Posted by: Throwing Imps
Posted by: JFMK2
No, I like the Forerunners being flawed hypocrites, as opposed to the ascended, altruistic beings that I so long imagined them to be. I also like humanity having a deeper, darker and more savage history.
However, yes. I do think that that was what Bungie intended.
What do you mean darker? We're always depicted as the 'dark' ones in everything.Are we? Care to elaborate on that? At any rate, that's beside the point. I was calling our history dark. I don't mean "dark" as in a quality attributed to the human species.
Darker, as in having to fight a two front war against a terrifying abomination from beyond the stars, and the most powerful, uncontested empire in the galaxy, at whose hands humanity was stripped of it's technology, and de-evolved, left to cling at the straps of it's former civilzation. Never mind that, but humanity itself committed a number of atrocities upon less advanced sentient races itself within the war. "Justified", given that they were trying to escape the flood, but the blood spilled upon their hands certainly taints human history a darker shade.