Why was the Diact telekinetic?
Nope, the Forerunner tech gives him ability to manipulate certain energy fields. Very normal for Forerunner Warrior-Servants.
Why was the Diact telekinetic?
She clearly said most of her is "down there" referring to the just nuked space ship. I think it's going to be shitty if they just bring that Cortana back. They had their moment. She died. Leave it at that. Move on to something else.
Not sure at all. This is only what I've gathered from people who have read Halsey's notes from Reach.Hold on. Wait.
You mean ever since Reach came out I didn't know that it overwrote a good third of First Strike? Incredible.
I mean, First Strike is a ridiculous book for a variety of reasons, and Jun getting Halsey off the planet makes "more sense," but c'mon.
That doesn't retcon anything about Halsey though...
I thought it was Jun that helped her get off Reach. Emile died in the game, but Jun took off.
yep. a tiny dent on an otherwise awesome end sequence. my worst nightmare is for chief to get Other M'd. SO MANY FEELINGS I MUST EXPRESS THEM
Right there with you. That ending QTE might be one of the lamest things I've seen in a Halo game. 1: Its a QTE, and so you have next to zero interaction with whats going on. 2: In co-op, everybody gets to sit and watch player one hit X.After a few days of reflection is all I can say is that I hope 343 back-off from trying to expand on the story if it means shitty QTEs.
Lame, bothered me at the time, but much more now, really vexes me.
There has to be a better way of integrating story in the game medium than fucking QTEs, but if there isn't then the story can go to fuck as far as I'm concerned - and I say this as someone that has all the Halo expanded universe books and is really looking forward to Silentium.
Death to QTEs! At least in Halo anyway...please Frankie & co, keep them out of Halo 5 & 6....
I would like to see BB (AI in Glasslands and The Thursday War) as Chief's AI, and it's a possibility as both books have emphasised BB's disdain for adopting a human avatar, and that might be an interesting counterpoint to Cortana - although BB has shown that he is intrigued by being Naomi's AI, and also has some kind of distaste for Cortana as well.
Of course, BB might be pushing rampancy by Halo 5 too...
Thankfully there were barely any QTEs and I don't think they are required at all to expand the Halo story.
There should be NONE, and I think that was exactly why they were introduced - to try and push a more 'cinematic' story. The story was great with cutscenes and exposition, without the need for rubbish QTEs.
As someone who hasn't read any books but has decent knowledge of Halo expanded universe, I was under the impression that MC was the last Spartan after what happened on Reach. That woman on Infinity in Spartan armor (forgot her name), is she a Spartan? They don't make a big deal about it but when I saw another Spartan it seemed like it should have been at least acknowledged or explained how she exists.
so that place in the ending where the pelican lands and some dudes come out, Is that supposed to be where composer fired at Earth? or is it not related.
so that place in the ending where the pelican lands and some dudes come out, Is that supposed to be where composer fired at Earth? or is it not related.
She is a spartan IV. I believe they were commissioned after the events of 3.
The MC is the last known survivor of the spartan II program.
Yup. The smoking piles of ashes kinda give it away.
The IV's were actually active before the end of the war, but only in very slight numbers, guarding Infinity.
And there's more II's left than just the Chief: Linda, Kelly, Fred and Naomi come to mind.
Yep, Halopedia also has an extensive list of who is still alive.The IV's were actually active before the end of the war, but only in very slight numbers, guarding Infinity.
And there's more II's left than just the Chief: Linda, Kelly, Fred and Naomi come to mind.
But when and where does that Didact monologue take place?- I assume the Didact still lives? Because you hear his voice at the end of the game.
Didact said:In this hour of victory we taste only defeat.
I ask why?
We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists.
The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending.
Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil.
Our strength is a luminous sun towards which all intelligence blossoms, and the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered.
I stand before you, accused of the sin of insuring the Forerunner ascendancy.
Of attempting to save us from the fate where we are forced to recede.
Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool's gambit.
We squander eons in the darkness while they seize our triumphs for their own.
The mantle of responsibility for all things belongs to Forerunners alone.
Think of my acts as you will, but do not doubt the reality. The reclamation has already begun.
And we are hopeless to stop it.
I have mixed feelings for them in Halo. I do welcome it in Halo 4 but I (at least) expected 343 to mix up the Boss Battle with Didact. Ex. Plant Grenade. Blasts His Builder Armor. Followed By A Fuck You Right Hook! Or BR Spread until his armor breaks to disrupt his Telekinetic Powers and toss Prom Nades, or something relatively awesome. That sounds abit satisfying, imo.There should be NONE, and I think that was exactly why they were introduced - to try and push a more 'cinematic' story. The story was great with cutscenes and exposition, without the need for rubbish QTEs.
Press 'A' to win is the antithesis of what made Halo great IMO.
But when and where does that Didact monologue take place?
Edit: I'd guess it was before he was sentenced to imprisonment in Requiem? His last words before being released by the Chief?
But then who is he talking to? Who is he standing before? And what hour of victory? Seems like he's making the case among his own kind that they should have wiped out humanity while they had the chance. Something he seemed intent to do before being imprisoned.The voice-over is when you see the pelicans land on Earth. You can see the "ash corpses" from the Forerunner beam so I assume it's after...
so that place in the ending where the pelican lands and some dudes come out, Is that supposed to be where composer fired at Earth? or is it not related.
