🌏 Get Exclusive NordVPN deal + 4 months extra here → nordvpn.com/xperia. It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✌ #ad *Today, I wanted to talk about MY OWN hopes for not just the next Halo story, BUT for its atmosphere, tone, a u r a and much more! No lore-based speculation, just my hopes and dreams ✨✨*
and when going to the ark, you find out that spark is trying to work against you, while offencive bias is trying to fix spark to get him back to helping humanity to reclaim the mantel
Perfect timing bro. I was waiting for a Halo vid to watch on my lunch break lol. Thanks for the videos through bro, you’re getting us though yet another content drought🫡
*If 343 wants to keep focusing on Spartans I want a Red Team or Blue Team spin off. Or hell even a Headhunters game where you end up fighting the Silent Shadow and Bloodstars.*
How many people are gonna care about them ? They utterly failed the introduction of Blue Team for the majority of players, they're as good as dead. As for Red Team, I think it's a good thing if they remain the spartans of the RTS games, otherwise it will be more homework for people to understand who they are, many don't play Halo Wars.
@@dearcastiel4667well redoing it, but having it done right would change a lot of people’s opinion on them. Now does 343 have that ability? Well they certainly have a ways to go before fans have that trust in them again
@@dearcastiel4667 have yet to find someone who doesnt know about Red Team and almost everyone I've encountered that plays Halo played at least 1 of HW titles
@@noddy1973 nah I call bs, maybe most halo FANS have played or even know halo wars exist but the average joe that picks up whatever the newest Halo or COD fps game is when he's buying groceries and doesn't have enough time to finish the campaign has no clue who blue team or red team are hell I'd be surprised if they know who sergeant johnson is.
Just remembered, what the hell has happened and where the hell has Dr Anders gone? At the end of HW2 she went with the halo ring and got stopped by a guardian and we've seen or heard nothing... I'm guessing she's dead since how does she survive what is years i believe on that ring by herself, She's not a hunter or farmer. Well Matt demon did it on Mars so she could too hahah. Seriously though, Where she at? I personally want Chief and the rest of the surviving Sll's to be in once place and fight a overwhelming threat as the UNSC or civilians fallback. Maybe be for Chief's final fight, John knows he will die in battle one day so seeing him gather his family together again and die to by them time and then take control of Jerome perhaps? Id say Fred but Jerome is much younger thanks to cryo and 343/Microsoft can use him way more.
@@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu that’s true, also depends on if the ring had any other animals for the rings ecosystem onboard since the ring was freshly made I’m not sure when animals get added? Also depends on what plants grown on the ring, are they similar to Earth or would she have to trial and hope for the best with them as you said
@@HiddenXperia rough times, man. But one thing that manages to keep me going is seeing videos of yours. I’m a younger Halo fan, still a teen and I consider the franchise but also your channel a part of my identity. I grew up on your old flood videos and 343 art style ranting lmao
Maybe 343 will take the Gears route and focus on a Prequel game before returning to the modern narrative... might give them a chance to decide on who the main villain is supposed to be.
I'd love that, only issue is with Steve Downes. I mean he is very old and as hidden said probably retire if we have years of making and publishing a sequel or spinoffs they need to use him while we have him cos itll be a sad day when we wont hear him voice Chief again
halo 4: The forerunners weren't actually human and there is one alive that hates humans and is like totaly stronger than the Chief! halo 5: 4's Villian died between games and now Cortana is evil and is leading a generic rise of the machines! halo 6: Cortana died betwen games and the machine rebelion kind of witter out or smt but there is like this subfation of the Corvernant that is like stronger than OG covernant and they hate humans for some reason and their leader Ariox is like totally stronger than the Chief and wants to free this race never mentioned before but that is like actually worst than the flood! halo 7: so this guy Atriox and the endless died between the games but there is this new faction that...
Imagine if the reason the Endless are more dangerous than the flood is that as a precursor subpecie, they can controle the flood (or at least make a real alliance with them) and use them to assimilate all their opponents
Neural physics is how the primordial controls the flood right? The endless should be able to do the same thing and allow the floor to skip the feral stage and instantly reach the coordinated stage even without a gravemimd. They could act as commanders until a gravemimd can be created.
Halo didn’t need to keep artificially extending chief’s story. I feel like Bungie were very aware that the only direction left to go with the franchise was with spinoffs and prequels like ODST & Reach. 343 should’ve done this instead of making Halo 4, back when Halo was still one of the biggest names in the FPS genre. Now it feels like hype for the franchise is so astronomically low that they have no choice but to keep wheeling out Chief because that’s all Halo is known for due to 343’s refusal to expand the roster of protagonists when they had the chance
They actually have a couple in that roster I'd still be willing to buy a Halo game for: Fireteam Majestic (specifically Gabriel Thorne) and Jerome/Isabel(Aka Chief/Cortana 2). We haven't seen Thorne since Spartan Ops in Halo 4 or 2558 unfortunately, and I don't know how likely it is we'll see the Spirit of Fire again. My issue with 343 is they've been relying on books and comics too much. It's one thing to expand upon events with them, maybe fill in some gaps. it's another to have multiple major story plots happen in them, making the next game feel disconnected. Halo 1-3 all happen within the same year. CE and 2 are relatively close to each other, and then 3 is a direct continuation of 2. Halo 4-Infinite: 3 years pass, multiple side/major characters die outside the games, and the biggest sin: Chief and Arbiter's reunion happen outside the games. They need to tell a more condensed story.
@@Lashmer 343 treats their side characters like anthology stories. They show up for one game and are then never seen again aside from maybe a book or two
NOBODY has an idea what the hell is going on with the current story. Everything's either been retconned to oblivion, told in some obscure book, or both.
Agreed, I didn't hate halo 4. The story was OK just the gameplay sucked. They need to keep the villain alive and keep cortana dead at the end. Pay a decent writer to make the story 10x better. The core concept wasn't terrible.
100%. I was incredibly confused when Halo 5 had no direct continuation from halo 4. Theres some familiar faces, but then suddenly there other Spartan IIs that miraculously survived (with no ingame explanation), no mention of the Didact , Chief is on the run for some reason. Then we get Infinite, and suddenly theres a completely unfamiliar 3rd alien faction, and the Infinity, its crew, and most of the familiar faces from Halo 5 are gone???? Theres no proper through line for game only fans. Its just a hot mess
Absolute facts. The only sensible option is a partial reboot (restarting off the end of Halo 3, that'd undo all of 343's damage to the franchise minus our time wasted) done by a new dev made of people who actually care about Halo. Microsoft could easily get this done if they really cared.
This is my opinion as well. Halo is in a similar situation to Star Wars, everything post-Disney acquisition needs to be purged and a proper story planned, written, _and followed._ TBH, I think the story should follow “our” Spartan the way Reach did. Don’t even kill off Chief or Cortana, let them rest and they can maybe be brought in later. Or have them exist in some kind of vague “afterlife” that they don’t have a desire to leave, giving them a happy ending. Also, ONI absolutely knew everything Halsey was doing. The sudden demonization of her character was weak and stupid. It’s not that what she did was right, but there’s no way that she’d suddenly be thrown under the bus when she’s still such a valuable asset. She should basically be the one spearheading the 4 program, using newly acquired and reverse-engineered Forerunner tech to make the process safer and still as effective as the 2’s augmentations, even on adults. Though, the one caveat to that is that they’d have to drop the extra growth I think. It really doesn’t make sense for fully grown adults to suddenly gain an extra foot or two in height. Personally, I’m fine with the UNSC’s ships becoming equal or superior to the former Covenant’s ships. And they don’t need to keep blowing up every game. EDIT: I’d also like to see a closer Elite-UNSC Alliance. In fact, it’d make sense for the UNSC to absorb some of the old Covenant races. The Grunts in particular would seem good candidates to join the alliance. They could even comment in-game about how much nicer the Humans are than the Brutes.
@@Evjaaa Hell, that would even fill the Horror point that HX mentioned, as it could play out the entire Harvest confrontation, and the Covenant just starts taking *everything* just like in Reach...I can dig that.
@@MishraArtificer it would probably need more extra bits added because the book doesnt have that much combat opportunities but they could put some more in with more lore
@@WhiteInk47 the only reason I say 3rd person is because the arbiter and elites by extension have a very feudal Japan aspect to them, and to me things like close quarters sword fights would be far more impressive
23:18 You could consider Chips Dubbo to fill the role of SGT Johnson. Think about it, he's been through Chief in CE along with Johnson a lot all the way to Halo 3. Man's been out of Halo for a while now and I think it would be a perfect opportunity to bring him back as now SGT Dubbo.
I would pay so much for a Halo game that is primarily focused on the aliens. I’d love a campaign following a squad from the Swords. The roster of different species would make it so much easier to make the cast stand out compared to another human story. 343 have the keys to the video game equivalent to Tolkien’s middle earth but they just keep writing about Hobbits
Here’s a better idea. Just like the Hunting Party story we play as a squad of Silent Shadow kinda like Republic Commando and we players hunt down Brute HVTs
Wouldn't be a bad thing. The actual bad habit was not outright removing the bad entries from the canon timeline entirely at the same time as they drop the plot threads, and instead just asking everyone to kinda sorta ignore them.
The Prometheans Actually would have been a good chance for Horror cause they were like, techno-flood in an inverse reaction to them imprisoning minds into knights. WHICH was slept on for the most part and briefly touched on in spartan ops and that one short story they released recently that confirmed the one in the cell in Halo 5 is a composed Tilson. They missed an opportunity there and i think people are so angry about the knights being frustrating to fight with having too many abilities in one character type and being tanky to even give them a chance despite them being potentially really good. Hell the monitors are Horror in they are trapped minds like Chakas. even CE touches on this with guilty spark mistaking Chief for the one who fired the rings in the first place. There's a lot that can be done there. You can GET SOMA -ish if you want. It's not explored enough.
