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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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What I meant for Cortana being annoying is that her fits as I called them only really happened at the worst times in the story for instance when trying to trap the Didact with the towers. I would have liked to see her progress more into rampancy because it didn't feel to me as if she was really dying. When an AI gets rampancy it destroys itself and I didn't really catch that. I mean there were the voice changes and at the very end of the campaign she suddenly got pretty bad but I don't see the progression to that state. I see her at the beginning of rampancy and then the next mission (second last mission) she is really bad and starts mouthing off gibberish which would make snese if there was more progression. I agree with you that the Halsey plot made sense it's just that they didn't really do anything with it apart from mention that they need to find her every now and then. I would have enjoyed it more if they had started to at least find out where she was. Then in the second last mission they could have been like oh hey this is where Halsey was being kept lets try and find her. I think it was a good idea I just don't think it was executed well enough for me to believe that they were ever going to find her and by the end couple missions of the campaign I wasn't even thinking about whether or when we would find Halsey. So in that respect I think they failed. I would have enjoyed them finding at least a couple clues and saying okay we need to go here to find Halsey. It didn't seem like John and Cortana even ended up knowing that Halsey was on the research facility on the second last mission. I understand that the base was top secret ONI but I would have liked them to find clues aboard the station and then realised that a secondary objective is to find Halsey. We now end up wondering whether Halsey is alive or dead (haven't read the book after Glasslands please no spoiler for that lol) I agree I do complain a lot without offering alternate story lines and specifics but I figured that I had already written an essay and people wouldn't really want to read more :P. Ask me about a certain story element I complain about and I will gladly try to explain how I think they could have done it better.
