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enrageorange on 02 January 2012
sales2099 said:
enrageorange said:

There is no doubt that halo lost some of its massive prestiege it held prior to the countless of spinoffs that came out after halo 3. This year master chief is finally getting an official sequel, and I believe it's make it or break it time. If halo 4 fails to live up to expectations, it might spell the end of halo as a megafranchise above everything but CoD, Mario, Wii, and GTA. 

So what do you believe halo 4 needs to deliver to gain back some of its luster and not feel like just another sequel or do you think halo games have been going the right direction already?


......excuse me

Lost its prestige?  End of being a megafranchise? Gain back luster?

Since Halo 3, Halo Wars is the best selling console RTS of all time. ODST......an expansion, outsold Uncharted 2 the same year. Halo Reach improved upon Halo 3 in almost every way (and has the sales to back it up). Halo Anniversary is the fastest selling remake of all time. 

The only thing that suffered since Halo 3 was a lack of Master Chief. This will be remedied in Halo 4. 

Okay lets see with halo 1, halo 2, and halo 3. Nearly every single critic unanioumously gave the game near perfect scores. Over 30% of the console's install base would buy the game DAY 1. It was the biggest game in America as long as a GTA didn't come out in the same year. 

Halo Reach while obviously still one of the best selling games ever, had a pathetic attach ratio compared to halo, halo 2, halo 3. It didn't even manage to have a bigger opening week than halo 3 with a userbase 4 times as big. Yes it was adjusted down to below halo 3 week 1 if you check the charts. According to npd, halo 3 is tracking way ahead of halo reach, so it is only keeping up due to heavier bundling than halo 3. Yearly CoD sequels have started outselling halo games on both platforms consistantly. Many franchises are growing but halo has remained stagnated. 

Halo sales are obviously very impressive but compared to what it once was, they are dissappointing. Xbox has grown as a brand massively after halo 3, but halo hasn't. Yes even with the loss of prestige it is still bigger than nearly everything else, but its undeniable that it could have been a lot bigger.



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Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 02 January 2012

I didnt enjoy halo reach because it was improved in a different way. It was too complicated. Too much power ups.. Lower health=Lower fun for beginners. Sophisticated weapons. Recoil.. RECOIL!!!

What made halo 3 so fun was that noobs and pros didnt have advantages. Halo3 has a very simple gameplay. No recoil, consistent gameplay. None of those shield thing that you cant move but you cant be damaged. no recoil..

What made halo 3 a bench mark is because of its simplicity. People loved it because of that.

Halo 3 was video game's proof that being simple is better.



Yay!!!

Lostplanet22 on 02 January 2012
sales2099 said:
enrageorange said:

There is no doubt that halo lost some of its massive prestiege it held prior to the countless of spinoffs that came out after halo 3. This year master chief is finally getting an official sequel, and I believe it's make it or break it time. If halo 4 fails to live up to expectations, it might spell the end of halo as a megafranchise above everything but CoD, Mario, Wii, and GTA. 

So what do you believe halo 4 needs to deliver to gain back some of its luster and not feel like just another sequel or do you think halo games have been going the right direction already?


......excuse me

Lost its prestige?  End of being a megafranchise? Gain back luster?

Since Halo 3, Halo Wars is the best selling console RTS of all time. ODST......an expansion, outsold Uncharted 2 the same year. Halo Reach improved upon Halo 3 in almost every way (and has the sales to back it up). Halo Anniversary is the fastest selling remake of all time. 

The only thing that suffered since Halo 3 was a lack of Master Chief. This will be remedied in Halo 4. 

Well on xbox it was the best selling, best graphics and best quality FPS...    it certainly is not the best selling on X360, even Selnor would not call it having the best graphics and it took a hit in quality, it is not that far strechted that Halo 4 could be very important for the franchise future.



 

kain_kusanagi on 02 January 2012

I love Halo just the way it is. All they have to do to keep me happy is make more Halo games. I can't get enough. And I don't even care about multiplayer.



smroadkill15 on 02 January 2012

Reach is better than Halo 3 imo. More content, better campaign, improved forge, firefight, and multiplayer is just better and more well polished. The only reason Halo has gone slightly down in popularity is COD. It's not a horrible thing because now most the casual players horde COD, while true Halo fans will stick with Halo. Halo's just not the "it" multiplayer game like it use to be during Halo 2 and 3 days, but that doesn't make it a worse game.

Like most folks said, almost every Halo after Halo 3 has been a spinoff(to even some extent Reach), but everyone will see with Halo 4 that the franchise is still very much popular. It just needed a proper sequel.



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Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 on 03 January 2012

Im just praying to 434 industries to make the Halo 4 multiplayer much more simple like halo 3



Yay!!!

chocoloco on 03 January 2012

I want to see Master Chief finally marry his true love Cortana. With awkward sex moments.



PureDante on 03 January 2012

A battle rifle. It's really simple. It's all I ask for, really.



All of this, of course, is just my opinion.

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Killer_Ch33z on 03 January 2012

I think 343 will do a good job. I LOVE what theyre doing so far, and i think Halo 4 will be amazing.

I would love for it be more like Halo 2/3, i LOVED Reach, i have 6 days of gameplay in Reach, but Halo 2 and 3 were my favorites. And i hope it has a really mysterious, long, and exciting campaign like halo 2. And i hope for an epic ending too.



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yo_john117 on 03 January 2012
Killer_Ch33z said:
I think 343 will do a good job. I LOVE what theyre doing so far, and i think Halo 4 will be amazing.

I would love for it be more like Halo 2/3, i LOVED Reach, i have 6 days of gameplay in Reach, but Halo 2 and 3 were my favorites. And i hope it has a really mysterious, long, and exciting campaign like halo 2. And i hope for an epic ending too.

This. More like Halo 2 (especially in terms of the campaign) and Halo 3 (especially in terms of the multiplayer with the best bits of Halo Reach sprinkled in like credits and lots of different armors to choose from.

And they also need to have a bunch of new cool weapons, enemies, vehicles and maybe a few gadgets in Halo 4. Some very light RPG elements in the game would be great like being able to change your armor and some aspects of your weapons (silencer different scopes) during the campaign which would let you do different things much like Crysis or Mass Effect. And it looks like the setting of Halo 4 would make it very possible to do some awesome new things like that.

I especially hope they combine the best of Halo 3/Halo Reach multiplayer and add in some cool new things on top of that. Also I hope they really push on the graphics front and make the best looking 360 game.