The prontheans should have had the same introduction as the flood did in combat evolved. They are supposed to be forerunner warriors, yet they can be beaten by non forerunner weapons. They should have been made so Chief couldn't fight them at first and had to avoid them until he got his armor upgraded by the librarian. Imagine if on the first encounter you see a group of hunters and zealots getting wrecked by a single knight who one shots all of them and Chief has to avoid it via camouflage. It could have been a great horror sequence if it was done properly.
I think bringing back SGT Stacker would be a great way to fill the Johnson role. He's been around just as long as Johnson, is equally witty and distinct (I think the southern accent does a lot) and as shown with Infinite, his actor is perfectly willing to come back from time to time (There was a flashback of Captain Keys from CE with rerecorded dialogue. Keyes and Stacker share the same VA). To be completely honest if they try to have you play as both Chief and another character I think Buck would fit that role perfectly.
Mr.Xperia, I've been a fan for years, and your channel is my go-to for videos to listen to while I work. I just want you and/or Installation00 to write the next game. Your theories and ideas are better than most of what we've gotten from Halo's campaigns over the last decade. As much as I love, and want to believe your Xalanyn - Precursor Subspecies Theory, I'm pretty sure whoever's writing the story behind the scenes is making it up as they go.
343 SERIOUSLY needs to take its entire studio, sit them down and watch this video as a studio. Take notes and use this as a baseline. Not kidding. We need to go back to Halo's roots and this would be a great way to do it. What I find especially important is easing Jerome into the main plot. I wouldn't be opposed to a sort of squad-ish type of Halo game, where you play as Chief and you have Jerome and Arbiter in your squad. Kinda like Gears of war, but Halo, and FPS. You can then make people care about all 3 of them. I mean seriously, the only thing the current generation has seen of the Arbiter is Halo 5... Think about that for a second. Feel old?... Seriously though, bring both of them into the story and move back to a Flood-centric story. That's where Halo shined the brightest, with Chief, Arby and Cortana. The Weapon is a good new character who's already had an interesting plot. Her relationship with Chief is different but has the potential to be just as good, and with Arby back, and Jerome, finding a way to stop the Flood, with Lord Hood, Laskt, Cutter and Isabella as the big side characters would be fantastic Finally, I absolutely agree about Steve Downes. His voice is iconic, and if Steve retires, I really think they should wrap up Chief's story somehow. Whether it's tragedy, noble sacrifice or retirement is a topic for when that day actually happens, but when it does, people will atleast be used to Jerome. If Jerome does end up becoming the next in line after Chiet, it would be cool if we can actually notice that in the gameplay. Chief was the best of the best and correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember Red Team being one of the "least skilled" Spartan squads? That's a very notable difference between the two characters and it would be cool if that difference got transfered over into the gameplay as well. Pipe dream, of course. An even bigger pipe dream of mine, is that they simply make amother trilogy about the Flood, like what you suggested, and at the end of it, have Chief "heroically sacrifice" himself (that's coming back). I mean another war against the Flood SHOULD be the endgame of the modern Halo universe, right? "And they lived happily ever after" after that? If they do that, we could then explore, oh I don't know, the FORERUNNER ERA? Like, the Human-Flood-Forerunner war? Explore the Precursors more? Imagine Halo games set in that time period and playing as a Forerunner in these ridiculously over-the-top space battles. That would be so amazing to see. Now ideally that would be around 10 years down the line, so that each of this theoretical Flood trilogy game can come out within 3-ish years of one another, and then we get a trilogy or even saga about the Forerunners. By that time, tech should be at a point where a Forerunner trilogy could actually shine. Once that is finished, with the final Forerunner game showing a Reach-like cutscene of the Forerunners activating the rings and the universe progressing to the current Halo era. Showing brief snippets of the Bungie trilogy (in-engine from the game it's in at that time, of course) They could then have like an after credits cutscene showing Chief's face. The way I see it, Chief actually survived after he "heroically sacrificed himself in the theoretical upcoming Flood trilogy's final game. You just see a massive, but old, and battle-hardened man doinh ordane stuff. Maybe with a wife and kids. Just them working around the house or something, and then you hear the Halo music coming in when Chief, and his potential lady, go to sleep and the camera pans out, revealing Chief's helmet. There, that's 20-30 years worth of ideas and even a potential ending to Halo that I think would work really well. Obviously this is a massive, massive pipe dream that won't come true, but I just hope that atleast some of this stuff happens in some way
Damn, I'm thinking about that potential cutscene of the Forerunners firing the Halo's. Imagine hearing Heavy Price Paid as you see the waves hit different planets, with some dialogue of the Librarian, talking about the "heavy price" of this solution, but that not all is lost and that new life will begin. Then it fades to black, and you hear a muffled "Chief! Chief, can you hear me?!"? (Cortana talking to Chief), as to kind of signify Chief being the "new hope" (kinda like Luke Skywalker), and then the end credits roll in, with the Legendary ending being the one I mentioned in the OP. I could die happy if all this happened
@@Eagl3xStrik3 I'm not a game dev. Point was that if I can think of this, why can't they? They ARE game devs, yet they keep straying further and further from what made Halo successful in the first place
@@Eagl3xStrik3 No, your reply is a classic example of anti-criticism. Just because I think they should do things differently, doesn't mean I'm qualified to work as a game dev, and that is one of the dumbest responses out there, which I see people use way too often. So what's next, if I criticize politics I should be a politician? So what, should we just not criticize anything anymore? Is that what you're saying? Did you even read anything I said? Do you disagree that what I'm suggesting is better than the garbage 343 has been putting out? If so, why? I wrote a lot. Actually respond to it instead of trying to be be a smartass...
As much as I don't like Halo 5's story, I don't like how Halo Infinite skipped over the entire war against Cortana even more. Like, if you guys are going to give us an evil fragment of Cortana, then commit and give that story to us! Don't just skip over it to go somewhere else
@@tntalchemist it seemed like a genuinely interesting story too. The unsc getting their act together, going to a halo ring but everything crumbles with the banished get involved. Then seeing chief having to rebuild from the ground up in infinite would’ve meant so much more
@TigerCollinsOnUA-cam and the little bit they showed us in Infinite of that gap between it and 5 looked so good. It really could have been its own game. I just don't understand why 343 is so scared to commit
I'd take a reboot to post H3 at this point. 343 has made such an incoherent and disjointed story by this point that it'd be hard to ever move forward. You could keep elements- Spirit of Fire, etc, but the mainline games 4,5 and 6 might need scrapping.
In halo infinite they really missed the opportunity to use jega rdomnai for horror aside from his fight(kinda), imagine him or other silent shadow stalking us in the open world, seeing that red glowing stuff randomly not sure where the elite is
One way the prophets could return is to have a cult of them who believe that the flood are the gods of the universe / true inheritants. That could be also used as a horror aspect as they would force people to become infected similar to how it spread in ancient humanity.
at this point id love if all of 343 lore just got wiped off the face of the earth and we get a better sequel to halo 3. plays, sounds, looks, and is written like an actual sequel that pre reach bungie would have made. Its incredibly jarring to go from being allies with all the elites during halo 3 to them suddenly being your enemies again and it being written off with a throwaway line. it would have been much more compelling to have halo 4 start out as the arbiters story and showing the elites destroying remnants of the covenant and potentially turning against one another so that by the time that chief is reintroduced to the story it feels natural that your fighting against elites again. The brutes, drones, and engineers should not have been shafted. chief and Cortana's characterization should be consistent with the original 3, and the story should not revolve around contrivance and retcons like halo 4s actual story does. also none of that promethean bs lmao
Honestly it’s very easy to have a good premise in a post Halo 3 era if that premise revolves around the idea of one side wanting peace and unity between humanity and covenant, and the other two radicalized sides being the Banished who wish to destroy both humanity and their once brothers in arms who they view as having betrayed their race by wishing to have harmony/allegiance with the humans that killed so many of them in the war, and the other being The Banished but for Humans who want the same thing that The Banished does but for humanity, all three factions having large armies behind them and from that war breaks out again which leads to Chief getting revived and back into the fight.
If they're gonna do anything, they gotta finish off a lot of stuff. Hell, give us an Infinity War/Endgame story where EVERYTHING comes together, all the characters we've seen, villains, all of it. Make it the final test for The Mantle we've always wanted to see. Flood/Precursor/Endless versus Humans/Elites/ (The Banished, post-alliance?), Understandably the Mantle was never a lot of people's favorite thing (myself included) because 343 handled/handles it so poorly that I think they explained what it is maybe once in the games as just a meaningless plot device. They actually need to move heavily into it because it's literally the reason everything happens in the Halo universe Bungie already did so with their game that came out years after Halo 1, It's about time Halo got its shit together.
