Halo 4 Rumors... Already?

RUMOR: Halo 4 will be a launch title for the next next-generation Xbox in 2011.

REACTION: Doesn't Bungie want to do something else for a change? Isn't the whole idea in letting Ensemble and Wingnut work in the Halo universe to give Bungie a break, so they can move on from Halo?

I don't see why they would move on beacause if you have dedicated employes that enjoy making the game their gonna want to stay on the project, and if they do why not. Beacause all their gonna want to do is make it even better than before. I guess it's pride ?

First, and most importantly: "sources close to Bungie" = whatever. Believe it when I see it.

narcogen wrote: Doesn't Bungie want to do something else for a change? After finishing Myth, Jason wanted to do something else...so he grabbed a small team and got to work on what became Halo. Everyone he didn't grab became the Myth II team. Bungie's been trying to figure out how to be more than a one-team/one-project studio since the mid-90s. It would make a certain kind of sense to have one team creating franchises and another team (or two) maintaining them. I have no idea if that's what they're doing though. For what it's worth: nowhere in this article full of unsubstantiated rumor do they suggest that Bungie themselves would be doing this theoretical Halo 4.

DON'T MAKE A NEW MASTERCHIEF/SPARTAN!!!!! 117 is still alive!!!!make halo 4 on xbox 360!!plz..[/url]

I think Halo 3 was vary open ended and in several ways. If Bungie does make a Halo 4 they need to end it with questions left unanswered.

Open ended? What questions were unsolved? If you beat the game on legendary and found all the terminals, it pretty much wraps up the story and even if you didn't, Bungie basically serves up all the answers to the questions from previous games on a silver platter.

Not really. If you have read the books and play the games, you must know there's a lot of questions pending to be answered.

In a matter of fact, the newly book HALO: Contact Harvest is all about that. Some loose points are going to be tied up in there.

The same will happen in HALO WARS. And in the "HALO Project" from the Lord of the Rings master.

Regards,
sangriapt L07

Halo has so many storys left in it, its not evan funny. Ok put it this way, halo story line is as if god him self came down and carved it out of stone. The big man up stairs made it so halo could never end. and why the hell do any of you non true halo fans think the story ends there. are you girls smokin crak or some thing. he gose in to the freezer. and at the end you see onyx, how the hell dose that tell you the story remotly ends. that right there my frinds is halo 4 new chapter in to its saga.

117 is not dead we din't even see him die all we saw was a pelican crashing into the water and the arbiter climbing out maybe master cheif is at the bottom of the ocean but still alive and waiting to be called on again

Um... actualyl if you see past the credits you can see him goin into the cryotube and a new planet.

I know people buy Halo for the multiplayer but they could at least, you know, watch the cutscenes.

To summarize:

THE HALO 3 BOX SAYS ITS THA LAST OF THE HALO trilogy SO A SEQUEL WOULD BE NAMED SOMTHING ELSE

what next gen xbox? it took 7 years to meake the xbox 360 and they wont pump a new one out in 4 years, and further more, they left it wide open for a Halo 4. he falling towards a forerunner planet, and we know nothing about the forerunners except that they made the rings and the storyline could be structured around finding out who the for runners are. Im not promising anything i just came to that conclusion by myself. So there is my opinion and im sticking to it. and i can tell its a forerunner planet because the lights on it are similar to the backside of the rings.
sincerely
spartan I69

and one more thing is that it might be like a star wars thing, theres was trilogy 1 and trilogy 2
Spartan I69

Think your math's off a little.

Xbox 1 was released in 2001 with Halo 1 as a launch title.

Xbox 360 was released in 2005, a year after Halo 2. So the 360 is already two years old. The original Xbox only had a lifecycle of four years.

However, in principle I agree. If we assume that the 360's life cycle will be longer, and if Bungie were to take the same amount of time to develop a hypothetical Halo 4 as it did for each previous game, which is about 3 years, then Halo 4 would come out in 2010, in the 360's fifth year.

Wa already know that the Forerunners are actually humans,343 Guilty Spark confirmed it.
If there was going to be a Halo 4, you know Bungie loves messing with our minds with
these questions, and so it would be unclear,or it would be about Halo but not Master Chief.

if u have beaten the game on legendary u will c the frigate slowly float to another planet called, "Onyx" there is a book called Ghosts of Onyx that i have not read yet. and one of my friends works for bungie and he says that they do not PLAN on making a halo 4 cuz they want to start working on other games

You shouldn't take things too literally. Spark is being figurative when he says:

The text in the Terminals tells of how:

One should ask oneself why one is so eager and willing to believe this when the storyline itself doesn't require it.

