I was wondering which characer you thought was the most well written in Halo 5’s story. No, its not particularly good, but im just curious on your opinions!
Real answer, Arbiter. You can clearly see his motives to want to help his people, and hopefully his alliance with humanity will be gone into deeper detail in the future.
Not so real answer, Jul M’dama, It was all an Oni trick to get you to think he was assassinated there. They staged the whole thing and know Jul is in hiding. Let me ask you this, did we ever see what happened to Jul’s body? I THINK NOT!
What do you mean by well written?
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> I was wondering which characer you thought was the most well written in Halo 5’s story. No, its not particularly good, but im just curious on your opinions!
I’d say it was a toss up between Buck and the chief. Neither one gets a truly significant amount of character development, but we do get character moments from each of them. With Buck we get his initial hesitance to take on the mission not because he felt it was ‘wrong’ but because of the inevitable fall out. We find out that he’d rather celebrate a victory (or plan to) than worry about things before they happen. There are a few moments like that. For chief we get a few points where the fact that he is human is first and foremost like where he looks at the port where Cortana ‘should’ be or his immediate heartfelt response when Locke tells him that Cortana was there responsibility now. The conversation with Cortana where he is asking her about the fallout from waking the guardians, where he calls her out on trying to play on his emotions that showed a man who while deeply hurt wasn’t going to let the loss of a friend get in the way of his duty. It may be because we’ve played the characters before and so I have a sense of what to look for, but we could see hints of ‘who they are.’ in the game and I unfortunately didn’t get that with most of the other characters.
That’s like asking “Who do you think is the most capable person in the paralympics?”
For my real answer I would say the Arbiter I just really like his back story and his overall character.
Fake Answer EVERY MARINE IN WARZONE my favorite line of dialogue is “nothing a few marines can’t do” meanwhile your being warzone farmed and you core is vulnerable it’s just the confidence that gives me hope and then I will activate my only jorge’s chain gun and run out to replicate an stupid action movie scene where I kill everyone and right as I walk out of the protection of the base as they don’t want to come inside of risk of destroying the core and ruining there farm. I feel a presence behind me I see that one marine saying we got your back and then 10000000000 more marines come out all will jorge’s chain gun the score is 999 to 1 the enemy was winning we all open fire with our jorge’s chain guns and we killed all those Godforsaken farmers we won and I got 100,000 req points. Turns out that marine became a spartan because of the events and the amount of kills he got that day 343. Today he is known as 117 or the Master Chief but I will always know him as John and a friend to all.
FIN
not a single character in that game was really that well written in that game, they all seemed so blank and unlikeable.
and the returning characters seemed like they were completely out of character.
Exuberant Witness.
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My thoughts exactly. She had personality. Also Buck because well its Buck.
The wall I hid behind when fighting the Warden.
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I would have to agree about Exuberant Witness, though she was simply a supporting character. We saw her motive, a memorable personality, and she was the key that ended up foiling Cortana’s plan of taking Blue Team. I thought they did a great job at introducing her and using her in the story.
I feel that Blue Team and Osiris didn’t get what they needed to be developed properly. I have high hopes for Halo 6 though; fingers crossed.
I think Caboose has this one beat.
Jk, I think most of the characters weren’t even focused on that much, the campaign didn’t live up to expectations.
Spartan Locke when he moved to Harlem…oh wait.
The Arbiter or Exuberant Witness.
I want to say Tanaka as a secondary/tertiary character
The Arbiter
Master Chief
In Halo 5? Hmmm. That’s a thinker.
I’ll go with the Arbiter. None of the character writing in Halo 5 was strong, but I think he ended up with the strongest lines. Possibly a side-effect of his “old-timey” cadence. When you write someone that talks that way, it only works if you layer in meaning.
And for a strange twist, I pick Cortana as runner-up. If you take Halo 5 in a vacuum and just look at the quality of the lines of each character, Cortana’s dialogue conveys the most about her. We learn a tremendous amount about Halo 5 Cortana (and not just because of how many lines she has) through the way she presents herself and positions herself in that presentation. She even goes through a sort of arc, wherein she begins as a seeming redeemable character (perhaps even victim) and slowly descends into darkness. While I’d normally therefore promote her as the best-written character (since no one in Halo 5 has a character arc except her), I’m too bitter about the whole Halo 5 campaign to give her top billing.
I think the Arbiter (Halo 5 excluded since nobody is well written there)