So I was thinking lately. About how much got removed or cut from Halo 2 before launch. Like dismemberment, 2 warthog runs, an awesome enemy(the flood juggernaut), vehicles, etc. And I think it would be cool to attempt to make a separate version of Halo 2 (maybe into MCC). That reaches Bungie’s visions on their game (possibly without intersecting Halo 3’s story since halo 2 got split up and became Halo 3 so it would be redundant). I realize this would be a whole project but could likely pan out. Also this could get controversial. But I don’t think it will. Because it’s just restoration. This would be something cool after Halo Infinite launches.
I also don’t know if this is the right forum to post in. So…
I am taking risks on this awesome idea
As much as I would like to see stuff like this happen, I think once all the Seasons are out for the game, most of the Halo: The Master Chief Collection team would move on to Halo: Infinite, just like what happened with Halo 5: Guardians. I could be wrong though (I hope I am).
Maybe it could be its own playlist in the Halo 2 menu? It could be listed as Cut Content - Play through a variety of missions featuring cut content. This playlist supports co-op.
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> As much as I would like to see stuff like this happen, I think once all the Seasons are out for the game, most of the Halo: The Master Chief Collection team would move on to Halo: Infinite, just like what happened with Halo 5: Guardians. I could be wrong though (I hope I am).
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> Maybe it could be its own playlist in the Halo 2 menu? It could be listed as Cut Content - Play through a variety of missions featuring cut content. This playlist supports co-op.
I really hope it happens, I would be willing to forgive 343 for some things if they did this
I think 343 could bring removed content for multiplayer, like Assault Rifle or Moongose, but pulling campaigns and that would be quite difficult, but a modifier could do that when 343 create the tool that they promised.
I think that this would be a better mod than something 343 would work on, I think they’re not planning on doing something that big because of Halo Infinite and seasons but I could see a Modder doing it.
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> I think that this would be a better mod than something 343 would work on, I think they’re not planning on doing something that big because of Halo Infinite and seasons but I could see a Modder doing it.
It’s definitely something worthy of being done. In my eyes at least.
I think I saw content removed from Halo 2, it was when I got to the forerunner ship on another ride through warthog or banshee, but I don’t remember well anymore, but there were cuts, there were.
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> I think that this would be a better mod than something 343 would work on, I think they’re not planning on doing something that big because of Halo Infinite and seasons but I could see a Modder doing it.
True. I think something in the same vein as KOTOR 2 restored content mod but with Halo 2, with the cut levels, enemies, etc. and a more fine-tuned difficulty would result in the best Halo and maybe one of the best games ever made.
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> > I think that this would be a better mod than something 343 would work on, I think they’re not planning on doing something that big because of Halo Infinite and seasons but I could see a Modder doing it.
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> True. I think something in the same vein as KOTOR 2 restored content mod but with Halo 2, with the cut levels, enemies, etc. and a more fine-tuned difficulty would result in the best Halo and maybe one of the best games ever made.
Yeah i think this is definitely entering the space of fan mod territory rather than main game. We have a lot of information about what was cut, but not convinced we have a lot of resources the team could work from. Plus I seem to recall that the MCC H2 is more closely related to the later Windows release - would anything which does exist even work for that without significant work?
Plus also worth noting that a lot of cut content from the campaign would now directly contradict canon.
I would like to see it happening
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> So I was thinking lately. About how much got removed or cut from Halo 2 before launch. Like dismemberment, 2 warthog runs, an awesome enemy(the flood juggernaut), vehicles, etc. And I think it would be cool to attempt to make a separate version of Halo 2 (maybe into MCC). That reaches Bungie’s visions on their game (possibly without intersecting Halo 3’s story since halo 2 got split up and became Halo 3 so it would be redundant). I realize this would be a whole project but could likely pan out. Also this could get controversial. But I don’t think it will. Because it’s just restoration. This would be something cool after Halo Infinite launches.
I don’t think there’s really a, for lack of a better term “Snyder Cut” of Halo 2.
There are definitely ideas, and even some footage (the Halo 2 E3 2003 demo comes to mind), but even that’s barely playable.
Since all of that is now property of 343, I have my doubts that they would try and revisit a 17 year old game and release odds and ends, especially with a new launch on the horizon. A modder could get in and play with some things, but it would be pretty fragmented.
I would guess that a large portion of the cut content in Halo 2 (like many other games) landed in the rubbish bin and it’s probably extremely difficult to restore these assets. The assets that may be easiest to restore is the assets that got cut relatively late in the game development but still exist to a large extent in the game files like the Warthog run in the mission High Charity.