Halo 4 begins The Reclaimer Trilogy

@Hayatoblaze91x I always knew Master Chief was a transformer...

They shouldnt of said it would be a trilogy, just go game by game. Like the original trilogy !

@SPARTAN117inSKYRIM - The ending on Halo 2 kind of prevented it from just stopping there.

@Hayatoblaze91x
I hope the Spartans unite like Voltron! Now that would make for interesting multiplayer...

@copa Halo will start to be milked when they have made Halo games for 25 years like Mario

@copa Jesus, why is anything beyond 3 releases considered milking? A (real) Halo game comes out once every 2-3 years, not every year or 6 months like you people make it sound. Give it a rest.

@copa

Can we all agree to stop screaming that a franchise is being milked because they're working on the next major installment in it?

This goes for CoD, Battlefield, Final Fantasy, etc... Seriously, you're going to jump on a company for releasing new games in their most successful IPs?

@Ainwaith

Halo will start to be milked when they have made 200+ Halo games for 25 years like Mario

*fixed

@Xcrucio

No one's saying it's being milked because a new game is coming out...

We're saying it's milked because this is the 4th Halo game to come out since Halo 3 allegedly finished the fight...

@Gibbeynator

it finished the fight against the Covenant. these games will be about something entirely different.

@Gibbeynator

You really should familiarize yourself with the Halo universe before making these types of comments.

@Gibbeynator

And all 3 that have come out since then all took place before the events of Halo 3 and this will be the first to take place after Halo 3. Not to mention even Bungie admitted during the development of Halo 3 that it was simply the end of the trilogy, not the franchise itself.

I mean seriously, this is like saying nothing related to Star Wars should have ever came out after Return of the Jedi cause that was the end of the story and they beat the Empire.

@maveric101
"it finished the fight against the Covenant. these games will be about something entirely different. "
Yes, a new unrecognized alien threat somewhere in the galaxy, most likely involving some sort of ancient pre-curser technology that may or may not be ring shaped. Military deployment of earth defense force ensues. Entirely different, indeed.

@Gibbeynator
That you can partly blame Microsoft and Bungie for. Bungie had another contract for 2 more games which they just pushed out the window to get it done with, Halo Wars was in Development for a long time before ODST was announced

@Gibbeynator There's 100,000 years to the history/timeline of Halo. Master Chief finished the fight against the Covenant, that's only 27 years of that massive history/timeline. I'm excited to see where this new trilogy goes.

@copa
I'll keep simpler than everyone else: you're an idiot.

That does it.

@copa

Troll if you must. Hate if it serves your fragile ego.

People want it. People will buy it. People will love it.

It is, what it is.

@Captain Planet Planeteer Power
I think he's one of those " I played all the halo games so I know everything about halo" type of people.

@FunkMasterRitter
I even own the "Halo Encyclopedia" and I don't go about acting like an ass...

@Xcrucio

"I mean seriously, this is like saying nothing related to Star Wars should have ever came out after Return of the Jedi cause that was the end of the story and they beat the Empire."

This hurts your case BTW. I really do wish that star wars ended with Return of the Jedi, then we'd all be safe from Hayden Christensen or even that ridiculous little kid Anakin accidentally piloting a fighter jet into the Trade Federation mothership and destroying it. "Woooaaaahhhh!". *vomits*

@copa

Haha, so true.

What a boring series.

@copa they've only made like 4 games in 10 years wile other francises like call of duty made 7 games in 7 years

@Xcrucio

Exception Final Fantasy has made 13 iterations of the same game and Activision throws out a CoD game every year.

@Ainwaith
The difference between Mario and Halo is that Mario changes and improve every releases (except for Galaxy). 2D mario jumps to 3d mario and Sunshine took a huge leap into Galaxy. Halo on the other is very or sometimes completely the same across multiple sequels and prequels. Halo 1 - 3 is very similar with very little changes and Reach actually tried something new. IMO Halo is kind of being milk.

@copa
lol. Nintendo, Square Enix, and Sony likes to have a word with you. I suppose following titles are not considered milking of an established franchise: Mario, FF, Uncharted, Resistance, Killzone, and God of War.

@Castiel
Super Mario Brothers 1-3 were pretty similar. Mario has evolved over its LONG history because the technology underpinning games has evolved greatly too. Mario wouldn't even still be up for discussion if it hadn't kept up with game technology. We are now at the point where major transitions are no longer taking place, until we get true VR or holograms or something. Mario is still, at its heart, the same game it was 25 years ago: jump from platforms to bad guys to platforms, repeat. That isn't to say it isn't fun, but acting like it's changed markedly is overdoing it. If you plunked some from 1990 in front of Mario Galaxy (and somehow got them really used to 3D game instantly), it's not like they wouldn't recognize Mario for what it is.

