Where does Microsoft take Halo from here after the Xbox Showcase?

At the end of the day, Halo is a franchise that seems doomed to fail in the long term, which is sad because it’s one of the revolutionary games in the history of gaming.

[Flawlessmic]

Does anyone care anymore?

I mean all the halo articles are dead even on here which is saying something.

Whatever comes next for halo needs to be big, like showstopper big.

[Jin_Sakai]

Are Certain Affinity still creating the Battle Royal aspect?

[Flawlessmic]

That's the rumour anyway, that would officially put the nail in the coffin for me though, battle royal halo is not what I want.

[Kurt Russell]

Sadly I think you're right. I've been a long term supporter, but it died. It didn't help with that awful TV show as well... had they nailed that in the same way The Last of Us did, it would have built at least some hype towards a future game.

I still think Halo is IP gold. I just don't think they know how to deliver on it.

[ChasterMies]

A Halo refresh needs to be PS4 God of War big.

[babadivad]

All they need is a good Halo game to bring everyone back.

[gold_drake]

theres seasom 4 coming out, but im not sure how many actually care at this point.

[isarai]

To the woods to put it down. Unless they give it to someone other than 343 and stop trying to make it GAAS title, it's never going to be the same

[Obscure_Observer]

Next Halo by 343i powered by UE5 will be out of this world!

[mandf]

343 was given halo and drove it into the ground. 343 was nothing before halo. They aren't a creative studio just copy and paste

[Obscure_Observer]

Yeah, drove into the ground with a 87 Metascore and great and consistent updates. /S

[babadivad]

343 did to Halo what Disney did to Lucas Arts.

[AuraAbjure]

Halo 3's engine was inferior to Unreal Engine 3 at the time, and the game was still off-the-charts incredible. Many argue H3 is the best halo. My point is the engine tech isn't the showcase. The developers' (Bungie) talent is.

[GhostScholar]

I’m not opposed to it just dying, but if I was gonna continue on, I would remake the first 3 games. Do it right like capcom has with RE. If it goes well forget 4, 5, and maybe remake reach and odst.

[babadivad]

Forerunners are human. Enough with the 343 retcons. Get rid of it all.

[AuraAbjure]

The Forerunners are not Human I thought. The Ancient Humans are Human.

[babadivad]

@AuraAbjure

In the original trilogy, Humans were the Forerunners. That's why guilty spark kept calling the Cheif the "reclaimer" and why only humans were the ones who could access Forerunner technology with a touch. It naturally responded to humanity.

It's also why the prophets (the leaders of the covenant) wanted to exterminate humanity completely rather than allowing them the opportunity to join the covenant.

They found out that Humans were the actual Forerunners and if the secret got put it would topple their religion and their remove them from power.

This story was ham-fistedly retconned in Halo 4 and onward after 343 took over.

The Forerunners were now some other alien species. Ancient Humanity has a parallel and slightly less advanced empire.
An EVEN MORE advanced and ancient alien species (the Precursors) were the ones who preceeded both of them.

Even though the Precursors had technology so advanced even the extremely advanced Forerunners couldn't destroy or understand, they somehow won a war of extermination with the far more advanced Precursors.

The story is messy and doesn't make much sense. There's more but I don't really feel like getting into it.

They just need to go back to the original cannon. 343 wrote themselves into a knot with the new lore.

[Magog]

Further down the drain would be my guess. They have already turned a great couch co-op shooter into an online storefront for microtransactions. There is no going back.

[StarkR3ality]

Give it to ID software, reboot the series, make sure it's a linear good halo story with solid classic multiplayer with enough maps and game modes to support its launch.

Do that and you've got the best selling game of any year FIFA and Cod aside, I'm not even joking it's that simple.

[Stuart5756]

to the grave

[Profchaos]

Halo 4 and we can pretend the whole reclaimer saga never happened.

[AuraAbjure]

I agree. Pretend Halo 5 and Infinite never happened, sober the fuck up, and start over with Halo 4 as the launching pad.

[zarbor]

If Spencer and his XBOX cast was smart (they are not), they would hold off on Halo and Gears until the next generation of consoles whatever that may be. It will create hype if you don't mention it for quite some time. Additionally, they should consider creating a new game in the Halo universe by another developer. That universe needs to be much more than the convenant and the flood. It also needs to be more than earth and those Halo rings. Halo is too simplistic and looks dated compare to other sci-fi games. Oh, BTW, the first thing they better do is get MUCH better story by getting better writers. Its time to move on from Master Chief an Cortana. Just don't replace MC with some female unless you make it more like Metroid.

Going back to update and remake the earlier games isn't a bad place to start like what Capcom did with RE. That could give legs to spin it into a new game. Nevertheless, that XBOX team just doesn't have it in them to do something like this so its probably best for them to just move on from Halo but I fully expect for them to continue MC story in which most of us could care less about since they have delivered lame story after lame story with the past few games.

[jznrpg]

Graveyard

[AuraAbjure]

They never even introduced star roads or anything. There is a lot of ground left unturned in Halo.

[Miacosa]

They should let it rest for a few years so that please miss it and then come back with something totally different.

[AuraAbjure]

343 I. should do something they are really passionate about as a whole company, and democratically elect their President, instead of letting Microsoft decide who the President is. Subsequently the President should encourage the writers to significantly ADVANCE Halo canonically. That means more focus on truly awesome features of Halo lore like neural physics, star roads, and perhaps hidden powers and insight the Librarian imbued the Chief during H4. She's a librarian; she has insight- not just power. Specifically showcase why Chief's helmet is important for martial reasons and for player relatability reasons considering the Halo TV show revealed his face.