@@Lipidwave this isnt really a multiverse thing tho. the fight could lead whats left of the infinity to the ark. desperate they find the spirit of fire which has been gearing up for a big fight for a while now, while securing a large area of the ark. the infinity crew make it there, having red team, chief and SoS all joining together. The endless carry on their quest casting the banished aside and this puts the banished back into that gray area experia mentions. Making everyone not allies, but potential partners to at least stop the banished. wrap that story up and end it at least somewhere the fans would be happy
I still have no idea why 343 seem to despise the idea of putting Chief & Arbiter together again, the duo is a literal money printer and one 343 desperately needs because let’s be honest, nobody plays the new halo games because their campaigns have amazing writing
Halo to me is at it's most interesting when it's not about the stakes really. It's at its best when there are grandiose implications of like how the "gods" are just an ancient alien race, or that the entire covenant is a deathcult that misinterpreted what the forerunners are due to their reverence. Then throwing the consequences of this into a story and having to deal with from a very grounded position. I don't NEED the galaxy to be threatened with extinction 24/7 at any moment if we don't fix it RIGHT NOW, but a Looming threat is good! Like the covenant MIGHT have wiped out all humanity by force, but then the halos come into play so then the Halos MIGHT wipe out life, then the flood MIGHT etc, but while I think halo works well when things are pushed to a brink, It's not the Primary reason I like it alone, It's *why* is it being pushed to the brink that I like. If you get me some existential horror where the answer is just legit "actually hinduism is real but it's aliens and not what you think it is actually. vishnu is actually a mech powered by jellyfish" then I'm like OH. I like that Plus the combination of having to deal with it from various perspectives, usually just a human one, sometimes an internal one like the arbiter.
I got most of my Halo knowledge from this channel, including theories that you come up with or expose from the community. I actually only read Kelly Gay's books, but I like to consider me well versed in Halo. 😊
For me i feel like SGT Marcus Stacker would be a good replacement for Sgt Johnson cause he's been here since day one like SGT Johnson and he fought alongside him and it would ne a good chance to explore his character more and he has the wit and charm like johnson but that's my two cents.
@ebonkinght he's perfect for the late 80's "military supervisor" humor. Think Major Payne or R Lee Ermey. Politically incorrect and somewhat dark, but serious when necessary. Tired of the "Marvel humor" that Halo Infinite was inundated with.
As a Reach kid, I think 343 needs to solve the whole "Pacifist AI Uprising" mess they created in 5 and I also believe they need to finish the entire master chief is the center of the Halo universe storyline.
The reason why the Endless are more dangerous than the Flood is because they are LITERAL non-corrupted Reincarnated Precursors. There are so many hints and references to the Forerunner Saga in Halo Infinite im surprised nobody realized this. It’s obvious. The flood are always awesome but they were basically an accident, zombies born of dead Precursors rotting flesh. The Endless is them again. Harbinger says “We are Returning.”
More Buck? Yes sir!! I dont think buck being a Spartan is a big deal. I mean Johnson was a Spartan without armour so all we have to do with Buck is take his, Maybe chief could find him and rescue him similar to Spartan Griffin but Buck would live however his armour is long gone or destroyed. So he will be stronger then Johnson for sure but basically in the same boat. He will be able to keep up with Chief and maybe Buck will choose to refuse his armour once he gets it back, he did say in H5 he misses being an ODST and it wont be the first time a Spartan turns down the armour. Kurt did it by refusing his Mjolnir and equipping the SPI armour.
I think we need spinoffs. Leave chief and the mantle alone for a while and go to something like odst 2 or maybe even a marine chapter or even something from the covenant side
I hope they make a spin off series that returns to that “Fight for Humanity’s Survival” feeling from the old games That whole feeling went away when the Covenant did 😢
I beg to have the spirit of fire and red team be in a mainline halo game. Just imagine how iconic it would be to have spirit of fire pull up with red team and help out chief in a moment of need.
What we NEED for the game taking place after Halo Infinite: -343 Fired -Actual fans HIRED -A focus on the ODSTs -Make the gameplay more like Doom and the Setting more like Warhammer40K!! -The Forerunners restored to being HUMANS! -The FLOOD RETURNING -The Created GONE for GOOD! -The Endless RETCONNED OUT -The Covenant to come back! WHOS WITH ME?! 🙏✊🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
That’s a lot of retconning and will make things murky/messy. It did with H5 when they retconned things. Besides the retconning, canon changes, and trying to bring the Covenant back again, I agree. Why do I not want the Covenant back? It makes their final defeat in H3 feel cheap and less satisfying
@@jakespacepiratee3740eh, not really. Not that the Covenant isn’t good, but it kinda shows you dont know enough about the Banished to say they are “just Covenant but with red lol”
Yeah, I want this all to happen but realistically I don't see us getting another game til like 2028, at least one with a story. But maybe that's just the doomer in me
Unfortunately, all of this is wishful thinking while 343 still has the wheel. We've already seen that they are led by someone that doesn't even like the games he works on. We've seen that they refused to hire anyone from bungie at all. We've seen that they seem intent to do everything possible to distance themselves from the original games. We've seen that they fumble EVERY single release in some way. And, interest in halo is at an all time low thanks to it. I have no idea why microsoft hasn't given them the boot, it's an absolute tragedy. Only good part of post-bungie halo is the extended universe in the books, which i like for the most part.
I really don't like 343 adding the endless and of course not tying up loose ends from 5 and 4 . A reboot after 5 or 4 would be good keeping the ancient humans. However I know alot don't like the new story after 3 including ancient humans and so I am ok with reboot after 3 .
Hear me out, the main conflict driver from Halo 1-3 was the Covenant. I'm not saying 343i copy/paste the Covenant back, but they have the PERFECT setup to do it again with the Banished & Endless. The world of Halo revolves around living in the world the Forerunners left behind. With the new Endless species, we question the Forerunners and Halo's all over again. There is a chance for a massive conflict of belief's AGAIN with humanity vs the banished and endless.
What I would love to see pre spartan era with the insurrectionist battles as an ODST. I'm currently rereading the Kilo Five series and them boarding the covenant ships, killing the brutes, and jackals and "stealing" the engineer before putting it on auto pilot and going back to Sanghelios. Or the "spoiler" who is trying to obtain a covenant ship to get back at the UNSC for stealing their "spoiler" IYKYK
I get what you mean with having Buck for Johnson's role, but for me it's less about the snappy lines and more about the motivation. Not to say Buck isn't good for it, I'd just prefer someone else. Johnson had some banger lines, let's be real, but he's also a motivating force like a bard. When I think of the role Johnson fits I think of the cutscene at the beginning of Metropolis, panicked marine in a bad situation wants to bail but the Sarge sets him on the path. No Palmer-esque "man up" remark, just "You're not injured? Cool, because you're gonna go kick some arse, have a tank." It doesn't matter how bad the situation is, when the Sergeant speaks you feel ready for whatever. For me personally, I feel the only two people in the franchise who could order me into marching into hell without me complaining would be Johnson and, though he lacks a certain levity, Rtas 'Vadum. (maybe H2 Miranda and Carter too but, you know)
Halo 2 unbelievably is peak storytelling, when you chop down each it's stands the test of time Halo 4......or sorry Cortana the blue baby, as good as her and Chiefs performance was.........that's all there was, sure the Mantle but when the Didact hardly shown up or having a 8 minute exposition dump with the Librarian then dam Halo 2 had Chiefs story of defending humanity but also the Arbiter in a suicide mission to make up for what happened in Halo CE, and despite all odds he kept surviving and learned the truth about the Covenant lie, and became his own person after, also introducing the cosmic entity in the Gravemind that would also follow into the next game which is a bewildering concept for 343i I know( next game always has a retcon)
It wouldn't progress the narrative much, but i think it would be great to have a game set at the first contact side of the human covenant war with the player being a character from a rebellious faction to the unsc. Like, the game starts with the player doing resistance objectives, smash and runs, setting traps, etc... and then on the outbreak of the covenant deciding its time to murder humanity the unsc marines and the player begrudgingly team up to evacuate as many people as possible. Edit: also wtf happened with The Created? Did Cortana's posse just up and delete themselves after throwing a good majority of the universe into a dark age?
Imagine: You play as a marine regular somewhere in the middle of the UNSC -Covenant war. Over the coarse of a few days, the colony world that you are deployed to is overrun and your 12 man squad of marines is cut down again and again, until its just three or four of you left. Days after the UNSC has seemingly abandoned you, you are ambushed by the silent shadow and witness the viscous executions by elite swordsmen. As you and your last brother or sister are about to be executed, a sniper shot from an SRS-99 cracks through the burnt landscape, dropping the First Blade in charge of the ambush, causing him to drop your last comrade. The bloodstar that was about to slice you up, takes cover and begins to aim his plasma rifle at you as he is tackled by a spartan 2 in pale blue MJOLNIR. Two more bloodstars begin to react but one is sniped and another is stabbed bt a spartan 2 with a bubble faceplate. Another spartan in OD green MJOLNIR is engaged in hand to hand with two brutes in red armor, killing one, but gets caught in a choke hold by the other. Your character reaches for a fallen plasma pistol and hits the brute with an overcharged plasma bolt, followed by a headshot from the spartan in pale blue. The Spartan in OD green armor, sporting the designation 117, thanks you and calls in a prowler for exfil.
Honestly the old 343 management have completely screwed the handling of the franchise’s story to the point of it being almost irreparable If the rumors of the CE remake are true, i propose doing the same for 2 and 3 as well if anything to reintroduce the broader gaming world back to Halo. Campaigns only though Even if they dont do that, everything after 3 would need to be hard decanonized so it can be reworked due to how disjointed it is. Though i like what 4 tried to do it works as an epilogue to chief’s story rather than a true continuation Instead of continuing Chief’s storyline right from the getgo after 3, i would continue off of Halo Wars’ story with Jerome as the player character, which leads into delving into the Forerunners the way 4 tried to do but fell flat using an already familiar location in the Ark and doing so in a way that doesn’t give away everything like how H4 did Having that trilogy lead up to a galactic scale flood war would be badass, and only in that last game to we see chief reawaken, but while playing as Jerome with some climatic battle on Maethrillion or something
Honestly, I just really want aliens back in the picture again. I know its a game centered on Humanity, but Halo has SO MANY interesting species it can cover, and give more substantial roles in stories. Bring the Swords of Sanghelios back into the scene, give us playable elites and brutes again. Hell, Ive seen it requested so many times, a battlefront esque mode where you start out as lowly soliders like grunts and jackals, and with more kills can respawn as something better, where as on the other team, you are marines thst can eventually become spartans, sounds cool as SHIT to me. Idk, Im just so sick of Halo having to revolve around Chief and the Spartans as the only apparent people that matter.
