While 343 definitely needs to work on the gameplay and set pieces for Infinite I do hope that they keep on trying to tell the story they want to and not go back to Bungie’s man of few words Master chief. Halo 4 did such an amazing job with expanding and making you care more about Cortana and Chief. The cutscenes with just them are some the best written scenes in a game and the ending of 4 (before halo 5 came out) made me a little emotional. The idea for Halo 5 story was good in theory too, Master Chief going against orders to find Cortana only for her to betray him once he finally gets to her sounds great. Unfortunately poor writing made it fall flat. But I do hope that they try to bring it back around in infinite and further develop Chief. I’m just concerned that with what seems to be a return to a more classic Halo they going to abandon what they did with Halo 4.
I’m glad that H4 campaign found an audience to love it, but I’m definitely not part of that audience. Call me old school, but I want my Chief to be stoic and say things like, “I need a weapon.” It isn’t that I don’t want him to have feelings, but knowing that he has them is enough. I don’t want to know what they actually are, much less hear him talking about them. It’s better if they leave that to my imagination.
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> I’m glad that H4 campaign found an audience to love it, but I’m definitely not part of that audience. Call me old school, but I want my Chief to be stoic and say things like, “I need a weapon.” It isn’t that I don’t want him to have feelings, but knowing that he has them is enough. I don’t want to know what they actually are, much less hear him talking about them. It’s better if they leave that to my imagination.
I can completely see that side of thought. I do enjoy is one liners in the original games but know since Halo 4 made him more talkative it would seem weird to me to have him revert back to being more stoic. That’s why I didnt enjoy halo 5 story since it seems like they were trying to backtrack what happend in 4. Hopefully they will find a good balance in infinite to make both types of fans happy.
As long as he isnt the silent protagonist trope im fine with whatever they decide for chief as long as he is not silent
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> > I’m glad that H4 campaign found an audience to love it, but I’m definitely not part of that audience. Call me old school, but I want my Chief to be stoic and say things like, “I need a weapon.” It isn’t that I don’t want him to have feelings, but knowing that he has them is enough. I don’t want to know what they actually are, much less hear him talking about them. It’s better if they leave that to my imagination.
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> I can completely see that side of thought. I do enjoy is one liners in the original games but know since Halo 4 made him more talkative it would seem weird to me to have him revert back to being more stoic. That’s why I didnt enjoy halo 5 story since it seems like they were trying to backtrack what happend in 4. Hopefully they will find a good balance in infinite to make both types of fans happy.
I can see that but to me it’s a games campaign. I don’t need some intense backstory and etc from a primary multiplayer game. To me it’s awesome when the developers leave stuff to my imagination.
i disliked halo 4 because of the introductions of the forunners. I can’t deny that it was at a good point to introduce them but as soon as I did all my urning to learn more about them and fanatasize about them went away completely. That’s just in any game that does that.
but with chief becoming a person and etc in H4 was cool and all I wish it didn’t happen. 1-3 was nice because it had a good story to it and I felt like a bad*** and I didn’t have a care in the world. If I wanted compelling character development I would just read the books( and I have and let me tell you chief feels like a whole different person than how the game portrays him)
I liked the H4 version of chief; he was still stoic, but he was just no longer an empty vessel.
Yeah, I don’t quite get the idea that some people have about Chief being too different in Halo 4. Yes, he talks more and shows more emotional range, but it’s never overkill. He doesn’t break down crying or anything. He has to be that way in Halo 4, he sees Cortana breaking down before him and it’d be really, really weird if Chief had no reaction to that whatsoever. He’s still a badass, but you know it makes sense for Chief to encounter things he is not equipped to handle. If a protagonist is never challenged, then their personal story gets stale. If anything, I’d say Halo 4 brings Chief closer to how he is in the books, which is how he should have been from the start in my opinion.
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> Yeah, I don’t quite get the idea that some people have about Chief being too different in Halo 4. Yes, he talks more and shows more emotional range, but it’s never overkill. He doesn’t break down crying or anything. He has to be that way in Halo 4, he sees Cortana breaking down before him and it’d be really, really weird if Chief had no reaction to that whatsoever. He’s still a badass, but you know it makes sense for Chief to encounter things he is not equipped to handle. If a protagonist is never challenged, then their personal story gets stale. If anything, I’d say Halo 4 brings Chief closer to how he is in the books, which is how he should have been from the start in my opinion
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> > Yeah, I don’t quite get the idea that some people have about Chief being too different in Halo 4. Yes, he talks more and shows more emotional range, but it’s never overkill. He doesn’t break down crying or anything. He has to be that way in Halo 4, he sees Cortana breaking down before him and it’d be really, really weird if Chief had no reaction to that whatsoever. He’s still a badass, but you know it makes sense for Chief to encounter things he is not equipped to handle. If a protagonist is never challenged, then their personal story gets stale. If anything, I’d say Halo 4 brings Chief closer to how he is in the books, which is how he should have been from the start in my opinion.
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