Halo 5 twice the size of Halo 4 campaign

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Andy's been playing playing Halo 5 at Gamescom and has some interesting takes on the new style of gameplay - faster action and more tradition guns, for example. One thing that stood out though was mention that Halo 5's campaign is twice as long as Halo 4, a game that wasn't exactly an afternoon's diversion.

You can find out more in the video which I lifted from Andy's feature. According to what he was told at Gamescom it's supposed to be twice as long as the campaign in Halo 4 (which he points out was "was quite a long campaign"). He was also told that things actually started bigger and were cut back. The suspected reason for the length, he feels, is partly due to the game spending time in all three of the Human, Covenant and Forerunner worlds. Watch the video for that and some other facts.

http://www.gamesradar.com/halo-5-apparently-twice-size-halo-4-s-campaign-and-it-started-bigger/

That is great news. The multiplayer like Warzone is not only much bigger but so is the campaign. Plus going to the three different worlds should be great. The news coming from Gamescom just keeps getting better.

So it'll probably be longer, but not actually twice as long. Halo 4's campaign was a decent length.

I'm hoping they nail this one.

Press six switches instead of three now, hooray

According to Howlongtobeatit Halo 4 average playthrough is 8 hours, most on normal solo can beat it in 5-6

10-12 hours co op campaign with replay value? That's already better than 95% of games out there.

Can't wait for the QTE boss fights. End an ancient alien threat with a hand grenade, lol.

Good luck to new developer 343. I hope they manage a great release as I would like to add Halo 5 to my collection.

Too bad the article isn't titled: "Halo 5 twice as good as the Halo 4 campaign".

Probably twice as boring too.

longer campaign dont mean shit to me..just write a good story

It would be nice if Halo 5 comes to pc.

It was actually no ordinary grenade but a pulse grenade(Forerunner tech) that is able to vaporize you instantly and the Didact easily survived(confirmed in the comics). It was actually a durability feat for the Didact.

They already confirmed no QTE in the game

Give it 2 years, I suspect MCC next year and maybe Halo 5 in 2017

Brian Reed for the most part has a decent track record, he did some good work for Marvel, I think it'll be decent, 343 has already done a better job of expanding the Halo EU than Bungie ever did

Day 1. I'm so excited for Halo 5. Eager to see what happens with the Chief.

And twice is long is exciting to hear! Hopefully it stays varied throughout the course of the campaign.

I can already see the ending

:D

I think as xbox one fails and fails, Microsoft is going to slyly intertwine the Xbox brand into Windows/PC. There may still be a media box like xbox one, but I would not be at all surprised if there end up being "xbox" branded graphics cards and "xbox live" on pc down the line.

Plus I'm going to be getting some kind of new setup in the near future.

the xbox one isn't failing and xbox live is already heading to the PC.

for awhile now they have been working on bringing the "xbox" brand to the PC..they haven't been hiding anything.

I haven't been missing it. I've actually been saying it since the 360 was still on the market. I suppose I should have spoken better. I think things will become more apparent to the fans/media/etc in this respect, sooner rather than later.

well, Halo 4's campaign was kinda short but that's good to hear nonetheless

So about 10-12 hours?

Doesn't mean shit if it becomes repetitive.

Halo 5 will be epic.

I wish I still cared about Halo.

What they might be doing with the story interests me....but I've long since grown apart from the franchise.

At least you've still got killzone:SF to play lol

Wish the resolution was also twice higher

@silversix_: you we're fine with 900p and 20fps in bloodborne

900p? I think you spend too much time with your Xbone. This resolution isn't very known to PS4. Microsoft's biggest series, released at the end of 2015 and is in a juicy 810p. How excited are you?

@silversix_: lol ps4 struggles to hit 1080, this is a known fact. If you care so much about resolutions you shouldn't be playing on consoles

Dat salt.

I'm not sold on this whole squad based thing. Still hyped for the game though.

Does it make a game better?

Cool....also I read the dev saying that you'll want to take the campaign slow and explore your surroundings well, apparently it's packed with details. Really looking forward to the story.

So I see that time will be a major problem this Holiday. I might have to basement dwell to get some of these games done.

So I have to tolerate the shitty level design of Halo games twice as long? I'll pass.

HOAT... can't hardly wait.

The length was never really an issue in the halo campaigns.

What they need to do is improve the mediocre level design and hire people that can actually write a decent plot.

It's Halo, the campaign is lame.

Multiplayer is where it's at. Looking forward to the Warzone play list.

I buy Halo for the campaign. But the revamped multiplayer will be impossible to ignore.

I'm almost positive they are exaggerating with that, but still, that's cool.

"looks at Order 1886"

I don't think so, maybe 343 should of done what Ready at Dawn did and put black bars on the screen so they'd have to render 75% less

Doesn't matter, misread, ima dumb shit lol.

They have a pretty damn good plot in Halo, the biggest problem is that Halo's plot in the games is heavily reliant on players knowing the EU ei the books, graphic novels, comics etc, to understand what the hell is going on, when I first played Halo the plot confused the **** out of my until I went on wiki's and watch Halo Followers videos trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Then it started to make sense. Halo's plot is great for people who know the EU, not so much for everyone else, and really I still shouldn't have to go through wiki's, videos, and books just to know what's going on the in actual games. EU are suppose to expand on a series, not be a requirement to know the main plot of the damn game. That's the biggest issue with Halo's plot.

For example

One of the biggest implied theories is that Master Chief is the Iso Didact which they subtly mention several times in Halo CE and Halo 4 but the only way to know this is by reading several comics and putting the pieces together, great idea, but again having to go outside of the main games, same with Blue Team in Halo 5, no one is going to know who the **** these characters are unless they read Fall of Reach or looked it up on a wiki Although to be fair they'll probably explain in the game but knowing how Halo has always been I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.

Long QTE cutscenes, amirite?

They already said no QTE in the game

That's good. Better have some decent boss battles.

Yeah, Frank O Connor said on Neogaf that there'd be massive sandbox levels in Halo 5 like Silent Cartographer and The Ark which incredible, and there'd be a massive boss fight that eclipses the Dual Scarab fight in Halo 3 which was IMO the greatest moment in any of Halo's campaigns, and that there'd be multiple routes and strategies.

Same, I'm probably in that minority who care about the campaign than the MP itself, I'm not gonna deny that they've had lackluster level design but they've had some bad ass levels like Silent Cartographer, The Ark and The Covenant. These type of sandbox levels were non existent in Halo 4 but Frank O Connor said they'd be back in Halo 5

This is what has me hyped more than anything though, from Neogaf

So the campaign is sixteen hours long?

Um, yeah right.

no, it only make em differentiate from previous gen, you know, you bought a new console which is supposed to be six times more powerful but the resolution is the same or a little bit higher. Very sad.

By looking at their last game, what was rendered on screen was under 75% because nothing was working for half a year lmao. So yes, maybe they should've voted for that 75% instead of 0% and tournaments being cancel because of it.

Yeah like the PS4 running games at 30fps.

Sounds nice, i only buying Halo5 for the singleplayer so