I want more than anything, a flood return in a sewer tunnel system. Idk why but wading through knees high water and looking down a tube just to see the disfigured flood would be so cool and creepy
You start out right at the end of infinite, before intercepting a signal from banished spartan killers, hunting some IV on the other side of the ring. You hear screams, and then you hear the gravemind roar. Turns out the whole time you were dicking around with Esharum and the Endless, the gravemind was setting up shop. Cool idea or no?
To fill a Johnson role we could have Stacker or maybe the mythical Chips Dubbo? They’re funny, charismatic, known by fans, and generally liked. They were always sorta in the background before, but now they could be brought to the forefront as it would be natural too. There is more options if they want to finally merge the SoF, or at least some of the crew, into the mainline games as we all think it’s well overdue
It’s just so hard to get excited about the story going forward. It feels like there’s an obvious narrative that each game should have adopted that would have pleased Halo fans, and 343 consistently moves the story in a completely different direction
Give up bro. Halo is over. The lore is an absolute mess. The games are boring at best. The story is uninspired. Anything short of retconing everything all the way back to the end of halo 3 and just starting fresh has no chance of peaking my interest.
They'd never do that though because 343i has proven time and time again that they cannot swallow their pride and just accept the fact that the Bungie trilogy story was infinitely better. It's the same reason why they won't remove sprint: it's their proud trademark. Removing it would be an admission of defeat.
@d-turn3314 the funny part about that, is sprint isn't even their concept either. Bungie did that already, and it was better. And they only did it to try and trend follow what CoD was doing lol
The lore is fucked, but there are ways to make it work, Infinite managed to clean up Halo 5's mess in a sort of elegant way. Fact is, the Halo galaxy is so full of species and history that you can pull really good villains and character out of your ass and make them work really well, all it takes is some good, solid writing.
It's sad to admit it, but Halo died after Halo Reach. "Modern gaming" is a plague on the industry as a whole and while some gems might slip through the cracks, nothing new can replace what we made in the past. Give the Halo brand to an indie developer and they would make a masterpiece with less resources and in less time than Infinite. Great video as always HiddenXperia!
Ah yes which Get direction is bargain bin Warhammer going to go in. With Space Marine 2 thriving and Gears of war about to make a comeback Halo has never been more irrelevant.
18:34 I disagree. I’m fine with Humanity being on more equal terms with the enemy. Always being on the backfoot made sense for the Bungie games, but _still_ having their backs against the wall after all the new technology they developed and reverse-engineered? That’s just fucking dumb. Having the main faction be the underdogs _all the time_ just gets old and boring.
There's an obvious route that's easier and fixes a lot; a partial reboot made by a new dev. Simply continuing off of Halo 3 and redoing Halo 4, leaving 343's "work" in a different timeline for those weird people to enjoy while the real fans get what's essentially a fresh start. So, why exactly don't you talk about this? Something tells me you don't *really* want classic Halo when you bring up characters and other stuff from 343's lore like it's good and should stay.
I love the fact u and many other halo UA-camrs give ideas for one of the best game yet 343 won’t listen and carry on bringing this franchise to the ground.
For real though, I think it would actually be a genius move to bring him back and reveal that he survived Reach. I’d also think that it be even more genius if they have him be leading a human like banished army of humans that are against the UNSC & Covenant truce/alliance agreement that has the two species trade and live among each other as a united nation of sorts.
@@NhBleker I see him more as just protecting the remaining survivors on reach and they haven’t received word of the end of the war. Chief, arby, and Rtas go to reach to find the portal to the ark, finish off the banished stationed on the ring where noble six overhears them talking about when they were enemies and the elites glassed reach and a good thing they became allies and won the war just before he was going to kill the two elites, instead disarming them and a stare down with chief who tells six about what happened after reach and gets him on a call with Jun to confirm. He then becomes allies, fights off the banished from the high noon facility, evacuates the survivors from reach and go to the ark to find the spirit of fire, with missions in-between these events
Love the video btw, seeing this in my feed was sick, it's been awhile. I've recently made a yt channel based on AH. Was wondering if you could give it a look my lad
You can't remove the Mantle of Responsibility from Halo because that's the origin of the Halo universe itself. And the cause of all problems. You can't have Halo without the Mantle of Responsibility. New stories with other focuses? Sure. But the Mantle is the closest thing to a theological and eschatological conflict in Halo. The Mantle is Halo as a franchise.
I think only EU Andies think this, and to be honest everything since the forerunner saga sucks ass. I wouldn't mind rebooting to tell an actually good story post halo 3 at this point, sorry zoomers
That's not what was suggested. It doesn't need to be removed, it needs to not be the focus for new stories. Like everything before 4 - sure, it is there as a cause, but it has no focus or immediate impact.
@@feihceht656 The best course of action for 343i would be to retcon Frankie's "lore" (99% retcons) and just start over from post halo 3. The original trilogy of games (halos CE - 3) have been retconned into oblivion, and nobody, not even the biggest halo lore nerds know what's truly canon because everything's been retconned.
My gosh it’s sad how far halo has fallen. I literally am not even excited for halo anymore lmao and it’s sad. I look at my halo3 helmet all the time just asking it “y”
case study on how to destroy an ip infinites utter failure and the abomination of that tv show have nailed the coffin on the ip and normies care levels .... its akin to nintendo making utter shite mario games and expecting cultural zeitgeist and hype to ensure sales ... i
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*Today, I wanted to talk about MY OWN hopes for not just the next Halo story, BUT for its atmosphere, tone, a u r a and much more! No lore-based speculation, just my hopes and dreams ✨✨*
having the prophets try to restart a new covenant could be cool, a holy roman empire vibe. a destroyed empire trying to reignite its former glory
Whose that one spartan in Halo Infinite again that first appeared in the multiplayer cutscenes? Think she can replace Johnson’s role in the story?
17:28 yes yes yes yes. I could not agree more, I would love to see halo in a mature setting.
24:00 noble 4 /dune who cheif fineds on the unsc infinty
and when going to the ark, you find out that spark is trying to work against you, while offencive bias is trying to fix spark to get him back to helping humanity to reclaim the mantel
Perfect timing bro. I was waiting for a Halo vid to watch on my lunch break lol.
Thanks for the videos through bro, you’re getting us though yet another content drought🫡
SAME DUDE I LITERALLY JUST STARTED MY 30 min.
When you first saw CE were you blinded by its majesty?
yes , yes i was
@@sluggerbutter Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?
@@Finey02Yet 343i was able to invade your franchise, land on the Sacred Lore and desecrate it with their filthy mismanagement!
Blinded? Nooo.
@mcp993 noble high arcs, surely you understand that once Bungie sold the franchise....
*If 343 wants to keep focusing on Spartans I want a Red Team or Blue Team spin off. Or hell even a Headhunters game where you end up fighting the Silent Shadow and Bloodstars.*
How many people are gonna care about them ? They utterly failed the introduction of Blue Team for the majority of players, they're as good as dead.
As for Red Team, I think it's a good thing if they remain the spartans of the RTS games, otherwise it will be more homework for people to understand who they are, many don't play Halo Wars.
@@dearcastiel4667well redoing it, but having it done right would change a lot of people’s opinion on them.
Now does 343 have that ability? Well they certainly have a ways to go before fans have that trust in them again
@@dearcastiel4667 have yet to find someone who doesnt know about Red Team and almost everyone I've encountered that plays Halo played at least 1 of HW titles
@@noddy1973 nah I call bs, maybe most halo FANS have played or even know halo wars exist but the average joe that picks up whatever the newest Halo or COD fps game is when he's buying groceries and doesn't have enough time to finish the campaign has no clue who blue team or red team are hell I'd be surprised if they know who sergeant johnson is.
@@dearcastiel4667 First it was just an idea and second they need a much better introduction than Halo 5.
Theorizing... Is all we have left...
Hopefully, not for long. On Halo 3's anniversary, let's believe a bit, just for today. Hope for what the new 343i leadership can do.
@@gentlegiantcosplay1315 honestly at that point I just want 343 to leave h3 alone
Because even despite how great Halo 2 Anniversary was, people will only acknowledge the bad and assume it's the whole. @@jakespacepiratee3740
@@jakespacepiratee3740 See, there's your problem. You're expecting improvement and 343 to be in the same scenario
@@lrballisticsYou just gotta Believe lol.
Still Waiting for Jun who is the last Noble Team member to return at any capacity.
Yes
He shows up a bunch in non-game stuff
Jun is responsible for the 4's.
Just remembered, what the hell has happened and where the hell has Dr Anders gone? At the end of HW2 she went with the halo ring and got stopped by a guardian and we've seen or heard nothing... I'm guessing she's dead since how does she survive what is years i believe on that ring by herself, She's not a hunter or farmer. Well Matt demon did it on Mars so she could too hahah. Seriously though, Where she at?
I personally want Chief and the rest of the surviving Sll's to be in once place and fight a overwhelming threat as the UNSC or civilians fallback. Maybe be for Chief's final fight, John knows he will die in battle one day so seeing him gather his family together again and die to by them time and then take control of Jerome perhaps? Id say Fred but Jerome is much younger thanks to cryo and 343/Microsoft can use him way more.
