The story in Halo 5 Guardians needs to introduce an entirely new enemy alien civilization to Halo.
Not the already broken and defeated Covenant and/ or a Covenant faction like the storm.
Not the Flood and/or evolved Flood and/or some other group of Flood on some other location.
Not the Forerunners and/or Prometheans and/or some other Forerunner group somewhere.
Halo needs an entirely, genuinely new civilization of some kind of alien force.
I don’t care whether it’s human-like, machine-like, biological, mechanical, god-like etheric deities, zombies, vampires, plants, animalistic aliens, time-travelling humans from the past, or the Jedi.
It just needs something new to give the story of reclaiming control over the Halos to secure them so that something out in space doesn’t set them off and kill us all more meaning.
We need something to secure the Halos FROM.
We already defeated the Covenant; stragglers aren’t exciting.
I really want to see 343 Industries introduce an entirely new enemy civilization of some sort to Halo that wants control of the Halos.
Why would they waste time introducing a new alien civilisation when, as the person above me pointed out, they basically already did that with the Prometheans? The Prometheans themselves, are already a new faction of enemies. And them fighting for control over the Halos isn’t exactly a very original idea, either. Its not just the Covies that did it, but the Flood in The Forerunner Saga, as well.
Contrary to this, i say keep the already existing enemies, but introduce new species of aliens to the Covenant. We saw ‘Giants’ in the Reach demo, which never saw the light of day (for obvious reasons of course, because they more or less served the same purpose as Hunters), but surely they could think of other things. Surely Brutes, Elites, Jackals, Grunts, and Drones aren’t the only aliens that exist in the galaxy. So, do i want a new alien civilisation? No. Do i want additional species added to the existing Covenant? Sure, why not? Hopefully they can create more diverse Promethean factions, too.
There’s a lot of room for change and innovation of the current enemy factions we have.
The covenant we fight are ragtag, but nothing’s really been done to make them look so. Beyond some ugly elite armor they currently don’t feel different.
The prometheans are AI’s who’s guns build themselves out of blocks, I’m sure there’s room for them adapting to their new enemies.
The flood’s precursor origins are revealed, and there’s some pretty heavy implications the next time we see them won’t be a simple outbreak.
The problem with a new species is what do they bring to the table? 343 already struggled to come up with new weapons for the forerunner arsenal. There’d have to be entirely new weapon, vehicle, and enemy classes that don’t feel like repeats of what we have. A goal of simply “secure the rings” just sounds like a less diverse covenant.
It would have to be either the Precursors… or someone of equal distinction? As the so-called new species, would need to come from a distant galaxy; as this one is quite explored, and the Forerunners were struggling with this type of technology.
Anyway I believe they filled that area by adding the Promethean and the Flood could be better… the Remnants still have alot of story to placate especially if they have differing beliefs, and so differing allies… as well as before the Covenant Empire was made.
But in my honest opinion, we could see some more actual Forerunners… or quite possibly etherial Ancient Humans… which either are a hallunication set on by the Flood Keymind/Gavemind or the genetic genesongs woven into Humanitys DNA… to which only the ‘subject’ of that GEA can see the ‘ghost’… sort of like an out of body, third-party, communication…
> It just needs something new to give the story of reclaiming control over the Halos to secure them so that something out in space doesn’t set them off and kill us all more meaning.
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> I really want to see 343 Industries introduce an entirely new enemy civilization of some sort to Halo that wants control of the Halos.
Your problem is that ^^THIS^^ is not what Halo is about. Even if you just watch the game cutscenes (which you can do on YouTube) it should be clear that control of the Halos is not what’s driving the story.
And this game better not devolve into a platform where we get new monsters to fight every release like some cartoon show.
> It would have to be either the Precursors… or someone of equal distinction? As the so-called new species, would need to come from a distant galaxy; as this one is quite explored, and the Forerunners were struggling with this type of technology.
Actually most of halo’s ‘exploration’ has been in the Orion Arm and the Ark outside the galaxy. We really haven’t explored much at all.
They wouldn’t even necessarily have to be super advanced either, as long as they were on a similar tier as humans and the scattered covenant they could easily be a threat.
The problem is making them unique stylisticly, gameplay wise, as well as make them mesh nicely with the existing story. Beyond something ‘new’ to fight what do they bring to the table? What do they have that couldn’t fit better amongst the existing enemies?
