In 2010, Halo Cryptum was published by renowned Sci-Fi author, Greg Bear. With it, came a completely new light, both bright and dark, to the Halo franchise. Later, the two sequels, Primordium and Silentium followed suit. These novels added a completely new dimension to Halo's stroy; all ranging from the violence and innocence of ancient humanity, rising Covenant species, and of course, the downfall of the majestic Forerunners. In my opinion, these were wonderful books. Would you like to see 343 capitalize on them as a game trilogy in the future? Why or why not?
if there is no master chief or spartans, it would be hard to play like a halo game. However, maybe a proto-human could pick up some ancient weapons and have a hayday? I don't know, i haven't read the books... but it sounds like it would be hard to get people to play it.
I agree it could be a good game strategy. It would allow Microsoft to use the HALO title name and create a whole new genre of shooter that isn't master chief directly. Call of Duty is now doing a World War 1 / 2 gameplay in their next title so I'm sure Halo could do an off spin of the timeline. It may actually be a good refresher for those who don't like being all Spartan armored up in a shooter. LMAO it might end up looking like this though (another forgehub user just shared this a map remake they made, but it's a hilarious photo)
I commented this thought one day in the chatbox, and I ws wondering who will think the same. Yeah! A Forerunner-Human War game can be something amazing, They have the material, it will also be practical and amusing in a way that it will be a crazy contradiction... why? We are talking about eons before the actual Halo storyline, and yet, the technology in that era was superior to the XXVI century human. A story can be managed to be narrated from the perspective of a human warrior, like a MasterChief of that era (maybe the son of Forthencho?) and execute a parallel story of the Forerunner-Human war. It will also include the return of the flood, the san'shyuum and the precursors. It will be just amazing!
I would love to see it, but it would be a hard sell to a lot of the games fan base since most of them are mp fans not lore and halo universe fans. For instance Halo 4 required you to read the books you just mentioned to fully understand what is going on in the universe and it also required you to have read the Kilo 5 trilogy, but not many did and the game campaign was confusing and not well received by some people. But just to reiterate I would love to see this, especially since it would bring back the flood. If you do a post forerunner-human war, you would probably need to play as just forerunner but that could be less exciting but I dont know we havent had a full halo game with the flood as the primary enemy. the rest of the games is all about the covenant and the flood are an issue for both sides but I wouldn't call them the primary ending or focus of a game.
Speaking about the Flood... What 343 really needs to do is a survival horror game Flood themed. I mean, the Flood is actually scary, even as a Spartan, the idea of a flesh and conscious consuming unstoppable force as the ultimate doom. That's rad! I can imagine a spin-off or parallel story of an ODST through a little campaign mission aboard a ship with multiple objectives and the menacing flood always present... /,,/
I agree. Although, the all-consuming Flood does indeed play a huge role in Silentium. That book really fleshes out the height of the Forerunner-Flood war, and their eventual demise from it that we all know; but there are bigger secrets too. I can't stress enough, how amazing it would be to play as a Forerunner and for 343 to convey on-screen how this is still Halo, and how it was at the height of their society many, many ages ago.
That's true, I don't think enough people know how dangerous the Flood really is. And why the Forerunners were forced to build Halo in the first place. They could easily make a good story and just go another direction with the gameplay. They could do another RTS or something else centered on space combat/strategy.
They could, but I think people would be missing so much from it. It needs to remain first person to really deliver what Halo is from a gameplay standpoint.
If the gameplay and forerunner style stayed true to Bungie, I'd be more than fine with this. Although it'd be a bit awkward to only have forerunner weapons/vehicles throughout the entire sandbox. Also they would need to make an EOD looking armor set I could use, then I'd be happy.
I agree that Halo is best done from first person. But still, I know a lot of people who gave up on Halo all together when Reach came out. Some of them liked the campaign but didn't understand the difference between a Spartan II and a Spartan III. Some of them read the books but just couldn't get over the whole no BRs thing. If they wanna do another first person Halo then I think they have to modify the gameplay enough so that people don't get the wrong idea. For example they could do a like squad/tactical shooter. Because if you think about it, the Flood must've been very different in that time period. The Didact went into exile (the first time) because he was against building Halo as a way to stop the Flood. So the Forerunners were fighting the Flood that whole time. It's been a while since I read Cryptum, but I think that was supposed to be like 1,000 years or something. By the end of Silentium, the Flood was a highly sophisticated organism that could infect not only ecosystems on a planetary scale, but even technology.
In addition to making Humanity and the Forerunners unable to communicate, I like the part where they made the Forerunners interdimensional space magic gods with unlimited energy and gave the Flood an origin of weird cocaine powder pets.
To be fair there were limitations or at least consequences to some of the large scale things they did. Like when the librarian when to the precursor galaxy she screwed slipspace up for everyone back home and messed up the domain a little bit. but They did seem able to do what ever they wanted, except kill the flood off and live. I did enjoy the reason the humans appeared to be flood proof.
I like to pretend that the forced genesong destiny is just the Librarian secretly giving back our original humanity memories/achievements. But if not, at least Spartan-IIIs became awesome because they can be badass without it.
I'm really not the kind of person who likes to show off, but I wrote something a few years ago that is pertinent to this discussion. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YwG-GtjyCmofXThSLnjZUfSFwFungbsnVcxU6q7sAb4/edit?usp=sharing Some people may remember, back in 2014 343i announced that they were looking for writers from the community. Part of the application process involved writing a 1,000 word essay on The Mantle of Responsibility. I never actually applied, myself. For one thing, I was only half done by the time the position was filled. Also, I went way past the word count limit. Don't bother counting, it's 3,100 words total, including one word that I made up. Just for the record, it wasn't that I actually planned on working at 343i. It's just that I take writing very seriously, and I admit, at the time I was concerned with some of the writing in the franchise. Since this wasn't technically a contest, I knew they probably wouldn't release the “winning” essay. So I figured the best way to know how good the new writer is, would be to write my own essay and submit it. But like I said, I took too long, so I guess I'll never know for sure. But Halo is still here and so am I. Anyway, lately I have been catching up on some of the Halo novels and that has inspired me to try my hand at writing a little Halo fan-fiction. I am waiting for Halo: Warfleet to come out first, because I still have a lot of questions about the technology in the lore. In the meantime, I was hoping for a little feedback on my essay. This is the final draft, I think it holds up pretty well. Some things I got wrong, some things I got right, everything I regretted has been edited out. I already know that some parts conflict with the lore, but if you spot something that sticks out at you, don't hesitate to call me on it. The truth is, there really wasn't very much information about the Mantle in the lore, and there still isn't. I took one or two liberties here and there, and used my imagination a lot. Since my next writing project is going to be a fan-fiction, I need a better sense of how well I'm covering my tracks. And to be honest, it is really hard to find places to get feedback on this kind of thing because most people don’t read the books. Then I remembered this thread and I thought, “Worth a shot.” I'm mostly interested in finding out whether the essay is easy to understand. Do you have any questions? Are there any concepts that don't come across clearly? Are there parts that don't fit the theme, which is the Mantle?