Can you live with this strategy if they decided to do it? Maybe just for the next game and the one after it'll be back to normal? - Also I had a BUNCH of videos connected to this you can watch that I linked in the description 👍

it's been over a decade since 343 has released a content complete mainline halo game. OVER A DECADE!!!! Like seriously WTF?!?!

"What matters most, is the campaigns” you’re goddamn right

I´d say, keep the Halo Infinite multiplayer alive, and let another team working from now on on campaign based Halo titles. And for every released campaign title let it translate its features into the Halo Infinite multiplayer. It be a stupid move to leave Halo behind, Halo literally made Xbox what it is today next to Gears of War. Leaving Halo behind is like leaving Gears Of War behind..

Halo has always been a multiplayer game and a story driven narrative to pick one over the other is insane it should be both both should be focused on equally like let’s have a halo game that actually fully comes complete at launch that’s fun to play instead of the live service crap that we have now tbh 343 shouldn’t have halo anymore last great halo game was reach the 343 era just hasn’t had the spark never will in my opinion granted infinite multiplayer is great runs great but it just doesn’t have the spark that halo always had prior to 343 i think halo is now a dying ip never thought that would happen but genuinely halo just isn’t halo anymore

Just make fans experienced with programming and these engines and etc a part of the team and I’m sure the games will get better. Stop fucking hiring people that don’t like Halo or are just indifferent to it.

Call of duty will be the next face for xbox. Would not be surprised if it's on the next cover art on the box

Halo has been one of my favorite video game franchises and it is mainly because of the campaigns. The ability to play a campaign with your friends created a lot of fond memories for me as a kid. Birthday party sleepovers while having a LAN connection to play Slayer on Blood Gulch is a premium memory of mine. But also completing Halo CE on the legendary difficult was also a proud moment. I would definitely love this strategy if they are able to pull off projects like Halo 3 ODST which was a great gem for its time in the Halo universe. Hopefully there are gems like that in the near future.

Whenever i purchased a new halo was not to have a new multiplayer but to experience the campaign to continue the story of Master Chief. Get it done!

They need to hand the campaign to someone who is serious about the lore, the characters, and expanding on the story. The cinematic aesthetic needs to be gritty, industrial, military, and mysterious, inviting you to explore a bit. No grapple, no charge or ground pound. But the characters and team needs to make you feel attachment and if they die, make you feel the loss. There needs to be blood again. And for the love of god no DEI or sweet baby anything. Just follow the lore.

The campaign is the reason we remember Halo. The multiplayer is the extra bit that keeps you having fun with your friends. Get the campaign right and everything else follows from there.

That's what's been crazy to me.. the whole live service idea was literally making all the content releases just features to make it a complete halo game...

It is crime we didnt get "next-gen" epic soace opera with amazing animations and sick campaign.... And if the rumors are true that infinate cost 500m then it is mindblowing it wasnt this.

I played all halo multiplayers , don’t want to make anyone mad but infinite is the best. The movement is amazing ! The power ups, the hit scan battle rifle and bandit. The launch maps were great just to few I know. It is a modern day version of the slow moving halo 2 and 3 that we all loved! Infinites bugs and problems took to long to fix and a lot of people left the game. But it’s still a great halo multiplayer

No way 343 is focusing on campaign, every company is ravenous for a piece of the live service pie

I do think that most of 343i will be focused on Halo multiplayer going forward. If done right at launch, they would get a long stream of revenue and people will talk and interact with the franchise more regularly and longer compared to if they launched a single linear singleplayer campaign. 343i basically laying off a lot of the campaign team early last year shows this mindset for them. They could still have a small campaign team when it comes to the direction of it with most of the work being put on Certain Affinity and other studios. This would be kind of similar to publishing projects like Halo Wars 2 but with them more involved creatively. And just with partnered titles in general, they of course won't stretch themselves too thin, so we still won't see regular spinoffs. Also, 343i ditching the expensive Slipspace for Unreal Engine makes sense if they're just trying to make a content heavy game (to fix on the mistakes of Halo Infinite and previous leadership). UE5 is built first for Fortnite, and it allows them to get more support from Xbox studios and assimilate contractors/support studios into their teams faster.

