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Subject: Did Bungie mean to end the Halo series with Halo 3?

Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: HipiO7
Yeah. Bungie had meant to leave the series there, but seeing how enormous it had grown, they left the ending semi-opened for future titles, most likely knowing MS would continue their flagship game.


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You know, I'm actually surprised at how few people know that Bungie originally had every intention of continuing the Chief story.


I know Bungie had intentions of following up the story, but they didn't have the intention of following it up after Halo 3. They had always talked about leaving it there, leaving an ending that could allow them to return later in the future when they decided.

They were just replaced with 343 for Halo 4.

  • 05.08.2012 8:31 AM PDT
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I believe a more accurate way of putting it would be that Bungie had every intention of stories taking place after Halo 3. Not necessarily working on the games themselves. Bungie announced their independance ridiculously close to the release of Halo 3. Clearly something of that legal complexity and bargaining would have been in the works for quite some time a probably happened during a large part of the production of Halo 3. Would they have known that part of their contract would require them to complete two more Halo games after that? Perhaps, perhaps not, but they likely knew that they wouldn't be following up on Chief's story themselves. I don't think they designed the game and the ending with the thought that they would be returning to the series later in the future since they probably knew while working on the game that they wouldn't be keeping the Halo series themselves, but I do believe they designed the game in a way that it could be followed up on by SOMEONE.

  • 05.08.2012 10:23 AM PDT

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