Elijah - rocket sloth

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Imagine if Activision went the Halloween movie route and just retconned everything after Halo CE lol.

If they wanna do a Master Chief origin story can we do it in flashback levels and still get to do some new stuff too lol? I know some people would hate this, but I wouldn’t mind a single nostalgia dump level where we get short vignettes of important moments from the original in the form of a flashback/vision level. Short snapshots of: POA/Halo/Keyes/Regret/Gravemind/Floodgate/The Covenant/Cortana/Halo. Then chief wakes up wherever he is. I know the dream sequence is cliche but a playable level with short sequences could be a cool way to show what is cannon and also set the tone that the lore is respected.

We still aren’t ready to have this Halo conversation…

Genuine question. If a new studio is coming into Halo how do they approach the massive amounts of lore from the 343 era? They obviously won’t hire lore keepers from 343i… So what’s the best approach? Keeping up with the 5 bungie games plus the books from the era would be more manageable… but to wipe away lore from 2011-2026 is pretty massive too. What would y’all do if you were in charge of the new studio?

343i BLACKLIST STORYTIME: I don’t know what/if a 343i blacklist could have looked like, but I remember Luke and I thinking we were blacklisted all the way up through Infinite’s launch. At the time I think we were in the top 5 most subscribed Halo YouTube channels and had been the fastest growing Halo channel at the time. Tons of other creators got access to Halo Infinite two weeks early (sometimes even earlier), and could make content on the game. Finally, we reached out straight up asking if we were blacklisted and only then we got a review copy two days before launch, but had a content embargo until launch day. We missed out on a ton of content we would have made exploring the game the way Rocket Sloth videos were, if we had the opportunity to, but instead other creators got to make the Easter eggs and secrets videos first, before we even had access to the game. (no bad blood to them obviously). Soooo… was it because we made videos criticizing 343i directly, or was it because we said the multiplayer reveal looked underwhelming lol? Oh well I guess we shot ourselves in the feet on that one by not glazing 343 Halo… 🤷‍♂️

Remember how 343i: -In 2012 said the entire game engine was practically rewritten from scratch for Halo 4, but it was just the modified Reach engine? -In 2014 said Halo 5 had a brand new engine but it was just the modified reach engine? -In 2018 said Halo Infinite had the new slipspace engine but it was just the modified reach engine? -In 2024 said Halo Campaign Evolved would be built in UE5 but ended up being a visual wrapper built on the modified Reach engine? The issue isn’t even the reach engine being used here, but the perceived deception is what made people upset.

With new Halo… I’m not saying let’s never see Chief again… but the best route for the first game is: -new cast of characters -interpersonal stakes -self contained story Avoid the reset/reboot and clean up the lore as we go. Reach and ODST prove this formula can work.

Wait wait wait, what if Halo ends up being the break in the COD cycle? Every few years Call of Duty takes a break and we get a new Halo? Could it be good for COD fatigue? 🤔

Is anyone surprised there isn’t a petition to save 343 Industries and keep Halo with them? I’m not.

Sort of crazy how much of halo lore has been handled in such bizarre ways… -Dr. Halsey losing her arm in Halo 4 spartan ops DLC that required XBL Gold. -Didact’s death actually happening for real in a Halo comic book. -The Rookie (ODST) randomly dying in a book. -The big spartan ops villain getting killed in an H5 cutscene. -The Weapon/Cortana 2.0’s name finally being revealed in a book instead of Halo Infinite. Honorable mentions: Guilty Spark is still alive and has a dumb looking body now - books Jun is alive and well -books Arbiter and Vale chillin’ after infinite - books Lord Hood survived the Sydney attack mentioned in Infinite - books So with all these big pivotal moments… WHY THE HELL DOES CAMPAIGN EVOLVED HAVE POINTLESS PREQUEL LEVELS

So obviously Halo would never get fully ret-conned… So what if, they soft retconned with the inevitable remakes? Updated art style for Halo 5 Guardians would be neat, but it needs to be fixed too… How to fix Halo 5: 1st, Halo 5 needs all of Osiris’ missions first AND THEN Master Chief’s so the mystery of what chief is doing doesn’t get immediately revealed 😓 Second, Abridge and shorten most of Halo 5 guardians story because Jesus Christ. Third, Halo 5 honestly needs to be an epilogue bonus campaign sold within Halo 4’s remake, because nobody would buy Halo 5 campaign evolved… Fourth, Rework H4: spartan ops’ story into like 2 levels and tie it the Jul M’dama arc better. So… would that be too long of a game for 343i to be able to do well? (Yeah, it’s 343i). Halo CE3 has 13 levels… Base Halo 2 has 13 levels… a remake may have more? Base Halo 3 + ODST have 9 and 8 levels respectively. Halo 4+5 Remake could work with maybe 18 levels? 8 from H4 + 8 from H5 (trimmed campaign) + 2 reworked based on Spartan Ops.

I kind of want a Halo 4 remake more than the other games… Like that campaign could really be cleaned up with some small scale but impactful changes. Like I said before don’t show the forerunner faces. The helmets in terminals look cooler and mysterious bro…cmon.

Halo 4 should have never shown the diadact’s face. If they kept the helmet on the mystery of human vs forerunner could have persisted. We don’t see Master Chief’s face so that could have been a cool juxtaposition. Same with the librarian.

Unpopular halo opinion: But if we have to wait five years for a mid game anyways, at this point microsoft throwing halo at other studios to see if something works really isn’t that outlandish of a plan at this point right?

The Halo remake was fun until the unique bonus levels…what a waste of time

Star Fox was my favorite game series growing up. Hands down. Kind of funny though that half the games are either remakes or reboots… And the sequels we did get were are all soft reboots more or less too.

Neat

just picked up these games finally! Which should I play first?

Remember when we saved Christmas and Reach in the same night?