After Halo: Lets talk

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-Edit- For a TL;DR, read the bottom half.

I’m wanting to start up a discussion about the Halo lore in the video game, it’s future and potential, and all of that being after Halo 6, because I highly doubt any of us can influence the cannon set out for the new trilogy.

Firstly, I want to say Halo 4’s campaign was the first video game to actually choke me up a bit and get a tad teary-eyed at the end of it, but that was only over the Cortana-Chief arc of the whole saga. I personally found the actual main story kind of random and a tad bad. I’m saying that because the way 343i portrayed the Didact, was just completely out of character.

No matter what way you looked at it, he wasn’t that much of a jerk in the books. Sure he had a somewhat reserved personality, but I do believe he shows remorse towards the humans? And maybe even some regret. It’s been a long while since I read the first book :/.

But anyway, it kind of seems like they wrote down some random bad-guy characteristics and behavior on a piece of paper and someone pointed at 'Generic bad guy option: C - Shady history; dash of amnesia and just wants to be “the bad guy”.

I am aware that there might be some tangible reason why he’s like that, but it’s really out of character, and considering how adherent he was to the Mantle in the terminals, it downright goes against his beliefs.

But that all aside, I see the Halo Universe as one of the most expanded, diverse and has the highest potential of most if not all the other video game franchises out there. It’s a multi-million if not billion dollar industry, capable of dishing out books, games and possibly high-end block buster movies. So I don’t think Microsoft or 343i will want to let Halo to go ‘quietly in the night’.

So what do you think the next gen saga should take us? Past, present or… Future? I see a lot of potential for Halo, and many avenues that could be ventured, and I think we should discuss it a bit.

Maybe some really good ideas can come of this and we might get some wicked awesome story suggestions, something of which 343i might see and we may help shape Halo’s future.

As for me, I’d like to see a more character-driven story, get away from the green machine, and have a real character that we can immerse ourselves in.

So… Let us discuss! And don’t be afraid to call me out and call me a moron on anything I’ve stated here, most of which are my personal opinions. Just be nice :wink:

And I really did love the campaign… I’m easy to please, but on hindsight, it wasn’t so supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as I thought while playing.

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The Didact, out of his cryptum, betrayed by his wife, finds the humans. Another insult! He sees that they have not yet mastered the Sangheili, so he says that they haven’t yet attained the mantle. He seizes this opportunity to get rid of the humans while they aren’t too powerful. He seizes this opportunity to maintain forerunner ascendency of the mantle.

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> The Didact, out of his cryptum, betrayed by his wife, finds the humans. Another insult! He sees that they have not yet mastered the Sangheili, so he says that they haven’t yet attained the mantle. He seizes this opportunity to get rid of the humans while they aren’t too powerful. He seizes this opportunity to maintain forerunner ascendency of the mantle.

Care to elaborate some more? I’d like some good discussions because, though this thread may not do anything for the future of the series, the Halo Universe is awesome and I want to do as much as I can to make sure it prospers.

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Halo Cryptum Page 82

“He pointed to Riser. ‘Little human, I know your kind. You are of ancient form. I asked you be preserved, because you are peaceful yet full of cleverness. Worthy pets to amuse and by low example to instruct our young. But you…’ He swung his finger around to Chakas. ‘You are too much like the humans who nearly wrecked my fleets and murdered my warriors. My wife has taken liberties. She provokes me.’ He stretch out his arms. The armor flashed. 'You provoke me.”

I would say the Didact in Halo 4 is very much in character. As for the future of Halo, I believe they need to jump way into the future in order to continue, just as Star Trek The Next Generation jumped ahead about 100 years after the original Star Trek. They need to take a break and explain that after all is said and done, the Galaxy manages to accept some kind of peaceful status. There can be skirmishes or boarder wars or something but take a break from the epic uber, save the Galaxy type battles. Show us how the species interact with each other 100+ years into the future and how more advanced we have all become. After the Galaxy has achieved some level of stability, then they can introduce a new threat.

