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In halo 5 the covenant and the unsc wants to kill chief he went crazy because he lost Cortana hopefully chief will live if he does rest in Pease chief :-( °°°°
Halo 4's ending did an amazing job showing us the human side of Chief, reminding us that despite under all of that armor and augmentations, he still is human instead of a human weapon. A machine. Definitely was an emotional joyride seeing this after Halo 1-3. Halo 5 on the other hand... threw everything out the window of what Halo 4 tried to show.
Only thing I liked about Halo 5 is the Idea of Locke--not locke as a character. But *ONI* on the field. It was just executed poorly. Would have preferred Serin Osman but she's CINCONI. I just wish Locke was more sinister....the embodiment of ONI
I only played the first Halo, had no idea what the heck happened here. But as a 40k fan, I did play Space Marine and this ending reminded me a lot of it. You go through the whole game like some unstoppable behemoth only to reach the ending wounded and exhausted, with an Imperial Guardswoman noticing how you can get hurt. Titus' response to "It looks like Space Marines are human after all", after seeing his Sergeant killed and being betrayed by a Chaos-controlled Inquisitor is "More than you know..."
I loved this. Chief always had a badass demeanor to him. Having him fail to maintain that was something I thought I’d never see. And it was incredible.
The thing that is the most killer about this scene is that you can hear the sadness in Chief's voice. After Lasky walks away and Chief recalls what Cortana said to him about being a machine. His voice is just full of sadness.
Also "welcome home John" Where is home? He was kidnapped when he was a kid, raised with other Spartans which were pretty much brothers and sisters and then the hundreds of days fighting alongside with Cortana. So where is home, Coral, Reach or where ever Cortana is?
***** Earth was and is Humanity's birthplace, previously known as Erde-Tyrene by the Forerunners, it has housed Humanity from the time when the first Human had appeared. Humanity still holds a significant amount of colonies, as, out of 800, we still don't know how many EXACTLY did the Covenant find and annihilate. We do know that not all of the attacked ones were glassed.
-Stealer-L1F3 I think Stephen Vassallo meant this in a metaphorical context. What we see as violence, bloodshed, and years of duty - far from the comforts of our definition of a "home", is what "home" is to Master Chief. How can Master Chief ever go home when his "home" - Cortana, fellow Spartans, Dr. Halsey, are gone/not to be found? This connects well with how Dr. Halsey wanted to see MC so badly in Halo 4: Spartan Ops, considering that they have told her that Master Chief has been dead all these years.
Holy fuck man, the world around him is literally crumbling down at the same time his heart is as it has never been before.. All that through a visor. Well played 343.
POV: You’re coming to this video to counter Pablo Schreibers “You can’t connect with a character when you can’t see their face.” And just to see how emotional Chief actually got vs Master Cheeks
Master Chief Petty Officer Spartan John-117 god dammit. I rewatched this cuz I just bought halo 5 and wanted to recap the ending of halo 4. but everyones saying halo 5 has ruined the story... im suddenly less than overly excited for halo 5 lol
+James Maxwell I know. Many people didn't like the quick-time events in this game, but in my opinion it made the campaign even more exciting. Halo 4 also had something the most emotional, memorable cutscenes in any game I've played. All the cutscenes in Halo 5 felt so jumpy and rushed and easily forgotten
I agree, QT events are not my favorite. But, neither was some of the repetition of the game. However, nothing is perfect. Oh, it did. The ending brought me to tears; it was incredible. The cut scenes were terrible and the story followed suit. It's not too bad though, as there's no substance to the story in Halo 5. Arguably even worse, was the fact that the narrative in Halo 5 negated the events of Halo 4.
James Maxwell Generally, I just hate it when game publishers force the developers to rush it in time for Christmas. Halo 5 could've been the CoD killer
This campaign was actually really good. The ending was emotional and it promised a lot for the future of Halo UNTIL HALO 5 CAME OUT AND FUCKED EVERYTHING
@@angelfilms4886 Did you see the marketing tailers for Halo 5? I'm cautiously optimistic for Infinite, but if it turns out to be garbage due to Microsoft's involvement, I won't be the least bit surprised.
