Did they ruin cortana in halo 4?

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It seems like cortana in halo 4 is a completely different cortana than in the previous halo games. The way she looks, the way she acts, and the ways she talks in halo 4 is much different than previous halo games. She just seems weaker and more vulnerable. Yes, I know, she is going rampant and is starting to go crazy, but she doesn’t have the same personality that she did in previous games, nor does she look the same.

Even though she looks nice in halo 4, she looks very sexualized, I got way too distracted by her body while playing the game or watching cutscenes, and that isn’t a good thing. Why didn’t they just keep the look she had in all the other games? In halo 2 anniversary, she looked perfect in my opinion, the way cortana is supposed to look.

Also, she was confident and had a personality in the old games, in halo 4, she is mopey and acts helpless with no sense of humor. Again, I know she is going rampant but she should still act and look like cortana at least a little. My main point is that the cortana in halo 4 strays away from the original cortana in previous games and doesn’t seem like the same person at all.

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You are aware that she was dying and becoming rampant right. Thats why she acted diffrently than before

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> You are aware that she was dying and becoming rampant right. Thats why she acted diffrently than before

Yes, I am very aware. Did you even read the whole post???

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My apologies, but thats pretty much mopey and helpless, because she can’t control herself and she cant stop her rampant sides

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Like you said, she was distressed about her imminent death, plus her rising inefficiency in her goal of aiding Chief. Wouldn’t you be acting differently, less confidently?

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She’s in a very different state than she was in the previous games. She was also pretty grim in h3 before chief saved her. It’s also 4 years later rather than over the course of like 4 months.

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I was just thinking this he other day as well, Rampancy aside she was a completely different character. It made it hard for me to connect with her like I did in the past games.

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> It seems like cortana in halo 4 is a completely different cortana than in the previous halo games. The way she looks, the way she acts, and the ways she talks in halo 4 is much different than previous halo games. She just seems weaker and more vulnerable. Yes, I know, she is going rampant and is starting to go crazy, but she doesn’t have the same personality that she did in previous games, nor does she look the same.

You said it yourself, she is going rampant. She isn’t thinking straight, she acts irrational, she causes problems for the Chief. How else is that supposed to be portrayed in a way that actually seems believable? She can’t be her normal, plucky self because she is deteriorating and knows it. That is the point. A lot of that comes from Josh Holmes’ experiences with his mother suffering dementia. That disease changes people and rampancy is the closest thing to dementia an AI can experience.

> Also, she was confident and had a personality in the old games, in halo 4, she is mopey and acts helpless with no sense of humor. Again, I know she is going rampant but she should still act and look like cortana at least a little.

How exactly is someone supposed to beam with confidence when they know they are going to die and there is nothing they can do to truly prevent it?

> My main point is that the cortana in halo 4 strays away from the original cortana in previous games and doesn’t seem like the same person at all.

Of course she does, but why is that a bad thing? Honestly, this Cortana much more reflects the in-depth Cortana from the books. With rampancy swiftly descending on Cortana, we see her performance begin to degrade. Her manner of behavior is that of denial. Early on she does have hope that she can be saved when she supports the notion that Dr. Halsey can fix her, but then she becomes more depressed as the story goes on and becomes prone to intense anger and irrationality. Finally, at the conclusion of the story she accepts her fate and does what she can to save the one she was made to protect, John. She uses the last of her power to save him and then fades away asking for John to come out of his shell of a machine and be human.

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The reason the Halo 4 Cortana looks different is because it is the first time Cortana’s face was created with a real actress’s mo-cap performance and likeness. I personally like how she looks in Halo 4 and did not find it any more distracting than prior Halo games.

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> Like you said, she was distressed about her imminent death, plus her rising inefficiency in her goal of aiding Chief. Wouldn’t you be acting differently, less confidently?

Yeah but I’m talking about her personality and her look. She didn’t act like cortana at all in halo 4 in my opinion. Also, they should’ve kept her original design, yeah she was -Yoink!- as hell in halo 4, but that’s not how she looked in past games.

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> Yeah but I’m talking about her personality and her look. She didn’t act like cortana at all in halo 4 in my opinion. Also, they should’ve kept her original design, yeah she was -Yoink!- as hell in halo 4, but that’s not how she looked in past games.

The redesign came across as complete pandering to fanboys. It was obnoxious tbh, I’m glad BLUR didn’t go down that road with H2A.

