Top 10: Things that will make Halo 4 great

By Tom Orry - 14/02/2008 - 2:04pm GMT

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4. Stick with Bungie as developer

We know Bungie has split from Microsoft now and that Microsoft could farm out the Halo brand to any developer, but Bungie is Halo. The guys there know the story, the characters and, let's be honest, they know how to make a good game. And, it might just be a little weird to have another dev handling the next proper Halo. Imagine Gearbox, Free Radical, Rare or Epic appearing on the splash screen while Halo 4 is loading. Wouldn't you feel slightly odd, like walking into your living room to find an uninvited guest.

3. Improve the graphics

Halo 3 looked great, but it didn't wow us like Gears of War and BioShock. The thing is, Halo 3 was Bungie's first and only next-gen game to date. We all saw the leap in visuals from Halo 1 to Halo 2, so we're hopeful we'll see the same with Halo 4. Halo 3 was a good start, with huge environments and some highly detailed enemy models, but we want far more. We want more detail in the environments, more polygons in the vehicles, better special effects and a faster frame rate. Halo 3 certainly wasn't a slouch in the frame rate department but, compared to Call of Duty 4's silky smooth 60fps, Halo 3's 30fps seems a little sluggish. More than anything else, we just want to be wowed.

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I do, the single player was AWFUL, my bloody 9 year old brother finished it before me. The multiplayer is so boring and slow paced one match i played online felt like a turn based RPG. Halo 4 should...

- Bloodstorm

Jonu wrote at 16:17 on 14 February 2008

Halo3 is awesome
Chacron wrote at 16:45 on 14 February 2008

seconded - Halo 3 was the best game of the year, dont understand all the hate.
White_hell wrote at 16:57 on 14 February 2008

Agreed with all the options there

specially the number 1
WE WANT EPIC BATTLES!!!
i was sad that we didnt get to see big battles like they showed in the adverts
eadipus wrote at 18:12 on 14 February 2008

speeding it up, making the weapons more satisfying and microsoft hosted servers would be other major improvements.
and some kind of meaningful objective based gameplay, like onslaught in UT or like battlefield in general.
Bloodstorm wrote at 18:29 on 14 February 2008

I do, the single player was AWFUL, my bloody 9 year old brother finished it before me. The multiplayer is so boring and slow paced one match i played online felt like a turn based RPG.

Halo 4 should not be made.
JJ wrote at 21:15 on 14 February 2008

A SPEED BURST EQUIPMENT TYPE WOULD BE COOL BUT NOT A SPRINT FUNCTION LIKE COD 4 (THATS GAY) .. MORE EQUIPMENT IN GENERAL WOULD BE GOOD .. A BATTLEFIELD'ESQUE MULTIPLAYER OBJECTIVE GAME LIKE 2142'S CONQUEST MODE IS ALSO A GOOD STEP BUT THE QUINTESSENTIAL 4 V 4 MUST CONTINUE TO BE FLAWLESS .. ABOVE ALL BUNGIE NEEDS TO MAKE THE GAME !
Nova wrote at 21:54 on 14 February 2008

Unfortunately, Bungie said they have already begun working on their next game. If there's a Halo 4, it won't be by them.
Cailus wrote at 22:05 on 14 February 2008

Speed Halo up, and you take out what little tactical appeal it has. Complicate it, and it's no longer Halo.

COD, Battlefield, UT-all complicated. Halo is instinctive, and that's why it's so great. Better visuals, more campaign, clans, epic battles. Thats all I want. :)
johnny wrote at 22:12 on 14 February 2008

imo i dont think bungie is going to develop the next halo. im like you, i would completely support it, but it doesn't look too good right now
Bstrd wrote at 22:59 on 14 February 2008

They should be adding new species to multiplayer, such as grunts, brutes, customizable marines... Not only would it make for more variety on the battlefield, but it would help machinima majorly.
Kora 'Morhek wrote at 23:16 on 14 February 2008

The Earth levels in Halo 2 were my favourite of the game...but the Earth levels in Halo 3 just didn't interest me, except for The Storm. It's not just about visual looks. There needs to be a REASON we play there. Combine Crows Nest and Tsavo Highway into one level, maybe have dudes on the radio telling the player what the hell is actually going on, and maybe it wouldn't have been as boring to play.

Keep multiplay combat the way it is. No "we need 100+ players lol" stuff. No adding Grunt or Brute or Marine skins. This is HALO for gods sakes, not Battlefield! But maybe a piece of equipment that changed your appearance for machinema.

Achievement gaining needs to be altered too. Maybe turn off achievements for people who insist on playing it on easy or normal. There should be an incentive to play higher levels! The achievements for multiplay were good, but we need more of them - maybe earnable medals, instead of achievements, so that the developers can put heaps in, and make more for DLC.

Well, that's my two cents worth. Not that anyone will actually care...
John wrote at 23:39 on 14 February 2008

I dunno about a game based on The Fall of Reach... that's pretty much a Movie Game with a book in place of a movie.

And it would also ruin the mystique of 117 being a faceless supersoldier(what with being a kid without a mask and all that).

I wouldn't mind, however, seeing the rest of the Dyson Sphere from Ghosts of Onyx.
Aidsterramma wrote at 00:38 on 15 February 2008

I agree with the large scale battles. I have always wanted that since Halo 2. The large maps in Halo 2 felt pretty large scale but the problem was that it was once and a while, even then not that often. I would adore and play forever a Halo game where absolutely everyone was playing in the same game and started off at huge city "territories". The cities could be taken by capturing the city hall, but that doesn't matter. That would definitely sell a lot more copies than anything else that I can think of, but would take a huge time to make, plus a big step up from Microsoft, meaning a new console.. ah, I'm in over my head, aren't I?

Right now, I want to see what games will be like a decade from now. There have been huge advances since a decade ago, eh?
a Halo Addict wrote at 02:36 on 15 February 2008

It would be nice to have some surviving SPARTAN IIs shown like Kelly or Linda or Fred. Heck, maybe have Ghosts of Onyx as a video game would be cool. But I definitely want to see more SPARTAN and Master Chief inside stories. Or even better, finally getting to see Dr. Halsey. I know seeing the Chief's real face is unheard of.
WOW wrote at 05:39 on 15 February 2008

Dude, if you want to play COD4 so badly, just play it. Don't turn halo4 into COD5. -_-
AngelicLionhea wrote at 05:48 on 15 February 2008

It's "AngelicLionheart."

Stupid character limit.

Anywho. Good ideas, all around. Believe it or not, there are people (myself included) that have already analyzed the Halo saga and come up with similar, actually more in-depth and fleshed-out, objectives. I mean... conclusions.

It would take a tremendous amount of work, but Bungie could do it, given enough time, incredible hardware, and even more talent added to their already stellar roster. Could it happen using only an Xbox controller? Sure, but I don't think it would be nearly as enjoyable. Time will tell. Let's hope the passion is still alive in the hearts of Bungie's teams.
boom wrote at 08:24 on 15 February 2008

this is dumb.

there wont be a halo 4. and if there is it wont be made by bungie and it will suck completely.

this list is pointless. but i suppose the word halo gets clicks eh...
Microsoft Man wrote at 23:44 on 15 February 2008

Id like to see playable brutes especially since when online you lose the feel of it being story oriented when your blowing up other spartans and Elites a couple of brutes for online would spice it up, also for the zombie game type you should use flood since the infection of flood is almost exactly the same as zombies it would add a more cooler feel to the game and a sword is NOT what a zombie would use to render a person limb from limb with also on that note forge needs a little more refining also in forge id like to see the ability to place Buildings on a map and an over head view of the map would be nice.