In the next-gen there will be a lot of open-world games like Division or Destiny. Do you think Halo could fit in it when talking about Spartan Ops or anything similar?
PD. I know the campain could NOT be open world.
Are you implying SPoPs should come back?
I think an open world mode would be cool though.
Are we talking about a PvP or PvE gamemode? It would certainly be interesting to see an open world SpOps-like experience, but I don’t know how that would work, and I much rather they spend more time on Campaign or replacing SpOps with an Elite campaign that better explains their story.
For a PvP gamemode, with the Xbox One servers they could set up several different Theaters of War for players to jump in and out of. I could imagine that being like Galactic Conquest from Battlefront, Dominion, and Invasion at the same time, but I don’t know how the process would work after a faction wins a Theater. Unless 343 chooses when a faction moves to try and retake/lay siege to a Theater. Would be awesome though.
No I’m not implying it should come back, just say open world would not fit on campain but would do on another game mode
Campaign environments are big enough to support open world. It’s just that 90% of it’s outside is unused, barren.
If they can increase the AI numbers and reintroduce freeroaming/pathfinding, we could have some major battles outside of the mission path (i.e. like on TotS, except there’d be real AI, not 2D stuff)!
I’m sure they probably go with the open world approach since it becoming very popular among FPS games lately.
And I doubt 343 will keep doing linear( with slightly wider environments) campaign with 9 to 10 missions for the rest of the halos. And if they are going to add tons of AIs I suspect it to cause them to make missions more open world .
For spartan ops it’s a possibility , but I wouldn’t expect it to play like anything anyone has played in halo before , which might be a interesting thing. But having a 6 - 8 hour linear campaign with a coop campaign that is very expansive like destiny and the division that has ton of content in them , will cause some people to scratch their heads. And might make some of the fanbase and the devs to want an open world campaign .
Besides many people( maybe not some)find open world games more interesting. I can see players preferring the expansive coop campaign because they have more freedom to do what they want and there is naturally more things to do( amusing its like destiny and the divison) , instead to having a mode where I kill some enemies in a corridor than a cut scene , kill more enemies than the last cut scene.
I would like it to be more open larger environments in the Campaign, I remember the outdoor parts of AoTCR and Two Betrayals, they were so opened up. Then there was the cramped hallways of halo 4. As for Spartan Ops, I DO NOT WANT IT BACK! So I don’t care
Open world? I liked ODST’s hub approach. And with the trailer we got, I could see an open world-approach. Chief could wander the wastes of the Ark, looking for Cortana. Like in ODST, there could be predetermined areas to go to.
I know that I really enjoyed the mystery of that darkened city, when I first played ODST; going around street corners and not being sure what I’d find on the other side. A game like that with varied, distinctive encounters (not always fights, but memorable visuals) would be great.
i think an Open World Halo would be cool.
But I would like this to be a separate game from the Halo Main Story ie) MC Series.
Would be cool to have a Halo Ring, where you could travel any where on it you liked.
A campaign open world could work, look at Far Cry or even Halo 3 ODST
Also some of Halo CE best levels, were kind of Open World, although a very small one.
The level “Halo” and “The Cartographer” were mini open world missions, as you could go anywhere you want.
These were 2 levels that stood out in Halo CE.
A Far Cry or Assassin’s Creed I/II type of free roam would be nice.