Chief and Cortana felt like a romantic couple, while Chief and the Weapon feel like a father learning to love a daughter he didn't know he had.

I love the slow build up of her snapping her fingers. It's a thing Cortana did and she did it too, but there's never a need for an AI to do it at all. It was just a small tick of Cortana's that Weapon inherited.

She is like a younger, more joyful, life-affirming and less bitter version of Cortana :D

I love how Chief changes throughout this game, like he starts off denying the Weapon everything he gave Cortana so fiercely like he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to delete her when the time came and then he says “You’re her- if we’d never met” and it seems to click into place, like he’s realized that she is his second chance.

I mean its a little obvious, but my GOD does the acting just completely carry this scene! From Atriox's barely contained rage, to the Weapon's absolute horror, to Chief's voice nearly cracking while talking about his guilt, to that chill inducing delivery of "I don't... but I want to." This is art right here!

“I don’t… but I want to.” Probably my favorite line in the whole game.

She tried to intimidate Atriox, the original defier of the Covenant and actual winner of the Covenant-Human war… bad move.

"Whatever happens: save him. He needs you. You're all he has" She said that to herself and us.

1:24 Chief sounds like he choked a little, He really is blaming himself for what happened. Remember this is cortana. Shes been with him for 4 games as his companion, imagine having someone you care about that was by your side on every journey who comforted you and helped you cope with stuff to all of a sudden seeing her betray you and become your enemy watching them become the very thing you both fought against, its painful for chief to see Cortana like that from a friend to a villian he has to fight.

Weapon: "What? She's Purple?! She's meant to be Blue, right?" Cor: "You didn't know we have colour filters? You can change it yourself in the settings".

The stutter on "Will I d-do what she did?" broke my fucking heart. Weapon, you sweet girl, you deserve everything.

I like this scene and the whole dynamic of "if you knew how you were going to die, how would you live your life differently?" Weapon saw how her other self lived her life, and it terrified her, that she was responsible for the deaths of billions. It's no wonder she wanted to end her life rather than risk her doing the same.

Through out all this journey we see that under all that armor, Master Chief is still human

So in this game Chief is like a single dad raising a daughter after her mother went insane?

This reminds me of a bit in Marvel comics where a whole bunch of people viewed Apocalypse's clone Genesis as destined to become the monster his source was, including Genesis himself who wrestled with a lot of self hatred, despite never actually hurting anyone himself. Of all people, it was Deadpool who played the role Chief is playing here, pointing out that being created from someone does not oblige you to become them.

The voice acting in this halo is God Tier it’s perfect and gets you Everytime chief still has that emotional but human side with the machine and the weapon is energetic kinda like the old Cortana

Watching Weapon figure out what was going on and then becoming horrified at what Cortana did was just heartbreaking. This was a master class in how animation and voice acting can come together and make art.

Almost cried when he said "I dont... but I want to"

“My mission was to ensure that doesn’t happen.” _The missions change. They always do._ Clever foreshadowing right there! ;D

The way Downes was able to mix the level of machine killer and just a teeny tiny little bit of human into his voice. The very subtle little inflections here and there in lines that aren't as powerful as "I don't, but I want to" it's the perfect chief we have here. They really nailed this campaigns story. I hope either the DLC continues it or the next game does.

"The mission's changed, they always do." 117

If Atriox didn’t hate Humanity before Cortana damn well gave him a reason to

Would've been funny if we had option to delete her after she restored the protocols, causing us to fail the game. Either at that point by transitioning to a cutscene or as a hidden ending sort of thing later on.

Cortana and her Guardians destroyed Doisac for defying her despotic rule. I'm so fearful for Earth now. I hope Earth didn't go the way of Alderaan.

1:15 Chief's reaction : * that moment when you realize she's actually insane and not just some crazy bitch *

3:04 Press "X" to Hug.

This was the perfect middle ground I believe everyone who has played this series were made that we lost Cortana but with her “back” it’s a new start

I haven't played Infinite yet. But based on Wars 2, Atriox is by far my favorite Halo antagonists. He's not a complicated character, but he is forthright and practical in a way that is at odds with the zealotry of the Covenant, the scheming and backstabbing of the Prophets, the monomania of the Didact, and the Rampancy of Spark and Cortana. In a lot of ways, he's the closest thing the Brutes have . . . to a Spartan.

