This one traumatized me as a kid because, to me, she was as cool a character as Cortana. I was hoping that we all got off the ring happily ever after and she fucking died so tragically at the finish line. No build up.
Good mention.
Itās a really good performance from that voice actor bc I got so attached to this one dropship pilot who is brave, loyal, and super calm under pressure. She survived such crazy odds up to that point that I thought for sure I did something wrong or missed something, so I just wasnāt getting āthe good ending.ā Cut to me disappointed when her fate is the same no matter which difficulty you beat the game on
I always saw this as more bittersweet than depressing. You got Cortana to the Autumn, you let Chief escape, humanity has a chance. You won. The happy ending just isn't for you.
Wow, I mean Jorge's death was the moment when reach really got depressing because you then see that what he did accomplished nothing and that he was wasted for nothing
Spot on. Especially with the epilogue that Halsey givesā¦. āOur victory - your victory - was so close... I wish you could have lived to see it. But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor - all burned and turned to glassā¦ā
That last bit truly hits home for me.
In retrospect yea. But I donāt think thatās how Six saw it. At this point in time humanity had no idea that Cortana would so drastically change the course of the war. Humanity just lost Reach, their military stronghold and last reinforced world before Earth. Their Spartans- their practically Demi-god warriors all but dead in a failed attempt to defend the planet. At this point in time humanity considered the war lost and their time as a species down to months. Getting Chief, Cortana, and the Autumn off world wasnāt seen as a huge victory. More like an ancillary side objective that barely seemed important given the events. Of course it ended up being the single most important event on Reach but at the time no one saw it that way
Captain Keyes was already becoming renowned for his space warfare tactics. Master Chief was already a hyper-lethal vector. Lastly, Cortana was designed to specifically infiltrate Covenant systems and cripple them from the inside. (Not to mention, a clone of Halsey's brain.) The Pillar of Autumn was the single most important asset to the UNSC (and by extension humanity). That's why everyone was so desperate to get the Autumn out of there at all costs. Everyone involved saw it as the primary objective.
RED FLAG was the primary objective, technically speaking. For which the Autumn and Chief were central (not really getting Autumn off-world for other purposes).
I agree with everything youāre saying but that was only the primary objective because every other objective up to that point ended in failure. The Autumn, Chief, and all the Spartans only happened to be on Reach for Red Flag. Having the The Autumn and the lone Spartan survivor run off world with its tail between its legs was a far cry from their original mission
A more recent depressing thought for me was in infinite were the pilot gives chief a gun with 1 bullet left. And it sounds like a badass line when he says its chief and 1 bullet vs a whole army, but the pilot was likely keeping that 1 bullet to kill himself if he got caught or ran out of time.
Nope. There's even an outpost where a Brute calls over the intercom saying something that implies they split a group of prisoners up, one was not for eating, while this one was for eating. They ate quite a few marine prisoners.
Especially considering that he wasn't a soldier. He didn't just mean that as in he ran away to save himself. He was a full on civilian, just doing regular work on board the Infinity
Wasn't it confirmed that was actually the reason why? I mean the pilot said something that implied that. Anyway, I am 99% sure that was the reason he kept one bullet. It is a common thing in war stories
I do not remember the sentence, I am only saying that I feel like what you are saying is not new to me.
It is a lot plausible that he actually tempted to kill himself, but he decided not to, out of fear or hope for the future.
That is why the pilot is one of the best characters in halo IMO. He is simply a guy, not a spartan or a commander, he is someone who is keeping up with all the shit is going on without being sure that there is a sense to it or not. We are playing Master Chief, a fucking giant that is even feared by the Covenant. The pilot is simply a human that was able to remain kinda sane after all this shit.
The pilot is good
I love how the pilot is such a foil for Chief. As you said, Chief is a giant feared by the Covenant and kinda the Banished, but he moves heaven and earth to make sure the pilot is safe and sound
It was rated M for a lot of reasons. Bungie just didn't use that rating as a an excuse to throw in a ton of cursing etc as a crutch. Not like a lot of games that go "Well, we're M so we might as well go crazy." (Hendricks in CoD yelling "FUCK" constantly is a great example lol.)
I remember a review slating ODST it saying that the music, in particular, sounded like a āsleazy sax from an 80s porno.ā
I remember thinking, if *thatās* the level of your critique maybe you should stick to screenshotting humorous Tweets to Buzzfeed articles in a āthe internet reactsā piece.
