As we’re all aware, it’s highly probable that after Halo 5: Guardians, there’ll be another spin-off game, much like Halo Reach and Halo 3: ODST, released somewhere down the line. Ever since ODST dropped (pun intended) people have been asking for a sequel.
For those who have read Halo: Initiation and know of the upcoming novel, Halo: New Blood, you may know where this is going. For those not in the loop, Sarah Palmer was an ODST, and was recruited by Jun into the Spartan-IV program. She was the first S-IV. The upcoming novel is about our beloved Gunney, Eddie Buck, and how he’s faced with the choice of, that’s right, becoming a Spartan-IV. Whether or not he accepts is still just speculation at the moment, but for the sake of this thread, let’s assume he does, after all… if he were any better, he’d be a Spartan.
Personally, after reading Halo: Initiation and Halo: Escalation, and playing Spartan Ops and Halo: Spartan Assault, I think Palmer is an interesting character with enough backstory and plenty of room to develop into an iconic character, and holds the potential to rightfully own the title of a fully-fledged badass.
Now, for the sake of argument, let’s say we’re getting a spin-off game, and let’s say that this spin-off is the long awaited sequel to Halo 3: ODST. What would you guys think of an ODST-style perspective-changing game headlined by Palmer and Buck, both ODSTs-turned-Spartans?
After Spartan Ops disappointed (even though it had beautiful, badass cutscenes), I think something along these lines is a step in the right direction, as it would play like previous Halo games, and the gameplay wouldn’t feel disjointed and recycled, like it did in Spartan Ops.
I also would love to see a sequel to Halo 3: ODST in the form of a video game, but Halo: New Blood is totally on my wishlist as I love reading the novels, eh. And after reading Halo: Initiation, Halo: Escalation, and playing Spartan Ops, Halo: Spartan Assault I too think Sarah Palmer is a pretty interesting character and has lots of potential, and the idea of having both her and Buck as the main characters of sorts in a new video game sounds pretty great, eh. Although it would be nice to see the return of the other ODST’s featured in Halo: 3 ODST along with Jun-A266 and possibly Musa-096 and the other Spartan IV’s we see in Spartan Ops, Spartan Assault and the comics(Initiation, Escalation).
I do not think there’s a second part since that game simply narrated the events that occurred with this group of marines during Halo 2 also do not think that a Marine can with Prometheus
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> I do not think there’s a second part since that game simply narrated the events that occurred with this group of marines during Halo 2 also do not think that a Marine can with Prometheus
That makes no sense…
Obviously it wouldn’t be called Halo 3: ODST 2, but it could be a continuation of their story, and hence a sequel to ODST.
I would personally like to see another ODST title. Unless it is a flashback, I doubt we will see the return of some of our favorites-turned-spartan. Still, I enjoyed the thrill of facing enemies I’ve learned to predict as a spartan with the slower, stealthier approach of a mere human. Perhaps a new class of ODST facing against prometheans?
With all the New Blood info out, does anyone think it’d be cool to have a sequel with similar content and narrative?
What I mean is, the way Buck tells his story (and he could narrate cutscenes in the game even) could be the way the game would play out–slow-burn storytelling, the narration you sometimes hear in noir films, and the narrative structuring of something like True Detective, for those that have seen the show.
We’d follow the respective members of the squad before they became Alpha-Nine–there’s enough info on their pasts to give them each a mission (Dutch at Tribute, Romeo on Mamore, Rookie at Mount Haven, etc)–and then follow their Alpha-Nine exploits sans New Mombasa, i.e. late Battle of Earth from the ONI Orbital Station onward. To keep the ODST aspect pure, it could end before they become Spartans and we know the rest.
How often has a book content been heavily transitioned into game content?