I think I get how this was accomplished: in Halo: Shadows of Reach, Blue Team visits the ruins of CASTLE Base for some cryobins and a lockbox that Halsey claims will possibly hold the key to defeating Cortana. We never find out what those are. I bet that they're supposed to be the remaining cloned brains of Halsey like the one that Cortana was created from. It's how she created the Weapon. THAT'S what she was after the whole time!!!

Damn this halo has as much emotions as halo 4 and even more

Modeling the weapon as looking more child like really went a long ass way to making the story around her and Cortana feel right. also really illustrating how well the digital acting is in all this

Is it me or Chief’s voice cracked a little at 1:29? Either this was intentional or unintentional, it’s still great. Chief still feels guilt over what happened.

When she realized she was a copy and gave Chief the ability to delete her!…that was all Chief needed to know that even though he can’t make the same mistakes with her as he did cortana at the very least he can “trust” her to do the right thing if needed

Well she isn’t exactly like Cortana…. She was not left on a station infected with the flood. Battle rampancy for a couple of years then copy herself into a forerunner computer. I’m sure that ask has an effect to what we saw with her taking control of the guardian’s

Can we talk about how chief got better communication skills since halo 4, spending time with lasky really helped him

Her reaction perfectly sums up Halo 5

This has been some of the best acting in the whole series

This game showed me that chief without cortana would have died years ago. Without Cortana/Weapon, he wouldn’t have gone far. I guess what made Chief legendary aside from his luck is that he had the best AI companion.

God they always did a good job with Cortana and now This A.I. This one definitely hits right in the feels, you can see that Chief is juggling his feelings for Cortana and the past he experienced with her, especially when she saved him last when they first fully separated. He doesn’t want that to happen again.

When I’m in this scene I didn’t know that she didn’t realise she’s cortana’s twin but when she freak out I just obviously

I will never forget how Chief describes weapon as Cortana if they never met It was heartbreaking

Jen Taylor killed it

MC is actually being really sweet. "My mission is to ensure you never become a genocidal monster with delusions of grandeur." He made a mistake when he tried to delete her, because he thought like a soldier in that instance. Here, and later, he realises he can also fulfil the mission by teaching The Weapon not to make the mistakes Cortana made instead of just killing her the moment she gets out of line.

This reminds me of sitting around the lunch table in high school in early 2002 and my friend, who read Halo: The Fall of Reach, was theorizing that Cortana might go rampant in Halo 2. Here we are 20 years later and it finally became a part of the story.

cortana saying goodbye in the final cutscene, and the storyline about fernando are really the most emotional of any game i've ever played

holy shit i cant get over how good chief looks

I like how John starts to talk with a gentle voice when he epxlains that Weapon is Cortana.

I kind of saw it coming, but it was still an emotional moment.

I'm having a better relationship with this A.I. than with most real people. This story is amazing! The acting is top-notch!

Even if the weapon was a copy of Cortana, I think it would be impossible for her to become the same as the original. The rampancy was not the only thing that made Cortana go crazy. The time she spent with the Gravemind, which were 28 days, and when she accessed the Dominion altered her thought matrices and led her to the conclusion to impose her will on all organic beings. So coming from the same place as Cortana is not enough to end up like her.

Seems Infinite may have finally captured a bit of what made the original Halos so good. This scene actually made me feel emotion, which is something most games don’t have the ability to do anymore.

Fuck I know this is just a game and every but I will not lie to you when I say towards the end of that scene when the weapon or cortana 2.0 starts to break down and chief says "we do it together" no shit It made me shed some tears

Bro this just shows the part that you slowly learn about master chief that he isn't a killing machine that he is actually the best of humanity and that he still cares

I never understood the trust thing. Cortana only went evil because of her rampancy and the domain thing she touched in Halo 5. So as long as the weapon doesn't go rampant then Chief should have nothing to worry about as far as Trust

The Weapon is so innocent. That look of utter horror on her face as she finds out she's a replica of a genocidal AI... I felt sorry for her. She had nothing to do with Cortana's insane actions and was still willing to die for finding this out.