Great points made in this video. No wonder that with more advanced graphics and gimmicks, even uncomparable to the ones we had back then, Halo still fails to make the spotlight. It needs a better story, something that lets players connect with. This was a great video, and as a fellow who also has Halo as their "GOAT" game, it hit really hard.

I think the key to most of this is to focus on campaign and have the multiplayer as an extra feature. I miss the days of tacked on multiplayer modes in single player games.

We shouldn't be placing importance on just one, it is important we expect a complete suite of a game.

Huh,this is actually pretty similar to what's going on with the Tales series. It's one of the best selling & oldest franchises Bandai has,yet it seems to be getting left behind,the last console spin-off game was ages ago,the latest entry already had a fair gap since the previous one mainly due too switching to a newer engine & a new entry hasn't had any real announcement. Ah damn man, it's not unknown that newer things replace older series & take the place of what once was there,Halo does indeed have a chance to possibly come back swinging but even if it does would that be enough to keep pace with the newer stuff,the older a franchise the more tricky it can be to get new fans & keep old one's,so if & when a series makes a come back like that,from what I seen it usually ends up becoming the last game for that franchise,a final hooray before the slumber. Hurts man,I better be proven wrong,I just got here.

Plus. The slip space engine is said to be slightly similar to unreal engine but with a large number of components that made it harder to use .

Been playing halo since Xbox 360 days been og fan 22 now this is crazy

Good Campaign ≠ New Games, try to relegate it to DLC with max cost of 40$ depending on campaign. Lets also remember that halo multiplayer was pretty much built around the campaigns aswell.

sucks cause i dont even care about what happens in the halo story next. they kinda ruined the story for me with halo infinite cause they just did a time jump instead of letting us actually play the events that halo 5 was leading up to which I was actually looking forward to. not sure what they do next in terms of story for me at least. i would honestly be down for a jerome campaign. also no more open world campaigns please I want missions that are compatible to the original trilogy that are adicitng and have a lot of replayability. also infinite was just boring and repetitive.

In my opinion, the best strategy that Xbox could use (and maybe are using) for Halo's future would be to develop multiplayer and campaign games separately, similar to how Bethesda manages their franchises. By outsourcing multiplayer development to studios in Activision-Blizzard, the most experienced developers in the industry, 343 could easily shift focus to creating the singleplayer experiences that they are most known for and what their fanbase wants. Xbox will probably stick to the "10-year plan" for Infinite, but shifts in development can take years before we see tangible results. With Infinite's lack of financial success, it's no surprise that Halo isn't high on Xbox's priority list, as although people like to forget it, Xbox is still a business.

Campaign is important. But what keeps people staying is social features and the communities that spawn from them. If we don’t have the social features from beginning like 2, 3 and Reach, the game is set for failure. People make their lives in these games. People love Halo for so many different reasons. A good campaign is just one part of the massive social network the previous games had. Without these social features there is nothing separating Halo from CoD.

Halo was wrapped up perfectly in halo 3. Halo Reach was a great prequel that was one final send off. Bungie had a great story written but all stories must end

My thing with Halo is that it evolved with my childhood from halo CE to Reach and that's all i would play in my younger years, now ever since ive heard the word about 343i taking over the franchise after Reach and partnered on making the game things started going south. Now you're damn right its the campaign makes Halo of what it should be. But after all of my years I've spent with this franchise it started going south with H4, H5 more because of the bloodthirst of multiplayer was really going on during that time within that year. Here is when i decided to officially retire from Halo. All these promises and hearing our demands its been a huge let down for the community and it feels like we're just shouting at these developers on MAKE HALO GREAT AGAIN. But the problem right now is.. most of us are grown up now. But with all the issues that Infinite had and I chose not to play it anymore because of the lack of content, delays and the price tags they throw on for armor, emblems, weapon skins now and even friggin colors. That's not Halo in my eyes.. When 343i did updates to Mcc it started to spark and gave me hope, then out of nowhere now they stopped updating left it as is. And now it seems the dying legends going out in dust now. And you got older players like me sticking around for that because its more fun than Infinite. But they just don't care it seems, at this point im done with Halo and 343i with their shenanigans so last game I played and will ever touch now was Halo: Reach on BtB Heavies on Headstrong. My final message to 343i: Touch grass. Hatred Monster signing out

