I want to fight the Master Chief. He’s on the run with Locke tracking him down, that much we know. It would be like penultimate boss battle to go against the Chief mano a mano. And give him missile karate-chop moves he had in “The Fall of Reach.” I think it would be cool to chase Chief down while he’s putting obstacles in your way before the battle begins as well.
Also, take out Ordinance Drops. Replace D-Pad functions with selecting your “Spartan Ability,” which ALL players would have by default, then using the bumper to activate it.
H5G plot isn’t MC going rouge it’s MC has gone missing and the best way to explain it is to say that MC is like Mario and Locke is like Luigi and H5G is Luigi’s Mansion and/or Mario is Missing. If MC is in H5G, his role is only going to be a minimal role I’m assuming.
> As far as we are aware, Locke is working with Mr Arby to find chief to save [something].
This.
Also there is no way to do an in game fight against the Chief well. You would either lose and thus make the Chief too overpowered or you win and therefore show that the new character is better than the Chief, upsetting people.
A small cutscene confrontation might work but could still suffer from the above problems.
I don’t think this would work unless MC got some serious superpowers (which is a distinct possibility with all the forerunner stuff flying around at the moment.) Otherwise it would just be an ordinary MP pvp match that lasts a minute at most, with maybe some environmental stuff to embellish it.
We don’t yet know whether MC is being hunted so he can help with something or so that they can remove him from the equation completely, but I’m inclined towards the latter. If there’s two things I love in a story, they’re moral villains and insane protagonists. If MC went insane due to all the stress he’s been under recently, it would open up so much potential character development.
Err, where did you get the idea that the Chief has gone rogue and is being hunted? Last I checked, he was reunited with his team and had absolutely no reason to suddenly turn his back on humanity. Even if he found out that ONI tried to assassinate Dr. Halsey, I don’t think it would be enough for him to go crazy and abandon his whole species.
No, Locke is searching for Chief since he needs him to save humanity once again. If Chief is gone somewhere, it’s clearly in the best interest of humanity. Perhaps he’s hunting the Didact, or trying to find Mendicant Bias. But he most certainly didn’t peace off because he suddenly went rogue.
> Goodness, I hope not. That would be so lame and cliche.
That^
Whatever reason that Locke is tracking down MC, I desperately hope that it isn’t for the sake of ONI wanting him dead for the sake of wanton him dead or for the UNSC needing him to “save” them from the evil mustache twirling bad guy. Again.
I find myself agreeing with Vektor… What has this world come to?
That aside, from what I’ve seen, most of us are either believing that Locke’s mission is either to assassinate MC or recover MC, but as it stands, I haven’t seen anyone come to the idea that perhaps Locke is being ordered to stop MC from unknowingly doing something with devastating consequences. Being manipulated by a Gravemind via hallucinations of Cortana into releasing the Flood is an example…
The latter of the three would explain why Arbiter says “all our lives are at stake” without having an extremely cliched and repetitive story.
I must also theorize that seeing as to how an image of the HX1 trailer in 2013 appears in the MCC announcement trailer and implying that Chief’s story-arc takes place before Locke’s, and taking the Ark theory into account, Locke may be tracking down MC because ONI is still under the impression that Mendicant Bias could be a threat and therefore would be opposed to MC waking the AI from an eternal slumber of atonement.
> > Goodness, I hope not. That would be so lame and cliche.
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> That^
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> Whatever reason that Locke is tracking down MC, I desperately hope that it isn’t for the sake of ONI wanting him dead for the sake of wanton him dead or for the UNSC needing him to “save” them from the evil mustache twirling bad guy. Again.
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> I find myself agreeing with Vektor… What has this world come to?
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> That aside, from what I’ve seen, most of us are either believing that Locke’s mission is either to assassinate MC or recover MC, but as it stands, I haven’t seen anyone come to the idea that perhaps Locke is being ordered to stop MC from unknowingly doing something with devastating consequences. Being manipulated by a Gravemind via hallucinations of Cortana into releasing the Flood is an example…
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> The latter of the three would explain why Arbiter says “all our lives are at stake” without having an extremely cliched and repetitive story.
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> I must also theorize that seeing as to how an image of the HX1 trailer in 2013 appears in the MCC announcement trailer and implying that Chief’s story-arc takes place before Locke’s, and taking the Ark theory into account, Locke may be tracking down MC because ONI is still under the impression that Mendicant Bias could be a threat and therefore would be opposed to MC waking the AI from an eternal slumber of atonement.
You know, that’s a very interesting and unique theory! I never thought of looking at it that way, but in a way, it would all fit together so well if it were true. After all, how can anybody be certain that Medicant Bias won’t turn on us again? He did before, he has reason to again.
> H5G plot isn’t MC going rouge it’s MC has gone missing and the best way to explain it is to say that MC is like Mario and Locke is like Luigi and H5G is Luigi’s Mansion and/or Mario is Missing. If MC is in H5G, his role is only going to be a minimal role I’m assuming.
