- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Wiltron
Posted by: P3CK
All of the spartans are not created equally, John, Spartan 117, has always taken on a leadership role, and is simply by experience the most skilled overall. Also, regardless of what we know about him or not (which is a lot) he is still the one that knows the most from his relationships with Keyes, Cortana, Sgt. Johnson, Miranda and Hood. Your approach to this argument is pretty silly and you're really looking at one aspect of things. I believe that as it stands, it's the Chief and the Chief alone that is on that forerunner ship and John is the only one that is the Master Chief, not just another spartan. Rather than argue it further, can you imagine throwing a less skilled, uninformed spartan into the Chief's position?
"Hi my name is Will, I heard John died... that's a damn shame... OH! who am I? oh riiiiight, i'm sorry, i'm a supporting character from the novels that a extremely small percentage of the Halo series fan base has ever heard of. So just give me a quick run down on what happened on this "Halo" "High Charity", Earth and various other events and i'll get down to saving the world."
Meh ... just call them Spartan 1 and Spartan 2. Hot swap 'em during a cutscene where Spartan 1 dies, Spartan 2 comes in, Growls, and continues the game in EXACTLY the same way you would've played with the MC. Most people just skip the cutscenes (or go grab a sammich) so it really doesn't matter much.
Oh! Maybe Spartan 2's HUD will be a different color! Like ORANGE. OMFGLOLLWTF that would be great!