Just saw a Forbes article about Halo 5 is coming this fall instead of next year.
Thoughts?
It was never coming out in 2015. It was always 2014. There was some confusion because it wasn't listed in the upcoming 2014 games. It wasn't being listed because it still doesn't have an official name. MS had to clarify again because of rampant meltdowns.
There is a cadre of gamers 'out there' who think the next Halo title should be cooked a little longer to avoid their perception of Halo 4. That may or may not be a good idea. We have no certainty of everything 343i has cooking, except it's Halo. Doesn't matter what they think anyway, since the original release year has never changed.
Perhaps the next Halo title will be strong on the episodic content side. Properly planned such a release could give us higher quality, lower content products released over a longer period of time. Episodic 'is big on 343i's agenda too as they have been seen to hire for exactly that purpose. It will happen in some manner.
343i has probably been working with the XB1 coding longer than most developers. Whatever we get will be beautiful and story driven. No sense speculating on anything else for now.
Just saw a Forbes article about Halo 5 is coming this fall instead of next year.
Thoughts?
It was never coming out in 2015. It was always 2014. There was some confusion because it wasn't listed in the upcoming 2014 games. It wasn't being listed because it still doesn't have an official name. MS had to clarify again because of rampant meltdowns.
There is a cadre of gamers 'out there' who think the next Halo title should be cooked a little longer to avoid their perception of Halo 4. That may or may not be a good idea. We have no certainty of everything 343i has cooking, except it's Halo. Doesn't matter what they think anyway, since the original release year has never changed.
Perhaps the next Halo title will be strong on the episodic content side. Properly planned such a release could give us higher quality, lower content products released over a longer period of time. Episodic 'is big on 343i's agenda too as they have been seen to hire for exactly that purpose. It will happen in some manner.
343i has probably been working with the XB1 coding longer than most developers. Whatever we get will be beautiful and story driven. No sense speculating on anything else for now.
Halo 5 is a broken piece of crap and 343 is destroying the franchise. WHO'S WITH ME!
Just saw a Forbes article about Halo 5 is coming this fall instead of next year.
Thoughts?
It was never coming out in 2015. It was always 2014. There was some confusion because it wasn't listed in the upcoming 2014 games. It wasn't being listed because it still doesn't have an official name. MS had to clarify again because of rampant meltdowns.
There is a cadre of gamers 'out there' who think the next Halo title should be cooked a little longer to avoid their perception of Halo 4. That may or may not be a good idea. We have no certainty of everything 343i has cooking, except it's Halo. Doesn't matter what they think anyway, since the original release year has never changed.
Perhaps the next Halo title will be strong on the episodic content side. Properly planned such a release could give us higher quality, lower content products released over a longer period of time. Episodic 'is big on 343i's agenda too as they have been seen to hire for exactly that purpose. It will happen in some manner.
343i has probably been working with the XB1 coding longer than most developers. Whatever we get will be beautiful and story driven. No sense speculating on anything else for now.
Halo 5 is a broken piece of crap and 343 is destroying the franchise. WHO'S WITH ME!
Just saw a Forbes article about Halo 5 is coming this fall instead of next year.
Thoughts?
It was never coming out in 2015. It was always 2014. There was some confusion because it wasn't listed in the upcoming 2014 games. It wasn't being listed because it still doesn't have an official name. MS had to clarify again because of rampant meltdowns.
There is a cadre of gamers 'out there' who think the next Halo title should be cooked a little longer to avoid their perception of Halo 4. That may or may not be a good idea. We have no certainty of everything 343i has cooking, except it's Halo. Doesn't matter what they think anyway, since the original release year has never changed.
Perhaps the next Halo title will be strong on the episodic content side. Properly planned such a release could give us higher quality, lower content products released over a longer period of time. Episodic 'is big on 343i's agenda too as they have been seen to hire for exactly that purpose. It will happen in some manner.
343i has probably been working with the XB1 coding longer than most developers. Whatever we get will be beautiful and story driven. No sense speculating on anything else for now.
Halo 5 is a broken piece of crap and 343 is destroying the franchise. WHO'S WITH ME!
That also goes for Halo Reach & Halo 4 ..but I did like the campaigns for both
Just saw a Forbes article about Halo 5 is coming this fall instead of next year.
