no i dont mean the whole game ^^

i mean the "dramatic innovations" and "slight tweaks" ...its nothing bad about this...every franchise needs some fresh air...

I think with a Halo: CE remake this year and Halo 4 in 2012, it will allow them the time needed to make these necessary innovations, tweeks, changes, that they are hoping to do.

id have to disagree....there are so many possibilities for after halo 3

for example.......fast forward 100 years. the UNSC regained its power and have tech gained from forunner installations, namely the Ark. The UNSC has now started mass producing spartans in an aggressive measure to capture forunner shield worlds and installations and keep them away from the elites. The covenant is broken up but the elites are still the dominant force in the galaxy. 

you can easily make a halo game where u play as a squad of spartans taking one of the 6 remaining halo rings away from elite control and claiming its tech in the name of the unsc. gunfights, ship battles in orbit. throw in some flood. there ya go. 

Nah, it's entirely possible to continue directly after halo 3. As much as athat book could be good, it would be wrong to use it to continue the story, since although I don't have sales figures, I doubt they sell anywhere near the games, the other halo books.

I think it's rather simple: he lands on that planet, wakes up, and for some reason, someone or something released another bunch of aliens which the forerunner kept away ( or they're new aliens from a different galaxy/universe, whatever ), which happen to be even more scary/dangerous than the flood. You then proceed to find new forerunner weapons, vehicles, so forth, kill all those new aliens with great weapons in beautifull and interesting scenery, and GTFO.

quite frankly that story is nothing compared to Halo 1-3, MC was a specially trained super soldier that you were felt to be a suber soldier, if the whole army is the same kind of super soldiers its like COD all over again or you'll have an army of people in Crysis like suits (its been 1 hundred years afterall), and just fighting Elites over Halo rings? they effectively gave up believing in their religion after Halo 2 and were on resonably good relations with the Humans too, why would they throw that away (especially considering they can't use for runner tech but Humans can) so they'd have to force humans to unlock the tech for them rather than just work together and ask

If they want to make a Halo 4, then they can, just give it a good story (and less Flood.... PLEASE)

Are you honestly trying to bring Uncharted into a Halo discussion?  They aren't even comarable games on any level at all from a gameplay standpoint, user base standpoint, sales standpoint, or even critical acclaim standpoint.  Uncharted is an amazing game but I think the last thing the creators of Halo care about is Uncharted.  It has nothing to do with the topic.

OT:  Sounds excellent and Halo has always been my favorite franchise.  I have a feeling the next game from 343 will be INCREDIBLE.

i made it up on the spot and am not a qualified story writer :P

I have a feeling the next Halo game with deal much more in depth with the Forerunners, and the likely fact that there may still be some left.  No one truley knows where they all went to and its very likely some are still hidden inside of Shield Worlds similar to the one seen in Halo Wars and the one encountered by the Spartans 3's and Kurt known as Onyx.

Also I think the Data Pads hidden in Halo Reach gives some glimpses into what may be brewing in the Halo Universe and its kinda scary.  The Data pads are basically an exchange of discussions from an unknown group of AI's who refer to themselves as The Assembly.  Basically these AI have been governing and influencing the human race for an unknown amount of time in order to fullfill their single purpose which is the preservation of humanity.  They formed their Assembly in complete secrecy and the human race has no idea of their existance.  They are directly responsible for huge events such as the creation of the Spartans and in fact they themselves reached out to the Covenant and revealed our existance to them in an effort to force humanity to evolve and deal with such a threat that way we would unify and not destroy ourselves as we had been doing in interplanatary civil war.

Please no more or considerably less fucking flood levels. I hated those so much. Halo 3 was sooo lame for me with all the bloody boring lame flood levels with overpowered pisses of crap running towards me all the time. If they take those out, it'll be an innovation in comparison with Halo 3 for sure, my least favourite entry by far.

I have faith in 343 studios. Halo being my favorite franchise ever I cannot wait for whatever they come out with. There is so much in the Halo universe they could make 20 different games and that wouldn't even cover it all.