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Subject: What is the worst that could happen to the Halo series?


Posted by: LonE ZealoT

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Posted by: LonE ZealoT

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Posted by: LonE ZealoT
Halo continued by someone not Bungie

Because Reach was completely flawless, right?


Because Reach is totally relevant to what I just said. GTFO

It is actually very relevant. The current trend of the so called "Casualizing&Ruining Halo" was started by Bungie with Reach (or even Halo 3).

GTFO? Nah, I just love how your eyes are covered deep with good old fashioned fanboyism.


Fanboyism? Next you'll call me a troll. These terms are tossed around too lightly these days.

There's a simple principle I hold that a series cannot in correct spirit be continued by a studio other then it is creator. Take Jak and Daxter, Naughty Dog moved on without an actual sequel to Jak 3, but people still wanted one, so we got the Lost Frontier from the same studio that did the PSP game Daxter. That game was horrid, and while I hear tell that Daxter was a good game, Frontier was not.

Same applies here with Halo. Look at the audio, the story direction and storytelling decision itself, even the superficial aesthetics such as menu design. It's horrid. It's utter garbage. There are three things I can compliment 343i on: the menu screen showing Requiem, the detail to the Master Chief's armor, and the beautiful cutscenes. Such a short list is sad, but I understand why it is this way, they don't have the initial minds behind the original conception creating this new trilogy nor continuing the Halo series in the future. The lacking will only be a hindrance to Halo.

I agree with what you're saying, but there were some other good things from Halo 4. No one can make Halo quite like Bungie because Bungie created it.

Personally I really enjoyed Halo 4. I really enjoyed all the others as well if not more. Halo 4 is not a terrible game like some on this forum make it out to be. It has a lot of great things in it. Sure it is not Halo 3.5. Sure it has some elements from COD (even though those elements didn't even originate with COD). It is still Halo though. It is a pretty good game. I wish Bungie would of created it though.

  • 01.02.2013 2:18 AM PDT

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  • 01.02.2013 3:16 AM PDT

hmm

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They show John's face.

  • 01.02.2013 5:42 AM PDT

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They could make more games for it

  • 01.02.2013 5:45 AM PDT
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I heard someone say once (paraphrasing here) "Multiflag on Blood Gulch with your friends is what makes Halo, Halo." I GUARANTEE that more people agree with that sentiment than "Getting a 50 in MLG is what makes Halo, Halo." - Oboewan42
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Posted by: ch3st3r ch33to
I agree with what you're saying, but there were some other good things from Halo 4. No one can make Halo quite like Bungie because Bungie created it.

Personally I really enjoyed Halo 4. I really enjoyed all the others as well if not more. Halo 4 is not a terrible game like some on this forum make it out to be. It has a lot of great things in it. Sure it is not Halo 3.5. Sure it has some elements from COD (even though those elements didn't even originate with COD). It is still Halo though. It is a pretty good game. I wish Bungie would of created it though.


I just ignore the COD comments. I have three major complaints with Halo 4:

The maps really are the stalest patch in the series thus far. They spent time remaking the likes of Valhalla when there are maps far better from CE and H2 that are deserving of such treatment. And the new ones? There's only one small map I like out of the group and it's sad. I've loved BTB since the start of the series, but now it feels like a chore to play.

The loadout chocies really should have been more planned out. There are some weapons that just should not have been placed in the options (Plasma pistol, plasma grenades)

And then there's vehicles, whose presence in the likes of BTB is a joke. Back in the Halo 2 days having control of a warthog, ghost, or banshee had a significant impact on tactics and outcome of a match because they were solid, they took hits and dished them out. Now looking at the likes of ragnorok, most vehicles last about 20 seconds after the player enters them. For me I try and make the banshee last, but that usually means only picking up 6-7 kills before having to ditch it because it doesn't last as long. Same goes for the hog except it's assists.

  • 01.02.2013 10:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: LonE ZealoT

Posted by: ch3st3r ch33to
I agree with what you're saying, but there were some other good things from Halo 4. No one can make Halo quite like Bungie because Bungie created it.

Personally I really enjoyed Halo 4. I really enjoyed all the others as well if not more. Halo 4 is not a terrible game like some on this forum make it out to be. It has a lot of great things in it. Sure it is not Halo 3.5. Sure it has some elements from COD (even though those elements didn't even originate with COD). It is still Halo though. It is a pretty good game. I wish Bungie would of created it though.


