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Halo 4: Try Not to Cry, Cry a Lot (SPOOLERZ)
10 years ago
Replaying Halo 4, a game that addresses alienation--losing touch with the world around you--and the sweet, keen pain of losing a loved one.
It's made obvious very early in the Halo 4 campaign that Cortana, one of the best "artificial" companions in all of sci-fi, is bordering on rampancy: if she doesn't make it back to her creator, Catherine Halsey, her wealth of knowledge and her massive data banks will continue to process and overprocess themselves until she dies. Cortana is an A.I. that will literally think herself to death.
Parallels can be drawn to that evil of human diseases, cancer or even AIDS. The human body, which is good, becomes corrupted and kills itself. So it's with this mentality in mind that the quote that followed hit me with seventy metric tons of feels.
It's a poignant cutscene, with Cortana using her blessed (turning deadly) wealth of knowledge to enjoy a moment of beauty as John-117 readies himself for a campaign against a superhuman psychopath who wants to digitize all human life (turn them into robots) so that the Flood parasite (zombies) will starve off.
Cortana is admiring an artificial sunset, and even throws in a light-hearted jab against the markedly stoic Master Chief, Sierra-117:
"I can give you over forty thousand reasons why I know that sun isn't real. I know it because the emitter's Rayleigh effect is disproportionate to its suggested size. I know because its stellar cycle is more symmetrical than that of an actual star. But for all that, I'll never actually know if it looks real... if it feels real... before this is all over, promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine."
It's absolutely beautiful, the way she gently bemoans the fact that she's never known the delight of the five human senses. It's devastating to think that she may not.
I cried. It was fantastic. Thanks for your time! :3
It's made obvious very early in the Halo 4 campaign that Cortana, one of the best "artificial" companions in all of sci-fi, is bordering on rampancy: if she doesn't make it back to her creator, Catherine Halsey, her wealth of knowledge and her massive data banks will continue to process and overprocess themselves until she dies. Cortana is an A.I. that will literally think herself to death.
Parallels can be drawn to that evil of human diseases, cancer or even AIDS. The human body, which is good, becomes corrupted and kills itself. So it's with this mentality in mind that the quote that followed hit me with seventy metric tons of feels.
It's a poignant cutscene, with Cortana using her blessed (turning deadly) wealth of knowledge to enjoy a moment of beauty as John-117 readies himself for a campaign against a superhuman psychopath who wants to digitize all human life (turn them into robots) so that the Flood parasite (zombies) will starve off.
Cortana is admiring an artificial sunset, and even throws in a light-hearted jab against the markedly stoic Master Chief, Sierra-117:
"I can give you over forty thousand reasons why I know that sun isn't real. I know it because the emitter's Rayleigh effect is disproportionate to its suggested size. I know because its stellar cycle is more symmetrical than that of an actual star. But for all that, I'll never actually know if it looks real... if it feels real... before this is all over, promise me you'll figure out which one of us is the machine."
It's absolutely beautiful, the way she gently bemoans the fact that she's never known the delight of the five human senses. It's devastating to think that she may not.
I cried. It was fantastic. Thanks for your time! :3
Yoyo_Wolf
~yoyowolf
So godamn good.
Varzen
~varzen
OP
Totally ^_^
