Glad to see more and more people jumping on the "Dead-finity" train, as I have decided to call it. It's an awesome feat of engineering from a purely objective stance (I even have the 9" model of it in my collection)... but from a story perspective, it's hard for me to see humanity on the back foot when they have 6 kilometers of plot armor in their back pocket.l Chaos I wrote:There are only two things I really want personally:
- The UNSC INFINITY is destroyed or crippled rendering it out of commission
- Evil Cortana or Cortana stays dead once she is beaten
I completely agree with the end statement, I would absolutely adore for the Gravemind to be using Cortana in Infinite if they choose to bring the Flood back. If the antagonists do not consist of the flood then I really hope she stays dead really.Happy Place8166 wrote:Glad to see more and more people jumping on the "Dead-finity" train, as I have decided to call it. It's an awesome feat of engineering from a purely objective stance (I even have the 9" model of it in my collection)... but from a story perspective, it's hard for me to see humanity on the back foot when they have 6 kilometers of plot armor in their back pocket.l Chaos I wrote:There are only two things I really want personally:
- The UNSC INFINITY is destroyed or crippled rendering it out of commission
- Evil Cortana or Cortana stays dead once she is beaten
As for Cortana, I couldn't agree more. I really could care less what the justification is for her being in H5 and beyond. She died in H4 and should have stayed dead. If the Didact returns in H6 and is revealed to be using Cortana's visage to subjugate humanity to return the Mantle of Responsibility to the Forerunners, then I would find that a step in the right direction. I also wouldn't mind the Gravemind being the one using Cortana's visage. He's done it before, so he can do it again.
So much this. People hated Halo 4 initially and called for something different. Fair enough. So what does 343 do? Hastily tie up a lot of Halo 4's threads either in extended lore or Halo 5's opening mission and focus on something different. Then people hated that and call for Halo 4's threads to return, a Halo CE clone, the Flood (even though that would make 3 pointless), anything else. Now 343 seems like they're going to change again to meet player demands and guess what? People will probably hate it for not respecting what came before, just like with 5. Same thing happened with the DCEU. People called for something different than BvS and what we got was Whedon's Justice League which upset not only BvS haters but also BvS fans who wanted to see Snyder's Justice League realized.Superman Kenobi wrote:Welcome to the forums, OP! Hope you hang around and stay in the discussion as we wind our way towards Infinite :)
My personal biggest wish for the story is that they don't back off or divert from the Chief vs Cortana core to the narrative that we see having been set up at the end of Guardians. It's one of the first really interesting things to happen in the 343i Era, in my opinion. I can easily see them deciding to reverse it, however, whether by simply giving Cortana an early-mid game "change of heart" so the showdown between the Created and the UNSC can't culminate in some sort of finality, or by reintroducing the Flood or some new variation of the Flood to serve as a unifying opponent to get Chief and Cortana on the same side again.
Personally, I think the impending death of Cortana impacted their relationship a lot. Chief was about to lose his closest ally of many years who he had strict orders to protect, which caused him to open up more. Cortana's rampancy would explain her change from buddy to subtly romantic. I didn't pick up any romantic signals from Chief, just Cortana. Like you said, this really is up for interpretation though.Superman Kenobi wrote:I personally thought Halo 4 wasn't particularly "true" to what came before in the Bungie games. That all breaks down to subjective opinion, of course, but it felt to me like Chief and Cortana as characters both started behaving in ways that didn't make sense given their portrayals in CE-H3. Their relationship also seemed, rather suddenly, quite different from what I had taken it to be in the Bungie games. It went from being an intimate working relationship to an intimate relationship with a lot more attendant tenderness than seemed appropriate for their prior dynamic (by my interpretation) of "cop partners".
I see more direct ties to the issue present in the past handful of Star Wars movies, myself. Ignoring a legacy that people reasonably expect to hold some bearing on the future of the series creates these sorts of problems.
I agree! I loved cortana, but they need to stick with the choices they made and just let her go. I am still not a big fan of the crazy story that they went with on Halo 5, but at least it kind of made sense on what happened to her. I hope she is killed and we then have to go and deal with the real enemy... The Floodl Chaos I wrote:There are only two things I really want personally:I personally don't care if the Cortana seen in H5G was a fragment, evil, rampant, controlled or suffering from the Logic Plaue. After she was killed in Halo 4 she should never have returned as just like Serina in Halo Wars. She was a beloved character of mine and while it was sad to see her go in that comic leading up to Halo Wars 2. 343i was at least willing to send her off and she didn't return outside of the HW2 voice recording.
- The UNSC INFINITY is destroyed or crippled rendering it out of commission
- Evil Cortana or Cortana stays dead once she is beaten
Halo Wars 2 for all its faults really displayed the pain in CPT Cutter's expression knowing Serina was gone and that really hit home. 343i can kill off characters at there leisure but to bring them back when the end of artificial intelligence is 7 years for the UNSC. I really don't know what they were thinking but I am not going to go on a rant about that as once Cortana is beaten, she needs to stay dead and gone.
Playable Brutes, most REQ weapons being Firefight and Campaign only (campaign would be secret weapons, firefight idk)WWelchIII wrote:Flood, Brutes, other missing Covenant Species, Classic Music, Classic Armor, talking Covenant that speaks English, No Reqs, unlock Armor or what not by beating a task to unlock it, Campaign Co-op, Campaign Skull’s, Real made 343i made BTB maps not just Forge made maps, give Chief something to do that makes the player feel he is actually saving humanity.