Thoughts?
It was never coming out in 2015. It was always 2014. There was some confusion because it wasn't listed in the upcoming 2014 games. It wasn't being listed because it still doesn't have an official name. MS had to clarify again because of rampant meltdowns.
There is a cadre of gamers 'out there' who think the next Halo title should be cooked a little longer to avoid their perception of Halo 4. That may or may not be a good idea. We have no certainty of everything 343i has cooking, except it's Halo. Doesn't matter what they think anyway, since the original release year has never changed.
Perhaps the next Halo title will be strong on the episodic content side. Properly planned such a release could give us higher quality, lower content products released over a longer period of time. Episodic 'is big on 343i's agenda too as they have been seen to hire for exactly that purpose. It will happen in some manner.
343i has probably been working with the XB1 coding longer than most developers. Whatever we get will be beautiful and story driven. No sense speculating on anything else for now.
Thanks but please explain what do you mean by that in bold?
Isn't 343i rushing this development because of Xbox One or they have been doing the XB1 codes for the sequel while they were working on and finishing up H4 before it gone gold?
Just saw a Forbes article about Halo 5 is coming this fall instead of next year.
Thoughts?
It was never coming out in 2015. It was always 2014. There was some confusion because it wasn't listed in the upcoming 2014 games. It wasn't being listed because it still doesn't have an official name. MS had to clarify again because of rampant meltdowns.
There is a cadre of gamers 'out there' who think the next Halo title should be cooked a little longer to avoid their perception of Halo 4. That may or may not be a good idea. We have no certainty of everything 343i has cooking, except it's Halo. Doesn't matter what they think anyway, since the original release year has never changed.
Perhaps the next Halo title will be strong on the episodic content side. Properly planned such a release could give us higher quality, lower content products released over a longer period of time. Episodic 'is big on 343i's agenda too as they have been seen to hire for exactly that purpose. It will happen in some manner.
343i has probably been working with the XB1 coding longer than most developers. Whatever we get will be beautiful and story driven. No sense speculating on anything else for now.
Thanks but please explain what do you mean by that in bold?
Isn't 343i rushing this development because of Xbox One or they have been doing the XB1 codes for the sequel while they were working on and finishing up H4 before it gone gold?
I've read many posts on several sites, mostly Halo 4 haters, who think the next Halo IP is being rushed for 2014. They say it with absolutely no evidence in hand. Many of them have forgotten or choose to ignore Halo XB1 was announced for 2014 at E3. Everytime they get reminded it is coming out in 2014, they line up to say it's too soon.
I can only guess 343i was coding Halo XB1 before Halo 4 was finished. To me, it makes sense they were laying the backbone. They've got a much better handle on the future storyline than Bungie ever did and they know the Saga is destined to carry on. That's something Bungie did not have the luxury of knowing.
Just saw a Forbes article about Halo 5 is coming this fall instead of next year.
Thoughts?
It was never coming out in 2015. It was always 2014. There was some confusion because it wasn't listed in the upcoming 2014 games. It wasn't being listed because it still doesn't have an official name. MS had to clarify again because of rampant meltdowns.
There is a cadre of gamers 'out there' who think the next Halo title should be cooked a little longer to avoid their perception of Halo 4. That may or may not be a good idea. We have no certainty of everything 343i has cooking, except it's Halo. Doesn't matter what they think anyway, since the original release year has never changed.
Perhaps the next Halo title will be strong on the episodic content side. Properly planned such a release could give us higher quality, lower content products released over a longer period of time. Episodic 'is big on 343i's agenda too as they have been seen to hire for exactly that purpose. It will happen in some manner.
343i has probably been working with the XB1 coding longer than most developers. Whatever we get will be beautiful and story driven. No sense speculating on anything else for now.
Thanks but please explain what do you mean by that in bold?
Isn't 343i rushing this development because of Xbox One or they have been doing the XB1 codes for the sequel while they were working on and finishing up H4 before it gone gold?
it's Deep's way of subtley bashing people who don't like the last couple Halos :P
I'm kind of wondering if it will be a FPS game or something like a new Halo Wars. The fact that even the name hasn't been announced makes me wonder if it will be a follow-up to Halo 4 or something different.
