You know what sort of games Halo would be perfect for? Third-person shooter, an XCOM-style RTS, Natural Selection-style multiplayer, a tell-tale game? I can’t choose which I’d want more!
Especially if realism were to take a front seat- no more killing a Spartan-II with two melee attacks; only a Hunter could realistically do that. No marines winning a fist-fight against an Elite- they’re literally half-again as strong as a polar bear. Shots from Needlers amputating limbs, given that Subanese crystal shards burst after entering a target (excluding a Super-Combine). Every type and subtype of every weapon in the mythos made available, with realistic and tangible differences and advantages to each one. Plasma weapons melting vehicles, armor, and equipment- rendering them useless. Shots to various limbs applying status-effects, in-game. Armor actually protecting the wearer- in the various games, it looks as useless as the steel plate in For Honor.
The lore could be oh so gloriously implemented- with style and finesse and intelligence! Oh, the glorious lore! So much of it to use, all at the dev’s fingertips- a gold mine for material! It could be as small as flavor-text, but we don’t get enough of that as it is.
It could all be so, so glorious… if only the puppet-masters upstairs allowed for a suitable budget. And a good five years of development.
Me personally, I’d love a Halo RPG. Not World of Warcraft, more like Fallout 76. My ideas on it would be the ability to play as literally all races, so not just Humans this time. I’m talking Elites, Brutes, Grunts, Jackals, Hunters, Drones, Forerunners, Prometheans, Flood, Prophets, all of that. I would also allow different classes for the Humans, Flood and Jackals and just let the other races be. For example, Humans would have the ability to be Spartans, Marines, ODSTs, things like that. Flood could be Tank Forms, Stalker Forms, Ranged Forms, Combat Forms (All races), etc. Jackals could be standard Kig-Yar Jackals, Skirmishers, or Ibie’shan Jackals.
All races could be aligned, meaning if (for example) I was an Elite, my best friend was a Brute and a few other people were Grunts, Flood and Forerunners, we could establish a base as a clan, learn each other’s weapon types and equip them when researched and have armor sets inspired by each other. There would be faction wars though, so if I’m in a clan with all other species but a faction war starts, I would do missions and game modes to gain points for my race’s faction. When the faction war ends, the race with the most points win and unlock unique armor sets, weapon skins and base customization options (banners, flags, emblems, things like that). Clans can indeed wage war on each other or align.
The game would have a story of course, however I’ll leave that to your liking. The game would have different modes that allow you to play the way you would in Warzone or have strategic overhead camera modes like Halo Wars. There would be an all out war mode that I would simply call War, and it allows clans to wage war on one another (as I stated). Differents zones would be captured, bases would be conquered, vehicles and squads would be deployed, all that fun stuff. However, clans with 50 members cannot wage war on clans with only 30 members. There are limits. Clans cannot officially participate in War until they reach 30 members. Clans can only wage war or accept a war from another clan if it has the same amount of members or 5 less.
That’s all I’ve got and that was already quite a bit, let me know what you think of this.
A kind of rpg game where you play as an elite but instead of roaming a certain environment let’s pull a little inspiration from assassins creed black flag and give you a ship. the ship will allow you to travel to other worlds and have ship to ship combat. it’d be a 3rd person game and we’d have a lot of awesome sword fights but we would have a similar weapon system to regular halos. let me put it this way, you still have to rotate between 2 weapons, however you also have an energy sword that is permanent and has infinite energy. and there would be a lot of modification options that you could earn from quests/missions, buy from markets, or steal from enemy’s for your armor, weapons, vehicles, and ships. you would be allowed to build up a fleet and everything you have will have to be earned/bought from npc’s using in game credits.