That just put an adorable visual image in my head; just imagine a Halo game build off the “Luigi’s Mansion” engine. Chief with Mario’s stubby-chubby-little-big-headed build.
> Goodness, I hope not. That would be so lame and cliche.
This, and also I can’t see it making for the best gameplay. Either they introduce completely different mechanics for one fight, which would be completely out of place, or it would be like fighting someone in multiplayer 1v1, which would suck as a campaign feature.
What if its a fight you’re meant to lose. A lot of games have that. It would be pretty epic to try try everything and then fail and then they talk it out or whatever.
> <mark>I want to fight the Master Chief</mark>. He’s on the run with Locke tracking him down, that much we know. It would be like penultimate boss battle to go against the Chief mano a mano. And give him missile karate-chop moves he had in “The Fall of Reach.” I think it would be cool to chase Chief down while he’s putting obstacles in your way before the battle begins as well.
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> Also, take out Ordinance Drops. Replace D-Pad functions with selecting your “Spartan Ability,” which ALL players would have by default, then using the bumper to activate it.
Locke is a neat special agent, etc. and is a pretty good soldier.
He’s a good shot, can probably take a punch, and is fun on the weekends.
All in all, he’s a pretty good guy.
John-117 is a war machine, bred to destroy entire military installations single-handed before he hit puberty.
He has saved Earth, all of Earth’s systems, and the entire galaxy. Multiple times.
He has literally punched Scarabs to death after punching everyone on board them to death.
He has went into a city made entirely of Flood biomass by himself and then left.
He also probably celebrates each of his birthdays by falling through a planet’s atmosphere and delivering cliff-hanger endings.
But let’s say Locke could disable his armor somehow like the Didact did, strip it off of him. He’s still physically augmented to Wolverine-like levels, and he’d most likely cause Locke to have a brain hemorrhage by fixing his thousand yard stare right through him.
Locke knows better, ONI knows better, and the UNSC knows better than to mess with him. He has the name “Master Chief” for a reason.
He is the four horsemen incarnated into human form and you know for a fact that they’re going to back him up in whatever he’s up to. They’ll most likely stumble on him fighting some kind of Forerunner Decepticon army in the middle of an installation and be like “Oh hey no worries we’ll help out”
> … and you know for a fact that they’re going to back him up in whatever he’s up to…
I really liked everything you said. Your ideas in this post are pretty good except for this little part. We’ve all seen the UNSC spit in John’s face in Halo 4 when Captain Del Rio called John an “aging spartan,” going as far as to insinuate that he was defective. According to the Kilo-Five Trilogy and the prologue of Halo 4, the Spartan II’s are now being forsaken, forgotten about, and labeled as “defective,” as the UNSC is now mass producing Spartan IV’s. The UNSC leadership just cannot accept the child-soldiers background of the II’s, therefore they just write them off altogether. Ironically it appears that the IV’a are a lot more “defective,” as many are corrupt according the comic series Halo Initiation. The issue with the IV’s may be centered around poor recruiting and/or screening for potential candidates… Or perhaps the IV’s are just too rushed through the process and training phases. Maybe the IV’s are just arrogant and ignorant, assuming they’re all at the pinnacle of military excellence therefore they’re all better than everyone else. Maybe the problem with the IV’s is a combination of the aforementioned issues, or maybe the root of their “problem-child,” status will become more apparent in future Halo media. Whatever the case, based on the Halo canon, I disagree with the notion that the UNSC will back the Master Chief no matter what.
> Let’s look at their resumes real quick.
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> Locke is a neat special agent, etc. and is a pretty good soldier.
> He’s a good shot, can probably take a punch, and is fun on the weekends.
> All in all, he’s a pretty good guy.
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> John-117 is a war machine, bred to destroy entire military installations single-handed before he hit puberty.
> He has saved Earth, all of Earth’s systems, and the entire galaxy. Multiple times.
> He has literally punched Scarabs to death after punching everyone on board them to death.
> He has went into a city made entirely of Flood biomass by himself and then left.
> He also probably celebrates each of his birthdays by falling through a planet’s atmosphere and delivering cliff-hanger endings.
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> But let’s say Locke could disable his armor somehow like the Didact did, strip it off of him. He’s still physically augmented to Wolverine-like levels, and he’d most likely cause Locke to have a brain hemorrhage by fixing his thousand yard stare right through him.
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> Locke knows better, ONI knows better, and the UNSC knows better than to mess with him. He has the name “Master Chief” for a reason.
> He is the four horsemen incarnated into human form and you know for a fact that they’re going to back him up in whatever he’s up to. They’ll most likely stumble on him fighting some kind of Forerunner Decepticon army in the middle of an installation and be like “Oh hey no worries we’ll help out”
ONI does know better, and Locke will likely have some solid backup.
