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Poll: Could Linda be good as a character In H3  [closed]
Yes:  54%
(40 Votes)
No:  41%
(30 Votes)
Who is linda:  5%
(4 Votes)
Total Votes: 74

Im just tossing around Ideas here but,
Instead of (or with) The MC sharing campaign with The Arbiter, Maybe a third character would be playable, Spartan 058 (Linda) She is not technically dead, and not technically alive, But revivable. It might level the playing field for female xbox players, plus it would spice the game up a bit. It would always be nice to see the chemistry between her and John, they were good friends. Maybe also elaborate with Kelly's disappearance aswell as Halsey.

What do you think?

  • 06.16.2006 9:12 PM PDT
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Multiplayer: A female spartan would be ok.
Single Player: No.

  • 06.16.2006 9:13 PM PDT
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From a guy's perspective:

-blam!-. Yes.

Cookies for you and I want Linda-058's sniper rifle. NOW!

On a side note, the chemistry between the two could be quirky in a good way. *A Competition, Perhaps?* We've seen the best of the best in chemistry from a lot of popular culture without it going all mushy. They would be more of the friends cracking jokes at each other's expense.

All in all, I would love for Linda-058 to be playable.

EDIT: By the way, Linda was revived at the end of First Strike, and is currently on active duty, we just don't know where.

[Edited on 6/16/2006]

  • 06.16.2006 9:14 PM PDT

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

I don't think she should be in Halo 3. She would steal all of Master Chief's glory and thunder, and that would kind of make Master Chief look bad.

  • 06.16.2006 9:16 PM PDT
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You've got to think though.

The Perspective of One Man against an entirely conquered planet with several armies.

1. Totally Unrealistic.
2. Not Believable.
3. Sure, the Human/Elite alliance helps, but Earth is going to need all the help she can get.
4. Halo 3 IS the last, great battle.

  • 06.16.2006 9:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Gunshark 360
You've got to think though.

The Perspective of One Man against an entirely conquered planet with several armies.

1. Totally Unrealistic.
2. Not Believable.
3. Sure, the Human/Elite alliance helps, but Earth is going to need all the help she can get.
4. Halo 3 IS the last, great battle.
Now think of it as a game instead of a true story.

You are fighting a war single handedly and you are givin the impression you are the last spartan(Just look at the back of the Halo 1 box). Now all of a sudden there is a cutscene and cortanna says, "Oh yeah, I forgot, there are more spartans".

It will not happen, it will never happen. You are going to be disapointed.

[Edited on 6/16/2006]

  • 06.16.2006 9:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan2010
I don't think she should be in Halo 3. She would steal all of Master Chief's glory and thunder, and that would kind of make Master Chief look bad.
I agree. And if I'm not mistaken Linda was some attractive Irish woman.

  • 06.16.2006 9:25 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Gunshark 360
From a guy's perspective:

-blam!-. Yes.

Cookies for you and I want Linda-058's sniper rifle. NOW!

On a side note, the chemistry between the two could be quirky in a good way. *A Competition, Perhaps?* We've seen the best of the best in chemistry from a lot of popular culture without it going all mushy. They would be more of the friends cracking jokes at each other's expense.

All in all, I would love for Linda-058 to be playable.

EDIT: By the way, Linda was revived at the end of First Strike, and is currently on active duty, we just don't know where.


:]

I can see it now,
MC blasting brutes away with shotgun, Out of nowhere, a jetstream of a sniper rifle round hits a brute in the head, The MC looks back and sees a bulky figure in the dust

Linda (over radio): Am I late Chief?

  • 06.16.2006 9:29 PM PDT
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Speaking of blasting Brutes, the Chief is some kind of highly trained Super Soldier, right? Then why can't he kick his enemies?

  • 06.16.2006 9:32 PM PDT
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I would think of it more as the Master Chief and the Arbiter drastically outnumbered by about 70 to 1. And then Frederic-104 and the three other Spartan-II's ambush the attackers.

  • 06.16.2006 9:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Gunshark 360
I would think of it more as the Master Chief and the Arbiter drastically outnumbered by about 70 to 1. And then Frederic-104 and the three other Spartan-II's ambush the attackers.


No offence, but theres is a better chance of Saruman coming out of a phantom humming the batman theme.

[Edited on 6/16/2006]

  • 06.16.2006 9:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Dbozbrown
Posted by: The Gunshark 360
You've got to think though.

The Perspective of One Man against an entirely conquered planet with several armies.

1. Totally Unrealistic.
2. Not Believable.
3. Sure, the Human/Elite alliance helps, but Earth is going to need all the help she can get.
4. Halo 3 IS the last, great battle.
Now think of it as a game instead of a true story.

You are fighting a war single handedly and you are givin the impression you are the last spartan(Just look at the back of the Halo 1 box). Now all of a sudden there is a cutscene and cortanna says, "Oh yeah, I forgot, there are more spartans".

