It's even sadder when you realize she is talking through memories and echoes because she's already gone :(

Yeah 😭

@@HorFell: but atriox lives >:( 343 sucks

@@jugganaut33 gives them fuel for a sequel in 2023-2025

Halo 2, halo 4, halo 5, and now infinite.

That's why halo4 hit me hard 😭😭😭 Lost both Keyes, Johnson and cortana.

@@darthmisogyny3828 wow seriously tho 🥲

@@darthmisogyny3828 imagine if Bungie would have done Halo 4 that story would have been so different see 343 studios took over and killed off all the mains so they can have their new mains but you know can't kill Master Chief but yeah I hate 343 studios

@@mrgrimreaper94 343 straight up wanted to replace Chief back then, back on E3 over 10 years ago they said Chief would have his final trilogy starting from Halo 4, then they introduced the new cast in Halo 5 and tried to bring up Agent Locke to replace Chief, they tried sooo hard with the advertisement to say how cool Locke was with his Osiris team. Everything went sour for them with all the hate and they had to kind off reset the series with Halo Infinite as we have now.

@@minhnguyen5888 They didn't understand what they were taking on. Halo IS John and Cortana. They completely messed up with 5. Many won't recognize its existence.

As i was lost for words. "Cool", is. Irrelevant.

I've never wanted to see John's face but man I wish we could see the emotion under that Helmet for once.

He admits he’s not okay earlier in the game

Pretty sure the dude was crying behind that helmet. He is glad no one can see his face. He lost almost everyone close to him and Cortana is the final nail in the coffin. Blue team and Halsey still live gladly otherwise it would be too cruel.

@@Henlak- They could have been really clever about it, since the visors on MJOLNIR armour can be polarized at will by the wearer, same as the ODST helmets, and it has a distinctive sound effect, the camera could have swung behind Chief as Weapon asked, the sound of a depolarizing visor could have played, Weapon visibly reacts, doesn't say anything, something falls in front of Chief, the polarizing visor effect plays, and the camera swings back around as more debris falls around him.

"MY GOD LADY SHUT UP." - Me after grabbing the beacon from a chest

NO DONT

Flashbacks

spider man?!?!

I used to always find it in Bleak Falls Barrow too lol. Now when I replay Skyrim it's never there🤣

I couldn’t help it. 343 likes. Sad edit moments: no longer 343 likes 😔

I guess the recording(or it could be multiple recordings) are keyword activated with a scripted response algorithm(a recording plays at the mention of Echo), kinda like how dialog is handled in RPG's, but waaaaaay more complex.

Or it wouldn't have been awkward, because they would both be thinking it's just another echo, because that's the logical thought process one would have in that moment

Calling it: Cortana has seen all of this take place already, she's seen the future before she died.

No no even though it’s an echo it still has computing capabilities and are more like copies. So it’s still Cortana not just the whole Cortana. she’s been leaving copies around since Halo: combat evolved. This info is from the books

i was going to upvote but youre sat at 117 and i couldnt bring myself to

Man was probably bawling under there. I liked how the new Cortana is forcing his humanity out. he's a person whether he was trained to think so or not.

A single ultra manly tear of pure testosterone.

My mans crying hard.. I can feel it.. I am a very hardened man, but Cortana dying reminds me of my deceased wife.. she always told me that I should find another one, and that she's a waste.. man I can't control myself now..

@@rojaws1183 Chief probably cries pure nitro glycerin.

But why are we saying goodbye to her? Seems forced so they can insert their own replacement AI...

@@Ryan-mech-muffin cuz Cortana’s story has been stretched out to long. Her story should’ve ended at the end of 4 but they continued it to infinite. After what she did in 5 there isn’t any logical way they could’ve implemented her back in the story as a good guy.

@@Adolf_Hitman what happened in 5 didn't make any sense, there were things that had great potential, covenant inter faction conflict, absolutely human colonies that were left to fend for themselves not accepting UNSC orders when things finally start to improve makes perfect sense and serves as a microcosm of the further colonial empire (after all ww1 and ww2 broke the image of the unbeatable western powers (though US and USSR hegemonic power was offcourse of enormous influence in decolonisation actually being possible, in this case i'd play on covenant remnants supplying arms and supplies for supplies and in the hope of weakening the united earth government. other "free colony" factions would no doubt work together with them to create political and economic cooperation agreements and set up interdependent industrial and agricultural systems.

@@istoppedcaring6209 I’m not reading all of that

@@Adolf_HitmanI did and boy I regret it.

