I'm not sure I like where this is going.
For one, it isn't Bungie's thing anymore, purely 343 Industries and Microsoft now.
Seems to me like the whole franchise is starting to sell-out...
How is it a sell-out? Imo Halo should have went straight to 4, and Reach and ODST shouldn't have even been done. Plus, how can you hate on 343 Industries? They've been with Bungie and the Halo franchise since the beginning. They will do just fine.
Don't get me wrong. This won't stop me from eating this up like a starved puppy...
Its just, the series, to me at least, feels like it should have ended at the end of Halo 3. The war with the Covenant was over, everybody mourned the loss of the Master Chief, everybody moved on. Now we get a spin-off that has nothing to do with that epic storyline.
Just seems to me like it's more about the money than the fans. Like, "Oh, lets just throw a few bits together here and slap the title 'Halo 4' on it, the people will eat it up."
And, as I mentioned before, the Halo franchise no longer belongs to Bungie, so it just won't be the same.
Just my