I just ignore the COD comments. I have three major complaints with Halo 4:

The maps really are the stalest patch in the series thus far. They spent time remaking the likes of Valhalla when there are maps far better from CE and H2 that are deserving of such treatment. And the new ones? There's only one small map I like out of the group and it's sad. I've loved BTB since the start of the series, but now it feels like a chore to play.

The loadout chocies really should have been more planned out. There are some weapons that just should not have been placed in the options (Plasma pistol, plasma grenades)

And then there's vehicles, whose presence in the likes of BTB is a joke. Back in the Halo 2 days having control of a warthog, ghost, or banshee had a significant impact on tactics and outcome of a match because they were solid, they took hits and dished them out. Now looking at the likes of ragnorok, most vehicles last about 20 seconds after the player enters them. For me I try and make the banshee last, but that usually means only picking up 6-7 kills before having to ditch it because it doesn't last as long. Same goes for the hog except it's assists.

The only powerful vehicle left is the mantis with wheelman. I can take out a warthog with a charged plasma pistol and two sticky grenades, both of which I spawn with in my hilarious 'anti-vehicle' class that owns the -blam!- out of anything motorized.

And I was majorly dissapointed with the Prometheans, they're idiots, extremely easy to trick, and are simply a chore to kill. Now that I've beat the Campaign on Legendary, I'm never touching it again. While I constantly replay Halo 3's campaign, there's no fun in Halo 4 except the 'Trench Run'. Hell, even Halo Reach was more enjoyable. Everything about Halo 4 just feels stale. Hell, I bought MW3 and found the survival mode of it more enjoyable than Spartan Ops. Kinda reminds me more of ODST firefight than anything in Halo does.

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Posted by: OdorousLicense3
343i taking over.

  • 01.02.2013 8:06 PM PDT

Hahaha, that's funny I thought you said my stats will be on Waypoint now. Wait, you were serious? Then, Nooooooooooooo!!!

Posted by: HundredJono
I won't stop playing Halo unless they add aiming down your sights, attachments for weapons, calling in killstreaks, and prestiges.


Sadly, they already have added kill streaks as ordinance, and specializations as prestige. They may also be adding in attachments since we already have weapon skins.

  • 01.02.2013 8:09 PM PDT
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Already happened. I made a mistake in purchasing Reach, but buying a game built off of Reach with more gimmicks is where I draw the line. 343 had a chance to bring Halo back to its arena roots, but they went another direction.

I haven't purchased Halo 4, and have no interest in playing it.

  • 01.02.2013 8:11 PM PDT

Posted by: Quest is back
Already happened. I made a mistake in purchasing Reach, but buying a game built off of Reach with more gimmicks is where I draw the line. 343 had a chance to bring Halo back to its arena roots, but they went another direction.

I haven't purchased Halo 4, and have no interest in playing it.


What the hell are you smoking? Reach is teh best.

  • 01.02.2013 8:11 PM PDT

This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends;
Not with a bang but a whimper.

Halo 4.

  • 01.02.2013 8:12 PM PDT

Studies show that men think about sex every 7 seconds. I do my best to eat hotdogs in under 6, just so things don't get weird.

Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith

Chief starts seeing Reznov. The Librarian actually awakened a long dead ancestor, Alex Mason. Chief also starts seeing numbers everywhere. Eventually he goes to attack the Didact at his deep space base, where he drowns him in water after beating him up. It turns out that Chief was the one who killed JFK.

  • 01.02.2013 8:12 PM PDT

Prone

  • 01.02.2013 8:13 PM PDT

;)

The ending of Halo 6

Scene: Palmer is in a hospital bed giving birth.

Doctor: PUSH DAMN IT, PUSH!
Palmer: BH DHB HUBHJB DUHBDHUSV GFVDABgv fdGVTFV!
*pop*
Doctor: It's......it's a girl!
Palmer:*now holding her new child*What do you want to call her.......Jon??
Jon: Let's call her....SAMUS

*cuts to black*

Credits: "Sorry guys. We needed more $$"- 343i

  • 01.02.2013 8:18 PM PDT

Hahaha, that's funny I thought you said my stats will be on Waypoint now. Wait, you were serious? Then, Nooooooooooooo!!!