Why wasn’t this explored further in Halo 5? 343 abandoned this beautiful character development for the ability to fight with a bunch of spartan bros in Halo 5.... I’ll admit as a kid I hated 343 for changing the mood of Halo into an emotionally driven story.. it was probably due to the backlash of people like me that they opted out for a traditional Halo experience.. I wish they stuck to their guns because the ending of Halo 4 achieved levels of storytelling mastery.
@@coops3600 You're right about that. I think by 'traditional' I meant 'action orientated'. Halo 5's story is absolute trash. An utter embarrassment to Halo's legacy.
@@CrispyHulk1 Yeah it's definitely action oriented. But it totally screwed with the gameplay we know and love and added way too many new mechanics. It doesn't feel like halo at all. I want running, gunning, crouch jumping, grenade spamming, dual wielding, melee attacking gameplay. I don't need sprinting, boosting in every direction, ground pound, that boost slam thing, clambering onto objects (crouch jump ftw), vehicles that feel obselete in MP because player movement speed is way too fast, ADS for every weapon, etc. I want halo, not "generic sci fi shooter clone of the current gen number 4893". Also what the MP needs is a limited number of weapons with scarcity of overpowered ones, placed in strategic locations on the map like they should be. None of this points based "buy a new weapon" bs, and none of the CoD/CS weapon skin cancer.
Nishe Siel Hmm that’s wishful thinking. FPS games have evolved far too much and the industry is too trendy to settle for traditional play-styles. While I like ADS and Sprint, ground pound and boost etc can go.
Y K You call it evolution, I call it a mere effect of the mass produced and overly commercialised nature of game development these days. It’s merely an effect of attempting to add in too many new, gimmicky game mechanics. Most of these mechanics are hated by players, and it doesn’t make for superior gameplay but rather gameplay that is by all accounts more generic and less halo, so it can’t really be called evolution imo. Cramming more things into a game doesn’t make it better. One does not achieve quality by simply upping the quantity. ADS for every weapon is pretty unhalo. It pushes all the combat out to a further range and takes focus away from grenades, not only by making them more of a side note but also by taking the trigger that used to be the dedicated grenade command. You may personally like it but it’s not halo and most halo players agree. Stuff like that and sprinting completely messes with the flow of halo gameplay and makes it feel completely different. Edit: didn’t mean that as an attack on you. You also said it’s because of trendiness and I completely agree. But game devs need to realise following trends is not how you make a masterpiece, and it’s definitely not how you make a game stand out. It’s how you get generic crap like halo 5 that lots of people dislike. These “trends” are mainly the result of the “mass produce and push it to a wider audience” formula, not due to an actual wish by players for games to go in this direction. The more gaming becomes something that’s mass produced and adopted by the general population at large, and less a thing for the “gamer” stereotype, the more generic our games get.
Really Cortana's 'death' was really the last straw for Chief because did you hear how different his voice was and that was caused by all the death he had seen, Johnson, both Keyes, Multiple Spartans, thousands of Marines, billions of civilians, Cortana's 'death' broke him
Also Chief has been seen as completely subordinate throughout the entire series. It was only until Halo 4 where he started to act on his own wishes, not directly the wishes of the UNSC, even completely disobeying direct orders. Mission first was always the way, even at the end, he immediately asks Cortana how to escape the blue energy field, and as soon as Cortana says she's not going to be with him, he started to break and eventually, as you said, he did break. You can tell because he speaks in desperation.
Master Chief Petty Officer Spartan John-117 we are fine now that Shepard cured the genophage (or dead if he/she didn't) I AM KROGAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@dvrchweesse1frfdozemkaanai594 Shame because if they continued what Halo 4 was going for on top of Halo 5's multiplayer it would of been a incredibly good game
DRILL'EM SHANKSPEAR BORIS He May have the ISO didacts gias or however you spell it. It wouldn’t mean John is not John, he just has the imprint of the iso didact in his DNA. He is still human, his own person, and a Spartan.
Replaying 1,2,3 and 4 just watching this scene is sadder than it has to be because chief just didn’t lose a partner he lost his best friend. You can even feel the emotion in their voices.