That's unconfirmed. In fact, while it is true that:

Wow?? Really? You know you are the FIRST PERSON EVER on a Halo fansite to claim to have a friend who works at the company! No, seriously, you are!

that planet at the end could be onyx after all. remember the halo 3 level "The Ark" at the end a cinematic shows a lot of sentinels leaving the planet, SPARK says "these drones have a priority task." they could be going to make onyx

yes the planet could be onyx, and yes onyx could be the location for halo 4, but if the sentinels are leaving to make onyx, why would they its already made, plus, im pretty shure the sentinels went to make the replacement halo for the one M.C destoryed. but every thing else is true.

They have a perfect setting to.Master chief finds out the chunk of ship floats to the home planet of the brutes.There,he meets the arbiter captured with him.The armies go to get rid of the brutes once and for all,but it is a setup and they are working with the new flood king.

They have a perfect setting to.Master chief finds out the chunk of ship floats to the home planet of the brutes.There,he meets the arbiter captured with him.The armies go to get rid of the brutes once and for all,but it is a setup and they are working with the new flood king.

Yaaaaaa. he is right. u remember on halo 2 he fell in the water?Maybe there's a new flood king and all of the brutes from the home planet want revenge?The show must go on...............................

it couldnt be in the book it takes place during the end of halo 2 because Master Chief hasnt came home yet when his other team mates were plus the spartan 3 were still fighting Elits plus the world would have to been around for years because of all the living life that is on it if it was just built there couldnt have been life on it just yet.

i think there should be a halo 4 but bungie says its the last halo in the trilogy

WAT IS WRONG WITH BUNGIE!They say Halo 3 will be tha last ,but they leave some clues that might tell ya there will be a Halo 4 . BUNGIE MAKE UP YOUR MIND , FINISH IT ALREADY!

Do you mean the Legendary ending? I don't see that as necessarily a clue to a Halo 4 at all.

Short of killing off every character, they would live on and do other things outside the scope of the story that makes up the Halo trilogy. It's not unfair to show a bit of that-- but that wouldn't change the fact that those events take place outside the Halo story arc.

Think of it like watching Frodo, Bilbo and Gandalf get on a boat for the Grey Havens at the end of LotR. That's not a tease that the next book is going to be about adventures somewhere else. It's just saying life goes on after the story ends.

All that said, maybe there WILL be a Halo 4. I think they've set it up so they can continue or not-- their choice.

SOMEONE FROM BUNGIE TELL ME IF THERE IS A HALO 4 OR NOT.SOMEONE IS GOING TO RUMER ABOUT NEW WEAPONS AND VEHICLES

Don't hold your breath, man. Bungie took 18 months after the last release before announcing their next title. And we already know at least some people at Bungie are working on something else.

People spread rumors about weapons, vehicles, and everything else anyway. Just don't listen.

hey they might make another prequel game like halo wars
acctually following the chiefs early life with the spartans

Thats a very good question. Man i hope there is an ending and hope the Chief doesnt Die!!

if there is a halo 4 let there be more spartans some survived and they team up 2 finish off wats left of the brutes and a new enemy on onyx

Yeah if u actually watch past the credits u see him and cortana talking then he gos into his tube thing i mean it honestly could go both ways a halo 4 would be awosme!

so im keeping my fingers crossed

woundnt it be asome if master cheif was naked ! his d*** would be mad of iron

i don't think there will be a halo 4, but a continuation of halo with mc and cortana. i heard that the planet that he came upon was onyx, a planet with great significance explained in the books, and it is a continuation of halo but not affiliated with the rings or ark, but mainly focuses on the forerunners. which by the way i don't think are humans, to acount for many blogger questions, even though the monitor or guilty spark says 'you are forerunner' to mc at the end of halo 3, but in the books there suposidliy is some conection with a forerunner hierarch reaching planet earth, finding to like the humans and built the portal to the ark on it, and suposidly built the garden of eden also, but im not sure to believe that was included in the readings.

-To prevent false information, this is a rumor, and i'm not entirely sure if it is true. i am just the messenger.

-------Aircard

This guy has an excellent point.
Bungie left halo 3 open for many possibilities to occur
Sorry to say, that includes not continuing it at all.
I'm not implying that anyone should give up the idea, just give it a rest.
After all, halo 3 just came out.
So until anyone truly has any groundbreaking information, lets leave it at that.
nuff' said.

