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So, what if a game developer decided to develop a game placed in the Halo universe, but instead of battling the Covenant, you're tasked to quell an Insurrection on a UNSC colony world. You play as a regular Army trooper/Marine or ODST with limited capabilities when compared to a SPARTAN.

Would it play like CoD, Half-Life or ODST?

[Edited on 04.16.2012 6:39 AM PDT]

  • 04.16.2012 6:34 AM PDT

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ODST, though you're HUD should be a lot more limited, and you should have a lot less stamina.

  • 04.16.2012 6:37 AM PDT

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I would hare playing as a marine, they have awful armor and low health. Not to mention limited hud and movement abilities.

As an ODST, maybe. I would like to see a gametype where rebel ODSTs jump from orbit via SOEIV and you have to wipe out a UNSC base or something.

  • 04.16.2012 6:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: Avatar Korra
I would hare playing as a marine, they have awful armor and low health. Not to mention limited hud and movement abilities.

As an ODST, maybe. I would like to see a gametype where rebel ODSTs jump from orbit via SOEIV and you have to wipe out a UNSC base or something.
You'll fight other humans, so the odds are evened out.

Also, would you be allowed to aim down your sights? Or it'll play just like ODST but with humans as enemies. I'm thinking gameplay more similar to Crysis sans the armour abilities.

[Edited on 04.16.2012 6:43 AM PDT]

  • 04.16.2012 6:39 AM PDT

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Posted by: Avatar Korra
I would hare playing as a marine, they have awful armor and low health. Not to mention limited hud and movement abilities.

As an ODST, maybe. I would like to see a gametype where rebel ODSTs jump from orbit via SOEIV and you have to wipe out a UNSC base or something.
You'll fight other humans, so the odds are evened out.

Also, would you be allowed to aim down your sights? Or it'll play just like ODST but with humans as enemies. I'm thinking gameplay more similar to Crysis sans the armour abilities.
Most weapons in the halo universe that even have iron sights have a scope attached. Weapons like the assault rifle don't have iron sights so you cant aim down the sights.

  • 04.16.2012 6:46 AM PDT

I'd like to play as a member of the insurrection, it would be an interesting change of viewpoint.

  • 04.16.2012 8:47 AM PDT

Just had a really funny thought. What if you played as a normal marine, but there were Spartans fighting along side you, or you come across one for a short amount of time. He walks up to you and he makes you trade guns. I always wondered how much the marines hate that.

"Chief, this gun literally has no ammo. Do you absolutely need it?"

lol

  • 04.16.2012 8:59 AM PDT

Well it would probably play like ODST, but it will feel like COD set in the future without the Covenant and what not.

  • 04.16.2012 2:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Thugzz Deluxxxe
Just had a really funny thought. What if you played as a normal marine, but there were Spartans fighting along side you, or you come across one for a short amount of time. He walks up to you and he makes you trade guns. I always wondered how much the marines hate that.

"Chief, this gun literally has no ammo. Do you absolutely need it?"

lol

I lol'd too!

  • 04.16.2012 3:06 PM PDT


Posted by: MWrights
I'd like to play as a member of the insurrection, it would be an interesting change of viewpoint.


Bet, this would be great. But to add to it, they should not only have a UNSC campaign but a rebel one as well.

  • 04.16.2012 3:10 PM PDT

i would like to see a halo game with rebels actually in it rather than just talk. Maybe even play as a rebel. SPIN-OFF

  • 04.16.2012 3:42 PM PDT
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SC = Supreme Commander/Supreme Canadian.

De Facto leader of the military of the APE (Allied Planets Empire).

Coup = Admiral Asskicker, ZPM hive ship

Would play like COD. ODST did.

  • 04.17.2012 12:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Would play like COD. ODST did.
Not exactly. No one's complaining about Killzone having COD-like gaming mechanics. But it excelled in other fields.

  • 04.17.2012 7:51 AM PDT

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I imagine it would play like Ghost Recon or Rainbow 6 games but with a Halo theme. The emphasis would be on teamwork, tactics and co-ordination rather than running and gunning like god in green armour.

  • 04.17.2012 8:14 AM PDT

If you're passionate about the thing you're talking about, I'll always lend an ear.

It'll be weird playing through campaign slaughtering hundreds of humans when you know the Covenant threat is not so far off. But that's what they did in canon and what the Spartans were made for. Kinda similar to the Gears Universe and their Pendulum Wars. Paraphrasing from memory Marcus's thoughts after the pendulum war in the fight for humanity's survival against the locust.

"A lot of good men died in the pendulum wars, sure could use them now".

Which, in terms of Halo would be understandable before the covenant threat, but not really during. When mere survival is the key emphasis behind any series. Having inner conflicts seems so far off.

Which is why I always thought it was stupid that the insurrectionist were still a main indirect theme behind Halo:Reach. [Source and some in-game nods, 1st mission, Emile's report, Halsey's journel etc]

As in the novels they actually had a purpose. To break off from the UNSC and function as a seperate entity. However it was made out this time round that they just essentially played a kinda Cerberus [Mass Effect universe] role in the story as an aid to humanity's extinction by killing millions of innocents and being a pain in the ass when in large, humanity's best bet lies with the UNSC. It just made them portrayed as narrow, short-sighted and largly stupid. Where in other sources you can kind of sympathise with their goals to some extent.

Which is why, if they do do [lol dodo] a insurectionist game it should be pre-covenant era. It would therefore in some sense play more like COD/ODST. No energy sheilds, lack of alien weaponry etc.

[Edited on 04.17.2012 2:21 PM PDT]

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Posted by: ninjakenzen
Which is why, if they do do [lol dodo] a insurectionist game it should be pre-covenant era. It would therefore in some sense play more like COD/ODST. No energy sheilds, lack of alien weaponry etc.
The uber-hardcore Halo fanboys would not be too pleased by that.

I don't mind it to be honest, whatever works. I just want a deep and immersive story.

  • 04.17.2012 10:49 PM PDT

If you're passionate about the thing you're talking about, I'll always lend an ear.

^uber-hardcore Halo fanboys would be stupid if a non-spartan campaign game with no energy sheild enemies didn't play similar to Cod/ODST.

  • 04.18.2012 6:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: ninjakenzen
^uber-hardcore Halo fanboys would be stupid if a non-spartan campaign game with no energy sheild enemies didn't play similar to Cod/ODST.
"hurr durr Where's mah shields?! This is not Halo!!"


[Edited on 04.18.2012 7:57 AM PDT]

  • 04.18.2012 7:50 AM PDT