"When this is all over...Promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine." - Cortana "Soldiers aren't machines. We're just people.." "She said that to me once... about being a machine" *The FEELS* :'(
You know what I just realized? That the reason Chief feels so lost is because Cortana was the closest thing he had to a lover; someone who might understand him even a little, even if they would never be able to be together. Kind of like a person you've met and loved, but when you met them, they were already dying of a fatal disease. In this case, Cortana and Chief know that she will die from rampancy; Chief's hope that they can find Halsey and she can "cure" Cortana is him expressing a human trait for hope even though there's nothing to suggest rampancy is curable, or that Halsey is even alive, something we don't really ever see; he tends to be rooted in reality and fact. Look at Halo 2. "I know what you're thinking, and it's crazy." 'So stay here.' "What if you miss?" 'I won't'. Chief doesn't HOPE he will deliver the bomb. He KNOWS he will. But back to the topic at hand. Anyone who enters the military as a trooper is dehumanized to some extent during training. The other Spartan IIs show this. They aren't exactly normal, but they're far from being like Chief, who is the only one we really see acting stone-cold all the time (though this was partially because in Halo 1 he was meant to be a blank template for us to project ourselves upon, and make us feel like a badass) The only one he bothers opening up to is Cortana, like he is confiding in a lover; Cortana and to a limited extent, Sgt Johnson are just about the only people he bothers mild jokes around. "We're not leaving him here." 'Yeah, you're not'. Or "Got an escape plan?" 'Thought I'd try shooting my way out. Mix things up a little'. Chief doesn't make jokes around just anyone. I think Chief and Cortana have a very interesting relationship. Cortana feels like a human, being an AI made from Halsey, but she knows she is a machine. Chief feels like a machine through and through but at the end of the day, he is human. Hell, this is even reciprocated by the rest of the cast. No one but Cortana calls Chief John, aside from Halsey in H4/H5. They all refer to him as Chief pretty much, further reinforcing in his mind that he's just a machine without that doesn't need a name. On the other hand, Cortana is treated like a person. No one calls Cortana by her official numbers or title, just her name. You could chalk it up that it's easier than saying the former, but I still find that neat that no one ever just calls her "AI". During this ending, we see how broken and lost Chief is without her. While he knew it was coming in all likelihood, perhaps, like the rest of us, he did something human, and tried to avoid thinking about it. He is a man broken by his purpose, of being taught to only know war and nothing else, and loss of the only thing he's ever known to come even close to understanding what he feels. It's pretty heartbreaking really.
I wouldn't even say lover. I would say more like family. She's been a constant for him, someone he never actually considered life would be like without her. Her presence in his life was simply assumed to be. With her gone, a huge aspect of his life is gone. His only confidant and friend is gone and he doesn't know what to do now.
Cortana was many things to Chief: She was a close confidant, an older-sibling figure, a comrade-in-arms, a voice of reason, a guiding hand, a protective ally..... She was his conscience - the voice in his head telling him what he needed to do. She was his voice; the one vocalizing any thought he had, surface thoughts, intrusive ones, and even those buried deep inside him. Cortana was mostly the one who communicated to other humans when needed. Check Johnson's interactions with Chief especially during Halo 2. In the Metropolis mission, she's the one who thanks him for the Scorpion Tank. When they were slipspaced near Delta Halo, Johnson asks Chief if he's fine, to which Cortana is the one to reply. This is important because like all of the SPARTAN-IIs, John is both emotionally and mentally stunted due to being kidnapped as kids and raised as child soldiers. They are all very socially awkward to non-spartans and tend to remain silent even when they feel like they have something to say. And even to their fellow SPARTAN-IIs, they still tended to be quiet given their nearly-telepathic understanding of each others minute movements and gestures that gave them all the information on what the other felt or wanted to say. But most of all, she was his human half. The playful, witty, and emotional counterpart to his cold, calculating, and tough exterior. She was what reminded him of his humanity, and that even with all his armor and augmentations, he was still human. It's completely ironic how the AI is more human than the actual Human she is working with, but that's the dynamic that they had. You also have to remember that at this point, John didn't even know if any of his fellow Spartan-IIs were still alive and had to assume that they were all dead. To say that he lost everything he had left the moment he lost Cortana is a pretty apt description to how he felt at the time of her "Death".
