Cortana at the end of halo 5 had me on edge how about you guys? Be sure to check out my other posts on the forums.
I was surprised by the events that took place of how she was involved with the guardians and I wasn’t surprised by her attempting to protect chief and blue team from warden eternal I actually was surprised that she did not question chief about what happened to his visor when they got face to face at ending of mission 14 that cutscene was a little emotional it was interesting that before I couldn’t recall Cortana having any hate for Dr. Halsey until now for what she did to Chief and Blue team and I was surprised that Cortana tried to “Protect” chief by locking him in the cryptum for 10,000 years I couldn’t imagine what chief was going through when she did that god halo 6 is ought to be a emotional story with chief going to war against pretty much the closest person besides blue team that he had a friendship/relationship to
Pretty sure she’s still rampant, or rather that after all the splitting, oneof the crazier versions of her won out and took out the others so she is a new Cortana, the one that was left standing after Cortana went rampant.
She also could be the Ur-Didact having taken over Cortana’s form or fused with her.
It had me angry and confused.
I don’t feel like ranting now, but give me time.
It was utterly nonsensical.
- They never explained how or why anything with Cortana. - Chief vs. Locke never actually happened. - Completely ditched all the other plot lines they had been developing in a half–Yoinked!- attempt to prolong the Halo IP. - Evil robots sci-fi trope. For the love of god… - No Flood! The Flood returning would have made the next few games alone. WTH 343! - Jul’Mdama died WAY too soon.
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> It was utterly nonsensical.
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> - They never explained how or why anything with Cortana.
> - Chief vs. Locke never actually happened.
> - Completely ditched all the other plot lines they had been developing in a half–Yoinked!- attempt to prolong the Halo IP.
> - Evil robots sci-fi trope. For the love of god…
> - No Flood! The Flood returning would have made the next few games alone. WTH 343!
> - Jul’Mdama died WAY too soon.
1 - They’ll take their time explaining this in other media or Halo6, I bet.
2 - Certainly not to the extent of the promos, but they needed a mislead so you wouldn’t see Cortana coming.
3 - They have many other media outlets to take care of buttoning up such elements. Even if they do so poorly.
4 - Yup. Gotta give you that one. Hopefully they find a direction to take it that’s new and refreshing.
5 - They have to find a good reason to bring them back. I don’t want them just to show up out of the blue.
6 - It’s possible they got bored of him and wanted him out of the way. He didn’t bring too much to the Cortana plot.
cortana and chief will get married and have little chief babies. J/K
The ending of Halo 5 game me chills. After Cortana called out to all the different AIs across the galaxy, I looked at my sister who was watching me play and we both had that look like “Oh, sh**.” It was one of those moments when you realize that everything’s about to change and there is -nothing- you can do to stop it at the time because they have control over pretty much everything humanity does.
The next Halo game can’t get here soon enough.
On Cortana’s Halopedia page, it says that Halo: CE was going to have an alternate plot where she was corrupted by Halo’s power and wanted to use it to control the universe.
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> It was utterly nonsensical.
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> - They never explained how or why anything with Cortana.
> - Chief vs. Locke never actually happened.
> - Completely ditched all the other plot lines they had been developing in a half–Yoinked!- attempt to prolong the Halo IP.
> - Evil robots sci-fi trope. For the love of god…
> - No Flood! The Flood returning would have made the next few games alone. WTH 343!
> - Jul’Mdama died WAY too soon.
1 Part of Mantle’s Approach slipspaced to genesis we know forerunner tech can do this when it senses danger the alpha shard from Nightfall for example. The part that slipspaced to Genesis had the rampant personality’s cortana used to break the shield around the composer. The Warden finds these puts them all in the domain boom Guardians Cortana.
5 Its way too soon for the flood to return on any big scale the galaxy isn’t ready.
Guilty Spark was never confirmed dead (a.i.) and since he is very clever than he could probably take control of Cortana like a puppet and a puppet master but I think halo 6 will be another simplified price of crap only noobs or veterans(everyone on the forums)
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> The ending of Halo 5 game me chills. After Cortana called out to all the different AIs across the galaxy, I looked at my sister who was watching me play and we both had that look like “Oh, sh**.” It was one of those moments when you realize that everything’s about to change and there is -nothing- you can do to stop it at the time because they have control over pretty much everything humanity does.
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> The next Halo game can’t get here soon enough.
Cartographers controlled the universe until the forerunners killed them all (spare a few that escaped and turned into space dust) then they became the flood meaning the flood control the universe
Didn’t like it. It was a complete 180 for her character with no explanation. Plus I thought I read in one of the books that AI are programed to not harm humans.
I was upset (in the good type of way). Cortana pls. Still wish that the Didact would’ve made some type of appearance though. I want him back in the story more than anything right now. 343 pls.