Comment 95, here's what halo plan moving forward:Have love and care for campaign and multiplayer with a spin off game every 2 to 3 years

My problem with using another Game Engine is that the developers don't own the Engine but have the license to use it, such as Unreal Engine makes it where you're limited to use the Engine because you don't own it, you don't have access to the full assets and all the features, Only Epic Games does, which is why only their games look good in Unreal Engine and not anyone else's because nobody else owns the rights to fully utilize it, it's better to have your own game engine because it's made by you, you own the assets and have access to every feature available or making your own features, that's why this whole Unreal Engine usage is baffling to me, it's like it's the only game engine people know because of how much the phrase has been tossed around since Unreal Tournament and all these gems that were made by Epic games, but i will admit developers were able to utilize UE3 much better than UE4 and UE5

7:41 the open world is a great idea for halo. Infinite was just poor execution.

I really like every Halo game from the first to the last and everything in between. I am dying for a good single player on rails campaign.

I would just hate to see john hang up the suit... So 343 really needs to fix this. Also The campaign is the only thing I play!

Halo's story was and is a major part of Halo's soul. Every story 343 has done has been unambitious, inconsistent, and unfocused. Halo's story and lore is a significant part it's success.

What he’s saying is, we need another ODST situation. A campaign with add ons for the previous Halo Multiplayer. Sounds good to me. (Preferably if the add ons are vehicles and weapons)

Canpaigns for sure, but i think a more accurate thing, they need to focus on making the game fun too. Campaigns from Combat Evolve to Reach, each of these campaigns have insane replayabilty, becuase the physics, gunplay, and level design verity we sweated on by the Old bungie devs. Those Vidocs that always mention the player choice, engagement from moment to moment, and the "why should the player care?" Details are what matter and what ultimately shine through in all those levels. Because they focused on what makes this canpagin, fun.

For me, it would be a dream for 343 (or anyone else) to take a massive step back, develop a purpose built platform, and crank out new Halo campaigns every two or three years. Other studios out there are capable of that. I would start near the beginning with a Harvest campaign, then adapt key books that hold critical lore or butt up against the games. From First Strike to Onyx to Kilo 5 and onward. Talk about a 10 year plan, that's a 15 year pipeline of content right there. Simultaneously have another studio running a Halo live service, with its own thing and its own rhythm

Man...I hope you're right. Halo needs it.

I agree with u halo needs the attention to campaign they need campaigns they need to put the focus they put Into the multi-player into campaign

Keep infinite as the multiplayer and a separate game designed for campaign only.

The wisest choice they can do is make the next Halo in UE5, while fixing, improving, and optimizing or entirely rewriting the Blam engine for future use.

I thought the infinite campaign was the worst since of the 343 campaigns (competing with 5, but both suck hard) so I’m pretty glad the campaign team is gone.

YES the campaigns. I'm fed up, sick and tired of the stupid multiplayers. Add multiplayer to any shooter and it's the same as any other. Campaigns, characters, stories, acting, music. Throw those together and every game can have its own unique experience to offer.

All they need to do is give us a traditional Halo game with a lenghty story rich campaign. - 2 player matchmaking Co-op with Chief and the Arbiter. Or Chief and spartan Buck. - The weapon and pilot still be relevant. - Take place in more than just the Halo ring. Or at least give us BIOMES. - Marines that drive vehicles - Prioritize Campaign and PvE game modes, not MP. I also think open world does work. if it's made more like ODST and not like Infinite.

Consistent good campaigns will be halos saving grace

We should get more multiplayer campaigns games like gears of war

This is one of the best videos I've seen about the "Halo situation" agreed 100% with everything said.

Ranked Multiplayer>>>>>

Campaign can't sell enough to pay the development of Halo. In Bungie era the Halos were so much cheaper than nowadays...

Halo Infinite's campaign is not on par with the Bungie games for many reasons lack of biomes lack of weapons lack of vehicles lack of objectives some people would probably say that Halo Infinite's campaign has plenty of objectives which is kind of true the problem is that the objectives in Halo Infinite are very repetitive

Campaigm's matter most. But if it doesn't have splitscreen multiplayer, i'm out.

Halo should take notes from Gears and reboot.

