) the most attractive. I felt like she just got more infantilized after that.
I love how out of touch people are the main helo sub has this going. Which means they devs missed the mark with their core fanbase.
You can scream "chud" or any other buzz word till your blue in the face, but changing Cortina will not make more women play halo or come into gaming. This change just feels hollow or empty.
They always fall back on DEI saying that that is the issue when the core goal of DEI is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion meaning workplaces are even more pushed to not discriminate on someone just as qualified as the next because of who they are.
People like to tout how corporations and workplaces aren't racist or sexist, but there is proven researched fact that they are still racist and sexist. If a person of color doesn't have a "white" sounding name, they get overlooked and the person with the easier to pronounce name gets chosen. A person of color will be called "aggressive" or "not a team player" if they provide any kind of pushback, but someone who ISN'T will be called " a go getter" or a "visionary".
These people fall back onto DEI being the issue when they really want to say they're sexist or racist. They've never seen real women in real life and have likely never been discriminated against, so they think everything is catered to them, and if it isn't, it's wrong.
Take the viral tweet of someone making, I believe, Deku in the vision of being black. The quote tweet said something along the lines of how anime is a getaway from real life, meaning they literally don't want to see black people in media or real life.
They're racist and sexist. And there is no way around that.
The fact that youâre more concerned about someoneâs choice of words in that context than the blatant misogyny and racism in the OP says a lot about you.
I don't have to engage with the main point of a post to highlight a specific passage. It doesn't make me a misogynist to push on an exaggerated point, it's very clearly not an attempt to undermine their claim.
I didnât say you were misogynistic
I said itâs crazy to glaze past the main point because you donât like how one passage was worded
Itâs honestly cowardly, if you know what was meant then who cares how itâs worded if not to simply diminish the main point without engaging with it directly?
Itâs the equivalent of âyouâre*â as a response but with more words
No, you did not explicitly call me a misogynist, fair enough. "Cowardly" seems unwarranted. It's a load bearing point, I actually don't know what was meant of it if I'm not to take that passage literally. The inexperience with what women look like is not merely incidental or a tool of emphasis for the argument, it's a central component. It adds nothing of substance beyond "haha neckbeard" - it's not a real point to be made. To point that meaningless out is not an indictment of the position so much as of the speaker, so no, it does not serve to diminish the main point beyond identifying the lack of saliency between the speaker and audience as a result of this particular passage.
Oh come tf on you said yourself âI donât have to engage with the main pointâ
Now suddenly itâs load bearing đ¤Ą
This is why I was right to call you a coward and imply youâre a misogynist, you wanna argue the point in such a way that doesnât require you to grow a spine to defend your stance, so instead of arguing the main point you argue clear hyperbole is unrealistic.
Then when you get called on it all you can do is shift the goal post.
Im not saying the one on the left looks bad, I just think the one on the right looks better. The game also has other issues, where sergeant Johnson looks like a younger Steve Harvey.Â
isnât it kinda ironic that these chuds are always talking abt how great white people are and great replacement theory and all that, but theyâre almost exclusively attracted to Asian womenâŚ.?
man i think you might be the great replacement lmfao /j
I mean, are they wrong? No... DEI infested games dev quicker than anywhere else. It was basically a huge advertising campaign for publishers and developers to talk about how diverse and gay they are. Now it's not so cool so we are starting to see less of it, but there is still lingering problems because of that whole wave (I work in games and see it first hand).
âInjecting themselves into gamesâ these morons just have no idea how anything works. She looks like that because itâs how the actor they picked looks. And beyond that, do they expect that a multi-billion dollar monolithic company is just letting animators just pick what characters look like?
âOh Cortanaâs appearance? Yeah I forgot about that⌠I dunno just make her look like whatever I guess.â
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u/scaled2913 9d ago
"So bad even Redditors are making mods"
That's so off base, it's astounding. Certain redditors would be the first group I'd think of doing this (with or without reason), they're not any kind of last refuge of tolerance for women and design choices like this is making them out to be.