First things first, I would like to thank anyone who is reading this. Secondly, these are my ideas and/or opinions of what I would like to see in the next Halo game, assuming it will be another main title (Which I’m 99.9% positive it will be), and if you disagree with any of them, there is no reason to get upset and start hating, this is a forum, where opinions belong… In my opinion… Lol. But feel free to post your opinions as well, as always!
On a different note, lets get to it!
Campaign
For the next Halo’s campaign, the main things I would like to see are:
1.) Length: I would like to see 343 make the campaign a tid bit longer. Not necessarily increasing the length of each level, but increase the length of the over all campaign, by one or two levels, if it fits, obviously. I can understand why Halo 4 was only 8 missions, because what is the point in making one or two extra levels if they aren’t going to explain any real story?
2.) Sights: Halo 3 as we all know ran on a different engine than Halo 4. The graphics are going to look different. But some of the sights you got to see in it were downright beautiful! Halo 4 had several moments, and I’m not sure why I feel this way, but they just didn’t capture my attention as much.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely loved H4’s campaign, but those are just a couple of suggestions that I recommend, even if 343 doesn’t read this. These are just my ideas and I figured this would be the best place to share it.
Now on to the second part:
Matchmaking
Matchmaking has definitely been a HUGE part of Halo since Halo 2, obviously, since it wasn’t in Halo CE. A lot of my friends have been playing since Halo 2 (I unfortunately didn’t have that opportunity) and they say that it is their favorite multiplayer based Halo game. Many people also say Halo 3 was the best, and not being able to play H2 online I’ll probably have to agree. Halo 3 in my opinion was the best multiplayer based game.
For the Halo 5 (or whatever it will be called) I personally think that they should have AT LEAST two groups of playlists
like in Halo 3. Social and Competitive (or Ranked)
The way I’m seeing this is like so:
Social - Possibly a revamped personal loadout system, along with a revamped ordnance. Ranking could be a separated branch of ranking, kind of like SR, and you’ll get XP (Towards the social ranking system only) regardless.
An example of revamping could be taking away armor ability choices in the loadouts, and putting them as personal ordnance possibilities. Or maybe just keep it the same as Competitive without the XP to worry about. But as stated in this paragraph, some revamping wouldn’t hurt at all! It would be nice to see some of the things from Reach and H4 return, But in a different group/playlist from the competitive group/playlist.
Competitive - No personal loadouts, AR and Magnum starts with weapons around the map, and no ordnance. Ranking could be similar to H3, you only get XP if you win. It just makes it that much more competitive!
Maybe throw in some BR starts, whatever is most competitive based on the weapon balance. Wouldn’t hurt to disable sprint as well. The only problem is the map scale would also have to change if you there will be sprint in the Social group. So if anything, if you want to keep the competitive as close to Halo 3 (I would say classic, but like I said I never played H2 or really even CE local MP that much) as possible, disable it completely in matchmaking, but it wouldn’t hurt in campaign, or even customs, as long as we have the option!
Which brings me to my next point:
Custom Games
Custom games have been an awesome addition to the Halo franchise IMO. Certain people may not agree, or just simply don’t play them, but I’ve loved them ever since H3, as well as forge! I’m not going to make a section about forge, because I really don’t have very many valuable ideas for it, but, let’s talk customs!
Many people know that the custom game options in Halo 4 took a couple steps forward, but definitely a few steps backwards. The removal of classic Infection and other gametypes, such as Assault, Race, etc, really limited our options, however the addition of ordnance, dominion, and maybe a few other things really gave us some cool options to mess around with!
I was honestly a little upset when I found out about the current custom game options, but also a little excited for some of the new features. The main thing that I can say here is to bring back all of the classics (things mentioned above), keep some current stuff, (Dominion, ordnance, and some of those new game settings), and add some new things (stay creative 343!)
Forge options could definitely be increased with the new power that the Xbox One has advertised, possibly things like terrain editing, cutting pieces out of certain objects, and maybe some more features. Maybe even letting us make our own firefight missions! Assuming that makes a return (Oops! I said I wasn’t going to do that!) Which brings me to the next topic:
Co-Op
Spartan Ops was awesome! I really enjoyed playing it… Mostly alone. I’m not sure if it was just my connection, or the friends I’m playing with, I always seem to get some serious lag while playing. Ghosting lag… I don’t remember firefight being much better honestly, but both gamemodes were awesome!
Whatever you’re considering, I’m sure it will be one of those two modes, but if not I’ll be surprised! Like I said, I’m not expecting 343 to take in many of my ideas, because they are just my opinions. But I do have a pretty awesome idea at thought.
If a co-op mode will be returning, I personally would like to see something close to COD Zombies, But obviously different. Introduce ordnance in this gamemode, and if you kill enough flood you can have a chance at certain weapons. Have lives like in firefight or whatever, but I think it would be a nice way to bring a co-op mode to Halo, since we haven’t seen AI controlled flood since H3… Just a thought. I’m positive that it probably won’t work with the infinity fiction of the current multiplayer, but maybe there’s a way around it.
And also bring back Theater for all game modes? And party watching? That would be amazing!
I know there are a TON of threads out there like this, but I figured starting my own thread would be better than spamming all of this on someone else’s… I would like to thank you again for reading this friggin novel, if you’re even still reading by this point.
Post what you think and also what you’d like to see in the next main Halo installment!
Thanks guys!
lil neo