Halo's Future

What lies in Halo's future?

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Halo 6: Infinity

Where the fuck is my Battlefront knockoff? Dozens of players, spawn in as a Grunt or Marine, slowly build up your rank and file until you're dropping Spartans in tanks or calling in Glassing Beams. That's Halo's problem: stagnation. 5 was refreshing, but still a variation on a familiar theme. It's such a magnificent world... it can do so much more than shooters.

prequels then a reboot would be the normal pattern we see.

ITS LOOKING PRETTY GRIM

343 puts MC out of his misery and massively expands the universe in ways they could not while the story was dependent on the old cast. The writing is worse only because they have to justify the importance of this one super soldier when the USMC can practically mass produce them. They had to make him 'the chosen one' just to keep his character relevant.

What you described sounds like Halo Wars 2.

Less telling units what to do and more controlling individuals like the OG Star Wars Battlefront games

>tfw prequels have no sprint
>fw Halo 6 has no sprint

feels gud
But Chief deserves Halo 6, he's the best Spartan that lived. Let him finish in glory.

A combined arms Halo game would be cool, but Halo has been tainted so much by post-Bungie forces that I just want to see it die.
>Halo's problem is stagnation
No, Halo's problem is 343i are retards and think Halo needs to copy other games instead of building upon it's own. Halo is a game akin to FEAR and Max Payne in that it's about what you do within the sandbox interacting with the toys, not what actions you can perform. Bungie understood this, 343i can't seem to do anything that wouldn't "expand the fanbase" and "appeal to a wider audience".

Halo just needs to die. It's only going to get worse because of 343i and the cabal of dipshits that design, write and approve their vision.

That sounds cool as fuck now that I think of it. I'd purchase. Would probably be better than the new Battlefront games.

Eh,
(spoiler)fights aliens and doesn't afraid of anything.(/spoiler)

Kangs

>massively expands the universe
That's what they've been doing and they've completely shit on everything.

Go back to the drawing board. Mechanics introduced post-Reach removed. I'm hesitant to say keep reach's armor abilities but who knows. Do something innovative, stop copying whatever popular shooter is on the market and for FUCK's SAKE DON'T GIVE EVERY WEAPON SIGHTS TO LOOK DOWN HOLY SHIT YOU FUCKING IDIOTS

>completely shit on everything.
Great meme. Mind expanding on that?

a .45 lobotomy and an unmarked grave hopefully

u wot m8
At least locke is gone for Halo 6. right about rest though. Maybe Marty would help improve the campaign. at least, Gameplay wont be as good as 1-3 if they keep appealing to that audience who doesn't even like Halo anyway. They play other shit. Bungie new the class Halo needed.

Death, hopefully.
Failing that, I wish 343 would either suck it up and go back to classic halo, or go balls to the wall and do something completely new. None of this half ass middle of the road shit that pleases no one.

The Force Awakens: Halo Edition

More terrible games

>Great Meme
Oh yeah because anyone who is critical of how they've robbed the lore of any and all mystery and existentialist themes pertaining the unknown is just "memeing". Go fuck yourself you shitposting cunt.
>needing a bunch of books and some shit comics to understand what the fuck is going on in Halo 4 and 5
>Spartan Ops
>shit like The Composer, The Mantle, The Domain, The Warden Eternal, The Guardians etc. coming out of left field because they go looking for things that didn't get fully explained and decide to go to fucking town with some fanfiction
>343i and Brian Reed don't understand that "complexity =/= quality" and they get all pissy when people point that out in the forums
>Retconning damn near everything
>Humans were the reclaimers because they were descendants of the Forerunners which were made sure to survive activation of the Halos on Earth, along with other races on other planets, which is why the Covenant were using them to activate ancient tech but now their not the reclaimers and Humans have actually been around since the Forerunners where they fought each other and the true reclaimers are AI's because of 343i's hard on for "prophecy" bullshit
>Feeling a need to explain the Flood down to "they're the Precursors"
>Turning MC into Space Jesus
>All that nonsense with the Librarian and the Didact and how the Forerunners apparently planned everything down to a T because of prophecy nonsense again

