Why do game mechanics have to change each Halo?

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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Note: I love Halo 5. This post isn’t a critique, but more of an open question for curiosities sake.

Each Halo since Halo 2 has had big changes in game mechanics, and I am just wondering why? I get that Halo can’t be stagnant as a franchise when we have computational power increasing and other games taking advantage, but why such big changes each game?

So the point I am getting to is that why can’t 343i buck the trend, and for once have a Halo that doesn’t change so much?

  • Halo: CE (the original) - Halo 2 (No more Halo: CE pistol, adds dual-wielding and introduces BR) - Halo 3 (Adds deployable items, projectile weapons) - Halo: Reach (Armor Abilities, removal of dual wielding, Covenant weapon overhaul, UNSC weapon overhaul, Assassinations) - Halo 4 (Sprint, Semi-Reversal of UNSC overhaul, Semi-Reversal of Covenant overhaul, Forerunner weapons) - Halo 5 (Removal of AA, Introduction to Spartan Abilities, overhaul of all weapons, mini-map change) - Halo 6 (???)Halo 5 is a good Halo game IMO and, honestly, it is on the edge of no longer being that. The sprint debate thread is one example of how some already feel Halo 5 is too different mechanically. So would we want the next Halo to change too much?

Note: I love Halo 5. This post isn’t a critique, but more of an open question for curiosities sake.

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For one, it would get stale, fast. Second of all, a lot of people like “modern” shooters, they could potentially lose a large portion of their player base.

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> For one, it would get stale, fast. Second of all, a lot of people like “modern” shooters, they could potentially lose a large portion of their player base.

What’s more, with the player base point, it’s not just the current player base that has to be taken into account, it all of the new to the scene players and future players who will be accustomed to seeing faster paced gameplay.
But more simply, it would get stale as said above.

Halo CE, 2, 3, ODST : No sprint for 4 games.
Halo: Reach, 4, 5 : Yes sprint for 3 games.

People say it like sprint is some weird new thing. One more game with sprint and it’ll be equal.