by inserting your old Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4 disc in your xbox one (while you had the MC Collection game started) it could read those discs and then reward you with a special nameplate for each game? Kind of like how bungie did with nameplates for reach if you had Halo 1-3 linked on your account you got a lot of different nameplates.
So basically you’d start MC Collection, go to a place it says “unlock nameplates” and then it asks you to insert any or all of your Halo games. From there it could read them and unlock the stuff. I think it would be cool if that were possible. One last use for our old Halo discs.
Note: People are mistaking what I mean by ‘read old Halo games’ yes, I know that xbox 360 games are not backwards compatible. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the MC Collection being able to read the data off the disc to confirm whatever Halo game you inserted. There is a big difference between compatibility and simply reading file data off a disc.
> by inserting your old Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4 disc in your xbox one (while you had the MC Collection game started)
Well that’s not quite possible with the Xbox one due to the fact it it’s not backwards compatible with any Xbox game or Xbox 360 game so it wouldn’t be able to recognize the disc.
> > by inserting your old Halo 1, 2, 3, and 4 disc in your xbox one (while you had the MC Collection game started)
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> Well that’s not quite possible with the Xbox one due to the fact it it’s not backwards compatible with any Xbox game or Xbox 360 game so it wouldn’t be able to recognize the disc.
read my post above ^
I’m not talking about it reading the actual game, just the data on the disc to confirm whatever Halo game it may be. There is a difference between being backwards compatible to actually play the game as opposed to reading data off it.
That would be pretty sweet. I think what would be cool would be if the Xbox One version of Waypoint (since it should have your Waypoint Career score) could reward you with a “Legacy Nameplate” or something of the sort for having achievements unlocked for ODST, Reach, and Halo Wars on your record.
That way, you’ll still have to earn everything for the Master Chief Collection, but for the games that are not on the Xbox One, you get a little plate that says “Legacy” or “Veteran” or something meaning “Yeah, I’ve been doing this for years”.
> That would be pretty sweet. I think what would be cool would be if the Xbox One version of Waypoint (since it should have your Waypoint Career score) could reward you with a “Legacy Nameplate” or something of the sort for having achievements unlocked for ODST, Reach, and Halo Wars on your record.
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> That way, you’ll still have to earn everything for the Master Chief Collection, but for the games that are not on the Xbox One, you get a little plate that says “Legacy” or “Veteran” or something meaning “Yeah, I’ve been doing this for years”.
I agree that would be cool. If it wasn’t possible on the xbox one I’m sure they could create an app on waypoint to read the data off our older Halo discs as well. It’s easily possible no doubt.
> A much simpler way would be “If it’s in your game history, you get this special nameplate.”
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> That’s how Bungie unlocked the Marathon nameplate in Halo: Reach.
I agree, as our details are on Waypoint they can see who has done what without inserting discs, and I would like to see name plates return.
> I like the idea, I know it’s not really possible since the Xbox One isn’t backwards compatible but, it’s a neat idea nether the less.
My first post explains it’s not about backwards compatibility at all.
> > A much simpler way would be “If it’s in your game history, you get this special nameplate.”
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> > That’s how Bungie unlocked the Marathon nameplate in Halo: Reach.
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> I agree, as our details are on Waypoint they can see who has done what without inserting discs, and I would like to see name plates return.
I don’t think Halo CE shows up though. Sure anniversary would be there but not the original Halo CE or Halo 2 stats.
> A much simpler way would be “If it’s in your game history, you get this special nameplate.”
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> That’s how Bungie unlocked the Marathon nameplate in Halo: Reach.
Yeah, just doesn’t seem like a good idea otherwise.
Though I can’t say I’m really for it. Sounds a tad pointless to me.
I think the best/easiest route to go, would be to pull the nameplates from Reach.
From their you would get the people that played CE, H2, H3, ODST, Reach beta, and Reach(which would be a new nameplate based off of having a Reach achievement). They would unlock all of the game/beta specific nameplates. Then we could use Halo 4, Spartan Assault, and CEA achievements to determine if any/all of those games were played. If all of the games were played under a users account, he/she would then receive the “HALO” nameplate. The one in Reach that simply displays the word “Halo”. After that, a user could obtain the Halo 5 Guardians beta nameplate. If a user manages to receive the “HALO” nameplate and the H5G beta nameplate, he/she would then receive a gold version of the Halo nameplate. That’s what I want to happen.
> Who all here would earn the gold Halo nameplate?
yeah I unlocked the OG ‘Halo’ nameplate in reach. I think I went with my DMR plate though in the end … but I had all of them unlocked and if we could have switched back and forth I totally would have run with the Halo one once in awhile.
> I’m not talking about it reading the actual game, just the data on the disc to confirm whatever Halo game it may be. There is a difference between being backwards compatible to actually play the game as opposed to reading data off it.
There is no real difference between backwards compatibility, and reading the game data.
The whole point of backwards compatibility is getting the system to read the disk. If the system isn’t backwards compatible, then there is no way for it to recognize if the disk is Halo 1, Halo 3, or TSA Strip Search for the Kinect. It will simply display as “multimedia disk.” Put simply, the system has to be backwards compatible, even if all you are doing is trying to identify the disk.
I see where you’re coming from but of course 343 would have to find another way to bring up your “stats” or whatever to check rather than insert the game discs.
I’d love to wear my HALO nameplate or the Halo PC nameplate again.