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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: Hylebos
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Lol. Halo 4? Hilarious.
You guys have obviously never played a bad game if you think Halo 4 is the worst game.There was quite a few parts of the campaign that were so laughably bad and seemed entirely avoidable. I've show some of Del Rio's finer pieces of work to friends who aren't gamers, and even they find him completely unbelieveable and ridiculous, especially when I tell them that he is the captain of the biggest and best ship that humanity has ever made.
It's hard to imagine that anybody watching those cutscenes must have thought to themselves "Yes, this is decent and passable work." Del Rio is literally screaming his lines. Even his voice actor must have had a twinge of embarassment delivering some of them.
It's certainetly not the only part of the Campaign that's flawed either. Is it the worst Campaign of the year? Statistically there must exist something that was worse, but for such an anticipated title and the first step into a new trilogy, Halo 4 did fall flat on it's face in many regards.
Del Rio losing his -blam!- was the very point of that scene, to show that he was not a leader of men and therefore inferior to the Chief who was ready to take the initiative outside of protocol.
If you've got a guy with obvious confidence issues next to the man who is believed to be the savior of mankind, you're going to get a laughably pathetic response. Pathetic is the point they were making, I...literally don't get why that's bad.I'm saying that they could have easily accomplished their goal without turning Del Rio into a Level 10 asshat 24/7. Halopedia says that he has more than 30 years of naval experience against the Covenant, but he sure as hell doesn't act like it. My Dad is an officer in the Navy, and even he independently commented about how unrealistic Del Rio seemed from a millitary standpoint throughout the entire Campaign.
The fact of the matter is that Del Rio has an excellent point, however poorly articulated it may have been thanks to 343 Industry's writing skills. The UNSC Infinity has just encountered and barely survived a new alien threat that is entirely unlike what they've encountered before. The desire to fall back to Human controlled space and get reinforcements / decide what to do is a very understandable course of action. Chief however has more experience and is the only one on the ship that understands just how urgent a threat the Diadact is, so it's only reasonable that Del Rio wouldn't see the situation from his viewpoint.
Portraying Del Rio as a reluctant commander who has been softened a bit by four years of peace and is unwilling to risk the thousands of lives of his crew against an unknown alien threat without backup would have gone over much better in the believabillity department than portraying him as the galaxy's biggest douche. Sure, perhaps tensions flare during the final confrontation where Chief directly disobeys his order to surrender Cortana and come with him, but do so in a believeable way, there's absolutely no need to shout your lines.
It's a complete shame and seems like such an obvious blemish on an otherwise okay Campaign. I actually thought a lot of the other new characters were good, Lasky was okay, Tillson was very well done in my opinion, and portrayals of Chief and Cortana were okay (although Chief at times sounded a bit like a child who had just lost sight of his mother). Naturally the gameplay had it's ups and downs, and I thought the bit where they called Chief the Chosen One and the culmination of a plan that was millions of years in the making was completely cliche and unneccessary, but there were some solid gems scattered here and there.
[Edited on 01.04.2013 3:35 PM PST]