Now for my actual reply,
Noble six is actually chief who is actually Mason who is actually Reznof who is actually Darth Reven who is actually Valens who is actually Luke Skywalker who is actually herobrine who is actually slenderman who is actually a man with a plastic surgeried on troll face and at the end it has 343 say, to continue the ending you must pay 6000 Microsoft points. And then profit???

  • 01.02.2013 8:27 PM PDT

Too many games, so little time.

Yearly releases bug me.

  • 01.02.2013 8:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: Killiter1
Now for my actual reply,
Noble six is actually chief who is actually Mason who is actually Reznof who is actually Darth Reven who is actually Valens who is actually Luke Skywalker who is actually herobrine who is actually slenderman who is actually a man with a plastic surgeried on troll face and at the end it has 343 say, to continue the ending you must pay 6000 Microsoft points. And then profit???

Firstly, it's Revan, and if you wanted epicness, you'd make a Halo game where Chief teams up with Revan, HK-47, Mace Windu, John McClane, Indiana Jones, Morgan Freeman, Batman, and Deadpool.

Now THAT is a Halo game I would buy.

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Posted by: Haloroach
Mac Walters gets a writing job at 343

That's not funny.

  • 01.02.2013 9:58 PM PDT


Posted by: OdorousLicense3
343i taking over.

  • 01.02.2013 9:59 PM PDT

Rain, and Jazz.
Halo: Tactical

I'm either a fool or an inteligent man, depending on how sleepy or angry I am.

I originaly made an account on 07.27.2007 but I wanted to link my GT and made this account. Don't forget your passwords!

This thread hit 117 posts.

Anyways, either EA buying it or what 343i is doing to it now.

  • 01.02.2013 10:01 PM PDT

<(-_-)> Teh mokey is not amused

I'd stop playing halo if/when:

You use LT to zoom in
Weapons have ironsights
Spartans don't have shields
Every weapon can headshot
There are proper killstreaks
Its clear they don't care about the story
There aren't any custom game/forge options

You get the idea...

  • 01.02.2013 10:07 PM PDT
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Posted by: Twiggyy
The ending of Halo 6
I lol'd!!

Here's my version (not nearly as great as yours but I digress):

Scene: Palmer is in Infinity's planning room.

Palmer: PUSH DAMN IT, PUSH!
Miller: But... this... hurts!
*Miller groans in pain*
*scene pans out to show Miller holding a remote control*
*scene pans out even more to show a widescreen tv*
*Miller flips through the channels*
Palmer: Eggheads!
*next channel*
Palmer: Eggheads!
*next channel*
Palmer: Eggheads!
*Palmer now holding her magnum out*
*shoots the tv*
Palmer: Crimson, fix it!

*cuts to black*

Credits (in uncreative font with no interesting background): "Sorry guys. We needed more $$ for a full-scale campaign"- 343i

Posted by: Arbiter 739
This thread hit 117 posts.
So old man John approves eh?

  • 01.02.2013 10:12 PM PDT

Hahaha, that's funny I thought you said my stats will be on Waypoint now. Wait, you were serious? Then, Nooooooooooooo!!!


Posted by: Wyzilla

Posted by: Killiter1
Now for my actual reply,
Noble six is actually chief who is actually Mason who is actually Reznof who is actually Darth Reven who is actually Valens who is actually Luke Skywalker who is actually herobrine who is actually slenderman who is actually a man with a plastic surgeried on troll face and at the end it has 343 say, to continue the ending you must pay 6000 Microsoft points. And then profit???

Firstly, it's Revan, and if you wanted epicness, you'd make a Halo game where Chief teams up with Revan, HK-47, Mace Windu, John McClane, Indiana Jones, Morgan Freeman, Batman, and Deadpool.

Now THAT is a Halo game I would buy.


The point of it is that you don't buy it. It has been quite sometime since I played KotOR so I couldn't really remember how to spell it.

  • 01.03.2013 4:22 AM PDT

It has already happened.

  • 01.03.2013 4:24 AM PDT

Halo Reach + Halo 4 = Death of a franchise.

Too much shadowrun + CoD influences = Death of a franchise.

That IS/WAS the worst thing to happen to halo.

Halo is garbage now for the new generation who needs cookie cutter garbage to have fun.

  • 01.03.2013 4:28 AM PDT