Halo: Fireteam Raven, What It Is, What It Means

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I don’t know where else to put this thread in so I guess it can live in General Discussion.

About ten minutes ago, I checked Instagram and saw that Halo: Fireteam Raven is coming out this summer! I did not see a definite date, but we know that it is “a new co-op arcade shooting game.” I’m not entirely sure what this means; I’m guessing that this will be something like the Halo: Spartan series with the top-down stuff.

Anyway, the main characters are the members of Fireteam Raven, and the game will be set during the events of Halo: Combat Evolved… on the Halo ring! Yes, a whole squad of drop pods will be dropped onto a Halo ring, something which we know will give us Halo 2 nostalgia. Also, these are ODSTs… classic Halo anyone?

I don’t know, we haven’t seen a Halo game since Halo, and we have seen a classic Halo shooter since 2009. I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t care that this isn’t an FPS. I’m hyped!

Of course, this is no Halo 6, which may be disappointing. This is where I get into what this game means. Between Halo Wars 2 and Halo: Fireteam Raven, we have been receiving the message that 343 Industries cares about the old art style, and they care about their older fans. They are acknowledging that keeping the old fans is more important than attracting new ones, so we have hope for the future games.

What else does this mean? This means that Halo 6 is likely to come out very soon. Think about it for a moment. Halo: Spartan Assault preceded MCC, and then Halo: Spartan Strike preceded Halo 5. Now, we have another arcade shooter, and I think this is to get us hyped for the next main installment in the Halo franchise.

What do you think? I am posting this partially as a messenger but also to deliver my interpretation of the game. Maybe I’m trying too hard to read between the lines of a simple announcement, but intentionally or not, I think we can learn something from this new and welcome addition to the Halo franchise.

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You can find all the details about Fireteam Ravem here in the blog post:
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/first-look-halo-fireteam-raven-arcade-experience

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The game is a literal ARCADE game. It’s an arcade cabinet with light guns that you point at the screen and shoot. It’ll be exclusive to Dave & Busters when it launches.

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I only saw the Instagram post when I jumped onto the forums… that’s my bad. I guess there’s no purpose for this thread, then; I thought it was a larger game.

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> I only saw the Instagram post when I jumped onto the forums… that’s my bad. I guess there’s no purpose for this thread, then; I thought it was a larger game.

Yeah we were all hoping it was a larger game. I was watching the stream with a bunch of people and we all collectively threw our controllers when the special announcement we were waiting all day for turned out to be an arcade cabinet that we’ll probably never see because arcades in the US are either really small or scarce. I haven’t seen one in years. And then the MCC news they followed it up with was literally just a regurgitation of all the info we’ve gotten from the community updates for the past 5 months, so we’re all a little salty.

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The best part of the game is being able to connect to Waypoint and see you and your friends high scores.

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> Yeah we were all hoping it was a larger game. I was watching the stream with a bunch of people and we all collectively threw our controllers when the special announcement we were waiting all day for turned out to be an arcade cabinet that we’ll probably never see because arcades in the US are either really small or scarce. I haven’t seen one in years. And then the MCC news they followed it up with was literally just a regurgitation of all the info we’ve gotten from the community updates for the past 5 months, so we’re all a little salty.

Yes I was bit annoyed by that too since it looked like it was going to be fun to play plus I have doubts I will ever see it in my region. I’m lucky to live near some arcades but I wish it was for consoles so I can keep playing till early morning.

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I think it pretty cool for us old foggies who grew up on arcades. Even though we may not have a Dave and Busters down the road we can start planning how far we need to go. Plus they said it will be shipped worldwide so we can hope it will also be distributed to other places that are closer. I am thinking it they would do well at movie theaters.

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This is literally the biggest disappointment ever!

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If it does well they might release it to xbox, they might also need to program different views and a working multiplayer into it. I personally say that we wait it out until we get further news on this instead of getting angry because of it. If we get mad they might misread it and scrap the game.

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Yeah bout they should have thought this through I get it…it’s a decent concept. But not when halo has originated on xbox. I just know I’m personally not going to an areade just to play this…

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> Yeah bout they should have thought this through I get it…it’s a decent concept. But not when halo has originated on xbox. I just know I’m personally not going to an areade just to play this…

not everyone will, but the ones who go to an arcade because they cant afford an xbox one or the newest game will get to play a new halo for a few quarters, its to maintain old fans and get new ones, and if you think about it they will probably port it to keep more old fans (also because making a halo that will never be on a microsoft owned device would be weird)