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Honestly, I would like the books to explain some things I’ve always had questions about:

What happened to Gray Team and the Spirit of Fire?

What did the Shipmaster do immediately after the events of The Return?

The Reach Commentary revealed that Carter and Kat once had a romantic relationship. What happened? How and when did it begin?

What was Thom like? What were the extents of his relationships with the rest of Noble?

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I would actually like them to continue with the Master Chief. I have been a Halo fan since Halo CE released all those years ago and I am really glad they’ve given him a bit of a deeper personality now that we’ve had our run with the silent, stoic Chief in Halos 1-3. I believe that with the end of Halo 4’s campaign 343i has many different directions that they can go with Chief’s story. I’m just not too fond of 343’s decision to kill off a series character as important as Cortana in the first game of their new saga. But who knows what could happen. I’d also love to see them flesh out the Forerunner-Flood war in a spinoff game similar to what Bungie did with ODST and Reach. There’s just so many possibilities.
Nice gamertag btw haha

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> Halo Cryptum Page 82
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> “He pointed to Riser. ‘Little human, I know your kind. You are of ancient form. I asked you be preserved, because you are peaceful yet full of cleverness. Worthy pets to amuse and by low example to instruct our young. But you…’ He swung his finger around to Chakas. ‘You are too much like the humans who nearly wrecked my fleets and murdered my warriors. My wife has taken liberties. She provokes me.’ He stretch out his arms. The armor flashed. 'You provoke me.”
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> I would say the Didact in Halo 4 is very much in character. As for the future of Halo, I believe they need to jump way into the future in order to continue, just as Star Trek The Next Generation jumped ahead about 100 years after the original Star Trek. They need to take a break and explain that after all is said and done, the Galaxy manages to accept some kind of peaceful status. There can be skirmishes or boarder wars or something but take a break from the epic uber, save the Galaxy type battles. Show us how the species interact with each other 100+ years into the future and how more advanced we have all become. After the Galaxy has achieved some level of stability, then they can introduce a new threat.

Ah, forgive me, it’s been too long since my last read. I guess I may have just mixed Bornstellar and the Didacts personalities up a bit.

-Edit- I just didn’t the Didact would seem so malicious to us. Though I could see why he would do so, it also seems like it goes against his belief in the Mantle doing what he did/tried.

And I agree, jump ahead would be a good move, I’d like to see a stable Human government interacting with a stable Sangheili government/society at the very least.

I have a question, I’ve been curious, what’s the governing body of the UNSC, is it the UEG? Or do they both work in tandem and neither really has power over the other, they just have specific duties each follow?

I was just curious if it was like a covert totalitarian government or if it there is still a civilian governing body and if it’s anything like what we have in most of our countries now.

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> > Halo Cryptum Page 82
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> > “He pointed to Riser. ‘Little human, I know your kind. You are of ancient form. I asked you be preserved, because you are peaceful yet full of cleverness. Worthy pets to amuse and by low example to instruct our young. But you…’ He swung his finger around to Chakas. ‘You are too much like the humans who nearly wrecked my fleets and murdered my warriors. My wife has taken liberties. She provokes me.’ He stretch out his arms. The armor flashed. 'You provoke me.”
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> > I would say the Didact in Halo 4 is very much in character. As for the future of Halo, I believe they need to jump way into the future in order to continue, just as Star Trek The Next Generation jumped ahead about 100 years after the original Star Trek. They need to take a break and explain that after all is said and done, the Galaxy manages to accept some kind of peaceful status. There can be skirmishes or boarder wars or something but take a break from the epic uber, save the Galaxy type battles. Show us how the species interact with each other 100+ years into the future and how more advanced we have all become. After the Galaxy has achieved some level of stability, then they can introduce a new threat.
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> Ah, forgive me, it’s been too long since my last read. I guess I may have just mixed Bornstellar and the Didacts personalities up a bit.
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> -Edit- I just didn’t the Didact would seem so malicious to us. Though I could see why he would do so, it also seems like it goes against his belief in the Mantle doing what he did/tried.
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> And I agree, jump ahead would be a good move, I’d like to see a stable Human government interacting with a stable Sangheili government/society at the very least.
>
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> I have a question, I’ve been curious, what’s the governing body of the UNSC, is it the <mark>UEG</mark>? Or do they both work in tandem and neither really has power over the other, they just have specific duties each follow?
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> I was just curious if it was like a covert totalitarian government or if it there is still a civilian governing body and if it’s anything like what we have in most of our countries now.

