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Subject: "We're done with Halo after ODST comes out."

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That's what Bungie said. They said ODST was their last thing in the Halo universe, but that was before Ensemble folded. When Ensemble folded, they dropped the MMO project that they were working on. This screenshot is all they have to show for it.

However, in the Halopedia News Service a few months back it said that the MMO had been picked up by an unknown developer. This was before Reach was announced to the public, in April of 2009.

It is entirely possible that Bungie had planned on ODST being their last game, but saw a great opportunity in this MMO and picked it up. It could have been picked up back in '08, possibly, and we just didn't know it.

On the other side of the argument, however, the news wasn't announced in until April, so it is highly unlikely that Bungie would rush out a game in just a year and a half, half the time of the development for Halo 2 and 3 (both were 3 years). However, Halo 2 had to restart production midway through the project, proving that Bungie has the ability to churn out a great game in short time. The game may have been picked up long before Halopedia knew of it. That means that Bungie was looking like this in early '09:

Team 1: Halo Reach
Team 2: Halo 3: ODST
Team 3: New IP, super-secret project

It is even possible that now, those who worked on ODST have moved over to work on Reach, meaning that possible more than half of the studio will work on Reach until its release in '10. The super-secret project likely won't release until 2012 or 2013.

Note, this is just an idea, and there is evidence to support and put down this hypothesis.

In addition to the above idea, in the trailer, there were calls of Spartan numbers higher than 150, which was the highest number in the Fall of Reach. This could point toward making your own Spartan for the game, or possible even Elite, allowing you to play on both sides of the battle.

[Edited on 07.26.2009 4:14 PM PDT]

  • 07.26.2009 4:13 PM PDT

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Posted by: Unseen Blade
However, Halo 2 had to restart production midway through the project, proving that Bungie has the ability to churn out a great game in short time.

halo 2 wasnt that good

  • 07.26.2009 4:17 PM PDT
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first of all i took a look at your screenshot link, it looks alot like WoW. and the super secret project, who knows maybe they are purposely waiting long enough for the new xbox to come out that way people will be pulled into buying another xbox.

  • 07.26.2009 4:24 PM PDT

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Posted by: Unseen Blade
However, Halo 2 had to restart production midway through the project, proving that Bungie has the ability to churn out a great game in short time.

halo 2 wasnt that good


I loved it. Better than Halo 3.

  • 07.26.2009 4:26 PM PDT

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Halo 3 is the end of the story of Master Chief and the Halo rings. There can still be games based in the Halo universe. Like how Knights of the Old Republic games are set in the Star Wars universe but have nothing to do with Darth Vader or the Death Star.

Besides, Halo games sell. They'll be pumping out Halo games until the end of time because us fans, being who we are, will buy them up without question.

I hope that they start a new project after Reach is released. I'd like to have Halo be one of those rare games that you'll always talk about even when you're old, as opposed to sports games (like Madden), where they manage to -blam!- out the same thing year after year and you forget the old one as soon as the new one comes out.

  • 07.26.2009 4:26 PM PDT
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Bungie may be done. That doesn't mean that "343 Studios" -- real original is done with the halo series. Lets just hope they do not trash one of the top 5 game franchises ever.

  • 07.26.2009 4:40 PM PDT
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I think it's more likely (and I hope) Bungie is making a game similar to the first three (soon to be four), and that 343 (Microsoft's new Halo machine) will be the ones who picked up the MMO. That could very well be what happened.

  • 07.26.2009 4:52 PM PDT