Soldiers aren't machines. We're just people. It's at this moment, that I began to sweat Yes, I'm sure that it was sweat and not tears. "Before this is over, promise me you'll find out which one of us is the machine"
Honestly, I have always enjoyed the multiplayer. No it isn't nearly as good as 3, but I genuinely enjoy it more than Reach, and that's a game I love on the whole. It's a little too Call of Duty-ish in parts, but I've rarely played it and _not_ really enjoyed it. However, this is very possibly nostalgia speaking, it was my first Halo after all, I would never have got into Halo if not for its existence, and it is certainly not without flaws. Also, the MCC version of 4 is the one I have actually played the most of at this point, and that can't be considered a total 1:1, especially with all the extra content now available in MCC compared to the lacklustre customisation in the original version.
Halo 4 has easily my favorite story of the franchise. I never got how people said it was confusing. All you need to know is that a guy wants to turn people into robots and Cortanna is dying. This ending almost made me cry, and a game has never come that close to doing it. Having Cortanna return in Halo 5 was one of the worst writing decisions I've ever seen. This ending was so perfect that I wish Cortanna stayed dead even though her character is great.
A way they could fix H5's story in Infinite is by semi-canonizing "Daybreak's Bell", a Halo fan-novel set during/after H5. In DB, H5 Cortana isn't really Cortana, but a Forerunner Ancilia masquerading as her to throw off Chief. The real Cortana was still technically alive, but in millions of pieces scattered across The Domain, and Chief had to find them and put her back together.
Yeah, but of course it's easier to make people happy by reviving a beloved character than making a new story great without them... it's sadly the easier way to please fans :|
Not only did they bring her back but they fucking destroyed her whole character by making her evil. I like to think of Halo 5 as “The Last Jedi” of the Halo series in that it ruined a beloved character. But honestly, H5 is even more poorly written and offensive to it’s storyline than TLJ.
5:21 I think it's implied here that chief actually sheds a tear for the first time in decades, given that he can't look Cortana in the eyes. You can here the shortcomings of his voice as he looks down and away
the saddest thing bout this isnt cortana's death its seeing just how broken and alone chief is. like a lot of ppl say this cortana and chief are romantic and this is a soldier losing his lover but what i see is a broken child whos never felt the love of a mother finally finding a mother in cortana and then finally being able to be touched by her and losing her instantly and just seeing this bad ass break and his voice crack. it brings such life in to the game
Chief and Cortana's relationship is easily one of the most interesting in storytelling from what I've seen. It's one of those rare times where you really can't tell what exactly the two of them are to one another but you know that they both think much of the other. Wonder if anyone's wrote a thesis on it.
The way I see it, they both very obviously love each other and care for each other but this "love" is very different from the normal love we see in movies or stuff like that.... Both the Chief and Cortana were never meant for love... Its something that's just not meant to be.... Cortana is an AI trying to be human and Chief is someone who's humanity was stripped from him.... And both Cortana and Chief are able to make each other feel human.... Experience what it feels to be human and ofcourse love is part of being human.... Its something very pure and unique... And it's something that is more beautiful than them just being in romantic love imo
I agree, let's also not forget the amazing detail and graphics in the game. 343 really upped the game with the story and graphics. I get new Halo games mainly for the story but multiplayer and custom games do play a big role and sadly they weren't that good in Halo 4. Hopefully that changes in Guardians.
I'm a big halo fan I'm looking forward for getting five soon! So far everyone said its bad....I heard the ending is a cliffhanger so hopefully the next halo will complete it and then everything should be better!
I remember playing Halo 4 with my dad on the weekend it was always so fun and I refused too play the game alone without him.This game was a huge part of my life and I wouldn't had moments like this without it.
I hate when they kill off characters then bring them back, it completely defeats the purpose of doing it in the first place. Weird tho just can't imagine Halo without Cortana, she is the second thing other then MC that comes to mind when thinking of Halo.
