What do you all think about seeing Spartan Palmer in Infinite?
I think it’s pretty likely and totally fine.
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> I think it’s pretty likely and totally fine.
Do you want her to play a large/minor role? I think it’s a good opportunity to flesh her character out a bit more!
We got two games with two failed attempts to that, so it won’t be easy to make her work imho… If she comes back she shouldn’t be likable all of a sudden though, it would be a different character at that point. The only way I can see her making a successful comeback would be by introducing a whole arc to redeem her flaws and make it a springboard towards something more interesting for her.
However I don’t really wanna lose time with something like that honestly, at least not if Hi turns out to be a linear experience and not a open world filled with secondary missions. If they decide to write her out I wouldn’t miss her at all, got to be frank.
It’s a Master Chief story and a spiritual reboot to the whole series, as such I rather see new characters and a fresh start rather than forcing to make old ones to work. If the game is framed in a way that can permit secondary story-lines without hurting the main campaign, well, it’s another tune in that case than!
Doesn’t really matter. It’d be strange for her to simply vanish, but as she’s hardly a character in the Campaigns, it wouldn’t be much of a loss unless someone really liked Spartan Ops.
I want her back personally, same with Osiris. I personally don’t want them to throw everything from the past almost 8 years away. Were they good? That’s up to your own personal tastes. But did they happen? Yes, so I really just hope they acknowledge that and don’t shove it under the rug.
Well she probably will have some sort of role in Infinite, even a minor role like in comms or something like that but I think it’s unnecessary to include her in the story in any case.
It’s not like every character needs to make an appearance in every game in the franchise, even if they don’t simply die in some scene, like notably Rtas (half-jaw, so the few don’t need to google it) or majority of Alpha 9 (and by that I mean appearance in games), they simply are doing other stuff unrelated to the main character in the story.
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> I want her back personally, same with Osiris. I personally don’t want them to throw everything from the past almost 8 years away. Were they good? That’s up to your own personal tastes. But did they happen? Yes, so I really just hope they acknowledge that and don’t shove it under the rug.
Don’t completely disagree with you there, but if this is meant to be a soft reboot (or ‘spiritual reboot’ how they are calling it) acting like it never happened is kinda the point, isn’t it now?
I want her and Lasky to continue to be included and developed. I’m over 343i being like “Well, the fans didn’t love this, so let’s ditch it.” What they did with the Didact in particular was unforgivable. Sure, he didn’t receive the attention the Prophet of Truth, Gravemind and Guilty Spark got, but he was in his early stages. He had potential.
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> I want her and Lasky to continue to be included and developed. I’m over 343i being like “Well, the fans didn’t love this, so let’s ditch it.” What they did with the Didact in particular was unforgivable. Sure, he didn’t receive the attention the Prophet of Truth, Gravemind and Guilty Spark got, but he was in his early stages. He had potential. I also loved Del Rio in Halo 4. He did exactly what he needed to as a character and did it well. Wouldn’t mind him also returning in some form at some stage, though probably not in Infinite.
I think Del Rio served his purpose. I’d only like to see him return if it was some sort of redemption arc, although he’s not a particularly likable character anyway, so if he doesn’t get redemption, no big deal.
Agree with the other takes though for sure.
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Hmm… Yeah. That’s true. They could use him again though, but maybe not in a mainline game. Perhaps a book if it fits with a particular story an author wants to tell.
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> > I want her back personally, same with Osiris. I personally don’t want them to throw everything from the past almost 8 years away. Were they good? That’s up to your own personal tastes. But did they happen? Yes, so I really just hope they acknowledge that and don’t shove it under the rug.
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> Don’t completely disagree with you there, but if this is meant to be a soft reboot (or ‘spiritual reboot’ how they are calling it) acting like it never happened is kinda the point, isn’t it now?
And that is exactly what I fear. That they took all the backlash from 4/5 and remove these characters entirely from future games and keep their stories in the books or comics.
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> > I want her back personally, same with Osiris. I personally don’t want them to throw everything from the past almost 8 years away. Were they good? That’s up to your own personal tastes. But did they happen? Yes, so I really just hope they acknowledge that and don’t shove it under the rug.
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> Don’t completely disagree with you there, but if this is meant to be a soft reboot (or ‘spiritual reboot’ how they are calling it) acting like it never happened is kinda the point, isn’t it now?
Doesn’t mean you have to cut everything. It’s pretty likely we still have to deal with Cortana’s nonsense with her Created force. We’ll likely see the Infinity and it’s crew. Not to mention if we get post-campaign DLC story missions, the characters from 4 or 5 could return for those.
Infinite itself may try to streamline things for a more organized future, but it doesn’t have to wipe the slate clean completely.
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> > > I want her back personally, same with Osiris. I personally don’t want them to throw everything from the past almost 8 years away. Were they good? That’s up to your own personal tastes. But did they happen? Yes, so I really just hope they acknowledge that and don’t shove it under the rug.
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> > Don’t completely disagree with you there, but if this is meant to be a soft reboot (or ‘spiritual reboot’ how they are calling it) acting like it never happened is kinda the point, isn’t it now?
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> Doesn’t mean you have to cut everything. It’s pretty likely we still have to deal with Cortana’s nonsense with her Created force. We’ll likely see the Infinity and it’s crew. Not to mention if we get post-campaign DLC story missions, the characters from 4 or 5 could return for those.
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> Infinite itself may try to streamline things for a more organized future, but it doesn’t have to wipe the slate clean completely.
Obviously I agree! But the “Cortana situation” is an open ended main-plot while Palmer is a side character. I always imagine a DC Rebirth situation where exactly what you explained happened: the initial books streamlined the mess that was the older story-line - The New 52 - and than older ideas from the past as well as characters and situations form the N52 came back. Always in the style of Rebirth, a lot of things where ignored too, but nothing was really forgotten!
Still, how much makes sense to come back and not has a lot to do with the given gameplay imho. We’ve to see and wait what 343i has planed for us!
Don’t care about that wannabe-badass. If they keep her as a background character as they did in Halo 5, I’m fine with that because she was annoying in Halo 4 and the Escalation comics. I really hope they don’t have her voice as a war games announcer either. I bought the announcer pack just so I didn’t have to hear her when I play Warzone.
I’d love to see her in Infinite, but I’d want her to actually do something rather than exposition/taxi service, and actually dig into her character. My expectations are low, I’d be happy with a book/comic at this stage.
I would like to see her have a bigger role than in Halo 4,5.I read that in development of Halo 5 she was considered to be a playable character in Fireteam Osiris.Too bad that never happened.