@Arnox: Cortana going crazy has been a known thing coming for some time, it is established in the Halo lore that smart AIs start to go rampant after they reach 7 years of age.
I may be wrong on this but isn't Cortana a superior sort of AI? She's already gone the full 7 years without any problems. (Well, besides that whole schtick with Gravemind anyway.)
@TheSouthernDandy
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@Arnox: You have interesting ideas but the problem is there's established fiction already. There's already a reason Cortana is starting to go loony toons. There's already a schism in the former Covenant and whatnot. The devs would have to scrap huge chunks of existing fiction which seems like a bad idea.
Now I think about it, the devs could still keep the established fiction. In fact the Infection would also work nicely with the renegade Elites as since they still worship Forerunner relics, it only makes sense that they would worship the Infection as some sort of way into the Great Beyond or something. Or perhaps they'll treat it like the Flood as well and think it's just another challenge set on them by the Forerunners. Either way, they can still make it work. UNLESS there's already fiction written about Requiem. In which case, they might have to take the Reach approach. Everything in the books is canon except for the parts that the games say are different.
I think we all need to remember though that no matter how good the books are, it's not the fan writers IP, it's still Bungie's/343's.
Alright, it seems pretty clear that the Elites on Requiem probably are just remnants but I will still argue that a borg infection would be awesome.
@big_jon
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@Arnox said:
@big_jon said:
The books already touch on this, and the Elites are simply a sect that are anti humanity, and still worship forerunner relics, there is a huge civil war within the Sangheili society right now.
I really hope it's not that though. That would be boring compared to overwhelming tech. Borg infection, full steam ahead. Sorry it took so long to reply. 5 poasts per day is BS.
I think that is a lot more interesting then the cliche of "mind control", it could lead to some very interesting conflict in the future.
Who says "mind control" has to be the main conflict? In my mind, it is just a symptom of a large-scale problem. And not only would it work nicely in the gameplay department in terms of giving cool weapons and levels to use and play in, it would answer some questions we already have about the story rather nicely. Now hear me out. It would explain the reason Cortana is going crazy. She could be in the process of slowly getting assimilated. Thus, two personalities are warring inside of her. Not only that, it would truly be devastating to all the races since all of them depend on such advanced technology in the first place. Now, that tech is going to get used against them directly in ways they probably never imagined. And THAT sounds like much more of a problem than the Flood.
This also opens up the usual classic metaphorical questions of whether or not it is truly a good thing to become completely mechanized or not which also could tie into the Spartans real nicely again. You see, what separates the Flood from this threat is that the Flood were just all about dominance and pure survival. Nothing else. The Infection, as I am now going to call it for lack of a better name, is the mirror image of the Flood, being about dominance and PROGRESSION instead of just survival. The Infection would open up a lot more possibilities in general than the Flood could ever do.
And this doesn't even have to carry into the other games. I, personally, would be satisfied if they just did this with one game. As always, I welcome any input on this.
The books already touch on this, and the Elites are simply a sect that are anti humanity, and still worship forerunner relics, there is a huge civil war within the Sangheili society right now.
I really hope it's not that though. That would be boring compared to overwhelming tech. Borg infection, full steam ahead.
Sorry it took so long to reply. 5 poasts per day is BS.
@WinterSnowblind: If you've re-read my OP, you'd know I didn't imply Halo isn't the only milked popular video game franchise. As I've stated before, Halo wasn't really milked to death until Halo 4's announcement. Even other franchise suffer from the same trend, it doesn't excuse them nor does it excuse Halo 4 given the amount of potential the series had. I probably would've forgiven it if the gameplay didn't look like total shit.
Pretty much what Mr Skeleton said. If it didn't play like Halo then it wouldn't BE Halo. And that's something that 343 was trying to avoid. They had to toss out a lot of great ideas for multiplayer alone because they felt it just wasn't Halo.
I already posted this in this thread but I don't think anyone saw it and I really want to discuss this so...
This is all just speculation obviously but, what if the Elites you are battling have actually gone crazy for some reason? Or, better yet, what if they were all being controlled by something else?
Or even FURTHER: What if this new threat was actually a threat of overwhelming technology, Borg style? Yeah, the flood may have already been doing this as far as controlling people but on the other hand, the Flood never gave us any cool weapons to play with or any awesome environments for that matter. (Oh look, I'm traveling through a large instestine.) At that point, if they actually made the storyline as detailed above then shut up and take my money, 343.
I remember when people played games for fun. Those were the days.
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Also, the Halo 4 unlock system will just give you more options in combat, not more power. That's why they still have POWER weapons laying around the map.
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