They added Emile and Kat to Gears 5, so why not add something to Halo from Gears?
You could add the Markza, or the Boltok,or the Shock grenade?
Emile and Kat being added to Gears was a cross-promotional thing. If there is another Gears game coming out soon (I don’t believe there is, but correct me if I’m wrong) then a cross-promotion like this could work. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be much point in adding Gears weapons to Halo. Even if there was reason to create a cross-promotion, I’d prefer it not be a weapon. Halo’s sandbox is already pretty full, if not overflowing. Adding another weapon would likely just muddy the sandbox. An armor set would be more doable imo.
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> They added Emile and Kat to Gears 5, so why not add something to Halo from Gears?
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> You could add the Markza, or the Boltok,or the Shock grenade?
I absolutely think they should. I’d love to see, maybe in a firefight mode, the ability to use the voice or character model of Marcus Fenix, or to pick up a Lancer on the battlefield.
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> > They added Emile and Kat to Gears 5, so why not add something to Halo from Gears?
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> > You could add the Markza, or the Boltok,or the Shock grenade?
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> I absolutely think they should. I’d love to see, maybe in a firefight mode, the ability to use the voice or character model of Marcus Fenix, or to pick up a Lancer on the battlefield.
A legendary variant of the AR, but the energy bayonet looks like an energy chainsaw blade >.>
If 343i put the effort in to to get the mature rating back for Halo then I’d say the only weapon I wouldn’t mind seeing is the Lancer.
Ehhh I think that’d be a little weird. Maybe have a skin but not the actual gun? For example, Lancer skin for the AR.
I think it would be fun to add some sort of reference or nod off, but a weapon might not completely fit given the nature of Halo’s multiplayer needing to be lore friendly. That said, we did get a H1 pistol in the H5, so maybe that really doesn’t matter at this point.
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> I think it would be fun to add some sort of reference or nod off, but a weapon might not completely fit given the nature of Halo’s multiplayer needing to be lore friendly. That said, we did get a H1 pistol in the H5, so maybe that really doesn’t matter at this point.
Yeah… 343’s preference for treating all lore as equal certainly has some drawbacks. If we had the Bungie attitude of “only game lore is important, everything else is secondary”, then there would be a lot more flexibility. Given how the franchise is being handled now, it seems Halo isn’t very “plays well with others” friendly when it comes to stuff like this.
As for the CE pistol being in H5, the lore reasoning I believe is that H5’s MP is a war games simulator, so any weapon you want should theoretically be available to the war games participant. But again I bring up the overarching issue: 343 has put itself in this weird position where they have to provide an obscure lore reference for every decision they make. Instead of just acknowledging that this is a game franchise where the “rule of cool” should be paramount, 343 is stuck having to drum up some convoluted lore reference for every decision they make.
An assault rifle skin with a chainsaw would be cool. As a nod.
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> If 343i put the effort in to to get the mature rating back for Halo then I’d say the only weapon I wouldn’t mind seeing is the Lancer.
If they put in the Lancer, they would have to make animations for its chainsaw mechanic, and that will probably take a lot of time and will cause problems as well.
Better to just include armor or something simple like the Ink grenade, or the Markza.
Maybe an armour coating or something, rather than a weapon
I mean logistically speaking I can see maybe an Emblem or Armor that could be a Gears Reference but I’m not sure a whole Weapon might be viable since they would have to make entire Animations for it while also making sure it’s Balanced for Gameplay.
Maybe even a gears social playlist, wouldn’t know how that would work but would be cool nonetheless haha
The most I could see is a weapon skin with the Gears logo on it. Unfortunately, Gears weapons in Halo would be 1. Redundant, and 2. The art styles would not blend well. Halo has always (at least when its good) had a sort of mysterious, somewhat whimsical art style, whereas Gears is more the dark hyper grit of the 2000s.