The following are 3 categories of features that should be included in a possible “MEGA EDITION” of Halo 4’s Forge. They are sorted by “Necessity” (absolutely necessary for Forge to be complete), “Nice to have” (bonus), and “Impossible but would be frigging awesome” (sounds ridiculous but I don’t care because it would be insanely awesome). BAM:
Necessity
Forge World-style map - Forge World was amazing in Reach. Halo 4 doesn’t really have anything on that scale, and it really needs it, IMO. Some maps are nice for forging, but none of them are really GREAT for forging. They aren’t big or blank canvas-like enough.
Nice to have
Pelican - Come on now. It took more than a decade for a pelican to even be drivable in the campaign of a Halo game. That was the first big step. Let’s take the next big step within that same game - bring the pelican to multiplayer. Please. And with passenger seats. Please do not pull the Reach “Falcon has seats in campaign but not in multiplayer” bullcrap. Please.
Other UNSC flying vehicles - We don’t have any. Kind of fits with the “pelican” feature, but I’m just saying, I don’t object to having a hornet/falcon in the game either.
Impossible but would be frigging awesome
Longbow/Longsword - To be honest, I don’t remember what that jet-like vehicle was near the end of the campaign, but whatever it was, we gotta have it in Forge. Sounds crazy. But don’t tell me that it wouldn’t be amazing to design a course where you have to dodge stuff at incredibly high speeds, because everybody likes that. If you liked that campaign mission, you would like this. It would also be nice if the vehicle came with other associated forge objects - stuff that was also included in the campaign level that would make sense in an obstacle-dodging map.
Elephant - Please.
Mammoth - Holy crapfart, please.
Scarab - I don’t care if it sounds infeasible, because this would be frigging unbelievable. I’m talking Halo 3 scarabs. Maybe even a new gametype. To be honest, this deserves its own thread, maybe even its own set of Encyclopedia Britannica volumes. Can you not imagine this? Let me help you: massive forge-world style map. Your team starts on one end, scarab on the other. The scarab kind of roams around on its own (or is controlled by the other team, if it makes you happy). You come in on a pelican, the sergeant is giving you a pep-talk that consists of telling you why people like you live for battles like these, and your buddy in the seat next to you, who is the arrogant-but-nice guy, is telling you that his girlfriend is waiting for him back home. And then your pelican is above the scarab.
“Showtime, marines!” The sergeant says.
Your buddy nods and has a grin on his face. This situation wouldn’t be complete without a pun.
“See you next fall.”
And then you all jump, and use jetpack to slow your decent prior to landing on the top of the scarab. The pelican is busy strafing around the scarab, trying to draw its beam and turrets off the crew. You know, the crew that will be REMEMBERED FOR THE REST OF TIME BOTH IN SONG AND IN STORY. Your buddy whips out a shotgun and runs into the depths of the scarab, and you’re trying to control the top.
It’s all going well. Textbook crap. By-the-book mission.
You controlled the top with your beam rifle and you head below-deck. Your whole 5-man crew is alive and sounding off. You head into the belly of the beast and see your buddy staring at the core.
“All we gotta do is blow this thing and we can go home,” he says.
“I know.”
“We didn’t even have to take out the knees, man.”
“I know.”
“Shouldn’t you be a little more excited than that?” He says.
You suddenly look surprised. You see a figure coming behind him. He has a fuel rod gun.
“NO!” You yell, but it’s too late. The enemy takes your buddy along with himself, and since that was his last fuel rod, you can’t even pick the weapon up. Fueled by rage, and rage alone, you melee the core until it explodes. You get the sergeant on the mic: “Sarge, we got a man down and a scarab that’s about to blow purple flames out of every single one of its -Yoinks!-, we need evac!”
“Sorry marine, I’m trying to draw this scarab’s fire and I can’t get in close enough. Jetpack to the ground and run for it!”
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That would be amazing. If anything can bring poetry to a television screen, it would be a scarab being placed in Forge. It’s also not a coincidence that the scarab scenario (I would personally call it literature) also involved a Forge World-map and pelicans with passenger seats, two features discussed earlier in this post. Did I mention that I would pay money for this? As in $30?
And that’s all I got. This shouldn’t be hard to implement. I did the hardest part - I sat on a forum and threw ideas at the screen. All you guys have to do is make the models, make a map, coordinate it with each other, test it (a lot), sound effects, etc.
Ideas?