That and he potentially could crush him by accident. The suit can flip a 66 ton tank like skateboard and can literally kill the wearer by accident, were they a normal human wearing it. The Chief learned early on in his carrier that humans are a lot more fragile then you would think. Though, on the flip side, I don't think anyone has Hugged the Chief in over 30 years...so a little of column A and a little of column B.

Late at night Chief will sneak into his bed and "hug" him back. Shh shh it's OK. This is the Spartan way.

@@Moontrap does the suit jack him off?

@@Moontrap He accidentally beat 2 ODSTs to death & maimed 2 more in a 4 on 1 brawl. While recovering from the augmentations, at the age of 14. Even without the suit, he can accidentally kill normal people.

While you’re all right to an extent, it should be noted that all Spartans learn very quickly how gentle to hold things so as not to destroy them. The reason Chief hesitated is because he struggles with emotion and social interaction, like many of the Spartan 2s. This is why he took Cortana’s betrayal/loss the way he did. While it wasn’t a romantic relationship, he had a connection with someone beyond that of his Spartan family. That’s something he hasn’t had since he was a child. Chief is the hero, the badass Gary Stu of the Halo story, but these last few games have nailed home just how much his life as a Spartan has affected his humanity. “When this is all over, remind me which of us is the machine?”

I really, really hope I'm not the only person who was reminded of the scene from Red vs Blue Season 6 where Church talks to a recording of Delta in Caboose's head

@@mercury2157 I'm more reminded of the end of Season 13 now that you mentioned RvB.

No cortanas gotten smaller in a few ways her face looks different to

Amazon echo

@@DarkLord-7 There's also that bit they cribbed off Season 9 with the dive into the Pelican at the end of the first Spire.

True.. Honestly I was giving this game so much hate before it came out because I thought Halo 5 was just the beginning of the franchise's downfall.. And even though there are a few flaws in this game it is definitely a step forward! Loved the campaign

@@quagmire1130few flaws????

Nothing that hasn’t been seen on Xbox one and Xbox 360 before

Not a marine or a pilot, but yes

I miss foehammer 😢

@@Gabrocol did he pilot that ship? Then yes he’s a pilot.

he's a walking cliche. man miss family in space. also, incredibly annoying.

@@nolef7nu7 Some of the best characters are cliche

Slight error: She is not flash copied from Halsey. She is a copy of Cortana herself. If anything more like her daughter.

@@HorFell no? She is an ai made with one of halsdy's brain copies that they recovered recently. She is similar to cortana becouse she is made out of the same thing kind of like a sister (twins actually)

@@agssilv5919 they literally said an exact copy of cortana just with some memory/data removed. He said she's her if they never met. The weapon is an exact copy of Cortana.

@@jmatthewsas if you have a piece of paper and you cut a piece off of it then you ha a little piece of paper. If you do the same thing again you get anither piece of paper. The only difference is what happens afterwards Aka with cortana 1 and 2 their experiences and the info they get. Nature / nurture. And if you are wondering i think it was a novel that explained how they recovered something from halsey's lab wink wink aka the scan used to make cortana 2

@@agssilv5919 That paper analogy is terrible. They arent exact papers. They already said it in the game, Cortana is an exact model of Cortana. Just made by Halsey.

Almost as rewarding as hearing "I'm proud of you son"

Didn't she also voice Zoey in Left 4 Dead?

I actually laughed the first time I heard that , love these nuggets of humour

Ikr

Ikr 😂

It's funny because it's Chief saying it.

Chief has a pretty dry sense of humour.

lmao same

Same, felt like 343 industries spoke through Cortana to their playerbase.

But my tears are more worse because of the MICROTRANSATIONS

Lol I remember seeing comments from halo fans saying they switched back to Windows 7 because of her.

Same

yea theres still a lot of Key Characters we dont know the fates of yet

You legit did not mention blue team.

hello my is omg ho are you

Soldiers are not machines

itd be cool to see arbiter make a reappearance. I loved his and chief’s frenemies type bickering in halo 3

The fact that she’s somewhat related to a bad guy from previous games makes this joke even better

She will finish what chief started 😂

That got a hearty chuckle out of me. The similarities in how they failed to retain the heart of their franchises, and their respective unnecessary sequels casually urinating on each other and the past, it's a real sick kind of poetic. I hope things keep getting better like they have lately, and we can leave that ugly 6 year window of mass insanity behind us.

