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Subject: Talking to Cortana
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Immersion is the key to any video game. Why cant the LIVE headset interact with the singleplayer missions? I think this would be one step furter in making the most realistic video game possible. In the trailer Cortana is communicating with the Chief. It would be awsome if you could somehow communicate with her using the LIVE headset. What are your opinions?

  • 07.02.2006 3:47 PM PDT
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What about the People who dont have LIVE!

  • 07.02.2006 3:50 PM PDT
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you would only need the headset you wouldnt need live. It would be in the single player Campain

  • 07.02.2006 3:52 PM PDT

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Thats a good idea, but what good would talking to Cortana do?

  • 07.02.2006 3:53 PM PDT

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Immersion is the key to any video game. Why cant the LIVE headset interact with the singleplayer missions? I think this would be one step furter in making the most realistic video game possible. In the trailer Cortana is communicating with the Chief. It would be awsome if you could somehow communicate with her using the LIVE headset. What are your opinions?

How the do you know if cortana is comunnicating with the chief. She may have been talking about him, but theres no way of knowing if she was talking to him.

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  • 07.02.2006 3:56 PM PDT
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It could be so immersive the way you communicate with Cortana would effect you in some way.

  • 07.02.2006 3:57 PM PDT
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Who else would she be talking to?

  • 07.02.2006 3:58 PM PDT

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Who else would she be talking to?

I do think she was talking about him, but how do you know she was taling to him. And dont bump.

  • 07.02.2006 4:05 PM PDT
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After being MC's AI for who knows how long she probably knows his exact location from millions of miles away, just a guess

  • 07.02.2006 4:11 PM PDT

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

How would she know his location.

  • 07.02.2006 4:13 PM PDT
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Didnt I just get through telling you?!?

  • 07.02.2006 4:16 PM PDT
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Thats only my opinion If you have another opinion thats fine with me

  • 07.02.2006 4:17 PM PDT

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Just because shes his AI, well was his AI doesnt mean she can pinpoin his location.

  • 07.02.2006 4:18 PM PDT
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OK um she could have planted a tracking thingy in his head when MC left her

  • 07.02.2006 4:28 PM PDT

im sure an AI of her status would not have been stupid enough to make it easier for the covenant to find him by broadcasting his location.

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  • 07.02.2006 4:32 PM PDT
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But why should other people pay $30.00 more just to enjoy the game completely?

  • 07.02.2006 5:01 PM PDT
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I would like to use the headset to hear the chatter of my teammates, like in a REAL combat situation.

Now... you have a headset IN YOUR EAR... Yet somehow the surrounding gunfire is a lot louder than your teammates screaming things at the enemies and each other?

I'd like it, if for no other reason, than to better hear the dialogue. In Halo 1, it was good. In Halo 2, hard to hear ANY of the usual dialogue, unless there was a lull in the fighting.

I hope Halo 3 makes use of the headset in Singleplayer in order to hear your teammates.

You know how you can hear your teammates as if they were TALKING through a headset? Why not make it so that they ACTUALLY ARE? It would add to the realism and enjoyability of the game itself.

I don't want to talk to Cortana though it, but if she could talk to me through it, that'd be cool too.

Then I wouldn't have to try to listen through my TV speakers while gunfire is going on all over the place.

  • 07.02.2006 5:39 PM PDT
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how wold she know how to reply to all possible comments

  • 07.02.2006 5:43 PM PDT
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Why would people have payed $15 dollars for maps to enjoy multiplayer completely. People also payed $50 to enjoy multiplayer on xbox live. People will pay for whatever adds to their gaming experience.


I think this is a great idea. The story would still be the same with or without the headset. I disagree with giving Cortana commands, that doesnt make sense. Cortana is usually always the ones giving commands. It would be cool to hear cortana in your headset giving you commands. Also giving commands to fellow marines is a good idea. This wouldnt take anything away from those who dont have the headset. They game would play as it normally would, the AI would determine what to do based on the situation. You would hear Cortana through the TV set, or if it's nothing important not at all. . Unreal tournment 2007 is doing something similar to this. I would not be surprised if Bungie went a similar path.

  • 07.02.2006 5:47 PM PDT