If there were going to make a halo 4 then they have to have a new war. Then they would have to make like halo 5 and 6 to.

just to tell you his name is Jonh

the forrunners most likely DID join the human race long ago because only certain humans are "reclaimers" which logically must be decendents of forrunners, its a little like the stargate atlantis theme, if you watch that sort of thing

not really.I have a friend and his uncle works with microsoft and he asked if they were gna make a halo 4 and his uncle said yes

It could go either way but for all those riding on the hope of Halo 4.I don't think it will happen, the endng in Halo 3 was one of the most poetic endings that could be given to the Master cheif. He and cortana a relationship of trust and frindship.Drifting peacefully into the void of space after ridding humanity of its greatest threat. The master cheif is put to rest in a cryo tube in the middle of space drifting towards a planet that seems uninhabited.

You guys have no clue do you. $300 million dollars in a week means there will be a halo4. NOBODY turns down cash like that, nobody. That story stuff doesn't mean anything. Its all about the money. Wake up nerds.

It's a bit more complicated than that.

The guys who started up Bungie weren't in it just for the money, because when they started as a small Mac game developer, there was no money. There were no huge profits, no big salaries, no glitzy worldwide launches. They made several very high quality games before Halo.

So there are bound to be some at Bungie who are tired of Halo and would like to work on something else. If they have any pride and faith in their creative abilities, they are liable to think it's just as likely that they'll have a huge hit with some new game as they did with Halo.

From Microsoft's perspective as a publisher, sure: they'd love to see Halo games released until the cows come home. And now they own Halo, even though they don't own all of Bungie anymore.

So if there is to be a Halo 4-- or another Halo game-- will Bungie do it or not? If Bungie doesn't do it, will it be as good? If it's not as good, will it sell as well? Might it not sell as well just because people know it's not Bungie? Will a new Bungie game be as big a hit as Halo? Would people buy it just because its Bungie? Or avoid it because it's not Halo?

Even if you think money is the only consideration, the formula is not as simple. Franchises get get old and tired. There is a point where you can eventually make more money by letting something rest for awhile and doing something else, so you can come back to it with a fresh eye later.

I have no idea if Bungie or Microsoft agrees, but I think now would be a good time to let Halo rest awhile, at least the shooter portion of the franchise. We've already got Halo Wars and Halo Chronicles in the pipeline to generate cash for Microsoft. Bungie traded away their independence to Microsoft to get the resources to make Halo and a chance to mold the Xbox platform. Now they've traded away the rights to the Halo franchise to get their independence back.

Let's see what else they can do with it besides crank out Halo sequels. Because those sequels aren't guaranteed success any more than the original was.

ok this is just the last I landed on but there is one logical way, well might be more but anyways. Lets ask Bungie to ask the Xbox players to vote on it. 'Do you the Xbox players want us Bungie to continue the Halo series with Halo 4+' Just suggesting the question not from bungie. Heres another thing make some multi-player maps connect via highway or high speed train or something. Like Last Resort, use a ferry to go over to valhanel... I know that last map is spelled incorrectly. Also make one map like a racing map so that some people that like the racing feature might play Halo. More or less i like the puzzles, the riddles and the hidden skulls but why not put some of these features on the multiplayer levels. Well tell this gets commented on PEACE.

I think they should let the common people decide let them vote on it. Ex Question:

'Dear Xbox player ___________________
We have a simple question for you. Would you like to see the Halo series continue or would you like it to move on? [Y] [N] '

Also if they do make Halo 4 add some clues to the multiplayer maps. Or make some maps continue like Last Resort and Vahanin (IK Its misspelled) Joined by a ferry system. Or make a racing multiplayer map where players race to win and have CO-OP modes where one player drives and the other shoots other drivers or obstructions in the way. Can we add have a War mode so that we can log on a server which one hundred players can just duke it out as Spartans or Elites. A specal map is needed for this so it might have to be pay to play in order to wage war on friends or other Halo lovers.

Last and least throw in a maze level on free for all so that the players are confused and on edge.

master chief freezez himself anonymous is right and it hasnt shown his face yet they have to show it sometime or another

If you remember right, at the end of Halo 2, 343 Guilty Spark shows Keyes, Johnson, and the Arbiter the Failsafe protocol in case one of the rings was deactivated. Well what you might not remember is that when Spark did that, the hologram showed about 7 rings. It could be possible to make a few more Halo games off of destroying the remaining rings.

P.S. Why would you stop making a series of games that you make so much money off of.

Even if you didn't remember that, the control room in the Citadel also has seven holograms, one for each ring. With 04a destroyed, that still means six remaining.

Why? I'm not at all convinced the Flood are completely and irrevocably destroyed. Unless remnants of Covenant forces loyal to Truth are still actively seeking a way to activate other installations, it would seem prudent to leave well enough alone. It might be more prudent to visit them and control any Flood outbreaks, rather than destroy the installations.

