So I’m really looking foward to the Halo 4 campaign, probably more than any other Halo game before. The more I think about it the more I get the strange feeling that it is going to end on some big cliffhanger leading into Halo 5 and we will have to wait 3+ years to find out what happens. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing and it could be awesome if done well. I was curious to see if people think a cliffhanger would be good story telling or if you want them to wrap up the Halo 4 story with a slight indication to where the next campaign might be heading.
343i has said that the Halo 4 will end with the battle won, but the war just beginning.
> So I’m really looking foward to the Halo 4 campaign, probably more than any other Halo game before. The more I think about it the more I get the strange feeling that it is going to end on some big cliffhanger leading into Halo 5 and we will have to wait 3+ years to find out what happens. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing and it could be awesome if done well. I was curious to see if people think a cliffhanger would be good story telling or if you want them to wrap up the Halo 4 story with a slight indication to where the next campaign might be heading.
Halo 5’s release year is 2014.
2 Years, not 3.
> 343i has said that the Halo 4 will end with the battle won, but the war just beginning.
That’s promising. Kind of like how Halo CE ended with that particular story being over but so much more left to do leading into Halo 2.
I doubt it could really be that much of a cliffhanger coughcoughhalo2coughcough seeing as there’s Spartan Ops, which happens six months later, so it wouldn’t really make sense to have a mega cliffhanger.
> > 343i has said that the Halo 4 will end with the battle won, but the war just beginning.
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> That’s promising. Kind of like how Halo CE ended with that particular story being over but so much more left to do leading into Halo 2.
This is pretty much exactly how I think it’ll go down in the end. As a writer, I’ve built this philosophy that when making a trilogy, the best thing to do is ensure that the first installment can work as a stand-alone story in the event that future plans don’t come to fruition, but with enough left open that it will be more rewarding in the long-run. Halo CE, in my mind, had the perfect ending for a first installment–it left enough open that you continue to ask questions and hope for it to continue, but it still comes to a neat little close as a stand-alone work. Since Halo 4 is the beginning of a new trilogy, I think it’ll end in much the same fashion.
Not to mention I don’t think it would feel right to have waited five years for an unfinished story, IMO. I love the Halo series, but I won’t deny that those cliffhangers are damn-near torturous. XD
> > So I’m really looking foward to the Halo 4 campaign, probably more than any other Halo game before. The more I think about it the more I get the strange feeling that it is going to end on some big cliffhanger leading into Halo 5 and we will have to wait 3+ years to find out what happens. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing and it could be awesome if done well. I was curious to see if people think a cliffhanger would be good story telling or if you want them to wrap up the Halo 4 story with a slight indication to where the next campaign might be heading.
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> Halo 5’s release year is 2014.
> 2 Years, not 3.
I really hope two years is enough to release the second game in the Reclaimer saga.
> > > 343i has said that the Halo 4 will end with the battle won, but the war just beginning.
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> > That’s promising. Kind of like how Halo CE ended with that particular story being over but so much more left to do leading into Halo 2.
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> This is pretty much exactly how I think it’ll go down in the end. As a writer, I’ve built this philosophy that when making a trilogy, the best thing to do is ensure that the first installment can work as a stand-alone story in the event that future plans don’t come to fruition, but with enough left open that it will be more rewarding in the long-run. Halo CE, in my mind, had the perfect ending for a first installment–it left enough open that you continue to ask questions and hope for it to continue, but it still comes to a neat little close as a stand-alone work. Since Halo 4 is the beginning of a new trilogy, I think it’ll end in much the same fashion.
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> Not to mention I don’t think it would feel right to have waited five years for an unfinished story, IMO. I love the Halo series, but I won’t deny that those cliffhangers are damn-near torturous. XD
I definitely agree with you. Being a fan of a lot of different film trilogies as well this may help explain why the second film in a trilogy always seems the weakest to me. They are always that bridge between that story you fall in love with and the finale. This is prbably why they tend to have cliffhangers as well. If Halo 4 goes a similar route as CE I think the Reclaimer Trilogy will be off to a great start. I enjoyed Halo 2, but of the 3 it was probably my least favorite story.