Yes, we got that small clip at E3 of the Chief, but that doesn't mean much at all.
I really have very little interest in episodic content. If fact, in all honesty I don't really get into the story canon. I just want a good multiplayer game. If 343 announced the new Halo will be more like Titanfall in which there is no single player campaign, but campaign elements mixed into the multiplayer - this would be fine with me. However, this would certainly cause many fanboys to lose their minds.
Plus, Halo is going to have some serious competition later in the year with all the attention that will be generated around Destiny. A non-FPS Halo might do better against Destiny and the next COD.
I really have very little interest in episodic content. If fact, in all honesty I don't really get into the story canon. I just want a good multiplayer game. If 343 announced the new Halo will be more like Titanfall in which there is no single player campaign, but campaign elements mixed into the multiplayer - this would be fine with me. However, this would certainly cause many fanboys to lose their minds.
My opinion about the Halo 4 story canon is that it is all about reclaiming John's humanity, hence the Reclaimer Saga. John has been a fighting war machine, so to speak, for nearly 30 years (since he was kidnapped from his parents at the age of 6 and trained to become a Spartan for years before the Covenant War period). While watching the episodic transitions between campaigns in H4 for John-117, I can't shake off the sense that he was getting worn out from years of fighting and pushing back against the demands of superior officers of UNSC, but he had to protect UNSC from the Forerunners and the rogue Covies and rescue Cortana in the process. It seems in one of the transitional episodes, John came close to insubordination against Capt. Del Rio if not for the intervention of Executive Officer Thomas Lasky.
In that special end-of-the credits episode (on Legendary mode), we saw John-117 returns to this place where the UNSC Spartan crew removed all of his battle-worn armor and his helmet, we saw John's human face partially for the first time.
That E3 trailer for the H5 confirmed my hunch that John-117 might have gone rogue and still wearing his old armor, despite that he would have been given the opportunity for a major upgrade to new Mjolnir armors by UNSC after the end of H4. Maybe John didn't like the new ones and opt for his tried and true armor, who knows?
John's reclaiming his humanity after being a fighting machine for nearly 30 years? Just my take on this. I welcome your different insights.
John's reclaiming his humanity after being a fighting machine for nearly 30 years? Just my take on this. I welcome your different insights.
I agree, he is in the process of reclaiming his humanity. Do you think that was part of the original Bungie vision? I am not sure it was. Certainly, it's good parallel story.
I wonder if we'll find out what John was doing between Halo 4 and the next game he is in? Did he mix with regular people, including children? Did he have female companionship? Did he go surfing or fishing? IMO, to properly reclaim his humanity, it should take decades.
John's reclaiming his humanity after being a fighting machine for nearly 30 years? Just my take on this. I welcome your different insights.
I agree, he is in the process of reclaiming his humanity. Do you think that was part of the original Bungie vision? I am not sure it was. Certainly, it's good parallel story.
I wonder if we'll find out what John was doing between Halo 4 and the next game he is in? Did he mix with regular people, including children? Did he have female companionship? Did he go surfing or fishing? IMO, to properly reclaim his humanity, it should take decades.
Do you recall that at the very beginning of the campaign in H4, we saw bits of John's memory before he woke up from the deep sleep chamber? The very last part showing what he's remembering his mother at a beach for the last time before he was kidnapped?
Heh on your last comment. :) I think we might find him in a UNSC holding cell, without his armor, partially naked and working out his body, battle scarred and all, at the beginning of the H5 campaign, pining for Cortana. Who knows?
The main Halo IP will always be FPS. I'll stake my reputation on it. Okay that doesn't say much but you know that I mean it.
I expect new multi-player content with the next Halo. I expect the campaign to be handled differently. I expect episodic content for sure but I am unsure whether it will be the main campaign or something like Spartan Ops. Releasing the main campaign in episodes would allow 343i to release a next-gen game sooner. Keeping Halo story fans busy with DLC episodes should work. At the same time, multiplayer maps as DLC should keep the matchmaking and customs fans busy. Fans of both modes will be in heaven.
How this all will work out for fans who are disk only and off-line, I don't know.
343 said recently the game will focus on humanity's desperate fight against an "ancient enemy threatening all sentient life in the galaxy." That can obviously mean the Flood, but what if its something else? What if a fragment of Mendicant Bias, one that didn't help the Chief on Installation 04b, still has the Halo he stole in the Forerunner books and is systematically attacking human and Covenant star systems?