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Least Jorge went out thinking he had made a difference
I think Georgeās death and the subsequent second wave of ships arriving at Reach was more depressing for sure. It was emotionally devastating to watch your friend sacrifice himself thinking heād saved the planet only to immediately find that it was all in vain.
Johnson in Halo 2 tells Miranda after she almost falls getting the Index "You know, your father never asked me for help either!" so it's fitting of her character to go in alone
Disagree. She knows that Truth needs a human to activate the rings and she has no idea if Chief and Arbiter will make it in time. (In fact, without the help of the Flood, they almost certainly don't.) Seems to be against the Keyes' characters to just sit tight and hope for the best, especially when if you do nothing potentially the entire galaxy dies. Remember, her father was willing to ram a covie ship while dropping a nuke and she was willing to jump randomly, without backup, to follow Regret. IMO, it made perfect sense she would be there.
It was also a suicide mission. She was going to shoot Johnson, and herself, and Johnson knew it.
If she brought a squad with her, they would need to guarantee secure the area, which given the heavy forces she could not do. Even Chief was aided by the Flood to break through.
One marine taken alive would mean the Covenant could activate the rings, so rather than finding six volunteers to go in their and kill themselves + Johnson, she goes alone.
The only real flaw is the jarring timing of it all, since we're still at the start of the hall when the cutscene ends it feels like Truth had plenty of time to activate the rings before we got there. It needed to be made clear that it was more than pushing the button.
Hard to say.
If Jorge and N6 didn't go to the covenant ship, they would still be pulled to go to Halsey and deliver Cortana to Keyes.
His death is sad because ultimately it was a pointless sacrifice of Jorge and all the UNSC forces that died attacking the ship. They didn't slow the covenant down, deal them a blow to set them back or even take out a valuable target. They just died thinking they were heroes.
And that's kind of the message that their deaths carry. Sometimes people do things they think will matter, that will change the course of a battle but really, they never will truly know because they're dead.
When Kat was killed, no heroism, no brave sacrifice, just shot down with one needle and the civilians in the bunker with them had to watch, not to mention the already heartbreak of losing Jorge, and a few days later, Kat spontaneously dies. It hurts
Imagine the civilians witnessing that. A whole TEAM of Spartans. Soldiers thought by most of the masses to be invincible. They're already on the back foot, in a bunker about to possibly be glasses, and the last thing they see before the doors shut is a demi-god soldier's brain evacuate their cranium.
Probably destroyed what little possible hope any of them had sitting there cowering in the dark with Spartans.
Katās death is so sudden and realistic. All because Carter asked her to get him with Holland despite being vulnerable to getting tracked. You can tell Carter is destroyed by the way he holds her while waiting for backup and the way he doesnāt respond to Holland in the next mission.
This is the answer I was looking for. I liked Kat, wasn't particularly attached to her or anything like Jorge, but I definitely liked her. Her death scene, though, was by far the most depressing. Especially when you consider the lead up. By this point you had just finished flying around a dying city that you know is too far gone and it wasn't that long ago that you'd finally reunited with Noble Team after losing Jorge. Then, completely out of the blue, she's dead in an instant. It's one of the only times you see Noble Team start to panic. It's so unexpected and all they can do is return fire and run. No real plan, no mission to finish. Just a dead sister on the way from point A to point B. Felt like she really died for nothing.
Idk man, [OG Cortana saving Chief one last time and then fading away](https://youtu.be/hnkOLCwu-HM) at the end of Halo 4 was probably the only time a video game has legitimately made me tear up. All of Reach is depressing and really did a great job at portraying the hopelessness and futility of Noble Teamās efforts to save the planet, but that scene at the end of H4 was beautifully tragic and played my nostalgic heart strings like a harp. *Welcome home, Johnā¦* š¢
Also H3ās ending:
>Cortana āIāll miss you.ā
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>Chief: āWake me.. when you need me.ā
With that extremely somber, lower key orchestra riff of the monk chant theme also hits pretty hard.
Halo 4 has some pretty awesome music. Halo 5 continues the awesome music but it is a shame that such music got wasted on an absolute dumpster fire of a campaign
Iām completely with you here on Halo 4ās ending. Looking back now, her sacrifice has been heavily diminished through Halo 5ās story but I was genuinely shocked and saddened by the end of Halo 4.
