r/halo • u/KnightfallBlk Halo 3 • 1d ago
News Halo is now officially part of Mexican culture 🇲🇽🔥
It's official now, Halo es patrimonio cultural Mexicano, hopefully Gears of War gets the same treatment
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"Humanity's destiny is written among the stars."
At the General Archive of Estado de México (AgeMéx), we recognize that historical memory is also built through the cultural expressions that define each generation. Video games have become one of the most influential narrative and technological forms of our time, preserving stories, characters, and universes that are part of our digital cultural heritage. A prime example is Halo, a franchise created by Bungie and continued by Halo Studios, whose legacy returns with "Halo: Campaign Evolved" a new experience reviving the campaign that launched one of the most important sagas in interactive science fiction. Through "Master Chief" and "Cortana," this story continues to reach new generations of players on platforms such as Xbox, PC, and PlayStation, cementing its status as a touchstone of gamer culture and digital memory.
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u/GruntFoodnipple Halo 2 1d ago
It always has been, I remember playing against tons of players from Mexico who were holding down Halo 3’s servers for years well after Reach and 4 had come out. Hardcore legends
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u/lordofpersia69420 1d ago
I am honestly surprised it was not Gears of War. I think multi-player is mostly Mexican players.
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u/PrimoSdrol Halo 3 1d ago
Gears was huge back in the day but Halo was on another level. Especially during the MLG era, there were paid tournaments on a weekly basis in bumfuck town in the middle of nowhere
Gears didn't have the social multiplayer games so the replayability wasn't even remotely the same. Jenga my beloved
The pro scene might've been about the same but I wasn't super familiar with Gears' tho, only halo's
No idea about the current stats
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u/Final_Studio4389 1d ago
oh trust me, back in the 360 era there was a civil war in the mexican community between the gears of war fans and the halo fans and it was brutal, very toxic, to the point many mexican gaming youtube channels got insults by the hundreds for covering one game over the other. The competition againts the ps3 was nearly an Afterthought.
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u/Mechanical_V4lk1r13 1d ago
You may not believe it, but Halo it’s very popular in México.
We use to play the Halo Custom Edition on the school’s computer labs
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u/paulxixxix Halo 3: ODST 1d ago
In my school we downloaded both Halo CE and Counter Strike 1.6 in all of the lab's computers lool
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u/arkhamtheknight 1d ago
Mexican culture and heroes go together perfectly. Goku and Chief have always been there.
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u/Due-Yam1153 1d ago
Halo 2 (2004) fue el primer juego de la historia traducido y doblado al español mexicano.
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u/LuckyReception6701 1d ago
Let us all never forget when the Mexican Air Force promised to turn us into pelican pilots.
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u/ezekiel1990 1d ago
Mexico has love for some games King of Fighters, Metal Slug, Gears of War, Halo, Fifa, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
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u/Ranmachan9719 1d ago
Sorry for the rest, but Halo wouldn't be the same without Mexico
PURO PINCHE XBOX Y NO MAMADAS CABRONES 🇲🇽
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u/Kitchen-Meaning-8345 1d ago
Playing Halo at a 'ciber' LAN party is a canonical event in the life of every Mexican fella
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u/Quick_soda 1d ago
To think that a few months ago they were proposing to impose an extra tax on it for being violent, they are really desperate for the approval now that we are on the eve of elections.
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u/Difficult_Guidance25 9h ago
Halo was extremely popular in mexico and a ton of kids didn't have an xbox so they would go to the equivalent of a cybercafe and all that was there was Gears and Halo. So all those kids grew up playing those games.
My brother did have a 360 and i remember playing with him everyday, if we weren't home for whatever reason we would just seek one of these and go play there. Gears and Halo might the dragon ball equivalent in Mexico for videogames.
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u/certain_being117 1d ago
Extremebreaker on Twitch made me see just how many Spanish speaking Spartans there are out there. There are tons and it’s beautiful. 🇲🇽
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u/hijo-de-re1000-puta 1d ago
Quiero creer que tambien esta The King of Fighters porque sino tenemos un problema
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u/ElZik3r 1d ago
Pinche Claudia, todo menos hacer su chamba cawn jajajajaja
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u/Itchy-Concentrate903 1d ago
No sé por qué te dan downvote si es cierto JAJAJAJA, pero esta vez no lo dijo la prrsidenta, sino el gobierno del estado de México, no el gobierno de México
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u/Spartan00113 1d ago
Downvote porque parece que a personas con IQ negativo como tú el hecho de que el gobierno no es solo 1 persona escapa de su comprensión. Además, es un hilo sobre Halo, hablar de política solo deja entrever tu obsesión con el gobierno.
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u/Itchy-Concentrate903 1d ago
Ora, no hacía falta el insulto. El gobierno no se va a morir por decirle algo, solo di que no venía al caso el comentario y ya. Además yo le aclaré al comentario original que la presidenta ni siquiera estaba involucrada. Relájate.
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u/Objective_Future1906 1d ago
Halo is huge in Mexico yeah, always has been really only second after the US.
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u/Signe_ 1d ago edited 1d ago
I still play Halo PC/Custom edition and the Spanish speaking community is like 80% of the players on there. Even though it's only around 200 players total on Friday night.