EDIT: Seems to be like reports of 343i campaign story team being winded down isn't fully true, added new poll options to reflect this and updated some of the thread to reflect this.
My personal critiques with current Halo story are usually as follows:
Starting with Halo 4 we kept on hitting a cycle of "New Thing > Game Ends > Drop New Thing > Repeat"
-Halo 4, introduced the Didact and forerunners and enemies, Master Chief is a chosen space man who's luck was all part of a master plan by the Liberian or some shit, Didact is then stuck in comic and book land forever.
-Halo 5, Cortana is now the bad guy and made a lot of AI have an uprising, this is immediately ended off screen.
-Halo Wars 2, "Ummmmmm ACTUALLY the covenant were fighting two wars at once"
-Halo Infinite, The Banished are here, oh but now here are things called The Endless, also we killed the SP team so no expansions planned.
The story kept on changing direction and over reacting to feedback when it came to the story (I don't imagine this was ideal for the story team), I also don't think Infinite was bad, but the universe seems a bit messy at the moment. Too many concepts introduced and just dropped to me that will be a bit hard to reconnect together (I would love to be proven wrong though)
I personally would like to see if they go down a reboot route, a reboot of 1 - 3 adding in /some/ of the EU stuff like Blue team from the get go and expanding upon things, also maybe just combine Halo 2 and 3, or turn First Strike into a game so Halo 2 has some more fluff.
Curious as to how others feel about the subject honestly as Halo won't be dropped, but something is clearly going to need to happen with it.
My personal critiques with current Halo story are usually as follows:
Starting with Halo 4 we kept on hitting a cycle of "New Thing > Game Ends > Drop New Thing > Repeat"
-Halo 4, introduced the Didact and forerunners and enemies, Master Chief is a chosen space man who's luck was all part of a master plan by the Liberian or some shit, Didact is then stuck in comic and book land forever.
-Halo 5, Cortana is now the bad guy and made a lot of AI have an uprising, this is immediately ended off screen.
-Halo Wars 2, "Ummmmmm ACTUALLY the covenant were fighting two wars at once"
-Halo Infinite, The Banished are here, oh but now here are things called The Endless, also we killed the SP team so no expansions planned.
The story kept on changing direction and over reacting to feedback when it came to the story (I don't imagine this was ideal for the story team), I also don't think Infinite was bad, but the universe seems a bit messy at the moment. Too many concepts introduced and just dropped to me that will be a bit hard to reconnect together (I would love to be proven wrong though)
I personally would like to see if they go down a reboot route, a reboot of 1 - 3 adding in /some/ of the EU stuff like Blue team from the get go and expanding upon things, also maybe just combine Halo 2 and 3, or turn First Strike into a game so Halo 2 has some more fluff.
Curious as to how others feel about the subject honestly as Halo won't be dropped, but something is clearly going to need to happen with it.
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