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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
I literally hope 343 shows master chief having trouble in halo 4. I hope he nearly gets the -blam!- beat out of him, or actually does. Maybe not dies, but literally and undeniably gets his ass handed to him and shows these blind fanboys(Note, not calling you one, I am referring to the really bad ones I've seen) that chief is not what they view him as.This beings up an interesting, off-topic point: the easiest way to develop a character, in my opinion, is to beat the crap out of them. In Crysis 2, you are stuck in the suit (partly) to prevent your internal organs from collapsing. Therefore, after every major "boss fight" in the game, you find yourself on the ground, with your screen fading, having to activate your own defibrillators.
You effectively get so beat up, that you die 3 or 4 times throughout the game, and by the end of it, you end up sympathising for Alcatraz. You see just how far he's gone to complete his mission, he has literally gone over the brink and come back, several times. Every time he goes down (the first run through, anyway), you keep thinking that that would be his death, but he gets up and you damn near rejoice.
If Chief were to get beat up, not only would it destroy Master Chief fanboyism, but it would expose him as the human he is under the armour.
To keep it on topic:
My thoughts are that while Six is the more interesting character, Chief is still superior in combat, simply because he has more active combat experience. He has been a Spartan since 2517, whereas Six would have become a Spartan about 15 years later.
Chief has been a Spartan basically since around the time Six was born. The way I see it is that Chief would have more combat experience, and despite Six and Chief being pretty much equal in an unarmoured fistfight, out on the battlefield Chief would simply cream Six due to a longer exposure to military tactics. Six's Lone Wolf tendencies would also let him down, as he knows less about how other Spartans move about the battlefield from not being around them. John as a team leader for most of his career, would know exactly how Spartans operate.