Yes. Halo 5 has so many ways to go, it’s not even funny. I hope that they bring back the flood, the arbiter, and the brutes, at least.

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> Halo Cryptum Page 82
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> “He pointed to Riser. ‘Little human, I know your kind. You are of ancient form. I asked you be preserved, because you are peaceful yet full of cleverness. Worthy pets to amuse and by low example to instruct our young. But you…’ He swung his finger around to Chakas. ‘You are too much like the humans who nearly wrecked my fleets and murdered my warriors. My wife has taken liberties. She provokes me.’ He stretch out his arms. The armor flashed. 'You provoke me.”
>
> I would say the Didact in Halo 4 is very much in character. As for the future of Halo, I believe they need to jump way into the future in order to continue, just as Star Trek The Next Generation jumped ahead about 100 years after the original Star Trek. They need to take a break and explain that after all is said and done, the Galaxy manages to accept some kind of peaceful status. There can be skirmishes or boarder wars or something but take a break from the epic uber, save the Galaxy type battles. Show us how the species interact with each other 100+ years into the future and how more advanced we have all become. After the Galaxy has achieved some level of stability, then they can introduce a new threat.

The breathe of fresh air this would bring is direly needed. It’s just got one problem though if that is to be the springboard for Halo 5: Chief, Arby, Rtas, Hood, Blue team, Halsey, etc… all the characters we know and love probably won’t be around that long. At the very least Chief, Arby, Hood and Rtas. They are pretty much the only main game characters left.

Assuming they even want a future galaxy like that, it involves having to choose between that and our characters; the characters unfortunately live in status quo town. I’m not sure I really want to see a future pluralistic galaxy that badly that I would just abandon most of the fictions characters, at least not yet; it isn’t to say I wouldn’t want to see it though. I wish they acknowledged the future developments of lifespan elongating research over the span of 500 years, then this might not be a problem. Barely making it to 100 seems to be underestimating Human development a wee bit.

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> > Halo Cryptum Page 82
> >
> > “He pointed to Riser. ‘Little human, I know your kind. You are of ancient form. I asked you be preserved, because you are peaceful yet full of cleverness. Worthy pets to amuse and by low example to instruct our young. But you…’ He swung his finger around to Chakas. ‘You are too much like the humans who nearly wrecked my fleets and murdered my warriors. My wife has taken liberties. She provokes me.’ He stretch out his arms. The armor flashed. 'You provoke me.”
> >
> > I would say the Didact in Halo 4 is very much in character. As for the future of Halo, I believe they need to jump way into the future in order to continue, just as Star Trek The Next Generation jumped ahead about 100 years after the original Star Trek. They need to take a break and explain that after all is said and done, the Galaxy manages to accept some kind of peaceful status. There can be skirmishes or boarder wars or something but take a break from the epic uber, save the Galaxy type battles. Show us how the species interact with each other 100+ years into the future and how more advanced we have all become. After the Galaxy has achieved some level of stability, then they can introduce a new threat.
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> Ah, forgive me, it’s been too long since my last read. I guess I may have just mixed Bornstellar and the Didacts personalities up a bit.
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> -Edit- I just didn’t the Didact would seem so malicious to us. Though I could see why he would do so, it also seems like it goes against his belief in the Mantle doing what he did/tried.
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> And I agree, jump ahead would be a good move, I’d like to see a stable Human government interacting with a stable Sangheili government/society at the very least.
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> <mark>I have a question, I’ve been curious, what’s the governing body of the UNSC, is it the UEG? Or do they both work in tandem and neither really has power over the other, they just have specific duties each follow?</mark>
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> I was just curious if it was like a covert totalitarian government or if it there is still a civilian governing body and if it’s anything like what we have in most of our countries now.