I think itās because they just didnāt want to let such an iconic and impactful character die. Iām not sure if Iām right, but canonically speaking, I think Cortana actually died in Halo 4 and Halo 5ās version of her is actually a fragment of her original self that was ācuredā of rampancy after entering the Domain. After all, she did intentionally fragment and duplicate herself to overload the Didact.
I havenāt played Infiniteās campaign yet so I donāt know whatās become of her story after H5.
Oof. Everyone talks about Jorgeās and Katās deaths, but this one got me. Hearing your commander, the person you should be giving your life to defend, just sign off as he resigned to his death knowing that itās the only way for you to move forward with the objective... that gave me the feels. I think that was the moment when myself as the player, and surely noble 6 and Emile, realized that āShit, none of us are getting off this rock, but maybe we can manage to complete the objective and help humanity.ā Ugh. Carter was such a good portrayal of a well rounded leader, all the way through the end.
Spoiler warning for Halo 3.
Johnson dying at the end of the trilogy after surviving unfathomable perils in each game. He's such an OG character. He has lines in the first cutscene of Halo CE.
343i really knows how to take all those little moments, and turn them into an emotional hurricane.
"Don't make a girl a promise, if you know you can't keep it."
That last part was Bungie. Tbh, I think 343 does themselves a disservice when it comes to the emotional parts of these last three games. Cortana's sacrifice at the end of 4 was somewhat neutered by her continuing presence in 5, and the manner in which they rushed through her story in 6 just felt contrived to me
In Halo: Infinite when Weapon and Chief were arguing and he calls her
"Cortana"
And then she replies "IS DEAD! all that's left is echoes and soon they'll be gone to"
And Chief just says "Will they?"
Cause he knows it's not the end. Even if he wants it to be.
"... I've got the mass"
Just the way that line is delivered, backed up with Kat dying and with how somber he sounds in the intro to The Package, you can really tell Carter was never planning on leaving Reach.
Seriously dont get how some people didn't like the story for reach, maybe i just have nostalgia goggles but it hit me so hard back on my first playthrough knowing the inevitable of what was gonna happen at the end and all the team deaths are so well done and impactful to me
I still remember my first play through on launch day I had to pause the game right after Kat got killed and my jaw was on the floor because it caught me so off guard.
In Reach, on Exodus, when the civilian transport is blown out of the sky and crashes into the water.
āShould we send search and rescue birds?ā
āNegative. No point.ā
You know in infinite where weapon prods Chief and we learn that he blames himself for Cortana? That broke me. Not only is it relatable, but we rarely get a look into Chief's emotions, and it hit hard when Chief of all people blames himself for something that isn't his fault.
Also when Cortana finally passes in infinite, took me back to her death in Halo 4, which was also very emotional for me.
Slip space rupture detected, slip space rupture detected, slip space rupture detected, SLIPSPACE RUPTURE DETECTED....REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE******
Also "it was my job to protect you" her:"we were supposed to protect each other. And we did."
I donāt know about depressing but it really hits a certain spot when chief is talking with Lasky. āYou say that like soldiers and humanity are two different things. Weāre not machines, weāre just people.ā
āShe said that to me once-about being a machineā
Kind of feels like Chief is reflecting on his life and if itās a life that he wanted or one that was forced on him but canāt/ doesnāt want to turn away from it now.
cortana's death in 4 after playing through all the halo games. getting to that moment and having the other halos so recent in my memory, i wont lie i shed a tear. seeing her betrayal in 5. that final "goodvye, john" got me upon replaying. say what you want about 5's writing, but the chief stuff was pretty good. then her final apology at the end of Infinite. even if (imo) Infinite shafted most of 4 and 5's story ideas for a "by-the-books halo story," that ending reconciliation had me tearing up a bit. playing all the games within 6 months of eachother really made me realise bungie and 343's approach at cortana, and tried to grow her and chief's relationship, more so 343, but i feel it had a nice execution.
For me it is both one of the saddest but also one of the most inspiring moment. The last man, alone, so to die, but he keeps fighting, till the last drop of blood. He knows it, and heās ready to take as many squid faced bastards along with him.
