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  • Poll [42 votes]: Should Bungie do prequels to the present Halo series?
Subject: Halo: Episode I II III IV V VI
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Poll: Should Bungie do prequels to the present Halo series?  [closed]
Are you insane? that's the worst idea EVER:  57%
(24 Votes)
YOu ArE a GOD...thats an AMAZING idea!!:  43%
(18 Votes)
Total Votes: 42

What if.........in like 20 years Bungie went back and did prequels to the three Halo games.... It would be just like Star Wars....Imagine Halo episode I, II, III ............and then Halo 1 would be called episode IV and halo 2 would be episode V etc....

I think it could be preety sweet....imagine learning the real history of the chief....playing as him as a child in spartan training camp....playing as him as his home world was attacked by the covenant and playing as him as he watched his mother get killed by a group of elites. The episodes could cover the chief's transformation into a spartan and the storylines could cross over into the fall of reach and the other novels and eventually it would lead up to the beginning of Halo 1.

..............so, is this a terrible or an amazing idea?

  • 06.29.2006 1:11 PM PDT

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They should just call them prequels.... not make it into Star Wars.

  • 06.29.2006 1:12 PM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

I'd like information on the Covenant beginnings, but maybe a game is not the best way to show these. Books or other media would be cool :)

  • 06.29.2006 1:12 PM PDT
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the closest thing to a prequal is Halo The Fall of Reach novel, besides that nothing now. Later maybe that would be cool.

  • 06.29.2006 1:32 PM PDT
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i think the prequal idea would be cool, but only if it was done right. i don't want to see it turn into a game like "star wars republic commando" or anything.

  • 06.29.2006 1:37 PM PDT
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Yeah, Lucas really messed up the first two prequels to Star Wars (i thought the third was good) , but I'm preety sure Bungiw will do a good job

  • 06.29.2006 1:45 PM PDT
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I would like to see a Fall of Reach game. It can't really be in first person though, so I say put it in Second Person and allow you to do more than jus thave gunfights.

PS: Although this isn't what second person literally is, second person is the name for a third person game that plays like a first person game.

  • 06.29.2006 1:49 PM PDT
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.........sorta like G.R.A.W for 360?

  • 06.29.2006 1:50 PM PDT

Personally, a prequel would not be good. Most people have read fall of Reach so we know everything that has happened to the Chief since he became a Spartan. Playing as him in training would no be fun because it would have nothing to do with Halo, at all. Aside from character names, nothing about it would be the same, no suit, no Cortana, no Covenant, nothing that made Halo a great game. 2nd person? Absolutely not. It was the first person appeal that made Halo fun. There simply isn't anything in the past that would be worth turning into a game.


  • 06.29.2006 2:24 PM PDT

Halo's a hell of a drug.

If Jesus could read this post now he would say "Ares19, what a stupid name, please take these sandles and walk the Earth bringing peace and happiness."

  • 06.29.2006 2:30 PM PDT
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Jesus

  • 06.29.2006 2:33 PM PDT
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Taking that each Halo game takes an average of 3 years to make, are you willing to wait until 2016 to play them all? I think not.

  • 06.29.2006 2:41 PM PDT
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Well if you want to know about Chief's beginnings and the Spartan trainings, read the first Halo book, that's EXACLTY what its about, and it also has their missions before the Spartans even got the Mjolnir armor and when they were assigned to fight the space pirates and stuff, its a great read.

  • 06.29.2006 3:04 PM PDT
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It would be nice.... but your not a God! There would only be about 2 precuals. One of of THE FALL OF REACH the other FIRST STRIKE. Those are places the story left of.

  • 06.29.2006 3:06 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ares19
What if.........in like 20 years Bungie went back and did prequels to the three Halo games.... It would be just like Star Wars....Imagine Halo episode I, II, III ............and then Halo 1 would be called episode IV and halo 2 would be episode V etc....

I think it could be preety sweet....imagine learning the real history of the chief....playing as him as a child in spartan training camp....playing as him as his home world was attacked by the covenant and playing as him as he watched his mother get killed by a group of elites. The episodes could cover the chief's transformation into a spartan and the storylines could cross over into the fall of reach and the other novels and eventually it would lead up to the beginning of Halo 1.

..............so, is this a terrible or an amazing idea?


He was taken away from his mother and homeworld when he was young.

  • 06.29.2006 3:07 PM PDT
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I wish people didn't always have such extreme answers. I mean holy -blam!-, you are either God or it is the most wretched terrible idea ever to meet the face of the earth and should be banished to oblivion forever. I'm gonna say your idea is alright =p

  • 06.29.2006 3:21 PM PDT
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Mabye I'll consider reading the books, I had no idea that they covered all of the Chief's past

  • 06.29.2006 4:18 PM PDT

Don’t get mad if I flame you because you cannot spell, or because my three year old has better grammar and etiquette than you.

So ep1 would start off as John being kidnapped and cloned? You would have to go through Menendez's training and all?

  • 06.29.2006 4:22 PM PDT
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It would be nice.... but your not a God! There would only be about 2 precuals. One of of THE FALL OF REACH the other FIRST STRIKE. Those are places the story left of.



FIrst of all, First Strike is not a prequel... it takes place between halo 1 and 2... secondly, a third book is coming out that explains some of the events surrounding halo 3 (might not be that much like halo 3 though).

Alright, anyways, the only way theyre going to make another game with halo in the title is if you actually are on a halo...otherwise, it makes no sense. Halo 1 and 2 where on halos, and im sure halo 3 will incorporate going to another halo.

they're bound to find another story ark, perhaps a prequel (probably would only fill one game) that wouldnt have halo in the title.

  • 06.29.2006 4:29 PM PDT
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that's what i was thinking, but a lot of ppl don't thinkit's a good idea since people would already know what's going to happen, from reading the books. (apparently)

  • 06.29.2006 4:29 PM PDT
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you could like start as a little kid and then you could beat up all the other little kids at the playground..or dare I say it? (dare! dare!) Start as a baby!!!!
learn to walk using the left control stick and use the right control stick to look.
Hooray you just took your first steps now go snap some mother-blam!- necks

  • 06.29.2006 8:38 PM PDT

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And yeah, Opey could probably win that game without using his BR. Best SMG user in Halo.


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They should have marine stories. First contact with the Covenant. The wars that brought the Earth and the Colonies together. That sort of thing. And a Fall of Reach Game. Yeah.

  • 06.29.2006 8:42 PM PDT