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Steve Downes is like 74 years old and I don't think they can just AI his voice forever despite him agreeing to it, so either Chief will be recast like Sam Fisher eventually, or they have to retire the character. Especially since they're utterly stubborn so far about not winding back their decisions, and seem dead focused on only going forwards.

The only way shit will ever start to recuperate is to basically start anew and freshen up Master Chief, which has a huge assortment of risks involved, or in my opinion, taking what Reach put down and focusing on a custom character that bumps chests with relevant / ongoing cast members. Don't have to make them talk, they could be Rookie 2.0, or maybe go full Commander Shepard, it ain't my place to figure, but trying to replace Chief with other major characters that all suck has not worked. The only protagonists anyone ever appreciated were Six and Rookie, and largely because they didn't have any bullshit attached to them, being unlikable or anything like that.

And they still blew Rookie's brains out to justify bringing back Nathan Fillion as a borderline filler character in a shit game.