Well at least it makes up for a new plot and a longer series so you never know what might happen cause cortana died might be an interesting continuation as long as we have one so I wouldn't be too pissed about it
I've just finished Halo 4, including every halo that's before Halo 4, what a beautiful journey, I cried at this, who didn't. Beautiful game series , a masterpiece truly.
I'm sorry man it ended with 3 for me, with all the hype and all the advertising that it came with, it sported the game with a slogan called "FINISH THE FIGHT" to me that screams conclusion. I'm fine with halo 4 but the series didn't go on past 3.
Samuel Hung what if the didact is masking himself with the identity of Cortana in the composer/catalog? I mean he fell into the cataloging stream, so he is an ai now.
fk man that trailer was perfect, I hope Halo 5 never sees the light of MCC so I can ignore it for the rest of my life but god the campaign was so underrated of Halo 4 I can't keep my shit together over how you could litteraly hear John crying when he says "I am not leaving you here..."
I was so sad when Cortana died... then the Didactic diolouge over the end scene was perfect! Sarah Palmer and the spartan 4's stared at Master cheif like a god and when he went to get the helmet taken off and the Didactic said"The reclaimation has already begun... and we are hopeless to stop it." Let's just say I say and stared for 5 minutes. Just an amazing game, and then there was Halo 5...
Well, from a narrative perspective, Bungie offered a world that was rooted in a reality that was based on sound scientific theory, with a very vague and mysterious background that kept us wondering. Then of course, 343i came in and started pumping in way too much into the expanded universe, effectively creating head scratching plot holes that seem to diminish and retcon what Bungie created. From a gameplay perspective... COD hate is irrational at best, and any game that "mimics' COD in anyway is slandered. Go figure.
Anthony It didn't have plot holes, you just had to have read up on the lore before playing it. Since 343i remade all outside game lore cannon again after Bungie made it not cannon because of their almost fuck up with Reach's story.
Dominic Berry Did you not read Karen Traviss's Kilo-Five Trilogy? I think plot holes would be the wrong word, but yeah, really felt like a lack of research went into 343i's expanded universe. For example, why does Corporal Palmer suddenly become a CO in the span of a year or two? You mean to tell me that out of all the candidates they picked for the Spartan Program, no one picked an officer? Or at least a senior NCO?
Replaced by an autistic ai who's dialogue consists of %90 marvel quips..... Like when chief says hostiles incoming tardtana "DuR u sUrE ttHeYRe HOsTiLe???"
RIGHT?? and then the moment of hesitation before you’re able to press RT to detonate the bomb..... you really feel chief accepting what he’s about to do! he’ll protect humanity, whatever the cost..
343i had to rewrite the entire story at the last second because Microsoft wanted Cortana to come back because of the raging Halo fans. There's the guy on RU-vid called Late Night Gaming that explains it.
Its in their name 343 [guilty spark], they first seem to help us and truly care, then they are revealed to have lied and betray us, lastly they fully commit to madness killing off a beloved friend.
Its amazing how the Halo Show is making people look back at Halo 4 with a more positive take. Glad to see people respect Halo 4, it really is underrated.
@@camdenmarian3627 it's just that the show could have been so much more but ended up being with stuff like... Cheeks sleeping with a covenant spy... That pissed everyone off. The halo universe is pretty much like gaming star wars where a literal ton of stories can be tell even without master chief and Cortana yet they couldn't do it right and opted with a generic story that doesn't fit halo at all, also that they didn't know anything about halo before making it just makes it worse.
@@thekingzhaul5914 naw I get it man. But it's like damn. Be upset it didn't meet expectations. That's fine. But to be so damn salty and say ts trash? Like come on. It didn't fit the lore but the show is definitely not trash. The script, the acting and the graphics are above par. If the game never existed this is a show that could have been critically acclaimed as a miniseries
5:47 Master Chief's life literally crumbling around him with Cortana gone... I've never even played a Halo game, and you can tell just how much these two care about each other throughout this whole ending. It was really well done.
