Youre making an even bigger jump than those assuming this means the series is 100% dead.
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Art From Cancelled Halo Wars 3 Pitch Released (Space Battles, X-COM Style Base)
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Pitches for sequels when games are in dev in normal operating procedure.
Black Mantis
Member
I'd love a few space battle missions in HW3, hopefully it's something they'll seriously consider with kb/m support now a thing. HW2 DLC brought some great Flood moments to the series, so here's hoping HW3 can bring some of the great space battles (not counting that one mission in Reach) we've only read in books or viewed in cut-scenes to actual gameplay.
LukasTaves
Member
Even for a 3rd party contractor that showed no intention of continuing the series? I mean, there has to be at least a nod that they plan to continue with it, at least at the time the proposals were made.
It would work really well with the story pre-Halo 1 as well, deciding which planets to prioritise saving similar to how X-COM works with the different nations.
yanipheonu
Member
Oh man now I really want Halo XCOM.
The amount of Halo mods for XCOM 2 implies a possible desire for it. :O
The amount of Halo mods for XCOM 2 implies a possible desire for it. :O
Halo Wars 2 didn't interest me at all, but space battles would make me immediately pay attention.
The problem is that the series needs to get more complex to grow, and it can't do that as long as it needs to support the XBox controller as an RTS. Rebooting it as a Windows 10 exclusive (like Age of Empires) would probably result in a better game.
The problem is that the series needs to get more complex to grow, and it can't do that as long as it needs to support the XBox controller as an RTS. Rebooting it as a Windows 10 exclusive (like Age of Empires) would probably result in a better game.
They released the original game on PC after years of PC gamers asking for it.
Not only did they release it on PC, but they released it on steam, where it sold a pitiful 123k.
Sure, but that's a far cry from saying the series is "most likely" to continue.
Especially with how poorly HW2 did.
Exactly. Looks like a totally hot concept that would go on to sell >100K copies.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I mean, Im legit still waiting on them to rethink passing on that one. The build looked cool as hell.
I am too, could be a really fun/cute Halo game and I don't mind silly spin-offs at all
Man that game looked rad. So does this pitch.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Halo + Rabbids: Kingdom Evolved
Make it happen.
Make it happen.
High Prophet of Regret
Member
I frikkin' love Halo, but this gets me every time LOL
Triggerhappytel
Member
I'm not sure it bombed, but I don't think it was an especially big success or anything. MS really only seems to be investing in hits, so I wouldn't be surprised if the third game was canned.
Although this could be just one pitch of several that wasn't successful. It's not really indicative of whether there will be a sequel by itself.
LukasTaves
Member
Fair enough.
On the bold, how poorly exactly did it do? I assumed at least decently given the expansions.
Edit:
The first one itself wasn't that big of a hit, if that's all Ms was interested in investing we wouldn't even see 2 being made.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
They should be pushing more in areas like this. Theres a following, and sequels show commitment to the IP.
Bits N Pieces
Member
Just give me my third person action game where you play an ONI agent gone rogue set in the Halo universe. And give it to me soon! 
If all of microsofts games hit steam theyd sell a lot more copies.
7DollarHagane
Banned
I think the sequel was a Bomba.
I think it was a better game than 5 was.
I think it was a better game than 5 was.
Halo Wars 2 was not a great game. There were seeds there, but the narrative was weak, the mission variety kinda lacking, and the season pass one of the worst I've ever seen (it offers about 2 hours of gameplay for ~$40 because they pushed Firefight too hard).
Rather than developing a really good, lengthy campaign, we got... well, way too much emphasis on Firefight. Game pushes its multiplayer and cards way too hard. It's annoying and one of the reasons I don't enjoy booting the game up.
It's a big issue with a lot of Microsoft's games lately, if I'm being honest. I don't want some gigantic banner blocking the game when I boot it up, screaming about some new multiplayer update, asking me to spend more money. I was given the season pass. I have all the content. I don't need to be asked to buy it too. Can't it at least run a check to see if I own the content? jfc.
Space combat would have been incredible. And what is that, some kind of XCOM-style ant farm? Sounds amazing and way more in-depth than what we got with Halo Wars 2.
Boring campaign, boring story, awful multiplayer news feed, just as frustrating as Gears 4's and Halo 5's.
Rather than developing a really good, lengthy campaign, we got... well, way too much emphasis on Firefight. Game pushes its multiplayer and cards way too hard. It's annoying and one of the reasons I don't enjoy booting the game up.
It's a big issue with a lot of Microsoft's games lately, if I'm being honest. I don't want some gigantic banner blocking the game when I boot it up, screaming about some new multiplayer update, asking me to spend more money. I was given the season pass. I have all the content. I don't need to be asked to buy it too. Can't it at least run a check to see if I own the content? jfc.
Space combat would have been incredible. And what is that, some kind of XCOM-style ant farm? Sounds amazing and way more in-depth than what we got with Halo Wars 2.
Boring campaign, boring story, awful multiplayer news feed, just as frustrating as Gears 4's and Halo 5's.
dancrane212
Member
/s?
123k in 6 months for a remaster of an RTS, one that had a soft launch on another storefront just a couple months prior, with little to no marketing or buzz doesn't seem that bad to me.
To compare, Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak, admittedly not a budget title, did ~204k in almost 2 years and Vanquish, an often requested PC port with the same price as Wars DE, is sitting at ~94k in 5 months from release.
i think he's saying is that a $20 remaster didn't really set the world on fire so why would a $60 sequel do that
Why Halo has yet to spend some serious in game time in a space battle(outside maybe one mission in the entire series) is beyond me, always wanted to see it done. Don't know if an RTS game would be the way I wanted it though.
Thanks for the link btw
Thanks for the link btw
Ryouji Gunblade
Member
I think I like what I see here. My tabletop-playing friends would love this.
dancrane212
Member
That makes more sense but I still think a bit it's a flawed comparison seeing as the game is still a low-profile, late port of a console-only RTS from 2009 which seemed to preform decently all things considered.
I do wonder what the overall expectations of Wars 2 were though. The RTS landscape has been cut down significantly since the original Halo Wars. You have to figure MS had lower expectations going in.
The expansion was in development before the game was out.
If you consider the first game not that big of a hit, what would you call significantly worse numbers?
LukasTaves
Member
First one was successful for sure, and perhaps for the genre specially in console space it was indeed a hit, but officially IIRC it landed over 1 million but less than (but close to) 2.
I'd say significant worse numbers would be the game not even breaking 500k after the first month. And a absolute flop if it still haven't.