I’m very excited for Halo 5s campaign and can’t wait to battle the Covenant hordes once more. One thing I’m really hoping for though, is a variety of more light-hearted “just for fun” non-scoring (silver) skull choices. I loved playing with skulls like Bandana and the scarab gun skull in the Anniversary games, but I am worried that since 343 excluded skulls like these from Halo 4 (released after Halo Anniversary) that they want to keep the main titles serious and save non-serious skulls for anniversary games.
How do you feel about this? Should Halo 5 have fun skulls like the Anniversary games, or should they keep them serious and challenging only? I personally think that with the emphasis on sandbox gameplay and choosing your own path, casual skulls would add epic amounts of replayability.
Of course they should. It’s nearly a staple feature of the franchise.
The Bandanna Skull is my personal favorite. Hopefully it’s in Halo 5.
343i said a long time ago they made a skull for CEA (or 4, I dont recall which) that was cut that would replace all gun sounds with staff of 343i imitating gun noises vocally, like actually shouting BANG! BANG! BANG! When firing the pistol for example.
I would love to see a skull like that in 5.
the non scoring skulls can be awesome fun, best examples include grunt birthday party and ‘i would have been your daddy’ (but a dog beat me over the fence) because confetti and one liners are awesome (especially with buck involved)
But, big but here, some of them are -Yoinking!- scary on higher difficulties;
boom, double explosive radius
ghost, ai no longer flinch from attacks
grunt funeral, grunts explode like plasma grenades when they die
seriously, you can’t be anywhere near anything grunt shaped with those skulls on and elites will sponge a rocket and not give a -Yoink- on legendary, add those to maybe catch (AI throw -Yoink- tons of grenades) and legendary becomes nigh impossible anytime a grunt is envolved
> 2533274799135257;4:
> 343i said a long time ago they made a skull for CEA (or 4, I dont recall which) that was cut that would replace all gun sounds with staff of 343i imitating gun noises vocally, like actually shouting BANG! BANG! BANG! When firing the pistol for example.
>
> I would love to see a skull like that in 5.
Skulls like that would be fun and interesting. Halo needs some more “outside the box” skulls like Prophet birthday party, or a big head mode skull. A skull that would make grunts the size of hunters sounds pretty crazy too.
A skull that makes using GP have the power of 1000’s stickies simultaneously exploding would be fun.
Do you think IWHBYD will make a return?
> 2533274799135257;4:
> 343i said a long time ago they made a skull for CEA (or 4, I dont recall which) that was cut that would replace all gun sounds with staff of 343i imitating gun noises vocally, like actually shouting BANG! BANG! BANG! When firing the pistol for example.
>
> I would love to see a skull like that in 5.
that would be amazing. If that does t happen I will not buy halo 5. Simple as that. JK. But I really so hope that they would do that. Also why did they cut it
Elie birthday party…
…-Yoink- yes…
Hopefully see them back 
They are part of Halo essence!
> 2533274974984138;10:
> Elie birthday party…
> …-Yoink- yes…
Hunter birthday party please. Also Elite and Hunter funeral.
> 2533274799135257;4:
> 343i said a long time ago they made a skull for CEA (or 4, I dont recall which) that was cut that would replace all gun sounds with staff of 343i imitating gun noises vocally, like actually shouting BANG! BANG! BANG! When firing the pistol for example.
>
> I would love to see a skull like that in 5.
This would make my day
> 2533274805751874;8:
> Do you think IWHBYD will make a return?
If it was removed, I will be a sad person
There’s really not an argument against them. Don’t like that the skulls make the game less serious or less challenging? Then don’t use them.