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...Because I'm sure the rest of you regulars have also had it up to your nose in those.

NOTE: Some of these ideas are dependent upon events in the book, "Halo: The Flood" by William C. Dietz.

No, what I propose is different. Much different. Rather than remake Halo: CE, I am suggesting a completely new game, but set on the same ring. In this game, there would be multiple Campaigns.

One as a Marine, possibly Cpl. Locklear, maybe even Johnson, as they are one of the few Marines that survive the ring and escape alive. Possibly multiple characters. You could play as a Longsword pilot, sent to take out a few Covenant Seraphs, a Marine sent to repel boarding parties, who then evacuates to the ring. Then the focus would then move to a Marine tasked with scouting for a base of operations, who then joins a larger force to capture such a place. Then as a Marine sent to retrieve supplies from the Pillar of Autumn. Maybe as a stranded Marine trying to find help, who stumbles upon a huge battle between humans and Covenant. As Johnson as he escapes from the Flood Bunker. Finally, as Locklear as he and several others escape via Pelican. If all goes well, maybe even through the events of "Halo: First Strike" by Eric Nylund.

Another Campaign could be following the Covenant, maybe at first as a squad of Grunts boarding the Pillar of Autumn, taking control of a different one if the first died, then as a group of Jackals attacking a human lifeboat's occupants after it lands. As an Elite attacking human patrols near the base. Maybe even as a Hunter in the Truth & Reconciliation defending it from the Flood, then a Spec Ops Elite in the Pillar of Autumn toward the end of the events on Installation 04.


Another major option is DLC, which has the potential to allow players entire new Campaigns portraying the events of "Halo: First Strike" by Eric Nylund, taking control of Spartans capturing the Covenant cruiser after Halo: CE ended, going back to REACH, and assaulting Unyielding Heirophant.


Mission and Gimmicks brainstorming, GO!

  • 11.16.2009 10:38 PM PDT
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:)

ahh, good idea..
but i don't see it happening.

  • 11.16.2009 11:15 PM PDT

Posted by: jross1993
ahh, good idea..
but i don't see it happening.
That's not the point. I just want ideas right now, even though this will never happen in my lifetime.

  • 11.16.2009 11:39 PM PDT
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Can you believe it?

It would be cool to play as Field Master Putumee or that one guy who was a spy and banshee pilot.

  • 11.17.2009 3:27 PM PDT

Queen is awesome.

AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER


jk =)

[Edited on 11.17.2009 7:27 PM PST]

  • 11.17.2009 7:26 PM PDT
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Coinciding events are always really cool. I remember the little thrill I got seeing the microscopic In Amber Clad going into slipspace with the carrier in ODST.

The last mission could the be the totally-canon-no-matter-what-anyone-says elite-Johnson hug...

  • 11.17.2009 7:52 PM PDT

Doc: "i'm a pacifist"
Caboose: "your a thing that babies suck on?"
Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"

It would actually be pretty awesome to play as the rest of the soldiers in the Halo engagement. There was quite a bit done on that book aside from what the chief did. It's been some time since i've read The Flood, but i'd love a campaign featuring some of the larger moments such as the taking of the landing that the Marines were using as their base. Or the convoy through the valley when the Covenant set Wraiths on the hills on either side. Like I said my details are fuzzy having only read that book once, and some 5 years ago.

  • 11.18.2009 1:13 PM PDT

For everyone that posts here - This is not a game suggestion - These are scenarios we can make ourselves or imagine from the novels!

  • 11.18.2009 10:28 PM PDT

no. nonono

I would love to see the game from the covenants' perspective.

  • 11.18.2009 11:51 PM PDT