343 said recently the game will focus on humanity's desperate fight against an "ancient enemy threatening all sentient life in the galaxy." That can obviously mean the Flood, but what if its something else? What if a fragment of Mendicant Bias, one that didn't help the Chief on Installation 04b, still has the Halo he stole in the Forerunner books and is systematically attacking human and Covenant star systems?
Strong possibility but I'm not strong on canon. Certainly, it is evil. I can't remember enough of the loose ends to make a serious call on it.
The next Halo book is due out this month. It'll probably get us closer to an answer but leave us hanging until Halo XB1.
343 said recently the game will focus on humanity's desperate fight against an "ancient enemy threatening all sentient life in the galaxy." That can obviously mean the Flood, but what if its something else? What if a fragment of Mendicant Bias, one that didn't help the Chief on Installation 04b, still has the Halo he stole in the Forerunner books and is systematically attacking human and Covenant star systems?
Strong possibility but I'm not strong on canon. Certainly, it is evil. I can't remember enough of the loose ends to make a serious call on it.
The next Halo book is due out this month. It'll probably get us closer to an answer but leave us hanging until Halo XB1.
It's best to stay weak on canon, believe me. 343 has irked a lot of fans the worst by not having smooth continuity.
Same goes for the story line: we can't bet on ANYTHING, because nothing is sacred. Threads like this can be so frustrating, because (stay with me... lol) people are so creative, and they come up with the most badass ideas that would be fantastic in the storyline, that when the actual campaigns come out they're mediocre at best in comparison. I immersed myself in Halo 4 news and supposition and was utterly disgusted with the campaign. I will never do that again. Nor will I trust anything that game developers say, because they are not my friend, it's their job to make me want to buy their game.
That being said, I have read quite a bit of stuff about the next Halo game, and there are two rumors of interest that I haven't ruled out. One, is that the next Halo will not be part of the series, which is why it's not "Halo 5", but will actually be some sort of side-story. So as people said above, it could be a flash-back in the story. Another rumor had a leak that described the next Halo as an RPG adventure where you visited various planets and achieved goals. Frank O'Connor responded to this one with "Seems legit", which could be sarcasm or it could be pretend sarcasm meant to dissuade people from taking it seriously. Then there are other juicy details that could be rumor or could be spoilers.
See what I mean? It's impossible to tell what's going to happen. I don't trust 343, yet I have absolutely no idea if the next game will be good or not. It could be fantastic, it could be broke-ass worse than H4 (MY LOADOUTS ARE STILL RESETTING!!) and BF4, or it could be anything in between.
I'm definitely interested, but will I pre-order it? At this time I'm not sure. I'm going to wait and see about more information. I mean, I play a shit-ton of Halo 4, but when it first came out I considered stopping gaming. I hated it. I hated everything about it. The main reason I play it is because it's what my best online friends are playing. Well, that and a bunch of it got leveled out (which is why I'm thrilled they've hired Ghostayame!!).
343 said recently the game will focus on humanity's desperate fight against an "ancient enemy threatening all sentient life in the galaxy." That can obviously mean the Flood, but what if its something else? What if a fragment of Mendicant Bias, one that didn't help the Chief on Installation 04b, still has the Halo he stole in the Forerunner books and is systematically attacking human and Covenant star systems?
Strong possibility but I'm not strong on canon. Certainly, it is evil. I can't remember enough of the loose ends to make a serious call on it.
The next Halo book is due out this month. It'll probably get us closer to an answer but leave us hanging until Halo XB1.
It's best to stay weak on canon, believe me. 343 has irked a lot of fans the worst by not having smooth continuity.
Same goes for the story line: we can't bet on ANYTHING, because nothing is sacred. Threads like this can be so frustrating, because (stay with me... lol) people are so creative, and they come up with the most badass ideas that would be fantastic in the storyline, that when the actual campaigns come out they're mediocre at best in comparison. I immersed myself in Halo 4 news and supposition and was utterly disgusted with the campaign. I will never do that again. Nor will I trust anything that game developers say, because they are not my friend, it's their job to make me want to buy their game.
