Microsoft Teases Halo 5 ... Sorta

[archvile93]

If its not on the Pc, I swear to god, Mr. Gates.

It won't be. They didn't bother to put the other Halo gaes on PC (probably due to them selling poorly because they were very shitty ports). If MS was a lawyer, it'd be the one that abandons you in the middle of your court hearing to chase down an ambulance that drove by the window.

 

[silver wolf009]

Let's be honest, though, we all know that there will eventually be a Halo 5, I'm just wondering what happened to Halo 4.

Exactly what I was thinking... get onto that before worrying about 5.

No no no... That is the glory of Halo 5. It skips right over 4.

OT: uhhhhhhhh, I dont know, its still a bit early for me to really think they are digging up the grave, but we will just have to wait and see.

 

[llamastorm.games]

I don't know why people are so concerned with the numbering when maybe, just maybe, the people who organised this were just trolling, having a bit of a joke, and had Halo 5 there as a bit of a giggle purposefully ignoring Halo 4?

 

[Daveman]

Let's be honest, though, we all know that there will eventually be a Halo 5, I'm just wondering what happened to Halo 4.

Exactly what I was thinking... get onto that before worrying about 5.

dare I say it?

Halo 4 could be Halo: Reach.........

Then what's ODST? I don't buy that, they're gonna have to just go the CoD route and call it "Halo: Reach 2" (which would just be silly) or call it something else.

Let's be honest, though, we all know that there will eventually be a Halo 5, I'm just wondering what happened to Halo 4.

Exactly what I was thinking... get onto that before worrying about 5.

Wow, I got ninja'd twice. My first thought was literally, "Wait, what happened to Halo 4?". Then I read the last sentence of the article and I thought, "That's exactly what I was thinking."

So....That's exactly what I was thinking. What happened to Halo 4?

You had literally exactly the same thought process I had... except I had got bored and skipped to the end.

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

*snip*
You had literally exactly the same thought process I had... except I had got bored and skipped to the end.

Uh...I actually did that too.


......

 

[AnonymousTipster]

Interesting. Probably not as interesting as what Bungie is working on now, though.

 

[Milenkov]

The adventures of Chaster Mief, Ortana and the Carbiter, should be good
OT: Project Gotham? Freaking Sweet. Another Halo serial? Not so much.

EDIT: It'd be smart if they went into Master Chief's starting years, being trained and whatnot, though I suppose that would probably feel like a Sci-fi modern warfare.

 

[llamastorm.games]

Bet

they're gonna have to just go the CoD route and call it "Halo: Reach 2" (which would just be silly)

Woah, if there was a "Halo: Reach 2" what on gods earth would the story be?

Reach gets raped in a dark alleyway....again?

Between Halo 1 and Halo 2, Masterchief goes back to reach and rescues several spartans and Halsey and destroys some stuff, there is a whole book on it. Enough for a game i would have thought, you never know.

 

[Thyunda]

I think the idea of it being a dev-diary - Inside Halo: Episode 5. The other episodes might not be on their little front page thing. Maybe it was his favourite so he put it on a quicklist. As for Microsoft's 343 Industries making another Halo...it'd probably suck. The thing I liked most about the Halo series was the sense of humour, and the community support. I really can't imagine Microsoft outdoing Bungie on that note. I don't think I'll tire of Reach anytime soon, so I doubt I'd get excited over Microsoft pushing out a new Halo.

 

[Daveman]

they're gonna have to just go the CoD route and call it "Halo: Reach 2" (which would just be silly)

Woah, if there was a "Halo: Reach 2" what on gods earth would the story be?

Reach gets raped in a dark alleyway....again?

Several years after the whole Halo 3 big fighty thing happened, a wormhole opens just above Reach which has been repopulated and lots of flood pours out. They try to escape but as they leave the ships turn out to have been infected too (as in the people on them). The only solution is to blow up Reach (in a big noble sacrifice thingy) and hope that takes care of everything... depending on further sequels.

 

[icyneesan]

4 and 5 are not enough, we must go deeper.... HALO 6000!!

 

[TimbukTurnip]

Oh god, not more Halo, I've already had as much as I can put up with this Call of Duty craze.

So don't buy it. There's nothing to complain about.

I've never bought a CoD game either, thats not what I meant. What annoys me is everyone constantly going on about it when its just so . . bland and generic. And hell, even if I liked the games, people constantly going on about them would still annoy me, though I suppose probably not as much.

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

I really hope that the next Halo isn't Halo 5... That would throw all hope of it being any good right out the window, as the developer and publisher can't count to four.

 

[Irridium]

Halo 4 was just a rumor. I doubt it ever existed.

Master Chief's story is over, so there won't be a Halo 4.

There will be more Halo games, but I doubt they'll follow the Chief's story. Then again this is Microsoft, so who knows.

Actually, just listen to this guy:

Guys, guys, guys... settle down.

It seems as if the majority of posters in this thread haven't played the Halo games. There are easy explanations for most of the questions here.

First of all, the "5" in "Halo 5" is coming from Reach, as many have guessed - whoever made this considered Halo: Reach to take the place of Halo 4, which makes sense considering the only other games in the franchise, Halo: ODST and Halo Wars, were both spin-offs. Neither of these games were marketed or produced as a main chapter of the Halo franchise. (Halo: ODST was originally going to be Halo 3: ODST and was intended to be a $30 budget value title, placing itself more as a standalone expansion pack than as an individual title.) Thus one could consider the next main Halo game to be the fifth in the franchise. Hence Halo 5.

But we can be almost 100% certain that Microsoft will not title the next main Halo game Halo 5. First, the jump in numbering would be silly, even if you can reason out Halo: Reach taking the place of the fourth title. But more importantly, the numbered Halo games (Halo, Halo 2, Halo 3) refer specifically to Master Chief's story. That's why Halo: Reach wasn't titled Halo 4. Halo 3 was to "Finish the Fight" - specifically, Master Chief's fight.

So unless they bring back Master Chief this quickly (which would be a surprise, considering how Halo 3 ended), a numbered Halo game wouldn't make any sense. More reasonably we can expect the next new Halo game to have a subtitle a la "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare". (And besides, rumor has it that the Halo game coming out this year is some HD remake of Halo: CE.)

 

[Irridium]

If its not on the Pc, I swear to god, Mr. Gates.

It won't be.

BUT GATES PROMISED NOT TO ABANDON PC GAMING ARRRGHHGHGHGH!!!!!


Seriously, Fable 3 being delayed on Pc was a cock slap, but Halo 5 not on Pc at all?

*Puts together*

Gates left Microsoft, like, 3-4 years ago.

Geez people, get with the times.

 

[Ultima Shadow]

I think the idea of it being a dev-diary - Inside Halo: Episode 5. The other episodes might not be on their little front page thing. Maybe it was his favourite so he put it on a quicklist.

Damn, ninja'd. My thoughts exactly. When I read the text on the image, my first thought wasn't "Inside - Halo 5", it was "Inside Halo - 5". I highly doubt that they'd be referencing a new Halo game this early.

That said, the Project Gotham Racing heading does provide some interesting food for thought...

 

[Wolfpocalypse]

wate your telling me you missed halo 4? where master chief turns out to be a girl marries the arbiter save the galaxy from the flood (again) and perhaps most importantly reconciles with his cough sorry her estranged father bruce cambell? humm must not have been very popular outside of ireland i guess... its just like episode 3 and 4th strike all over again!

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

If Bungie isn't involved, a Halo game would not be worth playing.