Customer surveys are just that -- they are not confirmation of games in production, a window into the future or any indication that the ideas presented are little more than the results of 2 AM brainstorm sessions. They do, however, serve one important role -- they confirm that someone, somewhere, dreamed up a "family friendly" Halo game.
Kotaku has uncovered a marketing survey that is intended to gauge interest in a variety of Halo spin-offs. Among the suggestions are a Halo MMO, LEGO Halo and a Halo racing game. Most ridiculous of all, however, is the aforementioned idea of a family-friendly Halo game. Cooking Mama Chief? I don't know what they're thinking.
If this survey indicates anything, it's that Halo is definitely very much on Microsoft's mind, and we can expect to see many, many more games in the franchise as time goes by. Would you play LEGO Halo?
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8:35 AM on 06.25.2008
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There are so many dark places that this franchise milking will take us. Pray that we never see a "Mastah C. Da Rappa"
Lets hope that if MS are going to milk Halo dry that they make a few of them decent games.
Works for Nintendo with Mario. Not so much for SEGA with Sonic.
as long as they make it good like LEGO Star Wars it should be ok
Really, we should've seen this coming.
Also, I still cant figure out what MS is smoking to claim that Halo Wars is just a 360 exclusive and denying any type of PC port. I mean, an RTS game NOT coming to PC? Befuddled I am.
I've been dreaming of a Halo game with over the shoulder aiming and camera for quite some time. I want to see my spartan on screen, pulling off slick moves while firing, dodging, rolling, reloading, and unloading some melee attack animation smack downs. I want me some Max Payne-esque action, even if it was silly looking Lego men. It would probably be twice as fun as the actual Halo games if they did it right.
If anything blame LEGO for milking every franchise they can co-op with (I'm sure I shall get sick of the LEGO games one day....but not after LEGO: Freddy Vs Jason Vs Predator Vs Alien Vs Jack Thompson limited edition game comes out.
Wouldnt you all agree?
I dont understand why this simple logic can cover an entire collection of games, but not games in the same franchise.
If they make a Cooking Mama Chief game, will that somehow make your copy of Halo 3 just as terrible? How about even a little bit worse? It souldnt if you are of sound mind. Will it make any Halo game made after it any worse? Highly doubtful.
Now I am not in favor of putting out poor games, but let's not pretend that a bad one (or even a few bad ones in a long running series) will ruin a franchise.
I don't respect your opinion...
Is this what you're referring to?
Unlike most people on the interentet (that seem to believe they deserve respect just becasue they said something), I dont care if you respect my opinion or not.
Do you agree/disagree with it? That is what is important. That and the "why" behind it.
I'm not kidding. This would make a good game. Turn based, squad centred, Halo universe, FF:Tactics gameplay. Win.
Lego only made those games as they already had a license for those themes.
When Lego makes Halo sets, then I'm sure we'll see Lego Halo.
Speaking of Lego...They should make a new Lego racers.
Wouldn't that be greeeaaaat?
Oh wait, it's Microsoft.
they say it's for kids...but...um...HELLO...kids already play halo!
everyone whines about this, but you know, deep down in your heart, you'd buy a halo racing game, despite the fact that you can already PLAY this proposed racing game in custom maps and games.
... and there's the cooking show premise again.
Funny.
@ Quiotu
Couldnt agree more. I mean, not to rip on Halo's universe but it isnt like it is the Holy Grail or anything.
If they make 5 more Halo games and 4 of them suck and 1 of them is awesome, isnt that better then them not making any more games? At least then we get the one that was good.
In today's age, you have the world at your fingertips. Do some research and you wont be "milked" out of your money for a game you wont like.
a squad-based 3rd person halo game could work too...or a game like battlefront.
I was pretty damn angry with the ending to Halo 3 leaving a huge, huge, huge hint of further sequels and - it looks like Microsoft isn't going to let things to when it makes money, which often means that a billion spin-offs and sequels will be made, which in the end, destroys the series. Halo was a pretty decent series, why not leave it at that?
They better do a damn good job designing the sequels. I don't mind them fleshing out the story, but Halo's story, while adequate, has never equaled truly great story-based games like Final Fantasy, Mass Effect or Half Life. If they want to bring more to the story, they should stick to writing books.
The only Halo spin-off I'd tolerate is a RTS game or something similar to it. An MMO wouldn't work - there's not enough character variety. A family friendly game wouldn't work either - it would be ruining the Halo experience to have a "raise the grunts" game or "Operation: Master Chief" where you're forced to perform "surgery" on a Spartan.