It will not happen, it will never happen. You are going to be disapointed.


Well, hmm, let's see.

1. Read the books to get the whole story. They are the official set-ups to Halo 1 and Halo 2 and are canon.

2. How do you know? Can you see into the future with your clairvoyant ninja specs of dumbass style?

3. It would only add to John-117's character and show a different side of the story. They used a cutscene to introduce Tartarus, The Arbiter, and The Prophets. If they can do it for an entire side of the Covenant, why not five supersoldiers.

4. Cortana is in the clutches of Gravemind. I don't think she would say that.

5. The game has to have some sense of realism even if it is sci-fi.

6. Teams of Spartans have gone up against armies of Covenant and HAVE GOTTEN SLAUGHTERED.

7. You sure are an arrogant one. Earth will need all the help she can get.

  • 06.16.2006 9:37 PM PDT

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Why would it matter if you could play as a woman spartan? How could you tell under all that armor?

As far as I'm concerned, if you take a Halo 2 spartan model, and make it pink.... BAM! there's your woman spartan. (Also, it just says "Spartan Model" It technically might not be Master Chief... so if you wanted, you could see it as a girl).

  • 06.16.2006 9:40 PM PDT
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I think, personally, that she shouldn't be playable (aside from a seperate co-op adventure, maybe?) but she and the other three Spartan-II's should be fighting alongside the Master Chief.

But as long as her Sniper Rifle is a weapon in the game, I will be happy (with the weapons, at least).

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I am in favor of other Spartans in the game. The novels are awesome.

  • 06.17.2006 1:17 AM PDT
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Having the other Spartans show up now would be sort of awkward. If they'd been mentioned earlier in Halo 1 or 2 then it wouldn't be so bad.

  • 06.17.2006 3:34 AM PDT
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MC wouldn't mind if he could get some help from the other spartans, he works better in a team.

  • 06.17.2006 3:39 AM PDT

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had there been a maybe option i would have said that.

  • 06.17.2006 3:41 AM PDT
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Could be used as part as the plot but seeing as the female spartans in their suits don't look any different from the males whats the point of having them in multiplayer. Unless they can drive better or something : ^ )

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  • 06.17.2006 3:54 AM PDT

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Posted by: MsnafuM
they can drive better


don't you mean worse?

  • 06.17.2006 4:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: Azanode
Having the other Spartans show up now would be sort of awkward. If they'd been mentioned earlier in Halo 1 or 2 then it wouldn't be so bad.


There was mention of another Spartan in Halo 1.
On the pillar Autumn when you run past the room where you can see through the glass to where your Cryo tube is, there is another room behind it. That too has a Spartan monitering screen, but the windows have blast shields over them.

  • 06.17.2006 4:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: AcidSquid
Posted by: The Gunshark 360
I would think of it more as the Master Chief and the Arbiter drastically outnumbered by about 70 to 1. And then Frederic-104 and the three other Spartan-II's ambush the attackers.


No offence, but theres is a better chance of Saruman coming out of a phantom humming the batman theme.


lol. Watch out though, Saruman ios pretty powerful.



Anyway, I really do like the ideas of adding the Spartans in to the game, and Linda would definately be my first choice. However, it would be kinda hard to factor them in without some kind of backstory. Maybe, for Halo 3, there should be some kind of prolouge, where you play the Battle of Reach, and you get to see some of the stuff that happened.

Even so, I think that if any other spartan were to be introduced to the story, it would be easiest to do it with Kelly. The way I see it, it could be done in a simple cutscene. Dr. Hasley on a ship, reviving Kelly. Kelly wakes up, is a little confused for a bit, but then realises where she is. She stands up, and starts yelling at the Dr. saying "You took me away when they needed me most!", or "You took me away right before the battle!!". To people who didn't read the books, this would seem like she was taken away before Reach, but to those who did read, it would be a reference to the Unyeilding Hierophant.

So, yeah, I think it would be easiest to incorporate Kelly in to the game, although if I had to pick one, I would choose linda. Cuz linda is -blam!- awesome1!!!!!!!

  • 06.17.2006 4:20 AM PDT
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Multiplayer would be fine, it really wouldn't change the gameplay much at all. Single player...just no. I want to concentrate of fighting as the Chief on a war torn earth...and the Arbiter, or course. Who is kickass...just...not as much as the Chief.

  • 06.17.2006 4:48 AM PDT
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No, because if you play as linda, you have to play as a sniper, and if some people don't like this idea, they may get turned off from the game.
I either say no, I don't want to play as linda, or play as someone else, prefferably Kelly, since she doesn't use spacific weapons.

  • 06.17.2006 5:31 AM PDT
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I do not want to play as a flood!

  • 06.17.2006 1:24 PM PDT

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