You know what 343 Halo was missing, Religious undertones.
All through the O3 there were remarks about how Chief was maybe a legitimate demon and how the random Cortana quotes and flashes in H3 made MC flatline and his suit identifier show up everywhere at once.
It was kind of built up with the weird scripture that the Gravemind would read and how the Covenant viewed the Forerunners as gods.
Then Halo 4 was supposed to be the "great revelation" on how MC was literally the luckiest man in the universe but instead we lost all of that vigor in Lol, us forerunners planned it all from the beginning your DNA was meant to fight the Covies XD.
The way I always viewed Halo was as a last ditch effort by a dying humanity on a losing war that they could not literally win, Then appears the human's legitimate last hope that was the last of a failed project, an unstable, unfeeling, supernatural seeming soldier that was viewed as a living legend and mystery among the UNSC so much to the point that some Marines questioned the existence of Master Chief as an actual soldier that existed to a propaganda tool used by ONI to try and moralize the Marines.

Another fucking thing was how complicated they tried making the fucking universe, how Earth was supposed to be the last surviving human planet with only a dozen ships left but that gets retconned into "Oh, and we had this super powerful gigantic ship that we never used and 18 other planets that we could have evacuated to. But who cares, Grifball XD"

The thing is.
I liked what they did with the forerunners in the novels cryptum etc. (I didn't like ancient humans and sanshyum tho).
The precursor/flood link was interesting, I liked the whole neural physics angle because it never made sense how the flood could wipe out a species with mega-engineering on such a scale. The weaponised star-roads and slowing of forerunner slipspace tech was cool.

But they fucked up everything in the games. The didact was turned boring megalomaniac, the new designs for forerunner tech and prometheans was completely different from their initial designs from 1-3 and looks out of place. The guardians are interesting but over-designed af, the cortana is back but a villain twist is boring as shit.

The covenant coming back as "remnants" was also equally boring.

This

Hopefully a non chubby Cortana.

Earth was never the last planet but it was the centre of all human civilization. The last "military" world of reach was destroyed.

If Earth fell it wouldn't be long before the isolated planets would be killed off, no other planet had the support systems possible.
And Infinity was still in construction during the war apparently as precisely that; a final fallback to serve as a mobile command centre.

There are huge problems with 343's halo but those are the few easy ones.

He finished in glory in Halo 3.

Halo's future

youtube.com/watch?v=lNVDVHzhlU8
6: 27 talks about the Master Chief, players as the Chief, and Cortana as Chief's partner (most likely a hint that old Cortana will return to merge her evil self back with her to become whole again and go back to Halo 1-4 Chief and Cortana adventures). 17:44 talks about the future of Halo's story and split screen returning.

wccftech.com/343i-halo-5-mistake-master-chief/
Frank talks about how Halo 6 and beyond when it comes to mainline Halo games will stick with the Chief for now on and he talks about sidelining Blue Team and Osiris in the next game (I can see them being put in spin-offs and books now). Frank also talks about taking a step back on the campaign this tells us they are returning to the Halo 1-4 type campaign and dropping the squad gameplay.

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lan in Halo 6

youtube.com/watch?v=o6Tq8mXgGsc&t=197s
2:47 talks about Halo's future art style 12:47 talks about the future of Halo's music.

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Tom talks about AIs in Forge, playable Elites and states that real BTB maps is already being addressed.

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New campaign level design lead is coming.

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Ske7ch343 (Brian Jarrard) confirms black undersuits for Halo 6.

It put down to end it's suffering.

Shame it's only going to get even more microtransactions and esports cancer.

it ended at 3 to be quite honest. halo 4 and on might as well be fan fiction at this point

This is what is called, fucking spin-offs

Who knows
Haven't heard a peep about Halo 6

This is the problem. 343 Don't fully commit to changing things up, and they end up pleasing no one.

That concept art trailer for Halo 4...

youtube.com/watch?v=vAKmu2yn3Fk

Promised a new tone and aesthetic.

Then the game came out and it "dropped the alone on a strange world" concept within 5 minutes.

