Seen alot of debate over this on social media these last couple of days due to leaks saying Activision might reboot the whole Halo series, which do you think Activision should do:
- Reboot the whole series starting with an eponymous game simply called Halo
- Keep Bungie games canon (1,2, 3, ODST, Reach) and decanonize 4, 5, and Infinite, starting fresh from Halo 3's Legendary Difficulty ending of Chief and Cortana drifting towards an unknown planet (Requiem in Halo 4)
- A follow-up to Halo Infinite that continues where 343i left off, with the awakened Xalanyn (The Endless) as the enemies
Personally I'm team 2, decanonize Halo 4,5, and Infinite and start fresh from Halo 3's Legendary Ending teaser of Chief and Cortana drifting towards a planet. It would be disrespectful to Bungie to reboot the series entirely, and pointless too because they would never beat the storyline of the Bungie trilogy, those game were all mid-90's meta games lauded for their story, kind of pointless to reboot the original trilogy only to do a worse job on the story.
While some would say it's also disrespectful to 343 to decanonize their story, there is just no way that Activision can leave Halo 5's story, and by extension Halo Infinite's story, canon, because Halo 5 just had too controversial a story, many fans felt betrayed by being unable to save Cortana after the teaser trailer for Halo 5 seemingly hinted at Chief trying to do exactly that (him crossing the desert and then with her AI chip in hand facing down a Guardian), others felt betrayed by all the setup in the Hunt the Truth marketing campaign having no payoff in the game.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 27 September 2026