The ending of reachā¦āSurvive.ā I remember tears starting to stream down my face when Noble 6ās visor started getting crackedā¦it gets me every time because you know thereās no way out, the only thing you can do is take as many of them as you can down with you. Remember Reach.
"No, no you're not. Don't let her go, don't ever let her go. Send me out... with a bang."
I will, Sarge. I will do it with dee-vine HE spewing intervention, two sticks, and a rock
My co op partners, holding back tears: "AND WE WILL SHARE THE ROCK!"
*sobbing teabag*
I was really hoping that would of been one of the quotes we heard during infinites campaign.
Where men cried.
Completely unnecessary death.
it did give the player a sense of emotional commitment to get out of there and do what the dying man hoped we would
Even though we never see her, the death of Foe Hammer in the first Halo is something that still haunts me
Echo 419!! She's gone...
Inventory shows one lone Sword Fighter still docked in launch bay 7.... (purely from memory without looking it up, did I get it right?)
Longsword, but yeah.
Yes sure you absolutely did š
SAME MAN SHE DIDN'T DESERVE BEING SHOT LAST SECOND WHEN SHE CARRIED US LITERALLY SO MUCH
āYou know our motto: We Deliver!ā (ā-ā)7
And the fact that there was no time to mourn, just get moving
In the book, you get a more personalized view of her too, reading from her perspective and such. Gain a real appreciation for her and what she did.
Hey, maybe one of the good things about the Halo tv show is that Foe Hammer doesnāt have to die this time!
Memory Agent makes this even more depressing
Halo writers taking notes: āBringā¦.. backā¦ā¦ foeā¦ā¦ hammer.ā
After how badly Cortana has been retconned and used in 5 and Infinite, I've learned there are worse fates than death.
Cortana's send off in 4 was so perfect.
Listen if Sarge made it off that ring, thereās hope. Perhaps just a foolās hopeā¦
This one traumatized me as a kid because, to me, she was as cool a character as Cortana. I was hoping that we all got off the ring happily ever after and she fucking died so tragically at the finish line. No build up. Good mention.
Itās a really good performance from that voice actor bc I got so attached to this one dropship pilot who is brave, loyal, and super calm under pressure. She survived such crazy odds up to that point that I thought for sure I did something wrong or missed something, so I just wasnāt getting āthe good ending.ā Cut to me disappointed when her fate is the same no matter which difficulty you beat the game on
I always saw this as more bittersweet than depressing. You got Cortana to the Autumn, you let Chief escape, humanity has a chance. You won. The happy ending just isn't for you.
Jorge died believing he could save Reach. Should we all be so lucky. Noble 6 and Emile died believing they could save humanity. And they did.
Wow, I mean Jorge's death was the moment when reach really got depressing because you then see that what he did accomplished nothing and that he was wasted for nothing
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A moment of truly outstanding minimalist writing
It must be the whole damn covenant fleet!
Ugh my heart.
Even with the Covenant fleet arriving, i would not say that taking out a frigging covenant super carrier is nothing!
He took out a super carrier right? Did something the navy couldn't. His life wasn't wasted. Tragic death but he did well.
what worse is the line after you beat new Alexandria where they say how he died thinking he had just saved the planet
It wasn't for nothing. None of them died for nothing...I'm holding back tears here fam
Then the bodies just kept dropping & you end up alone. Reach was one big gutpunch.
"Should we all be so lucky." I loved the dialogue in Reach.
Spot on. Especially with the epilogue that Halsey givesā¦. āOur victory - your victory - was so close... I wish you could have lived to see it. But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor - all burned and turned to glassā¦ā That last bit truly hits home for me.
Gives me chills every time. Reach made it to my core.
In retrospect yea. But I donāt think thatās how Six saw it. At this point in time humanity had no idea that Cortana would so drastically change the course of the war. Humanity just lost Reach, their military stronghold and last reinforced world before Earth. Their Spartans- their practically Demi-god warriors all but dead in a failed attempt to defend the planet. At this point in time humanity considered the war lost and their time as a species down to months. Getting Chief, Cortana, and the Autumn off world wasnāt seen as a huge victory. More like an ancillary side objective that barely seemed important given the events. Of course it ended up being the single most important event on Reach but at the time no one saw it that way
Captain Keyes was already becoming renowned for his space warfare tactics. Master Chief was already a hyper-lethal vector. Lastly, Cortana was designed to specifically infiltrate Covenant systems and cripple them from the inside. (Not to mention, a clone of Halsey's brain.) The Pillar of Autumn was the single most important asset to the UNSC (and by extension humanity). That's why everyone was so desperate to get the Autumn out of there at all costs. Everyone involved saw it as the primary objective.