This made cackle so hard. Deserves more likes

I know, she should’ve called him John, not Master Chief. It would’ve hit us harder.

@@JiveChip She did call him John, then she calls him Chief

I think the writers chose to make her call him Master Chief in the end as a callback to the original trilogy, where Cortana and Master Chief always acknowledged that they had a work relationship whereas in Halo 4 and 5, humanising the relationship was super forced (especially in Halo 5). Her saying Master Chief instead of John reminds me of Halo 1, 2 and 3. Its a good callbac, and respect.

Idk, I think it's still weird to remember that Master Chiefs real name is John. I keep forgetting that.

It's a callback to Halo CE, she's got a few lines where she calls him Master Chief. "Master Chief, I'm going to use your suit's transcom systems"

Probably one of the most poignant moments in the game.

Poor guy gets tricked by a lightbulb, a parasite venus flytrap, an ancient space racist and finally his ex crazy girlfriend. I too wouldn't dare trust anyone at this point lol

The Lord of Sigma males 🤣

LoL how can he trust his ex twin sister 😂😂😂....but he still care for Her🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

its a good pick up line to be honest.....

When he says finish the fight, I can’t help but think about the ending to Halo 3… it was such a perfect ending to the trilogy..

He said it! He said the thing!

That's Octane. You can't change my mind!

oh woh is hello my is morning is eym ok

I was about to like this, but I had to withhold that impulse when I saw it already has 117 likes

Cortana realized she betrayed and hurt the Chief at the end of Halo 5 she know she messes up. That's why she said we were suppose to be a team and she felt like she didn't honor that in the last game.

@@gavenglover4998 - also hence why she told them to not repeat the same mistake she did (I think she’s directing it to Weapon).

@@Pluvillion I think that the "mistake" line should be directed at 343. Don't make the stupid mistake of Halo 5 ever again.

​@@pasindudinusha7749Tell that to Halo Fans who wanted Cortana back from the dead as well.

Chief: red flag deleting now

@@trygullx LMAO perfect it doesn't help that she has short hair.

@@trygullx red flag🚩🚩🚩🚩

@@andrewconde6115 oh god no it doesnt XD DELETE FASTER!!!!

@@danielsantamaria7887 WE NEED MORE RED FLAGS!!!

hello way is e omg notihng omg

@@MiriamGeorge-cb3pg miriam its bed time

dirty back end ish, thxom ish.

I mean he cracked a joke when he yanked Cortana out of High Charity. He was like “Thought I’d try shooting my way out, shake things up a bit.”

coping mechanism and things didn't feel as urgent or serious as before being constantly attacked od and rushed etc chief can crack jokes if he couldnt he fail as a leader

Have you not played halo 2 and 3??? He's made jokes before. And im sure many more in the books as well.

@@zyphurite nope, halo 4 and halo wars only

@@deltaxiii7803 yeah the dead pan humour has always been strong in chief but the scene where he bonded with Fernando was so well written.

because brainwashing since a child it like enders game

Oh trust me, you get a good glimpse of it in the netflix animated short "The Fall of Reach" granted its not exact to the books but close enough. John thinks of Blue Team as his family. Fred, Kelly and Linda are basically his brother and sisters.

@@zyphurite We don't talk about the animated version.

@@skomeg11 ok, well I do

The books show some emotion. Not a lot and we don’t need a lot or any at all, but the books do.

I would like to think so, but given how he was created and what not. I think his emotions pretty much numbed, and as the series goes on he slowly unlocking those emotions. who knows maybe by the end we might see him smile.

I think she was talking to john about the weapon

Very clear it's about John and Cor2ana (though technically it can only be inferred).

I believe she was talking about John 117's uncircumcised phallus.

@@DavidVassleofYeshua Being proven wrong in one comment hurts.

@@yegmeshjwp I do what I can, just trying to inform the public.

actually it was weird to me. He was a very downer-like person the entire campaign, now he's like the happiest dude ever. It's too much for me. i played the game so i get why he's glad to see the Chief but jesus, it's like his whole personality changed. I rather have him change only a small amount or gradually. Obviously, it's just my opinion but yea i found it really weird and forced.

Better than Osiris 😏

@@bboyairrick ?

@@bboyairrick not a downer, just anxious. fernando's reaction here shows his relief after being alone for three days.

