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Posted by: spurkis
Linda with her Sniper Rifle and Emile with his Shotgun is aaall good, I acknowledge that Spartans have their fields of expertise and use weapons that are appropriate to them. But its different with Jorge because he can't use melee attacks without dropping his weapon, he can't sprint for his life and he has to put down his weapon when doing casual things, like when he's calming down Sára, whilst others can just attach their weapons to their backs. He can't use vehicles regularly, except for transport Falcons obviously. Armor Abilities are also unavaible to him. While some of them may be a little fuzzy, the Jetpack is at least canon and Jorge surely can't use it (dunno if this argument is that valid considering its an NPC, but since AA are a major factor in Reach I added it).
Before Reach I didn't even think ripped-off turrets were actually weapons used by the military, I thought it was just something Master Chief did when he wanted to go bat-blam!- on The Covenant. It's highly unusual, and just look how Blain from Predator ended up. That's right, with his guts spilled all over by plasma fire.
Even with his strength, Jorge's potential as a jack of all trades Spartan WITH a field of expertise is lost when he carries this thing around.
In the Zealot encounter we see him crouching when the FM appears and when Six picks up his/her AR. Even if we never saw him until you "clear the hole" with him, had he fired or done anything, we would've heard it, especially since Kat and Carter didn't make a noise.
Well, for one he is much stronger than Six, as shown when he picks him up with ease and throws him away. His speed isn't shown though, since he uses that gun I curse so much. It's also a fact that Spartan-IIIs are all cheaper versions of the II's, although the differences are thin.
Quoting the wiki: "Jorge is the only member of Noble Team that has seen as much action, if not more, against human militants as Covenant forces." "[...] 30 years of action" This indicates that Jorge is quite the massacrist (is that a word?). Also, Six is naturally a talent since he's the protagonist. It would be thin if was a normal Spartan with no noticeable accomplishments and then totally owning everything as soon as the players starts controlling him.
Jorge actually can and does melee enemies, quite a bit too I might add, mostly he hangs back from the enemies and lays down suppressive fire, which is what one would do with a turret. There's no difference between the Falcons in campaign and in Matchmaking, Bungie just made the Falcons hold less people in MM for balancing reasons IIRC, and we've never seen Jorge attempt to get a different type of vehicle, so we don't know how well he'd end up fitting in a different vehicle.
Well technically it's not a ripped off turret =P But yeah, I get what you're saying, I didn't really think they were used either, but it's not surprising that they are used in that way. I have not seen Predator, so I cannot interject anything into that or really respond to your comparison, but didn't the Predator use something similar to Active Camo most of the time?