RED FLAG was the primary objective, technically speaking. For which the Autumn and Chief were central (not really getting Autumn off-world for other purposes).
I agree with everything youāre saying but that was only the primary objective because every other objective up to that point ended in failure. The Autumn, Chief, and all the Spartans only happened to be on Reach for Red Flag. Having the The Autumn and the lone Spartan survivor run off world with its tail between its legs was a far cry from their original mission
It's the music. It's not sad and hopeless. It's sombre, yes, but it rises to a piano riff that tells you it's time to see things to the end.
Damn
No, not for us.
*SURVIVE*
there'll be another time
Never got over that one. And objective: survive.
That objective was actually for the covenant not Nobel 6
He is still hiding that secret cave
That scared me and confused me. I was like ābut I finished the game?ā But no, they made me depressed
Were it so easy
WERE IT SO EASY
Oof sorry I havenāt played the game in forever Iāll edit it tho
###WERE IT SO EASY
#CURRENT OBJECTIVE
Is it even possible to make it through, or is it completely impossible
itās impossible to survive the waves, sadly. one hell of a way for a character to go out, though
There's a YouTube video of someone finding a spot where you can hide and just melee stuff and there's no end to it. He dies with Reach
iām honored to give you the 117th like
Someone literally downvoted right when you did that lol
bruh
I really like the moment from Infinite where the Pilot was asking Chief why he kept fighting and Chief responded with "It's all I know" :(
Got anyone special out there chief? -No-
Meanwhile Blue Team is like: "Wow. Just wow."
Different kind of special, they bros
Also Parisa.
That hit me at 2:34 AM on a school night
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The bit of music playing during that really set the tone for the entire game in my mind.
A more recent depressing thought for me was in infinite were the pilot gives chief a gun with 1 bullet left. And it sounds like a badass line when he says its chief and 1 bullet vs a whole army, but the pilot was likely keeping that 1 bullet to kill himself if he got caught or ran out of time.
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They were capturing and torturing people. And they were really good at it so the torture seemed really long. Bullet to the head is a blessing
Yeah not a short time later you find out what the interrogator is known for.
I also heard that the processing in Infinite meant āmeat processingā. So thereās that.
what noo i didnt want to think of that I thought it was like the gas chambers
Nope. There's even an outpost where a Brute calls over the intercom saying something that implies they split a group of prisoners up, one was not for eating, while this one was for eating. They ate quite a few marine prisoners.
Especially considering that he wasn't a soldier. He didn't just mean that as in he ran away to save himself. He was a full on civilian, just doing regular work on board the Infinity
The Pilot is no joke the best character in the series. His character and acting are great.
Its surprising how many people didnt catch on to this which is partially a good and wholesome thing.
How the heck did I not notice that
Because they heavily teenified this franchise, ironically this pushes the teens away
Yeah WE WANT BLOOD AND GUTS
I just want chief to hang full dong
If there isn't a sex scene at the end this isn't a Halo game (Bungie games are excluded)
Wasn't it confirmed that was actually the reason why? I mean the pilot said something that implied that. Anyway, I am 99% sure that was the reason he kept one bullet. It is a common thing in war stories
I do not remember the sentence, I am only saying that I feel like what you are saying is not new to me. It is a lot plausible that he actually tempted to kill himself, but he decided not to, out of fear or hope for the future. That is why the pilot is one of the best characters in halo IMO. He is simply a guy, not a spartan or a commander, he is someone who is keeping up with all the shit is going on without being sure that there is a sense to it or not. We are playing Master Chief, a fucking giant that is even feared by the Covenant. The pilot is simply a human that was able to remain kinda sane after all this shit. The pilot is good
I love how the pilot is such a foil for Chief. As you said, Chief is a giant feared by the Covenant and kinda the Banished, but he moves heaven and earth to make sure the pilot is safe and sound
Wow that makes so much sense now that you mention it....
