Although I like the current Halo 5 menu screen, I prefer the one used for the Beta because it was more atmospheric and I liked the fact that it had moving characters. The planet looming in the background was also impressive.
I’m wondering if there’s any possibility of 343 providing an option to switch between the menu screens in the MOR update that is due to be released? Maybe the option could be “Select command centre” or something like that. I would personally like to be able to choose between the menu screens.
Which one do you prefer?
Anything other than a still picture of the Infinity that takes up half of the screen, a random grey planet, and tiny ships flying around every once in a while. How do we get fully animated and unique menus in the previous games, but are now left with something so drab and boring? Like who made the decision to scrap the much cooler beta main menu for this? The latter looks like it should have been the beta menu.
I agree, thought the beta screen was much better.
I really liked the Reach title screen. Really, now that I think about it, all of them were pretty fantastic except for H5’s and H4’s. Sure, these are my personal opinions, but what 343i has been doing from an artistic standpoint with these title screens is they’ve been putting a far off view of the story or where it’s happening on the screen. Think back to Halo 2’s, Halo 3’s, or Halo: Reach’s title screens. Halo 2 and 3 put you right in the action. The middle of an actual covenant invasion on Earth. Showing the real destruction and what happened. My personal favorite, Halo: Reach had a view of what Reach looked like. From a lore standpoint, Reach was the home of the Spartans, the starting point. It was showing what the Spartans’ home was, this mysterious planet that most people hadn’t heard of, and if they had, it was a planet they’d only imagined given life. Halo 4 and 5? They’re not bad, yeah, but in H4, you just have a silhouetted view of requiem. A planet that’s already got a shield on it. So it’s just a grey sphere. really fun to look at. H5? The infinity. A ship that has HARDLY anything to do with what actually happened in H5’s story (I know that it’s a really important story piece for halo, but it wasn’t even seen that much in H5). You know how much cooler it’d’ve been to have the title screen be on say, Sangelios, during the battle of Sunaion? Sure, the battle was only a fragment of the game, but so was the battle in New Mombasa in Halo 2. Another advance that I have liked from H2/H3 to Reach and on is the color. Reach really broke away from the H2/3 blue screen and only kinda detail.
Long story short, I really think they need to give a more gritty personal perspective of the war that’s taking place for the title screens as Halos before have done. In Halo 6, I’d like to see a different place as the title screen. Not the Infinity, because it’s so bland, but something like an alien world but close up. You feel me?
Does 343 still it have stored or would it have been deleted? I’ll be grateful if they gave us an option to choose which one we could use, if they still have it.
and also the Infinity barely did anything in Halo 5’s story so why the hell is it the center of attention in the main menu?
The beta menu seemed more like a finished menu compared to the current one. I remember seeing this menu at a prerelease event and thinking that it was just a placeholder… you could guess my disappointmentwhen I found out it wasn’t.
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> The beta menu seemed more like a finished menu compared to the current one. I remember seeing this menu at a prerelease event and thinking that it was just a placeholder… you could guess my disappointmentwhen I found out it wasn’t.
Maybe the Beta screen was too expensive to keep permanently?
The beta did a lot of things better as far as UI and presentation go. Plus the lighting effects in the beta were gorgeous in comparison to the actual release.
This would be amazing. The one we have now is kinda boring and isn’t really beautiful. The previous titles which other posters here talk about look much better.
I miss the H2 and H3 menus
Just remove the Infinity and it would be way better. That thing is blocking everything and it doesn’t give those great views we saw in games like Halo 3, Reach and 4.
It’s okay, it could be better. I’m more concerned with the UI working properly at this point though.
Efficiency first, then design.
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> The beta did a lot of things better as far as UI and presentation go. Plus the lighting effects in the beta were gorgeous in comparison to the actual release.
I don’t know whether this is still possible as the game has been out for quite a bit. But it woul be fun if sometime before Hog Wild, 343 released a mini-update called “Beta highlights” which contained people’s favourite things from the Beta back into the game.( I’m not talking about massive changes, just cosmetics)
My selections would be:
Original post-game celebrations by the winning team.
Beta menu screen.
I can agree. When I played the beta I thought the UI and menus looked great. But now it’s a bit dissapointing.
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> I can agree. When I played the beta I thought the UI and menus looked great. But now it’s a bit dissapointing.
I’m happy with how Halo 5 turned out, as I enjoy Warzone and I’m looking forward to Warzone Firefight and I’m pleased with the amount of customization options that are available. But I feel that, as you said, that it would better if 343 had kept some parts of the Beta the final game.
I would honestly love to see something similar to Halo CE’s title screen again. It was simple, but cool looking. Plus I miss the actual Halo them playing on the main menu.
The UI from the beta was better in every single way that I can remember.
I have my xbox set up at my desk and it’s almost always on, and always on the Halo title screen, so in a lot of ways I’d really like to see a more aesthetically pleasing menu but to be completely honest it doesn’t make that much of a difference. It is/was definitely weird to see the menu changed from the beta given the general consensus I’ve seen online since its reveal though.
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> I would honestly love to see something similar to Halo CE’s title screen again. It was simple, but cool looking. Plus I miss the actual Halo them playing on the main menu.
I’m with you on the CE menus, I think the way the camera pans around the Halo makes it look very impressive.
One of the things I like about Halo: Reach is that there are different painted backgrounds for the custom, Firefight, campaign, and matchmaking menus and if 343 added a similar thing to Halo 5 I think it would an excellent addition.
I think that most of the Beta UI was better, especially the concept beta UI!