I’m sure this has been done to death, but I’m really interested in what the community wants out of Halo 5. I’m thinking of making a fanmade Halo game, and want to know what the community cares about more.
All three. 
I want Chief to be with blue team the whole game. It’s about time they showed up in a game. Since 343 is doing much justice to the books by adding elements into the games, as well as the “next 72 hours” comics that chief and blue team had in escalation, this leads me to believe that they will be in there. At least I hope so.
Everything.
Well, um, at least A) an interesting compelling story, B) innovative Custom Games and Forge, C) fun, addictive gameplay, D) expansive player customization,
List goes on…
Something to entertain me for a few years that I can hop on to for an hour or 2 here or there to have fun.
Can’t really have a great story without interesting characters and development, you know 
I want Firefight to return (as an addition to Spartan Ops, not a replacement).
And I want Forge to offer enough new and innovative features that I can disappear inside and never ever have to go into multiplayer again. Unless it’s for a dedicated customs playlist. Which would be great. Obviously.
What I want and won’t get: is for this game to become a little less team-slayer-centric. I get that it’s the signature game type for the franchise, but big team now draws far more players, has done for several games now, and yet is still the neglected, red-headed step-child of Halo. MCC has how many different 4v4 playlists, and yet only one BTB? That’s just wrong.
All of the above
I want Halo 5 multiplayer to take full advantage of the Xbox One’s power. And I want a great story as well.
Multiplayer for sure.
Out of my 1 day, 18hours of play time on MCC, 0% has been for the single player. Halo CE multiplayer is where I started my FPS roots. The weekly LAN parties me and my friends did are still to this day the best gaming experience of my life.
Having said that, I still enjoy single player and I have played each game’s SP multiple times. So, I still hope Halo 5 has a compelling story line (and hopefully better told then Halo 4’s).
What if I want more than 1 of those options?
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> What if I want more than 1 of those options?
Choose the one you want the most, and comment what you want
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> I want Firefight to return (as an addition to Spartan Ops, not a replacement).
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> And I want Forge to offer enough new and innovative features that I can disappear inside and never ever have to go into multiplayer again. Unless it’s for a dedicated customs playlist. Which would be great. Obviously.
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> What I want and won’t get: is for this game to become a little less team-slayer-centric. I get that it’s the signature game type for the franchise, but big team now draws far more players, has done for several games now, and yet is still the neglected, red-headed step-child of Halo. MCC has how many different 4v4 playlists, and yet only one BTB? That’s just wrong.
In the game’s GDD (my fanmade one) Forge is heavily modified to allow to do great things (budget returns, but all items are reduced by a factor of ten, abilities to save new items for forge, editable skybox and ground, editibale terrain, and multiple styles for each block). And yes, we have plans for custom playlists. Both Firefight and Spartan Ops would return, along with several other gametypes and support for objective and larger game types (even thoughts for 16v16, and space battles)
I want it all!
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> Can’t really have a great story without interesting characters and development, you know
Agreed. That’s why I picked the “compelling story” option - it seems to encompass the “interesting characters” category as well.
If anybody is interested, I can post the GDD on here
A great compelling story 
Customization. Halo has become too big, and has too many fans that enjoy so many different aspects of the previous games, that it will be almost impossible to satisfy the entire fanbase.
Not everyone likes the direction of the story since 4, and many do not like the multiplayer due to “gimmicks”…but give this community the ability to remove those gimmicks, and edit the MP to play more classic, they will do it. Give them the ability to edit Firefight or Spartan Ops and they will do it as well.
All the above, I always love a great story, but I also want plenty of customization and in a quote from 343i in another thread:
“We have a HUGE variety of armor planned for Halo 5. The unlockable system is all new and hopefully everyone will discover something they like. Armor preference is very personal - what one person loves, another may hate and vice versa. The goal is to provide tons of variety for players to choose from.”
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> All the above, I always love a great story, but I also want plenty of customization and in a quote from 343i in another thread:
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> “We have a HUGE variety of armor planned for Halo 5. The unlockable system is all new and hopefully everyone will discover something they like. Armor preference is very personal - what one person loves, another may hate and vice versa. The goal is to provide tons of variety for players to choose from.”
When did 343 say that? (I’m not doubting they did, I’m just wondering, because I don’t remember hearing it)
It was an answer on another forum thread, sorry should have included a link the first time - https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/6e35355aecdf4fd0acdaee3cc4156fd4/topics/halo-5-armor/daab5bfa-0252-4031-8a4e-9b12f7a7fac0/posts?page=3#post41