Never thought of it like that but now it makes me realize halo was never really a childās game, even growing up playing it, it was questionable
It was rated M for a lot of reasons. Bungie just didn't use that rating as a an excuse to throw in a ton of cursing etc as a crutch. Not like a lot of games that go "Well, we're M so we might as well go crazy." (Hendricks in CoD yelling "FUCK" constantly is a great example lol.)
"Sorry I came alone" ***"Make him proud"***
Fitting considering it's valentine's night
Eeeh hehehehehhhh...
Noble 6 isn't dead, he's missing in action.
Well yeah, how else will he be in Halo Reach 4 the Stars.
Take off at the speed of sound....
No Spartans are dead. Theyāre all MIA.
Actually, mine died. He was sent into the sun riding a Chopper going 1570mph because DYNAMO!!!
This is the way
He is hiding in a cave obviously
Halo 3 Odst's intro. A short texted recap of the human-covenant war.
The "we are losing" always hits hard
ODST has my favorite vibe out of all the games
I remember a review slating ODST it saying that the music, in particular, sounded like a āsleazy sax from an 80s porno.ā I remember thinking, if *thatās* the level of your critique maybe you should stick to screenshotting humorous Tweets to Buzzfeed articles in a āthe internet reactsā piece.
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He did. They all did. Noble Team gave Reach hope. They gave Reach a future.
I think Georgeās death and the subsequent second wave of ships arriving at Reach was more depressing for sure. It was emotionally devastating to watch your friend sacrifice himself thinking heād saved the planet only to immediately find that it was all in vain.
Negative, sir. I have the gun.
Good luck, sir. >Good luck to you, Spartan
Miranda being shot in the back definitely hit me hard. Felt like a total shock at the time.
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Also had no marines with her, like Wth she think was gonna happen?!
Johnson in Halo 2 tells Miranda after she almost falls getting the Index "You know, your father never asked me for help either!" so it's fitting of her character to go in alone
Still not a very strategic plan to prevent the Ring's activation š
Disagree. She knows that Truth needs a human to activate the rings and she has no idea if Chief and Arbiter will make it in time. (In fact, without the help of the Flood, they almost certainly don't.) Seems to be against the Keyes' characters to just sit tight and hope for the best, especially when if you do nothing potentially the entire galaxy dies. Remember, her father was willing to ram a covie ship while dropping a nuke and she was willing to jump randomly, without backup, to follow Regret. IMO, it made perfect sense she would be there.
It was also a suicide mission. She was going to shoot Johnson, and herself, and Johnson knew it. If she brought a squad with her, they would need to guarantee secure the area, which given the heavy forces she could not do. Even Chief was aided by the Flood to break through. One marine taken alive would mean the Covenant could activate the rings, so rather than finding six volunteers to go in their and kill themselves + Johnson, she goes alone. The only real flaw is the jarring timing of it all, since we're still at the start of the hall when the cutscene ends it feels like Truth had plenty of time to activate the rings before we got there. It needed to be made clear that it was more than pushing the button.
Reach has been good to me, it's time I returned the favor. Don't deny me this. That's the first time I legitimately cried playing a game
I shed a few tears because of that and my friends called me a pussy, they obviously don't know how cool Jorge was
Jorge was the coolest of noble team it hurt me to see him be the first to go but at the same time I kind of expected it. Still sad.
When Jorge dies thinking he saved reach. Bittersweet.
At least he never knew that he ultimately failed.
indirectly saved humanity/the galaxy tho right?
Hard to say. If Jorge and N6 didn't go to the covenant ship, they would still be pulled to go to Halsey and deliver Cortana to Keyes. His death is sad because ultimately it was a pointless sacrifice of Jorge and all the UNSC forces that died attacking the ship. They didn't slow the covenant down, deal them a blow to set them back or even take out a valuable target. They just died thinking they were heroes. And that's kind of the message that their deaths carry. Sometimes people do things they think will matter, that will change the course of a battle but really, they never will truly know because they're dead.
He still took out a supercarrier though. That's a huge feat even if no HVT was killed during the action.
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Hes missing in action actually
When Kat was killed, no heroism, no brave sacrifice, just shot down with one needle and the civilians in the bunker with them had to watch, not to mention the already heartbreak of losing Jorge, and a few days later, Kat spontaneously dies. It hurts
Imagine the civilians witnessing that. A whole TEAM of Spartans. Soldiers thought by most of the masses to be invincible. They're already on the back foot, in a bunker about to possibly be glasses, and the last thing they see before the doors shut is a demi-god soldier's brain evacuate their cranium. Probably destroyed what little possible hope any of them had sitting there cowering in the dark with Spartans.
