If a picture is worth a thousand words than the image used to announce Halo 5 Guardians is literally saying that the new Spartan is the new main character in the Halo franchise and Master Chief is merely a fading reflection. I’ll go a step farther and jump to the conclusions that Master Chief’s days are numbered and he won’t be a playable character at all during H5G. The problem with 343 continuing with MC as the protagonist in Halo is that MC has lost all the characters he was personally connected to in the Halo franchise and with the demise of Cortana Master Chief’s closest ally it now leaves MC without any link to his humanity and this in turn leaves MC without any capacity to grow as a character.
I see that happening at some point but I don’t see that happening any time soon
Master Chiefs conclusion should be at the end of the Reclaimer saga. In other words, Halo 6.
> Master Chiefs conclusion should be at the end of the Reclaimer saga. In other words, Halo 6.
Sagas usually are longer than trilogies the Reclaimer Saga started a H4 and H6 would only be 3 games so i would assume that the Saga ends at H7-H9?
> > Master Chiefs conclusion should be at the end of the Reclaimer saga. In other words, Halo 6.
>
> Sagas usually are longer than trilogies the Reclaimer Saga started a H4 and H6 would only be 3 games so i would assume that the Saga ends at H7-H9?
I don’t think that’s what they meant by making it a saga. It probably means more spin-off games, novels, comics, web series, etc.
Look at Greg Bear’s novels for example, it was called a saga but it was only 3 books.
Kill Chief off at the end of the Reclaimer saga. Not half way through it.
Who would replace one of Video Games greatest icons? No One. Thats who.
The Chief is not just a icon. He’s the face of Halo. Why 343 would kill him off half way through their story, I don’t know.
And I hope I never do know. Because Chief should be there with us until the bitter end.
And thats all I have to say.
I knew the name H5G would stick.
I doubt Halo 5 will be the end of Master Chief. If there going to kill him off, it will be later down the line.
Also I don’t think two games will be enough to fully humanize Chief.
I’d rather have Chief be mind–Yoinked!- by the Flood.
Ur-Didact all over again.
I think John-117 will definitely be a playable character, however I suspect that the game style may well be like Halo 2.
Some wild and not so wild theories as to what Halo 5 may cover:
There are some story threads as yet unresolved – the didact’s survival of the end of Halo 4 (given the cover art of Escalation #9, this is virtually confirmed).
Halsey & Jul having half the Janus Key.
Spirit of Fire return – this gives us potentially three more Spartan IIs.
My theory is as follows: a game where you get to play both characters as shown on the released art. John-117 discovers Halsey has been taken by Jul M’dama, and resolves to acquire her. ONI/UNSC don’t seem to see the importance (as per Escalation Graphic Novels), so John-117 is ‘rogue’ for this purpose. The events in the rest of the universe convince the UNSC/ONI that the Janus Key may well be important, and that whatever was done to John-117 by the librarian may be key to either the retrieval of the key, or once the key is retrieved, actually accessing what it shows. So the ONI Spartan goes hunting Halsey / Janus Key / John. The ONI Spartan may have a directive to kill Halsey, then again its possible given Thorne’s testimony that the kill order is at least on hold.
For John-117 to work his way to Jul M’dama, he would need to talk to covenant. So he makes his way to the arbiter, to get some intel. This may be via some of the outer colony worlds that are trading with covenant (as per the Kilo-5 trilogy). I would expect the threads around the Spirit of Fire coming back to woven in here, including the ongoing hostility between Brutes and Elites, Elites and Jackals, and Elites and Elites. The ONI Spartan would be pursuing a similar path, but may be able to bypass several of the steps that John-117 has made, due to having a large organisation to back him up (as opposed to John, who is probably given a boost along by Lasky and potentially other Spartan IIs, but that’s about it). Really wild theory – John-117 gets the insurrection to give him a hand.
At some point during the game, the ONI Spartan and John-117 meet, and due to circumstances ally themselves (this may be a somewhat forced alliance, in that neither would survive without the assistance of the other).
I suspect the mission will end on the ark, that Mendicant Bias will be a key part of the overall mission narrative (required to counter the didact / the flood / both / fully utilise the Janus Key). And much like the end of Halo 2, there will be a clear mission to continue on for Halo 6 (as per the final words of Halo 2, “finishing this fight”). I suspect that Halo 5 will be a major set up for the final chapter in the Reclaimer Saga.
Early missions of the ONI Spartan could actually including briefing notes on what is going on in the Halo Universe at this point, to fill in the gaps for those who haven’t read all the other supporting material (so the first mission is in fact both a ‘how do you play’ and also a ‘fill in the background’ mission. And much like other Halo games, as you find terminals, you get even more background info.
I would like to see chief die in Halo 7 in possibly the most epic way ever imaginable, after saving the entire Universe once and for all.
> > > Master Chiefs conclusion should be at the end of the Reclaimer saga. In other words, Halo 6.
> >
> > Sagas usually are longer than trilogies the Reclaimer Saga started a H4 and H6 would only be 3 games so i would assume that the Saga ends at H7-H9?
>
> I don’t think that’s what they meant by making it a saga. It probably means more spin-off games, novels, comics, web series, etc.
>
> Look at Greg Bear’s novels for example, it was called a saga but it was only 3 books.
I believe I read in a bulletin a while back they confirmed a 4-9.
i think it could happen at some point but not in halo 5 with a brand new character i think they’ll either build this new guy up or thorne for a few games before passing the mantle if they ever do decide to do something like this.
> > > > Master Chiefs conclusion should be at the end of the Reclaimer saga. In other words, Halo 6.
> > >
> > > Sagas usually are longer than trilogies the Reclaimer Saga started a H4 and H6 would only be 3 games so i would assume that the Saga ends at H7-H9?
> >
> > I don’t think that’s what they meant by making it a saga. It probably means more spin-off games, novels, comics, web series, etc.
> >
> > Look at Greg Bear’s novels for example, it was called a saga but it was only 3 books.
>
> I believe I read in a bulletin a while back they confirmed a 4-9.
Is there a source to this so I can see it for myself, or does this have to do with the domains Microsoft purchased back in 2012?
I don’t think it will happen in H5. Maybe 6 or 7. Like FuneralSnail (lol, I imagined a Snail in a black suit) said, I think two games is not enough to make Chief a human.
If Master Chief dies, then what separates halo from all the other FPSs is gone. A protagonist that we actually care about and have emotional attachments to. Then it’s just another game with a campaign that everyone will rush through so they can play the multiplayer for a bit and then go to a different game (just like cod and bf). If 343 kills off master chief now, I think that’d be an extremely stupid move and they’d lose the trust and faith of the community. If they are going to eventually kill him when the reclaimer saga ends, then I sincerely hope that they give him the hero’s death that he deservers and it should be even more epic than all of Noble Teams’ deaths put together and then cubed!