Forum:Halo 4 - Starchasers

Unless you've been hiding under the bottom of an extremely large boulder for the past couple of years, you know that Halo 4 is coming in hot and fast later this year, ETA: TBA. And so far, beyond a few stunning but vague concept art pieces, the only concrete facts we seem to know is that our beloved Master Chief is still aboard a damaged Forward Unto Dawn, drifting towards a strange mechanical portal, and that Cortana is undergoing some strangeness. I'm reminded of the release trailer for Halo 3 - the Master Chief emerging from the dusty savannah amid the ruins of New Mombasa's space elevator, looking out at a Covenant fleet above a Forerunner artefact that's activating. The untold possibilities were fascinating - how did the Chief get to Earth? How many ships made it past Earth's fleet? What is that thing that looks like the reactor complex from Aliens? And why, oh, why have the gauntlets been changed? I heard many rumours at the time - that the Forerunners were going to invade Earth, that the Chief and Arbiter were going to team up with the Flood, that the artefact was the Ark, etc. Likewise, I've been hearing whispered mutterings of "Sigma 7", Mendicant Bias hitching a lift in Cortana's basecode, the return of an ancient evil, and spirit guides locked into our genes.

This post is not about any of that. I'm not interested in what you think is going to happen. Right now, it's anyone's guess, as it rightly should be. What I want to know is far more interesting - what do you WANT to happen? What do you want to see in the first Halo game to feature everybody's favourite supersoldier? What style do you want it to take, what weapons would you like it to introduce or change, what enemies do you want to fight? And, above all else, what characters do you want to interact with? In Halo: Combat Evolved, we had the Chief, Captain Keyes and Cortana forming a nice triad. In Halo 2, we got Johnson and Miranda and introduced Hood, and for the Arbiter we got Rtas and the Prophets. Halo 3...well, uh, it gave us...um...okay, so we really got no new major characters. Another reason why the game frustrates me. But Halo 3: ODST gave us the brilliantly constructed Squad, and Halo: Reach gave us Noble team, the Sorvads, Halsey and Col. Holland. With a new trilogy, we're going to need new characters, if only to play as support to the Chief. Should they be major players, or take a back seat to the story of the Chief and Cortana? Admirals, Marines, politicians or spooks? Who do you want to see?

So, thoughts? --  Specops306   Autocrat     Qur'a 'Morhek   18:21, 4 March 2012 (EST)
 * For starters, I would like to see what the whole thing is really all about. I know Glasslands told us a little about, but I'd like to see this thing in Halo 4. Last, I'd like to see the Chief working with spooks to figure out what purpose this planet serves.--


 * He will forced to face off against an equal foe, but then the two will have to team up and... alright, I'll be realistic.


 * Personally, I hope that the Chief doesn't get rescued too soon, or that he finds his own way back. There's a great deal more exploration that can be done with the world of the Forerunners, and having him leave that at the end of the game would rob us of all that potential.


 * Also, do not nerf the Forerunners. They should indeed feel like the most powerful civilization alive. Wouldn't that be something, a first level where you are utterly helpless against your Tier One foes, but in later levels you join them and thus revel in their firerpower? Show how their society works as well, make this more than a shoot-em-up.


 * Also, I hope more is done with the Precursors than "they are evil, fight them all." The twist that the Precursors created the Flood in Primordium felt rather predictable to me, and I hope we'd get a deeper view into their culture and motives. Or, if they are indeed the villains, well then, the Flood can't be the only monstrosity they created, right?


 * Cortana is also going hae a major role in this, so I hope overcoming rampancy is much more than just "calming down because I want to." After all, the whole problem is that she's formed too many relooping connections. Will she be healed by being upgraded, or even transferred to a body? What if she becomes an antagonist?


 * Lastly, if the Chief gets rescued, Arby should play a part. Science-fiction's 2nd greatest bromance must continue. Tuckerscreator (stalk )