Halo 4 will start exploring Master Chief as a character more, apparently

[WorriedSandwich]

Just building the hype of course, but I'm interrested in Halo 4 nonetheless. Also, let's make a bold statement for the sake of bold statements: If Halo 4 shows MC's face, it's going to be a bad game, and if Halo 4 doesn't show MC's face, it's going to be a good game.

 

[Worgen]

The only reason I missed the mc in halo reach was that they pretty much fucked up halo reach, the story was boring, the chars were pointless, the outcome was obvious, I could have made the story much more interesting, but then again I wouldn't have done a damn prequel, those are the dry hump of sequels. They didn't have to totally ignore the mc in reach, they could easily have had him show up and not been the main focus, no one in the game even mentioned him, he only showed up at the end if you held the control stick to the right when it showed the inside of the pillar of autumn, you could easily have had the chars mention something about an upgrade program that John was chosen for, hell they could have worked him into some of the earlier levels before he went in for upgrades.

But I would've have done a game about reach at all, I would have continued the story with the arbitor as a big focus, maybe throw in a few upgraded hell jumpers as something as they seek to put down the rest of the covenant, the cov just lost one of their giant space platform things, they still have homeworlds all over the place and those will probably need to be either taken out or pacified in some way.

 

[setting_son]

I love the idea. I love the Halo series and MC, so the more the explore him, the better. Hopefully they dive into Cortana maybe going rampant. That'd be cool.

If you want to know what it would be like for the Master Chief to 'dive' into Cortana and go rampant with her there's plenty of fanfiction on www.m- Oh wait, I completely misread your post. Nevermind.

Thanks very much. Everyone on this thread totally needed to know that.

I've never seen it but I imagine it goes along the lines of:

"Cortona {sic} looked up at him and siad {sic} 'Is that a MA5B Assault Rifle in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?'

Chef said back 'It's a MA5C actually yo dumb ho. But am also pleazed to see you'"

 

[Terminate421]

Finally someone sees it other than me about how Master Chief is a great character. He doesn't need to have a 40 minute speech about his feelings toward the covenant. He may mostly use action, but he does have a personality. And a damn good one.

Its kinda funny when someone thinks a character is so deep is if they talk about something stupid like their favorite cereal.

 

[Terminate421]

Good.

Start tieing in the plot more with the books, Halo probably has the largest and most complex story in the industry, but due to the fact that games don't rely on the books, they come off as simple plot wise because the parts that ARE complex just aren't regonized by people who DON'T read the extended canon.

Usually THOSE people need something thrown onto their face about how things work for a plot. Its kinda dumb.

I'm cautious about Halo 4-6. They will either suck, or be good. I loved all the Halo games so far, lets just hope things work out for this one.

 

[SarcasmoPope]

I don't think they should make him a deeper character. If they accidentally made the game good they might alienate some of their fans. They should just keep him as an emotionless robotic supersoldier.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

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Bungie isn't making it, 343 is.

 

[Terminate421]

I don't think they should make him a deeper character. If they accidentally made the game good they might alienate some of their fans. They should just keep him as an emotionless robotic supersoldier.

Whats your definition of emotion? Just asking.

Realizing shit just got real when the flood landed on earth?

Or sobbing uncontrollably while having a monologue over how far back cortana has been with the chief?

He's been in 3 good games (4, if you count Reach). 3 more were good without him (2, if you count Reach).

I just realized....what are the enemies going to be for this game? Sentinels no doubt, maybe flood but what else? Long lost forerunners? New aliens?

 

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

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Bungie isn't making it, 343 is.

343 is, however, made up of former Bungie employees.

 

[thelonewolf266]

I don't think they should make him a deeper character. If they accidentally made the game good they might alienate some of their fans. They should just keep him as an emotionless robotic supersoldier.

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I wouldn't worry about him he's just made a thread complaining about Halo Anniversary he clearly just has a hard on for trolling Halo fans.

