Halo’s Missed Opportunity
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
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What would you say if I were to ask you what was Halo’s biggest missed opportunity solely speaking in terms of lore? I wouldn’t blame you if your list is incredibly long because, yeah, Halo has had quite a few missed opportunities. There have been dozens of new and interesting story threads introduced in multiple Halo books and sprinkled throughout Halo Infinite’s campaign that could definitely take the franchise in a new and interesting way. However, one newer concept that I feel has been pushed to the sidelines and not given the proper development time to become something truly great is something many fans dislike for all the wrong reasons. And that concept, strangely enough, is the FIREWALL fracture, aka the CHIMERA armor core.
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One of the issues with 343 is that they have no narrative plan. Halo 4, 5, and infinite make no sense as sequels. Mostly, nothing in terms of plot points is carried over and expanded. Playing Halo 1-3 makes sense as sequels, and as a cohesive story, every 343 Halo game has been one rest after another. They need to fix their storytelling, but its far too late now three games in.
My huge problem is that every time that something interesting happens it’s resolved off screen the created were an awesome idea and I was excited for infinite to fight them but instead they resolved it off screen
Halo has so many goddamn missed opportunities that it's hard to like anything about it anymore.
It's what happens when you go in with no long-term plan for a narrative. They wing it every game.
The books are great in their own
before watchign the rest I'd have to say halo's biggest missed opportunities would be the halo 5 story they made us believe would happen. The amount of lore and new mechanics we could've gotten from that story still makes me upset to think about
Then Infinite actively made it all a million times worse offscreen so they have the excuse to end it all offscreen.
@@darkspark5854 was it that bad?
For me the biggest missed opportunity in Halo is the complete lack of human enemies. We should’ve been fighting against humans and alongside Brutes as the Arbiter prior to the Great Schism. It would’ve added some much needed enemy variety to his repetitive sections (just copy FEAR and you’d be golden), it would be an excellent way to show how we (humanity) were largely able to hold our own in ground engagements, and it would’ve made the events human Elite alliance feel like one of desperation. Plus, if Bungie was able to give us the original ending with the “big reveal” they could’ve foreshadowed it by having Sentinels fighting alongside their Reclaimers who can naturally interface with Forerunner tech that’s unresponsive to other species. Also, if we got to see Brutes and Elites fighting and dying alongside each other for the same cause it would’ve made their eventual betrayal leading to the Great Schism feel far more impactful. Bungie could’ve used that as a great way to show the player what Brutes are capable of before we have to fight them, and if they were actively involved in the mad dash for the Index they would’ve felt more like a proper member species of the Covenant instead of just being there until Bungie needed a new enemy type.
Honestly I'm happy they threw away the crap from Halo 5. I do love the idea of almost a borg-like enemy faction to continue the cosmic horror roots along with having the Banished.
Yes I like this a lot actually. Humanity could be faced with the decision to either be consumed by The Flood, or absorbed by The Created, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Also, as various factions continue to vie for control, Master Chief could also have some of his personal connections become absorbed into the 2 factions, like if Fred got infected by The Flood or if Linda got absorbed into The Created.
It would be great if Humanity is once again on the back foot not against The Covenant, but against two forces that are eating everyone else and their decisions to try and live how they can while the Firewall is closing in, and the Flood comes crashing down. Just some thoughts, thanks for sharing!! 💫
Gotta disagree, Halo's next evolution is not to become Terminator or the Matrix.
What a great video. Unfortunately, I doubt 343 are ever going to follow up on the ideas in Halo 5 and Halo Infinite.
This is a really interesting concept and I agree that it would be good to explore. But will it be explored? Unfortunately, I doubt it. 😕
This video needs so much more recognition
Yea I really wish 343 would expand upon the Fracture universes like if they hired writers to commission novels or even just additional short stories similar to The Last Sky Marshal for Entrenched and Precipice for Firewall, would love to see one set in the Panzerdoll universe from Halo 2 Anniversary MP or another set in the Drengr universe from Halo 3's mythic armor sets, heck I would love a Tenrai story that expands upon the what if? scenario of Jorge-052 from Reach hinted in the Noble Loyalty armor coating in Infinite... A lot of potential for Halo to have a multiverse concept even if the concept is being done to death and as long as the Paramount+ show stays the heck out it.
