Most of the playerbase never even touches the campaign. The answers are there for people to find, in-game.
Terrible excuse for terrible execution. Being hidden, yet accessible in-game is not valid substitute for properly telling a story through gameplay. Not having this media be a part of the stories possession, they might as well have been viewable outside of the game.
The % of the people who touch the campaign is irrelevant. a % of that % will ever access the terminals. So the people who DO play the campaign are greatly disserviced, and
most people who play the game miss key information.
Reunion:
Cortana (COM): "After I saw John last, I was pulled into slipspace. That's where I found access to the Domain -- a Forerunner system that spans the known galaxy."
I fail to see how it's not an explanation or how it's inaccurate. It's directly telling you what the Domain is in the simplest of terms.
People just watched a nuke go off "destroying" the consoles Cortana was installed in. how did she survive the blast? How was she pulled into slipspace? How does one 'access the domain', via the ships networking hardware? How is it that the Domain overcame her rampancy?
Answers to those types of questions would've amounted to an explanation. What we got was hand-waving via technobabble- as if the details of a major characters resurrection aren't important.
This deserved at least a cutscene (Though I feel like the parameters to would've facilitated her survival should have established, in-game (and no, not in terminals) over the course of a game or 2, prior to her being revealed as a bad guy.)
Also, the Domain is Precursor, not Forerunner.
He was boring, never given anything beyond wanting revenge. How could have been interesting, the potential was there, but Jul, as we is in the universe, isn't great.
Disagree. He wasn't only motivated by revenge. He was motivated by wanting to preserve his species. He (correctly!) estimated that Humanity would be plotting the extermination of the Sangheli. He was also extremely cunning, escaping from ONI captivity, then pretending to be a religious zealot in order to amass a fleet to rival the Arbiter's, all in the name of keeping Humanity (a great danger to Sanghelios) out of Sangheli affairs.
interestingly, he despised Humanity most for their propensity to use trickery and deceit to gain the upper hand on the battlefield, yet ironically, as an underdog, He has little choice but to employ a similar strategy.
He's a very layered and conflicted character. Not boring at all.
I agree, they should have done more with Cortana and should have explained her contacting the Chief in-game.
Because where is what comes next. Now is just the deployment of the Guardians. Where didn't matter to the story at the end of the game, just that they were deployed across the galaxy.
They were already deployed across the galaxy to begin with. She called them to genesis, un-deploying them, only to re-deploy them again.
They just needed a way to get Osiris to genesis, logic be damned.
Because that's where Cortana "is", at the Domain node on that planet.
The domain "spans the known galaxy". Cortana having access to it, means her influence is everywhere. We see that in here ability to make direct contact with key character regardless of where they are, even if they are in slipspace.
There's no reason the Guardian's would need to be assembled at Genesis. Obviously, she can control them remotely, that's how she got them there.
Yeah, stories are often convenient. What's your point?
Because convienience shouldn't eliminate logic- especially not when this plot was concocted by an AI- a being whose entire existence is performing logic and calculations.
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