I have seen a lot of posts on both positive and negative. There are people enjoying the current and people want classic. Through seeing a lot of them I organized my thought. I am pretty negative and critic on Halo 5, but I write this, because I want good Halo games in future.
Campaign
Story is what determines the value of campaign most, so 343 better have good story. I bought Halo because of the campaign, it matters me the most. However, the gameplay of campaign can provide replayability. The reason I play Halo 3 campaign very often, it’s because the campaign has variety on its gameplay. Taking down Scarabs with Scorpion and another time with Hornet. Fighting against Banshees and Phantoms. Warthog escape with Arbiter. Fighting endless Flood. Fighting jet pack Brute. Having Elite allies. It just provides so much. In Halo 5 we got 7 Warden Eternal fight in exact same way and most of missions being infantry fight. If we fought Warden Eternal with different ways, it could have been fun (however not, because he is bullet sponge). Halo 5 had a sequence like Kraken destruction, but it was as infantry taking down the Kraken. I just hope Halo 6 provides lots of variety, different type of sequence. There is potential of FLOOD, which I am excited about.
Multiplayer
I assume everyone agrees with having many playlists to play, the variety on Arena. Along with classic playlists, I would like to see 343 making new game mode to the franchise. This time, no community maps on playlist unless it’s community playlist. Big Team Battle is just a joke and Infection needs dev kit maps for both gameplay and aesthetic. Using community maps on the playlist seems lazy to me.
Customization
I demanded different HUD for different helmets and that didn’t happened. I still want to see this happening. Reach and Doom style customization will be great. Plus, make armors feel like Halo. The most of armors in Halo 5 look bad and doesn’t feel like Halo at all.
Movement
I think this matters people the most. Personally I would like to see Halo without sprint and spartan ability. But 343 seems like they are going their own way and there are fans like the new direction the Halo franchise is going. My simple address to this is making classic old playlist for people who want. This could split the community into classic and new. Except for this, how 343 can please everyone? One has to adapt to thing that they don’t like and there will be another argument for going to classic Halo. Halo 5 feels like generic shooter to me, but that doesn’t mean I hate it. It needs to stand alone, be unique from other games. This is why I play MCC. I play Quantum Break over and over, because that is the only game has the time power mechanic. No games in the world is like Quantum Break. Halo should be like this. No matter what 343 adds to the game, make it unique that you can only experience it from Halo.
Removal of REQ System
This. The requisition ruins the game and the fact is it’s a microtransaction that general audience glares it. It gives Microsoft more profits, but as a player, this is the worst thing ever added to the franchise. Worse than anything. Just rid of this 343.
Spartan Ops
I want to know what is going on with Majestic. Anyway, This is one of ways to expand the universe of Halo. I believe 343 wants to make Halo bigger like Star Wars. Use Spartan Ops! Spartan Ops doesn’t have to be with Spartan 4s. It can be with Spartan 2s or maybe even a few survivals of 3s. Maybe going back into old time when Spartans 2 were fighting the insurrectionist? More teams on the Invasion of Reach? Spartans doing operation with elites? How awesome it would be Red Team meeting Blue Team on Spartan Ops.
Offline Content (Forge, Custom Game, and Firefight)
Forge and Custom Game being online content was not a good decision. They should be offline and Firefight maybe? The addition to Forge I want to see is A.I… Doom allows you to created your own maps, hell even your own single player. Why not on Halo? The Forge team seems very working hard and creative. Although the control is kinda clunky, they should make control based on old version. Also, ability make a server for custom game in public would be great. The longevity will increase further more with people making different games.
Splitscreen
No reason to explain why we need this.
What would make Halo great? You tell me.