There’s gonna be some major games coming out in the future for XB1 like Titanfall and Destiny.
And with Titanfall being an XB1 exclusive there’s a possibility that it could take Halo’s throne for best Xbox exclusive game.
How do think Halo is gonna manage up against these games?
Thoughts?
Every FPS on the Market. Call of Duty, Titan Fall, and possibly even Destiny.
> Every FPS on the Market. Call of Duty, Titan Fall, and possibly even Destiny.
Halo 5 will compete with everything on the xbox really.
People can leave Halo for just about anything. Halo, currently, has to fight for its playerbase over titles like AC4 and GTA5, as well as every other FPS. It will also have to contend with heavyweights Watch Dogs, Destiny, Dying Light, The Division, Theif and Elder Scrolls Online, in addition to next gen FPS titles.
I imagine that players will be able to invest an impressive deal of time into these games.
Titanfall isn’t an Xbox One exclusive.
It’s also on 360 and PC.
Biggest competition, I’m not sure. But I do know that Destiny, Titanfall, and Elder Scrolls Online have massive hype behind them.
I’m not so worried about the single player games coming out.
Halo 5’s real competition will be itself honestly. Its’ success, popularity, and longevity will be largely due to itself I believe. If 343 makes another game whose gameplay is very unpopular like H4, it will bomb like H4. If they can create a game that stays more true to Halo’s base and makes itself unique instead of trying to draw on the same crowd as half the concole fps games, it will probably be a success because it will offer a far more unique experience.
I am not really concerned with what other titles are doing. I imagine I will play them and enjoy them. Its whether Halo 5 will offer anything worthwhile of its own.
Halo 4 had financial success, but clearly there is is an issue when it comes to player retention. The best thing Halo 5 could do would be to carve out its own niche once again. Halo 4 tried and failed to chase after players from other games while alienating large parts of its fanbase in the process.
It is highly unlikely that Halo will ever be “number 1” ever again, but that does not mean it can’t have a stable, decently sized community. If we could get Reach numbers on a consistent basis I would call that the best case scenario. I would be perfectly happy keeping our own stable niche(even though it may not be the largest) if it means we can keep the core gameplay we started out with.
It’s biggest competitor would itself. It has the capability to be one the top games out there as long as 343 keeps to the core of Halo. Its Halo’s uniqueness that makes it stand out, not the COD like of the game.
Exactly!
> Halo 5’s real competition will be itself honestly. Its’ success, popularity, and longevity will be largely due to itself I believe. If 343 makes another game whose gameplay is very unpopular like H4, it will bomb like H4. If they can create a game that stays more true to Halo’s base and makes itself unique instead of trying to draw on the same crowd as half the concole fps games, it will probably be a success because it will offer a far more unique experience.
Exactly!
Considering Titanfall will be out nearly a year before Halo 5… I wouldn’t call it Halo’s competition. Maybe for player count after Halo 5 has lived a couple of months, and Titanfall fans snake back over to it.
Destiny will be out half a year before Halo 5. So once again I doubt it. Especially since Destiny is more of a Borderlands-esque coop RPG Shooter than a competitive juggernaut. I doubt that a Borderlands-style game will ever produce a great competitive scene like Halo/Titanfall/CoD do.
Which means that Halo’s biggest competition will likely be the next CoD, I don’t think a new Battlefield will be out this year… We might see a new Gears of War to compete, but Gears never stood a chance against Halo/CoD.
But in terms of what will make-or-break Halo 5? It has to compete with the same games every Halo has to compete with, and sadly fail to beat. Halo 2 and 3. Halo Reach, and 4’s greatest weakness, was that it’s predecessors were so great, and they were so… well, not bad by any means, but they were just good.
A market full of mediocre games can still beat good games like Halo Reach or Halo 4 simply because of the disappointment they get for not living up to the greatness of the original trilogy. As well as simply not being the game that the majority of gamers want Halo 4/5 etc to be. We want it to look, feel, and play like something that closely resembles Halo 2. We don’t want the same game over again, but we want that universe back, and the feelings we got from that game back. Which is not going to happen if Halo keeps separating itself further and further from the root elements of the franchise.
Titanfall will not hurt Halo 5, it comes out half a year (or more) before Halo 5. If anything, Titanfall will help a Halo 5, as it will make more people buy the Xbox One.
The real competition depends on Halo 5’s release schedule, but I think it’s safe to assume it’s going to be CoD and Battlefield/Medal of Honor again. Which is good because both of those series are in as much fatigue as Halo. May the better game win.