To Chief, I think? He speaks to him pretty much the whole last level, Chief even ask Cortana is she can hear the Didact but she hears nothing.But then who is he talking to? Who is he standing before? And what hour of victory? Seems like he's making the case among his own kind that they should have wiped out humanity while they had the chance. Something he seemed intent to do before being imprisoned.
But then who is he talking to? Who is he standing before? And what hour of victory? Seems like he's making the case among his own kind that they should have wiped out humanity while they had the chance. Something he seemed intent to do before being imprisoned.
I think they're being a bit poetic here. Also, ending the game with the chief removing his battle suit contrasts nicely with Didact's first scene, putting his battlesuit on.
Could be, but Didact's use of "they" when referring to humanity makes me think he's speaking to his own.To Chief, I think? He speaks to him pretty much the whole last level, Chief even ask Cortana is she can hear the Didact but she hears nothing.
Makes the most sense to me, yep. I think they wanted to show some of the cost of this latest battle.Yeah the voiceover is from the past, but the footage is from the present.
But then who is he talking to? Who is he standing before? And what hour of victory? Seems like he's making the case among his own kind that they should have wiped out humanity while they had the chance. Something he seemed intent to do before being imprisoned.
I think they're being a bit poetic here. Also, ending the game with the chief removing his battle skin contrasts nicely with Didact's first scene, where he dons his own battle skin piece by piece, Forerunner style.
Was New Phoenix the area that was hit? They refer to that location in Spartan Ops.
I think he is speaking to Chief, because Didact said earlier in the game that Chief still has not taken control of them (the scene where we first meet the Didact, with "they" in that scene he references the Covenant and Prometheans). Maybe he sees Chief as some kind of leader/master?Could be, but Didact's use of "they" when referring to humanity makes me think he's speaking to his own.
Why do people insist on cutting onions when Cortana says goodbye.
That was brutal.
Well, presuming we'll see more of Halsey, maybe 343 thought it might be weird to have both Halsey and Cortana speaking in the same game.I'm going to miss the FUCK out of her sarcastic attitude. Death of a legend indeed.
To Chief, I think? He speaks to him pretty much the whole last level, Chief even ask Cortana is she can hear the Didact but she hears nothing.
Not too up on the fiction, but what are the chances he's talking to other high ranking forerunners?
I would have preferred to fight actual forerunner soldiers instead of the promethean Ais.
Akin to this:
People actually think Cortana's gone for good? No way is 343 going to let the second biggest character in their franchise go out like that, especially in the first game of a new trilogy.
Not too up on the fiction, but what are the chances he's talking to other high ranking forerunners?
I would have preferred to fight actual forerunner soldiers instead of the promethean Ais.
Akin to this:
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In the past: very high.
In the present: impossibly, shark jumpingly low.
To make a conflict with actual Forerunners work, they would have to bring back a [B]significant [/B]number of them. They would have to outnumber what's left of Halo's current spacefaring civilizations to make the cost of war anything but stupidly suicidal, and a similarly huge number of them would have to support the Didact's xenophobic crusade, which in theory should go against their entire belief system. It just wouldn't work.
HOW DID CHIEF SURVIVE THE NUKE
I wanted a metroid prime-like boss battle with didact.Right there with you. That ending QTE might be one of the lamest things I've seen in a Halo game. 1: Its a QTE, and so you have next to zero interaction with whats going on. 2: In co-op, everybody gets to sit and watch player one hit X.
Very Un-Halo, dude.
I wanted a metroid prime-like boss battle with didact.
so disappointing, great campaign otherwise
Everything that happened after the initial Composer blast was just John dreaming. He dreamt he was doing the Star Wars trench run before ending it with the Didact Modern Warfare 2 style. Just as things started to get touchy-feely with Cortana he woke up and found himself floating in space debris.HOW DID CHIEF SURVIVE THE NUKE
Everything that happened after the initial Composer blast was just John dreaming. He dreamt he was doing the Star Wars trench run before ending it with the Didact Modern Warfare 2 style. Just as things started to get touchy-feely with Cortana he woke up and found himself floating in space debris.
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- Old Cortana becomes some super AI, eventually turns into fully human. MC and Cortana bang.
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I also just rewatched Cortana's death scene and there are SO many times when Chief doesn't need to say a damn thing because his slight movements reveal his inflections to what Cortana is saying. It is SO awkward.
I don't see any place this is true. I think Chief's lines are delivered poorly a couple of times in that scene (which may be intentional), but his end of the conversation needs to exist. It just seems like you're trying too hard to cut a VGCats down to three panels here.
I just completed the game (loved it), however a few things that were vague to me:
- Why was the covenant on Requiem?
- Why are the elite's back?
- I assume the Didact still lives? Because you hear his voice at the end of the game.
- Is there any reason why they were so harsh against the Chief when they found him (especially the captain)? He saved the world... He got handled like trash, is it because they are/were building a (new) spartan army? In the prologue they are talking that the Chief is replaceable.
As someone who hasn't read any books but has decent knowledge of Halo expanded universe, I was under the impression that MC was the last Spartan after what happened on Reach. That woman on Infinity in Spartan armor (forgot her name), is she a Spartan? They don't make a big deal about it but when I saw another Spartan it seemed like it should have been at least acknowledged or explained how she exists.