If the creators of the Halo campaign can make it similar to God of war, then that would be great.

We need more campaigns like halo 2, ce, reach, more stuff like that

Halo is big because of it's multiplayer. It was literally the foundation that started Xbox live.

So as a massive halo fan myself, I have some thoughts on this video. First and foremost, I don’t think 2026 is the last chance. I don’t think there will really ever be a last chance. Every single time the community gets fed up with halo and 343, and videos like this one get made, the series just continues to sell. When halo four came out, the backlash was enormous, yet that game out sold all of the previous entries except for halo 3. And then when halo five got announced, and the beta came out, there was backlash, yet it became the fastest selling Xbox one game of all time, and is currently sitting in the top 10 for most sold Xbox one games ever. Same thing with halo infinite, game comes out, game gets a ton of media backlash, and game still puts up impressive numbers. People will just keep buying it because it’s halo. And don’t get me wrong, I do believe that all of the 343 made games have flaws. I also think the bungie made games have flaws too. It’s also worth noting that lately. Xbox themselves have been posting a shit ton of halo content on Twitter and Instagram. If you go to any one of the comment sections on those videos, you’ll see tons of fans, praising Xbox for posting halo and begging them to continue doing it. The love for Halo is there, the demand for future installments is there. I don’t think the series is going anywhere. I do, however think it will be a long time until we hear about the next mainline installment because Microsoft undoubtably wants to take its time and get this one right because they’ve had three failures under 343s leadership. The community as a whole pretty much sums up the three mainline games from 343 this way, halo four had a good campaign, but a bad multiplayer and an uninteresting side mode. It’s also the Only 343 made halo game to launch complete. Halo fives campaign was bad, played well, but the story was not good and the marketing lied to everyone about the plot. The multiplayer, however, is regarded as the best of the best. And the Forge scene in that game was fantastic, that game did not launch complete. Halo infinite had a good campaign, a great bass multiplayer, and great features in the game. For once it seemed like 343 had nailed it. But then a few weeks after launch, it became abundantly clear that the game was lacking content, and the plan for content moving forward was lackluster. The 10 Year Plan for it quickly turned into them finishing the game and forgetting about it. Halo wars two is the only modern halo game that released finished and damn near perfect. Kind of funny considering that 343 didn’t even produce the game, they just own the license. The Master chief collection I don’t even need to bring up. We all remember what happened with that game. Granted it’s in an almost flawless spot now, it took them almost 8 years to get it there. I do have hope for the future of the series. That’s what halo was built on. Hope. Luck. Belief. It’s been pretty much confirmed at this point that there’s multiple halo games in active development. A spin off from certain infinity, the next mainline halo, and an FPS spinoff title from 343. And also a rumored halo one from the ground up remake. If all of these are true, then the future is pretty bright for the series. The last thing I want to say is that I’ve seen a lot of other content creators, panicking because halo was not at the Xbox event and it’s been a while since they have shown off anything new. It’s worth remembering that they originally planned for this game to run for 10 years so since they’ve had to backpedal, they’ve been making new games behind closed doors. They don’t have anything to show off and when you consider the fact that they probably weren’t planning on making an actual game per se for the next 10 years. They were probably going to dump story content into infinite because of the 10 Year Plan. Now that the 10 Year Plan is over and done with it kind of screwed up, their vision for the future but it seems like they’ve gotten everything straightened out behind closed doors. Hopefully in the next year or two, we hear something.

Focus on campaign and just keep building on infinite multiplayer.

Halo ain’t leaving

Simple 343 work on campaign and certain affinity work on multiplayer

All games can be done in 2to3 years with UE5

Do you still think that Kingdom hearts 4 has a chance to be shown at d23 with the release date of 2025?

Halo 4 and halo infinite are great games and i will die on that hill

They need to make more spin offs, there’s so many stories they can tell, including the bad guys.

Reality is once a campaign is made, multiplayer is not much more effort. Not sure why the Halo community is pushing for it. Its 2024, halo campaign and multiplayer need to always be made together.

As I said before give Halo to Id because Id understands their games and fans. I’ve lost faith in 343 and they lost the Halo privilege. 343 does contract work and they’ve outsourced Halo Infinite to so many different developers. Hell they fired Joe Staten and he didn’t want to leave.

