Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved announced for release in 2026
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
With the corner it’s in, I feel like the whole series needs a reset.
Start with this remake, just screw it and say “we’re forking the timeline after Halo 3,” and use this dev experience for some simple new Halo installment in Unreal. No weird writing, no giant scope, no baggage.
shani66@ani.social 1 day ago
Agreed, well, if you mean after Bungie anyway, reach is a major high point in the series. 343’s insistence on writing being just an excuse to get to gameplay has left any future there as narratively hollow as a borderlands game.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, I feel like it’s the opposite? They integrated all the weird novels and leaned into this complex, almost operatic, melodramatic writing hard with 4 and 5. It’s like they were jealous of Mass Effect or something.
Infinite was an attempt to reset and “ignore the writing for the gameplay,” but IMO its problem was dev hell thanks to the custom engine, and the whole world being written into a corner.
I mean, even 3 is an awkward place to continue. I dunno what Halo should be now, but “MCU space opera” is not it.