I have always been a fan of the halo series. I love the games and I love the books, but for sure I’m a die hard Master Chief fan. Now there has been a big talk about MC dying or being replaced and I haven’t given much thought about it, but then one day it hit me! What if it is true?.. I don’t know how many people think this way, probably not a whole lot, but as for me, if the Chief’s story ends with halo 5. then I guess that might be where I stop playing halo. I’m attached to the MC and even though he spoke less than 50 words a game, I feel like his touch has made it what it is today. I’m not sure replacing him would sit well with me and yeah I get it, there is a huge story with halo. Plenty of lore behind it and we have seen it in different forms with spin off games to comic books, so of course they could keep it going! It’s just a personal and I know it sounds a bit weird, but I like my Chief in halo lmao! I don’t know if there has already been posts like this in the past or somewhere else, but what do you think?
343 tends to stick to the books, in one of the newer comics, he doesn’t die after halo 4 ends or in the time period i assume halo 5 is taking place.
I completely agree with you. Many people are saying that they would not care about the death of Master Chief, but that would really affect the franchise.
Are you saying halo might die, noooo! Who could replace him, or fill in the empty space he leaves?
The one thing that scared me was that they released THE MASTER CHIEF COLLECTION, that’s like saying its the complete collection of games with MC as the protagonist.
Chief is actually connected to the story in more ways than just saving humanity so it would kinda be weird to kill him off. But it would be bad to keep him alive forever. I think they will kill him, but I don’t think in halo 5. But who knows. They now have many growing characters, and halo has always had good characters die in the games.
I would miss the Chief.
I might still play the game but, it would never be the same.
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> I have always been a fan of the halo series. I love the games and I love the books, but for sure I’m a die hard Master Chief fan. Now there has been a big talk about MC dying or being replaced and I haven’t given much thought about it, but then one day it hit me! What if it is true?.. I don’t know how many people think this way, probably not a whole lot, but as for me, if the Chief’s story ends with halo 5. then I guess that might be where I stop playing halo. I’m attached to the MC and even though he spoke less than 50 words a game, I feel like his touch has made it what it is today. I’m not sure replacing him would sit well with me and yeah I get it, there is a huge story with halo. Plenty of lore behind it and we have seen it in different forms with spin off games to comic books, so of course they could keep it going! It’s just a personal and I know it sounds a bit weird, but I like my Chief in halo lmao! I don’t know if there has already been posts like this in the past or somewhere else, but what do you think?
This was from a recent interview, in which Frank O’conner stated
**Agent Locke is so prominent in the teaser art – to me, it feels like he’s being set up as this equal part to Master Chief. Any truth in that?**I would say definitely not – that it goes back to your last question about how you humanise the Chief. We don’t want to do that; we want the Chief to be in some ways above the fray – he’s literally a legend in the universe he inhabits. Locke lets us humanise the boots on the ground without messing with the Chief – the irony is that Locke is going to do some of the heavy lifting for people’s need for better storytelling and characterisation without altering the Chief. The Chief is the core hero in the story, without a doubt. Forget how long you play as each character or whatever – it’s really about contextualising the Chief. As much as Locke’s an important character in the universe himself, he’s also going to be a useful cipher for you to explore Master Chief’s character from an outside perspective.
This echoes every thought I have on 343’s ip going forward. Besides the overall feel of the gameplay, the amazing aesthetic qualities of its environments and characters, and the paradigm-shifting precedents established by this series (changed console gaming forever), for me halo has ALWAYS been carried forward by this incredible awe at watching (and, over years, gradually learning to trust in) master chief’s inestimable strengths somehow pushing him to consistently perform the impossible.
They may want a character that’s easier to write without enduring criticism about tropes, etc. but they can never replace the relationship you develop with the chief. How many other protagonists can conquer an entire fleet alone, or fall from orbit like a meteor - and survive - while sustaining a player’s respect for a writing team’s credibility? I have a hunch that we’ve come to suspend that disbelief and appreciate what that kind of accomplishment actually means for the story because the chief does things no one else would ever even consider attempting, because no other character has established the kind of narrative force his actions convey.