These are all great ideas, but, how many times can the fans say what we want, then have it never come?

It’s time to do a semi reboot of the franchise were they go back to halo 4 and redo it from there

Listen I’m a halo fan … but if we complain about the long development time for a game … it took kingdom hearts 3 almost 15 years to be released. . . So …

Get one of the studios that Microsoft to handle Halo. 343 have proven time and time again that they overpromise and under deliver with Halo

One must be extremely cautious when asking for yearly or semi-yearly releases, else you'll end up with halfbaked, regurgitated campaign ideas or stories like you've seen in CoD. Be aware of what you're asking for.

The people who say Halo Infinite’s campaign and multiplayer is on par with Bungie’s Halo games has never played a Bungie Halo game. The gap in quality is so big, you can’t even see the other side

All I heard was "make 343"....no 🥷 343 should not Handle Halo anymore they had 10+ to do that.

Random thought. Spin off game: Halo souls lol

I got a lot of games to return by telling xbox to make them. They will bring halo when its ready. It probably underdevelopment but isnt ready to show anything. Gears we werent shown anything for a very long time but it happened. Halo is next on the games im going to push from xbox to continue. We got fable, perfect dark, Indiana jones, and they bought who i told them to buy. Halo is safe, but may be pulled from 343 if xbox doesn't think they can pull it off in unreal engine. They need a reboot unfortunately at this point. I didn't mind infinites campaign other than everyone being killed off with randomly.

They can’t sell $30 bundle on campaign

when I think about xbox...2 franchises come to mind...gears of war and halo...so I hate it for fans who look forward to what's next, but very little hype if any from the ip holders and it's discouraging to think about the future of xbox with halo on the backburner so to speak...

People: We need good Campaigns and consistent releases. Microsoft: Got it! lets ditch it and make a cliche multiplayer

I’m actually looking forward to the rumored Halo CE Remake in 2026 but yeah we just need a new Halo this generation.

Hero living turn villian yada yada yada. Just practice with extended lore content for games

This gonna be the first Xbox generation Gears of War will overtake Halo as the premier Xbox Franchise 😂

I don’t like infinite. I want them to make a sandbox multiplayer game.

Halo needs to rest in peace

Halo isn’t halo without the gameplay or the mechanics that made it halo if you change the gameplay to where it feels completely different is it still the same game? They’ve changed so much lot of the old custom games from halo reach aren’t possible anymore because of 343s crappy physic engine hammer jumps are gone completely they made it competitive when the game was about being dumb casual fun between friends the competitive side came naturally to it forcing it made it 10x worse

they should close 343 indisturies and give halo to tango gameworks :D

Xbox is going to have problems competing against Xbox if they realease a lot of games next year. Then theynhave to go up against GTA 6 good luck.

I whole heartedly agree with everything in this vid. Infinite was a step in the right direction at its core, but the live service took what was a great leap into a really small step. I will say, NO MORE LIVE SERVICE for this franchise plz. IMO, Halo was always such a W because of how much GAME there was completed day one. More specifically, imo, the customization. Half the enjoyment I got from that game was grinding to unlock armor to make my character look as cool as I wanted, while looking at everyone else’s earned designs. With Infinite, it’s not near as rewarding or motivating as a lot of if not most of the armors people get or simply purchased rather then played for. Just doesn’t hit the same, imo. I played Reach for YEARS after release because of ranking up for more customization, to have that badass Spartan in the cutscenes to see

Why rush it?

Prequel prequel prequel look at E-day Prequel PREQUEL WHO WANNA SEE MASTER CHIEF AND PLAY AS MASTER CHEIF AS A TEENAGER OR ANNEARLY ADULT

Halo take the helldiver's ingredients

I haven't played the campaign since halo 3 man ain't no way I agree with this

You want Halo to get CoD numbers on the daily then you've got to start with MARKETING & cross promotions I know a certain percentage of Halo players are going to hate that but that's how you separate people from their money if 343 put a War Machine armor set in the store everyone would pay a higher price to get it, Robocop, Iron Man, Venom, a retro model Cyclon, I made Annihilus and it looks DOPE AF it could also pass as The Green Goblin I've got a Samus Aran inspired Spartan too DON'T SUE ME NINTENDO 🤣.

