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Subject: Do you like this idea for the next Halo game?

Poll: Do you like this idea for the next Halo game?  [closed]
yes:  39%
(11 Votes)
no:  29%
(8 Votes)
maybe, but with changes.:  32%
(9 Votes)
Total Votes: 28

I've seen alot of threads about a possible 'halo 4' and although there are some reasons to it I don't think 343 industries will take the franchise in that direction, so here is my suggestion for the next stage in the Halo seris.

The basic premise would be simple, instead of a continuous campaign, each mission would be it's own story (kinda like Halo Legends.) This would make sense to me because there are alot of stories to be told in Halo that don't work in books or full campaigns. Also this would leave an endless supply of possible DLC's or sequels.

Another good argument is that each mission would be a different character so players could be saprtans, MC, Elites, ODSTs or anything else. Plus these missions could be wildly diversified to be sniper missions, driving/flying missions, or outright bloody combat.

However there are some storys that just wouldn't be good in a game, so it is also a possibility to add really good quality, (Halo Wars style) cut-scenes that have no accompanied gameplay. These short videos could also be unlocked through playing missions or unlocking achievments.

Ideas For Possible Missions
1.The flood invasion of High Charity.
2.Covenant or flood invasions of any major city (New alexandria or a city on Harvest for example)
3.How sgt. Johnson and his team escaped Halo.
4.Play as the OLD noble 6 on the mission he/she was killed (fighting innies.)
5.Play as a Jackle sniper in any scenario.
6.Play as an old arbitor during the grunt rebelion.
7.The flood invasion of Alpha Base on the first Halo.
8.Control the frigate during the iconic mission that Miranda Keyes was named a suicidal pilot.(A little far-fetched but...)
9.Any others you can think of.

Possible short film ideas.
1.A civilion making his/her way to an evacuation point during a covenant/flood invasion.
2.A short story on the Spartan II's training.
3.Either of the missions which wiped out the other spartan classes.
4.Sgt. Bucks escape from reach (also could be playable.)
5.The back story to how Truth,Mercy, and Regret came to be prophets (i know it's in the books but still...)
6.A story during the Forerunner-flood war (I understand the contrivoursy in showing forerunners but it could be done.)
7.Any other you can think of.

Please comment and leave suggestions, thanks for reading :)

*note: Although I suggested 6 short films that does not mean i am proposing they make six, it's mearly the number of topics I could think of.

[Edited on 12.14.2010 6:39 PM PST]

  • 12.09.2010 4:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: Colt 45

6.Play as an old arbitor during the grunt rebelion.
YES. Only with IWDHYD though.

  • 12.09.2010 5:02 PM PDT

In a time long past, the armies of the dark came again to the lands of men. Their leaders became known as the fallen lords, and their terrible sorcery was without equal in the west.
In 30 years they reduced the civilized nations into carrion and ash. Until the free city of Madrigal alone defined them. An army gathered there, and a desperate battle was joined against the fallen
Heros were born in the fire and bloodshed of the wars which followed and their names and deeds will never be forgotten

My idea...

HALO UNIVERSE...

You control a Human frigate and decide EVERYTHING...

You command the ship as a marine, ODST, or spartan...

You can travel to Reach, Earth, Harvest...

Engage in space battles, etc...

  • 12.09.2010 6:05 PM PDT


Posted by: spartain ken 15
My idea...

HALO UNIVERSE...

You control a Human frigate and decide EVERYTHING...

You command the ship as a marine, ODST, or spartan...

You can travel to Reach, Earth, Harvest...

Engage in space battles, etc...


I always though it would be fun for Halo to have Space battles on frigates and battleships and the sort. Kinda like star wars but a lot better. It would be amazing to have a space battle with the bigger ships then you can land and battle ship to ship combat. Kinda like A Night in Solace mission on Reach.

  • 12.09.2010 7:04 PM PDT

Fight to the end, and give it your all.

I always believed that it would be neat to play as Marine or an ODST throughout the war on many different planets and locations.

  • 12.09.2010 7:10 PM PDT


Posted by: SuperShrimp4
picture this for the next halo game. you are a marine. the game starts off in a warthog, you are shooting a guass cannon. suddenly a wraith mortar shoots the warthog. you black out.

cuts to crows nest, in a hostipal strecher. you look over, and see stacked body bags. look to the other side, spartan 117. you black out. go in and out being escorted to that one room (where in halo 3 were the marines say the funny lines. you go in receive medical help. you stand up, grab a smg. a brute bust through the door. everyone shoots, soon killing him. you all march out, eventually going to the hangar, eventually staying back watching the spartan do his work, you then load up on the pelican (yes the destroyable glitch one) then you leave the base.

Ya, that would be an awsome one because i always wondered where those marines went I mean the entire area was under siege and like a couple hours later half the contenant gets glassed by the elites.

  • 12.09.2010 7:26 PM PDT


Posted by: Adubness80

[quote]Posted by: spartain ken 15
My idea...

HALO UNIVERSE...

You control a Human frigate and decide EVERYTHING...

You command the ship as a marine, ODST, or spartan...

You can travel to Reach, Earth, Harvest...

Engage in space battles, etc...

Although this would be amazing, I think too many people would just say it's a rip-off of Mass Effect.

  • 12.19.2010 5:48 PM PDT

*sigh :(
A shameless horrible bump.
P.S. It's been like a week since the last post on this thread and I'm not ready to admit it's dead yet.

  • 12.23.2010 8:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: spartain ken 15
My idea...

HALO UNIVERSE...

You control a Human frigate and decide EVERYTHING...

