I remember reading something about Lego wanting to avoid overtly military themed sets and stuff because they don't want to make war seem like child's play.
And I can get behind that.
Lord of the Rings is like 50% battles, 20% poetry and song and 30% walking.
Yeah but you dont have to worry about kids and taking a battle axe to someone if they decide to get *really* into lord of the rings
Indiana Jones kills a lot more people than master chief.
Only if you don't consider aliens people
And Indy is also an adventurer and an archeologist and a bunch of other things
The thing about halo is that it courts a realistic military aesthetic that makes it less of an abstraction from the real world than destiny, and being a video game it is far more rooted in constant violence than something like Indiana jones
I remember reading something about Lego wanting to avoid overtly military themed sets and stuff because they don't want to make war seem like child's play.
And I can get behind that.
Lord of the Rings is like 50% battles, 20% poetry and song and 30% walking.
Yeah but you dont have to worry about kids and taking a battle axe to someone if they decide to get *really* into lord of the rings
Indiana Jones kills a lot more people than master chief.
Only if you don't consider aliens people
And Indy is also an adventurer and an archeologist and a bunch of other things
Halo is entirely about the military and killing
Actually it's about fighting an invading force while exploring ancient ruins.
Which the invading force is looking to use for their nefarious purposes.
I remember reading something about Lego wanting to avoid overtly military themed sets and stuff because they don't want to make war seem like child's play.
And I can get behind that.
Lord of the Rings is like 50% battles, 20% poetry and song and 30% walking.
Yeah but you dont have to worry about kids and taking a battle axe to someone if they decide to get *really* into lord of the rings
Indiana Jones kills a lot more people than master chief.
Only if you don't consider aliens people
And Indy is also an adventurer and an archeologist and a bunch of other things
Halo is entirely about the military and killing
Actually it's about fighting an invading force while exploring ancient ruins.
Which the invading force is looking to use for their nefarious purposes.
Which they also don't understand.
Kinda like Indiana Jones.
You getting ready to work out, dude? Cause you are stretching like whoa
I remember reading something about Lego wanting to avoid overtly military themed sets and stuff because they don't want to make war seem like child's play.
And I can get behind that.
Lord of the Rings is like 50% battles, 20% poetry and song and 30% walking.
Yeah but you dont have to worry about kids and taking a battle axe to someone if they decide to get *really* into lord of the rings
Indiana Jones kills a lot more people than master chief.
Only if you don't consider aliens people
And Indy is also an adventurer and an archeologist and a bunch of other things
Halo is entirely about the military and killing
Actually it's about fighting an invading force while exploring ancient ruins.
Which the invading force is looking to use for their nefarious purposes.
Which they also don't understand.
Kinda like Indiana Jones.
You getting ready to work out, dude? Cause you are stretching like whoa
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I remember reading something about Lego wanting to avoid overtly military themed sets and stuff because they don't want to make war seem like child's play.
And I can get behind that.
Lord of the Rings is like 50% battles, 20% poetry and song and 30% walking.
Yeah but you dont have to worry about kids and taking a battle axe to someone if they decide to get *really* into lord of the rings
Indiana Jones kills a lot more people than master chief.
Oh, so the Covenant aren't people are they? Racist.
IDK, I guess is never really thought of halo being any more military focused than LOTR, more violent than Indiana Jones or lord of the rings, or having more cursing than the Simpsons or marvel properties.
Just seems like an odd line for everyone to draw very harshly?
IDK, I guess is never really thought of halo being any more military focused than LOTR, more violent than Indiana Jones or lord of the rings, or having more cursing than the Simpsons or marvel properties.
Just seems like an odd line for everyone to draw very harshly?
I mean
It is specifically because it is the modern military
Like yeah they are in space ships but for the most part they look like modern soldiers and use modern guns and drive around in jeeps and
Looking at it another way, imagine a kid who's never seen Indiana Jones sees a Lego set at the store. There might be a pistol or two in one of the sets, but it's not hard to come up with an Indiana Jones set of just about any size that doesn't have guns or military gear. The same is true of Marvel, although that depends on the property I guess. A kid unfamiliar with the specifics of the series wouldn't necessarily have to be exposed to the "bad stuff" through the Lego sets.
