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Subject: Do you think Bungie should make a prequel to Halo like Fall of Reach?
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Do you think Bungie should make a prequel to Halo like the book Fall of Reach? I think they should because it would be fun going through all the training and for all the people who have not read the book can know the story before the war on Halo.

  • 06.15.2004 11:54 PM PDT
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That would fun, you could fight along other Marines and Spartans. Plus you could see what Dr. Halsey and Chief Petty Officier Mendez looked like.

If they do do it, then I hope it doesnt suffer the fate of the Star Wars pre-quels. Come on people, even SW fanboys admit the fate of the pre-quels.

BTW Killer64, stop making threads for me. : P

  • 06.16.2004 12:07 AM PDT
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Oh, I don´t hope so!! Half of the Book plays in OuterSpace, an You know, Spartans hates to sit on a Spaceships backseat with nothing to Do besides looking how the missiles impacted!!!

  • 06.16.2004 12:52 AM PDT
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Actually, I hope they won't. I'd much rather have them focusing on and extending the Halo story forward. No ill will toward MGS3 intended, but prequels tend to be less exciting than sequels. Basing a game directly off the Fall of Reach would be a bad choice even as far as prequels go, since anyone who has read the book will know what happens. A big part of the fun in playing Halo was finding out for yourself what it was all about. After that, the books made it so much deeper.

  • 06.16.2004 1:57 AM PDT
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Posted by: Pixies
Actually, I hope they won't. I'd much rather have them focusing on and extending the Halo story forward. No ill will toward MGS3 intended, but prequels tend to be less exciting than sequels. Basing a game directly off the Fall of Reach would be a bad choice even as far as prequels go, since anyone who has read the book will know what happens. A big part of the fun in playing Halo was finding out for yourself what it was all about. After that, the books made it so much deeper.


Very nicly Said, but it would be kinda cool, ONLY as long as they made it after they finish the Halo storyline, cause Pre-quals do tend to kill the whole concept of the games storyline, and even though the Pre-qual to Halo has been writen, it wouldnt be very good to make it a game, most of it does take place in space, and fighting in spaceships, so that would REALLY kill the gameplay, BUT it would be pretty cool to go through the SPARTAN training program! =P

  • 06.16.2004 2:50 AM PDT
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Not too into the pre-qual idea, but maybe something else parallel to Halo/Fall of Reach time maybe...or from a slightly different perspective...since Fall of Reach is so heavily space based maybe a space fighter/shooter? wing commander style with Longswords mwhaha. Maybe one mission to fly a Pelican and take these Spartany types on a trip down to the surface etc. Could be interesting. But as said above we also know what happens...we loose. So not a good thing for a game when we are the loosing side, unless you play as the Covenant.

  • 06.16.2004 3:01 AM PDT
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I think doing a prequel of the first book would work amazingly well.

you start at the age of six and work with your other spartan friends in training until the outbrake in the covenant war. theres also the CTF exercise from the flashback in first strike that could be incorparated into the game. plus missions that arn't mentioned as there are many gaps in years that are missed out in fall of reach that could be filled in. next theres the missions against the rebels and pirates, these could be used as well as the "tying up the looses ends" missions that are mentioned that you never get to see.

Then theres the first mission against the covenant when you have to board and blow up the cruiser. the mission from the start of the book, the chirion 4, and cote d' azur missions, the fall of reach final mission with james and linda. there also must be loads more campaigns that john was involved in that arn't told in fall of reach that could be played in the game. (such as the breifly mentioned draco 3)

But as said above we also know what happens...we loose. So not a good thing for a game when we are the loosing side, unless you play as the Covenant.

we've been losing since day one and this is a poor argument. we didn't exactly have a true 'win' in the first halo game and from the looks of things we're playing as the loosers defending what might be our last world in halo 2 to prevent extinction. part of what makes halo great is the fact we are the loosing side fighting for salvation.
there are loads of missions to get from the pre-halo story, it could be a great game.

[Edited on 6/16/2004 4:15:42 AM]

  • 06.16.2004 4:15 AM PDT
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yes i'd like to know about the spartan I's. not the greeks but the first batch of super warriors in 2491.

  • 06.16.2004 4:29 AM PDT
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i don't know if there we're spartan I's. maybe they all died due to early and failed agumentation. maybe they we're called spartan II's because the first spartans we're the ones in ancient greece and its a continuation thing. maybe the spartan I project was the earlier MOJINER armour that sucked for the standard marines to make them super strong? who knows? but i doubt it will be revealed (unless you find lots of mangled corpses in jars in an ONI center on earth or something) think alien ressurection with the failed cloned ripleys only failed first spartan attempts.
go prequel to halo! you know it'll be cool!