Even as far back as Halo 2 she was exhibiting psychological symptoms of megalomania… the only thing I don’t understand is why people hate the idea of Cortana being the villain so much when it has been the plan from the get-go, since Bungie. It is more than likely part of the Halo Story Bible.
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> Even as far back as Halo 2 she was exhibiting psychological symptoms of megalomania… the only thing I don’t understand is why people hate the idea of Cortana being the villain so much when it has been the plan from the get-go, since Bungie. It is more than likely part of the Halo Story Bible.
I laugh when fans bring this up… Cortana going drunk with power was a alternate story for CE back in Bungie’s day. Her brushes with rampancy even predates contact with the Rings. Theres no reasoning for her to do it now. Its mystery for mystery sack.
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> Even as far back as Halo 2 she was exhibiting psychological symptoms of megalomania… the only thing I don’t understand is why people hate the idea of Cortana being the villain so much when it has been the plan from the get-go, since Bungie. It is more than likely part of the Halo Story Bible.
People don’t hate the idea that Cortana is a villain, they hate how it was executed. Not only did they completely ruin her sacrifice and Chief’s development at the end of Halo 4, and explain her revival in the most hand-wavey way possible (the Domain isn’t even supposed to exist anymore), but they never give a single reason for her change of character. Sure, she has had rampancy/corruption issues since Halo 2, but she never showed a desire to run a galactic police state. Not only that, but she says she is cured of rampancy and we are never given any indication to the contrary. So this is sane Cortana’s personality?
Also, it doesn’t matter what was the plan from the get-go because what we got was horribly executed. Besides, I doubt this was the plan from the beginning because Bungie had originally planned to have Cortana be the villain of CE (she was going to become drunk on power from Halo) but then discarded the idea for something better. Usually if you decide something is not a good idea, you don’t plan to use it later.
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> Even as far back as Halo 2 she was exhibiting psychological symptoms of megalomania… the only thing I don’t understand is why people hate the idea of Cortana being the villain so much when it has been the plan from the get-go, since Bungie. It is more than likely part of the Halo Story Bible.
So something being a part of the Halo Story Bible means it is exempt from negative reactions? The Kilo-5 trilogies story is likely in that Bible too yet that sure didn’t stop it from being overwhelmingly criticized. Sure, the broad-strokes of Cortana’s villainy is likely in the Bible, though Bungie seemed keen on cutting the notion she was evil from Combat Evolved so I don’t know where you think it was Bungie’s plan to make her evil. Yet was her turn meant to be in the fashion 343 chose to go down? I doubt it. As someone already said, it isn’t the fact she is a villain. Plenty of good ways to go about it. She could have been a third party going around the galaxy snatching up Forerunner assets and denying them to the Covenant, but also the UNSC. She could have also made AIs join her cause, but she seems more willing to use them as weapons rather than as equals. She could’ve been a motherly figure nurturing AIs from rampancy even if it meant denying the UNSC powerful assets that runs their war operations or war production capabilities. That would have actually produced subtly or nuance since she wouldn’t be outright or callously murdering people, but her actions would not necessarily be positive either.
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I was somewhat deflated at Halo5’s conclusion, similar to the ending of Halo2. Cliff-hangers don’t get me hyped one bit.
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> 1 - They’ll take their time explaining this in other media or Halo6, I bet.
> 2 - Certainly not to the extent of the promos, but they needed a mislead so you wouldn’t see Cortana coming.
> 3 - They have many other media outlets to take care of buttoning up such elements. Even if they do so poorly.
> 4 - Yup. Gotta give you that one. Hopefully they find a direction to take it that’s new and refreshing.
> 5 - They have to find a good reason to bring them back. I don’t want them just to show up out of the blue.
> 6 - It’s possible they got bored of him and wanted him out of the way. He didn’t bring too much to the Cortana plot.
1 - This is the worst explanation possible. We wanted things explained in the game for years and now we have to wait three more? We had the same thing with Truth, Mercy, Regret, Tartarus, the Gravemind and the Didact. We have to wait years or months to figure out why the villain do what he does, which is something not that smart. The only one of those I can say it’s safe it’s the Gravemind because add mistery to him is very good and makes sense.
2 - Yet her return was spoiled on the second mission, which didn’t make it a shocking revelation at all (it infuriated people, not surprised them).
3 - Then the best option os to get rid of the countless of other more interesting plots they developed in the last 5 years?
6 - So? Kill a villian they passed four years writing and developing for the sake of bringing Cortana back, and evil, completely making her sacrifice pointless, retconing the end of the game, making the Domain return and do things it never did as well as make all of the material until now pointless? The thing is that this “Cortana plot” made all the rest be irrelevant. Why should I bother to care for the rest of the EU if they don’t continue it in the game. The only thing from the EU in the game were the Blooding Years on Sanghelios and even that was severely reduced and non-complicated/developed as it was in the Kilo-Five books.