Halo 6 Already In the Works, 343 Industries Says
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camazotz said:
Do you know what else is presumptive? Quoting the first post in a discussion and then acting like your arguments haven't already been addressed.
Let's look at another series that has annual releases and plans whole series rather than individual games. It's Assassin's Creed, infamous for changing the gameplay once in five games and then sticking to it for a few more. That's mechanic stagnation. The story's even less fluid. What's the last AC game that actually got you engrossed in the story?
I mean, Syndicate looks pretty sound, so, what's that, then the next stage after The Running Around Stabbing People, and The Boat Ones? AC gets tons of criticism for being stagnant yearly releases. FIFA only really switches up its formula once in five games, too.
Tell me which of Bethesda's games you're referring to. There were years between Elder Scrolls games and Fallout went to a different team of developers between 3 and New Vegas.
If it's a multi-year task, leave multi-years between releases. Otherwise you're either relying totally on a brand name or gambling with the first game's success.
B5Alpha said:
Planned as a trilogy or written as a trilogy? There's a big difference. Could you play any of the Mass Effect games to 100% completion and feel as though you got a complete experience? Did stopping the Reapers at the end of the first game feel like a neat ending, or did you feel like you were left hanging? The second game had a minor issue where at the end of the game you get to see the Reapers rushing through space. Without that three-second scene, Mass Effect 2 did a really neat job of existing as a standalone product. There were three years between the first and second game - that is easily enough time for the writers to have learned from their achievements or mistakes and improved on them, which the second game objectively did. The third had a rushed ending, as you've said. It was basically thrown together without any real thought for the story itself because the original ending was leaked.
Do you think it would've been as messy had it been allowed to develop at its own pace?
Halo will always have a place in my console. Halo: CE was the first game that my son and I ever played through... together. He is now seventeen and to this day we've played through every release together, typically the week that they come out. We'll be doing the same with Halo 5, and hopefully many more Halo games to come.
Complain all you want, at least it's not a yearly release thing! The games look well made, are fun, and the series lore is way more interesting than COD or the AC series. Plus that trailer was beautiful! It made it seem like the Chief dying was to the Halo world what 9/11 was to us. I'd love to dig out my old 360 and pick up 4 at some point since I missed it; hopefully I can get a used copy super cheap.
I'm interested in the new trilogy as it's clearly trying to go in a new direction with the same lore.seiler88 said:
That being said, the original had a pretty clear and satisfying ending with Halo 3. When I played 4 it felt heavily disconnected from it's predecessors.
why? the Halo universe is one of the richest in gaming. they had so much backstory in the written media that they now wish to explore in the games. all the Promethean stuff, Blue team, etc. existed before Halo 4 and 5, only now we are actually being given an opportunity to see it all.seiler88 said:
also, Halo 4 did not have closure, so the story has not ended.