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Alright, two threads in one night, I must be on a roll.
People keep talking about whether or not you can play as Cortana, and it's bugging me. I could be wrong on this, but I doubt it.
This game is a first person shooter. Now, what weapon do you suppose Cortana would use? She's a program, and if she does have to fight something, it would be with millions of lines of code. I just can't see any way of playing Cortana and sticking with the FPS format.
In addition to the fact that the story is not about her. Granted, the story wasn't about the Arbiter until H2, but adding Cortana as a facet of gameplay would just add too much stuff to keep track of.
I can definitely see a lot of cutscene time spent on Cortana, maybe even missions about her, but not playing as her.

  • 05.31.2006 12:05 AM PDT
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Its the worst idea I've ever heard of!

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Yeah for real, that is lame playing as cortana, i mean just think about it.....lame

  • 05.31.2006 1:03 AM PDT
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Bad idea, it would only work if you could take controll of a ships MAC Guns or a Super MAC gun and take out ships. That though, doesn't seem likely.

  • 05.31.2006 1:07 AM PDT
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who suggested this?
where do they live?
cani borrow your gun?

  • 05.31.2006 1:08 AM PDT
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stupidest. idea. ever.

I thought people thinking that playing as a grunt or brute would be cool were idiotic, man was i wrong.

  • 05.31.2006 1:12 AM PDT
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Alot of people say no, and where did you get playing as the grunt and brute from? Thats lame to if you ask me......

  • 05.31.2006 1:13 AM PDT
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hence my point.

I used to spend a lot of time in New mombasa, and there was maybe 3 threads a week soemthing along the lines of "wouldn't it be cool to play as a grunt in H3!"

  • 05.31.2006 1:25 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

playing as cortana.
oh, yeah, just imagine zipping along information superhighways, zapping viruses (viri?) with countersignals
sarcasm.

  • 05.31.2006 3:45 AM PDT

Yet another in a seemingly endless series of offensively bad ideas I have seen mentioned on this forum.

  • 05.31.2006 3:57 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

thank you, thank you very much!

  • 05.31.2006 4:08 AM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

She could be given a body by Gravemind? Thats a theory I remember a little while ago. I agree that it would not be too much fun playing her (although I could be wrong, it depends on the context) but it could be possible.

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Posted by: Guscon
She could be given a body by Gravemind? Thats a theory I remember a little while ago. I agree that it would not be too much fun playing her (although I could be wrong, it depends on the context) but it could be possible.


No. No no no NO NO! I would lose soooo much respect for Bungie if they turned this into a Pinnochio (spelling?) soap opera. Besides, the memory requirements for Cortana are massive. Even if the Gravemind did find a way to put her in a body, she would overload the nervous system and fry her new body in a half of a second.
And what would be the point of putting her in a body? What? She is most efficient as an AI, and anyone wanting to use her(Gravemind) would want her at her best, where she could accomplish the most.
What could she do in a body? "Oh, I've got to fight my way to the Chief because he can't live without me!" How lame would that mission be. She could transmit herself across the galaxy faster than if she was in a body.
Just no...

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the only possible outcome of that is a super lame retarded minigame involving u doing a puzzle-like task to help out the MC.

i sure hope we dont play as cortana.

in fact, i know we wont.

  • 05.31.2006 10:29 AM PDT
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Who is Cortana?

  • 05.31.2006 10:31 AM PDT

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Posted by: Deus_Ex_Machina
Cortana 5 is a carbon-based lifeform that frequently visits these forums, currently residing in the United States. Practically every male on the site responds to her posts.

The Joyeuse IP Formula

Posted by: Caer Bannog
Who is Cortana?


Look at my avatar and name!

  • 05.31.2006 10:32 AM PDT
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Posted by: Caer Bannog
Who is Cortana?


Omfg. If you don't know the characters of the game, stay out of the freaking forum.

  • 05.31.2006 10:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: Rakdos
Posted by: Caer Bannog
Who is Cortana?


Omfg. If you don't know the characters of the game, stay out of the freaking forum.


Stop impersonating a moderator, butthoIe.

  • 05.31.2006 10:53 AM PDT
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i cant believe that anyone would want to play as cortana, it sounds stupid

  • 05.31.2006 10:56 AM PDT

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Posted by: Deus_Ex_Machina
Cortana 5 is a carbon-based lifeform that frequently visits these forums, currently residing in the United States. Practically every male on the site responds to her posts.

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Well, what if she becomes a solid insted of just light? Then she could shoot a gun! That would rock!

  • 05.31.2006 10:57 AM PDT

Doc: "i'm a pacifist"
Caboose: "your a thing that babies suck on?"
Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"

i don't see any plot loop that would require you to play as cortana. i just don't see it.

  • 05.31.2006 11:21 AM PDT