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> > Yeah but I’m talking about her personality and her look. She didn’t act like cortana at all in halo 4 in my opinion. Also, they should’ve kept her original design, yeah she was -Yoink!- as hell in halo 4, but that’s not how she looked in past games.
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> The redesign came across as complete pandering to fanboys. It was obnoxious tbh, I’m glad BLUR didn’t go down that road with H2A.

If you note, a large emphasis on Halo 4 is the Chief and Cortana’s relationship. 343i advertised as being a mother-son one, which makes sense when you look at her appearance. It bears resemblance to the classic interpretation of Gaia, mother of the Earth.

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> > Like you said, she was distressed about her imminent death, plus her rising inefficiency in her goal of aiding Chief. Wouldn’t you be acting differently, less confidently?
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> Yeah but I’m talking about her personality and her look. She didn’t act like cortana at all in halo 4 in my opinion. Also, they should’ve kept her original design, yeah she was -Yoink!- as hell in halo 4, but that’s not how she looked in past games.

And what exactly IS Cortana’s personality? Witty, playful and sarcastic? Sure, I expect that when she isn’t either being tormented by the Flood (Halo 3) and going through rampancy (Halo 4). You say they ruined her, but I think they had Cortana reflect her position and current experience.

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> > > Yeah but I’m talking about her personality and her look. She didn’t act like cortana at all in halo 4 in my opinion. Also, they should’ve kept her original design, yeah she was -Yoink!- as hell in halo 4, but that’s not how she looked in past games.
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> If you note, a large emphasis on Halo 4 is the Chief and Cortana’s relationship. 343i advertised as being a mother-son one, which makes sense when you look at her appearance. It bears resemblance to the classic interpretation of Gaia, mother of the Earth.

Where did they advertise it as such?.. Because I got an entirely different perception of their relationship.

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They simply changed the design of her looks, that’s all. And as for her personality, like YOU and many others have said, she was going rampant. In fact I thought it was a great change considering the context of the situation. If she was all happy go lucky, witty, sarcastic and snarky like she was previously, how would I feel anything at all for her falling into rampancy and essentially dying? It added that much more emotion to the game, with the culmination of the ending, and I thought it was great, though very sad.

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> It seems like cortana in halo 4 is a completely different cortana than in the previous halo games. The way she looks, the way she acts, and the ways she talks in halo 4 is much different than previous halo games. She just seems weaker and more vulnerable. Yes, I know, she is going rampant and is starting to go crazy, but she doesn’t have the same personality that she did in previous games, nor does she look the same.
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> Even though she looks nice in halo 4, she looks very sexualized, I got way too distracted by her body while playing the game or watching cutscenes, and that isn’t a good thing. Why didn’t they just keep the look she had in all the other games? In halo 2 anniversary, she looked perfect in my opinion, the way cortana is supposed to look.
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> Also, she was confident and had a personality in the old games, in halo 4, she is mopey and acts helpless with no sense of humor. Again, I know she is going rampant but she should still act and look like cortana at least a little. My main point is that the cortana in halo 4 strays away from the original cortana in previous games and doesn’t seem like the same person at all.

> The way she looks

Which changes,every,single,game.

> the way she acts

She acts just as Cortana always has.

> but she doesn’t have the same personality that she did in previous games

What exact line leads you to think this? As for the latter,she always changes and in the novels made it clear she could.

> Even though she looks nice in halo 4, she looks very sexualized

She is a computer program there isn’t any reason for her to “cover up” with fake clothes because she is a program. I’d also suggest you re-play Halo 2 with this statement in mind.

> Also, she was confident and had a personality in the old games, in halo 4, she is mopey and acts helpless with no sense of humor. Again, I know she is going rampant but she should still act and look like cortana at least a little.

I don’t understand why you make a claim then follow up with “I know she is rampant” as if that isn’t a legit reasoning. Like, I am sure if you though any second could be your last it wouldn’t be filled with puppy dogs and rainbows while getting shot at. There are plenty of little humorous snippets within Halo 4,but the environment as a whole is more serious.

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Aside of her rampancy,
The new environment Cortana & the Chief were in was a big surprise and discovery,
It added pressure on Cortana since she was fighting her rampancy, discovering the new environment and helping chief.

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As other have stated several times, she is dying and in a way going insane.

As for the physical aspect, she looks the most realistic in h4 imho. She has more realistic curves I think.

You want a sexualized cortana? Look at h3, her -Yoink!- and butt were very curvy and accentuated.

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It did seem too much of a romance story during the events of H4. But hey…she dead?

Edit: Added question mark…as there might be a possibility of survival.

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> It did seem too much of a romance story during the events of H4. But hey…she dead.

Romance? I don’t see how people can get that impression at all.