But with something like Halo or especially Call of Duty, there is literally no way to sell a set that doesn't have guns, military gear, and/or violence as the centerpiece. That's at the core of those properties, and there really wouldn't be much getting around it.
Lego ain't that expensive, especially if you stay away from the licensed and big sets and most of the fun of Lego (especially as a kid) is mashing sets together anyway to make your own stuff, and you don't need that many pieces to start making fun stuff.
Shit, for kids you can just buy them those buckets of 500 construction blocks at a time for like $15, and they'll spend weeks playing with them.
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...I mean just look at all those fancy cold cuts. I can feel my user review scores increasing already.
The comments are a surreal clusterfuck of GG arguing amongst themselves over who's side this is on, it's almost entertaining in it's awfulness and stupidity
It isn't violence, it isn't guns, it's military. That is the issue with Halo and CoD. They cannot be divorced from a military aesthetic, at all.
Other properties, even violent ones like Jurassic Park/Star Wars can sustain sets in which the military is only incedental, a part of the collage. CoD and Halo literally cannot exist without militaristic figs. That's really the end of the discussion.
Indy is set during world war two and has goofy silly nazis
It does the same thing of war as a game
I disagree quite heartily with this, but that runs far afield from Lego's policy/ethos and how that applies to CoD/Halo, which is the issue at hand, so I will just leave it at "agree to disagree"
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And Indy is also an adventurer and an archeologist and a bunch of other things
Halo is entirely about the military and killing
Actually it's about fighting an invading force while exploring ancient ruins.
Which the invading force is looking to use for their nefarious purposes.
Which they also don't understand.
Kinda like Indiana Jones.
Depends on the species.
(Turian)
Why I fear the ocean.
Just seems like an odd line for everyone to draw very harshly?
It is specifically because it is the modern military
Like yeah they are in space ships but for the most part they look like modern soldiers and use modern guns and drive around in jeeps and
Master chief doesn't have a name at all, just a military rank
http://www.audioentropy.com/
His name's John... Uh... 117.
But with something like Halo or especially Call of Duty, there is literally no way to sell a set that doesn't have guns, military gear, and/or violence as the centerpiece. That's at the core of those properties, and there really wouldn't be much getting around it.
why are you not
But you have to realize you aren't Lego's primary audience
Children are
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Nuh uh!
Shit, for kids you can just buy them those buckets of 500 construction blocks at a time for like $15, and they'll spend weeks playing with them.
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Why I fear the ocean.
...I mean just look at all those fancy cold cuts. I can feel my user review scores increasing already.
The comments are a surreal clusterfuck of GG arguing amongst themselves over who's side this is on, it's almost entertaining in it's awfulness and stupidity
Indiana Jones is hella violent, guys
So is halo
The Simpsons includes humor that is absolutely not for children
If Jurassic park comes out, that's a pg-13 rated film where people get devoured
Lego is clearly ok with aiming for a slightly older audience while continuing to keep its kid audience at the same time
Indy has guns in it that you can pick up and shoot people with
Is this stil ps4 only
It looks rad
The twisting to make halo somehow different here is really weird
The line is "not wanting to make war seem like child's play"
That is the line, as explicitly stated by the inventor of Lego
So, yes, the argument is silly, but not for the reason you think
(And anyway, people really should've picked Star Wars as their rule-breaking example, not Indy)
Other properties, even violent ones like Jurassic Park/Star Wars can sustain sets in which the military is only incedental, a part of the collage. CoD and Halo literally cannot exist without militaristic figs. That's really the end of the discussion.
It does the same thing of war as a game
I disagree quite heartily with this, but that runs far afield from Lego's policy/ethos and how that applies to CoD/Halo, which is the issue at hand, so I will just leave it at "agree to disagree"
I'm saying that if you don't want adult or at least older targeted lego stuff, that fight has long since been lost
And pooro, star wars and indy can't exist without military figs either
you can't even say star wars doesn't count because its the future, so is halo
this ship has already sailed
Agree to disagree