I mean, so long as you don't guess wrong and get something poisonous, some of the plants are probably edible.
@@xcfjdyrkdtulkgfilhu that’s true, also depends on if the ring had any other animals for the rings ecosystem onboard since the ring was freshly made I’m not sure when animals get added? Also depends on what plants grown on the ring, are they similar to Earth or would she have to trial and hope for the best with them as you said
This video may have saved my life. Literally. This notification.
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@@HiddenXperia rough times, man. But one thing that manages to keep me going is seeing videos of yours. I’m a younger Halo fan, still a teen and I consider the franchise but also your channel a part of my identity. I grew up on your old flood videos and 343 art style ranting lmao
@@Videot78don’t give up man
Aweeee hope you get better big guy
Maybe 343 will take the Gears route and focus on a Prequel game before returning to the modern narrative... might give them a chance to decide on who the main villain is supposed to be.
Would be a good opportunity to build up the main villain and their backstory in that prequel bc surely they won’t kill off Atriox this quickly
I'd love that, only issue is with Steve Downes. I mean he is very old and as hidden said probably retire if we have years of making and publishing a sequel or spinoffs they need to use him while we have him cos itll be a sad day when we wont hear him voice Chief again
halo 4: The forerunners weren't actually human and there is one alive that hates humans and is like totaly stronger than the Chief!
halo 5: 4's Villian died between games and now Cortana is evil and is leading a generic rise of the machines!
halo 6: Cortana died betwen games and the machine rebelion kind of witter out or smt but there is like this subfation of the Corvernant that is like stronger than OG covernant and they hate humans for some reason and their leader Ariox is like totally stronger than the Chief and wants to free this race never mentioned before but that is like actually worst than the flood!
halo 7: so this guy Atriox and the endless died between the games but there is this new faction that...
343 isnt good, needs to have halo taken away from them and given to different studios.
@@Clown-Therapy I'm pretty sure the vast majority of the team has been overhauled and most of the old developers no longer work there...
Imagine if the reason the Endless are more dangerous than the flood is that as a precursor subpecie, they can controle the flood (or at least make a real alliance with them) and use them to assimilate all their opponents
Neural physics is how the primordial controls the flood right? The endless should be able to do the same thing and allow the floor to skip the feral stage and instantly reach the coordinated stage even without a gravemimd. They could act as commanders until a gravemimd can be created.
Halo didn’t need to keep artificially extending chief’s story. I feel like Bungie were very aware that the only direction left to go with the franchise was with spinoffs and prequels like ODST & Reach. 343 should’ve done this instead of making Halo 4, back when Halo was still one of the biggest names in the FPS genre. Now it feels like hype for the franchise is so astronomically low that they have no choice but to keep wheeling out Chief because that’s all Halo is known for due to 343’s refusal to expand the roster of protagonists when they had the chance
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They actually have a couple in that roster I'd still be willing to buy a Halo game for: Fireteam Majestic (specifically Gabriel Thorne) and Jerome/Isabel(Aka Chief/Cortana 2). We haven't seen Thorne since Spartan Ops in Halo 4 or 2558 unfortunately, and I don't know how likely it is we'll see the Spirit of Fire again.
My issue with 343 is they've been relying on books and comics too much. It's one thing to expand upon events with them, maybe fill in some gaps. it's another to have multiple major story plots happen in them, making the next game feel disconnected. Halo 1-3 all happen within the same year. CE and 2 are relatively close to each other, and then 3 is a direct continuation of 2. Halo 4-Infinite: 3 years pass, multiple side/major characters die outside the games, and the biggest sin: Chief and Arbiter's reunion happen outside the games. They need to tell a more condensed story.
Facts
Next game should be Chief and Blue Team teaming up with Arbiter and Red Team
@@Lashmer 343 treats their side characters like anthology stories. They show up for one game and are then never seen again aside from maybe a book or two
This might be a weird take but, chips dubbo could fit the Johnson role.
He needs more work since the war ended
You don't even need a galactic apocalypse. We can fight for a colony or a system and still have crazy battles.
Let's be real, the story from Halo 3 onward needs to be rewrote. I have no idea what the hell is going on with the current story. Best to start over.
NOBODY has an idea what the hell is going on with the current story. Everything's either been retconned to oblivion, told in some obscure book, or both.
Agreed, I didn't hate halo 4. The story was OK just the gameplay sucked. They need to keep the villain alive and keep cortana dead at the end. Pay a decent writer to make the story 10x better. The core concept wasn't terrible.
100%.
I was incredibly confused when Halo 5 had no direct continuation from halo 4. Theres some familiar faces, but then suddenly there other Spartan IIs that miraculously survived (with no ingame explanation), no mention of the Didact , Chief is on the run for some reason.
Then we get Infinite, and suddenly theres a completely unfamiliar 3rd alien faction, and the Infinity, its crew, and most of the familiar faces from Halo 5 are gone????
Theres no proper through line for game only fans. Its just a hot mess
Absolute facts. The only sensible option is a partial reboot (restarting off the end of Halo 3, that'd undo all of 343's damage to the franchise minus our time wasted) done by a new dev made of people who actually care about Halo. Microsoft could easily get this done if they really cared.
This is my opinion as well. Halo is in a similar situation to Star Wars, everything post-Disney acquisition needs to be purged and a proper story planned, written, _and followed._
TBH, I think the story should follow “our” Spartan the way Reach did. Don’t even kill off Chief or Cortana, let them rest and they can maybe be brought in later. Or have them exist in some kind of vague “afterlife” that they don’t have a desire to leave, giving them a happy ending.
Also, ONI absolutely knew everything Halsey was doing. The sudden demonization of her character was weak and stupid. It’s not that what she did was right, but there’s no way that she’d suddenly be thrown under the bus when she’s still such a valuable asset. She should basically be the one spearheading the 4 program, using newly acquired and reverse-engineered Forerunner tech to make the process safer and still as effective as the 2’s augmentations, even on adults. Though, the one caveat to that is that they’d have to drop the extra growth I think. It really doesn’t make sense for fully grown adults to suddenly gain an extra foot or two in height.
Personally, I’m fine with the UNSC’s ships becoming equal or superior to the former Covenant’s ships. And they don’t need to keep blowing up every game.
EDIT: I’d also like to see a closer Elite-UNSC Alliance. In fact, it’d make sense for the UNSC to absorb some of the old Covenant races. The Grunts in particular would seem good candidates to join the alliance. They could even comment in-game about how much nicer the Humans are than the Brutes.
It’s been 10 years now and I still feel like I know basically nothing about what the mantle of responsibility is or why it’s apparently so important
Watch a vid or read the Forerunner saga books
Pride thats it 😂
I want a Project ORION aka Spartan-1 game featuring Johnson
contact harvest game
@@Evjaaa Hell, that would even fill the Horror point that HX mentioned, as it could play out the entire Harvest confrontation, and the Covenant just starts taking *everything* just like in Reach...I can dig that.
@@MishraArtificer it would probably need more extra bits added because the book doesnt have that much combat opportunities but they could put some more in with more lore
An arbiter stand alone game NEEDS to be 3rd person action/adventure. "Ghost of Sanghelios" anyone?
I’d like an Arbiter game but I want it to be first person
@@WhiteInk47 the only reason I say 3rd person is because the arbiter and elites by extension have a very feudal Japan aspect to them, and to me things like close quarters sword fights would be far more impressive
At first I was slightly against it, but after reading your reply I actually kind of agree
23:18 You could consider Chips Dubbo to fill the role of SGT Johnson. Think about it, he's been through Chief in CE along with Johnson a lot all the way to Halo 3. Man's been out of Halo for a while now and I think it would be a perfect opportunity to bring him back as now SGT Dubbo.
The Aussie accent will get old and fast, especially when it goes down to the lingo and everyone scratching their head going wtf did he say?
@@Eagl3xStrik3 to each their own, I think Mak is onto something here
It's a joke character. The fact he somehow survives in every mission and somehow shows up everywhere where the master chief goes is the butt of a joke
I would pay so much for a Halo game that is primarily focused on the aliens. I’d love a campaign following a squad from the Swords. The roster of different species would make it so much easier to make the cast stand out compared to another human story. 343 have the keys to the video game equivalent to Tolkien’s middle earth but they just keep writing about Hobbits
Here’s a better idea. Just like the Hunting Party story we play as a squad of Silent Shadow kinda like Republic Commando and we players hunt down Brute HVTs
microsoft - get rid of Joe staten and anyone who knows how to make a good halo game, hire contractors for 6 months and then fire them 🤣
They're 100% gonna drop the current story. It's 343i's thing.
Do what I proposed in that Halo’s 4 to 6 was all a bad dream and Chief was still in cryo sleep this entire time.
Wouldn't be a bad thing. The actual bad habit was not outright removing the bad entries from the canon timeline entirely at the same time as they drop the plot threads, and instead just asking everyone to kinda sorta ignore them.
Not seen any of your videos in a while but it’s amazing to see you still passionate and creating fire content ❤
The Prometheans Actually would have been a good chance for Horror cause they were like, techno-flood in an inverse reaction to them imprisoning minds into knights. WHICH was slept on for the most part and briefly touched on in spartan ops and that one short story they released recently that confirmed the one in the cell in Halo 5 is a composed Tilson. They missed an opportunity there and i think people are so angry about the knights being frustrating to fight with having too many abilities in one character type and being tanky to even give them a chance despite them being potentially really good. Hell the monitors are Horror in they are trapped minds like Chakas. even CE touches on this with guilty spark mistaking Chief for the one who fired the rings in the first place. There's a lot that can be done there. You can GET SOMA -ish if you want. It's not explored enough.