Locke will be great for an emphasis on dialogue (and maybe eventually some interesting and successful spinoffs), but master chief deserves to be forever entwined with halo until his story has been offered a justice that fully parallels his character’s dedication to overcoming insurmountable odds with relative ease and without ever blinking an eye. Speaking from experience, having survived a disturbingly hostile and dangerous environment without the support of the sort of family, brotherhood or fellowship that necessarily maintains those elements of humanity we normally reach out to, I suspect someone who does what the chief does, alone, purely from a dedication to honor, duty, and sacrifice for its own sake, will eventually have no room for loose words. His silence is far louder than the pale musings and nearsighted questioning of an underdeveloped and comparatively inexperienced prototypical psyche.
We look at the morals we want our children to identify with, compound them into parables and prose so they have an example to look up to. Frankly, a character like Locke always chooses to be a soldier. The spartan we’ve grown to know was never given that choice. He was turned in to what he is. And ultimately, after years of success, has internalized the soldier he was turned into as the only defining element of his identity. Every other character they come up with is going to be a candle next to the sun in that respect.
Idk maybe it’s simply that CE got me into console gaming, back when Xbox connect was a niche thing and I’ve stuck with it so long I acquired a particular idea of what I wanted from this series. The community that rose up around glitching, especially in 2 was a novel, immersive, and sadly short-lived moment in gaming (why super jumps, escaping the map, and unusual physics and visual artifacts are looked down on by devs not only makes me feel they missed the point and potential of that movement and where it could have gone, it’s -Yoinking!- depressing). All of this content made halo’s universe accessible enough to warrant pursuing it across multiple mediums. But frankly, none of it would have carried any weight if the most honorable and downright mythical main character in gaming wasn’t there to ground the series. I’m with you. I was considering buying an XBO when halo 5 launches, but they drop the chief and I’ll casually stick around without the enthusiasm. And may never pick up another halo again, knowing what that creative decision really represents.
Just because you hear rumors doesn’t mean you should leave now.
Master Chief is NOT going to die in Halo 5. The latest Frankie interview just confirmed that. They said he would be humanized in Halo 5, but taking off his helmet and showing his face would be too soon.
That means that MC will be in Halo 6, where he might actually die. But he has come a long way, so rejoice in what has happened.
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> http://www.gamespot.com/articles/master-chief-isnt-retiring-anytime-soon-microsoft-/1100-6422915/
Yay! That’s good news to me, my favorite fiction hero of all time, since I was a little boy, will still be around!
He will get replaced someday, but not anytime soon.
But yeah he needs to leave someday, but in the mean time I am looking forward to other games being made about other characters.
The Halo universe is so vast it’d be a shame to restrict the games to just one characters. ODST 2 anyone?
They won’t kill the chief, not for awhile anyway. The MCC was made not only because it’s awesome and Halo 2’s anniversary, but also to attempt to wash out the bad blood of halo 4 before Halo 5 (look at how well that worked), and it’s already been talked about, that Locke will in this entry be doing all the heavy narrative lifting. Ie their making sure while master chief is more characterized, he can still retain the faceless badass he’s been for years. They’re not going to kill their poster boy for awhile (if ever).
Master Chief dies when the franchise ends.
(Although, I would rather they end with him being declared MIA while he’s drifting in space somewhere. It would be a good way to end his story and also a good way to leave an opening for a possible reboot of the franchise)
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> Master Chief dies when the franchise ends.
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> (Although, I would rather they end with him being declared MIA while he’s drifting in space somewhere. It would be a good way to end his story and also a good way to leave an opening for a possible reboot of the franchise)
You mean like Halo 3? Come on, 343 are a lot better than that.
Don’t worry, they won’t kill the Chief anytime soon or put the main focus on other, more interesting characters and have the story go down new routes to expand it because they know people would complain if they didn’t have their boring space marine protagonist.
If they did kill the Chief, I’d hope the next hero actually shows their face a lot, and we get character customisation.
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> Don’t worry, they won’t kill the Chief anytime soon or put the main focus on other, more interesting characters and have the story go down new routes to expand it because they know people would complain if they didn’t have their boring space marine protagonist.
Chief is anything but boring, though.
Also, just because they are being careful with his character development doesn’t make him any more boring ether.
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> > Don’t worry, they won’t kill the Chief anytime soon or put the main focus on other, more interesting characters and have the story go down new routes to expand it because they know people would complain if they didn’t have their boring space marine protagonist.
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> Chief is anything but boring, though.
> Also, just because they are being careful with his character development doesn’t make him any more boring ether.
A lot of people complained that Chief got character development period in Halo 4. I blame them for 343’s seeming reversal of that in Halo 5.