the same could be said of very many protagonists
so it's sort of a cop-out

^
and it makes any sort of discussions about him null

i don't think it's terribly difficult to pretend for a moment that he's in a vacuum where he could die, though

especially for the purposes of discussion

So... Verbs complaining about a protagonist succeeding at stuff?

I guess he'll love Halo 4 then.


Verb, Fred is one of the other 35-ish Spartan IIs and a member of John's squad in the next Halo game. Because John is not the last spartan, Bungie just ignored all the EU material and only bothered to add other Spartans in a game when it made literally no sense in the canon.

Also, Halo installations are designed to support life. Standard life, therefore human life. Installations 04, 05, 03 and 07 have been discovered by the 'current' period of Halo lore (6 years after the point you're at) and all have been able to support humans. One was used by the forerunners to house a human colony for preservation before they died.

All forerunner installations support life. It's rare when we find one that doesn't.

Also, (OT now) Spartans are described as being a blur in combat due to their reflexes out of armour. John, Kelly and Sam (his original squad) were able to infiltrate an insurrectionist base, capture their leader then escape virtually undetected. A base built in an asteroid belt, mind. When they literally had a vaccuum suit and some coveralls and that's it. There were a handful (About 5) that died before 2552 (Daisy, Sam, Arthur, Solomon, possibly the three members of Grey Team who are MIA), and a bunch died on Reaxh. Because, y'know, orbital strikes and being outnumbered a million to one isn't a good choice of odds.

That said, there's still a bunch alive in 2552 after Reach. Alice, Douglas, Jerome, Kelly, John, Fred, Linda, Black I-IV, Will, Kurt (Kinda), Cassandra, Maria, Naomi. That doesn't include the Spartan-III commandos or the Spartan corps made if thousands of augmented ODST troops after the war.

No, I don't know what I'm talking about anymore, that went on a massive tangent.

So, yeah. John would easily survive without MJOLNIR. But he is basically showing obvious signs of PTSD by halo 5, and feels uncomfortable without armour. Understandable, really.

So... Verbs complaining about a protagonist succeeding at stuff?

uhhhhhhh

No.

what a stupid statement

Twice people have survived being exposed to vaccuum....

i'm not talking about a literal vacuum

goddamn

Quote from: Solid Lemon on August 24, 2015, 03:00:09 PM

She won't be able to do anything similar in Halo 5

So other Spartans are showing up in the games now? John is basically obsolete, then, given everyone else is more interesting and has some skill that makes them better than him.

hello calling 2014
it's been known blue team are in halo 5 for quite a while now

none of them have chief's plot armour

Eh, I don't think it would be very interesting. I get why you think it'd be cool, but it sounds like a gimmick to me.

Not gonna lie, I really dislike the gimmick excuse. People are too quick to slap things on as being gimmicky. Which is a really fucking fantastic way to stunt game devs who think about stuff like that and get all spooked to try something new for fear of having an acidic reaction from people.

Zane survived because of her augmentations

Unless you replaced all of someone's bodily fluids, they're unconscious in fifteen seconds.

Quote from: Solid Lemon on August 24, 2015, 06:57:46 PM

Zane survived because of her augmentations

Unless you replaced all of someone's bodily fluids, they're unconscious in fifteen seconds.

We don't fully know about her augmentations and the extent of them. Either way she survived.