I had to find this scene as soon as I saw it playing the game. This is the first time Halo made me cry.

Apology accepted 343.

OOh, this brings up other ramifications. What if Offensive bias understood Mendicant bias so well because it was a copy too? Same AI but different paths and choices.

You know, I have a special place in my heart for internal reveals. Getting to see the characters get shocked with things we already know, or would have likely guessed. But those moments are hard to do right. Usually I would have thought it ridiculous that the Weapon hadn't figured this out yet, but her entire storyline beforehand made it believable to me that she wouldn't have the proper context to put it together. It's part of why I really loved this moment.

No one noticed that cortana's voice is sounding a little more like Halsey

The fact she’s a copy isn’t the surprising part it’s the personality that’s really sets them apart , it’s like the weapon is the child cortana , still filled with wonder and ahh and the original is the old her which by AI standard cortana is old and went mad with power less of a protector and more of a warden

This is the cutscene that had me in tears

"but i want to." for a brick, he shows emotions good!

I first learned of Jen Taylor's VA skills with her portrayal of Salem, the main antagonist in RWBY. I guess that gave her practice as Cortana the villain.

2:22 god that delivery was amazing

Okay, I can't get over this beautiful acting and even more beautiful personal drama Weapon experiences, and which can be experienced and expressed in a sci-fi framework only. Respect for the writer(s).

2:29 oh god she is so cute. It's a miracle Chief didn't give her a virtual hug with his another hand

Is it just me or Weapon look beautiful!.

You know - I like this new direction that Halo is going in. Always felt it was a shame that the Halo single player wasn't an RPG

I don't really like how 343i dealt with Halo in Halo 4 and 5, but i gotta say that I'm so grateful that they made Master Chief human in their games. It's one of the best things they did and I don't believe that Bungie would've done anything close to what 343i did regarding Master Chief.

This actually breaks my heart. I never thought halo could hurt me again

Halo a.k.a The many twisted lives of Dr Catherine Halsay. Or is it a tale of her three daughters and her adopted son? Tragic and twisted a tragic one.

I’ve literally never played halo but this cutscene was literally better than some real life acting, damn

tldr: If cortana never met chief she would've worn clothes.

I’m sorry but when I was playing the campaign and they mentioned Sydney, my first reaction wasn’t “oh shit” it was, why the fuck is Sydney the HQ of the UNSC, like who decides that the home of the strongest military force humankind ever built would be in Australia, I always thought it’d be in Switzerland or Hungary, since that’s were the first settlers were from. Is there any lore that expands on this?

Poor weapon. She literally felt all the guilt that cortana never did. She didn't do a damn thing.

I hope the weapon doesn't end up like Cortana. She's far too adorable to end up like her

I don't think I've ever noticed such an absence of gruff in johns voice than when he was saying "Halsey removed any information that would compromise you. You're her." and then get gruff again when he follows up with "If we'd never met." :')

i was completely blindsided! i thought weapon was keys the whole time, and I thought the chief was acctually the arbiter, oh my heavens

Finally!! A first person shooter with an actual love story..

Chief really knew that the brutes were soldiers and fought them as such. But the fact that their home planet was destroyed I believe that he really did feel truly sorry for that.

I actually ended up liking the weapon a lot, I’m glad they never pulled some BS where this AI ends up becoming the old Cortana except not rampant

I LOVE that you can see her cry

When Chief and the pilot shared about making mistakes is what makes us human, I cried. When this cutscene played and she restored the deletion sequence and she was ready to be erased, I cried. Halo Infinite is and was a very emotional game.

i love the weapon, its like a young daughter seeing the wonders of the world, getting excited about everything. shes the same but different enough. they done a great job with t tbh. I loved when she was pissed off with chief for abit in the game, had me laughing. I think her dynamic with chief is already really strong after just one game.

