Halo 3: Cortana, Gravemind and other questions

[CaptHawkeye]

It was pretty clear from the second half of Combat Evolved that Bungie never really planned out the story beyond "space marine finds ring and shoots aliens". They might have had a more grandiose plan in the long run, but Microsoft bought them and probably stuck them on a tight development time frame to move the game from PC to Xbox. The story got a rear seat.

All Halo's story is capable of being is really pretentious, but I don't have to tell anyone here that. It honestly seems pretty pointless to me to debate the specifics of the storyline since it's just so stupid. You might as well be asking what Master Chief's favorite color is.

Like Stark said it's funny to hear about the Forerunner and their empire of hilarious bullshit.

[lordofchange13]

Having finally found the short, it is as I feared: the Gravemind let her transmit the message, even helped her do so, because he's a Stupid Evil Overlord.

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# This last one is a bit more of a criticism, but why was boarding High Charity so "easy?" Yeah you can't make it too difficult for the player's sake, but you delve into the very heart of the beast and the best it can do is throw waves of Floodites at you? Even the sphincter doors automatically open for you. Why no big Tentacles of Doom dropping down from the ceiling to grab you? Why no rooms being flooded with acid trying to dissolve you? Why not use the magical-mass-from-nowhere effect to change the floorplan up, close off entryways, create dead-ends, force Master Chief to blast his way through with high explosives? Presumably the Gravemind could have done this with no problem, so why not?

1. Depending on the difficulty level, those waves of floodlites can be pretty effective.
2. The master chief is very good at meleeing stuff. If the gravemind didn't let him through, he might have just punched his way in.
3. The master chief is strong enough to punch through a f*cking tank. Tentacles of doom probably wouldn't do much.
4. His shields might block acid.
5. Mass from nowhere?

C'mon now, let's think about this critically. Even if the shields block acid, they eventually wear out; even if he can punch through a tank (lol), that's going to be harder when your limbs are immobilized, as they were when the Gravemind first captured him in the second game. Shit, why even open the sphincter doors for him, force Master Chief to punch through everything and tire himself out. As for the mass from nowhere, we see constantly throughout the game that people newly infected suddenly increase in size as Flood-y bits and pieces grow out of them. Even ignoring that, it would've made far more sense (and been a much cooler/more challenging level) for the Gravemind, who is in complete control of the environment, to start altering it to try and slow John down.

i pretty shore the flood increase in mass by converting solid mustle and in someinstances bone to a spungy thing that suposidly if good againt assualt rifles. and its a video game the gameplay is not really canon, only the movie parts can be called canon.

[lordofchange13]

i pretty shore the flood increase in mass by converting solid mustle and in someinstances bone to a spungy thing that suposidly if good againt assualt rifles. and its a video game the gameplay is not really canon, only the movie parts can be called canon.[/quote]

sorry for bad spelling, i was realy tires. i ment to say: i pretty shore the flood increase in mass by converting solid mustle and in some instances bone to a spungy material that suposidly holds up good againt assualt rifles. and its a video game, the gameplay is not really canon, only the movie parts can be called canon.

[DPDarkPrimus]

Yout meant to say... the exact same thing?

[lordofchange13]

Yout meant to say... the exact same thing?

no, i made a few spelling corrections.

[Stark]

You came back to correct it and still used 'shore' and no capital letters?

[DPDarkPrimus]

Yout meant to say... the exact same thing?

no, i made a few spelling corrections.

Not enough.

[Darth Yan]

are the spchincter doors made of metal? if they're made of flesh it should be pathetically easy to punch through. given that there are gravity hammers and energy blades it would be easy to bust the door down. Energy/energized metal beats fleshy substance any day. And given how nightmarishly confusing that level was it wouldn't be difficult to assume that gravemind thought "Oh they'll have a lot of difficulty wandering this labyrinthine nightmare. If I send endless hoards of troops this'll be over quick. On legendary enemy's are pretty damn tough to kill.

halo 3's story is a bit wonky but I felt it was well written overall. He let them go on halo 2 because he needed arbiter to stop delta halo from being unleashed and master chief could be used as his meal ticket onto high charity only if he were still alive. In short, the benefits of leaving them alive for the time being outweighed the benefits of killing them. and wouldn't the chief's cybernetic implants make the job tougher?

[lordofchange13]

You came back to correct it and still used 'shore' and no capital letters?

capitalstion is only in secound thoughts if ever. i couldn't for the life of me remenber how to spell it and my spell check sucks ass so no help there.

[Darth Yoshi]

halo 3's story is a bit wonky but I felt it was well written overall. He let them go on halo 2 because he needed arbiter to stop delta halo from being unleashed and master chief could be used as his meal ticket onto high charity only if he were still alive. In short, the benefits of leaving them alive for the time being outweighed the benefits of killing them. and wouldn't the chief's cybernetic implants make the job tougher?

Why would they? It's not like the Chief's implants are AI controlled.

capitalstion is only in secound thoughts if ever. i couldn't for the life of me remenber how to spell it and my spell check sucks ass so no help there.

Yeah, that's not gonna cut it. Seriously, just use a word processor. Any decent one will have both spell-check and grammar-check functionality, and I know for a fact that MS Word can auto-correct capitalization. If you're still in school, you should have a dedicated word processor anyway, since only an idiot these days uses Notepad to write formal essays.

[Darth Yan]

True, but the point about them serving his purpose better alive then dead still stands. And if you play through the cortana on legendary it would be easy to see why Gravemind did what he did. I remember reading that johnson survived getting attacked by an infection form due to his cyborg implants making it harder to assimilate.

[The Vortex Empire]

Uh, no. Johnson survived the infection form because radiation from a crate of plasma grenades he used fucked with his neural system.

[DPDarkPrimus]

Uh, no. Johnson survived the infection form because radiation from a crate of plasma grenades he used fucked with his neural system.

Boren's Syndrome is a completely fictitious disease created to disguise any symptoms SPARTAN I participants might experience later in life. His augmentations could have played a role in why he is immune to Flood forms, but there isn't any real hard answer other than writer's fiat.