I believe that the UEG is in “power” again. The reason is because the UNSC, or rather ONI has been in complete power and control for 30 something years, so when we find ourselves victorious, ONI goes out of it’s way doing nasty things as i’m sure you know what i’m talking about.

But on the surface the UEG is in “power”.

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> > Halo Cryptum Page 82
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> > “He pointed to Riser. ‘Little human, I know your kind. You are of ancient form. I asked you be preserved, because you are peaceful yet full of cleverness. Worthy pets to amuse and by low example to instruct our young. But you…’ He swung his finger around to Chakas. ‘You are too much like the humans who nearly wrecked my fleets and murdered my warriors. My wife has taken liberties. She provokes me.’ He stretch out his arms. The armor flashed. 'You provoke me.”
> >
> > I would say the Didact in Halo 4 is very much in character. As for the future of Halo, I believe they need to jump way into the future in order to continue, just as Star Trek The Next Generation jumped ahead about 100 years after the original Star Trek. They need to take a break and explain that after all is said and done, the Galaxy manages to accept some kind of peaceful status. There can be skirmishes or boarder wars or something but take a break from the epic uber, save the Galaxy type battles. Show us how the species interact with each other 100+ years into the future and how more advanced we have all become. After the Galaxy has achieved some level of stability, then they can introduce a new threat.
>
> The breathe of fresh air this would bring is direly needed. It’s just got one problem though if that is to be the springboard for Halo 5: Chief, Arby, Rtas, Hood, Blue team, Halsey, etc… all the characters we know and love probably won’t be around that long. At the very least Chief, Arby, Hood and Rtas. They are pretty much the only main game characters left.
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> Assuming they even want a future galaxy like that, it involves having to choose between that and our characters; the characters unfortunately live in status quo town. I’m not sure I really want to see a future pluralistic galaxy that badly that I would just abandon most of the fictions characters, at least not yet; it isn’t to say I wouldn’t want to see it though. I wish they acknowledged the future developments of lifespan elongating research over the span of 500 years, then this might not be a problem. Barely making it to 100 seems to be underestimating Human development a wee bit.

Oh well I didn’t mean to say Halo 5 should be like that. The series as it is should definitely go on through 5 and 6 with the Master Chief and company, but once that has concluded they should jump forward. I would honestly like to see a little bit of Mass Effect in the Halo series. Nothing too drastic of course but I like the idea of being given a personal ship with various missions spread across several different worlds which you can pick and choose you want to visit first. Naturally it should remain a First Person shooter but it would be nice to have more choices as well.

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When asked why I like I Halo by folks, I reply, “My Dad had Star Trek, I have Halo.”

I’m 45, my Dad was a big trekkie of the original series, Star Wars, while I liked it, never did a great deal for me. I certainly loved the newer iterations of Star Trek as well.

What caught my imagination was Aliens. That industrial, military space horror. The Alien franchise stalled out, it even parted ways with what was the most sound element of the films, the marines.

My wife wanted to get an XBox and play Halo. WHY" Because on the Big Bang Theory, Wednesdays were Halo night. Suffice it to say after the Xbox and H3, I was hooked, she wasn’t and discovered through Waypoint the expanded universe, the novels, the other games. Forgotten were the colonial marines, now the ranks of the UNSC, the decades old war with the covenant, the on-hiatus insurrection, the grand mystery that were the forerunners and the fate of the reclaimer, Master CHief took hold of my imagination.

With this post, I’m not going to expound on the plot etc, Sir Boobington, rather I just wanted to annotate and agree with your original post.