And as far as modifications go, you would be modifying each individual thing rather than an overall upgrade from types of things. an example would be if you bought/ stole 3 phantoms for your fleet. let’s say you wanted to add a slipspace drive with limited range, you would have to pick which ship to add it to. same would go for different turrets or shield modifications for the phantoms. or let’s say you have multiple sets of armor, one you might install a permanent over shield while the other might have a camo option. or even your weapons, you might have some carbines and you decide to extend the clip on one while the other you turn into a blood of suban. and many weapons and other items would allow you to have more than one modification. the overall story would be about an elite that’s had his keep destroyed by some mad brute that wants to wipe out the sangheili so you are trying to track him down and cripple his forces.
it’d also be the kind of game with a lot of side quests and smaller factions. and if you were to end up in an all out fleet battle (let’s say by this point you’ve got a couple cruisers and corvettes and you run into either the forces of the previously mentioned brute, the banished, maybe alien hating humans, etc.) you could control your ship or even hop in a banshee, seraph, or human ship you’ve aquired and participate in space battles. same goes for land battles. say for example you’re driving a warthog or ghost in a plains on a world and you see a hosstile outpost, well how about you contact your ship hovering above the planet and ask for some back up. they could fly in some drop ships or drop pods to help you conquer the base.
if you want multiplayer you can do it similar to watch dogs in which you stay in the game world but firends can join you. playing multiplayer probably would mean you don’t have access to missions or quests but enemies would still spawn. playing in such a multiplayer game would also mean it wouldn’t affect your main game meaning if you lose a cruiser or something it won’t save that to your main game, that way people can just screw around with out consequence. if only they had the budget and time for such a game.
The next idea is a telltale styled game where you play as an undercover ONI operative. the overall story is that there are rumors about a forerunner armory and it’s believed that a band of pirates have found it but not much evidence has popped up, atleast not much the civilians know about. ONI has been collecting reports of small colonies or stations being hit suddenly and with out warning. there were no survivors but there are indications that forerunner tech was involved. your job is to inflitrate some smuggler group or another pirate group (depends on where your choices lead you) that are planning on looking for the armory and tracking down the pirates.
This kind of game would allow us a view into what the underworld of halo is like. we’d interact with pirates, smugglers, hitman, gangs, covenant splinter factions, and heck why not the banished. some of the endings (let’s say all endings lead to you finding the armory) would involve
contacting ONI and recieving military support - deciding to become part of what ever band of people you were undercover in - being offered a place in the pirates that hold the armory - calling UNSC back up but still betraying them for your new friends - betraying every one, take over what’s left of the pirates and become their new leader - destroying the facility so neither side can have it, 2 options here. 1 being you are captured afterwards by ONI and punished and 2 being sacrificing yourself in the process
And the final idea is kind of a noble 6 origin story. this would be your usual linear fps halo game that takes place before the events of reach. the overall story would be that 6 is like ONI’s secret weapon against insurrection groups. he is tasked with killing the leader of a specific group that has gotten ahold of covenant technology and is trying to replicate it and use it against the UNSC. this wouldn’t be much of a stretch because we’ve seen similar things happen in the halo universe before. this would allow us to also have contact with the covenant meaning you might be in the middle of a covenant invasion or maybe they get a hold of something important to the covenant and now the covenant is also looking for this guy.
if 343 wanted to give a personality or some kind of character development to 6 but don’t want to ruin his image in reach, this can be easily done by giving him more of a recognizable personality at the beginning of the game only for the events of the game to turn him into a stone cold killer who has been emotionally broken. such events might be losing other spartans that had been partnered with him or having to make hard decisions that lead to the death of hundreds or thousands of civilians.
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> And the final idea is kind of a noble 6 origin story. this would be your usual linear fps halo game that takes place before the events of reach. the overall story would be that 6 is like ONI’s secret weapon against insurrection groups. he is tasked with killing the leader of a specific group that has gotten ahold of covenant technology and is trying to replicate it and use it against the UNSC. this wouldn’t be much of a stretch because we’ve seen similar things happen in the halo universe before. this would allow us to also have contact with the covenant meaning you might be in the middle of a covenant invasion or maybe they get a hold of something important to the covenant and now the covenant is also looking for this guy.
> if 343 wanted to give a personality or some kind of character development to 6 but don’t want to ruin his image in reach, this can be easily done by giving him more of a recognizable personality at the beginning of the game only for the events of the game to turn him into a stone cold killer who has been emotionally broken. such events might be losing other spartans that had been partnered with him or having to make hard decisions that lead to the death of hundreds or thousands of civilians.
Six was a pilot with several classified operations on Mamore.
