r/videogames • u/Swamp_Eyes • Apr 21 '24

Other The state of videogame adaptations

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u/mightylordredbeard Apr 21 '24

You can’t have a relatable character that conveys emotions who has a helmet on the entire time. Plus, it’s meant to be about the things outside of missions as well. Spartans don’t sleep in their power armor and helmet. They remove them when they aren’t deployed places. The show is realistic in that sense. You couldn’t Chief sitting down to eat or going to bed with his fucking helmet on lol. Everyone knows he removes it. Hell, it’s even in the games they just never show his face.

People are so weird about this detail. There’s plenty in the show to take issue with. Him removing his helmet isn’t it lmao

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '24 edited Apr 22 '24

MASTER CHIEF IS NOT FUCKING RELATABLE, HES A FUCKING DEMON WITH A KILL COUNT IN THE 10S OF THOUSANDS IF NOT MILLIONS WHO ONLY REALLY SHOWS MUTED EMOTION FOR TWO CHARACTERS IN THE ENTIRE SERIES, JOHNSON AND CORTANA.

He’s closer to doomguy than a standard human, will rip and tear an aliens fucking guts out, and then beat the alien’s friend to death with its corpse if he has to. He usually doesn’t need to, not out of a lack of ability but out of cold blooded pragmatism, beating an alien with another aliens corpse is simply inefficient.

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u/LorientAvandi Apr 23 '24

You don’t know anything about Master Chief if you think he never shows emotion to people who aren’t Johnson or Cortana. Your entire all-caps rant shows you really do not understand the character at all.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '24 edited Apr 23 '24

Johnson dies right in front of chief and chief only allows himself a few seconds of somber silent stoic reflection before finishing the fight.

In 4 he is very obviously in denial about Cortana’s aging and is protective of her.

Spartans are very “actions speak louder than words” people

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u/LorientAvandi Apr 23 '24

He shows emotion throughout the series, repeatedly makes quips and jokes to people who aren’t just Johnson or Cortana and shows sorrow for more than just Johnson and Cortana. That doesn’t even take into account the books he appears in. John, while a larger-than life character, has a lot about him that makes him relatable, and that shows his humanity.

While the Halo tv show is a gross misrepresentation of Chief as a character, so is your all-caps rant in your first comment.