Friday, May 16, 2008

Ok, i can't believe i'm hearing this

Halo 4, yes as much I love the Halo series of games. The idea of another Halo game does not sound like a good idea and here is my reasoning.
Halo 3 was not as good as everyone expected to be, I admit I am a little disappointed. Bungie took away machinima tools. The story finally ended. But unfortunately they revealed an ominous arrival at a planet when you watch the ending of Halo 3 on Legendary. As a reader of the novels some will agree with me in pointing out that this could be the planet in Ghosts of Onyx. That does not merit a new game, it actually ties things up in a nice untold happy ending. But for some reason, people keep suggesting it is a cliffhanger. Bungie may be trying to pull another Halo game considering the much smaller budget it has after it split from Microsoft. But the idea of Halo 4 leads me to believe that Bungie is only going to do it for money. And that will kill it, the map packs show me that they are doing their best to pull every dime they can now that Microsoft hasn't been holding their hand.
People have to stop speculating about this game, other developers actually want to helm Halo 4 now and that's scary. The series fell short on the third game, and that is a sign to put the game to rest. But with all the capital that was made in this franchaise they won't give a damn, they will make another game if we hold out our hands. My advice, show no interest. Show none. We waited three years to see the second one, and they put a cliffhanger in that one. That was the first mistake, a lot more innovation was put into Halo 2 than Halo 3. There is no more cool things they can put into the game that really revolutionize. If we show them we're not interested, then they probably will make the game but in a slower production rate. I'm grateful they got as far as they did with halo 3 but the problems with the limited edition of the game (which i bought) tells me they aren't careful anymore. Look at GTA IV, it took too long to come out, but it is kicking ass in sales and breaking records. Rushing games always spells disaster. But Bungie should concentrate on developing a new game, they have a lot of innovations from the development of Halo games to make a new kickass title. Let the Master Chief rest, bring on something else.

*I realize i'm harping on gaming news, so i'm going to try and make this my last "political" post and promise to have more in-gaming posts.

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