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Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?
Posted By: Hawaiian Pig	Date: 9/28/10 12:55 a.m.
In Response To: Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway? (ArteenEsben) I agree with a lot of what you said before this part. : More to the point, I felt the biggest detachment from Six at the end. I : really hated Lone Wolf, from a story/character perspective. Six : successfully delivers the package and defends the Autumn, completing his : mission. And after that? Try to rendezvous with Jun? Call command to see : if he can get an escort out of the area? Try to meet up with nearby : marines? Heck, he just eliminated a battlecruiser, a bunch of phantoms, : and countless infantry in the area, and it's not like he didn't just pass : by multiple groups of UNSC troopers still in the area. The skies should be : clear for the moment and there should still be friendlies in the area, and : it's not like he's abandoned in the middle of enemy territory, alone, with : no way out. I'm sure the UNSC wouldn't hesitate to try and extract a : Spartan. : But what does he do? He walks out into the middle of nowhere and decides he : has nothing better to do than stand around, let phantoms drop all around : him, to die in a meaningless battle. You aren't protecting your home, like : Jorge. You aren't protecting your squad, like Carter. You can still be : useful to the UNSC. You aren't even the last surviving member of your : squad. Dying here serves no purpose. You're supposed to assume Six did all he could and has ended up here, among some other slain Spartans in some kind of a last stand. Obviously this wasn't clearly communicated, but that's the sentiment I got. Of course, just about all of the laudations for the game's story are borne out of these poorly communicated moments where we're apparently supposed to infer depth. But a lot of these inferences seem to be made out of hooks of ambiguity that honestly don't feel intentional; mostly because the game is otherwise riddled with lackluster dialogue, canon inconsistencies, a disjointed narrative, and plot coupons. Really, the only thing that doesn't require inference to enjoy is the atmosphere of the game... and sometimes I feel that could have been even better than it already is (e.g. Regrets fleet at Delta Halo felt waaaay larger than anything on Reach).

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Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	SonofMacPhisto	9/27/10 7:31 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Avateur	9/27/10 7:38 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	SonofMacPhisto	9/27/10 7:54 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Leviathan	9/27/10 8:12 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	SonofMacPhisto	9/27/10 8:21 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 12:04 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	thebruce0	9/28/10 8:40 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	uberfoop	9/28/10 3:42 p.m.
..in which I blather on and on. With a diagram! :P	thebruce0	9/28/10 7:14 p.m.
Re: ..in which I blather on and on. With a diagram	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 7:35 p.m.
Re: ..in which I blather on and on. With a diagram	thebruce0	9/29/10 8:32 a.m.
Re: ..in which I blather on and on. With a diagram	ThorsHammer	9/29/10 10:57 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	SonofMacPhisto	9/28/10 5:22 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 5:34 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Leviathan	9/28/10 6:16 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	SonofMacPhisto	9/28/10 6:33 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	SonofMacPhisto	9/28/10 6:42 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 6:50 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Leviathan	9/28/10 12:45 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Harmanimus	9/27/10 8:02 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	SonofMacPhisto	9/27/10 8:38 p.m.
Lots of great lines.	Capt Spanish	9/27/10 11:09 p.m.
Re: Lots of great lines.	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	9/28/10 6:11 a.m.
Re: Lots of great lines.	thebruce0	9/28/10 8:43 a.m.
Re: Lots of great lines.	thebruce0	9/28/10 8:46 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	General Battuta	9/28/10 12:47 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 1:01 a.m.
Reach. *NM*	stan	9/27/10 9:08 p.m.
Eh, that's kind of a reach. *NM*	SonofMacPhisto	9/27/10 9:29 p.m.
How did you reach that conclusion? *NM*	ArteenEsben	9/27/10 11:18 p.m.
The main character is Reach *NM*	Samus 117	9/27/10 9:19 p.m.
In line with my thoughts, too. *NM*	Kermit	9/27/10 9:59 p.m.
Six is.	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 12:01 a.m.
Re: Six is.	General Battuta	9/28/10 12:52 a.m.
Re: Six is.	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 12:57 a.m.
Re: Six is.	Avateur	9/28/10 12:58 a.m.
Re: Six is.	General Battuta	9/28/10 1:00 a.m.
Re: Six is.	uberfoop	9/28/10 1:03 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Cody Miller	9/28/10 12:25 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	thebruce0	9/28/10 8:54 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Cody Miller	9/28/10 7:36 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	thebruce0	9/29/10 8:33 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	ArteenEsben	9/28/10 12:41 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 12:55 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	General Battuta	9/28/10 1:02 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 1:07 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	thebruce0	9/28/10 8:59 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Kermit	9/28/10 5:38 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 12:52 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	SonofMacPhisto	9/28/10 5:33 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Schedonnardus	9/28/10 9:57 a.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Trey	9/28/10 8:37 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	Hawaiian Pig	9/28/10 9:02 p.m.
Re: Who is Reach's main character, anyway?	uberfoop	9/28/10 1:07 a.m.
Bob. *NM*	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	9/29/10 9:59 a.m.
Coming soon...	thebruce0	9/29/10 10:15 a.m.
Re: Coming soon...	Avateur	9/29/10 4:14 p.m.
Re: Coming soon...	nash--housewares	9/29/10 4:29 p.m.