The prontheans should have had the same introduction as the flood did in combat evolved. They are supposed to be forerunner warriors, yet they can be beaten by non forerunner weapons. They should have been made so Chief couldn't fight them at first and had to avoid them until he got his armor upgraded by the librarian.
Imagine if on the first encounter you see a group of hunters and zealots getting wrecked by a single knight who one shots all of them and Chief has to avoid it via camouflage. It could have been a great horror sequence if it was done properly.
Can you make a video of how you would’ve continued halos story after Halo 3?
I think bringing back SGT Stacker would be a great way to fill the Johnson role. He's been around just as long as Johnson, is equally witty and distinct (I think the southern accent does a lot) and as shown with Infinite, his actor is perfectly willing to come back from time to time (There was a flashback of Captain Keys from CE with rerecorded dialogue. Keyes and Stacker share the same VA).
To be completely honest if they try to have you play as both Chief and another character I think Buck would fit that role perfectly.
Stacker was in H4 but i don't think H5
Mr.Xperia, I've been a fan for years, and your channel is my go-to for videos to listen to while I work.
I just want you and/or Installation00 to write the next game. Your theories and ideas are better than most of what we've gotten from Halo's campaigns over the last decade.
As much as I love, and want to believe your Xalanyn - Precursor Subspecies Theory, I'm pretty sure whoever's writing the story behind the scenes is making it up as they go.
Installation refused to apply to 343. He feels his life is too important to move continents.
343 SERIOUSLY needs to take its entire studio, sit them down and watch this video as a studio. Take notes and use this as a baseline. Not kidding.
We need to go back to Halo's roots and this would be a great way to do it. What I find especially important is easing Jerome into the main plot. I wouldn't be opposed to a sort of squad-ish type of Halo game, where you play as Chief and you have Jerome and Arbiter in your squad.
Kinda like Gears of war, but Halo, and FPS. You can then make people care about all 3 of them. I mean seriously, the only thing the current generation has seen of the Arbiter is Halo 5... Think about that for a second. Feel old?...
Seriously though, bring both of them into the story and move back to a Flood-centric story. That's where Halo shined the brightest, with Chief, Arby and Cortana. The Weapon is a good new character who's already had an interesting plot.
Her relationship with Chief is different but has the potential to be just as good, and with Arby back, and Jerome, finding a way to stop the Flood, with Lord Hood, Laskt, Cutter and Isabella as the big side characters would be fantastic
Finally, I absolutely agree about Steve Downes. His voice is iconic, and if Steve retires, I really think they should wrap up Chief's story somehow. Whether it's tragedy, noble sacrifice or retirement is a topic for when that day actually happens, but when it does, people will atleast be used to Jerome.
If Jerome does end up becoming the next in line after Chiet, it would be cool if we can actually notice that in the gameplay. Chief was the best of the best and correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to remember Red Team being one of the "least skilled" Spartan squads?
That's a very notable difference between the two characters and it would be cool if that difference got transfered over into the gameplay as well. Pipe dream, of course.
An even bigger pipe dream of mine, is that they simply make amother trilogy about the Flood, like what you suggested, and at the end of it, have Chief "heroically sacrifice" himself (that's coming back). I mean another war against the Flood SHOULD be the endgame of the modern Halo universe, right? "And they lived happily ever after" after that?
If they do that, we could then explore, oh I don't know, the FORERUNNER ERA? Like, the Human-Flood-Forerunner war? Explore the Precursors more? Imagine Halo games set in that time period and playing as a Forerunner in these ridiculously over-the-top space battles. That would be so amazing to see.
Now ideally that would be around 10 years down the line, so that each of this theoretical Flood trilogy game can come out within 3-ish years of one another, and then we get a trilogy or even saga about the Forerunners. By that time, tech should be at a point where a Forerunner trilogy could actually shine.
Once that is finished, with the final Forerunner game showing a Reach-like cutscene of the Forerunners activating the rings and the universe progressing to the current Halo era. Showing brief snippets of the Bungie trilogy (in-engine from the game it's in at that time, of course)
They could then have like an after credits cutscene showing Chief's face. The way I see it, Chief actually survived after he "heroically sacrificed himself in the theoretical upcoming Flood trilogy's final game.
You just see a massive, but old, and battle-hardened man doinh ordane stuff. Maybe with a wife and kids. Just them working around the house or something, and then you hear the Halo music coming in when Chief, and his potential lady, go to sleep and the camera pans out, revealing Chief's helmet.
There, that's 20-30 years worth of ideas and even a potential ending to Halo that I think would work really well. Obviously this is a massive, massive pipe dream that won't come true, but I just hope that atleast some of this stuff happens in some way
Damn, I'm thinking about that potential cutscene of the Forerunners firing the Halo's. Imagine hearing Heavy Price Paid as you see the waves hit different planets, with some dialogue of the Librarian, talking about the "heavy price" of this solution, but that not all is lost and that new life will begin. Then it fades to black, and you hear a muffled "Chief! Chief, can you hear me?!"? (Cortana talking to Chief), as to kind of signify Chief being the "new hope" (kinda like Luke Skywalker), and then the end credits roll in, with the Legendary ending being the one I mentioned in the OP. I could die happy if all this happened
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@@Eagl3xStrik3 I'm not a game dev. Point was that if I can think of this, why can't they? They ARE game devs, yet they keep straying further and further from what made Halo successful in the first place
@@theunderdog9353 This is classic example of if you think you can do better, then take the job.
@@Eagl3xStrik3 No, your reply is a classic example of anti-criticism. Just because I think they should do things differently, doesn't mean I'm qualified to work as a game dev, and that is one of the dumbest responses out there, which I see people use way too often. So what's next, if I criticize politics I should be a politician? So what, should we just not criticize anything anymore? Is that what you're saying? Did you even read anything I said? Do you disagree that what I'm suggesting is better than the garbage 343 has been putting out? If so, why? I wrote a lot. Actually respond to it instead of trying to be be a smartass...
In the Wise and intelligently crafted words of Rick from Trailer Park Boys:
"Halo's future.... *Its FUCKED* "
343 need to break spartan mole and rebooted story for the campaign.
It will probably be a reboot to the story given 343 track record.
Im tired of 343 half pretending the previous game didn't happen. The events they always describe could literally be their own game
As much as I don't like Halo 5's story, I don't like how Halo Infinite skipped over the entire war against Cortana even more. Like, if you guys are going to give us an evil fragment of Cortana, then commit and give that story to us! Don't just skip over it to go somewhere else
@@tntalchemist it seemed like a genuinely interesting story too. The unsc getting their act together, going to a halo ring but everything crumbles with the banished get involved. Then seeing chief having to rebuild from the ground up in infinite would’ve meant so much more
@TigerCollinsOnUA-cam and the little bit they showed us in Infinite of that gap between it and 5 looked so good. It really could have been its own game. I just don't understand why 343 is so scared to commit
I'd take a reboot to post H3 at this point. 343 has made such an incoherent and disjointed story by this point that it'd be hard to ever move forward. You could keep elements- Spirit of Fire, etc, but the mainline games 4,5 and 6 might need scrapping.
The story ended. Chief is still in the tube
I just want them to reboot the 343 games at this point. The story has gone to shit and they've rushed things along too quickly.
In halo infinite they really missed the opportunity to use jega rdomnai for horror aside from his fight(kinda), imagine him or other silent shadow stalking us in the open world, seeing that red glowing stuff randomly not sure where the elite is
Babe wake up HiddenXperia uploaded!
One way the prophets could return is to have a cult of them who believe that the flood are the gods of the universe / true inheritants. That could be also used as a horror aspect as they would force people to become infected similar to how it spread in ancient humanity.
Ik there was no way he could’ve planned for this but that fact that the video length is 25:52 is a nice detail lol
luc if the xanalyn don't turn out to be the meddlers i think i may crash out
at this point id love if all of 343 lore just got wiped off the face of the earth and we get a better sequel to halo 3. plays, sounds, looks, and is written like an actual sequel that pre reach bungie would have made. Its incredibly jarring to go from being allies with all the elites during halo 3 to them suddenly being your enemies again and it being written off with a throwaway line. it would have been much more compelling to have halo 4 start out as the arbiters story and showing the elites destroying remnants of the covenant and potentially turning against one another so that by the time that chief is reintroduced to the story it feels natural that your fighting against elites again. The brutes, drones, and engineers should not have been shafted. chief and Cortana's characterization should be consistent with the original 3, and the story should not revolve around contrivance and retcons like halo 4s actual story does. also none of that promethean bs lmao
Honestly it’s very easy to have a good premise in a post Halo 3 era if that premise revolves around the idea of one side wanting peace and unity between humanity and covenant, and the other two radicalized sides being the Banished who wish to destroy both humanity and their once brothers in arms who they view as having betrayed their race by wishing to have harmony/allegiance with the humans that killed so many of them in the war, and the other being The Banished but for Humans who want the same thing that The Banished does but for humanity, all three factions having large armies behind them and from that war breaks out again which leads to Chief getting revived and back into the fight.
If they're gonna do anything, they gotta finish off a lot of stuff. Hell, give us an Infinity War/Endgame story where EVERYTHING comes together, all the characters we've seen, villains, all of it. Make it the final test for The Mantle we've always wanted to see. Flood/Precursor/Endless versus Humans/Elites/ (The Banished, post-alliance?), Understandably the Mantle was never a lot of people's favorite thing (myself included) because 343 handled/handles it so poorly that I think they explained what it is maybe once in the games as just a meaningless plot device. They actually need to move heavily into it because it's literally the reason everything happens in the Halo universe Bungie already did so with their game that came out years after Halo 1, It's about time Halo got its shit together.