​@@bboyairrick how do you think someone would react after finding that the person they depend on to survive had disappeared for 3 days, suddenly reappeared infront of them? his reaction is perfectly normal for someone that has spent 6 months in the risk of being killed or dying alone and losing and recovering that chance in the blink of an eye makes someone act in very intensive ways

"Hugged him back but didn't" choose a lane lmao

He can’t hug people without technically crushing them, even lightly lmao. But also cuz he’s awkward

Esparza must love the smell of green Sgt.Johnson quote

@@Omni601 he just a shy awkward emo big boy underneath the armored suit. 🤣

I find it cool how Halo 3 credits the first spartan program by having Johnson help him up with one arm in the beginning. Chief was using his legs but was probably still pretty heavy

Chef was like “umm… what do i do here?” When he got that hug

@@silverthekitsune7007 Chief was like "foreign action detected, training no prepare me..."

Weapons name is Cortana..

I assume her name is Cortana hence why she asks if it's okay to Chief

Imagine if she named herself kathrine or halsey, cortana with a K

It's the whole theme. Spartan 117 is a human machine. Cortana is a machine human. That is until 343 ruined it.

You could also see him want to hug back to but shy away from that

There's not much he could do that wouldn't risk accidentally removing a limb. Not 'accidentally', genuine accidentally.

@@TheAttacker732 Why does this keep getting spread around as if Chief can't touch anybody without breaking them, he has the control to not crush humans and has done so on numerous occasions. This was an emotional choice not a physical one.

To be fair, he doesn't get that much human contact, he's punched more aliens in the face than he's had hugs from humans.

@@majinkenobi8157 I dunno man, the guy can flip a 66 ton tank.... with his mind...

Minus one thing, shes wearing clothes

Well you guys remember about cortana betrayed master chief you know this that she backstab anyone and unsc even treason

@@mannyperez6096 - Well at the end she did try to make amends, plus you could put some of it down to rampancy.

@@AwankO She's only wearing clothes because she became more human and tried to become the librarian.

It looks like she’s wearing clothes, while also not at the same time. It’s like there’s no shirt collar

Well he is a super soldier and probably was never gotten a hug in his life

@@fefyfefingtion1530 probably the last time he was hugged was when he was just a child before he was kidnapped and turned into a spartan...

@@everardoleon8209 I thought he was born on the facility we’re they train the Spartans until birth?

@@fefyfefingtion1530 oh you seeet summer child…chief was kidnapped by ONI at age 5 and replaced with a flash clone that would die of “natural causes” a few months later. It’s is how they got all the Spartan-IIs

@@fefyfefingtion1530 he was not actually kidnap but taken from orphonage actually chief when he was a kid was not nice person he was the biggest toughest kid great role model of leadership and had luck factor with coin flip guess

@@thegoodtimes8207 - hoping she does 🙂

@@thegoodtimes8207 kind of hoping she won't

@@thegoodtimes8207 Doesn't make sense if she did. She's revolted by what Cortana did.

@Kim Chi you make me laugh out hard😂😂😂

Cortana isn’t dead. She time traveled. So either she went into the future or into the past. Im being serious. Look at the Legendary ending.

but I dont cry, do you?

I honestly think it's the most "human" we've ever seen the Chief in-game

I am so glad they returned to the original art style. Forerunner metal actually looks like metal again. No more plastic toys with LEDs.

@023 Studios I'd say it was way better then halo 4 in my opinion

@@Mr.Scott86 I’d agree. While it was far too short and I HATE how they have it a battle pass. I’d say this was a good game all in all.

It's a video game.

@@DavidVassleofYeshua Stigma

@@Krovos_ That actually we don´t know. Let´s just wait´till first DLC comes out

@@Krovos_ actually If you collect the forerunner intel it hints at them due to Cortwona saying a line “This dates the forerunners themselves” and guess who made them? Yup

and offensive bias. It helped the weapon a few times in the campaign, more noticeably during the last fight

Me too!

I miss Cortana😔

@@shadowninja1275 i miss her to man, i miss her too.

@@deagle.2 I've literally shed a tear on that last scene it was like a goodbye message to Master Chief and the fans. After I got to the end I realized that this game was introducing us to a New Era of Halo. RIP Cortana💙

@@deagle.2 Halo Infinite is a Masterpiece😄

I'd clown yall for crying but i cried at the ending of shawshank redemption a couple weeks ago so i'll just stfu.

I agree, I like the Weapon, but I want OG Cortana back.

Power rangers lol

Thank God they killed them off and I hope they never return, aside from Buck.

