Asclepion said:
However, the story quite clearly ended with Halo 3, even going for obvious mythic elements with Master Chief adrift in space as a sealed badass waiting to be awoken. Microsoft negated that entirely for Halo 4, and because Halo was basically the sole reason Xbox survived at all and and everything else is going multiplatform (with PCs dominating the consoles utterly), Microsoft will keep padding out the series until it hits rock bottom and drills deep, deep into the Earth's crust.
Not really, did you see the legendary ending? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_A6-Wcadbw It was teased how Chief and Cortana are floating towards Requiem, the forerunner shield world were Halo 4 takes place. Personally, I think Halo could be something like videogames' Star Wars, considering how 343 gives a damn about their EU it makes sense. Just a suggestion for those who don't want to be a cynic about it.
Also, PC dominating? Performancewise yeah, but sales and the effort many dev teams but into their PC ports (because of said poorer sales) say different.
Korten12 said:
Pretty sure it takes place post-Halo 3 but pre-Halo 4.
The offical summary says it's between 4 and 5. http://news.xbox.com/2014/07/ent-halo-nightfall-sdcc-announcement
I'm quite exicted for this. Forward Unto Dawn was entertaining. 343 really puts effort into their transmedia in general. I recently found out that they got Karen Traviss to write a whole trilogy of books. She was responsible for fleshing out Mandalorian, Boba Fett and clone trooper lore for Star Wars - until they f*cked it up with the Clone Wars TV series. So thats a pretty good fit, can't wait to read it.