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Posted by: Atomic Tea
I liked Noble Six because he/she was whatever I wanted him/her to be. And it's going to stay that way because nobody will be writing anything on Noble Six because it was just a 'one-shot' in a way. All these books on Chief ruined the "faceless" aspect of him, turning him into something I didn't want him to be. Add to the fact that Chief is still flat and uninspiring with all these books on him, means that he REALLY is a terrible character in my opinion. I hope you're right about 343i changing that aspect of him, but I would much rather see a newer, more fleshed out character. But they use Chief to sell game copies, so it won't be happening.
Making John a faceless character was a stupid move, it just implies that they're too lazy to develop his character. When someone is the centrifugal element of a story spanning 100,000 years closing in around him then I expect to see him react to these sort of things as a character. Bungie has numerously tried to suggest there's a character underneath the armour but they failed to make anything significant come of it because they said they want "the player to be the character".