NOTE: I’m not very familiar with his personality in the books (havent read many) so I’m mostly just basing this on what I’ve seen from the games. also, I’m not just talking about him in halo 4
Has anyone ever thought this also? as if in cutscene, the chief is such a nice, harmless guy, and not the seemingly invincible killing machine we make him to be when we play as him. I still remember the first time I heard his voice, thinking “I know he’s who I play as, but it’s like there are 2 different people”.
when I see chief in cutscenes, I just cant imagine him killing anything. has anyone else had this feeling?
He’s designed to be hyper lethal. He wears powered armour that most people can’t wear. He has a smart A.I. in his suit that helps him become even more deadly.
He’s the farthest thing from harmless.
If he wasn’t a Spartan, he might have been a nice guy but he doesn’t seem harmless.
Chief is a nice guy. He’s mostly harmless as long as you’re not actively trying to kill him. Then his training takes over and he is an unstoppable killing-machine.
He’s quiet. I usually think the quiet ones are the harmless ones because they don’t usually give their input. But, yes, OP I agree with you, regardless of his appearance.
> Chief is a nice guy. He’s mostly harmless as long as you’re not actively trying to kill him. Then his training takes over and he is an unstoppable killing-machine.
This made me laugh a bit, +1 for the good description.
Chief is a great guy though. Saved a little girl from drowning in a pond, and promised he’d marry her so he could always protect her. A photo of the two was taken shortly after, and she held onto it ever since, even after it was believed he died (the flash clone). Obviously the spartan program changed that promise, being abducted at 6 and all.
However, he ran into the girl (now a woman) later during the battle for Mombosa, who was a Marine Lt coordinating the city’s defenses at a hotel next to Beria Plaza.
“At the time, Parisa was holding the picture of herself and John as children. Just as John was intending to remind Parisa to not bring personal items to a combat zone, he recognized the picture. Parisa, obviously not recognizing John because of his armor, explained the story behind the picture to him. Despite the sudden flood of memories, John couldn’t bring himself to reveal who he was, knowing that doing so would be detrimental to his own morale and the morale of their soldiers, as well as being a massive security breach for ONI. Instead he mantained his stoic facade and the two of them began planning a counterattack to the Covenant.[1]”
the Chief in Halo 4 has quite a different personality from Halo 3.
Whenever I saw him in Halo 3 , only one phrase came into my mind ,“ultra quiet badass unstoppable one man death squad”
now in Halo 4, Chief has managed to invoke more sympathy than all of the other games combined…in Halo 4 I totally began to care for him.
> the Chief in Halo 4 has quite a different personality from Halo 3.
> Whenever I saw him in Halo 3 , only one phrase came into my mind ,“ultra quiet badass unstoppable one man death squad”
> now in Halo 4, Chief has managed to invoke more sympathy than all of the other games combined…in Halo 4 I totally began to care for him.
i think the reason for this is that he was separated from cortana. he almost had nothing to say without her. he barely said a word even to the arbiter who he had a humorous word with gravemind during halo2. halo 2 also had great lines from him like “sir, permission to leave the station.”
“for what purpose, master chief?”
“to give the covenant back their bomb,” That was brilliant.
-He does appear harmless because you never see him acting violent towards anything ever (outside of gameplay that is)…I’d say The Package was the most actions they’ve shown (until FUD), and even there Fred and Kelly were the ones really laying the hurt.
-It really always bothered me cause in the books Spartans are so fast and lethal yet in the games they haven’t even been allowed to run until recently. (the one starry night commercial for Halo 3 where he activates the bubble shield then sprints into a field of brutes got you hyped up)
> Only in the very last minutes of Halo 4 do I feel like he’s harmless.
Can you imagine if someone badmouthed Cortana in that last scene, I imagine he still would’ve been able to lay out every single Spartan IV in the room.
I only wish Halo 5 would be the new Halo 2. We’ve had our Halo:CE Covies with Halo 4, now we need the 5th to give em some english voiceacting and internal portrayal as well. ( Halo 2 opening <3 )
> He’s quiet. I usually think the quiet ones are the harmless ones because they don’t usually give their input. But, yes, OP I agree with you, regardless of his appearance.
Master Chief was just a cold hearted unstoppable killing machine in Halo 3 because he wasn’t with Cortana. Personally, I think he felt quite guilty when Sgt. Johnson asked him about Cortana’s whereabouts at the start of Halo 3. Master Chief’s personality changed a lot in Halo 4 because he already lost Cortana once and he wasn’t ready to lose her again.
