| Carl2291 said: Read the books and you will see Master Chief aint over rated. |
And also directed towards Kowenicki, as he said something similar:
This is a ridiculous argument. I should not have to read multiple novels to get a comprehensive understanding of a videogame series. This discussion is about the gaming industry, the books have no reason to be considered.
Past that, in using this defense even Halo fans acknowledge how poor a characterization Master Chief is throughout the series. As the article states, you could replace him with nearly any generic action hero and no one would know the difference.
I apologize for this off-topic mini-rant, but I'm sick of that defense.
EDIT: Also, in defense of Mario/Link, it's a similar situation as in my comment to Pacman: Not many play their games because the characters are complex or relateable (Maybe some do in regards to Link - and he'd be overrated in that sense).
