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11/8/2012 9:18:30 PM
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Halo 4 Campaign Cortana (HUGE ENDING SPOILERS)!!
Hi I finished the Halo 4 campaign on Legendary last night and I'm about to spoil the ending so DON'T READ ON IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE CAMPAIGN YET (Huge Spoilers) ALERT
Okay anyway I just wanted to know what everyone's feelings were about Cortana in the game. I liked Cortana in all the other Halo games and in the books. But I can't help but feel like in Halo 4 she was just not the same. She wasn't her quirky self. I also realise that some people will completely disagree with me about this but I found her annoying. The whole rampancy plot was dumb in my opinion I understand the rampancy but the way they went about it was annoying. She would have her sort of fits at the most annoying times and the consistency really wasn't there for me I would of liked to see them add some "fits" when it didn't matter at all and I mean more than a slight voice change or the HUD fluttering there was only a couple instances where she seemed like she was going crazy and it didn't happen at bad moments.
At the end of the game when she, for lack of a better word died I didn't really feel sad(which btw a couple of days ago I would have never dreamed of saying). Anyway the ending scene to me just felt cheesy the whole arm touching thing was a bit overboard.
(Also it was never explained how Cortana saved John at the end so if anyone knows how that actually worked I would appreciate it)
This whole scene sort of reminded me of the Gears of War 3 (SPOILERS FOR GOW3)..... campaign when Dom dies they tried hard to get me to care and didn't allow it to happen naturally and it just ended up being stupid (at least they didn't play Madworld in Halo 4)
Also the whole we have to find Halsey part of it didn't particularly need to be there in the end they should have thought of something else in my opinion. If you have read the books then you would already realise how nearly impossible it would be to find her and that where she is being kept is completely over John's head. So at first I didn't think we would find her at all. But then we ended up going to the base Halsey was held in and I sort of got excited thinking this is it but she is no where to be seen!! The only way you can tell she was there is the intel you find in the hunter room and that it was the same research facility mentioned in the books. (If I missed something that actually pieces this together then please tell me lol)
Okay last bit sorry for the long post :P I just wanted to make sure people know that I do like Cortana I just have some trouble with how she was portrayed in this game.
So I ask everyone here am I the only one who thinks this way and if so.... my bad but I just wanted to know whether I'm alone and a heartless person or whether people agree.
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English major coming in, this might get pedantic and technical. The story of the Master Chief so far (before Halo 4) has been a classical Epic Heroes journey. a.k.a A character who represents the best of his people, fights for those people in reality even when fighting monsters, endures tests and trials that challenges him physically, and at the end somehow sacrifices himself to save/redeem/empower his people. (Think Beowulf or Goku) This is unlike the Chivalric Hero. a.k.a A character who starts with no great power, must make a journey far from home to find his powers, fights in a dream like magical world, faces tests and trials that challenge him mentally/spiritually, returns to his people as the master of two worlds. (Think Luke Skywalker or Bilbo Baggins) Now a concerning trend has began in popular culture, which is never killing off Epic Heroes. Instead the authors simply put them into an ambiguous state at the point they are supposed to die. (i.e. The Chief, Commander Shepard) This is because it is easier to market a character that people are already familiar with. This does not make for good storytelling though, because the Epic Heroes trails are physical. So once the Hero has lifted the largest boulder or defeated the strongest fighters in the worlds there is nothing left for them to overcome. That is when you start getting stories like Dragon Ball Z. After Frieza Goku's journey should have ended (and indeed that arc ended with Goku seemingly dead) but the series didn't end and instead played out the same plot over and over again. The problem here is that once you make the Epic Heroes journey once the following journeys seem more and more pointless (i.e. once you reach Super Saiyan 19 it has really lost all meaning.) The writers at 343 know this though, but they still want to be able to put Master Chief in all the commercials. So they had to figure out an answer to this problem. And the answer is quite simple, take Master Chief (An Epic Hero) and turn him into a Chivalric Hero. This requires a lot a tricky writing though. We have to give Master Chief (a character that has always seemed unflappable) mental/spiritual weaknesses. We have to bring him into a dream like/magical world. And we must give him something to leave home to quest after. (i.e. All the sudden talk about Master Chiefs emotions, the "matrix thing" Cortana teleports Master Chief into, and Cortana being gone) TL;DR The reason you don't like how Master Chief/Cortana are portrayed is because they have been changed from Epic Heroes to Chivalric Heroes.