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> Maybe a flood survival game where you are a marine and are stuck on a carrier being overrun by flood
Same idea could be applied as a Battle Royale idea. 100 ODST’s drop into a zone and instead of racing against the storm, they’re racing against the Flood infection
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> > And the final idea is kind of a noble 6 origin story. this would be your usual linear fps halo game that takes place before the events of reach. the overall story would be that 6 is like ONI’s secret weapon against insurrection groups. he is tasked with killing the leader of a specific group that has gotten ahold of covenant technology and is trying to replicate it and use it against the UNSC. this wouldn’t be much of a stretch because we’ve seen similar things happen in the halo universe before. this would allow us to also have contact with the covenant meaning you might be in the middle of a covenant invasion or maybe they get a hold of something important to the covenant and now the covenant is also looking for this guy.
> > if 343 wanted to give a personality or some kind of character development to 6 but don’t want to ruin his image in reach, this can be easily done by giving him more of a recognizable personality at the beginning of the game only for the events of the game to turn him into a stone cold killer who has been emotionally broken. such events might be losing other spartans that had been partnered with him or having to make hard decisions that lead to the death of hundreds or thousands of civilians.
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> Six was a pilot with several classified operations on Mamore.
I know this will probably never happen, but ever since The Arbiter was put into Killer Instinct, I’ve thought a Halo 2D tournament fighting game would be so lit. There are plenty of characters, both hero and villain that could be awesome characters, although most that come to mind are Spartans, so devs would have to get kinda creative with Covenant or perhaps even Forerunner/ Promethean characters. Maybe even finally introduce San-Shyuum warriors into the games that way. There could be unlockable fighters like Sgt. Johnson. ODST Buck could be a slightly different clone of his spartan counterpart, kinda like Mario/Dr. Mario in Smash Bros. It’s a nebulous idea at best, but I dont think it could be impossible to make something like that that’s fun and interesting.
What about a halo game where it’s like gta but you’re a spartan of your own fresh out of training. Looking for a world or ring to conquer to start the human race all over again. Allowing you to build city’s bases and you create your own story. You can become covenant or human. Maybe like a sim thing idea… travel space (other servers) and help build or destroy alliance of your own. allowing you to create unlimited city’s bases around the world/ring thriving going to war ect! That would be dope!
A halo horror game like dead space that gives a marines or odsts perspective on what happened on the U.N.S.C. Amberclade in Halo 2 as a reserve unit to defend the ship in case something happened, you would try to find out what’s going on in say a engineering section where a flood infection form somehow hitched a ride on the ship, you would inevitably be infected at the end with you probably helping infect high charity later on then be on the cruiser that tried to infect earth if their would be a sequel to said game.
Well when I jam me shotty in to the side of a head and pull the trigger the head explodes in a mist of what ever colour the brain and blood is in what im killing, if i place me shotty in the gut and pull the trigger there spine will be hanging out of there back. When shot in the arm with a .50 cal sniper weapon there arm will get blow off.
If hit with a plasma weapon they will be severely burned, with the area where the plasma burst hit burned away.
A new Halo ODST video game that is set after Halo Wars 1 and before Halo Reach. The story follow a small group of ODST Troopers fighting the Covenant.
A Halo action/horror video game going in a style of Predator where the story is about a group of Marines have been send on a rescue mission where they are being hunted down by a creature.
A Halo survival horror video game especially in a style of Alien Isolation and the Resident Evil 2 remake where the story is about a group of ODST Troopers and scientists trying to survive the Flood Infestation.
A Halo spin off video game where Edward Buck is the main character. The spin off video game set after Halo 3 and before Halo 4.
A Halo Third Person Shooter video game going in a style of the Magnificent Seven and the Dirty Dozen where the story focus on a small group of ODST Troopers and Elites teaming up, while at the same time fighting the Brutes.
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> Either BTB Super Fiesta or Warzone Infection would be cool.
Could you just imagine BTB Warzone Infection, that would be crazy fun for sure, and listing to people flip their minds during game play lol and have some dark gloomy like levels to play on as well.
Personally i’d prefer halo reach style customization and and classic style mechanic’s except for sprint definitely keep sprint, get rid of boost though!