I can think of lots of reasons. Because there is a point where things can and do reach a logical conclusion and should be left there, and further sequels might be looked upon as purely exploitive.

Because creative people like to do new things rather than doing the same old things over and over again.

Because at some point people do get tired of things and will want something new. I find it easy to believe that the gaming public, and the gaming press, might look at a Halo 4 or a Halo 5 at some point and say "wow, this just isn't as good/interesting/innovative as it used to be" and start doing "Bungie loses its edge" stories.

The shark metaphor applies. Sometimes to stay alive, you need to keep moving.

well personally i think they will make a halo 4 i mean there is no way they could just stop maing it i mean if they were in it for the fun then they should not stop making halo cause it is what they like doing and if i am doing soemthing i like and making millions for dong it i am not gonna stop

Why dosent someone call or email Bungie!?!?!?!

What makes you think no one has?

Typically Bungie doesn't comment on unannounced products.

At least, not with a straight face.

fuck you thay put a clif hanger beat halo on legndary just go to last lvl and beat it clifhanger is after credits.

Halo 4 should actually be a created game becuz of unanswered ?s like where is M.C? the gameplay would actually be most likely similar to Halo 2 (swicthing back from the M.C and the Arbiter) The Master Cheif tries to find out where the hell he is and the Arbiter assists and the humans in finding Spartan-117. That would be cool. Also has anyone seen the Secret Message encoded the In the Halo 3 promotion commercial when the Bungie sign fades out? look in to that

I just had an idea...what if the arbiter...killed him?you never know...it could of actually been his plan!

Thank you for helping us remember that! Do you think you could give me the link?

That wasn't a Pelican. That was In Amber Clad.

The ship split in half. The front half, the half the Arbiter was on, crashed in the ocean.

As for the Chief...

...so the Arbiter didn't kill him. Keep watching after the credits are over.

It's just a minor error, but, actually, that was Forward Unto Dawn that split in half. In Amber Clad was last seen in Halo 2, when it crashed into High Charity, releasing the Flood into the city.

By the way, the Dawn is a UNSC Frigate.

Crap, you're right. I always do that.

I guess I just like the acronym IAC better than FUD.

Meh, I make mistakes like that all the time. One time I put that Fred landed on Reach and John lead the Space OP! :S

Sorry, I don't have Halo 3, But I'm a big fan of Halo, I Have Halo: Combat Evolved for PC.
I saw the video on Myspace..Thats where I got that the Arbiter might have killed him...I hadn't seen the legendary ending until this morning. Crap, I feel so stupid...
Anyways, Thank you for the info...But I have come to conclusions that it will lead to the supposedly upcoming Marathon series... It fits perfectly...Master Chief in Cryotube...heading to strange planet...he sleeps for 300 yrs...Cortana becomes the lady in Marathon(I forgot her name)...He wakes up and Marathon begins! It said in Game Informer® that Marathon was very similar in many ways to Halo...I hope this info helps everyone. Correct me if i am wrong!
BTW HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

You're wrong. Bungie has said Marathon and Halo are separate; beyond that there are discrepancies in timelines and technologies that can't be reconciled short of a "and then they went to a parallel universe" device.

i think that there will be a halo 4 cos the ending points that way plus if u kill all the people off apart from spartin 117 and put a ending that can be used 4 a halo 4 u can do other games to make the gamers think awww there doing other game theye must have decided that there will be no halo 4 but use that money off the other games to fund very large all games in one or all the books out as soon as theye can to each othere they will make them bigger and better with next get software

ok thank you, I wonder if they are planning something big...any ideas?

in halo chief wakes up in the cyro tube, in halo 3 he puts himself back in the cryo tube, and you see a blue planet with a sunrise in the background... c'mon, it contridicts itself. I believe that there will be another halo game, but i doubt it will be called halo 4...

in halo chief wakes up in the cyro tube, in halo 3 he puts himself back in the cryo tube, and you see a blue planet with a sunrise in the background... c'mon, it contridicts itself. I believe that there will be another halo game, but i doubt it will be called halo 4...

Well there's only one way to know if there will be a Halo 4 and that is to wait...
And continue to shoot down n00bs in multiplayer on Halo 3. ;P

or they could wipe away wat they told us before and join marathon and halo a just brng back mc and the new blue team
---Bmore boy (had my name before soldier boy tell him to hop off my D**k)

i think that all those sentinals leaving the ark are going to the planet onyx:

PS. I Really really want there to be another halo. : )

you guys really need 2 get a life outside halo. i enjoy halo as much as the next person but u need to stop trying to figure out what bungie is doing and just wait for whatever it is 2 happen. and also if u read ghosts of onyx u would know that the planet is activated and anything viewed as a threat gets destroyed by the sentinels surrounding it

dude their is gonna be a new halo of course!
if you beat h3 on legendary he goes in the freezer.
and also quotes "wake me,when you need me"
andddddddd you see onyx in the background.