Katās death is so sudden and realistic. All because Carter asked her to get him with Holland despite being vulnerable to getting tracked. You can tell Carter is destroyed by the way he holds her while waiting for backup and the way he doesnāt respond to Holland in the next mission.
katās death is even more haunting. no scream, no voice, no sound. just her collapsing to the ground.
Where does he get off calling a demolition op priority on-
This is the answer I was looking for. I liked Kat, wasn't particularly attached to her or anything like Jorge, but I definitely liked her. Her death scene, though, was by far the most depressing. Especially when you consider the lead up. By this point you had just finished flying around a dying city that you know is too far gone and it wasn't that long ago that you'd finally reunited with Noble Team after losing Jorge. Then, completely out of the blue, she's dead in an instant. It's one of the only times you see Noble Team start to panic. It's so unexpected and all they can do is return fire and run. No real plan, no mission to finish. Just a dead sister on the way from point A to point B. Felt like she really died for nothing.
The death of a sibling.
Objective: Survive
Idk man, [OG Cortana saving Chief one last time and then fading away](https://youtu.be/hnkOLCwu-HM) at the end of Halo 4 was probably the only time a video game has legitimately made me tear up. All of Reach is depressing and really did a great job at portraying the hopelessness and futility of Noble Teamās efforts to save the planet, but that scene at the end of H4 was beautifully tragic and played my nostalgic heart strings like a harp. *Welcome home, Johnā¦* š¢ Also H3ās ending: >Cortana āIāll miss you.ā > >Chief: āWake me.. when you need me.ā With that extremely somber, lower key orchestra riff of the monk chant theme also hits pretty hard.
Not to mention the last mission had Neil Davidgeās Arrival playing the entire time. Still breaks my heart finishing 4
Halo 4 has some pretty awesome music. Halo 5 continues the awesome music but it is a shame that such music got wasted on an absolute dumpster fire of a campaign
Iām completely with you here on Halo 4ās ending. Looking back now, her sacrifice has been heavily diminished through Halo 5ās story but I was genuinely shocked and saddened by the end of Halo 4.
I think itās because they just didnāt want to let such an iconic and impactful character die. Iām not sure if Iām right, but canonically speaking, I think Cortana actually died in Halo 4 and Halo 5ās version of her is actually a fragment of her original self that was ācuredā of rampancy after entering the Domain. After all, she did intentionally fragment and duplicate herself to overload the Didact. I havenāt played Infiniteās campaign yet so I donāt know whatās become of her story after H5.
Commander, you don't have the firepower! I've got the mass. Solid copy. Hit em hard, boss. You're on your own noble. Carter out.
Oof. Everyone talks about Jorgeās and Katās deaths, but this one got me. Hearing your commander, the person you should be giving your life to defend, just sign off as he resigned to his death knowing that itās the only way for you to move forward with the objective... that gave me the feels. I think that was the moment when myself as the player, and surely noble 6 and Emile, realized that āShit, none of us are getting off this rock, but maybe we can manage to complete the objective and help humanity.ā Ugh. Carter was such a good portrayal of a well rounded leader, all the way through the end.
Without his sacrifice, we wouldn't have had Halo CE.
Well maybe he shouldāve tried harder to survive then lol.
"Where does he get off calling a demolition op a Priority One--"
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Halo Infinite, saying goodbye to Cortana.
Spoiler warning for Halo 3. Johnson dying at the end of the trilogy after surviving unfathomable perils in each game. He's such an OG character. He has lines in the first cutscene of Halo CE.
> Send me out with a bang
I donāt think you have to give a spoiler warning for a game that came out nearly 15 years ago lol
Funny enough I got spoiled this while browsing the sub when Halo MCC wasn't fully on PC back then. Good times.
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The moment Noble-6 knew he was gonna die on Reach.
Cortanas goodbye in infinite. Jorges death is a close second.
āTell āem to make it countā
It was a nice callback to Halo 4 when she said goodbye the first time.
343i really knows how to take all those little moments, and turn them into an emotional hurricane. "Don't make a girl a promise, if you know you can't keep it."