EDIT: Forgot about Destiny, it is the big one after all. But I’ll have to say I’m not worried. I think Destiny will release in September or possibly even earlier than that given Bungie’s standard release schedule and the fact they are having the beta in March (Reach’s beta was in May, and the game released in September). Also, I doubt Activision will want to pit its two heavy hitters against one another, it makes no sense. So I don’t think Destiny will be a big problem to Halo.
Well first off its competition would be every xbox one now and throughout the year of 2014 by the time its released the hype over the games coming out in Spring will die down and hype for the fall releases will start so E3 2014 is when you’ll know.
Bullman 3 posts in a row on your own comment ,really? No i don’t having Halo revert to its precursors will do anything for the game infact i think it would actually reduce consumers if it was the same as 2 or 3 because of lack in innovation and just to be funny graphics(I know they wouldn’t do that one)
If Halo continues to go down the path its on it will fail because similarity to other games instead Halo should make its own path again the way it did that made it so popular to begin with shy away from armor mods and some SOME of that junk and get creative like equipment and AAs those were unexpected developments that draw gamers in new stuff now im not saying the whole game of course just work adding new mechanics into the game to compliment existing ones and remove existing mechanics with better or polished ones. There should definitely be new weapons and i mean NEW weapons the Promethean weapons except the deres effect and grenade weren’t really new in my opinion yeah they fired differently but they didn’t stand out much from existing weapons in fact a lot of them were worse then them despite being “Superior” in the story add a weapon that pushes Spartans or Makes their physics all weird stuff you won’t see in another game to make Halo unique.
> <mark>Halo 5’s real competition will be itself</mark> honestly. Its’ success, popularity, and longevity will be largely due to itself I believe. If 343 makes another game whose gameplay is very unpopular like H4, it will bomb like H4. If they can create a game that stays more true to Halo’s base and makes itself unique instead of trying to draw on the same crowd as half the concole fps games, it will probably be a success because it will offer a far more unique experience.
Agreed. I have good faith in 343i, however 
It’ll have a ton of competition, CoD, Titanfall, Possibly Battlefield and heck even Destiny looks like it could give it competition
> Every FPS on the Market. <mark>Call of Duty</mark>, Titan Fall, and possibly even Destiny.
Since Ghosts failed to bring more life into Call of Duty and certainly resulted in a decrease in popularity, I don’t think that franchise will last much longer against games such as Titanfall. So, with that being said, we may be able to cross Call of Duty off the list assuming that Black Ops 3 suffers the same fate.
I personally think that Destiny will be Halo 5’s greatest competition, and it will be ironic as well.
Is it bad that finding out COD’s population went down put a smile on my face?
Destiny most likely. Its bungie after all, the original creators of halo. 343 is going to have use halo 3 as the foundation of halo xb1’s gameplay and build up from there in order to come back on top.
> > Every FPS on the Market. Call of Duty, Titan Fall, and possibly even Destiny.
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> Halo 5 will compete with everything on the xbox really.
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> People can leave Halo for just about anything. Halo, currently, has to fight for its playerbase over titles like AC4 and GTA5, as well as every other FPS. It will also have to contend with heavyweights Watch Dogs, Destiny, Dying Light, The Division, Theif and Elder Scrolls Online, in addition to next gen FPS titles.
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> I imagine that players will be able to invest an impressive deal of time into these games.
I doubt that elder scrolls online will be popular enough to compete with the other games. Very few are willing to pay 15 bucks a month to play one game.
I think, depending on release schedule, that Halo 5’s biggest competitor will be Destiny or the newest COD.
It depends, if 343i listened to their fan-base this time then it should be of the best Halo’s yet but if not then It will probably sort of compete with Battlefield 4, it really depends on 343i impress’s us, sure I’ll my Halo Xbox One so my fingers crossed.
It’s biggest competition will be whatever Call of Duty and Battlefield games are out at the time, I’d say it’s fair to consider Titanfall competition too.
I wouldn’t say Destiny is direct competition, it’s more focused on cooperative than competitive multiplayer, but I guess it’s competition to an extent since it’s still a big budget sci-fi shooter
How will it do in the face of this adversity? No telling at this point, but it’s important that 343 learns from Halo 4. I mean, if all they do is release a game that’s like Halo 4 then it’s not going to be more popular than Battlefield of CoD, that’s for sure.
And considering the reception Halo 4 got I doubt the launch will be as enthusiatic and successful, especially since it’s going to be on a console with a much smaller install base. But it wont matter is the final product pleases the fans and player, it’ll catch on if they do it right.