I like Halo but I think it's time that we recognize that every single thing has to have an ending. I don't just love the game Halo I love the books and even with the books it just feels like they're running out of stuff to discuss. And I think that's the fundamental problem with the campaigns The storylines are just weak. The story has been told The covenant was defeated. Can't just keep going from one splinter cell group to another splinter cells group with weak ass story lines in the same enemies over and over again. It's okay to let a franchise die and give birth to a new one. I honestly feel like xbox's problem is is that everything has to be either gears or halo. Sony has left so many franchises behind from socom to uncharted even the next last of us is probably going to be the last game in that series. But they keep creating new series like Spider-Man wolverine Ghost of Tsushima. They're not still making killzone 8. It's okay to let Halo go Microsoft should be thinking about something brand new with all their resources they're capable of it. If they announced another Halo tomorrow I'm not going to be excited and that's a problem.

Halo as a first person shooter franchise has been outdated by call of duty with its quake or doom style gameplay. You can’t aim down sights, and there are no weapon attachments. To compete with modern FPS games they will have to add these features. The Doom reboot series is also flawed for the same reason, how many people you know play Doom Eternal multiplayer? People like weapon attachments, I sure do. Halo infinite got criticized for its mediocre graphics, and I actually wasn’t a fan of the open world sand box they made. The entirety of halo infinite’s campaign lacked a diversity in environments in which every halo game campaign had except halo ODST. Every halo campaign felt like a cool sci fi movie progressing the story to new locations and seeing bad ass moments like Master Chief dive onto an alien ship. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believed the creative director of halo infinite left 343 over what a debacle infinite was and I think Microsoft had some involvement. I think the next halo game will be a launch title for the new Xbox if it comes out in 2026-2028, with an emphasis on graphics since infinite got brute memes. The halo tv show series got a second season so I think they will really push the story. From a fictional point of view, infinite’s campaign was really one long halo campaign mission in master chief’s saga. As for multiplayer, I hope they add more than just cosmetics to unlock but weapon attachments that are visible. We got gun variants in halo infinite which is a slow start in the right direction. Finally, we need the ability to aim down sights for Halo to be endorsed by a generation that never played quake, doom, or combat evolved otherwise the multiplayer side of things will die out. Clearly halo infinite’s release was rushed, and Microsoft is avoiding this, taking their time to make the best Halo game ever and releasing a completed product. They had plenty of other titles to get people excited about in the mean time. Not really sure if 4 years is enough time to accomplish this, so I’m predicting the next Halo game to come out in 2027 or 2028 on future Xbox hardware. Microsoft told the FTC they plan to release a new console in 2028. Months after that there were leaks online about Microsoft releasing a console in 2026. Sony apparently plans to release the PS6 in 2028 so looks like Microsoft wants to beat Sony to the chase and compete with the switch 2 earlier on. In fact, there’s rumors of a Xbox handheld and I suspect Microsoft will announce it in 2025 in time for 2026. I think the handheld will be portable and can be docked to be played on a tv and will be the lower tier option to Microsoft’s next console. Other scenario could be that the rumored 2026 Xbox console is only the handheld and the next Xbox console comes out in 2028 which I’m more than okay with, I want the ultimate gaming console to run Halo!

I might get a lot of heat as hate for my opinion. Halo need major overhaul drastic change like WTF type of change to generate interest again. I think it is time for halo to go 3rd person or at least has it as a mode and the campaign has to be as wow as GOW 2018

I prefer halo multiplayer

Have an actual firefight mode not that new firefight king of the hill bs.

Halo’s relevancy is directly tied to its games. If the games are average, its relevancy will dwindle. None of the 343 games really “hit” and the show is bad, so people lose interest. Cyberpunk show was good, and so was the game. Fallout show was good, and so was the game. Make good products and people will show up. Make mediocrity, and your franchise will fall into irrelevancy.

I think they should give up on Halo. It's just money chasing and they should chase bigger risks.

I honestly think it’s over for them 343 and Microsoft have flopped this game over and over like they really have never made a good halo game

I dont want to hear anything about the next halo until its basically ready to ship. Also 343 shouldn't be the halo team anymore IMO.