If you read the actual Halo lore outside the games, the Human government prior to the war, for hundreds of years mind you, has been a fascist junta police state that basically exists only to serve the army and navy. During the original Human civil war led by the People’s Front (Communists based on Reach), all communists were exterminated, and the Spartan project, superhuman and mentally broken child soldiers, were designed to hunt down and eradicate any leftist resistance movement that still exists. You even start Halo: Reach on a mission to go hunt down some rebels, as a bunch of communications relays get blown and thats blamed on the communists, as it wasn’t known that the Covenant had already infiltrated Reach.
Hell, during the war the UNSC essentially coups the few vestiges of “democratic” control, and then refuses to give up their control after the war, even after they “return” control back to the civilian government.
So that means that Oni might just be the most based game, if any of you heard about its plot and pre-Microsoft Bungie history. It was based on Ghost In The Shell, made in 2000 by Bungie West and Take-Two/Rockstar, and laid the foundation for Halo and Destiny. Halo came about 10 months after Oni, and its my duty as an Oni stan to tell everyone about this masterpiece that once was set to wipe out Tomb Raider.
Oni is basically set before Halo, atleast as far as Bungie fandom can link. Oni’s World Coalition Government seems to be the fascist junta police state you seem to talk about.
The game’s plot is set in 2032, with toxic polluted inhabitable Earth, governed by a WCG which is totalitarian and protects 80% of leftover habitable land (which is small), while protecting the rest toxic world in the name of wilderness preserves using TCTF police, which is used to oppress any WCG (politicians, policies) critics. Syndicate is TCTF’s enemy that wishes to control humanity by preventing air cleaning plants to function. Konoko is partially cyborged and works under TCTF, and her past is hidden by scientists which she discovers later on. She decides to defeat both TCTF and Syndicate alone, going rogue, to discover the truth behind her past (her father and mother discovered WCG and prohibited toxic area secrets). Konoko manages to save some of humanity from the toxic gas, which is interesting seeing how Halo plot proceeds later.
It is interesting to see how Bungie, originally an independent studio, had a casual company culture, got bought by Microsoft, and then Halo plot became so anti leftist. Microsoft fully assimilated Bungie when the takeover happened immediately after Oni, and Oni itself was affected because its production was hurried and some features like multiplayer and few bosses, cut from released game.
If you read the actual Halo lore outside the games, the Human government prior to the war, for hundreds of years mind you, has been a fascist junta police state that basically exists only to serve the army and navy. During the original Human civil war led by the People’s Front (Communists based on Reach), all communists were exterminated, and the Spartan project, superhuman and mentally broken child soldiers, were designed to hunt down and eradicate any leftist resistance movement that still exists. You even start Halo: Reach on a mission to go hunt down some rebels, as a bunch of communications relays get blown and thats blamed on the communists, as it wasn’t known that the Covenant had already infiltrated Reach.
Hell, during the war the UNSC essentially coups the few vestiges of “democratic” control, and then refuses to give up their control after the war, even after they “return” control back to the civilian government.
Wtf I hate Halo now
So that means that Oni might just be the most based game, if any of you heard about its plot and pre-Microsoft Bungie history. It was based on Ghost In The Shell, made in 2000 by Bungie West and Take-Two/Rockstar, and laid the foundation for Halo and Destiny. Halo came about 10 months after Oni, and its my duty as an Oni stan to tell everyone about this masterpiece that once was set to wipe out Tomb Raider.
Oni is basically set before Halo, atleast as far as Bungie fandom can link. Oni’s World Coalition Government seems to be the fascist junta police state you seem to talk about.
The game’s plot is set in 2032, with toxic polluted inhabitable Earth, governed by a WCG which is totalitarian and protects 80% of leftover habitable land (which is small), while protecting the rest toxic world in the name of wilderness preserves using TCTF police, which is used to oppress any WCG (politicians, policies) critics. Syndicate is TCTF’s enemy that wishes to control humanity by preventing air cleaning plants to function. Konoko is partially cyborged and works under TCTF, and her past is hidden by scientists which she discovers later on. She decides to defeat both TCTF and Syndicate alone, going rogue, to discover the truth behind her past (her father and mother discovered WCG and prohibited toxic area secrets). Konoko manages to save some of humanity from the toxic gas, which is interesting seeing how Halo plot proceeds later.
It is interesting to see how Bungie, originally an independent studio, had a casual company culture, got bought by Microsoft, and then Halo plot became so anti leftist. Microsoft fully assimilated Bungie when the takeover happened immediately after Oni, and Oni itself was affected because its production was hurried and some features like multiplayer and few bosses, cut from released game.
I loved Oni. One of the better TPS games - but had no idea about a possible connection to Halo universe. That’s really interesting.