We also already have the 3 main alien archetypes:
Humanoid but monstrous (covenant), the covenant also cover a lot of sub categories of this too.
Robot (promethean/sentinels)
Infectious bio-thing (flood)
Just because the series is called Halo doesn’t mean every plot needs to revolve around the Halo’s themselves. That would be so unoriginal.
The Covenant and Forerunner Empires have already controlled most of the Galaxy. I highly doubt there’s any unique species out there that haven’t already been assimilated, catalogued or wiped out. It wouldn’t feel right if a new, advanced civilization was under our noses the entire time.
The Covenant only want to control the Halos because they misunderstand the Halo’s purpose. The UNSC only wants them because they want to prevent them from being used. I can’t really imagine any other motive a civilization would have. You can’t really use them to point a gun at someone, as they would eliminate your own civilization as well.
The current civilizations are still under-developed lore wise, you could just focus on them.
> Contrary to this, i say keep the already existing enemies, but introduce new species of aliens to the Covenant. We saw ‘Giants’ in the Reach demo, which never saw the light of day (for obvious reasons of course, because they more or less served the same purpose as Hunters), but surely they could think of other things.
Wait, what? Are you sure you aren’t mistaking Halo: Reach for Halo 2? This is the first time I heard of them.
> > Contrary to this, i say keep the already existing enemies, but introduce new species of aliens to the Covenant. We saw ‘Giants’ in the Reach demo, which never saw the light of day (for obvious reasons of course, because they more or less served the same purpose as Hunters), but surely they could think of other things.
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> Wait, what? Are you sure you aren’t mistaking Halo: Reach for Halo 2? This is the first time I heard of them.
They were literally just h3 brute chieftains pumped up like baloons. Its from the vid of early Reach concepts.
> The story in Halo 5 Guardians needs to introduce an entirely new enemy alien civilization to Halo.
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> Not the already broken and defeated Covenant and/ or a Covenant faction like the storm.
> Not the Flood and/or evolved Flood and/or some other group of Flood on some other location.
> Not the Forerunners and/or Prometheans and/or some other Forerunner group somewhere.
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> Halo needs an entirely, genuinely new civilization of some kind of alien force.
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> I don’t care whether it’s human-like, machine-like, biological, mechanical, god-like etheric deities, zombies, vampires, plants, animalistic aliens, time-travelling humans from the past, or the Jedi.
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> It just needs something new to give the story of reclaiming control over the Halos to secure them so that something out in space doesn’t set them off and kill us all more meaning.
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> We need something to secure the Halos FROM.
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> We already defeated the Covenant; stragglers aren’t exciting.
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> I really want to see 343 Industries introduce an entirely new enemy civilization of some sort to Halo that wants control of the Halos.
Why don’t you wait until the Recliamer Saga is over.
There is the possibilty of a ‘primitively’ new species, having evolved to the early stages of space faring… to which perhaps one of the three sentient factions uses them… Promethean-Reformists; UNSC-Separatists; Insurrectionists-Mercenaries… but a whole new faction… we just got one.
Covenant (Alien, Humanoid Aliens) - Religious, Advanced
UNSC (Human, Relatable Species) - Scientific, Primitive
Promethean and Sentinels (Automatons, Emotionless) - Protocol, Rampant
Flood (Parasite Symbiotes, Bio-Vampiric) - Infinite, Parastitic
Most things are unique already…
I don’t think 343 needs to add a new species just to make the new games more interesting. But I do think that the Prometheans need to be reinvented a little bit, just to make fighting them a little bit more enjoyable than they were in Halo 4.
Plus there’s still a lot we don’t know about the already existing covenant species, which I think could make for some interesting plot devices in the future if 343 does it correctly.
The Prometheans need to be evolved. They are great, but all they have are weak human-like weapons with no vehicles and one all-powerful leader that gets exploded, slammed from orbit, stabbed, slammed from orbit again, and incinerated(?). They all lived on a planet, but that was incinerated too. But the Didact is confirmed to be in Halo 5 somewhere, whether it is a terminal, flashback, or antagonist again.
Prometheans need to start getting more advanced, with more types of Prometheans (Promethean Elite, anyone?) and technology and stuff like that. They should team up with you to defeat their REAL enemy, the Flood.