Would Halo 5’s campaign was in many ways different from what the trailers suggested. What if the trailers reflected the campaign?
Master Chief has gone AWOL while searching for a way to bring back Cortana. The UNSC, desperate for their most decorated war hero, hires a team of bounty hunters consisting of four members. Two are ex-Spartans seeking something more than following orders. One is a grief stricken Buck who quit the UNSC after the traitor amongst his team and the death of the Rookie. And their leader, Agent Locke, a ruthless ex-ONI agent who is hunting Chief partially for the reward and partially for his own motives.
Together they seek out the Arbiter, who decides to help them find the Master Chief, who is activating guardians in hope of bringing back Cortana. The Arbiter is unaware of Locke’s final plan to kill Chief.
Would this have been a better campaign? Anything you would change?
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> Would Halo 5’s campaign was in many ways different from what the trailers suggested. What if the trailers reflected the campaign?
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> Master Chief has gone AWOL while searching for a way to bring back Cortana. The UNSC, desperate for their most decorated war hero, hires a team of bounty hunters consisting of four members. Two are ex-Spartans seeking something more than following orders. One is a grief stricken Buck who quit the UNSC after the traitor amongst his team and the death of the Rookie. And their leader, Agent Locke, a ruthless ex-ONI agent who is hunting Chief partially for the reward and partially for his own motives.
> Together they seek out the Arbiter, who decides to help them find the Master Chief, who is activating guardians in hope of bringing back Cortana. The Arbiter is unaware of Locke’s final plan to kill Chief.
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> Would this have been a better campaign? Anything you would change?
Well I was really surprised they didn’t go with the line of reasoning that Chief is trying to bring Cortana back and this is why Osiris are trying to stop him. Its what I thought during the trailers. But obviously Cortana does everything on her own and Osiris sole goal is to save Chief from getting himself killed. Which was weak because Chief isn’t in any danger; Cortana doesn’t want to kill Chief. All they had to do was make Chief the one to give Cortana access to the Guardians by letting her out of the Domain.
I do agree that people expected and wanted a darker Osiris. Its what the trailers implied with Locke saying he going to kill Chief for endangering humanity. Not sure I think its necessary to make them mercenaries. The truth is that ONI has plenty of ruthless people and making them ruthless members of the UNSC sort of makes it okay for Chief to not want to work with them.
IMO it should have been Chief wants to get Cortana back/save her when he realizes she cray cray. Whilst Lockes goal from start to finish is to kill her and he only stops engaging Chief when he realizes that she would only put him in the cryptum if she thought he was a threat.
Yeah the Chief teaming up with the Arbiter would have been infinitely more rewarding and makes sense. Chief can’t get help off the UNSC so he asks his friend for some support. In exchange the Arbiter asks for help in his war. Instead of an exciting adventure on Sanghelios I felt like I was Chief tappng my foot at the Genesis portal waiting for the plot.
No, because that would mean the Chief would have been personally responsible for every death caused by the Guardians’ awakening, which would be even worse character defamation than what we got with Cortana. Chief would never sacrifice civilian human lives, not even for Cortana.
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> No, because that would mean the Chief would have been personally responsible for every death caused by the Guardians’ awakening, which would be even worse character defamation than what we got with Cortana. Chief would never sacrifice civilian human lives, not even for Cortana.
Well in my mind he would have really been led by Cortana to release her from the Domain. He thinks the Guardians awakening is just a side effect Cortana can’t control. When actually…she knows. He’d only have done this once and then be spirited off to Genesis where he confronts Cortana. But the Chief would never have known that would happen.
The misunderstanding would be that Chief doesn’t believe Cortana would intentionally tell the Guardian to kill and so believes Osiris are just pinning the blame on her.
I mean how else could you explain the trailers? They’re very explicit that the UNSC blames Chief for activating the Guardians and the Chief seems to be on a dark path and ominously asking himself if it was worth it. So he had to have had some hand in releasing Cortana.
I must admit I wasn’t really sold on this in the lead up to Halo 5. I would have much preferred something in tone to the E3 trailer where its him in the poncho on his quest to find Cortana.