The trailer for H5 was actually pretty /hype/ especially with those awesome little Soundcloud talk show things about how ONI was fucking around with the Chief and trying to kill him because they didn't need a revolution for all the war crimes they committed during the Great War
Then it all amounted to nothing with Halo 5 and the entire "Chief going rogue to find his own place within the universe" happened once and he did it by disobeying one order to return to the Infinity.
So 343 retconned their own goddamn ARG into oblivion again with Chief going from murdering a bunch of Marines on a mining planet and questioning the morals of the UNSC to him flying down to a planet with his Self-Esteem team to find his robot waifu.

What other series got JUSTED as hard as halo?

well, this. halo 3 was so definite and final it's kind of comical they continued to make halo games with master chief after it. reminds me when movies get sequelitis and unnecessary continuations

>Retconning damn near everything
Retconning what?
>Humans were the reclaimers because they were descendants of the Forerunners
Halo 3 retconned that with the Terminals.
>Turning MC into Space Jesus
He was always Space Jesus.

great marketing campaign that'll have fuck all to do with the game followed by a massively disappointing game that goes a step further into butchering the franchise and as typical of 343 they'll fix one thing from the previous game but make something else exponentially worse.

>Bungie understood this
They sure didn't understand that with Reach.

See

Fans wanted Halo 4, that's why they made more games after Halo 3, Reach shouldn't have sucked so bad.

I hope the halo reboot in 10/15 years is good.
See MC will wake up in the pod by cortana with some excuse like she ran a sim for him so his brain stayed active and his body didn't atrophy or something like that saying that halo 5 and beyond were just made up by Cortana

>Retconning what?
>Halo 3 retconned that with the Terminals
Halo 3 changed Humans from "they're Forerunners" to "They're descendents". 343i are the ones who turned it into Humans are their own completely separate race who have been around since the forerunners and were reset with the Halo activations and aren't the actual reclaimers since now AIs apparently are.
>MC was always Space Jesus
No, he wasn't. MC was just a super soldier, a silent green husk for the player to be experiance the world. MC was a major aspect to propel the story, but he was never the main driving force. Without Johnson, The Arbiter, Keyes and his Daugther etc. the efforts of the MC would have been for nothing. 343i turned MC into Space Jesus by having him be the perfect specimen that the Librarian somehow knew would be created and would find his way to her after the Didact came back where she could then activate his superpower genes so he could be immune to the Composer and defeat the Didact

>Mechanics introduced post-Reach removed.
You know Sprint was planned for Halo 2, right?

>aren't the actual reclaimers since now AIs apparently are
Wrong they still are the Reclaimers, Evil Cortana is about to find that out the hard way when Chief finally accesses the Domain and possibly merge Cortana's Humanity the one that appears to say goodbye to the Chief at the end of Halo 4 with Evil Cortana to turn her whole and right again.
>No, he wasn't.
The Bestiarium says otherwise.

>Mechanics introduced post-Reach removed
>post-Reach
I see Reachfags revisioning history again.

Halo 3 Anniversary

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

It's the "Chosen One" trope which has become so cliche, and actually takes away from MC's heroism, by making it pre-destined.

If you are going to make MC have some depth, then you have to move him forward, and remove the things that tether him to the status quo.

It would be more interesting if Cortana stayed dead; killing her was one of the smart things 343 did, it pushed MC into questioning and rediscovering his humanity. "The reclamation is at hand".

Bringing Cortana back as a villain undermines Chief's character development.

Splitting Halo 5 between MC and Locke, and sidelining Arbiter, was a weird creative decision.

It doesn't need an Anniversary.

>REQ's are bad
>Flood Infection was bad
>Spartan Assault/Strike was bad
>Mantis's are bad
>Warden Eternal is bad
>Odd One Out is bad
>Warzone is bad

Whats it like having shit opinions? Were you just so bad at 5 that you got stomped by any kid with a power weapon when all you should have needed was a BR? You could win Warzone matches with Magnums only

>Splitting Halo 5 between MC and Locke, and sidelining Arbiter, was a weird creative decision.
I think you mean, sidelining Master Chief, was a weird creative decision, WTF did Arbiter really even have to do with this shit?

>Evil Cortana will find out blah blah blah
Oh shut the fuck up with that fanfiction. If 343i doubles back on their own bullshit it just further shows what a bunch of headless cunts they are. The AIs are the reclaimers now, it's why Cortana can control everything now along with the Warden Eternal.
>The Bestiarium
Says he's incredibly lucky. Nothing else. The whole point of that was to give reason as to why MC, who is an extension of the player (hence him practically a blank slate), is able to accomplish so much without it breaking the world of Halo.