“My Dad had Star Trek, I have Halo.”

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I think, even if Halo 6 is Halo’s “grand finale”, there is a good possibility that more could be made of it. Not only that, it could be made well.

I’ve brought this up before elsewhere, here’s what I think would be a good step to take if they wished to continue the series:

  1. Major timeskip: taking place hundreds, if not thousand of years in the future. All the characters we know from the original trilogy are legends to the galaxy’s community, the different races are up on their feet again, recovered from the Human-Covie/Human-Forerunner/Human-Flood/Precursor wars. The Elites have succesfully set up a government, the Jackals play mercenary with just a few colonies set up in asteroid belts and such, Grunts are client-races to the others (even humans could utilize them, thought less as slaves and more like servants who work for us in exchange for protection, technology, etc.). New races have been discovered and come into play, etc.

  2. Change the name: “Halo” is about the events directly affected by the firing of the Halos. If this trilogy is the end of the tale of these events, the next should reflect that in the title. Also, it’d prevent a “Halo 7/8/9/onward” thing that just screams “milkin’ it, milkin’ it”.

  3. More focus on the sci-fi and alien aspects: I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m around humans like 99% of the time IRL. Whatever comes after Halo 6 should reflect a world where entire fleshed-out alien cultures coexist, not just little more than cannon-fodder to blow away + characterization just enough to make us want to blow them away. New species are a must, I think.

And personally, I would be ecstatic if there was an open-world feel. Different planets to explore, each with their own flora, fauna, culture, geography, architecture, etc. Introducing new missions, side and main, in a Spartan Ops-esque fashion to ensure maximum replayability and no lack of stagnation in playing the same things over again, etc.

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If Halo is to stay Halo, there’s always going to have to be some war going on. Halo isn’t like Super Mario Bros, where the game has basically been the same since the 80’s and people will still buy it. Since Halo has a progressing timeline, unlike the Mario world, there’s only so much Microsoft can do with it before it starts to get old.

As much as it pains me to say it because I’ve been with Halo since the very beginning, there will be a time in the future when we will no longer play as Master Chief, or the Halo universe will finally be resolved. Assuming that in Halo 6, the story arc of the trilogy is resolved, and 343i doesn’t pull anything like Bungie did with the Legendary Ending in Halo 3, humanity will have assumed the Mantle, control the galaxy, etc. Continuing it after that would be like Disney announcing the new Star Wars trilogy, it’s just not necessary in any way because the story has resolved.

Of course, the chance of that happening is slim to none, since Halo is MGS’s biggest money maker. If MGS wants 343i to continue the Halo story line, at least chronologically, they’re going to have to be VERY creative to make it work. More realistically, I see some sort of prequel, a la Spartan II training, the first encounters with insurrectionists, Harvest all the way up to Reach, or even the Human -Forerunner/Forerunner-Flood Wars. Just look at what Bungie did, after Halo 3, they had nowhere to go with Master Chief and his story, so they backed up and made new characters. That’s what I see happening after Halo 6.

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> The breathe of fresh air this would bring is direly needed. It’s just got one problem though if that is to be the springboard for Halo 5: Chief, Arby, Rtas, Hood, Blue team, Halsey, etc… all the characters we know and love probably won’t be around that long. At the very least Chief, Arby, Hood and Rtas. They are pretty much the only main game characters left.
>
> Assuming they even want a future galaxy like that, it involves having to choose between that and our characters; the characters unfortunately live in status quo town. I’m not sure I really want to see a future pluralistic galaxy that badly that I would just abandon most of the fictions characters, at least not yet; it isn’t to say I wouldn’t want to see it though. I wish they acknowledged the future developments of lifespan elongating research over the span of 500 years, then this might not be a problem. Barely making it to 100 seems to be underestimating Human development a wee bit.

Well, we don’t know what happened to the Chief, what the Librarian did and how it effects him.