@@MrKILLINOOBZ i don't recall them killing off osiris

@@Goddess_Ishtar Based on the second half of their sentence, I assume as in removed from the mainline series as primary roles.

@@zazi5305 ah, makes sense

Yesss lol 🤣 6:08 rewatching I feel like the interaction till the end from Echo 216 is all of us. Him hugging the Chief, immediately giving Chief 'a gun', full of happiness again, the way he reacts to the nostalgic "Finish the fight", curious what the Weapons name is, and ready for new adventure.

I mean, can you blame him. he was essentially "created" to serve a purpose and him getting hugged was something that has probably never happened to him. at least not that he can probably remember.

idk what it is but u can tell whether not hes pissed or happy

STOP IT 😭😭

I hear literally no fear in his voice

There is never fear in Chief's voice.

The chief is fearless

Not fear, but urgency

@@jrfirefiher the books say otherwise

She dead too so it’s aight

Don’t forget, destroys an entire planet

I'm pretty sure she recognises what she did wrong, that's why she accepted her death. She literally says "I want you two to learn from my mistakes. "

One of the things the video doesn't cover is the echo's you hear through the game. Most of the ending ones are pretty much her guilt, while her delivery is jarring compared to showing her blowing up a planet, its suppose to be a return to who she was in 2 and 4 not hesitating to sacrifice herself for the mission. Just wasn't delivered the best.

I mean... Likely infected by the logic plague, rampant, etc, Cortane wasn't exactly in the best stats of mind. Seeing Chief 'dead' shocked Cortana out of it enough to realise that actions have consequences, and she made sure Chief would have another AI then let herself by deleted before she could fall back into rampancy, that's my take on it at least

What about the destroyed Halo in Halo 3?

@@DavrelBlueit was a replacement ring

Technically she is her sister , well actually a twin

Agreed. The creators could of established more story lines that dealt with Master Chief as a man interacting with a A.I. bio-synthetic woman.

You can also interpret the “last goodbye” as the last time we truly saw Cortana in as her realest self. She gave John every chance to side with her, and John did the same in Halo 5. But up until she made her final decision, her final goodbye could also be a way of saying “Im so sorry about this.” She NEVER gave Locke and his team a chance to see her reasoning, even if she was rampant and unknown to that baby of a Spartan. I interpreted that after seeing Halo Infinites story, because we never truly see Cortana alive again. Her last efforts while Chief was in Space was to stop her own plan, stop The Banished and The Harbinger, and seek a form of forgiveness in her Echoes.

That time Master chief probaply breaks.

She should have said something like, “Make this girl a promise…and keep it.”

@@jdpragmatic8644 he tried to keep hes promise to her that he will save her , is just cortana make i mistake no take this promise . She betray him and in the end she notised that she make mistakes and she kill her self and kill Atriox too

I think maybe that leaves them open to make a filler game and they just want it to be more confusing for now, but who knows

I get what you are saying. But previous Halos were so messy storywise I’m glad they just wrapped them up and just gave us exposition as to what happened.

Don't forget, that after Halo 4, we all thought she had gone completely because of the rampancy. It was also told that AIs CAN come back after rampancy but they are not the same AI, which is what happened with Cortana because she became corrupted.

Memory is the key

Haha that was a good season

@Zombie Hunter Yeah You're right but it's still Cortana we all have had a relationship with that woman for 20 year's and now she's gone that cuts deep

I feel that, I grew up playing all the Halo’s so I grew up with Chief and Cortana. Halo 4’s ending and now this, I couldn’t help but cry as I watched. I want her to come back so John can be truly happy.

@@robertjohnson1441 Amen to that

It's cause he didn't want to crush Fernando. (Fernando is Echo-216's pilot)

And he did amazing at it, never getting shot down or when he basically nose dived so cheif could fly into the pelican

I mean chief is probably one of the highest ranking unsc personnel on the ring, he could probably give esparza a field commission

@@inkblotthecolt captain lasky is still alive and on the ring somewhere so he is the highest ranking officer just need to give a recomendation

Literally. The symbolism is so strong kinda like an apology for the past two games and how it ruined part of the franchise.

@@TheS1T2A3R4 but they didn't

@@mathiasadderley2988 they did

@@goobot1 explain how they ruined it

@@mathiasadderley2988 well they threw away even starts in h4 which was a core thing in halo, and in h5 they tried to replace chief

Chief must of shed a single tear

Alright that actually made me laugh when I really thought about it

I really liked that. Also easier to differentiate her from weapon