I will make this brief. 343 Industries has taken over the halo universe, and I have an idea that should FINALLY be used already. Halo:Contact Harvest needs to be made into an FPS, or, just something about Harvest. Halo Wars covered Harvest but it is NOT the type of Halo we’re walking about. Please, do the fans a favor and start from the beginning of this Amazing trilogy 343. I think the game which will probably be called Halo:Contact Harvest needs to be made for multiple reasons. First off, with this game, it can explain the start of the Great War that almost decimated humanity which I am sure everyone would love to see in the game, and it can finally do what should of normally been done in the first place, start from the beginning. You can have 2 Protagonists people would wanna play(both which are very well liked character), Sgt. Avery Johnson, Cursed by the effects of Borens Syndrome and the Orion Project, also known as the Spartan-I’s, and Master Chief, savior of the human race, and a Spartan-II. Maybe you can make it like Bungie did in Halo 2, and do a double sided story, you can take it from both sides. The story could start off explaining everything, then they could bring in Master Chief in his first mission starting on the Eridanus System trying to capture Colonel Robert Watts, and then lead into when Staff Sgt. Johnson and his team when they fought the covenant for the first time, thus the beginning of Humanity’s greatest war. after Johnson’s story, you could transition to Master Chief to Chi Cheti IV where he is briefed on Harvest then heads to Damascus to receive his MJOLNIR Mark IV Powered Assault Armor, then at that point you could switch to Sgt. Johnson fighting on ground with the Harvest Militia, and etc. There’s a lot you can do and make with this story, and I think it could and SHOULD be done. We as Halo fans need to know and play every crevice of the trilogy. What else can 343 do anyway with Halo on the next 10 years? They have over 28 years of war to cover. So please, if you agree, try and get this to 343 Industries attention, I really wanna play from the beginning. By the way, even though its just Mark IV, multi-player character customization could be around still with just as much tenacity to the gameplay, and whatever else they want to add. Starting from Harvest, 343 could make the other Halo games from 2525, all the way to just before the Halo event in 2553. Trust me people, there is some cool stuff after Harvest and before Reach/Halo event. You could get your Halo fix very well. If you read this, thank you so much.
Thanks for reading if you did, let’s try and get this noticed please.
The story of Harvest has already been told. And told. And told. It’s out there, it exists, and from many points of view. We don’t need the same story told again.
If you could find a way to tell a new, interesting story about some aspect of the Harvest campaign, then yes, I would say Harvest would be a good subject for a game. However, this is practically impossible at this point.
The campaigns at Harvest were largely naval, and what campaigns did happen on the ground (aside from the skirmishes involving the Spirit of Fire’s short engagement) were fairly small. Not much to make a playable campaign out of.
Now, if we were focusing on a naval-based game of some sorts… Harvest would be a great starting point.
Honestly, 343i would do better to make games based on various storytelling tangents- what’s happening in Sanghelios, exploring a game with the Forerunner-Flood-Human Wars, looking into a game that covers the various historical battles of the Human-Covenant War…
There’s no reason to focus on Harvest though, far as I can see. There just isn’t enough sustenance for a full shooter campaign on Harvest.
-Yoinking!- brilliant dude id say u and I got a strong heart for halo prequels theirs lots that can be prequels even with the up coming new saga after halo 3 im not a big fun of prequels but when it comes down to halo the whole series is 1 huge prequel if thay start off 30 years after figthing a war if halo 5 is out next I hope thay work for a contact harvest for 2015
> The story of Harvest has already been told. And told. And told. It’s out there, it exists, and from many points of view. We don’t need the same story told again.
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> If you could find a way to tell a new, interesting story about some aspect of the Harvest campaign, then yes, I would say Harvest would be a good subject for a game. However, this is practically impossible at this point.
I haven’t really read the books, but I thought of an idea for a halo game that could take place on Harvest. Basically, the game would be a survival horror FPS, and you take the role as a civilian trying to evacuate the planet. The game would still play like Halo, but the enemies would be much harder and scarier. The game would require you to either use stealth or tactical ways to kill enemies, rather than just running and gunning. In addition, this gives 343 a chance to add interesting new weapons that a civilian might craft or use to fight the covenant (revolver, hunting rifle, gas bomb).
This could add a new interesting twist of gameplay to the Halo universe and it would be a fresh story from a different perspective.
This is an awesome idea!! I had this same thought just the other day. It happened right after a dream of being able to use the mjolnir mark IV in halo 4. However I think you should be able to play as a marine, you know to see how its like without killer battle armor. In matchmaking you would still play as a spartan (or Elite maybe) with mjolnir mark IV armor.