Now unless there aren’t achievements for completing every single mission or the list given in the bulletin is not the complete list then halo 4 will only have 8 missions? That seems short since halo 1-3 had 10+ missions. I thought that Frankie said a year back that this was the longest campaign? Unless each mission is really long i don’t see how.
EDIT: i see other people made threads about this as well oops didn’t realise
The missions have to be really long.
If they aren’t long I will be mad and happy cause then I cant wait for halo 5!!!
They better be AotCR or The Covenant sized…
I was about to make a thread about this, but then I saw that you made this thread. So now I’ll just copy-paste what I wrote into here.
> Alright, I’m going to assume here that many of you have read the Bulletin at this point, and have noticed that there are only eight missions in the game. Now, I know this isn’t exactly any proof of anything, but does anybody else find that this is a rather small number?
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> Let’s look at how many missions each main Halo game has had so far (ODST and Halo Wars not included) :
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> Halo 1 : 10
> Halo 2 : 13 (actual missions, not counting the cutscene and armory)
> Halo 3 : 10
> Halo Reach : 9 (10 including Lone Wolf)
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> As you can see, no Halo game has had less than ten missions. The idea that Halo 4 only has eight kind of worries me… Will it be another game like Halo 3 where, while being great, was terribly short and somewhat disappointing due to it? Or will it have missions that are at least and hour and a half long?
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> Let’s assume for a moment that every mission averages at about one hour in length on (depending on difficulty, of course). That means the campaign will be about eight hours long. While not a bad length, it definitely could be more, especially since the game has been in development for three and a half years now.
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> Of course, I won’t judge until actually playing the game, but I was hoping to have something at least as long as every other Halo game…
As long as they are incredibly long, I will be happy.
> I was about to make a thread about this, but then I saw that you made this thread. So now I’ll just copy-paste what I wrote into here.
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> > Alright, I’m going to assume here that many of you have read the Bulletin at this point, and have noticed that there are only eight missions in the game. Now, I know this isn’t exactly any proof of anything, but does anybody else find that this is a rather small number?
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> > Let’s look at how many missions each main Halo game has had so far (ODST and Halo Wars not included) :
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> > Halo 1 : 10
> > Halo 2 : 13 (actual missions, not counting the cutscene and armory)
> > Halo 3 : 10
> > Halo Reach : 9 (10 including Lone Wolf)
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> > As you can see, no Halo game has had less than ten missions. The idea that Halo 4 only has eight kind of worries me… Will it be another game like Halo 3 where, while being great, was terribly short and somewhat disappointing due to it? Or will it have missions that are at least and hour and a half long?
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> > Let’s assume for a moment that every mission averages at about one hour in length on (depending on difficulty, of course). That means the campaign will be about eight hours long. While not a bad length, it definitely could be more, especially since the game has been in development for three and a half years now.
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> > Of course, I won’t judge until actually playing the game, but I was hoping to have something at least as long as every other Halo game…
I hope that is the case in one way or another.
so remember when they said that Sp. Ops one season=another campaign. Well the first season is supposed to have total around 12 hours of gameplay. So I am assuming that the campaign will have 12 or more hours
> Hope! https://twitter.com/DavidEllis/status/238451705476431872
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> I asked him myself
Oh good, this makes me feel better. Thanks for asking him as well as posting the link! 
did anyone else notice that a lot of the side mission achievements like (trick the hunter to fall off the cliff) had to do with the covenant i thought this was the forerunners time to shine.
For all we know, one mission could be double the length of Halo 3’s.
Or, you mightn’t get achievements for certain missions.
8 might not be a bad thing.
Halo 2:
Total of 7 missions divided by cutscenes.
> 8 might not be a bad thing.
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> Halo 2:
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> 1. CS
> 2. OS-Metropolis
> 3. The Arbiter-Oracle
> 4. DH-Regret
> 5. SI-QZ
> 6. Gravemind-High Charity
> 7. Uprising-GJ
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> Total of 7 missions divided by cutscenes.
I was just about to post this. Halo 2 may seem to be long with so many missions. But every mission (except Cairo Station) is cut in half and made into two missions. At least, that’s how I always saw it.
I bet Halo 4’s missions will be pretty long, at least an hour for each.
Don’t worry, I am sure there will be more campaign DLC to fill in the gaps or you just play Spartan Ops, lol.
These must be long missions.
> These must be long missions.
No they don’t, besides what do you think Spartan Ops is for, you get 2 campaigns.
> > These must be long missions.
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> No they don’t, besides what do you think Spartan Ops is for, you get 2 campaigns.
Don’t be silly.
Ellis confirming about campaign length
They confirmed that each mission will be long. And keep in mind, they also confirmed that Spartan Ops are longer than ODST campaign length.
> did anyone else notice that a lot of the side mission achievements like (trick the hunter to fall off the cliff) had to do with the covenant i thought this was the forerunners time to shine.
You thought wrong. . . we all thought wrong 
If anyone is going to pax prime could you get some info on campaign length please?