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Posted by: spurkis
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: spurkis
Jorge isn't a very smart person overall, you see. He wastes his incredible strength and agility to limp around with a gargantuan machine gun and an ammo backpack when he instead could've been running around using more effective weapons and making use of his deadly strikes like the Chief. He also sacrifices himself to shield a worthless civilian (compared to him), luckily the silly and drunk Field Marshall is horrible with the Energy Sword and misses everything. He then finally drops his gun, but uses his strength to throw Six off the boat and then commits suicide.
The chaingun is good for surpessive fire, but Jorge using it is idiotic from a strategic point of view. It also sucks in the combat situations Noble Team get in.
You think Jorge is the one choosing what role he fills on the team? He take the position the team leader, in this case Carter, assigns. And also, in a team you play to your strengths, Jorge is the heavy weapons specialist, that is his area of expertise. And that turret doesn't even really slow him down, he's faster than you are with one!
And I've said this before, any other Spartan would have done the same when encountering the Zealots in Viesegrad Relay, you may think it's stupid, but that's what any other Spartan or military personnel would have done in the same situation.
And there was nothing stupid about his staying behind to arm the bomb either, that scenario has occurred at least once in Halo with Sam. The situation with him and Jorge is almost exactly the same, both simply couldn't leave the ship they were on, and the bomb had to be armed manually, I could be wrong about the specifics with Sam though.
While Carter may be the boss, Jorge's own weapon of choice is the machine gun. I blame it on Bungie though, for not designing a LMG of some sort, that doesn't require all that stuff Jorge carries around. While he may be the strongest person on the team, that doesn't automatically mean he should carry the heaviest of all guns, let alone one that needs a heavy ammunition container. Equipping a Spartan-II with this handicapping gun just because he can carry it is silly because it alters his potential as an agile killer machine.
That turret DOES slow him down. Period. He can't Sprint, and is often transported from place to place in a Falcon (WC, Tip of the Spear etc.) so that the team as a unit doesn't slow down. When not transported he always falls behind the rest of the squad, i.e. on WC when you sprint to the interrogated, dead soldiers. As if that weren't enough, his cover animations, albeit scripted, are slow and clumsy. He will lean out and swing his machine gun out and fire a burst before lifting it up again and lobbing his body backwards.
The stupid part of it is really how Jorge didn't cease to cover the civilian girl while the rest of Noble struggled with the Elites. He could've atleast faced them when they had passed him and proceeded to engage Six and Kat. His powerful machine gun could've been useful for once, and they could've actually saved the wounded corporal. If I'm correct, securing civilians wasn't their current objective either. I'm not saying that they are worthless, but Jorge dedicating himself to protect one while three valuable key soldiers are in utter danger IS worthless.
Jorge staying behind was stupid because he would technically be more useful than Six on the ground, like this whole thread is about. Of course someone had to stay behind anyway.
Heavy weapons is obviously Jorge's special talent, much like Linda's is sniping, you wouldn't ordinarily put Linda in a CQB position because that is not where she is effective, The same with Jorge, he fills the role of the heavy weapons specialist on the team and he would be much less effective in a different position.
Him being transported in a Falcon is not that odd, most of the other members of Noble Team meet you in one or pick you up in one, while you might be right about it for the Winter Contingency in Tip of the Spear he was in the Falcon because you and Jorge were being sent to take out the Spire, it doesn't say where or what Jorge was doing before, nor is it really all that important.
We don't exactly what Jorge is doing as one of the Zealots jumps on top of Six, and naturally, since it's in first person view at that time, we can't really see what's going over where Jorge and Sara are.
And why would he technically be more useful than Six? Six is rated as Hyper Lethal Vector, like Master Chief and we all know how good he is and what he can do, and to quote one of the trailers for Reach "Six has made entire militia groups disappear" meaning Six has taken on fairly decent sized groups of combatants by herself and beaten them each time.