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| Re: Yeah, he was definitely right on... | |
| Posted By: DHalo <dhalo117@yahoo.com> | Date: 3/7/10 12:35 p.m. |
In Response To: Yeah, he was definitely right on... (stan) : It was pretty lame. My biggest immersion relation beef with the Arbiter is the fact that his past is generally unknown. How can I feel any sympathy toward redemption when I'm oblivious to what acts are being redeemed? The Chief is a warrior fighting for a species I'm well associated with; humanity is the defending species, the Arbiter is from the aggressor side of the conflict. From a sympathetic standpoint the Arbiter is not as strong a playable character because what has happened to bring him to Halo 2's point in time is important to our understand of his character, or at least or sympathy towards his character. And even had we known his path we'd likely NOT be sympathetic, seeing as his past is probably quite littered with the slaughter of many, as has been said elsewhere in this thread numerous times. Likely the reason his past is unknown (generally speaking). The Arbiter was bamboozled like the rest of the Covenant, but that does not forgive his actions. He chose to subscribe to the belief like everyone else, and any time you subscribe to a belief, you reap the rewards if you are right, but you must face the consequences if you are wrong. The Arbiter got off easy mainly because he was outcast from the very religion he subscribed to. His consequences turned reward. I understand it was neccessary to the plot, but getting me to feel for a character that was likely responsible for the death of very many is difficult, especially when there were no reprucussions for it. So he got ousted from the Covenant. That might be bad for him, but he realized eventually, just as we already knew, that leaving was a GOOD THING, because the Covenant were a bunch of tards. So where's the real atonement here? At least Mendicant Bias led everyone to the Ark, to allow for that final stand. I mean, the only reason the Elites joined the humans is because they were attacked first. They did not make the decision to leave, the were forced to leave. Not as noble, IMO.
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