Question: How long do you think there will be between sequels now?
Personally I think yearly is out of the question, 343i is buttering up Halo 4 to have a longer lifespan. 3 years is obviously not in the picture anymore, but if they go for every 2 years we’re going to see Halo 5 released right when the rumored Halo 2 Anniversary is expected!
Oh and another question, what are your most anticipated games over the course of the next year? My top 5 is definately:
And honestly 3 years is the prefect spacing. Quality >>> Quantity I’d rather wait a few years for a game that 343i put their hearts and souls into(Such as Halo 4) than a rushed mediocre game.
Honestly you can see with Halo 4 just how much hard work and love 343i put into the game, and I want to see that same dedication with Halo 5 and 6.
> <mark>I remember in an interview Frankie mentioning that the main Halo games are going to be released more frequently than the 3 year gap of old</mark>.
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> Question: How long do you think there will be between sequels now?
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> Personally I think yearly is out of the question, 343i is buttering up Halo 4 to have a longer lifespan. 3 years is obviously not in the picture anymore, but if they go for every 2 years we’re going to see Halo 5 released right when the rumored Halo 2 Anniversary is expected!
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> Oh and another question, what are your most anticipated games over the course of the next year? My top 5 is definately:
> 1. GTA V
> 2. Bioshock Infinite
> 3. Halo 4
> 4. Blops 2
> 5. THPS HD thps 3 DLC!
I don’t know where you heard that but id say every 3 years or so.
I’d rather see them expanding upon halo with a dedicated PC RTS, something similar to Star Wars:Empire at War (Land/Sphess - planets and basebuilding/research outside of the actual battles) or Company of Heroes.
Halo Wars was one big disappoint - and Ensemble died with it.
I don’t think 343i would go pull yearly releases on us. With the stuff they’re trying to do for the Halo franchise, a yearly release wouldn’t help.
Quality>Quantity. I’ve been fine with 3 year releases (besides spinoffs) between games because they were all quite good. They felt pretty new and improved compared to the others.
> It will probably a 3 year development for each halo (providing that it is only main games, unless they do a odst or halo wars thing.)
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> Plus Halo 5 is coming out on the nextgen xbox. (in 2 years maybe?)
Even now the yearly releases we had since 2009 were not intended it just happened that way.
Halo 3 came out in 2007.
Halo Wars came out in 2009 but had been in development since at least 2006 by Ensemble Studios
ODST came out the same year as Halo Wars but was made by Bungie while Ensemble was making Halo Wars and didn’t even mean to be a full game but an expansion for Halo 3 that got so big it became a small game.
Then Reach came out in 2010 Reach was Bungie’s main Halo they had been working on since Halo 3 came out three years earlier as ODST was just an expansion for Halo 3.
CEA was made by 343i and not Bungie as a tribute to 10 years of Halo while Bungie moved on and came out in 2011
And Halo 4 is the main game 343i has been working since late 2009 finally coming out in 2012.
See? These yearly Halo releases were never planned to have happened like this it just happened.
> > It will probably a 3 year development for each halo (providing that it is only main games, unless they do a odst or halo wars thing.)
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> > Plus Halo 5 is coming out on the nextgen xbox. (in 2 years maybe?)
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> Even now the yearly releases we had since 2009 were not intended it just happened that way.
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> Halo 3 came out in 2007.
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> Halo Wars came out in 2009 but had been in development since at least 2006 by Ensemble Studios
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> ODST came out the same year as Halo Wars but was made by Bungie while Ensemble was making Halo Wars and didn’t even mean to be a full game but an expansion for Halo 3 that got so big it became a small game.
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> Then Reach came out in 2010 Reach was Bungie’s main Halo they had been working on since Halo 3 came out three years earlier as ODST was just an expansion for Halo 3.
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> CEA was made by 343i and not Bungie as a tribute to 10 years of Halo while Bungie moved on and came out in 2011
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> And Halo 4 is the main game 343i has been working since late 2009 finally coming out in 2012.
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> See? These yearly Halo releases were never planned to have happened like this it just happened.
This. It just happened that way. I’m assuming that Halo 5 and 6 will have a 3 year period between each other. If there are any other games they will be a Halo 2 remake, or an ODST like expansion. Which is something I’m okay with. As long as they don’t push out major installments on a 1 to 2 year basis.
Reach has been chronically mismanaged and will be retired before its time.
I will not buy into a yearly release schedule. I just wont. A year is not enough time for a multiplayer game to mature properly. The cod kids are facing having the sequel announced like 4 months after the huge midnight launch bonanza on the current game, which tends to put a huge dampner on the game and make everyone act like its old and busted.
2 years really is the minimum for a title in which i will consider investing for the DLC etc, and even that is a tight schedule imo.