This is where the master chief story should of permanently ended. It was so fitting. MC was back on Earth, Cortana was dead, Didact who was always hinted at in halo 3, was faced and defeated. Halo 5 is a joke, it all ends at halo 4 in my mind.
Well thats the thing I dont think they will just pull a oh heres this character back thing i think if Cortana is to come back it will be through an actual good plot point
This game had a good twist on what we would normally expect in halo campaign. It was about master chief's struggle with saving humanity from a new and terrifying threat unlike any before and the fact that he did not really have the military to back him up as he usually did. All of the normal group were away or dead, so this time around he and cortana had to do everything without commanding officers for the go ahead. There was no great war, this threat was on a more personal level, It was their story, and in a way it was the players' story. It was your story
Too bad the fanbase complained about it so they way over corrected and churned out h5 which story was not good. Luckily they rebounded well with infinite. 4s story is still one of the best in the series.
Still can’t believe people didn’t like this story. Those people are the reason 343 pivoted so hard and we got H5 and my opinion on that will not change
Cortana really deserved better. I'm probably gonna forever be in denial about the fact she died off-screen without every getting to talk to John since Halo 5. Her last message made me pretty emotional but it was essentially just this scene + stuff to justify her now being ok with being replaced so the plot can go on without her.
This is why I’m bitter of a Master Chief face reveal in the show. I wouldn’t have minded if they did it like the Legendary ending to Halo 4, but a full on reveal? Seriously? Just to “humanize” him? This farewell to Cortana is a perfect example of John expressing his feelings without removing the helmet. The head nods, the head movements, hearing his voice, his body language, were all you needed to feel John’s vulnerability and that he’s more than just a Spartan.
I extremely love Halo 4, yet the only thing that disappointed me was the new music. Halo's original sound track was one of the best I had ever heard and with the sudden change I'm not sure I like it. Its still good music though.
Marcel Saldana Bungie firing O'Donnell has nothing to do with Halo 4. He was employed by Bungie. Bungie didn't make Halo 4. So the man behind the original Halo soundtracks never even touched Halo 4. Neil Davidge did the music for Halo 4,
I think halo 4s soundtrack will always have a tough time with the fans. Objectively, it's a great soundtrack, and it really stands on it's own. 117 and Arrival were shiver inducing awesomeness, Legacy fit well with you uncovering the mysteries of Requiem, and To Galaxy amd Desecration had a decidely halo feel to them. But I agree it's too sharp of a transition. I mean the scene where they arrive at the halo and Never Forget are the only pieces fro the past soundtracks. If 343 doesnt introduce entirely new music instead of just remixes(which lets face it, made up the bulk of halo osts after halo 1), halo music will become stale. Iwould like to see some more classic halo music return in the next game. Perhaps a return of the old main theme, remixed for the new trilogy(different, but still recognizable). I'd love to see The Last Spartan from Halo 2 revisited. They never reused that song, and it was one of the best in the game. a remix would be a welcome blast from the past. 343 did say Halo 5 will have a more traditional halo feel, lets hope that extends to the music as well, but I still hope to see versions of 4s best music returning.
The best ending of all the Halo games in my opinion. Master Chief's attempted sacrifice, Cortana's goodbye, Lasky's conversation and Chief's self-reflection, and the Didact's monologue. It's all so well written and beautiful.
If a game's ending leaves you feeling "meh", then it was a bad fucking ending. The ending of a game should leave you feeling happy, pissed, distraught, or conflicted.
"I'm not doing this for Mankind" *BOOM* Epicness. Chief and Cortana... Basically an epic yet sadly tragic love story. Halo 4 broke our hearts. Halo 5 ripped it out yet again and stamped it in front of us as part of a cruel joke. Halo 6 is shaping to be the fantastic grand finale.
+Mike Cabrera not really... Cortana was like a sister to chief... and she saves him from 343 guility sparks lies and yet she listens to that dam machine's bullshit... I am not surprised to she her as a final boss in halo 6... and that's when I need to grab lots and lots of napkins...