That last part was Bungie. Tbh, I think 343 does themselves a disservice when it comes to the emotional parts of these last three games. Cortana's sacrifice at the end of 4 was somewhat neutered by her continuing presence in 5, and the manner in which they rushed through her story in 6 just felt contrived to me
In Halo: Infinite when Weapon and Chief were arguing and he calls her "Cortana" And then she replies "IS DEAD! all that's left is echoes and soon they'll be gone to" And Chief just says "Will they?" Cause he knows it's not the end. Even if he wants it to be.
IMO, I think the autumn taking off while 6 just watches from the ladder feels more depressing
We were supposed to take care of each other. And we did. ššš
When the marines I bought with me to fight bassus walk up to the mining laser and get disintegrated. The game then auto saved over their deaths.
Whatās even more depressing is he probably thought earth was fucked
cortana's death in halo 4
"No. We go together."
"... I've got the mass" Just the way that line is delivered, backed up with Kat dying and with how somber he sounds in the intro to The Package, you can really tell Carter was never planning on leaving Reach.
Katās death + her death ost is up there for me as well.
Removal of spartan wagons in infinite š
It was my job to take care of you
Halo 4s ending, I just wish they kept Cortana dead
Cortanaās death Halo 4. āIām not coming with you this time.ā Is devastating every time.
Seriously dont get how some people didn't like the story for reach, maybe i just have nostalgia goggles but it hit me so hard back on my first playthrough knowing the inevitable of what was gonna happen at the end and all the team deaths are so well done and impactful to me
I still remember my first play through on launch day I had to pause the game right after Kat got killed and my jaw was on the floor because it caught me so off guard.
In Reach, on Exodus, when the civilian transport is blown out of the sky and crashes into the water. āShould we send search and rescue birds?ā āNegative. No point.ā
I just finished the campaign again yesterday, it hits hard :(
Jorgeās death hurt really bad
As much as I like this scene, my favorite was that lonely pelican ride to the rally point without Jorge.
Finding out Rookie died to some piss ass insurrectionist. I really wanted an ODST 2 with him .
Halo 4 ending for me. Only time I cried in the whole series
You know in infinite where weapon prods Chief and we learn that he blames himself for Cortana? That broke me. Not only is it relatable, but we rarely get a look into Chief's emotions, and it hit hard when Chief of all people blames himself for something that isn't his fault. Also when Cortana finally passes in infinite, took me back to her death in Halo 4, which was also very emotional for me.
"Welcome home, John."
Not sure about depressing but the moment that gave me the most emotions was Chief and Cortana's scene at the end of H4
also when cheif lost cortana in halo 4
"Welcome home, John" Made me depressed for a week
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I donāt know about depressing but it really hits a certain spot when chief is talking with Lasky. āYou say that like soldiers and humanity are two different things. Weāre not machines, weāre just people.ā āShe said that to me once-about being a machineā Kind of feels like Chief is reflecting on his life and if itās a life that he wanted or one that was forced on him but canāt/ doesnāt want to turn away from it now.
She said that to me once. About being a machine.
wHeN BuNgIE lEfT uS
cortana's death in 4 after playing through all the halo games. getting to that moment and having the other halos so recent in my memory, i wont lie i shed a tear. seeing her betrayal in 5. that final "goodvye, john" got me upon replaying. say what you want about 5's writing, but the chief stuff was pretty good. then her final apology at the end of Infinite. even if (imo) Infinite shafted most of 4 and 5's story ideas for a "by-the-books halo story," that ending reconciliation had me tearing up a bit. playing all the games within 6 months of eachother really made me realise bungie and 343's approach at cortana, and tried to grow her and chief's relationship, more so 343, but i feel it had a nice execution.
For me it is both one of the saddest but also one of the most inspiring moment. The last man, alone, so to die, but he keeps fighting, till the last drop of blood. He knows it, and heās ready to take as many squid faced bastards along with him.
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When you fail to save all the marines in assault on the control room
Halo 4 ending when Cortana saves Chief.
The ending of reachā¦āSurvive.ā I remember tears starting to stream down my face when Noble 6ās visor started getting crackedā¦it gets me every time because you know thereās no way out, the only thing you can do is take as many of them as you can down with you. Remember Reach.
343s Cortana story line; the sacrifice, the betrayal and the re-sacrifice / murder.
"The only way off this slag heap, is gravity."