At the end cutscene when we see Chief and Locke return to see Halsey she says “took you long enough”.
What took who’s time? Was it John took a long time to return to Halsey (since she knew in Halo 4 Spartan Ops he had been on Infinity but months before) or did she mean, because Cortana has told Chief Halsey has questions to answer that it took him long enough to find out something is fishy about the Spartan II program?
I would suspect the 1st but we can’t be sure. So I wondered what you guys thought. After Halsey saying this what was John’s reply and is it now we actually start “Hunting the Truth”
Pretty sure it was meant as a way to convey just how long it been since Halsey has seen John AND as a call-back to when she said that to Locke in the first mission.
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> Pretty sure it was meant as a way to convey just how long it been since Halsey has seen John AND as a call-back to when she said that to Locke in the first mission.
I missed that in first mission, Thanks
But surely she would have said “missed you”, “Where you been all this time” but she says it like John is working to a timeframe??
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> Pretty sure it was meant as a way to convey just how long it been since Halsey has seen John AND as a call-back to when she said that to Locke in the first mission.
Wasn’t the last time they saw each other before then at the end of First Strike? Damn, 6 years, that must’ve been rough for her.
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> > Pretty sure it was meant as a way to convey just how long it been since Halsey has seen John AND as a call-back to when she said that to Locke in the first mission.
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> But surely she would have said “missed you”, “Where you been all this time” but she says it like John is working to a timeframe??
Halsey’s character is far to emotionally reserved to flat out say “I missed you”. Her natural distance from people, including the Spartan IIs, would never allow her to display genuine affection. Instead, she uses this coy, facetious line, which is fitting for her character. But I’m sure the Chief can read between the lines.
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> Halsey’s character is far to emotionally reserved to flat out say “I missed you”. Her natural distance from people, including the Spartan IIs, would never allow her to display genuine affection. Instead, she uses this coy, facetious line, which is fitting for her character. But I’m sure the Chief can read between the lines.
Yeah there’s a fairly substantial diffrence in the way she says “took you long enough,” to Locke, and the way she says it to John.
Second post is probably what it should be but as we have learned with Halo nothing is ever as it seems, which I like. It lets you dream up what you think will come next and see what others think.
I’d go with:
Start Halo 6
“We need to talk”
Chief and Halsey enter a room, door closes, Chief removes helmet. /CUT/ New Scene, New Place, New Time
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> > Pretty sure it was meant as a way to convey just how long it been since Halsey has seen John AND as a call-back to when she said that to Locke in the first mission.
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> Pretty sure it was meant as a way to convey just how long it been since Halsey has seen John AND as a call-back to when she said that to Locke in the first mission.
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> Lol, This is exactly how I felt after my first play through. After number 2 though, it isn’t that bad.
That’s only because you start to become numb to the stupidity of it all…it still is that bad.
I listened to her say it to Locke. When she is rescued, I did remember as I played through.
Wish I never did it now though at it just opened more holes in the story of Halo 5 and make me think the something, somewhere went South and a lot of where changed in a rush. Going to start a thread in Halo 5 forum but why would Chief and Blue Team leave The Infinity to search for Argent Moon when Lasky has known for 3 weeks Halseys location?
Chief would never, ever have waited 3 weeks to go get her and never, ever would Lasky not tell him. Just wrong, all so wrong. Add to that that whilst on Argent Moon it becomes known to Blue Team, first through covenant radio chatter and then you can clearly hear 2 Jackals say, that Jul M’Dama is dead. Chief does not even mention Halsey, try and radio The Infinity to asked what happened. Just wrong, all so wrong
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> I listened to her say it to Locke. When she is rescued, I did remember as I played through.
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> Wish I never did it now though at it just opened more holes in the story of Halo 5 and make me think the something, somewhere went South and a lot of where changed in a rush. Going to start a thread in Halo 5 forum but why would Chief and Blue Team leave The Infinity to search for Argent Moon when Lasky has known for 3 weeks Halseys location?
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> Chief would never, ever have waited 3 weeks to go get her and never, ever would Lasky not tell him. Just wrong, all so wrong. Add to that that whilst on Argent Moon it becomes known to Blue Team, first through covenant radio chatter and then you can clearly hear 2 Jackals say, that Jul M’Dama is dead. Chief does not even mention Halsey, try and radio The Infinity to asked what happened. Just wrong, all so wrong
Actually that’s a good point. Surely by now chief has to know Halsey is with m’dama?
It possibly has a creative angle as well. Many of us have wanted those two to be in the same room at the same time for quite a while. So it possibly echoes what we feel as fans. “It’s about bloody time!”
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> Pretty sure it was meant as a way to convey just how long it been since Halsey has seen John AND as a call-back to when she said that to Locke in the first mission.
This. It’s a neat refrence to what she tells Locke in the first mission (which creates a parallel between them) and it’s definitely her talking about how long it took him to get to her.
Their meeting was forshadowed way back in Halo 4, especially in the second and 7th missions with relation to curing Cortana’s rampancy and further in Spartan Ops when she figures out he’s alive.
WOuldn’t surprise me if it meant something deeper, just like the prologue, but we’ll never find out because half the campaign was thrown out the window
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> WOuldn’t surprise me if it meant something deeper, just like the prologue, but we’ll never find out because half the campaign was thrown out the window
Well we don’t know half the campaign was ditched but things like this make me believe that probably happened. I would love to know why
In all honesty i think not even 343 knows what’s going on. They had an idea, a direction, a path to follow when they finished halo 4. They followed this path with Spartan ops and everything fit in perfectly. the story was shaping up to be big, to be powerful. They were going to introduce thorne(not buck). But as you can see by Halo 5 it all fell apart. and i find it hard to believe that Brian Reed would mascara his own creation (spartan ops). Their were most certainly issues during development and rewrites happened. What we got was utter garbage and 343 may be more focused on fixing this than actually continuing on from halo 5 and focusing on the finer details such as halseys last sentence