I've already accepted that Halo will continue well into the distant future, I just don't want Bungie to do it, I want them to prove that they can make something that's not Halo.
Microsoft Not Done With Master Chief
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That would be interesting, but sadly that isn't possible. The Forerunners were wiped out, they built the planet Onyx as well as several others (as yet unseen) as shield bunkers where they could hide and be unaffected by the Halo's blast across the galaxy. They would then return when the Flood died from starvation. However, they never used the shields, as the Flood got to them before they could reach those planets. This is revealed in the Terminals found in Halo 3, as well as the novel Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. The reason humans are seen as the Reclaimers and the descendants of the Forerunners is because they were seded with the Forerunner's genes and blessings when the Halo rings were first fired. They were protected by the fact that Africa is regarded as the cradle of human civilisation, theyw ere moved to the Ark (another shield) for a short time by the Didact (the last surviving Forerunner, she died of old age shortly after the Halo Array was fired).13lackfriday said:
Yes, I like Halo a lot. Obvious, right?
I dont necessarily see this as a bad thing. It's not like Bungie is milking the MC, but rather Gearbox is going to take a new view on the chief. It could be early missions. It could be the battle of Reach. It could be set millions of years into the future, when the cycle of life has repeated itself, and the universe is need of the reclaimer once more. Fact is, theres alot to be done with such a faceless character like the Chief. He's just a template, thats all.
Definitely my favorite book.Reaperman Wompa said:
I'm very proud of Sony knowing how to retire mascots.Indigo_Dingo said:
lol XDfix-the-spade said:
Okay on topic. Really MS needs to kill this franchise and move on to something else. I know it's a console seller but for the love of God!
I vote they just either remake Marathon or do something else.
Lets take a looksie here. We've got the story of Zuka Zammane, the Elite from Halo 1. We've also got the story of the Arbiter. We've got the stories of the 2 elites that are in the Halo 3 4 player co-op, and we've also got the story of Rtas Vadum/Halfjaw.
Then we've got the stories of Sgt. Johnson, the Marines in Halo 1 as they defend and search for other marines. Other Spartans in Prequels such as Kurt. Sgt. Forge from Halo Wars, and not to mention Master Chiefs backstory.
We've got all this left unexplored, and nobody even seems the tiniest bit interested.
Then we've got the stories of Sgt. Johnson, the Marines in Halo 1 as they defend and search for other marines. Other Spartans in Prequels such as Kurt. Sgt. Forge from Halo Wars, and not to mention Master Chiefs backstory.
We've got all this left unexplored, and nobody even seems the tiniest bit interested.
Alright Bungie. Listen and listen well. Make a Halo 4, but make it THE BEST FUCKING GAME EVER. Just make Master Chief die at the end of that Halo...you know why Bungie? SO YOU WONT BECOME FUCKING SEGA!!!
haha! yes!!!GodsClown said:
lol i want to see a game that takes two games (for lack of a better example) COD4 and Halo3 and puts the characters against eachother... you choose who you fight with... etc... i think it would be good fun!
Didact (just Didact, it's a name) was a male. His love interest the Librarian (a female) died on Earth soon after sending a bunch of humans through the portal.Trivun said:
Didact probably wasn't the last (just one of the last) as any Forerunner on the Ark would have survived. He also says something about going to sleep, in fact it's entirely possible that he was alive in stasis when Master Chief activated Halo.
Here's a good read on the subject. [http://blog.ascendantjustice.com/halo-3/the-terminals/shediedineden0/]
Yeah, I knew I'd made a mistake somewhere but I couldn't pinpoit where. I just got the names mixed up. The Librarian was the female, Didact's lover, and she built the Ark near what would become New Mombasa thousands of years later. However, despite what has been said in your link, I can definitely tell you for a fact that the Libararian was the only surviving Forerunner during the Forerunner-Flood War, and she died on Earth after sending the humans through the portal in the Ark (so you were right about that). However, there were no other Forerunner on the Ark at the time that the rings were fired, and it's definitely true that no Forerunner managed to enter any of the Shields, including Onyx, so there were no Forerunner survivors, but their seed passed down through humanity enough that humans are the 'Children of the Forerunner', as stated by the Hierarchs and the Monitor on various occasions. What Didact said about going to sleep may well have simply referred to his death due to the firing of the Array. People often refer to death as like 'going to sleep', and the Array could have various ways of killing sentient life (it only affects sentient life, after all, and we never find out exactly how it works).Eldritch Warlord said:
I've made comments on this before. The best way to do it is let at least a decade pass and then come out with Halo 4. It would need to be a return to the original game's gameplay, it needs to be more of a survival-horror game than the first three, and it needs to be the ab-so-lute LAST thing to do with Halo ever.
The ideal Halo 4 would have the feel and atmosphere of the first, the superior (over, in my opinion, all shooters) game-play of Halo 2, and the range of weapons in Halo 3. It would be incredibly long and epic, while still managing to stay fresh throughout and stay well away from becoming boring.
It would also need just the right amount of hype: not too much, just enough to get people excited. The ad campaign will need to create anticipation and high expectations, then the game needs to live up to that. I think the best way to go about the early campaign would be to release a trailer that's all darkness and flashes of pain and death. We hear men screaming and dying, in agony and terror. The trailer ends with that. A few weeks later, we see the same trailer again, only this time, at the end, we here the trademark orchestral music of Halo, and see the logo fade into view with the number 4 inside.
The ideal Halo 4 would have the feel and atmosphere of the first, the superior (over, in my opinion, all shooters) game-play of Halo 2, and the range of weapons in Halo 3. It would be incredibly long and epic, while still managing to stay fresh throughout and stay well away from becoming boring.
It would also need just the right amount of hype: not too much, just enough to get people excited. The ad campaign will need to create anticipation and high expectations, then the game needs to live up to that. I think the best way to go about the early campaign would be to release a trailer that's all darkness and flashes of pain and death. We hear men screaming and dying, in agony and terror. The trailer ends with that. A few weeks later, we see the same trailer again, only this time, at the end, we here the trademark orchestral music of Halo, and see the logo fade into view with the number 4 inside.