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They can keep calling the series "Halo" without actually involving a halo.

  • 07.04.2011 12:24 PM PDT

No u

Because that's what the series was named in the beginning, and so people can recognize it. Besides there's always the possibility that more Halo rings will be involved.

  • 07.04.2011 12:38 PM PDT

Signatures are for squares.

The only Halo game to never actually show a Halo, is Halo Wars.

ODST doesn't count because it's an expansion to a game that DOES feature a Halo.

Halo 4 might have a Halo, who knows? There's still 5 active rings out there.

  • 07.04.2011 12:49 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.


Posted by: privet caboose
ODST doesn't count because it's an expansion to a game that DOES feature a Halo.


ODST does count, and Reach didn't feature one, it just had one at the very end. In fact, only two of the Halo games really focus around a Halo ring.

  • 07.04.2011 1:00 PM PDT

Posted by: Tcreavis
They can keep calling the series "Halo" without actually involving a halo.


Halo games do not need to have halo megastructures in them to be titled Halo. While Halo refers to the megastructures, it is also used to refer to science fiction universe.

  • 07.04.2011 1:46 PM PDT

You mean '3' games really focused around the Halo installations. Halo 3 shifted the focus around one, to all of them, seeing as Truth now planned to fire them all, simultaneously. You landed on one at the end, too.

As has already been said, it's called Halo because that's the brand. The whole human-covenant war involved stopping the rings from being fired. They are at the center of the conflict. Reach and Wars took place before the Halo rings became the focus of the war, but then it's all a part of the same lore. They're not gonna change the brand because it doesn't feature any rings. 'Halo' doesn't just mean the rings anymore, it also encompasses the Spartans, Covenant, Forerunner, Shield Worlds; and so on.

  • 07.04.2011 1:47 PM PDT