No multiverse bullshit bro.
Yeah I really don’t want these supposed remakes until they finish the current story arcs.
@@Lipidwave this isnt really a multiverse thing tho. the fight could lead whats left of the infinity to the ark. desperate they find the spirit of fire which has been gearing up for a big fight for a while now, while securing a large area of the ark. the infinity crew make it there, having red team, chief and SoS all joining together. The endless carry on their quest casting the banished aside and this puts the banished back into that gray area experia mentions.
Making everyone not allies, but potential partners to at least stop the banished. wrap that story up and end it at least somewhere the fans would be happy
I still have no idea why 343 seem to despise the idea of putting Chief & Arbiter together again, the duo is a literal money printer and one 343 desperately needs because let’s be honest, nobody plays the new halo games because their campaigns have amazing writing
Hidden…bro…it ain’t going nowhere
Halo to me is at it's most interesting when it's not about the stakes really. It's at its best when there are grandiose implications of like how the "gods" are just an ancient alien race, or that the entire covenant is a deathcult that misinterpreted what the forerunners are due to their reverence. Then throwing the consequences of this into a story and having to deal with from a very grounded position.
I don't NEED the galaxy to be threatened with extinction 24/7 at any moment if we don't fix it RIGHT NOW, but a Looming threat is good! Like the covenant MIGHT have wiped out all humanity by force, but then the halos come into play so then the Halos MIGHT wipe out life, then the flood MIGHT etc, but while I think halo works well when things are pushed to a brink, It's not the Primary reason I like it alone, It's *why* is it being pushed to the brink that I like.
If you get me some existential horror where the answer is just legit "actually hinduism is real but it's aliens and not what you think it is actually. vishnu is actually a mech powered by jellyfish" then I'm like OH. I like that Plus the combination of having to deal with it from various perspectives, usually just a human one, sometimes an internal one like the arbiter.
I got most of my Halo knowledge from this channel, including theories that you come up with or expose from the community. I actually only read Kelly Gay's books, but I like to consider me well versed in Halo. 😊
As soon as you said Sgt Johnson replacement I said Buck out loud.
For me i feel like SGT Marcus Stacker would be a good replacement for Sgt Johnson cause he's been here since day one like SGT Johnson and he fought alongside him and it would ne a good chance to explore his character more and he has the wit and charm like johnson but that's my two cents.
@@ebonkinght very true
@ebonkinght he's perfect for the late 80's "military supervisor" humor. Think Major Payne or R Lee Ermey. Politically incorrect and somewhat dark, but serious when necessary. Tired of the "Marvel humor" that Halo Infinite was inundated with.
Flood is super OP when given time to spread but with existence of other powerful factions like Created and Endless maybe it could ve more balanced.
bold of you asumign halo has a future after 14 years of sloppy work from 343
dem thats a lot of hopium and over dose of copium, bro it not normal keeping that hope that high kowning that 343 conly cares about macro transactions
As a Reach kid, I think 343 needs to solve the whole "Pacifist AI Uprising" mess they created in 5 and I also believe they need to finish the entire master chief is the center of the Halo universe storyline.
The reason why the Endless are more dangerous than the Flood is because they are LITERAL non-corrupted Reincarnated Precursors. There are so many hints and references to the Forerunner Saga in Halo Infinite im surprised nobody realized this. It’s obvious. The flood are always awesome but they were basically an accident, zombies born of dead Precursors rotting flesh. The Endless is them again. Harbinger says “We are Returning.”
Tbh, I would like to see the remains of the Halo ring in CE (04), possibly even some flood that survived
More Buck? Yes sir!! I dont think buck being a Spartan is a big deal. I mean Johnson was a Spartan without armour so all we have to do with Buck is take his, Maybe chief could find him and rescue him similar to Spartan Griffin but Buck would live however his armour is long gone or destroyed. So he will be stronger then Johnson for sure but basically in the same boat. He will be able to keep up with Chief and maybe Buck will choose to refuse his armour once he gets it back, he did say in H5 he misses being an ODST and it wont be the first time a Spartan turns down the armour. Kurt did it by refusing his Mjolnir and equipping the SPI armour.
I think we need spinoffs. Leave chief and the mantle alone for a while and go to something like odst 2 or maybe even a marine chapter or even something from the covenant side
I hope they make a spin off series that returns to that “Fight for Humanity’s Survival” feeling from the old games
That whole feeling went away when the Covenant did 😢
I beg to have the spirit of fire and red team be in a mainline halo game. Just imagine how iconic it would be to have spirit of fire pull up with red team and help out chief in a moment of need.
What we NEED for the game taking place after Halo Infinite:
-343 Fired
-Actual fans HIRED
-A focus on the ODSTs
-Make the gameplay more like Doom and the Setting more like Warhammer40K!!
-The Forerunners restored to being HUMANS!
-The FLOOD RETURNING
-The Created GONE for GOOD!
-The Endless RETCONNED OUT
-The Covenant to come back!
WHOS WITH ME?! 🙏✊🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
That’s a lot of retconning and will make things murky/messy. It did with H5 when they retconned things.
Besides the retconning, canon changes, and trying to bring the Covenant back again, I agree. Why do I not want the Covenant back? It makes their final defeat in H3 feel cheap and less satisfying
@@beastmode1915well, 343 didn't mind retconning to make the setting worse and this would only make it better
@@beastmode1915 WAY better than the banished who are just cheap ripoffs but red lol
are you trying to parody the “anti-woke” ppl? i genuinely can’t tell.
@@jakespacepiratee3740eh, not really. Not that the Covenant isn’t good, but it kinda shows you dont know enough about the Banished to say they are “just Covenant but with red lol”
Yeah, I want this all to happen but realistically I don't see us getting another game til like 2028, at least one with a story. But maybe that's just the doomer in me
I WANT A LOT OF HALO GAMES MADE BY A LOT OF DIFFERENT COMPANIES
YOU KNOW WHAT DROP IN SOME NEW HALO LEGENDS TOO
Please ?
Unfortunately, all of this is wishful thinking while 343 still has the wheel.
We've already seen that they are led by someone that doesn't even like the games he works on.
We've seen that they refused to hire anyone from bungie at all.
We've seen that they seem intent to do everything possible to distance themselves from the original games.
We've seen that they fumble EVERY single release in some way.
And, interest in halo is at an all time low thanks to it.
I have no idea why microsoft hasn't given them the boot, it's an absolute tragedy.
Only good part of post-bungie halo is the extended universe in the books, which i like for the most part.
Halo is pretty much dead at this point. Hopefully Mass Effect isn’t dead too.
It will probably be a reboot to the story given 343 track record.
Nobody gonna talk about how he made the video 25:52 long?
I WANT THE UNSC SPIRIT OF FIRE TO RETURN!
I really don't like 343 adding the endless and of course not tying up loose ends from 5 and 4 . A reboot after 5 or 4 would be good keeping the ancient humans. However I know alot don't like the new story after 3 including ancient humans and so I am ok with reboot after 3 .
Hear me out, the main conflict driver from Halo 1-3 was the Covenant. I'm not saying 343i copy/paste the Covenant back, but they have the PERFECT setup to do it again with the Banished & Endless. The world of Halo revolves around living in the world the Forerunners left behind. With the new Endless species, we question the Forerunners and Halo's all over again. There is a chance for a massive conflict of belief's AGAIN with humanity vs the banished and endless.
What I would love to see pre spartan era with the insurrectionist battles as an ODST. I'm currently rereading the Kilo Five series and them boarding the covenant ships, killing the brutes, and jackals and "stealing" the engineer before putting it on auto pilot and going back to Sanghelios. Or the "spoiler" who is trying to obtain a covenant ship to get back at the UNSC for stealing their "spoiler" IYKYK
If 'Rdomnai survives, I'd love to see if/how he leads the Banished forces. He'd even battle against the Swords of Sanghelios.
Another thing, if you didn't say Buck would be the new Johnson, I would have leaned toward Lasky.
@@winSonoma Nah, Lasky's more of a Keyes or Hood.
I get what you mean with having Buck for Johnson's role, but for me it's less about the snappy lines and more about the motivation. Not to say Buck isn't good for it, I'd just prefer someone else. Johnson had some banger lines, let's be real, but he's also a motivating force like a bard.
When I think of the role Johnson fits I think of the cutscene at the beginning of Metropolis, panicked marine in a bad situation wants to bail but the Sarge sets him on the path. No Palmer-esque "man up" remark, just "You're not injured? Cool, because you're gonna go kick some arse, have a tank."
It doesn't matter how bad the situation is, when the Sergeant speaks you feel ready for whatever.
For me personally, I feel the only two people in the franchise who could order me into marching into hell without me complaining would be Johnson and, though he lacks a certain levity, Rtas 'Vadum. (maybe H2 Miranda and Carter too but, you know)
Halo 2 unbelievably is peak storytelling, when you chop down each it's stands the test of time
Halo 4......or sorry Cortana the blue baby, as good as her and Chiefs performance was.........that's all there was, sure the Mantle but when the Didact hardly shown up or having a 8 minute exposition dump with the Librarian then dam
Halo 2 had Chiefs story of defending humanity but also the Arbiter in a suicide mission to make up for what happened in Halo CE, and despite all odds he kept surviving and learned the truth about the Covenant lie, and became his own person after, also introducing the cosmic entity in the Gravemind that would also follow into the next game which is a bewildering concept for 343i I know( next game always has a retcon)
It wouldn't progress the narrative much, but i think it would be great to have a game set at the first contact side of the human covenant war with the player being a character from a rebellious faction to the unsc.
