Would anyone care if Halo 4 and 5 story were non canon?

[TheRat62]

And Halo Infinite is a redo that picks up where Halo 3 ended?

I wouldn't care.

[Falleax]

I would care in that I would be happy. They seriously should just do that but from what we've seen, that's not gonna happen. However if Halo continues to be garbage, we'll probably get a Halo reboot in 10 years called HALO.

[Tunks]

@Falleax +1, plus i hate the new art style doesn't really look like halo.

[TheRat62]

Originally posted by =BFC=Tunks:

@Falleax +1, plus i hate the new art style doesn't really look like halo.

I think they have fixed the art style for Halo Infinite. That much is for sure.

I agree with you, the art style has just completely sucked under 343. It looks so cartoony and bland. Halo 4 was especially ugly.

Everyone was talking about how beautiful Halo 4 was when it came out but at that time I thought the graphics were downright ugly compared to Halo Reach.

Explosions and Covenant explosions were downgraded immensely in 343's games. When a covenant vehicle or ship would explode it looked so cheap in Halo 4.

[xmat123x]

I got you fam. Call it Halo Infinite due to some infinite parallel universe mumbo jumbo. Chief firing installation 04-B during the collapse of the Ark's portal split reality in 2 with the imperfect copy leading into Halo 4, you could use that to explain 343's needless design changes that everyone's just expected to roll with. Infinite could pick up right after 3 with classic spartan, weapon and vehicle designs.

[Adonis]

Every franchise has low points, the solutions to improve those games seems to create content inbetween events that smooths the transition and create context of events.

Honestly I would be fine with an art team redoing the games to make them look more like halo. But if we have to make a halo game between 3 and 4, it would have to show the change in the UNSC, the rise of the storm covenant and set up the events leading into halo 4.

[Falleax]

Originally posted by Rampant A.I.:

Every franchise has low points, the solutions to improve those games seems to create content inbetween events that smooths the transition and create context of events.

Honestly I would be fine with an art team redoing the games to make them look more like halo. But if we have to make a halo game between 3 and 4, it would have to show the change in the UNSC, the rise of the storm covenant and set up the events leading into halo 4.

A problem Halo 4 has is that it takes place too short a time after 3. It should have been at least 20 years, then the massive change in art and faction strength would be more justified.

[motonack]

The Halo 4 story was great, just the levels were very very linear because of the limitations of the 360 hardware. The much closer relationship between Chief and Cortana made total sense considering they were lost and isolated out there and IMO was executed very well.

[Falleax]

Originally posted by motonack:

The Halo 4 story was great, just the levels were very very linear because of the limitations of the 360 hardware. The much closer relationship between Chief and Cortana made total sense considering they were lost and isolated out there and IMO was executed very well.

I disagree heavily. Most of their relationship in 4 was Cortana having an episode, Chief awkwardly trying to comfort her and Cortana telling him it wasn't okay. Then she dies at the end after being a creepy stalker and telling him how she always wanted to touch him. They had a much better relationship and chemistry that grew and developed over the original trilogy. They were clearly friends but still professionals who understood what they had to do.

[Adonis]

Originally posted by Falleax:

Originally posted by Rampant A.I.:

Every franchise has low points, the solutions to improve those games seems to create content inbetween events that smooths the transition and create context of events.

Honestly I would be fine with an art team redoing the games to make them look more like halo. But if we have to make a halo game between 3 and 4, it would have to show the change in the UNSC, the rise of the storm covenant and set up the events leading into halo 4.

A problem Halo 4 has is that it takes place too short a time after 3. It should have been at least 20 years, then the massive change in art and faction strength would be more justified.

There are ways to write around a few of the massive changes in such a short time, though it will have to take massive logical leaps to make it somewhat work.

But even if we stretch the time out to 20 years, there are still problems like "why does the Dawn, Chief, weapons and vehicles on board look different?" "Why do the covenant species themselves look so different?" and some others I can't think of.

[Ozone]

Halo 4 I can live with. Halo 5 is a travesty of storytelling in pretty much every aspect, so I wouldn't mind if the story line for that game was yanked out of the overall canon.

[Running Rock]

Care? I've been operating under that assumption from day one.

[wwm0nkey]

Halo 4s story was 100% fine. 5 I can line without

[Punished Jeremy]

I wouldnt mind halo 4. It has problems, but it also has high points

Depends on how this "new canon" is written. For all you know its worse. Time will tell

[Walker]

Halo 4 is like a really good fanfic and Halo 5 is like a really bad one.

Both game are pretty enjoyable imo.

[Exodus]

I love halo 4 and I've been a fan of these games for a long time. Halo 4 despite it's flaws doesn't have monotonous characters, this was a problem with all of the trilogy and generally the 2000s where one liners were woah badass. There's subtle details where cortana is talking to master chief and he's fiddling with his AR, john fiddles with things when he's nervous, I can tell what they are trying to convey, not everyone is going to sit down and draw parellels from the books, 343 executed the story badly. It's not as accessible.

Halo 5 is very bad. There's no point discussing.