“Catherine?!” Where did you get this from?! They never revealed The Weapons name yet.
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I understand the point behind his character but they should have dialed back his frantic annoying spluttering by half. Instead we got Ricky Ricardo in space.
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Honestly I didn’t really like him either. He was ok at first then kinda became annoying.
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The amount of empathy you guys lack for a civilian in the middle of a warzone who lost his family who has to stick his neck out for humanity’s greatest soldier who literally only knows war, while dodging literal plasma and superheated spikes, fired by gigantic aliens…
is very disturbing.
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They’re going to release Chips Dubbo 2?
Yeah they did, her name is the Weapon
Pfft. Real Chips Dubbo fans know there’s already two of him.
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I vibed with him actually. More than I did with the Weapon tbh. Not to say I didn’t like her or anything, I was glad to have Jen Taylor back in my head.
I think in general a lot of the dialogue between these 3 got a bit cheesy, and I can’t say I’m a cheese lover.
But I think the general direction was good enough to make me look forward to seeing more of them, and how they will bounce off other characters than just the Chief.
In my opinion, this time around making a more “human” character worked better than Alpha 9, Osiris and Majestic.
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If the Pilot wanted a nice, soft cushion job, that didn’t require being shot at with explosions going off all around him, he probably shouldn’t have chosen to join the UNSC for multiple years during an intergalactic space war with aliens… BUT don’t blame the Pilot for being ignorant and don’t blame players for lacking empathy, blame 343 for writing a hollow character that is heavily relying on 9 more years of DLC to finish introducing his character.
This might be the key word everyone needs to hear. “Dialogue”.
One thing I did notice during my 1st play-through was how… verbose the characters could be. Especially the Pilot, Escharum, and weirdly enough, Chief. On more than one occasion, these three and a nearly identical speaking pattern where they would end their sentence with 3 adjectives, broken up by periods for. Dramatic. Effect.
I was ok with Escharum doing it since, he’s a bit of a showman. But the Pilot being able to find such descriptive words while having a mental breakdown just felt off. Then there’s Chief who just doesn’t talk much. I just feel like Chief should have described his fight with Atriox in a more direct manner.
From Halopedia, verbatim:
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Escharum (hologram) : “The UNSC lost this war months ago. Your people are broken. Scattered. Hunted. Defeated. By me.”
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Escharum (hologram) : “But, without challenge, I grew…weary. Lost. Alone. But…”
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Pilot : (despairing) "Crushed. Broken. Beaten! Useless! "
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John-117 : (looking away slightly) "Atriox beat me. Surgically. Precisely. Brutally. Next thing I remember I was being woken up in this Pelican.
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I seriously doubt she will call herself Cortana given the fact that a lot of people died by Cortana’s hands and she probably wouldn’t want to name herself after the same A.I./person. It would be somewhat like finding out you are a carbon copy of Adolf H. and then saying “I will use the same name anyway.”
They set him up nicely and then He’s basically just forgotten about for the rest of the game. Being back ended to just dropping off equipment to you.
Also, as much as his reveal was a fantastic idea, and I love the idea of making a hero out of a civilian in halo… At the same time the reveal felt unearned because there wasn’t a lot of dynamic or distrust set up between him and chief leading up to that point, which just makes the reveal feel less like “Ah, I knew it” and more like “Where the hell did this come from”.
If you’re going to reveal a hidden truth, there must first be a shred of doubt. I never once question the pilots motivations prior to his reveal, and thusly it renders the moment as a head scratcher instead of a sensible realization.
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I one hundred percent agree with this assessment. Come join my writing team.
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So why call her “Catherine?” You even put the “spoiler” thing on it, could be a bit confusing for some.
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Dang, you’re right, there is a pattern for sure.
I agree it didn’t feel as strange with Echerum, it suited his character and story arc fairly well.
Although I did sometimes think his dialogue got a bit samey and repetitive with the boasting etc. I catch myself thinking “here he goes again” from time to time. It doesn’t necessarily bother me, but I do think it could have been slightly better.
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I actually really sympathized and liked the character a lot, up until the point he revealelled his family was dead. I come from a large family, and it really made sense to me for him to be in such a panic to get home as long as I thought they were out there waiting. Once he told Chief that he didn’t have a family anymore, all my sympathy evaporated. What had looked like a loving father desperately trying to make it home to his child, started looking like a selfish coward desperately trying to save his own skin. Of course, maybe his family will someday be revealed to still be alive, which would change the situation again.
Overall though, he made a pretty good sidekick/contrast to the Chief. Also, I don’t know if there’s anyone who plays Apex legends here, but it’s interesting to note that the voice actor for the pilot is also the voice actor for Octane from Apex. Really is funny, sense there personalities are polar opposites.
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A vehicle to push pathos and melodrama.
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For a guy who really wants to fight chief he sure likes to hide in his tower and throw a lot of randos at chief.
…and then lock up his friend in some weird pain transference shield thingy.
If he expected them to kill chief, then he’s just a loudmouth. If he expected chief to kill them all and come fight them, he was pointlessly squandering his forces.
Ah yes, glorious final battle indeed.
He reminds me of villain you’d find in one of those crappy ‘halo killers’ from the early 2000’s you’d rent for a weekend.
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Not gonna lie. I though about that too.
It didn’t seem like he expected anyone to manage to kill the Chief. If that was the case he just sent hundreds to die for his own selfish reasons of wanting a glorious ending. He didn’t exactly demonstrate that good leadership he was famous for.
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Spartan Griffin only died because he was in there for an extremely long time (Like a few months or so?) and therefore died of his injuries when he was released. The Pilot was only in there for about 8 or so hours or so when Chief broke him out.