Escherums speech to masterchief. I won’t lie it was easy to beat your people. Your people are broken defeated scattered and hunted. My adding we have the numbers Spartan. Masterchief to eschuem then it is an even fight
One thing that interests me during the ‘speech’ is Escharum saying “this is my last fight”. Why does he say that?
Escharum it appears is thinking about Retirement, time to pass the torch of command. …Plausibly correct.
I’m just excited that an esteemed Brute warrior is essentially challenging John to a -Yoink!- contest. I’ve gone on the record many times saying that I didn’t appreciate the Didact and how it felt like 343i was trying to set him up as Master Chief’s supervillain arch-nemesis, but to me, this is different.
The Didact had no respect or regard for John’s reputation as humanity’s best soldier- to him, Chief was just one more annoying human obstacle trying to play at Reclaimer. On top of the fact that Chief isn’t a superhero character, Didact isn’t a good foil for him anyways. Chief is objective oriented and very grounded. He doesn’t often engage with emotions like pride and anger-- mostly due to his rigorous conditioning as a Spartan. And nobody, ever, has shoved him down and spit in his face like Escharum seems to have.
Where the Didact was a primordial and vastly overpowering opponent to John, Escharum has been on the other side of the same conflict Chief has for the past decades. The Didact looked down on Chief, but it was with an impersonal disdain. Escharum is calling Chief out for a 1v1.
I’m super excited to see how Chief deals with this relatively novel experience of being personally challenged as a man, warrior, and champion of his “tribe”, rather than a soldier. It’s exactly the kind of situation that will allow for some really cool, new organic character development for John.
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> One thing that interests me during the ‘speech’ is Escharum saying “this is my last fight”. Why does he say that?
I’d say because he’s an older warrior (the scaring on his face suggests he’s fought plenty before). He wants one last fight so he can die a warrior’s death.
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> I’m just excited that an esteemed Brute warrior is essentially challenging John to a -Yoink!- contest. I’ve gone on the record many times saying that I didn’t appreciate the Didact and how it felt like 343i was trying to set him up as Master Chief’s supervillain arch-nemesis, but to me, this is different.
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> The Didact had no respect or regard for John’s reputation as humanity’s best soldier- to him, Chief was just one more annoying human obstacle trying to play at Reclaimer. On top of the fact that Chief isn’t a superhero character, Didact isn’t a good foil for him anyways. Chief is objective oriented and very grounded. He doesn’t often engage with emotions like pride and anger-- mostly due to his rigorous conditioning as a Spartan. And nobody, ever, has shoved him down and spit in his face like Escharum seems to have.
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> Where the Didact was a primordial and vastly overpowering opponent to John, Escharum has been on the other side of the same conflict Chief has for the past decades. The Didact looked down on Chief, but it was with an impersonal disdain. Escharum is calling Chief out for a 1v1.
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> I’m super excited to see how Chief deals with this relatively novel experience of being personally challenged as a man, warrior, and champion of his “tribe”, rather than a soldier. It’s exactly the kind of situation that will allow for some really cool, new organic character development for John.
Didact did start to have more appreciation for the masterchief as the game went on. But he’s a full rate Promethean with super advanced technology. Masterchief won on his “luck”
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> > One thing that interests me during the ‘speech’ is Escharum saying “this is my last fight”. Why does he say that?
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> I’d say because he’s an older warrior (the scaring on his face suggests he’s fought plenty before). He wants one last fight so he can die a warrior’s death.
That sounds very plausible and more likely than what I was thinking: he knows he can’t beat the Chief, therefore this fight would be his last one. Well, now I thought of something else from that speech. Escharum mentions a ‘harbinger’ whose goal is the same as the Banished. Who could this harbinger be? Cortana? The Warden Eternal? …the Monitor of the installation?!
What I don’t get is why use a new Brute when Atriox was perfectly fine. I mean, we all know this game ends with a Chief vs Escharum boss fight that the latter will lose, right? The stakes aren’t very high as far as I’m concerned. With Atriox at least the end wouldn’t have been certain. And also I don’t like the fact that Escharum seemingly overshadows Cortana’s galactic invasion (again, the stakes are really low in comparison). It also doesn’t help that he looks like an orc, but that’s another matter
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> What I don’t get is why use a new Brute when Atriox was perfectly fine. I mean, we all know this game ends with a Chief vs Escharum boss fight that the latter will lose, right?
Given 343i’s track record, I would t be surprised if we kill him in the very next mission
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> > What I don’t get is why use a new Brute when Atriox was perfectly fine. I mean, we all know this game ends with a Chief vs Escharum boss fight that the latter will lose, right?
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> Given 343i’s track record, I would t be surprised if we kill him in the very next mission
I imagine it would go like this…Atriox yells "kill them! Then proceeds to get destroyed several seconds later while putting up zero resistance. All during a cutscene, of course