  • 06.16.2004 4:35 AM PDT
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it says on page 16 of THE FLOOD that in 2491 project orion was a project to create the first batch of super warriors the spartans. it said they were so succesfull that they trained a new batch, the II series in 2517

  • 06.16.2004 4:36 AM PDT
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oh yeah (the shame on me) well i still think there should be a prequel game for many of my earlier reasons

  • 06.16.2004 5:22 AM PDT
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this is spam

  • 06.16.2004 5:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: Vel
this is spam


i don't see why, theres no swearing, religious or political things mentioned. its just a discussion of a possible halo prequel idea by the fans.
why is this spam?
no need to answer my question people, just what this thread is about, prequel ideas.

  • 06.16.2004 5:35 AM PDT
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I think that they should not make a game for TFOR but a movie instead.

  • 06.16.2004 6:01 AM PDT

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Im thinking the Harvest planet where humans first encounter the covies. Your ship is gunned down towards the planet and you have to send a message to earth and crap like that and when that fails you gotta get off the planet before the covenant glass it. Mission possibilties would be endless and your fighting for your survival along side the rest of your crew. I think it'd be cool to have levels where your allies are getting slaughtered and theres nothing you can do except continue on.

However, was master chief even ready for combat before 2520? If not I think they should do that Spartan I thing you talked about.

I say this because the only reference we get is "outer colony havest is lost" and i'd like to know more!

Also, it could be like you never get off harvest and you figure out what the covenant motive is and you gotta stop them from finishing the job by glassing the planet yourself. So, all this time someone has known what the covenants major plans are but havent survived to tell. Imagine that for an ending... (then again its pretty crap lol)

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  • 06.16.2004 6:02 AM PDT
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thats a pretty good idea cipher

  • 06.16.2004 6:02 AM PDT
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if they're going to make movies they might as well make it a quadrilogy. tfor, tf, fs, h2.

  • 06.16.2004 6:26 AM PDT
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I think that those who belive a prequel is destructive to story are indeed correct. My experience is that they bore me and no one is ever satisfied with them. It's a bad marketing idea as far as I'm concerned.

  • 06.16.2004 6:30 AM PDT
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i'd much rather play it than watch it though, unless they did both

  • 06.16.2004 6:34 AM PDT
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However, we are forgeting one key element, the Spartans don't get thier MJOLNIR armor until shortly before the actual battle of reach, so that would leave two big battles to play through (Reach and First Strike) but not much else to make a game out of, which is why I love the use of books to perpetuate these parts of the story.

no MJOLNIR = :(

  • 06.16.2004 6:50 AM PDT
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they get their mark IV armour before, it has no shields but still gives lots of protection. so missions are still possible, even if you have marine armour so what? it'll just require more skill to do the missions before the last few on reach with the mark V

  • 06.16.2004 7:27 AM PDT
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Well there is another problem, especially with enemies.

People seem to forget something. The only two infantry types we've been fighting between 2525 and 2552 are Grunts and Jackals. No Elites and no Hunters. Hunters didn't first show up until I think it was July 2552, and Elites were first seen at the Fall of Reach. If you ask me only having two types of enemies would get very boring very quickly. Also people would complain about the UNSC losing to a bunch of Grunts and Jackals. Sure there are vehicles to fight as well, but it would still be pretty boring.

Then you have to consider the fact that the vast populace of Halo players is unaware that those two species are very zealous and tough. They also have numbers on us like crazy. People would also complain because at every battle they get involved in on the ground they just whined up losing the battle in space. Hell in the Halo story line we've had very few victories.

On the ground Spartans always won, but with just marines we have a so-so chance of winning. Even then thodds are against us. I think we've won maybe 200 out of 1000 some ground battles. Then there is the confilct in space. We are doing very poor here and have won very few significant battles. So few I can name them off the top of my head. (These are space victories, aka The important ones)

Sigma Octanus IV
Operation First Strike
Halo Campaign (sort of)
The Second Battle of Harvest
and there are two others whose names are not mentioned.

There are just too many problems with doing a Halo prequel with average players and story is all. So let's keep to the books instead for the prequels.

  • 06.16.2004 7:43 AM PDT