4 was good, but the last mission rustled my jimmies when the nuke went off. The chief should not of been able to survive the nuke. I mean, if the hard light is that good of a shield, why was the ship not surrounded by it? It may be able to repair itself, but still... If chief had of just jumped through one of the portals instead of performing a miracle, it would of been great.
I read an answer to this somewhere. It was something about Cortana essentially being able to physically manipulate hard light and used it to form a shield to protect Chief from the blast. I'd have to find where I read that again.
So I guess it wasn't so much Chief performing miracles as it was Cortana just being an absolute badass in her last moments.