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Cortana promised bigger role in Halo 4 |
Listed in: Interviews, News, Games Tags: 343 industries, halo 4, Microsoft
Cortana has proven herself to be one trusty sidekick for Master Chief. It's about time, therefore, that she plays a bigger role in the upcoming Halo 4.
343's franchise development director, Frank O'Connor, confirmed this news in a recent interview. Not only will she be giving a bigger role, but a "focal" one at that.
Said O'Connor, "I can tell you Cortana's going to be a focal point for Halo 4, for sure. I think a lot of people are speculating on Cortana's age and the effects of age on an AI, there's this thing called Rampancy which is really just any AI thinking itself to death and Cortana's been around for a while and most AIs have a lifespan of seven years."
"Cortana's a little bit different in that she's been exposed to a lot more technology and information than other AIs via the Forerunner lore and mythos. But her state of mind, her relationship with the Chief, they're all going to be core elements of the story and the 'human drama' as it were in Halo."
This is 343's first venture to the market with the highly successful Halo franchise, originally under the tutelage of Bungie. Earlier this month, Bungie officially turned over the rights to the franchise to Microsoft, ending a decade-long partnership. There's still no date set as to the release of Halo 4, but speculations are rife that it will be landing in 2012, along with the new Xbox 720.
Via [8BitFix]
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Halo even got his own HQ and animation because of it history....
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Ever heard of sergeant johnson, cortana and chief? Those are called characters
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Halo had a storyline and characters, not award winning ones though.
It was your typical "save this" storyline.
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Halo is not for everyone but it sounds like you haven't even played the games at all judging your comment.
Me myself loved the series and I have confident in 343 Industries to make Halo 4 one awesome game
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why not make it simple as it was in halo 1 & 2?
a character more with an opinion about the things around and helping with information, not all that drama and weird chatting of halo 3
serious sam understood that very well with the AI female companion netricsa why a halo game will need the drama of an AI its already the commons story of aliens whant to kill us all
it seems they are running out of ideas
at this rate halo franchise will end as power rangers
they will travel time, galaxies, they will become ninjas, wizards and all that stuff
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