You command the ship as a marine, ODST, or spartan...

You can travel to Reach, Earth, Harvest...

Engage in space battles, etc...


like i said when you made a thread for this my idea i had years ago but with less stuff

  • 12.23.2010 9:05 PM PDT
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your a young guy abandoned from an oni agumentation project that most of the people involved died in. you get recruited to the u.n.s.c and you do some missions progressing through the ranks then on the second to last mission you save chief mendes from a covie ship you are the only one that goes in but you kick ass eny way then when you are on the pelican on the way out he ses your gonna get your self killed one day and when that day comes youll stand up kick some ass and keep on going you remind me of a boy called john and fade to black and then your in the jungle and you look down you see chief taking a nap your hand comes up to your mouth and you..... throu out a cigar big guy terns around your sgt. jhonson then you play halo 3 as jhonson pov

  • 12.23.2010 9:30 PM PDT
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My idea for a Halo game is when the UNSC has mounted an offense on a Covenant-controlled planet.
And as their 4 frigates approched the target, planetary defenses activated, causing 3 to crash to the planet and the last completely destroyed before it ever reached the planet's atmosphere. So the UNSC believed them to be shot down by the Covenant. But survivors on the planet soon discovered that the planet was infact abandoned, due to a Flood outbreak.
In this you play as a spartan acompanied by marines.
The Campaign thereafter is that of he/she attempting to survive until help arrives, sadly it never comes, because the UNSC believes the ships were shot down by the Covenant, leaving no survivors. And the spartan, in the end, dies along with over 500 marines and spartans. THE END.

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  • 12.24.2010 8:19 AM PDT

Like COD6: some missions you are a ranger sometimes you are in task force 141.
For Halo you should be an elite,Marine or Army trooper(those non spartans in Reach), and a spartan.

  • 12.24.2010 9:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: PURE chicken 35
My idea for a Halo game is when the UNSC has mounted an offense on a Covenant-controlled planet.
And as their 4 frigates approched the target, planetary defenses activated, causing 3 to crash to the planet and the last completely destroyed before it ever reached the planet's atmosphere. So the UNSC believed them to be shot down by the Covenant. But survivors on the planet soon discovered that the planet was infact abandoned, due to a Flood outbreak.
In this you play as a spartan acompanied by marines.
The Campaign thereafter is that of he/she attempting to survive until help arrives, sadly it never comes, because the UNSC believes the ships were shot down by the Covenant, leaving no survivors. And the spartan, in the end, dies along with over 500 marines and spartans. THE END.

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it shall be called 500 also why does everyone think there is just an unlimited amount of spartans to kill off there are only about 33 spartan 2s that didnt washout and and all the spartan 3s are extremly classified they only work with spartan 3s except for noble company

  • 12.24.2010 9:25 AM PDT


Posted by: IListen2No1isme

Posted by: PURE chicken 35
My idea for a Halo game is when the UNSC has mounted an offense on a Covenant-controlled planet.
And as their 4 frigates approched the target, planetary defenses activated, causing 3 to crash to the planet and the last completely destroyed before it ever reached the planet's atmosphere. So the UNSC believed them to be shot down by the Covenant. But survivors on the planet soon discovered that the planet was infact abandoned, due to a Flood outbreak.
In this you play as a spartan acompanied by marines.
The Campaign thereafter is that of he/she attempting to survive until help arrives, sadly it never comes, because the UNSC believes the ships were shot down by the Covenant, leaving no survivors. And the spartan, in the end, dies along with over 500 marines and spartans. THE END.

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Please comment...



it shall be called 500 also why does everyone think there is just an unlimited amount of spartans to kill off there are only about 33 spartan 2s that didnt washout and and all the spartan 3s are extremly classified they only work with spartan 3s except for noble company

I love the idea, in almost any scenario where you are fighting for survival/rescue against the flood however I think a full game of this would make a lot of people angry that the franchise has "turned away from traditional values." Which is why just a mission or two of flood outbreaks keeps everybody happy.

Also many Spartan 3's were 'lone wolves' so it is possible to just fight as one and have them killed off at the end without too much critisism, or weather you die or not could be up to you and how you play, also a possibility.

  • 12.24.2010 4:37 PM PDT

Hmmmm... Nobody's commented on the short film thing, is that saying it's a bad idea?

  • 01.02.2011 3:31 PM PDT

I think that the short film things isn't really liked too much because it detracts from gameplay. If each mission had an accompanying cutscene, I think people would like it better.

I think that it would be a game split into categories: Vehicles, Close Combat, Ranged, Ship-to-Ship, Covenant

Each of these would have a host of short battle scenarios, (maybe even a randomly generated battelfield to keep from redundancy) that counts as a mini-campaign. Or you could make it an all online game.

Think about it, you go to the main menu, select the type of game you want to play, and then engage in short face-offs. Close Combat would be all meelee and assasinations, ship-to-ship would be sort of like SW Battlefront, but with improved turrets, etc.

  • 01.02.2011 3:43 PM PDT

I'm willing to except that the films were not popular however an all online game would detract exponentially from the sentiment of the franchise. Even though I loved SW battlefront and think that an online mode that incorporrated ship-to-ship battles would be hugely popular and VERY fun a full online game this would:
A.Not feel like Halo.
B.Ruin the authentisity of the game as it has already been done.
C.Get boring

I don't mean to say that it's a bad idea but every game needs a campaighn or at least competant AI's for offline play because sometimes you just feel like playing but don't feel like trying.

  • 01.02.2011 3:59 PM PDT