But the thing is, it might be cliche’d but the main character could be related to the Chief, son/daughter. And there could be some reoccurring characters, but it should be as fresh as possible. And at the end of 6, they could always leave the Chief’s fate unknown and he just pops back, not as the main character but in a suitable role. There are many possibilities here mind you.

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> I would actually like them to continue with the Master Chief. I have been a Halo fan since Halo CE released all those years ago and I am really glad they’ve given him a bit of a deeper personality now that we’ve had our run with the silent, stoic Chief in Halos 1-3. I believe that with the end of Halo 4’s campaign 343i has many different directions that they can go with Chief’s story. I’m just not too fond of 343’s decision to kill off a series character as important as Cortana in the first game of their new saga. But who knows what could happen. I’d also love to see them flesh out the Forerunner-Flood war in a spinoff game similar to what Bungie did with ODST and Reach. There’s just so many possibilities.
> Nice gamertag btw haha

I agree. I’ve been a halo fan since CE and the Big Lucky Green is the one who got me hooked. (I’ve read all the books multiple times and beat each game on legendary BTW). Now the rest of the characters and the books/games that don’t feature John are good and complement the universe in their own way. But, I’m pretty sure I’d lose interest if the main source of halo lore, (games), didn’t focus around the Chief. How 343 can keep him as the main character for much longer being that he’s in his forties, I don’t know. I’m sure they could use the Librarian changing his genetics to reason this, (e.g. He ages more like the forerunners now.)

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> If Halo is to stay Halo, there’s always going to have to be some war going on. Halo isn’t like Super Mario Bros, where the game has basically been the same since the 80’s and people will still buy it. Since Halo has a progressing timeline, unlike the Mario world, there’s only so much Microsoft can do with it before it starts to get old.
>
> As much as it pains me to say it because I’ve been with Halo since the very beginning, there will be a time in the future when we will no longer play as Master Chief, or the Halo universe will finally be resolved. Assuming that in Halo 6, the story arc of the trilogy is resolved, and 343i doesn’t pull anything like Bungie did with the Legendary Ending in Halo 3, humanity will have assumed the Mantle, control the galaxy, etc. Continuing it after that would be like Disney announcing the <mark>new Star Wars trilogy</mark>, it’s just not necessary in any way because the story has resolved.
>
> Of course, the chance of that happening is slim to none, since Halo is MGS’s biggest money maker. If MGS wants 343i to continue the Halo story line, at least chronologically, they’re going to have to be VERY creative to make it work. More realistically, I see some sort of prequel, a la Spartan II training, the first encounters with insurrectionists, Harvest all the way up to Reach, or even the Human -Forerunner/Forerunner-Flood Wars. Just look at what Bungie did, after Halo 3, they had nowhere to go with Master Chief and his story, so they backed up and made new characters. That’s what I see happening after Halo 6.

As a person who hasn’t read any of the star wars books yet, they probably can do good by making some based off those, in either case, I think Dinsey will do quite well in either case considering what they’ve recently produced…

I have thought about a Human-Forerunner war saga. I think it would be more closely to the old “Red vs Blue” (not the machinima) type in Halo 3. And allow us to play as a different species during matchmaking.

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> Oh well I didn’t mean to say Halo 5 should be like that. The series as it is should definitely go on through 5 and 6 with the Master Chief and company, but once that has concluded they should jump forward. I would honestly like to see a little bit of Mass Effect in the Halo series. Nothing too drastic of course but I like the idea of being given a personal ship with various missions spread across several different worlds which you can pick and choose you want to visit first. Naturally it should remain a First Person shooter but it would be nice to have more choices as well.

That would be quite nice I must say. Part of me wants it to go back during the Forerunner-Human era, but at the same time I don’t want it to do that. Do, that you said does appeal to me a great deal.

