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| Re: A longer term fan's perspective | |
| Posted By: uberfoop <atkinso2@seattleu.edu> | Date: 9/20/10 3:28 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: A longer term fan's perspective (Kermit) : Maybe that's a feature, not a bug. I mean, Halsey certainly seems to have a : ends-justifies-the-means philosophy and is capable of deception, so why : not Cortana? I'm re-reading TFOR now, but my experience is similar to : reprobate's, I was a long-time fan, and read the book before playing the : first game. One of the things I remember from the book was that Cortana : deliberately choose Halo coordinates even though she pretended they were : random. (I may be misremembering.) Given that, some level of deception was : already underway. Maybe it was my experience with Marathon, but I was : certainly primed for an AI who was less than straightforward. (When I : first saw Cortana's red eyes in the Control Room, I immediately thought, : "Oh, here we go! Rampancy!) How many people needed to know about the : forerunners? Did the Master Chief? Not really. I can see where it was a : security measure having that information be need-to-know only. I get that the idea that Cortana knew where the Halo came from can be twisted into working into the events, but it goes so totally against the spirit and implications given by the first game that it feels horrifically contrived.
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