mrkolsyrad

Ok so after finishing the campaign on legendary I notice that I did not receive the armour or emblem and I went on the interwebs in an adventure to find out why. I then found out that I had to be online the entire time in order for the missions to count ( well this sucks... ). I am in the process of replaying the entire thing.. And I am wondering. If I get disconnected during a mission, do I HAVE to restart the entire mission in order for it to count? Because I am having some serious disconnection troubles, and I am about to throw my console into the TV if I am disconnected at the end of a level.

Yeah, it sucks tho. I disconnected myself from the xbox since I had problems with the twitch live stream ( starcraft 2 LoneStarClash ) and now I am back at square 1 again :/. I had no idea I had to be online for them to count.

I am wondering if they are going to fix this? It says that I have half the campaign left on comm progress now :/.

Same for me, I just beat it on legendary and no rewards.

I feel like Halo 4 was really about Cortana and Chief finding his humanity. I think that they did a fantastic job finishing her story arc and I am very interested to see how John will cope in the future. I don't want them to bring back Cortana. Not because I don't like her character, because I do. But because it would feel a tad forced and cliché. I think that it would be a much more powerful story with Chief trying to cope and recognizing that his not a machine.If they do decide to bring her back, they shouldn't do it too early imo. Or perhaps have John go out with a bang and have him '' reunite '' with her in death. I truly hope that 343 don't give into '' fan hate ''. Sometimes, the loud fanbase doesn't know what's best for the story in the end. And if she does return, then have her return as the new librarian or something.

SPOILERS!!! Halo has never been particulary big on sophisticated literary devices, the '' heroes journey '' and '' full circle '' would be kicked around a bit in some of the previous games but it never seemd to have much substance to it. And, bloody hell, that sure changed in halo 4! When they said that they were going to explore John as a person, they really weren't joking. The Prologue starts off with the questioning of whether John was succesful because he was, at his core, broken. It's continued throughout the game, Cortana asking John to find out which one of them is really the machine, and culminates in Lasky's dialogue at the end where he states that soldiers and humanity ( machine and man ) are not different. On that subject of Lasky, his insistance that he '' is not about to let that man down '' at the end of the game really brought to mind Halo 4: Forward unto dawn. THere was an emotional motivation for Lasky in this scene, and there was an emotional motivation for myself as the Chief not to let him down. John removing his armour in the Epilogue symbolises the exposure of his humanity for what's really the first time in the series. And it took a machine who really was more human than him to make him realise who he is. The conclusion has finally been drawn that he wasn't succesful because he was broken at his core, but the ''tools'' which Halsey supplied ( calling COrtana a tool itself being ironic) helped bring out the humanity in John and turned it into his greatest strength. It's beautifully poetic, and is infinitely more sophisticated development for a character who was treated as a sterile brick for so long. Halo 4's ending is how an ending to a particular character arc is done right and done well. Cortana's final words '' welcome home, John '' really did emotionally resonate within me and is the second game to make me brawl like a child. Cortana is a character we've been with for 11 years now. She got the exist she deserved and it had the impact it should. Take from: ar7emis on BSN ( bioware social network ) Found it in a thread about why Halo 4's ending was so much better than ME3. What he said basically sums up exactly what I thought of the ending, I just sat there fighting the tears ( I am a manly man damn it! lol ) and I still felt a tear running down my cheek.... It was SOOOOoooo good. Thank you 343! You guys created an amazing game, and I can't wait to see the continuation of Chiefs journey. Halo is in good hands!