A famous and much-loved retcon is Avery Johnson from the Halo games becoming a prototype Spartan. Originally, Johnson died during the events of Halo CE but is obviously fine in Halo 2. A novel explains Johnson gained partial immunity to The Flood, but this explanation doesn't jive with the rest of the canon (If one can gain immunity to The Flood, why activate the Halo Array?), it was later explained Johnson was simply so fucking badass that he escaped and survived all on his own- this would later be contributed to his experimental proto-type Spartan cybernetic enhancements and training. This recontextualized his appearance in the first game and rationalized his extreme expertise in the sequels.
>Mass Effect: Hey humanity discovered this infinite power source so now your guns have infinite ammo you just need to let them cool down because they can overheat >Mass Effect 2: Just kidding guns have ammo now, our shitty explanation is them needing coolant cores or something like that
POV you are a Blizzard employee at a Q&A and a guy wearing a red shirt walks up
Kayden Torres
dont get me started user. 4 ruined everything and added nothing.
Charles Williams
>(If one can gain immunity to The Flood, why activate the Halo Array?) Is this a serious question? Obviously to save everyone who isn't immune.
Nathaniel Collins
That's not really a retcon. They basically "reset" the universe in SMG
David James
I still kind of hate this
This a great retcon, and I can't believe so many fans don't understand it. They think Kojima turned your support crew into evil villains when that is not even close to what actually happened.
The Patriots were not made to be an evil faceless corporation. It was born out of good intentions from good people who had good ideas. It spiraled out of control as the times (the SCENE) changed, what was good has been turned into the worst possible evil. MGSV goes out of its way to hammer this point home by explaining Zero went comatose and had no involvement with the actual Patriots as we know them.
Big Boss explains all this at the end of 4.
Luis Cooper
>but if this one guy got COVID-19 and survived, why bother making a vaccine at all? this lore doesn't make any sense!
Connor Jenkins
I still can't believe how far downhill the story went after 3, and every game just made it worse. I'm glad I played all of the games because they were all fun, though.
Angel Walker
>They basically "reset" the universe in SMG Oh. Well retcon or not, I can never figure out why nintendo would just reuse the exact same story but worse instead of making a game that continues the narrative from before.
you realize the halo array kills all life, correct?
Elijah James
Not to mention that even if the flood can't infect you, they can still fucking kill you. And there's no possible way to distribute a vaccine faster than the flood can spread, anyway.
Jace Walker
I think even Nintendo isn't sure what a Mario story even is. SE did it and that's really the only one that worked on any real level that isn't extremely basic.
Carson Smith
Only higher animal life. It targets specialized neurons.
Julian Bennett
Alright I'm not sure what's hard to understand. The Halo Array is a last-resort that kills 99% of life in the galaxy. If there is any indication whatsoever that survival is possible, then there would be no need to activate such a weapon.
Carter Brown
B-but you can put more rounds downrange with reloading!
Jose Turner
Let's not forget the Big Boss from MG1 actually being Venom Snake.
Owen Long
Well originally SMG2 was envisioned as more of a "level pack" anyway, but obviously they couldn't do that very well on the Wii. I think the story was basically an afterthought, and the easiest way to do it would be just SMG but slightly different.
Mason Sullivan
The point is, if developping an immunity to the flood is possible then the firing of the Halo Array would be unnecessary since you could pour resources into creating immunity for everyone.
>But the flood can still kill you! So what? That makes them an enemy to be sure, but not one worth activating such a weapon for. It'd just be a regular war. They wouldn't even be able to use our dead as hosts.
Nicholas Sanchez
>since you could pour resources into creating immunity for everyone. But you'd be overwhelmed by the Flood by that point.
Luis Jones
>if you make jokes then you can't possibly do bad things!
y'all realize Naked Snake, the guy they were supporting, became Big Boss, the main antagonist, right?
Sebastian Edwards
>One (1) guy is partially immune to infection >Alright guys let the flood rape everyone, we got (1) guy sort of immune to infection >Halo is never used because (1) man is partially immune, the galaxy is kill I mean, if you could recreate Johnson's condition sure, but that isn't something you can just give all of humanity.
Nathaniel Anderson
Your right, I guess it makes sense that the most intriguing and best mario stories were those coming from different developers. >Mario & Luigi series >(early) Paper Mario >Mario RPG >Wario Land series >Mario in vietnam on Game and Watch As much as I love SMG2 for essentially just being more of Galaxy 1, I feel that "GRAND" feeling that put into Galaxy 1 being dumbed down to Kirbycore was the only thing holding it back from being better than Galaxy 1.
No, you wouldn't. The Forerunners had time to build a whole fucking Ark. Plus, even if they were overrun, there are still enough people who could be immune that could possibly survive and flee to a safer place.
You don't need to push the kill-us-all button if you can survive the infection. The Flood is dangerous not because it kills things it's because it infects and spreads through things- if you can't do that to you than it's power is meaningless.
Not to mention if immunity is at all possible chances are you could create an agent that tricks The Flood into thinking you are one of them.
Cooper Barnes
>but that isn't something you can just give all of humanity Um, why the fuck not? If one (1) guy is immune to the infection, that means immunization is possible. If there was a guy alive right now that was immune to covid-19, doctors would be trying to create a vaccine from his blood. Oh, wait, immunization is totally a thing and this is exact thing is happening right now in real life, because that's how some vaccines are made.
Let me break it down for y'all simpletons to understand.
There is a zombie plague. You have two choices: Figure out why Ryan is immune and develop a vaccine to prevent new zombies, rally the rest of humanity and kill the last zombies OR You could press a button that kills every human and zombie.