Like, the game starts with the player doing resistance objectives, smash and runs, setting traps, etc... and then on the outbreak of the covenant deciding its time to murder humanity the unsc marines and the player begrudgingly team up to evacuate as many people as possible.
Edit: also wtf happened with The Created? Did Cortana's posse just up and delete themselves after throwing a good majority of the universe into a dark age?
There is no future for Halo with 343
We are in "Halo's Future" right now, and this is all that it will be unless Microsoft gives Halo away to a better publisher with a better studio.
Imagine: You play as a marine regular somewhere in the middle of the UNSC -Covenant war. Over the coarse of a few days, the colony world that you are deployed to is overrun and your 12 man squad of marines is cut down again and again, until its just three or four of you left. Days after the UNSC has seemingly abandoned you, you are ambushed by the silent shadow and witness the viscous executions by elite swordsmen. As you and your last brother or sister are about to be executed, a sniper shot from an SRS-99 cracks through the burnt landscape, dropping the First Blade in charge of the ambush, causing him to drop your last comrade. The bloodstar that was about to slice you up, takes cover and begins to aim his plasma rifle at you as he is tackled by a spartan 2 in pale blue MJOLNIR. Two more bloodstars begin to react but one is sniped and another is stabbed bt a spartan 2 with a bubble faceplate. Another spartan in OD green MJOLNIR is engaged in hand to hand with two brutes in red armor, killing one, but gets caught in a choke hold by the other. Your character reaches for a fallen plasma pistol and hits the brute with an overcharged plasma bolt, followed by a headshot from the spartan in pale blue. The Spartan in OD green armor, sporting the designation 117, thanks you and calls in a prowler for exfil.
Honestly the old 343 management have completely screwed the handling of the franchise’s story to the point of it being almost irreparable
If the rumors of the CE remake are true, i propose doing the same for 2 and 3 as well if anything to reintroduce the broader gaming world back to Halo. Campaigns only though
Even if they dont do that, everything after 3 would need to be hard decanonized so it can be reworked due to how disjointed it is. Though i like what 4 tried to do it works as an epilogue to chief’s story rather than a true continuation
Instead of continuing Chief’s storyline right from the getgo after 3, i would continue off of Halo Wars’ story with Jerome as the player character, which leads into delving into the Forerunners the way 4 tried to do but fell flat using an already familiar location in the Ark and doing so in a way that doesn’t give away everything like how H4 did
Having that trilogy lead up to a galactic scale flood war would be badass, and only in that last game to we see chief reawaken, but while playing as Jerome with some climatic battle on Maethrillion or something
Honestly, I just really want aliens back in the picture again. I know its a game centered on Humanity, but Halo has SO MANY interesting species it can cover, and give more substantial roles in stories. Bring the Swords of Sanghelios back into the scene, give us playable elites and brutes again. Hell, Ive seen it requested so many times, a battlefront esque mode where you start out as lowly soliders like grunts and jackals, and with more kills can respawn as something better, where as on the other team, you are marines thst can eventually become spartans, sounds cool as SHIT to me.
Idk, Im just so sick of Halo having to revolve around Chief and the Spartans as the only apparent people that matter.
I want more than anything, a flood return in a sewer tunnel system. Idk why but wading through knees high water and looking down a tube just to see the disfigured flood would be so cool and creepy
You start out right at the end of infinite, before intercepting a signal from banished spartan killers, hunting some IV on the other side of the ring. You hear screams, and then you hear the gravemind roar. Turns out the whole time you were dicking around with Esharum and the Endless, the gravemind was setting up shop. Cool idea or no?
To fill a Johnson role we could have Stacker or maybe the mythical Chips Dubbo? They’re funny, charismatic, known by fans, and generally liked.
They were always sorta in the background before, but now they could be brought to the forefront as it would be natural too.
There is more options if they want to finally merge the SoF, or at least some of the crew, into the mainline games as we all think it’s well overdue
It’s just so hard to get excited about the story going forward. It feels like there’s an obvious narrative that each game should have adopted that would have pleased Halo fans, and 343 consistently moves the story in a completely different direction
Give up bro. Halo is over. The lore is an absolute mess. The games are boring at best. The story is uninspired.
Anything short of retconing everything all the way back to the end of halo 3 and just starting fresh has no chance of peaking my interest.
They'd never do that though because 343i has proven time and time again that they cannot swallow their pride and just accept the fact that the Bungie trilogy story was infinitely better.
It's the same reason why they won't remove sprint: it's their proud trademark. Removing it would be an admission of defeat.
@d-turn3314 the funny part about that, is sprint isn't even their concept either. Bungie did that already, and it was better. And they only did it to try and trend follow what CoD was doing lol
The lore is fucked, but there are ways to make it work, Infinite managed to clean up Halo 5's mess in a sort of elegant way. Fact is, the Halo galaxy is so full of species and history that you can pull really good villains and character out of your ass and make them work really well, all it takes is some good, solid writing.
I think it should be another classic 343 soft reboot where you fight the not-covenant who foolishly awaken another ancient evil
It's sad to admit it, but Halo died after Halo Reach.
"Modern gaming" is a plague on the industry as a whole and while some gems might slip through the cracks, nothing new can replace what we made in the past.
Give the Halo brand to an indie developer and they would make a masterpiece with less resources and in less time than Infinite.
Great video as always HiddenXperia!
There should be side games to the main Master Chief game. One for ODSTs, Marines, Arbiter evolution.
Ah yes which Get direction is bargain bin Warhammer going to go in.
With Space Marine 2 thriving and Gears of war about to make a comeback Halo has never been more irrelevant.
18:34 I disagree. I’m fine with Humanity being on more equal terms with the enemy. Always being on the backfoot made sense for the Bungie games, but _still_ having their backs against the wall after all the new technology they developed and reverse-engineered? That’s just fucking dumb. Having the main faction be the underdogs _all the time_ just gets old and boring.
There's an obvious route that's easier and fixes a lot; a partial reboot made by a new dev.
Simply continuing off of Halo 3 and redoing Halo 4, leaving 343's "work" in a different timeline for those weird people to enjoy while the real fans get what's essentially a fresh start.
So, why exactly don't you talk about this? Something tells me you don't *really* want classic Halo when you bring up characters and other stuff from 343's lore like it's good and should stay.
I love the fact u and many other halo UA-camrs give ideas for one of the best game yet 343 won’t listen and carry on bringing this franchise to the ground.
Sgt. Stacker… I mean, just build on his character a little and bang there’s your Sgt. Johnson stand in
3:55 RETURN OF NOBLE SIX CAVE THEORY
He’s in the cave wearing glass armor now
For real though, I think it would actually be a genius move to bring him back and reveal that he survived Reach. I’d also think that it be even more genius if they have him be leading a human like banished army of humans that are against the UNSC & Covenant truce/alliance agreement that has the two species trade and live among each other as a united nation of sorts.
@@NhBleker I see him more as just protecting the remaining survivors on reach and they haven’t received word of the end of the war. Chief, arby, and Rtas go to reach to find the portal to the ark, finish off the banished stationed on the ring where noble six overhears them talking about when they were enemies and the elites glassed reach and a good thing they became allies and won the war just before he was going to kill the two elites, instead disarming them and a stare down with chief who tells six about what happened after reach and gets him on a call with Jun to confirm. He then becomes allies, fights off the banished from the high noon facility, evacuates the survivors from reach and go to the ark to find the spirit of fire, with missions in-between these events
Love the video btw, seeing this in my feed was sick, it's been awhile.
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25:12 MSG Marcus Stacker
Halo has no future with 343 they have done a terrible job with the franchise in my opinion. And I knowing not the only one who thinks that
Don't rate the pilot, he was a one dimensional character whose main trait was cowardice.
Were it so easy...
The executives at Microsoft need to give a damn before anything decent happens
I think the current halo is just simply not BADASS enough
Nah, the main thing 344 Needs to do is dont changing the goddam villian. Mark my words, stupidly they will crap the endless or the baniished
You can't remove the Mantle of Responsibility from Halo because that's the origin of the Halo universe itself. And the cause of all problems. You can't have Halo without the Mantle of Responsibility. New stories with other focuses? Sure. But the Mantle is the closest thing to a theological and eschatological conflict in Halo. The Mantle is Halo as a franchise.
I think only EU Andies think this, and to be honest everything since the forerunner saga sucks ass. I wouldn't mind rebooting to tell an actually good story post halo 3 at this point, sorry zoomers
That's not what was suggested. It doesn't need to be removed, it needs to not be the focus for new stories. Like everything before 4 - sure, it is there as a cause, but it has no focus or immediate impact.
@@feihceht656 The best course of action for 343i would be to retcon Frankie's "lore" (99% retcons) and just start over from post halo 3. The original trilogy of games (halos CE - 3) have been retconned into oblivion, and nobody, not even the biggest halo lore nerds know what's truly canon because everything's been retconned.
You need to re-edit the video and add a second for the glorious 2552 run time haha!
Perfect way for me to finally get out of bed for the day, good timing as always man!
Family someone gets me if I could I would pay for it if I can do it
I hate to say it but Halo is dead, I really hope im wrong.
What makes you think there's gonna BE a future story?
My gosh it’s sad how far halo has fallen. I literally am not even excited for halo anymore lmao and it’s sad. I look at my halo3 helmet all the time just asking it “y”
case study on how to destroy an ip infinites utter failure and the abomination of that tv show have nailed the coffin on the ip and normies care levels ....
its akin to nintendo making utter shite mario games and expecting cultural zeitgeist and hype to ensure sales ...
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