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WoW is like Girls Gone Wild without the tits: idiots and douches taking turns doing anything to get noticed, and no one knows what a condom looks like.
Posted by: Perkbow
Please explain to me how an MMO halo would fit into the Reach storyline. If it's so plausible, how would the gameplay work, and stay canon. And how would a squad-based, tactical fps work. It's just not Halo. At all. Would they use cover, or what. That's not what Halo is about. Halo is run and gun, and always has been.
I stole this from a post I have previously made so some of you may have already read it. Anyways, an MMOFPS is possible, however it is not possible. It HAS BEEN DONE in the past, and it would work within the realm of REACH. Anyways, read on.....
For everyone who is saying it is a FPS......stop. We know that. However that does not remove the claim that it can still be an MMO(RPG or FPS whatever). I refer you to a game called Planetside.
If you know what planetside is, skip this next paragraph.
Planetside was an online RPG, that had the player participating in the same persepctive as a FPS. It was an online war constantly waging whether or not you were playing between 3 separate factions on I think ONE planet. Players selected classes, joined factions/clans within their respective military branch choice. Players also leveled up certain skills (OMG, JUST LIKE AN RPG!) of their choosing as they progressed earning xp for completing certain objectives in world.
I am NOT saying this is likely that Reach will be in this category, however it is POSSIBLE. With an entire planet to work with (Reach), with many classes to work with within each respective military branch, it is definitely possible.
I welcome this format of a game. I LOVE the halo games, but it would be nice to see Bungie (Not Ensemble Studios) branch out of the FPS category. Its possible, itd be fun, and with the Halo name slapped on the cover, it would have a massive fan base right from the start..
EDIT: Read the post above mine, he is absolutely right, but unlike MAG, a MMOFPS does not need to even have round based combat. If you die, you respawn back at a base or can drop into combat (with restrictions, you cant fly into an enemy base) via ODST drop pods. ITs possible, not likely, but possible
It won't work because Reach's fate is already set in stone. It falls. And the Covenant tend not to engage in ground battles. They outclass the UNSC in space, so after they beat the fleet, they just glass the planet. Granted, on reach, they left a few square miles to search for forerunner artifacts, but there was only a few spartans on the ground. So you would have to disregard everything that happened and create a fictional game in a fictional game.