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> > Oh well I didn’t mean to say Halo 5 should be like that. The series as it is should definitely go on through 5 and 6 with the Master Chief and company, but once that has concluded they should jump forward. I would honestly like to see a little bit of Mass Effect in the Halo series. Nothing too drastic of course but I like the idea of being given a personal ship with various missions spread across several different worlds which you can pick and choose you want to visit first. Naturally it should remain a First Person shooter but it would be nice to have more choices as well.
>
> That would be quite nice I must say. Part of me wants it to go back during the Forerunner-Human era, but at the same time I don’t want it to do that. Do, that you said does appeal to me a great deal.

I don’t really care for the idea of prequels since they don’t often go over well, although I have to admit that seeing the Human-Forerunner War would be pretty amazing. I suppose it’s because it would involve two Tier 1 civilizations going at it so there would be major sci-fi elements to make it an interesting experience. I just prefer to move forward is all and see how a story and universe evolves.

So why not add a bit of Mass Effect to it or just the RPG/Adventure formula in general? FPS games tend to be Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, etc and that has always been acceptable but I really like the idea of being given a little more freedom. Let me explore the Halo Universe on my own. I can still go to places and shoot aliens but I get to choose which planet I want to go to first. Give side missions, rescue missions, exploration missions, etc.

Edit: I also really like meeting interesting characters from various alien races and having them join your crew. It would be nice to have this feature added as well. I don’t know if the game should become a squad based shooter where you give orders and what not, but they could set it up like Halo 3 and Reach where you had the Arbiter or Noble Team fighting with you. But this time you would get to select which team member or members you want to go with you depending on what talents they have, (Sniper, Swordsman, Demolition, Scout, etc), and what mission you’ll be doing.

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Everything leads me to believe, that end of the Halo 6 is gonna wrap up the main storyline as we know it. At the beginning, there was precursors, and now, as the Timeles One states in Primordium (after 100k zears, wich is now), humanity eill be tested. Flood ? Precursor themslwes ? Hard to say but it is the end of the circle. There is still much to be answered. How Forerunners defeated the Precursors ? Did they survive ? Where they are ? What they are ? But those things , i would say, are part of the story to be told in Halo 5 and halo 6.

If they are to bring another trilogy after Halo 6, wich will follow the story, they must to come up with some damn good ideas.

However. Halo as a franchise exists not only as story of Masterchief, but also as one of the best multiplayer games. So even if the Chief is done, microsoft is gonna bring another portion of Halo multiplayer fun. Question is, what is gonna be the singleplayer portion ? Though question. Haloversum is huge. It could go multiple ways.

I dont fancy the idea of another reach-like prequel wich will follow one of the sidestories from books and even the great ODST are not worthy to cary a main story. 343 is connecting multiplayer with singleplayer so if there are ODST in campaing they would be in multiplayer too, wich doesnt make too much sence as they are not god-like super soldiers and they cant jump and run as a spartans.

One of the idea is prequel with forerunners as main protagonist. Warrior serwants are pretty much like spartans, so there would be no problem connecting singleplayer and multiplayer. And there is much stories to be told from forerunner perspective. But what about the weapons ? There coudlnt be any UNSC weapons in multiplayer wich would be great undertaking. The same goes for ancient humanity, they also could serve as solid multiplayer super-soldiers.But would be players interested in Halo game without spartans ? Maybe, maybe not. And another problem with prequel is, zou always know what is gonna happen in future.

So lets think about another trilogy with spartans. After halo 6, i say Chief is done. Flood is done, Precursors are done. Or…what if Halo 5 and 6 is about winning the war with flood and Halo 7,8,9 about erasing precursor for good ? Hmm.

The main Halo story has been always galactic scale. Epic. Huge. Affecting all and everything in the universe. So what could there be after precursors ? Humanity ofc. I see a story whre humanity becomes ultimate civilization in universe. It has got nothing to fight against and once again, they start to fight against against each other. Fanatic religion ? -Yoink!- like organisation ? And here it comes…Spartans fighting Spartans. Similar stories has been told thousand times, but same goes for original Halo stora. It is all about the approach. I think that could work.

So that is what came up from my mind. And sorry about my english :slight_smile: