Look, if you're reading this, you more than likely have already recieved the spoiler warning from the original post (not to mention you entered a thread talking about an ending to a game) so I don't feel like I have to put this in the spoiler box, but I'll do it if people request it.
While I think it would have made more tactical sense for your character to try and escape or something, I find myself looking back on the ending and realizing that
I wouldn't want to if I were Noble 6. I had just lost all my team, missed the last ship off (or so I was told) in order to allow it to escape, lost the battle for the last hope earth had, and due to the glassing, had no hope of surviving long term. I would have probably wanted to go out guns blazing just as he did. It's also an ending that stuck with me, as in that scene, right up until I was overwelmed, I was in control, keeping myself alive. Once I was removed, I could only really watch as Noble 6 fought on (he became a character at that point rather than my avatar, but he was a character based on the sum of my actions and how I interpreted the events, much like the Wanderer from SotC) helpless to stop what was happening. The entire time, I was hoping that he made it out, and just left his helmet behind, only to get an emotional blow by the end narration.
In a sense, I'd say his death scene made him my favorite character in the Halo universe, and the one I actually felt the most emotion about. It was a great way to end a series which until this game, was merely good rather than great. As such, I think the scene worked very well.
Magnalian said:
No complains here about the ending, that part was awesome, but Kat's death... c'mon, could you really not think of anything better to do with that?
I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but I thought it was actually appropriate. It was a scene that proved that even someone who had been on the most missions with you, and who had survived more than anyone else (look at her arm), and someone better than a lot of the cream of the crop could still be killed if they let down their guard on the battlefield. It was sudden, abrupt, and merciless in a cutscene that seemed to be just "Let's get ready for the next mission."
And I might as well hit the other deaths as well.
Jorge was a tragic one, a decision made by someone who wanted to save humanity, his home, and the woman he (probably) considered his mother. I know people have offered alternatives, but remember that they were on a timelimit for that mission, and went in with only what they had, and even that was their last resort. Then, not even a full minute passes after his death before his sacrifice was invalidated, which just added to the tragedy of the moment. Those of you who were angry with this scene, that was the point. You were supposed to ask why he had to sacrifice himself, and what it meant if it didn't do anything. Hell, that's the feeling the Battle of Reach was supposed to have.
Carter was that angered a lot of people, yet it's something the books loved. Watch the beginning of that mission again. He was going to die anyway from plasma burns, and it was a testement to his Spartan nature that he lasted that long. More than likely, he realized when the Scarab appeared that he was in his last moments and decided to make his death into something more than ANOTHER crashed pelican on Reach.
Jun's did piss me off, if only because it wasn't detailed in the game, but is almost definitely assured.
Emile's was my favorite. Here was a man pissed at the world after his entire family was killed twice (he was part of the A group that got slaughtered in the first few pages of Ghosts of Onyx, but was pulled off before it happened, if the Halo wiki is to be believed). He's pissed at Spartan II's for not training them better (hence his problems with Jorge), he's pissed with the Covenant for the war (hence why he steals from the dead), and he's just basically pissed at everything (which is why he carved a skull in his faceplate and uses close range weaponary so he can really be there when the enemy dies). And so, he dies pissed at the enemies who snuck up on him and killed him, and was so pissed, he refused to die without killing both of them (said scene involves him getting stabbed in the back, only to flip the attacker off him and stab them with a smaller knife).