OOM B1 Battle Droid Commander When Cortana *touches him* "i've waited so long to do that". - idk about you but i don't think a sister friend would do that... The touch is obviously looked at in a more romantic light. Basically proving what she had been implying: Her strong desire to be human. Just touching John(in his armor) was enough to satisfy her...Also Chief was NEVER this broken up about anyone who died. He protested and basically pleaded with her to come with him at the end of Halo 4 "NO... Thats not.. We go together!" In Halo 5 Linda(who is much more like a sister) tries to talk to him about "her". - "Whats it like?... Hearing her voice in her head?"... Chief - "...its unique" Linda - "Care to elaborate?" Chief - "...no" This is beside the fact that multiple times Chief has disobeyed orders and commands for her. Which is the main reason he went "AWOL" in H5....
Mike Cabrera okay... but what makes no sense about this... remember in halo 1 where cortana don't belive 343 gulity sparks bullshit and yet in halo 5 she belves his bullshit...
OOM B1 Battle Droid Commander She did say that "most of me is down there..." the real Cortana as we know it is either dead or out in space somewhere. Its very possible that Warden recovered her rampant remains and brought her to Genesis. Thats what started the whole plot-twist with her being the new main enemy.
Honestly I feel this is one of the best Master Chief stories, definitely not campaign but for Chiefs character, we actually got to see him as a person rather than a cove killing badass machine. I feel during that Cortana scene that was when Chief broke. Even when he’s staring at Earth you can feel his pain and feel the emotions in his eyes even tho all we get to see is his helmet.
I think this is where the differences between the game and the TV series really show. Master Chief's whole enigma and parallels to being a machine is a character trait that spans across the entire trilogy and up to 4, where he turns from a static character to a dynamic one, but Paramount is trying to tear down those walls and make that transition happen within a single episode due to some memory wipe bs. Sad moment.
Don't get so many bitching about Halo 4. Best campaign by far. Best story by far. The multiplayer was a bit meh but not terrible by any means. Halo is the only fps I play for the story. In fact it's the only fps I HAVE to play. All the others are fun but you're just there for the multiplayer. Halo I love the characters the story throughout and I the multiplayer is always fun. Really don't understand peoples hate towards 343. Look at Reach and then look at this. This is so much better. This is probably my second favourite Halo game. Halo 3 being my first ( a lot of people prefer 2 but I've always loved 3)
+colebowlin68 I wish they had at least ONE prophet in there, just one. I know the San'Shyuum were really impacted by the events of Halo 2, but I have read that one prophet did join the Arbiter. I don't really know what happened to him, he's never really seen in the game. I also heard that there's a possibility that the San'Shyuum aren't as endangered as they may seem. For one thing, when the Reformists left Janjur Qom, the other side, the Stoics, lasted some time after the Covenant prophets left. Though it was said that Janjur Qom was destroyed, the San'Shyuum were known to have been lying A LOT, and the possibility that the San'Shyuum may have repopulated other worlds as well. But really we may never know until the Prophets return in Halo 6.
I think one part of this that gets overlooked [with everything else going on] was that last glance he takes up at the earth before he detonates the bomb. You can almost feel the sadness there when he knows this is the end and that's the last thing he's going to see.
This makes me so fucking mad, happy, and sad all at the same time. Mad at halo 5's story, happy about what could have been, and sad that it isn't so. I hope the lead writer for halo 5 was fired for what he helped undo.
Either way. If it was Microsoft, then its too late. The game launched and now the franchised is fked. idk. Someday we'll get a sequel that needs to happen, someday...
This ending was probably the most emotional thing I've seen in a game. And yes, more effecting than The Walking Dead and The Last of Us. It really hit me at the core.
I can't help but remember when John first had to leave behind a comrade in battle. He knew he had to make an example to the other Spartans but carrying on after losing Sam, let alone after the augmentation failures. His child self would say he won, but he also lost.
@@dylonballestracci9744 He's talking about the Walking Dead The GAME (Season 1) , not the show . The Show & game are completely different Storyline wise
I always like Halo 4 and thought it got a bad rap. Also GODDAMN I forgot how curvy they made Cortana look in this game. Can I have this model back please?
