Halo4, halo 5 and infinite are the 3 part trilogy of the reclaimer saga and currently we are still a year away for the third part of the reclaimer saga but also the final part, not the final halo game.
I am glad that Infinite is continuing after Halo 5, they cant just pretend it never happened otherwise the story would be confusing.
As halo 3 ended the original trilogy with destroying installation 08, finishing the flood and fight.
Im thinking it Infinite could end by:
Since flood came back in Halo wars 2, maybe we need to destroy it. - Finishing off the covenant after Osiris killing their leader Jul in Halo 5. - Finally, maybe like defeating Cortana after what happened in halo 5, as you may get confused, in the discover hope trailer, we found that thereis a new cortana as the chip number is different.That’s all my idea of what I can think and thought of how it could end.
How do you think Halo Infinite could end the Reclaimer saga?
343i’s first foray was originally going to be a trilogy, but their scope has since expanded to include more games. That is why it was renamed to the “Reclaimer Saga.”
It’s a tough one. I really need closure on the events set in motion by Halo 4 & 5 but having said that, I really want it to be over and start a new chapter in Halo’s history.
Apart from some lovely Cortana moments in Halo 4 I can’t say I’ve enjoyed the ‘Reclaimer Saga’ all that much so far. Maybe Infinite can change all that and blow our socks off with a gripping tale
I don’t believe 433i has been treating their “Reclaimed” games as a trilogy since before Guardians even came out. I remember them making a PR push for it to now be referred to as the “Reclaimer Saga”. Obviously this was to leave the door open for Halo’s 7 on through literal Halo Infinite. Trilogies are pesky things for money-printing franchise owners; it’s just so constraining to have to structure your narratives in a traditional and proven way.
Ever since I played Halo 4 for the first time, though, I’ve felt like they’ve been leaning way too heavily into attempting to invest us as players in a grand narrative arc that spans many games at the expense of providing the sorts of fun and independently epic games that Halo CE, 2, and 3 were. There’s this whole self-referential attitude I’ve gotten off of 343i whenever they start throwing around the word “Reclaimer,” since. Just my perspective.
I don’t mean to sound too venomously sardonic with all of this, although I realize I do. The narrative of Halo in the 343i era has, unfortunately, been my least favorite aspect of these games. Even for people who don’t disdain the direction the universe has been taken in the same way that I do don’t seem to have the investment and interest in the characters and events that we almost all seemed to collectively hold for the OT.
To get back around to whether Infinite is the end of the “Reclaimer Saga,” though? I’m thinking maybe it is. 343i and MS have both demonstrated moments of recalcitrance over the less-than-awesome way that Halo (and to a similar extent in some ways, the entire Xbox brand cough Don Mattrick) have both hit all-time lows in terms of critical and commercial success in the XBOne generation. I think MS is trying to turn this around with the Scarlett, based on everything we know about it so far. 343i would similarly be wise to distance themselves from the “stench of failure” that many gamers nebulously associate with Halo 4 and 5 by making Infinite feel very narratively distinct from these games.
I think the primary obligation Infinite has narratively to the last two games is to resolve the Chief/Cortana arc. Beyond that resolution, I think 343i should give us something more episodic and independently awesome in the story department. Let us fans name the “Trilogy” or “Saga” after we’ve been able to see all the games that comprise it and connect the dots for ourselves.
I do hope they do end this leg of the Reclaimer saga with Infinite. Master Chief has been through two hellish wars in the games alone and deserves some peace in any case. The Reclaimer saga hopefully will move on to another Spartan, so 343 can tell whatever story they wish with whatever characters they create. This narrative has been placed in the unenviable position of continuing a well-told trilogy and dealing with the decisions made in 4 and 5 (for better or worse).
343 would do well to avoid making too detailed a story around the actions of Guardians. Its response was lukewarm to downright nasty from fans and continuing its decisions would be difficult enough as it is.
The UNSC is the underdog again. Atriox looms somewhere near. Captain Cutter and the Halo Wars 2 crew may play a role. The big thing is, every legend needs an ending of some sort. The Master Chief’s story can’t be strung out for another decade.
The Master Chief has to die. Cortana has to go too. They’ll have to delegate the plot of Halo 5 to a book to explain the gap and move on from the classic image we’ve come to know. Chief has lost Blue Team. Osiris is dead or MIA. Cortana, somehow, is back to normal. The world needs to be saved, one last time. The set-up is clear.
From there, anything could happen. Atriox has to be defeated. The Flood has to be destroyed. Perhaps one or both of these things will have been completed by the start of Infinite and apparent destruction of the ring. Atriox could be considered dead from the ring’s destruction but return as a Flood hybrid monstrosity. The Flood may be destroyed by Atriox and tamed, or just destroyed by the Banished, leaving the floor open for a clear villain to stop. The Earth will be attacked, maybe we’ll have a few missions on the broken ring searching for something, it’ll have to cover a lot of ground that this trilogy hasn’t yet.
I just really want a Gravemind boss fight. Halo has yet to even give me a chance to shoot at the thing, and it would be one potentially memorable fight - dodging spores as it adds to the massive form gaining strength, dodging tendrils and throwing grenades in its deformed nightmare of a mouth, and giving it the good ol’ one-two up close before blowing you and it to kingdom come. That’s all I can hope for. I think we should be careful dreaming though because we might just make whatever 343 does impossible to live up to our own imaginings.
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> Chief wakes up from cryostasis on the Forward Unto Dawn and realizes he had a huge fever dream for the past X years.
Lol, Halo Southfork Edition. I remember a tv series called Dallas where something similar happened regarding a dream and a shower to rewrite Bobby Ewing back in after the back lash of killing him off. Please don’t give them bad ideas.
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> It’s a tough one. I really need closure on the events set in motion by Halo 4 & 5 but having said that, I really want it to be over and start a new chapter in Halo’s history.
> Apart from some lovely Cortana moments in Halo 4 I can’t say I’ve enjoyed the ‘Reclaimer Saga’ all that much so far. Maybe Infinite can change all that and blow our socks off with a gripping tale
Please no retconning. That’s what messed up Halo 5.
