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> We already have a greater emotional connection to him than Blue Team or Osiris (aside from Buck and Chief), so it’d be cool to see him in the campaign. However, I’ll understand if he’s purely symbolic of humanity having given up, only for Chief to come back and save them.
It’s pretty much fine either way, but do you have a speculation in addition to resolving in understanding the situation of possibility of simple symbolism for the trailer & potential of early character development?
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> > We already have a greater emotional connection to him than Blue Team or Osiris (aside from Buck and Chief), so it’d be cool to see him in the campaign. However, I’ll understand if he’s purely symbolic of humanity having given up, only for Chief to come back and save them.
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> This is sadly quite true. And we don’t even know his name or rank.
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> I miss Halo having memorable characters in the campaign.
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> But I mostly miss Sergeant Johnson.
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> I hope this guy at least gives us a few memorable one-liners. Even a single chuckle-worthy line will make this guy more memorable than most of Halo 5’s cast. Then again, that game somehow made The Arbiter unremarkable when we finally encountered him, so pretty much ANYTHING would be an improvement at this point. I also dig how the pilot has what appear to be Combat Evolved/Reach era fatigues. That’s a nice touch, and it helps us think of better times when the franchise was still the envy of everyone else.
Name & rank doesn’t mean much inside the game itself, obviously depending on the type of character but some cases, like during the time of Halo Combat Evolved the marines were enjoyable battlefield companions even though most of their names werent mentioned in the game with certain someone being referred as “sarge” alongside of some named minor characters. There can be good & subtle characters we know little off of. Though this pilot seems to be more like the type that is visibly developed throughout the game, sometimes blatantly obviously, even too much so with unnatural amount of drama.
And sarge is one of the, if not the, most missed characters in the franchise. Though it might have been better that his story ended where it did before his character would have been ruined or watered down. And the good thing is that his stories can be revisited. The man, the legend, the character of absurd bad***ery reaching comical limits.
And when you hit rock bottom, the only way is up (so to speak even though “up” itself dependant of context in a universe with no beginning nor end while simultaneously implying there is no way through the rock) so if this pilot is in the game I sincerely hope he would make better character than any in H5g for it would even show improvement in development skills which obviously would be positive outcome and visage for brighter future in terms of Halo franchise.
And concerning the uniform, I get the coveralls which are pretty standard if weirdly colored but the light combat harness seems off for a pilot class operator in the Halo franchise. Though I have another topic for that so let’s not go there on this one.
So hopes I read but might you have speculations of the role of this pilot? Might you hope for supporting minor character, perhaps a developing addition to familiar faces or perhaps something entirely different?