This post has been edited by a moderator. Please do not post inappropriate content.
*Original post. Click at your own discretion.
This may have been discussed before; I would look further into it, but I don’t have the time to read every post that has the name, Cortana, in it. Apologies in advance if I’m beating a dead horse.
Down to business…
What in the, (H-E-double-hockey-sticks,) did they do to Cortana in Halo 4??? The game, the environment, and the characters, (good and bad,) were spectacular. The story line could have used a bit here and there, but in general it was a great game and a joy to play/watch… until Cortana lumbered into the scene.
In Combat Evolved, she was low-rez but still incredible. She went through a few high-rez alterations that made her look quite different, but still fantastic, or at least acceptable.
In comes 343…
I don’t know if the art director is an anime fan, (probably… I’ll bet most of the creators and players of Halo are… me included,) but uhhh… Well, it’s obvious, right? Ok, a mildly anime-lookin’ Cortana we can deal with but then someone decided to make her flabby lookin’, big butt draggin’, stupidly crappy posture -I hate crappy posture- not -Yoink!- version of the world’s favorite AI.
There can be arguments that the more, “realistic,” look is a good thing; possibly to get away from the scrawny is -Yoink!- argument, but this is a video game -hellooooo- and Smart AIs don’t have self esteem issues or eating disorders. They’re allowed to have perfect figures, (AND GOOD POSTURE!!!)
I’m in the middle of reading the books, and from what they tell us, smart AIs can choose how they appear. You’d think that if Cortana woke up one morning and said, “Well, golly, I think that I’m gonna make myself look like a teenage girl who’s been packin a little too much lunch for school every day,” she would have mentioned it to Mr one-one-seven somewhere that we -the consumers- would have heard it, right?
Pleasantly plump anime Cortana avatar is a lame idea and made the game difficult to watch during her scenes. Whose idea was it, and where does he live so I can leave a flamin’ bag of poo on his front porch?