I think they should allow you to go around the Infinity ship as the menu for the game. Like walking your spartan to the campaign room to start campaign…going to spartan ops room to start spartan ops etc.
I think when you walk into to the multi-player room there should be like a holo deck where you can see the multi-player maps and you examine places you might want to go to before you go to play multi-player.
In the weapons room there should be a table or gun rack where you can walk up to that allows you to see the weapons in the game and show their specs and what ever skins you have for them.
When you walk into the armor room it should show them the pieces you’ve unlocked on a wall or rack or something badass someone comes up with…same for armor abilities.
In the multi-player room would be a computer that you activate and a screen that will show you your specializations you have unlocked.
When you go to play any game type you get into a drop pod and as you load to the waiting room it shows everyone else your gonna play with in pods as well with opposing people facing each other… example: each ( - ) represents a player.
I refused to vote in your poll because it’s not an objectively good poll (i.e., has yes and no choices instead of variations of the same answer) but I think it would be cool if the main menu was something like that. I, however, doubt it will actually be present.
Polls aren’t that important…put it in to gauge peoples thoughts of whether what I came up with was interesting or not without having people needing to post things.
Your making it sound like the way the Lego Star Wars Games were structured. In LSW you were placed on the big ship and you had to go to different parts of the ship to access different things. I was thinking this was what the Infinity would be like and I would absolutely love it. Great Idea.
I played one of the lego star wars games…I think the very first and only for a little bit, didn’t find it interesting. So I don’t remember anything of it.
Moving around in the Hub would get extremely tedious, and boring if you just want to get somewhere. Think Portal 2 - The Hub is extremely annoying, especially with a partner.
At this stage in development, it would be pushed to the side. It’s also an extra feature that adds nothing to the game, so they wouldn’t be working on it while they still have things to do. We’ve also seen a blurry menu, and it’s nothing like what you said.
This would also not make sense canonically - the Master Chief won’t meet up with the Infinity until later in the campaign. Spartan Ops takes place on Requiem also, so yeah.
I can see this working if you don’t have to traverse the distance, and just a flythrough from room to room. Otherwise, it’d be a distraction, hard for new players, and confusing.
Just my two cents.
P.S - The poll options are incredibly biased - three “omg cool” options, one “meh” option - no “no” option.
I would rather it for a new game spin off rather than a actual Halo FPS. If 343 ever decided to go Skyrim or Mass Effect I think your menu idea would have some real merit that would fit in that kind of gaming experience. With the current Halo franchise though my own thoughts on it would be a simpler GUI and get right into the game play between MM and Campaign rather than walking through a ship to enter distant rooms. If anything if they could add a single operations center into the MM maps that could host your clan player’s meetings rather than Forge World get togethers then you’d have a better time of selling it to Halo faithfuls. I’d say no, but hey we all find out in November.