 

[Poisoni]

I'd like to see more Cortana, personally because her inevitable rampancy is approaching and in Halo 3 I think she was absent for far too long and didn't get a big enough part.

 

[MammothBlade]

It's a bit late for that now...

Might as well just introduce a new character, really. You're not going to be able to give a man whose image is overwhelmingly a mute, power-suited supersoldier much personality without horribly dividing the fanbase. As is the case with a lot of mute protagonists, they are solely a vessel for the player's personality.

 

[Lieju]

Part of me kinda wishes they will go crazy and give it a full 'Metroid other M' treatment and mess up in a fantastically awful way.

Now I don't hate Halo. I don't like it either, it simply does not interest me, but there's something amusing in seeing people totally screw up a character (if you aren't invested in the character yourself).

Also we'd get all those fanboys flaming other fanboys who loved the old chief and then joining forces against Halo-haters.

I guess I'd be happy too if they did it in a very good way, to show how something like that should be done, though.

In any case I wouldn't play it myself, but might search for an LP if it was horrible in a funny way.

 

[Samurai Silhouette]

As long as Team Ninja doesn't get their hands on MC anymore, I'm good. They already rule 63'd him a while ago, let not Other Mother him now.

 

[maturin]

It's a good move. Since most people have played through three whole games as John, they can give him a compelling sense of character with an epic, emotive sweep without even having to do any good writing. Just add soundtrack.

Look at how many people actually care about Captain Price.

 

[Korten12]

It's a bit late for that now...

Might as well just introduce a new character, really. You're not going to be able to give a man whose image is overwhelmingly a mute, power-suited supersoldier much personality without horribly dividing the fanbase. As is the case with a lot of mute protagonists, they are solely a vessel for the player's personality.

The misconception is that, Master Chief was never a mute, he always spoke, just not during gameplay.


8 minute mark and on, you see MC talking.

OT: It will be hard for them to explore much of his background, well since, it already had been in Fall of Reach, where it showed his origin. I guess they could show ingame events of parts of the origin.

Or just show us the personality he had in the book more.

 

[MammothBlade]

It's a bit late for that now...

Might as well just introduce a new character, really. You're not going to be able to give a man whose image is overwhelmingly a mute, power-suited supersoldier much personality without horribly dividing the fanbase. As is the case with a lot of mute protagonists, they are solely a vessel for the player's personality.

The misconception is that, Master Chief was never a mute, he always spoke, just not during gameplay.


8 minute mark and on, you see MC talking.

OT: It will be hard for them to explore much of his background, well since, it already had been in Fall of Reach, where it showed his origin. I guess they could show ingame events of parts of the origin.

Or just show us the personality he had in the book more.

Is that new to CE Anniversary?

 

[Korten12]

It's a bit late for that now...

Might as well just introduce a new character, really. You're not going to be able to give a man whose image is overwhelmingly a mute, power-suited supersoldier much personality without horribly dividing the fanbase. As is the case with a lot of mute protagonists, they are solely a vessel for the player's personality.

The misconception is that, Master Chief was never a mute, he always spoke, just not during gameplay.


8 minute mark and on, you see MC talking.

OT: It will be hard for them to explore much of his background, well since, it already had been in Fall of Reach, where it showed his origin. I guess they could show ingame events of parts of the origin.

Or just show us the personality he had in the book more.

Is that new to CE Anniversary?

No, I just used CE Anniversary because it nicer to look at.

 

[Shameless]

Looking forward to it, haters can hate all they want teehee.

 

[Owen Robertson]

Would a brain-washed, genetically enhanced, super soldier have much of a personality? You know, other thank Kill shit and follow orders to the letter (which he doesn't actually do). He'd certainly have trust issues if he was kidnapped at 8 years old, and some sort of pseudo-Oedipus complex with Halsey and therefore Cortana.
I apologize if this seems snarky, but I've been watching a lot of ZP, and Yahtzee has rubbed off on me (but not in a gay way).