How many of you will be satisfied with a, “Cliffhanger” ending to Halo 4? Bungie left gamers on the edge of their seats with the ending to Halo 2; creating controversy and distaste to gamers expecting more plot development and finality. 343i has already stated that Halo 5 and 6 are on the way so if Halo 4 ends abruptly, how many of us will be satisfied knowing that sequels are on the way??
I am sure we will get some form of closure to the events in Halo 4, paving the way for Halo 5 possibly with the help of Spartan Ops.
Halo 4 will most likely not have a ‘‘Cliffhanger’’ ending, due to Spartan Ops picking up the story after campaign.
We’ll most like be getting some sort of closure.
I think they’re wise to the outrage from Halo 2. I doubt they’ll ring that bell again.
However, an ending with a bit of closure, and then an added cliffhanger extra-scene would be fine.
> Halo 4 will most likely not have a ‘‘Cliffhanger’’ ending, due to Spartan Ops picking up the story after campaign.
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> We’ll most like be getting some sort of closure.
SpartanOps definitely continues the story past Halo 4’s ending. However, there has been no official word to my knowledge of SpartanOps being a direct link to the beginning of Halo 5. I mean, it makes sense if it were, but exactly how much of a lead-in to Halo 5 it will be is probably still up in the air. I wouldn’t want the last SpartanOps mission to reveal exactly how Halo 5 will begin, unless the last mission comes out fairly close to the Halo 5 release date.
Cliffhangers are a sign of either poor planning or poor story telling. In the case of Halo 2, the game had brilliant story telling, best in the series, but they planned poorly (something they admitted to) and as such there was a cliffhanger. It wasn’t a terrible cliffhanger. The installation 05 plot with Tartarus was tied up but there wasn’t any build up to the Chief’s ending. It was just cut off with a cheesy line.
Hah, remember Halo 2?
I was pissed for days 
Every Halo ends with a cliffhanger!
Halo 1: “No, we’re just getting started”
Halo 2: “Sir… Finishing this fight”
Halo 3: “Wake me… When you need me.” then it pans out to Chief and Cortana heading to a giant unknown planet.
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I wouldn’t mind a cliffhanger. I didn’t mind Halo 2’s cliffhanger. I think people need to grow up and realize that cliffhangers aren’t personal insults.
From what I’ve gathered it ends as follows…
It ends with the UNSC loading up a pelican inside the UNSC Infinity, getting ready for a big war. So, that sounds pretty cliffhangerish to me.+1 to Conan O’Brien’s possible IWHBYD dialog inclusion!
> From what I’ve gathered it ends as follows…
> It ends with the UNSC loading up a pelican inside the UNSC Infinity, getting ready for a big war. So, that sounds pretty cliffhangerish to me.+1 to Conan O’Brien’s possible IWHBYD dialog inclusion!
HOW THE -Yoink- ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT? I’m calling BS!
> > From what I’ve gathered it ends as follows…
> > It ends with the UNSC loading up a pelican inside the UNSC Infinity, getting ready for a big war. So, that sounds pretty cliffhangerish to me.+1 to Conan O’Brien’s possible IWHBYD dialog inclusion!
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> HOW THE -Yoink!- ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT? I’m calling BS!
Check out this link
Possible spoilers ensue. Watch at your own risk.
Franky explains it to him though.
> > > From what I’ve gathered it ends as follows…
> > > It ends with the UNSC loading up a pelican inside the UNSC Infinity, getting ready for a big war. So, that sounds pretty cliffhangerish to me.+1 to Conan O’Brien’s possible IWHBYD dialog inclusion!
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> > HOW THE -Yoink!- ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT? I’m calling BS!
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> Check out this link
> Possible spoilers ensue. Watch at your own risk.
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> Franky explains it to him though.
“Near the end of the game, They’re about to go to war, and Soldiers are living up the moment” No idea how you got the pelican thing there, but they might finish the war, I remember in Halo legends Cortana said something along the lines of “When we find the answer to a question, plenty more ask themselves.” Maybe it the end they find something to have a Halo 5 and 6 about?
He says “The last thing [the Master Chief] sees…”
> He says “The last thing [the Master Chief] sees…”
They’re about to go to war and the last thing chief sees… Maybe they go to war at the end!
> Every Halo ends with a cliffhanger!
> Halo 1: “No, we’re just getting started”
> Halo 2: “Sir… Finishing this fight”
> Halo 3: “Wake me… When you need me.” then it pans out to Chief and Cortana heading to a giant unknown planet.
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> /thread.
I think you’re confused about what a cliffhanger is.
Halo 1: Not a cliffhanger. There was no conflict going on that abruptly ended. The human/Covenant war was obviously still going on, but I am talking a specific fight; there was no battle going on when he said that line. It was just a hint to a possible second game.
Halo 2: DEFINITELY a cliffhanger. You’re in the middle of a mission/battle, and instead of finishing it… black screen. It’d be like if Reach ended in the middle of “The Package”, once you are handed Cortana. It’s that sense of “wait… aren’t I supposed to do something after this?!” Halo 1 didn’t end that way. By the end, you felt like you had accomplished your mission.
Halo 3: Again, not a cliffhanger. Just a hint that there MAY be another game, there may not. The Halo was destroyed, you escaped, and you were finally resting. That’s closure.
As you see, there really only was 1 REAL cliffhanger ending.
Won’t mind a cliffhanger but I won’t be mad if there is one. We already know that there will be 2 more Halo games after Halo 4
i would be perfectly fine with it, it just makes me more hyped for the next game 
From what I’ve been able to gather, I say it is likely that there will be some sort of a cliffhanger. My theory is that we go through a portal which leads to the Forerunner home world, with the debris from Mendicant’s attack still orbiting the planet, hence the Halo and damaged planet we see in the title screen.
I like cliffhangers. Unless, of course, they decide to never make a sequel.