Shut the fuck up and understand your Halo, faggot, Humanity will always be the Reclaimers, Cortana isn't even the real Cortana just a fragment missing her humanity (her good part). She didn't reclaim shit.
>Says he's incredibly lucky. Nothing else
So basically, you're a faggot who doesn't know his shit and didn't read jack shit.

Metroid

This

Not with that stupid nigger shoehorned into Halo 5 that nobody liked

>Fans wanted Halo 4
>that's why they made more games after Halo 3
Are we all just going to forget that 3 ended in a cliffhanger? There was no "It was the end of chiefs story", the ending was literally him moving into orbit of a Forerunner planet. Had nothing to do with 343i or the Fans, thats literally what Bungie decided "Yes, this is going to be the cliffhanger we put at the end of our game signalling more"

Yes it does you fucking faggot.
It needs an anniversary PC release bundled with ODST campaign and firefight.

>grunt or marine

Grunts aren't remotely comparable to a marine. A marine with his rifle could kill 3-4 grunts before being taken down.

Not happening faggot, its already running at 1080p/60fps and thats more than Bungie ever originally intended.

Doesn't change what I said, fans were more interested in knowing Master Chief's future than getting prequel.

>REQ's are bad

I'm not even going to bother reading the rest of your shitty fucking post because this right here is so incredibly fucking dumb that it's going to give me an aneurysm. REQs are designed to sell microtransactions, which is bad enough on its own, but it's not even just cosmetic shit - it affects actual loadouts, weapon availability, vehicle choice, FUCKING PERKS, the list goes on. And keep in mind this shit is all randomly unlocked - my brother was over level 100 before he unlocked a single fucking DMR REQ, a staple weapon that you'd think would have a higher drop rate. But there wasn't dick he could do about it, because REQs are another example of Microsoft's greedy Jew hands finding their way into games where they shouldn't be.

You and your stupid opinions can fuck right off.

It has no future. Fuck 343 for ruining the soul of the Halo Franchise. Most importantly, fuck Bungie for selling off this once wonderful franchise in favor of generic micro-transaction garbage

This

343i actually confirmed for no sprint and advance movement in Halo 6. Sprint will be an option in custom games though. HYPE!

Death

This series has seen a pretty insane decline in popularity compared to what it once was. I can't see it recovering.

Agreed, Halo 5 WZ is pay2win shit. They better replace that with BTB in Halo 6.

Source?

I didn't say whether or not it would happen, I said it's what Halo needs.
Microsoft is a fucking cancer when it comes to games.

>Cortana is missing her humanity
No she isn't. AI's personality base are imprinted from a real human brain allowing it to think and learn and it eventually takes on it's own personality traits. It doesn't have humanity. Cortana coming back is because somehow she got uploaded to the Domain when she died, which was destroyed, and that cured her of her rampancy. Where in the fuck is there anything about her humanity? And now she's able to control forerunner tech with the Warden Eternal serving under her and is the bad guy with the most overused villain trope of the 2010's being "I must bring about peace...BY FORCE". What a stupid fucking character arc.

>So basically you're a faggot
Who has yet to be proven wrong you dumb fuck. MC is lucky, that's his defining trait. He's not the fastest, or the smartest, or the best aim etc. He's just incredibly lucky along with fitting the criteria of Spartan 2's. Why don't you go and find some quotes from source material pre-343i that show MC is Space Jesus.

F.E.A.R

Huh? When they announce that? I think you mean no-sprint option in custom games, like Halo 5, not the other way around. What you say is too good to be true.

Nothing, just more disappointment.

This

Is what I would of said if it were true. Hang in there user, maybe the lie can still be true one day.

