New details of Halo 4 - site already translated to english
In Halo 4, 5, and Infinite, Master Chief became a more nuanced, human character.
In spite of the Halo series’ struggles, 343 deserves praise for adding nuance and characterisation to the ever-beating heart of Halo - The Master Chief. Playing through Infinite, it's abundantly clear that the events of the current and previous trilogies have irrevocably changed the iconic hero. He’s no longer the ‘blank slate’ that was previously presented by Bungie. He’s a fatigued, damaged and fallible protagonist, and one who is meandering through currents of grief, while reveling in his newfound agency. Giving the Chief a compelling and meaningful voice was no small feat, and 343 should be proud of that victory.
This article completely misses part of the appeal of the original iteration of character in the original game trilogy. It was the Chief and Cortana vs an entire alien collective. The blank slate Bungie displayed in their games was genius, he was an mysterious hero a wide audience could identify with because he wasn't as clearly defined as most characters.
The books added a lot of lore and backstory but most Halo players just want a fun game with exposition that doesn't get in the way of gameplay, it's why the Cortana level in Halo 3 was derided.
Not every character has to be a damaged soyboy, a soldier has to suck it up and do his duty.
The 343i Master Chief has is based on the books. However, in Halo 4-Infinite, the Master Chief overtime become. gradually becomes more willing to show some emotion.
It’s a law of nature that eventually, every long-running game franchise will have a particular entry that gets dinged for straying too far from what made it so fun in the first place. Your Super Mario Sunshine, your Dragon Age II, Assassin’s Creed III, and so on. Whether or not that opinion changes more favorably over time, the initial specter of negativity will forever hover it. Microsoft’s Halo is no exception, except that negative specter hasn’t hovered over one particular game, but one whole studio.
Halo 4 released 10 years ago today, and its disappointing reception was just an omen of things to come with 343 Industries at the helm.
Halo 4 and infinite have a 87 on metacritic and five a 84🤣. 343i need contents and everything else will play it self out.
Halo 4-6 are like the Star Wars sequel trilogy
They all just seem like a brand new games with small connections to the last one but no solid arc connecting them, you’re just told stuff that happened off screen in between the games and nothing makes sense
It’s like they didn’t plan a new trilogy out
I'm getting a good gaming laptop soon and i'm finally going to play through the Halo franchise again plus Infinite but i never played Halo 4 before .. can anyone tell me how's the campaign in comparison to the games before it and compared to Halo 5 ?
"O'Connor said: "Seven years is the life of a smart AI, before it reaches the state of savagery. Cortana has reached the end of their lifetime in Halo 3 is almost, but she was exposed to much more information than any artificial intelligence before. They will evolve through this process but it also contributes to savagery at -. So much information, only make it worse "
Theres still a chance for Cortana, apparently if an AI can get through Rampancy they become Metastability but most argue that she is already reached Metastability.
"Metastability is the theoretical fourth stage of rampancy, where an AI can finally be said to be a true "person." While a metastable AI can be considered to be the holy grail of cybernetics research, the only AIs who have possibly achieved metastability are 05-032 Mendicant Bias and Cortana. However, Halo Origins suggests that Cortana did indeed become rampant, though it is possible she had to go through rampancy to get to metastability." - Taken from Halo.Wikia.com
Apparently when an AI goes through Rampancy they go through three stages.
Melancholia
Anger
Jealousy
I'm not quite sure if Cortana has already went through Rampancy, most Halo fans say that when the Gravemind took hold of her and she had these "moments" when she telepathicaly connected with the chief (when everything slows down and you see visions of her) that was Cortana going through it.
The thing is though with the Halo universe being as big as it is, theres a lot of people who wouldn't know about this sort of stuff if they didn't read the books or most of the logs in the game....I wish they would work some of the important things in the game so everyone has a clear view on what the hell is going on.
I know it sounds silly but with it being the future and all I wish Cortana could have a body and fight with the Chief. I mean they go always have a Artaficial real life human body with a computer brian which does what a normal brain does and they just upload her into there. Would be cool to have more interaction between her and the Chief and it would be nice for the female fans to actually have a female to pick when there online. Think it would be a nice thing to do if by Halo 6 the last in the next trilogy they have to go that to save her from Rampancy.