That being said, I have read quite a bit of stuff about the next Halo game, and there are two rumors of interest that I haven't ruled out. One, is that the next Halo will not be part of the series, which is why it's not "Halo 5", but will actually be some sort of side-story. So as people said above, it could be a flash-back in the story. Another rumor had a leak that described the next Halo as an RPG adventure where you visited various planets and achieved goals. Frank O'Connor responded to this one with "Seems legit", which could be sarcasm or it could be pretend sarcasm meant to dissuade people from taking it seriously. Then there are other juicy details that could be rumor or could be spoilers.
See what I mean? It's impossible to tell what's going to happen. I don't trust 343, yet I have absolutely no idea if the next game will be good or not. It could be fantastic, it could be broke-ass worse than H4 (MY LOADOUTS ARE STILL RESETTING!!) and BF4, or it could be anything in between.
I'm definitely interested, but will I pre-order it? At this time I'm not sure. I'm going to wait and see about more information. I mean, I play a shit-ton of Halo 4, but when it first came out I considered stopping gaming. I hated it. I hated everything about it. The main reason I play it is because it's what my best online friends are playing. Well, that and a bunch of it got leveled out (which is why I'm thrilled they've hired Ghostayame!!).
Bla bla blah, I could go on, but I won't ;)
Clearly, you aren't a True Believer. Deep's litmus test has you sitting somewhere between me and Cursed Lemon for your blasphemy.
Clearly, you aren't a True Believer. Deep's litmus test has you sitting somewhere between me and Cursed Lemon for your blasphemy.
Heh heh, what's a True Believer?
Clearly, you are into the Halo story heavy and your interest in the next Halo is at the same level or exceeds my own.
I did have one small Halo 4 story coup. Somewhere on some site I can no longer find, I predicted Halo 4 was going to be a love story about MC and Cortana. I think it was Frankie (maybe someone else of note) dropped a dismissive comment. Everyone laughed at me. Really? If Halo 4's ending wasn't something along the lines of a love story, I'll be a monkey's uncle.
Dixon, in my litmus test, you sometimes fall to the bad side of Cursed Lemon. I guess that's because I sort of have to put up with you. You are more agreeable and don't make mind numbingly stupid video and text diatribes about the Holy CE or Halo 2 and fuck everything since then. You try to be as acerbic as a Lemon but you fail a little bit.
Dixon, in my litmus test, you sometimes fall to the bad side of Cursed Lemon. I guess that's because I sort of have to put up with you. You are more agreeable and don't make mind numbingly stupid video and text diatribes about the Holy CE or Halo 2 and fuck everything since then. You try to be as acerbic as a Lemon but you fail a little bit.
Yow. Sounds like you need to rework that litmus test.
Dixon, in my litmus test, you sometimes fall to the bad side of Cursed Lemon. I guess that's because I sort of have to put up with you. You are more agreeable and don't make mind numbingly stupid video and text diatribes about the Holy CE or Halo 2 and fuck everything since then. You try to be as acerbic as a Lemon but you fail a little bit.
Wait, and Dixon is saying I'm somewhere in between them? I'm not acerbic!! lol
Dixon, in my litmus test, you sometimes fall to the bad side of Cursed Lemon. I guess that's because I sort of have to put up with you. You are more agreeable and don't make mind numbingly stupid video and text diatribes about the Holy CE or Halo 2 and fuck everything since then. You try to be as acerbic as a Lemon but you fail a little bit.
Wait, and Dixon is saying I'm somewhere in between them? I'm not acerbic!! lol
Dixon, in my litmus test, you sometimes fall to the bad side of Cursed Lemon. I guess that's because I sort of have to put up with you. You are more agreeable and don't make mind numbingly stupid video and text diatribes about the Holy CE or Halo 2 and fuck everything since then. You try to be as acerbic as a Lemon but you fail a little bit.
Wait, and Dixon is saying I'm somewhere in between them? I'm not acerbic!! lol
Dixon, in my litmus test, you sometimes fall to the bad side of Cursed Lemon. I guess that's because I sort of have to put up with you. You are more agreeable and don't make mind numbingly stupid video and text diatribes about the Holy CE or Halo 2 and fuck everything since then. You try to be as acerbic as a Lemon but you fail a little bit.
