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Re: I'd buy a Halo Wars II.
Posted By: Quirel	Date: 3/28/12 5:04 p.m.
In Response To: I'd buy a Halo Wars II. (Leviathan) : When Halo Wars was first announced, I was excited. As time went on, the fact : that it was the first Halo game without Bungie involved really started to : scare me. I worried about the tone, the style (still displeased about : UNSC=green, Covenant=pink colorization), and if it would stay canon. : And when it did come out, I think a lot of people here judged it with the : same criteria that they would a standard Halo game. Because I did that : too. :) : I ended up buying it when it was reduced in price, and while I didn't love it : like a Bungie Halo, it was a solid game and I still enjoy a single-player : skirmish now and then. I find it very relaxing for some reason. : While it fudged a few boundaries of the canon, it found a way to remain : within it. The characters were simple, but the cinematics were beautiful. : The designs for the new vehicles were pretty sweet and felt UNSC-y. So : much that I was actually hoping to see some of them implemented into : Reach, perhaps just in the background. : Looking back, I now view it as an entry in the Expanded Universe, and : compared to the rest to the EU, I think it's a very solid and fun entry. : I'd like to see a Halo Wars II continue the story of Spirit of Fire and do : an even better job at the tone, style, canonicity, characters, and of : course, gameplay. : So even if you think the first is flawed, wouldn't you be open to a sequel : that appeared to be improving on all fronts? I think the core idea, a Halo : RTS, is still a very cool thing. I don't think I've ever asked myself that question. It is a good question. ... I'll go think about it for a while. I want Halo RTS. I want it deeply, more than Halo 4. But I think the two problems I have with Halo Wars 2 is that it would be a continuation of the original, and that it would suffer from the same limitations as the original. I'm afraid that the same broken design philosophies will carry over (You can't have an RTS without Melee units, it's not a full Halo game without the Flood, the UNSC can't do #$*% without the Spartans to hold their hands). I'm afraid that we'd get the same William C. Dietz level of storywriting. I'm also afraid that the same shallow gameplay would carry over because of the limitations Halo Wars had on it. Look at the information up there. We had buildable defenses, artillery as a class of units/power, and non-socketed bases. They didn't cut that stuff out because they lost a coinflip. Quite likely, the lost gameplay elements had to go because it didn't work with the control scheme ES had set up. So, if a future Halo RTS is announced, I guess my reaction would depend on whether it was PC-exclusive, and whether former ES employees were working on it. /trust issues.

Message Index

Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	kornman00	3/28/12 3:24 a.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	TDSpiral	3/28/12 4:27 a.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	kornman00	3/28/12 8:02 a.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	Morhek	3/28/12 4:31 a.m.
All of these sound awesome.	Leviathan	3/28/12 5:05 a.m.
Re: All of these sound awesome.	kornman00	3/28/12 8:05 a.m.
Re: All of these sound awesome.	davidfuchs	3/28/12 8:33 a.m.
Re: All of these sound awesome.	Nikko B201	3/28/12 8:50 a.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	Seraph XXVII	3/28/12 7:04 a.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	kornman00	3/28/12 7:57 a.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	bluerunner	3/28/12 9:21 a.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	Quirel	3/28/12 10:13 a.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	Devil Mingy	3/28/12 1:20 p.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	Quirel	3/28/12 5:06 p.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	General Vagueness	3/29/12 1:41 a.m.
Re: Forgotten Halo Wars Powers, Abilities, etc	Quirel	3/29/12 3:03 a.m.
Sounds interesting.	Gravemind	3/28/12 11:46 a.m.
I'd buy a Halo Wars II.	Leviathan	3/28/12 1:23 p.m.
+1 *NM*	nillapuddin	3/28/12 2:23 p.m.
Same here. *NM*	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	3/28/12 2:36 p.m.
Re: I'd buy a Halo Wars II.	Flynn J Taggart	3/28/12 3:04 p.m.
Re: I'd buy a Halo Wars II.	Flynn J Taggart	3/28/12 3:09 p.m.
A game I would like...	bluerunner	3/28/12 4:49 p.m.
Re: A game I would like...	Flynn J Taggart	3/28/12 7:23 p.m.
I'd buy a Halo Wars PC. *NM*	Nikko B201	3/28/12 4:41 p.m.
Re: I'd buy a Halo Wars II.	Quirel	3/28/12 5:04 p.m.
Well now I'm interested...	davidfuchs	3/28/12 5:33 p.m.
That's not what I was saying.	Quirel	3/29/12 12:18 a.m.