You don't have to beat the game on legendary to get that cut scene! Just sit the credits. (but it wont show the planet)
there needs to be a halo 4. The ending to halo 3 is almost as much as a cliff hanger as halo 2.

no he isnt in da ocean and hes alive and beat the game on legendary and u will c what happends to master cheif he told certona to wake him when she needs him duh so he goes asleep

we beat it together

ok people look for a second...they made to much money to give now,left to many loose ends, and above all else mast cheif ISNT dead...hes heading towards some planet i geuss its called onyx. theres another place to start another war. and if u watched the prophet turned into the flood. since bungie loves surprises maybe the flood prophet got away somehow. halo 4 has to come theres nothing holding it back.

They have to make halo 4 cuz theres so much money in halo, they left to many things unanswered, and above all else master cheif ISNT dead..hes floating twards the onyx planet or whatever and heres a new war for you. the prophet didnt die completly.the flood got him. so since bungie loves to surprise us whos to say that the flood prophet didnt get away...and they destroyed all the flood on EARTH not the other planets. they have to make a halo 4 or else the xbox would loose to much money and people would be ticked. halo 4 is coming and most of you know it.(sorry if i posted similar comments but the first didnt seem to make it to the page)

MAN I DONT GIVEA FUCK WHAT U PEOPLE SAY I WANT THEM TO MAKE HALO 4 AND HELL EVEN 5-13 I MEAN IF FINAL FANTASY CAN DO IT WHY CANT HALO??

nothings holding back halo 4. either theres gona be sumtin weird on onyx and the forunners are having some problems or whatever who knows the planet could be full of flood and all the forunners dead. but if they dont make a halo 4 heres 2 choices to shut up and look at. HALO WARS people. and second if they dont make halo 4 look at this

after beating the game on legendary, you see the ending of master cheif drifting through space. hes in his cryo tube and cortana is there with him. this is all you see and know. the game takes place in what, 2552 if i remember correctly...
well anyways, bungies other famous game. Marathon
marathon begins with you in the year 2794. if i read correctly, the beginning of marathon starts with you waking up being cold inside a tube for around 200 years.

strangly SUSPICIOUS?!

got that from sum1 on bungie forums.

I see the Bungie.net forums are as accurate as ever. Which is to say... not at all.

Marathon begins with the protagonist (an unnamed Security Officer) aboard a small craft called the Mirana, about to enter the colony ship Marathon.

Between the end of Marathon 1 and the beginning of Marathon 2, the security officer (along with many other humans) are kept in cold sleep.

However, in the Marathon universe at that time humanity does not have faster than light travel. The Marathon and Halo universes are separate-- as Bungie has stated unequivocally. Their Earth governments don't have the same name, there's no mention of a moon of Mars being hollowed out to make a colony ship. Humanity has far, far more offworld colonies in Halo than in Marathon despite the date being hundreds of years later. The mjolnir cyborgs in Marathon were made by reanimating the corpses of dead soldiers-- they weren't kidnapped as children and trained to be soldiers.

In Marathon the Pfhor empire stretches across the galaxy, and humanity and the S'pht track them down over hundreds of years and destroy them. There is no sign of them in Halo; no mention in any game or novel about the existence of such an empire within the galaxy.

Simply put, there's no way to make the Marathon and Halo universes coincide without saying "and then he went into a parallel universe".

OK. I got it, who ever said anything about you would be playing M.C in halo 4. dont get me wrong im sure you will play as M.C later on in the game, but what if you start out as? :(THE ARBITER): "hows that jack" <- i herd that from a movie and always wanted to say it. Think about it, there you go now the story is unraviling in your mind, hu! hu! Maybe it is maybe not. just think out side the box, hell you may end up as an O.D.S.T.

oh you can bet you will be the chief

perhaps it has been many years since the war ended
if so cortana would have died(a.i's only liven for aprox seven years)and all other main human characters would have died
it would end up chief back on earth having to defend it from the new covenant(grunts, brutes, jackals, hunters and drones) and as they are losing they have to call for help from the elites and after a while they find out that the covenant have found another halo and then you can guess the rest

"smart" A.I only live for seven years. any ways cortana lost most of her life when storing the data she collected from the first halo. unless some how the U.N.S.C rebooted her or she her self can powerdown or something she will be dieing in halo 4.