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Posted by: MWLB4244
Posted by: DonVinzone1
Posted by: MWLB4244
Posted by: DonVinzone1
I really wonder if we actually will get a sidekick like Johnson this time.
After all: this is about Chief exploring new, unfamiliar places, people and conflicts.
Much like it was with CE 10 years ago. And did we have a constant sidekick apart from Cortana then? Nope.
And to be honest: having no sidekick apart from a rampaging Cortana makes you feel completely new and submerged in the galaxy, on your own. And that last part is important I guess. Chief is alone out there (presumably) and adding a Johnson like character could interfere with that feeling.
Although a lot of the concept art does involve 2 characters who presumably are already known to us, standing next to what looks a lot like Chief: Chakras and Riser.
I think adding people from this new, mysterious world as sort of wingmen later on in the story could work better than having another UNSC Marine (if even possible!) on your side.
Johnson was there and badass as ever in Halo CE. Why couldn't he be in Halo 4?
But in CE he wasn't your sidekick. Matter of fact: he wasn't even a regular character yet. Just the most prominent out of all Marines who happened to be included in a lot of jokes which caught the fan's eyes and made Bungie decide to make him a real character.
Why wouldn't he be in Halo 4? Well, because he actually died in H3. His "death" in CE was explained in The Flood/First Strike, to make his transition into a real character. But in H3, he truely died.
And how would you want to bring him back? The reconstructed Halo blew up at the end of H3, and with it Johnsons body. So nothing for the UNSC to reanimate or clone...Also, bringing Johnson back in H4 would make his death and its impact in H3 seem stupid and unneccecary.
I'm fine with having a sidekick in H4, but I wouldn't count on anything like how Johnson was in the Classic Trilogy.
Johnson was awesome in Halo CE and yet the game kept the feeling you described. What I am is trying to say is we can still have a similar character like that in Halo 4 and keep that great feeling.
Well then you do agree with what I said ;) Because I am fine with a character like CE's Johnson, or Half-Jaw in H2: prominent non-sidekick NPC, but a replacement for Johnson as a real sidekick like he was in H2/H3....meh.
Oh and to that other dude: Everything I read about Traviss' books right now makes me want to puke to be honest. Everything she says about where shes going with the book feels too un-Halo to me...and thats the first time I've ever had that with anything Halo related. I mean, Spartans being Reclaimers but regular Humans not? What?! After H3 made so clear every Human is a reclaimer (Miranda and Johnson being used by Truth for that purpose), or Contact Harvest clearly pointing at every human being Reclaimer.
I do believe the cast of the Traviss Trilogy will be included at some point during the Reclaimer Trilogy, but my guess is H4 will play out like CE did: you alone on a distant planet with no backup. And that it will only feature elements from the Forerunner Trilogy by Greg Bear.