@A Burger you are a disgrace to all the burgers in the world

@TheBurbin

Except that by the end of this year, there will have been 7 Halo games in 10 years, with 4 of those coming in the last 3 years.

Not arguing either case, just correcting the statistics.

@blackangel209

The fact you have to distinguish real from non-real halo games means it's being milked. Mario is not even being milked by the way. It's way beyond that.

@Punkrawk Bbob

"This hurts your case BTW."

Well, what about KOTOR, then?

@Xcrucio CoD IS being milked though. New game every year? Check. Slowly deteriorating quality? Check. Precedent of the publisher milking a series to its death? Check (I'm looking at you Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk).

@Castiel

If you can play Halo: CE and Halo 3 and instantly realize the differences you're an idiot. Yes, they're both FPS. Yes they both have recharging shields. But Mario also will always be a platformer where you jump on bad guys to kill them and collect power ups that you lose when you touch an enemy. It will be broken up into levels, you will try and rescue the princess, you will collect coins for free lives, etc. This is what makes Mario, Mario. Master Chief will always be a space soldier killing aliens and talking to Cortana inside his head. This is what makes Halo. This is why they brand the game with the same name, because it is a similar experience. Mario in the first ten years of existence went from Mario Bros, to Lost Levels (SMB 2 in Japan, the actual non-Doki Doki Panic sequel), to SMB3, to Super Mario World. Not a lot of change. You get an overworld map, Yoshi, and different power ups. Still a boss at the end of a set of stages, still move from the left side of screen to right, still collecting 100 coins for a 1-up, still jumping on koopas and goombas for enemies.

The only difference is Mario was your childhood hero, Chief is not.

@iceytoa1 Since they gave him a jetpack.

@iceytoa1

I think the "part jet" is perhaps them saying they want to emphasize the sleekness and agility of the Spartans that is in the backstory, but never really brought out in the games themselves up to this point. It's been more walking tank so far.

@darkinchworm
I'm a very lazy person, so I never really bothered checking out what the deal with 343 was. Now that I see Frank O'Connor is on board I assume other former Bungie members must be. Thus, not so worried and quite hopeful as well :)

@Dividing Zero I was just thinking the same thing. They're saying all the right buzzwords but it comes across like there's no joy or passion for the series. I know that probably isn't true (especially in the case of Frank O'Connor) but that's how it seems to me.

@Dividing Zero

Well at least they didn't say the Reclaimer trilogy is going to be a lot like the original trilogy, except it's the original trilogy on fire going 120 miles per hour through a hospital zone chased by helicopters and ninjas. And the ninjas are all on fire too.

;)

@(Unverified)

Because the only previous company, Bungie didn't care about the Halo series at all right.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is

If you look real close at his post, you can see it says "Finally a company that cares about the Halo Franchise again". See that word again? it implies that this isnt the first time it happened. Like the fact that Ive went super saiyan numerous times, so i can say, I went Super Saiyan again.

@This Little Man Says His Name Is Read my comment again. AGAIN! I never said Bungie didn't. But you cannot deny that with ODST & Reach, they were in it for themselves and just wanted to finish out the 5 game contract. This falls in especially with Reach, with their "We did it for the fans" BS. Yet almost anything the fans wanted they didn't get, and they just messed up the universe by adding a whole section of crap that didn't exist.

If you remember Bungie & Microsoft have previously licensed "Halo" out for books this brought us "The Official Prequel - The Fall of Reach" see that word "Official"? They can't just throw it on anything it has to be approved by them, yet in the end they didn't care they just threw that out the window and ignored all the fans by giving the statement "We don't use the books in our universe" or something along those lines.

Bungie DID care about Halo, when it first started. Watching that Vidoc for the franchise you can tell. Halo 1, 2 & 3 were and are some of my favorite games ever. But we know and Bungie knows that they screwed up when they made Reach.

Thus why I think 343, once again cares about the Halo Franchise & its fans. They are listening to us, this is why there is a new patch with original CE gameplay, they are removing bloom on weapons, bringing back old maps for the people who want them. But at the same time they are applying to the new audience that loves all of that, new playlists and additions to the maps, all while making sure they listen to what we say.

They are doing a lot more with the Halo franchise, that actually helps the universe. I can't wait.

@lawsmar

I think the Chief will die in the end. Cortana is already showing signs of rampancy and I think she's going to go crazy. She'll turn on the Chief and he's going to have to destroy her while possibly sacrificing himself.

@Captain Planet Planeteer Power

Alas you are probably right, just wish the people on earth find out that master chief survived lol. Perhaps Cortana goes crazy but as her final act of humanity that you think she lost she saves master chief from a brutal and untimely death to return to earth.:D