>REQs are designed to sell microtransactions
Yeah, welcome to the 2010's. They were also balanced enough to a point where time actually ='d money equivalent. Two Warzone matches was one gold REQ pack, and they were intentionally tiered so one Warzone match was 10 bronze packs, slowly completing your collection until you were getting everything you wanted from Gold Packs.
>but it's not even just cosmetic shit - it affects actual loadouts, weapon availability, vehicle choice, FUCKING PERKS, the list goes on.
In Warzone only, and again, you got enough points and rewards from playing the game that the only way you would have felt you were at a disadvantage is if you were just bad at the game. You get a BR by default, and thats all you actually need, everything else is personal preference. Your retarded view of "Weapon Availability" is what i assume is the REQ Level system, which again, is tied to your actual skill in the match. If you perform well, you level up faster.
>And keep in mind this shit is all randomly unlocked
Only if you're stupid.
>my brother was over level 100
So you've never actually played it, so your opinion is invalid because you're probably just trash anyway
>single fucking DMR REQ
He would have had BR unlocks, and everybody starts with the magnum. Literally no balance problem
>But there wasn't dick he could do about it
Besides just keep playing Warzone and pick REQ's smarter? You cant even buy bronze packs with money.

>HURR P2W
git gud

If they want it to recover they need to make Halo 6 exactly like Halo 3 but a newer version of it.

Why do you have to play with my emotions like that user? What did I ever do to you?

>entire team spamming p2w reqs
>team of randoms spamming mongooses

As I said, p2w. :)

You gotta be autism speaks not to admit this, c'mon.

>P2W REQ's at Level 2
Yeah, so you're actually retarded and know nothing about the game
>Team of randoms spamming mongooses
Thing is that the matchmaking balance was never bad enough to do that, so again, you're just fucking stupid.

Im sorry you're just really shit, in my entire time of playing Warzone in Halo 5, up against two of the infamous spartan companies known for playing Warzone as if they had a gun to their head if they didnt win (Being Whiskey and Osiris), never once did i feel like i was at a disadvantage due to their REQ collection.

They could bring out Nornfangs and still get their shit kicked, and guess what? You just got a free Level 8 power weapon for just being a better player, and they're locked out of power weapons for the next five minutes, and you know for a fact that cant 4 shot to save their lives.

Understand how the game works before you shitpost.

Nice essay.

It takes a lot to try and comprehend how fucking stupid you are. Your IQ would have you smashing your face on the keyboard never being able to get past a captcha, but your determination to be a complete fuckup is diving you to just be a useless shit in conversations.

>he's never played the way Halo is meant to be played, Heroic

Can I get a cosmetic only req pack please? Warzone is fucking terrible

I hate (You)

In the actual halo books (only good vidya books imo) marines absolutely btfo grunts unless massively outnumbered

>No she isn't.
Someone didn't read "Tales from Slipspace".

>Who has yet to be proven wrong you dumb fuck. MC is lucky, that's his defining trait. He's not the fastest, or the smartest, or the best aim etc. He's just incredibly lucky along with fitting the criteria of Spartan 2's.
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And also, stop using the book as a clutch when even Bungie called Chief a hyper-lethal Vector.

He was even the main fucking character over Chief too

Well, I don't hate (You)

I'm so happy Microsoft/343 fired Brian Reed's sorry ass.

Hey guys! Remember us?
ahcs.bungie.org/comics/117/
youtube.com/watch?v=kb8rdc-0OpQ

Looks like Halo 6 will have big levels.

A slow painful death. It lived long enough to see itself become the villain. A pale mockery of its former self submitting to all the evils of the current generation. Eventually the cash flow will dry up, it wont be profitable anymore, and after it gets a legacy collection or something three years after the fact it will be buried forever.

That can never happen. It wouldn't even work for the new storyline/lore they have built with 4 and 5. You don't just go backwards unless you want to retcon what you've been building. Unless they pull some seriously ridiculous asspull to actually remove powers that Cheif and the new spartans have. Nintendo can get away with it with Metroid because they are Nintendo and they pretty much turned it into a meme with Metroid. Halo won't be able to get away with the same thing. The changes from the games after 3 aren't going anywhere.

Not him but Other M was like a different experience from 2D Metroid, now Samus Returns is where you get into territory where there is no way they can turn back to past games.

>needing a bunch of books and some shit comics to understand what the fuck is going on in Halo 4 and 5

This is factually incorrect, 4 and 5 explains far more about everything they introduce then CE did by a giant margin

More terrible aesthetics that look they don't belong and, for the weapons and armor, look less functional than what the average weeb designs.