Wait, and Dixon is saying I'm somewhere in between them? I'm not acerbic!! lol
Dixon, in my litmus test, you sometimes fall to the bad side of Cursed Lemon. I guess that's because I sort of have to put up with you. You are more agreeable and don't make mind numbingly stupid video and text diatribes about the Holy CE or Halo 2 and fuck everything since then. You try to be as acerbic as a Lemon but you fail a little bit.
Wait, and Dixon is saying I'm somewhere in between them? I'm not acerbic!! lol
There is a cadre of gamers 'out there' who think the next Halo title should be cooked a little longer to avoid their perception of Halo 4. That may or may not be a good idea. We have no certainty of everything 343i has cooking, except it's Halo. Doesn't matter what they think anyway, since the original release year has never changed.
Perhaps the next Halo title will be strong on the episodic content side. Properly planned such a release could give us higher quality, lower content products released over a longer period of time. Episodic 'is big on 343i's agenda too as they have been seen to hire for exactly that purpose. It will happen in some manner.
343i has probably been working with the XB1 coding longer than most developers. Whatever we get will be beautiful and story driven. No sense speculating on anything else for now.
Halo 5 is a broken piece of crap and 343 is destroying the franchise. WHO'S WITH ME!
That also goes for Halo Reach & Halo 4 ..but I did like the campaigns for both
Thanks but please explain what do you mean by that in bold?
Isn't 343i rushing this development because of Xbox One or they have been doing the XB1 codes for the sequel while they were working on and finishing up H4 before it gone gold?
I can only guess 343i was coding Halo XB1 before Halo 4 was finished. To me, it makes sense they were laying the backbone. They've got a much better handle on the future storyline than Bungie ever did and they know the Saga is destined to carry on. That's something Bungie did not have the luxury of knowing.
it's Deep's way of subtley bashing people who don't like the last couple Halos :P
I get tired of all the Halo bashing when it's clear, I'm still having a lot of fun with it. I read too much Internet.
Or not enough.
I'm kind of wondering if it will be a FPS game or something like a new Halo Wars. The fact that even the name hasn't been announced makes me wonder if it will be a follow-up to Halo 4 or something different.
Yes, we got that small clip at E3 of the Chief, but that doesn't mean much at all.
I really have very little interest in episodic content. If fact, in all honesty I don't really get into the story canon. I just want a good multiplayer game. If 343 announced the new Halo will be more like Titanfall in which there is no single player campaign, but campaign elements mixed into the multiplayer - this would be fine with me. However, this would certainly cause many fanboys to lose their minds.
Plus, Halo is going to have some serious competition later in the year with all the attention that will be generated around Destiny. A non-FPS Halo might do better against Destiny and the next COD.
My opinion about the Halo 4 story canon is that it is all about reclaiming John's humanity, hence the Reclaimer Saga. John has been a fighting war machine, so to speak, for nearly 30 years (since he was kidnapped from his parents at the age of 6 and trained to become a Spartan for years before the Covenant War period). While watching the episodic transitions between campaigns in H4 for John-117, I can't shake off the sense that he was getting worn out from years of fighting and pushing back against the demands of superior officers of UNSC, but he had to protect UNSC from the Forerunners and the rogue Covies and rescue Cortana in the process. It seems in one of the transitional episodes, John came close to insubordination against Capt. Del Rio if not for the intervention of Executive Officer Thomas Lasky.
In that special end-of-the credits episode (on Legendary mode), we saw John-117 returns to this place where the UNSC Spartan crew removed all of his battle-worn armor and his helmet, we saw John's human face partially for the first time.
That E3 trailer for the H5 confirmed my hunch that John-117 might have gone rogue and still wearing his old armor, despite that he would have been given the opportunity for a major upgrade to new Mjolnir armors by UNSC after the end of H4. Maybe John didn't like the new ones and opt for his tried and true armor, who knows?
John's reclaiming his humanity after being a fighting machine for nearly 30 years? Just my take on this. I welcome your different insights.
I wonder if we'll find out what John was doing between Halo 4 and the next game he is in? Did he mix with regular people, including children? Did he have female companionship? Did he go surfing or fishing? IMO, to properly reclaim his humanity, it should take decades.