This mixed with proper Forerunner tech would make a far more interesting and Halo version of the Promethean faction. Sadly this is as far as it goes.
Halo biggest missed opportunity was not taking the IP away from 343 after Halo 4 failed or selling the IP to a company/publisher that actually cares.
Yeah and they gutted the tv show with woke garbage as well as the game, I agree with you fully
The sad thing is that there aren't many publishers that would be really be better then 343 in the terms of caring about the franchise
I'd rather not they send the IP to Blizzard
@@abyssal-labs343 has barely any involvement in the show, if anything blame the writers and showrunners
Microsoft MADE 343 Industries themselves because they were coping over losing Bungie so hard that they created a new development studio and hired people that weren't passionate about Halo or outright despised it, and turned down the propositions and pitches of those who were (the vague mention of a Helldivers-like ODST concept getting pitched and subsequently canned comes to mind). It's why Halo 4 took such a radical shift in atmosphere and gameplay.
Not firing Frank O'Connor
I just realized over halfway through the video you're the same guy who makes ready or not content. Wow.
Lmao bro I right away was like no way the dude who makes my fav current games best vids is doing a halooo vid whhhat dudes a true giga chad
Just earned a sub brotha keep it up
Not being utter shite within the first opening minutes wasnt one of them.
Not related, but I think it’s cool that Halo took inspiration from Alien. My favourite video game and my favourite movie
The significant part is that all of this is expandable. The Great thing about Infinite is that all of the possibilities will be able to be dropped at any point in the development, and the next game can go in the RIGHT direction.
How ....how shayne....do you like the games I like alot and put out such great vids lol makes me wanna / need to up my vid game great work man Totally agree Halo infinite was such bright at the start...and i mean the FLIGHT aka like beta demo thing I had to fill out a 2 page survey to get into it, and was playing with alot of streamers it was only two 4 hour periods a day that the FLIGHT was open and no joke it ran better than it does now/ weapon Damage was higher, Far less desync even than now with the updated server :( I enjoyed the Solo campain but wished for a true coop and wanted....A ODST campaign and instead we got nothing lol
It does suck that a neat idea is kind of wasted here. In CE, the Chief was originally a cyborg and there are still some remnants of that, so it could have been interesting to see cyborgs actually make a comeback, whether it's just UNSC implants or the Created forcing you to become one (even if its just robot Flood). Personally my favorite Fractures armor is Eaglestrike, both the aesthetic and the idea of a perpetual war happening on a planet that's doomed and its atmosphere poisoned.
I see your point, but I'd have to ultimately vote against making Halo into something Terminator-esque. Or the Fractures armor at all making ultimately pointless self-contained lore when Infinite itself already struggled greatly with it, so much so that the multiplayer story was cut and the campaign is overwhelmingly played safe.
That and I think Chimera is ugly so I roll my eyes when they decide to make more of it rather than the stuff most people ask for but that's just visual.
Halos' biggest missed opportunities? I can think of a couple
So Omega and The Meta. Everything 343 has been doing, they just stole from Red VS. Blue.
My biggest problem is 343 decided to start a clean state in the most safe way possible. I don't like Halo 5, but I would rather they take elements from it (Blue Team, Osiris, Cortana controlling the Guardians, Swords of Sanghelios) and expand on it in a more interesting way. They could've had Halo Infinite still have it's more classic Halo feel while still keeping the story setup from 4 and 5. Instead Halo Infinite feels so... bland aside from some nice character elements between Chief, Weapon and Esparza.
Didact not being the villain of 5 and Infinite was a big L.
Hot take 343 should of just done their own thing and done Halo 6 with MC, Blue Team/Osiris and The Arbiter but NO everything got retconned
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People still play this hollow mess?..
Halo is still an absolute blast with the squad, and the extended lore has been high enough quality that the story still holds up, provided you have time to read 30+ books bridging the gaps from halo 4- infinite and beyond