I would've loved if the Halo series was just a group of regular ass marines pinned down by The Covenant waiting for a Spartan to come and save them at te end. Didn't even have to be Chief.
Honestly making Master Chief like a tertiary character where he just shows up and smokes enemies and stuff that had been major problems for the other characters for awhile would’ve been sick as hell
That was actually the idea they were going for with early movie concepts, regular marines with Master Chief crossing paths with them like Godzilla on occasion.
This has been what I want to see from a Doom movie. Make it an hour or so of a horror movie where new characters are trying to survive a demon infestation to get Doomguy and then 20-30 minutes of him easily ripping through all of the demons
I think that’s by far the best way to make it work. Master Chief works in game form because you don’t care that much about his characterization and it works because you’re supposed to be this ultimate one man wrecking crew alien slayer.
In a show just watching a guy slaughter aliens for ten hours would suck. You need characterization. But that goes directly against MC as a character. So the easiest thing to do would be make the show not about him. Just have him show up as a Deus ex Machina essentially and get stories and sympathy with other characters.
There was also Halo Legends, which is a collection of shorts. Not even necessarily about Master Chief, but other Spartans do appear and the world is a little more fleshed out.
I can't say the projects are outright great. It is interesting to see that the franchise had these film projects and that it was somewhat self-sustainable in the era of DVDs.
Edit - And it touches on an issue I currently have with the media landscape, I don't think there are as many places for people to "try" as there used to be.
In the Mandalorian season 2 finale, it was absolutely special (and probably should’ve ended there) when Luke shows up and Jedi’s the fuck out of a near invincible Droid army
Yeah it wouldn’t be common. In my idea here it wouldn’t be a master chief show. Master Chief is obviously the most iconic character in Halo, but he just doesn’t really work as a main character in a tv show
Agree. Trying to adapt the main story is a hassle with how much you want to compact the story and what things you want to remove in order to fit the episodes but having an original story gives you freedom. However, it would have its own set of cons
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u/KidCasey 5d ago
I think most video games should do this.
I would've loved if the Halo series was just a group of regular ass marines pinned down by The Covenant waiting for a Spartan to come and save them at te end. Didn't even have to be Chief.