Do you recall that at the very beginning of the campaign in H4, we saw bits of John's memory before he woke up from the deep sleep chamber? The very last part showing what he's remembering his mother at a beach for the last time before he was kidnapped?
Heh on your last comment. :) I think we might find him in a UNSC holding cell, without his armor, partially naked and working out his body, battle scarred and all, at the beginning of the H5 campaign, pining for Cortana. Who knows?
The main Halo IP will always be FPS. I'll stake my reputation on it. Okay that doesn't say much but you know that I mean it.
I expect new multi-player content with the next Halo. I expect the campaign to be handled differently. I expect episodic content for sure but I am unsure whether it will be the main campaign or something like Spartan Ops. Releasing the main campaign in episodes would allow 343i to release a next-gen game sooner. Keeping Halo story fans busy with DLC episodes should work. At the same time, multiplayer maps as DLC should keep the matchmaking and customs fans busy. Fans of both modes will be in heaven.
How this all will work out for fans who are disk only and off-line, I don't know.
the trailer from June said 2014... so....
343 said recently the game will focus on humanity's desperate fight against an "ancient enemy threatening all sentient life in the galaxy." That can obviously mean the Flood, but what if its something else? What if a fragment of Mendicant Bias, one that didn't help the Chief on Installation 04b, still has the Halo he stole in the Forerunner books and is systematically attacking human and Covenant star systems?
The next Halo book is due out this month. It'll probably get us closer to an answer but leave us hanging until Halo XB1.
It's best to stay weak on canon, believe me. 343 has irked a lot of fans the worst by not having smooth continuity.
Same goes for the story line: we can't bet on ANYTHING, because nothing is sacred. Threads like this can be so frustrating, because (stay with me... lol) people are so creative, and they come up with the most badass ideas that would be fantastic in the storyline, that when the actual campaigns come out they're mediocre at best in comparison. I immersed myself in Halo 4 news and supposition and was utterly disgusted with the campaign. I will never do that again. Nor will I trust anything that game developers say, because they are not my friend, it's their job to make me want to buy their game.
That being said, I have read quite a bit of stuff about the next Halo game, and there are two rumors of interest that I haven't ruled out. One, is that the next Halo will not be part of the series, which is why it's not "Halo 5", but will actually be some sort of side-story. So as people said above, it could be a flash-back in the story. Another rumor had a leak that described the next Halo as an RPG adventure where you visited various planets and achieved goals. Frank O'Connor responded to this one with "Seems legit", which could be sarcasm or it could be pretend sarcasm meant to dissuade people from taking it seriously. Then there are other juicy details that could be rumor or could be spoilers.
See what I mean? It's impossible to tell what's going to happen. I don't trust 343, yet I have absolutely no idea if the next game will be good or not. It could be fantastic, it could be broke-ass worse than H4 (MY LOADOUTS ARE STILL RESETTING!!) and BF4, or it could be anything in between.
I'm definitely interested, but will I pre-order it? At this time I'm not sure. I'm going to wait and see about more information. I mean, I play a shit-ton of Halo 4, but when it first came out I considered stopping gaming. I hated it. I hated everything about it. The main reason I play it is because it's what my best online friends are playing. Well, that and a bunch of it got leveled out (which is why I'm thrilled they've hired Ghostayame!!).
Bla bla blah, I could go on, but I won't ;)
Clearly, you aren't a True Believer. Deep's litmus test has you sitting somewhere between me and Cursed Lemon for your blasphemy.
Heh heh, what's a True Believer?
I did have one small Halo 4 story coup. Somewhere on some site I can no longer find, I predicted Halo 4 was going to be a love story about MC and Cortana. I think it was Frankie (maybe someone else of note) dropped a dismissive comment. Everyone laughed at me. Really? If Halo 4's ending wasn't something along the lines of a love story, I'll be a monkey's uncle.
Dixon, in my litmus test, you sometimes fall to the bad side of Cursed Lemon. I guess that's because I sort of have to put up with you. You are more agreeable and don't make mind numbingly stupid video and text diatribes about the Holy CE or Halo 2 and fuck everything since then. You try to be as acerbic as a Lemon but you fail a little bit.
Wait, and Dixon is saying I'm somewhere in between them? I'm not acerbic!! lol
BK?
Picked it up from reading too much NeoGaf.