True Halo 5 Sequel Idea

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Now that Infinite is out and they have done a crap job of linking it to the games that have come before, I think it gives 343 the opportunity to create a true sequel to Halo 5.

This game could have us play as Fire Team Osiris, Blue Team, the Arbitor, Palmer and show us what exactly happened between the two games, and it should play like Halo 5, not Infinite.

We can call it Halo 5: Lost Levels

OH, and give Chief his new armor back, not his chastity belt suit from his early years. 343 nailed his suit for 4 & 5.

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It’s your lucky day, today of all days you’re the 1 millionth poster and your request will be turned into reality despite your rather harsh and unconstructive feedback.

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Your speaking to much truth here. Everyday I play Halo infinite I can’t stop thinking about how cool Halo 5 was. It’s even more of a gut punch because Phil Spencer said on the day of Halo 5s launch that they were already working on the next game and that it would be a trigolgy. The reclaimer saga

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Do you think 343 did a good job continuing the story? Don’t get me wrong, Infinites story is fine, just leaves HUGE amounts of how we got there out.

I’m being serious too, it gives 343 with an opportunity to tell more of that story.

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The way Halo 5 ended, I could have seen a 4 player coop scenario where your options would have been Chief, Arbitor, Locke, and Palmer and I could have gotten behind that.

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Exactly my point. There could have been so many options. That ending scene was setup for a scene that comes right after that and the whole 4 player thing already made sense. It was wonderful for blue team. Just imagine blue team being the focus after fire team Osiris was. It would’ve came full circle and completed the saga. THEN we couldve had whatever infinite is. I don’t know why. They YET AGAIN butchered the pace of the story. It feels discounted from 1-5. Especially since it’s not a traditional linear experience.

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I think it could’ve been far worse.

Halo 3 left the story pretty open ended, and I truly believe that 343 had the best intentions taking it in the direction they did in 4 and 5.

Halo 4 and 5 took the story and went in a pretty radical direction in my opinion at least with the surrounding narrative. I loved what they did with Chief and Cortana in 4, and see that reflected very well in Infinite, but the story’s plot and narrative just felt like filler to tell us Chief/Cortana’s story. 5’s story just kinda fell apart because of this filler. It had threads connecting Chief’s story, but they were just stretched thin with some fan favorite characters brought in to drum up hype.

I mean heck man, 5’s story picked up where Spartan Ops left off. I didn’t even finish Spartan Ops and that was the biggest pull for me in Halo 4. Episodic narrative driven storyline that continued after the events of the campaign?! Dude sign me up! Until my friends stopped playing, and I just felt no reason to run the same missions on the same maps solo repeatedly just to get a cutscene and some filler.

I get that the Reclaimer saga will not be complete, which to those who enjoyed it and wanted to see the end: I’m truly sorry, that really sucks. However it was clear by the end of Halo 5 (which I finished by watching, after I grew frustrated and bored of playing) the direction 343 was going in was going to be more convoluted and maybe even tie up Halo for good.

I don’t think that Halo Infinite ties up all the loose ends of Halo 5, in fact I think it might end up causing more issues story wise than Halo 5 would’ve led to, however I think it buys 343 more time with the story. Those loose ends it doesn’t quite tie up are most likely the case for future plot points.

Infinite was one final chance 343 had to save Halo, while it isn’t the final shape, it at least bought the franchise some time.

I agree. There’s a lot of explaining that needs to be done yet. I don’t think I need to go into detail of course, but for example one of the issues I personally criticized the new Star Wars films for was providing necessary exposition to understand the films outside of the films themselves. My comparison: 343’s Reclaimer Saga.

The expanded universe just Big Banged and and expanded so vastly and rapidly that it made the experience unnecessarily convoluted. Not even the ads had time to catch up to the plot lines, not even the podcast stories that led up to it could catch up.

I do want to know the story that led to Cortana’s collapse, why the universe is in a state of apocalypse. I want to know the whole story rather than the blips that were shown to us. I do think we’re going to get answers, but we simply didn’t get them up front all at once.

Oh I completely agree. I don’t think it’ll be in the way you suggest though. The campaign and multiplayer both have stories, it’s clear there’s a lot more going on than the game’s plot leads us to believe we’ll see. I think 343/Infinite is going to give us expanded plots in due time. The game makes it pretty clear there’s plenty of real estate to still explore.

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343 did a crap job with H4/H5.

They had to go back to the drawing board and we got infinite which is much better than their last two games.

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glad they are trying to ditch h5 story. h5 ditched h4;s amazing story its only fair now

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Tbh be honest that just cements the problem rather than fix. Now I can’t play a hypothetical 1-6. It’s just 1-5 and them BAM. Brick wall. Brand New type of story and campagin. It will never feel connected no matter how much they try and fill in the holes

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100% agree and I really hope we get that type of dlc for Infinite , but to go back and fill in the gaps would give players more variety in their game play.

I also agree, this will almost assuredly not happen, but I can hope. I never thought we’d get a game like Reach either, but along it came and in some ways relates more to Infinite than 5 does.

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Halo 5 was a profoundly terrible campaign. I’m glad to see they more or less completely undid it here.

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