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Posted by: Sithslayer50
Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Irrelevant, Chief wasn't a victim of the Doomed By Canon trope.
I'm not familiar. Does that simply mean that all Spartans introduced must be killed in order for the game to remain canon?
This is what "Doomed by Canon" means, hope that proves helpful to you or anyone else wondering what the term means.
Posted by: LegendaryFluffy
This is in strict contradiction to video game dogma. Characters who never take off their helmets always die. Exhibit A: Carmine(s).
Actually I enjoy the new take many games are taking. Make us love the character, and then skewer them mercilessly. It makes for a much more engaging experience.
How does that make it more engaging? That, imo, just makes it stupid. The majority of an audience is not going to enjoy downer endings or pointless amounts of yanking the audience's and main characters' emotions back and forth constantly. I don't find that engaging at all, not even a little bit, it breaks my willing suspension of disbelief and just makes the whole story feel stupid. Movies or TV shows I've seen, or books I've read that do that sort of thing have never been engaging for me, mostly I just find myself scoffing the entire time and getting mad at the writers for introducing pointless angst, wangst, and other such unpleasantries constantly. It was the main/big thing keeping me from really completely enjoying the series Joss Whedon has done where the show has gotten a highly decent amount of run-time (such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Dollhouse...Firefly didn't run long enough for his exaggeratedly depressing and unenjoyable storylines to come in).
[Edited on 12.21.2012 6:16 PM PST]