What made me baffled is when you see the Weapon out of breath. I mean, I was like, your data...........how are you out of breath.

its good writing when chief can say so little yet tell us so much also feeling emotion behind it. One the best lines are definitely the " How can you trust me?" "I don't- but I want to.". That and the bit with Cortana 1 fucking with chief and Cortana 2 in the end and telling them they need one another is also just great.

Damn 343 finally has some good writing.

aw man the music was carrying this scene into a whole nother plane of existence, such a shame the uploader didnt have it turned on

The weapon's voice acting is on point, but my god does she have Mass Effect Andromeda face.

This part reminds me of someone who got a 2nd chance to relive a life of a bad break up that took 10 years of their life. More stand off-ish, lack of trust, always playing on the defensive and not afraid to cut tail and run. The beginning scenes to this scene right here make it feel like you're in a relationship all again but you want to "change" or "make it right" back when you didn't or could've. Quite powerful to think if you went through something that significant, would you do it all again or would you change things? I feel like Chief fought himself back and forth up until this point in the scene. Very powerful message overall and great story writing.

I haven't seen it referred to often - but there is some lore about what happened. Cortana was infected by an AI-version of the Flood - that's what she did in Halo 5. It's a digital flood, and it first affected Mendicant Bias, the war-AI of the Forerunners and was the reason why the rings were fired in the first place. The Forerunners lost almost every advantage they had for the same reason Cortana did - in Halo 3, when the Gravemind was interrogating Cortana, that's what he was doing - infecting her with the Logic Plague.

We saw chief and the blue lady evolve from a silent duo of supersoldier and snazzy ai to father and daughter going through a mid life crisis in a sense, and it isn't bad. I love it

gotta love that upon destroying his homeworld, cortana's only achievement is to make atriox pissed

Having copy cortana see and witness original cortana and have an existential crisis makes this scene really good

This is one of the reasons I love Halo. Amazing scenes like this.

It's okay we knew she was a Copy, it's where we know something the character doesn't, the Voice Acting, and the build up to her not knowing is what makes the scene good.

For anyone who was confused by this; the Weapon was created with very limited knowledge. Basically, she was just a child. Young, naive, new. She didn't know anything about other AI's, much less, what Cortana did (as she said herself). For all she knew, all AI's looked the same. That's why it was a surprise to her that she's Cortana's clone. Hell, she was supposed to be deleted after Cortana died. She was never meant to learn these things, as it would compromise her. Knowing the truth about her creation was too dangerous Also, kinda annoying that the uploader removed the music from the cutscene just so he can monetize. The musoc is what made it 10x more powerful

"She that to me once. About being a machine." And that was the line that I believe he chose as his new start. In Guardians and Infinite, John seems as less of a warmachine and more like a human with emotions. By that I mean he lets the show more often. He allows himself to make a more conceited effort to connect with his fellow man. He is nearing his 50s after all.

The Cortana story arc, and the Weapon story arc, in the Halo: Infinite campaign, were done brilliantly. I loved how they brought some dignity back for Cortana, not that it was really her fault she went strange. I never played Halo 5: Guardians, but I watched vids about its story. It was a bad place the Halo 5 story went to, however Infinite did Cortana justice. Funny that after my first play of Inifinite, I thought I might never play it again. I wondered if Halo was finally over and dead. The story arc registered to me, but it did not strike me deeply. I replayed Infinite maybe a year later, and for some reason I loved it. Added to that the story arcs were quite brilliantly emotional. They were the icing on the cake as the game came to its close. Another thing that Infinite did was make me feel OK about Cortana being gone, and alright about with the Weapon. ... Took two plays to get there though. No idea why. Maybe first play of Infinite was tainted by all the backlash against Halo 4 and 5. Maybe I played Infinite first time to see what it was like. Whereas second time I played, because I thought I wanted to play it. I had to go back to Infinite to see the Warthog. Plus I figured the combat was fine, so I went in second time with some optimism. Whatever it was, Infinite left its mark on me second time, and I'll never forget it now. Added to the gameplay and story, the Infinite campaign also had sutunning graphics. (EDIT: It's worth adding that the stories in Halo 1 to 3, were better understood with more plays too.)