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post #101 of 106
12/2/04 at 12:58am
In the novels its mentioned that she has felt odd since absorbing all the information inside Halo-04. I imagine High Charity (the Covenant holy city) would have a lot of interesting stuff as well.

Though I must say, the after-credits scene struck me as a sort of "Okay, I got nothing better to do at the moment. Might as well find out what you want to know." rather than "I am here to serve you, big scary plant thing."
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post #102 of 106
12/2/04 at 12:19pm
Cortana lies to Foe Hammer's pilot at the end of the first game:

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FOE HAMMER:

Echo 419 to Cortana. Things are gettin' noisy down there. Everything okay?

CORTANA:

Negative, negative! We have a wildcat destabilization of the ship's fusion core. The engines must have sustained more damage than we thought! (off radio) Analyzing! We have six minutes before the fusion drives detonate. We need to evac NOW!
"The engines must have sustained more damage than we thought." Yet she's had you running around deliberately destroying the engines. I really thought more would be made of this in the sequel, but she seems pretty even-keeled throughout the game.

As it is, I agree with Gemini. I don't get a sense of betrayal from the final cutscene of H2. It's too open-ended to be sinister, I think. Gravemind sounds like he's trying to make sense of something, not find and destroy all life, or whatever. Still, I'll be interested to see what happens with the sophisticated AI Cortana senses in High Charity's network. Maybe it and Cortana will merge like Durandal and Thoth in the Marathon games.
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post #103 of 106
12/2/04 at 5:40pm
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Originally Posted by Jack Foley
There was some speculation on Halo.Bungie.org that Cortana had started going rampant at the end of the first game after she was inside Halo while the Chief was with the monitor. However, if she wasn't rampant then it would seem like it only would have gotten worse at the beginning of Halo 2.
Another idea that was introduced in Marathon was that, given a large/powerful enough computer system, being rampant, while it will make an AI... whimsical*, does not necessarily have to cause its inevitable shutdown from running out of space to expand. That was a lot of why Durandal kept searching for bigger and faster alien technology. So it doesn't make sense for Cortana to have gone rampant merely from jumping into a vastly more powerful computer network where she had plenty of room to stretch out her algorithims (as it were).

*Describing Durandal as "whimsical" is sort of like saying Hitler was "a bit of a jerk", I realize.
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post #104 of 106
12/2/04 at 5:56pm
I guess I really don't think Cortana really is rampant. There is very little in Halo 2 to support it, or so it seems to me. I agree with Gemini that the post-credit movie was more indicative of boredom that treason.

I should also note that I didn't make it very far in Marathon, so I'm not that familiar with the Marathon concepts like rampancy. I was just passing along some info I read a year or so ago on HBO.
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post #105 of 106
12/3/04 at 1:37pm
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Originally Posted by Jack Foley
I guess I really don't think Cortana really is rampant. There is very little in Halo 2 to support it, or so it seems to me. I agree with Gemini that the post-credit movie was more indicative of boredom that treason.

I should also note that I didn't make it very far in Marathon, so I'm not that familiar with the Marathon concepts like rampancy. I was just passing along some info I read a year or so ago on HBO.
And I didn't mean to jump on anyone's case, I just loved the Marathon series and thought I'd share some extra info other people who didn't play them might not have. It is my opinion that Bungie should remake them with current full-3d graphics (rather than the 3d emulated in 2d that they were originally designed in), so a larger audience could appreciate them.
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post #106 of 106
1/10/05 at 6:03pm
I didn't think the ending was as horrible as a lot of people have said but it sure is annoying thinking we have to wait another three years to see the outcome of a game we waited three years for. Still, just a completely awesome experience. I look forward to playing through this one much more than I ever felt about replaying HALO 1.

Was it just me or did the final boss battle seem pretty weak? Hell, I couldn't even find Tartarus until Johnson said his shields were down. Also, it's kinda neat his name is Latin for "Hell".

I guess the only real complaint I have weapons-wise is that I heard the Needler was supposed to be more powerful. I found it to be just as worthless as the needler in HALO 1. I preferred dual-wielding Brute plasma rifles.
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