Former Bungie composer reckons he can enter Congress against impossible odds no problem because it'll be 'a walk in the park compared to making Halo 2'

Marty O'Donnell, the Halo composer fired by Bungie in 2014 and—the way things have been going—possible future potentate of the United States, announced his intention to run for Congress as a Republican in Nevada a few months ago. Now, in an interview with the controversial far-right newspaper The Epoch Times (via Kotaku), he's explained why he thinks he can pull it off: "I'm a gamer, so I intend to win."

"I'm not going to lose because somebody thinks they can spend more money than me, because they can't," said O'Donnell, who faces six other candidates in the upcoming June 11 Republican primary for Nevada's third congressional district. O'Donnell faces quite the funding gap against both his Republican competitors and the district's incumbent Democratic representative, Susie Lee, but reckons his gaming experience gives him an edge they lack.

In fact, O'Donnell reckons a lot of the lessons he learnt in game development can be brought into government. "What I see happening in Congress is like a walk in the park compared to making Halo 2," the former composer told his interviewer, and promised to break up a stagnant and homogenous political sphere with his candidacy: "You don’t want 10 engineers making the game. You want an engineer, an artist, an animator, a composer, a writer, a designer—you want people who just approach the world differently.