- Astrogenesis 1
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Whe you say '2 disc long' campaign, Mass Effect 2 springs to mind.
I dont give a crap how good 343 is, them and bungie combined probably couldn't come up with a compelling story with the size of mass effect.
The problem is, The Fall of Reach opened the Halo-verse, and Halo 3 closed it. Everything that is made has to fit in to that space, unless it destroys the canon (reach*cough).
As more and more books and other materials are released regarding this time frame, there becomes less and less space to create decent canon.
Before Harvest, there was no Covies and after Halo 3 there are no Covies, which kind of means that if your going outside of those lines, your gonna have tell a story that is not
'UNSC vs Covenant' based, which is kind of detaching itself from what Halo is built around.
However, the likes of Greg Bear have acomplished this by doing work about the Forerunners leaving many spaces open for more canon to be created in that time space.
It the term 'Reboot the franchise', doing a new game which takes place in the Forerunner era would be a good idea. Making Halo 4 is just continuing the already established and great franchise.
Also, ODST was good, but turning the franchise in to a gritty CODlike game wouldn't work. Halo has been built around being a spartan one man army.
[Edited on 01.25.2011 8:48 AM PST]