I have a theory, that Locke’s missions will be open world similar to The Rookie’s in Halo ODST, and like those missions Locke will explore the vast open area finding clues, which will activate the Chief flashback missions. What do you guys think about this idea?
Wow! That sounds really good. Hope it turns out to be like that.
I would approve of something like that for Locke. Chief can have the more linear gameplay, unless they switch it and have Locke do linear and Chief more open.
I get a feeling Locke is this game’s Rookie. Not focused on the giant battles Chief takes place in but the more down to Earth skirmishes he encounters in Covie Space in a few levels that resemble ODST’s set up.
In other words: Think ODST as a big game, with the flashbacks being full scaled Master Chief missions that halfway through the game lead up to Locke and Chief meeting and the game switching to a more straight forward mission design.
That really is about the only way to portray a hunt or search for Chief in first person perspective that can take in account the differences in characters (thus different way of acting) and the fact that a search should play different than a straight forward “blast through waves of enemies” scenario.
I’d say first half akin to ODST, latter half more like Reach/H2/3
No thanks, I dislike flashback-gameplay such as in ODST and Battlefield 3. It basically tells you from the start which characters live or not, and it disrupts the flow of gamplay.
Just my opinion though, I know many enjoyed the flashbacks in ODST. I just think a linear story like Halo would be better.
Honestly, I am very keen on an open world Halo. The flashbacks in ODST were a good way to keep the traditional advance forward style of Halo in ODST. So if Halo 5 is Open world, I’m not sure how 343 would keep some classic gameplay in it. The Flashbacks imo could get annoying.
yeah i think that would be a good way to go.
I honestly hated Rookie’s open world missions in ODST. I like classic style missions more.
If they make Locke go open world. I really hope there will be npcs around to interact with and have some detective feel.
I remember when I made this thread a long time ago. 
I’ll bump it when the day comes that I was right.
Would be cool if it’s open world
A open world… interesting !
It would be an interesting change
Would be rather fetch.
I just grown tired of the whole go to this place, shoot stuff, defend this zone. blah, blah, blah. Whats wrong with an expansive open world experience where you can do multiple things.
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> Would be rather fetch.
Stop trying to make fetch happen!!!