There seems to be a general consensus among the majority of players that Halo isn't what it used to be or that it's broken. Let's say you were in charge of the next Halo game. How would you fix it?
Bring back talent... 343 is decent, i'm not hating on them. They just fall short in too many different departments keeping me from falling in love with Halo all over again. Still excited to see H6, optimistic
Polish the game, I can get passed the artstyle and other grievances but the amount of polish in this game is whats hurting it to hell, so many people are not playing because they can't get passed it, PC's aim is unbearable and it crashes more than Stevie Wonder driving a bus, and more so than any PC issues every update screws with forge maps in some way and its just off-putting to creators. Creators don't feel appreciated= no custom maps= no players for them After the game is polished it would just get the glorious H2 Anniversary type of style that mixes the best elements of both artstyles amongst a glorious campaign.
Take out the complete lock down of invis barriers in campaign. I miss driving a ghost on odd pieces of geometry to get out of the map, it made me feel like a secret agent or like I was "hacking" the game. More concise separation of competitive and social multi-player. Bring an HCS Playlist in place of team arena filled with all the league maps so all the sweaties can feel like they'll make money playing or halo, if only to free up stipulations for getting community maps out there. Halo 3 I could see not putting too many fan made maps in due to limitations, but forge is a cornerstone of halo now. A monthly/quarterly refresh of the best of the best community maps would be nice. People are gonna hate dev maps now anyway, might as well push some of the blame on your loving fans.
Fire everyone in charge of their respective department except the Forge team. Hire writers who understand subtlety and mystery Hire UI designers who understand efficiency and minimalism Hire Campaign designers who understand interesting encounters Hire level designers who experiment to make unique and memorable maps Hire programmers who can make a tight and polished physics and AI engine Hire MP leads who understand the essence of Halo MP and actually listen to the feedback of the playtesters Hire art leads who understand aesthetic simplicity, stylistic footprint, negative space and function over form Hire Tom Salta to score the OST Put more resources into the Forge team Hire community managers that actually go out and interact with the entire community And last but not least, hire a goddamn creative director who has a good vision for the game, respects the source and has the business prowess to see Halo back on the map with the right direction. Oh, and have a public alpha and public beta
Hire somebody that does not have a Console Mentality if the game is going to fly at all. I mean, Get a PC game developer that has developed PC games that DOES NOT have a CONSOLE Game mentality. That way the PC game developer would develop a PC game like it is supposed to be for the PC gamer.
How about a playlist that the cartographers get to update with maps of there choosing that players can match make into so that community maps can be played and tested by the community and the best can get chosen for official matchmaking and then 343 don't have to test forge maps so thoroughly cuz we would be doing that ourselves. Cartographers would of course have to rotate the maps in that play list
Make Halo 3: Anniversary, then spend the year fixing it because you know that **** won't work at release, then call it a quits and shutdown the company. I may be a little bias.
Regain a good marketing team and re-release MCC with all the fixes it needs. Then, patch in a COMPLETE and NOT **** Halo 3 Anniversary to really set some sales in stone, also while you're at it give everyone ODST for free and re-add firefight. Lastly, release a quality port to PC (which apparently was supposed to happen anyway). That would regain my trust, to really get my money make sure the next main title isn't ass.