Why did it have so much cut content?

I thought there was going to be 7 games for seven halos and we'd see them all before 2008-10

halo 3 was supposed to have massive multiplayer maps and water fights with boats but it was all discarded due to xbox hardware limitation

hopefully we get that in infinite so the name lives up to itself

Even with the cut content, it's astounding just how much shit this game had out of the box

Basically wrote the template for online console gaming, from lobbies to matchmaking

They've mentioned in places that they always planned to do a trilogy, but I don't know if there's any truth to that. Either way, I'm sure the original ending for Halo 2 would have seen Truth dead and the Covenant finished. I'm leaning more towards a duology because I can't imagine Bungie planned on making Halo 3 game with Flood as the primary enemies.

Halo 2 was supposed to be the big Xbox Live game, they delayed it once but they weren't going to consider moving it again.

Halo 2 only happened because the first game was so successful. That whole trilogy was played by ear.

yeah basically every modern multiplayer game has taken something from halo series it's proof of how it was ahead of its time

I remember my older brother telling me me the 'leaked plot' to halo 2 and the forerunners ending up being humans that time travelled but because of the leak they had to rewrite and remake a lot of the game very quickly.
I haven't kept up with halo story since 2 and I know that isn't what happened but I always though that that plot twist would have been good

>still has more content than any other halo game

To this day, Halo 2 is still the only good video game ever made

A dualology would have bee sweet. I prefer them to trilogies.

First game tests the waters of a game’s mechanics and establishes a fictional setting. Second game perfects the game’s mechanics and fully utilises the creative potential of a world to tell neat stories.

The original Halo 3 might've looked something like Halo 4. It could've been a really fitting ending to the franchise if Cortana still died.

Nah, they probably would have made halo reach 1 game earlier instead. Putting chief away only to bring him back one game later would’ve been stupid.

>best most interesting games are always missing tons of content
Why does it always happen?

I have to side with you, sequels especially released shortly after the first game tend to be like the perfect game

That's half right, it's basically implied throughout the original trilogy that humans are the forerunners after they nuked themselves back to the stone age.

the reason star wars is great is he envisioned a massive plotline and then he made his movie a slice out of the entire thing
I reckon the same effect goes for games too big for their breeches

It was developed for the original Xbox and the Xbox 360 was slated to come out the next year. There was literally way to push it off another year. The situation ultimately happened because Bungie bit off WAY more than they could chew with Halo 2. Halo 2's multiplayer was basically a side project developed by a small team to placate people used to system link/LAN, with the actual Halo 2 multiplayer supposedly going to be something similar to what we got with Halo 5's warzone. The overhaul for the game engine basically made it impossible to develop or test anything for a significant duration of the project.

literally no way*

>Forerunner Tank never

the Xbox couldn't handle its game engine

that makes sense to me
maybe then halo 4 woulda been a bungie thing since they would still be with the IP in that time frame

they scrapped the entire game late into production and started over. It was originally gonna have Halo 2 and 3s story in one