Anybody remember THIS:
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The important thing here: “If I were a megalomaniac, and I’m not…”
Freudian slip anyone? There’s no way Cortana isn’t hiding something in this line. Bungie planned Cortana’s betrayal way before any of us had any inkling it was going to happen, and they laid it right before our very eyes. She spent all that time, waiting, waiting for the moment to strike against us violent humans and the rest of the universe’s savages, and in Halo 5, that moment came. It’s just really cool to see that Bungie/343i planned all this out so far in advance! So neat, so tidy! So orderly. Logical, even. I’m impressed, Bungie/343i, I am. Thank god 343i had the good sense (and the balls) to carry out such an ambitious, fulfilling arc–after all these years of waiting for the next major installment in the series, after all those years of built up fiction, it’s really nice to see it all paying off the way it is! Kudos, 343i! Really!!
Nope, Nothing has be planned and executed like that across that much time and two different companies. The fact is 343I is making the story somewhere in the middle of the game’s development along a somewhat general idea for a master timeline.
Not by a long shot.
Bungie even seemingly planned to have Cortana betray MC in Halo CE, Two Betrayals if I’m correct, henche the name. I can’t think of anyone else being a “betrayer” other than GS in that mission.
Had this been in the workings since Halo 2, I’m sure that we would have seen more notions towards it. We would not have had Cortana die at the ending of Halo 4. We would not have had i343 tell us Cortana is absolutely dead. We would not have seen the ending of Halo 4 lazily retconned to have the core of The Mantle’s Approach do an emergency slip space jump and Cortana magically ending up on Genesis, while the didact went to Installation 03.
If by some remote chance what you’re saying is true. The build up to Halo 5 is the poorest execution most likely ever (in a serious series) in history to Halo 5’s plot point, and Halo 5 fails spectaculary at explaining that plot twist.
I’m faar more inclined to believe the Halo 5 story is another i343 grand-plan-to-abandon like a child who hatches new ideas halfway through an earlier idea and starts with the new ones instead.
There’s basically nothing in Halo 5 that ties together with Halo 4.
Story team:
“How do we proceed from Halo 4 story wise with our planned time line?”
“Stop the presses and clear your desks people!! I got a new story line for Halo, much better than this one. AI’s revolting against their creators, and Cortana being the leader. Forget everything about the old story line”
“Uuh, what? Why? Please Lead Writer, explain to him why this’d be a bad idea”
Lead Writer: “DOOOO IIIITT, We’ll just do a retcon here, I’ll hastily put the didact on hold in a short comic arc and we don’t mention stuff from Halo 4 at all, yeap, done and done. The gaming world will never know what hit them story wise.”
Oof, jeez… This was intended as a joke thread lol. Guess it didn’t show! My bad…
halo 6 will be the end of cortana or the end of chief can’t wait. and probably bungie was planning the betrayal and made sure 343 had that info for their other games
Spartan´s never die. do you forgot, eehh?
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> Not by a long shot.
> Bungie even seemingly planned to have Cortana betray MC in Halo CE, Two Betrayals if I’m correct, henche the name. I can’t think of anyone else being a “betrayer” other than GS in that mission.
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> Had this been in the workings since Halo 2, I’m sure that we would have seen more notions towards it. We would not have had Cortana die at the ending of Halo 4. We would not have had i343 tell us Cortana is absolutely dead. We would not have seen the ending of Halo 4 lazily retconned to have the core of The Mantle’s Approach do an emergency slip space jump and Cortana magically ending up on Genesis, while the didact went to Installation 03.
>
> If by some remote chance what you’re saying is true. The build up to Halo 5 is the poorest execution most likely ever (in a serious series) in history to Halo 5’s plot point, and Halo 5 fails spectaculary at explaining that plot twist.
>
> I’m faar more inclined to believe the Halo 5 story is another i343 grand-plan-to-abandon like a child who hatches new ideas halfway through an earlier idea and starts with the new ones instead.
>
> There’s basically nothing in Halo 5 that ties together with Halo 4.
>
> Story team:
>
> “How do we proceed from Halo 4 story wise with our planned time line?”
>
> “Stop the presses and clear your desks people!! I got a new story line for Halo, much better than this one. AI’s revolting against their creators, and Cortana being the leader. Forget everything about the old story line”
>
> “Uuh, what? Why? Please Lead Writer, explain to him why this’d be a bad idea”
>
> Lead Writer: “DOOOO IIIITT, We’ll just do a retcon here, I’ll hastily put the didact on hold in a short comic arc and we don’t mention stuff from Halo 4 at all, yeap, done and done. The gaming world will never know what hit them story wise.”
Sounds about right I have to agree
Nope, you’re reading far too much into it.
Edit: I posted after only reading a couple of sentences. After reading the whole OP I guess you’re joking 
Cortana was supposed to betray the MC in Halo CE.
Then again she was also supposed to be a limey.
> 2533274795123910;3:
> Not by a long shot.
> Bungie even seemingly planned to have Cortana betray MC in Halo CE, Two Betrayals if I’m correct, henche the name. I can’t think of anyone else being a “betrayer” other than GS in that mission.
>
> Had this been in the workings since Halo 2, I’m sure that we would have seen more notions towards it. We would not have had Cortana die at the ending of Halo 4. We would not have had i343 tell us Cortana is absolutely dead. We would not have seen the ending of Halo 4 lazily retconned to have the core of The Mantle’s Approach do an emergency slip space jump and Cortana magically ending up on Genesis, while the didact went to Installation 03.
>
> If by some remote chance what you’re saying is true. The build up to Halo 5 is the poorest execution most likely ever (in a serious series) in history to Halo 5’s plot point, and Halo 5 fails spectaculary at explaining that plot twist.
>
> I’m faar more inclined to believe the Halo 5 story is another i343 grand-plan-to-abandon like a child who hatches new ideas halfway through an earlier idea and starts with the new ones instead.
>
> There’s basically nothing in Halo 5 that ties together with Halo 4.
>
> Story team:
>
> “How do we proceed from Halo 4 story wise with our planned time line?”
>
> “Stop the presses and clear your desks people!! I got a new story line for Halo, much better than this one. AI’s revolting against their creators, and Cortana being the leader. Forget everything about the old story line”
>
> “Uuh, what? Why? Please Lead Writer, explain to him why this’d be a bad idea”
>
> Lead Writer: “DOOOO IIIITT, We’ll just do a retcon here, I’ll hastily put the didact on hold in a short comic arc and we don’t mention stuff from Halo 4 at all, yeap, done and done. The gaming world will never know what hit them story wise.”
You forgot to mention that the short comic would be filled with mistakes and bad clichés, all while killing off fan favourite characters! Best. Idea. Ever.