Why Bother Remaking Halo CE? 

There are two main things that would "justify" the remake: (1) Make a remake that is actually graphically honest to the original (think 343GS) and (2) Include new cut content / significant additional content (more terminals? )

Real question is how are they going to handle the flood. CE isn’t overly gory, but are they going to make them scary enough? Will it have an M rating and does it even need it. I can’t take any of these leaks seriously until we get a proper announcement on the plans 343 has for the next game

The more I think about it. The less I want them to touch Halo CE. Leave it alone. Make the NEXT installment.

I don’t want it, there is zero chance in hell that 343i can faithfully remake/remaster CE. Leave Chief in freezer.

Completely unnecessary, 343 is just relying on nostalgia to try to keep the franchise alive, instead of delivering a good halo game.

This is not okay, we will not be okay. 343 cannot replicate Bungie by copying what Bungie has done. They can only fuck it up.

There's also the question of art style vs. graphical fidelity, if that makes sense. Halo, but especially CE, has a very distinct and strong art style, yet the clips used in this video to showcase UE5 reek of a level of graphical detail that may not necessarily be compatible with Halo's art style. I always roll my eyes whenever I see a video of things like "I REMADE MARIO IN UE5" and it's just Mario in an overly-detailed environment with crazy lens flares and realistic water. Sure, the fidelity is crazy good - but do rocks with 10k polygons and water with realistic ripples effects fit within the art style of a Mario game? No, I wouldn't say so, and I worry about what might happen to CE's art style in this remake, if it really is one.

My biggest worry is that the "need" for a remake is a cash grab ploy, riding off lonetimes fans wants/nostaligia baiting. And that they wont do the game justice in improving it, just using it as a tool for quick microtransaction farming.

I would love to see Thel Vadam-centered missions. How he was essentially screwed over by the prophet that was there.

I feel like the main reason why sprint is so hated in the Halo community is cause it was first introduced as a spartan ability in Reach and not a default feature.

I'm all for a remake I just really hope they try to add in cut missions or parts from the book. Maybe even give us some Arbiter missions against the flood.

Appealing to “modern audiences” is what made Halo the bland disjointed garbage that it’s been for the past decade. When a studio doubles down on its own formula and unique vision, those who appreciate it will follow. Helldivers 2 is a great example, I hope the remake has faith in the Halo IP and does something unexpected for once.

Would love to have a theater mode in this “remake”

I’ve been a life long fan of both Microsoft and PlayStation. Halo and Gears of War being two of my favorite Xbox titles. I’m fine with more players getting to experience Halo CE.

Microsoft is gonna f it up. That's what's gonna happen. I loved Halo, but it's just in such a crap state. The only reason Halo is pushed out the door and onto shelves in the first place is to make money. There is no passion that is put into the franchise anymore. As a fan, I've loved Halo. But I can't keep holding hope for a doomed franchise. If Halo was given to a different company, my word would be different. Optimistic even. But 343 and Microsoft have proven time and time again they cannot make a good/full product, only half sends.

My biggest bet is like SVP mod from CE, is the direction they should take the campign, same story more sections, weapons and related events as new missions

I would want a rework to the Warthog! 1st person camera option? Maybe the Hog can modded and repaired too?

After the smashing success of the Dead Space and Resident Evil 4 remakes, why shouldn’t CE get a remake of its own? It only makes sense considering the potential goldmine 343i has at their fingertips. They could incorporate story moments from The Flood book and other places from the expanded lore. They could revive cut content that was originally meant to be in the game. They could add in enemies, weapons, vehicles, and multiplayer modes from future Halo games. Who wouldn’t want an official version of CE Firefight?

halo ce's movement can be modernized without sprint lol.

I don’t understand why people are getting so negative about this all of the sudden. People were asking for it for ages and initially people sounded hyped when it leaked. But a few big creators said it was a bad idea and then all of the sudden everyone is

"Modern audiences can't enjoy a shooter without sprint" is such a meme. There are so many popular modern shooters that don't use sprint at all. CS2, the newer Doom games, Overwatch, etc. Plenty of older shooters that don't have sprint are still popular and well-beloved today as well. Hell, I got some of my friends into Halo for the first time back when MCC released on PC, and not one of them complained about the lack of sprint in the older titles. There are so many other things they could change or improve on in a CE remake that would still keep the spirit of the original game, you don't need to add sprinting.

Just giving a “booo” for the idea of sprint 🤣

A remake definitely makes the most sense but also shouldn't even be a plan right now unless they plan on changing some story. Stranger Things have happened and hopefully they just get a team that is just that when it comes to the game as a whole.

I still don't get why sprinting is still a point of contemption with the community, is one of the few good things 343 added to the games. You know, it would be weird for a super soldier to not be able to run...

Halo fans “we want spin offs!” **gives us a remake

I know where that audio omg he has the halo 1 pistol is from, master Cheif war halo 3 video

I definitely agree with everything you said in the video but I just hope this isn't a waste of resources. Like maybe they could have used these resources and time on making the next Halo game or something new at least.

Remakes are typically a make or break with video games. As time goes on, a game becomes iconic and loved by a community such as Resident Evil in 1996. But six years later, a remake comes out that not only improves the immersion and fidelity of a game but brings an overhaul with modern controls, new sounds and effects, OST, etc. Remasters are a tough nut to crack because what is a remastered is typically updating the graphics or fidelity of a game, again Resident Evil took the remake path because it’s a modern take or rewriting of the original. Remaster is basically leaving the original game but updating the engine, the visuals, the technicalities. Should Halo have a remake/remaster? Maybe. I mean the “anniversaries” from Halo CEA and 2 were essentially remasters because they were updated and up to par with modern technology. No added content or rewriting works to the original story. Remakes can make or break a story and the nature of a game. I don’t think a full remake is necessary but perhaps use Unreal Engine to glorify the graphics.

This could be similar to black mesa which is remake mod for the first half life. What im trying to say that we could have a longer story and more stuff to explore and other details.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was another remaster. We are in an era of gaming where little work is put into a game and then they just put micro transactions to make money. If gaming companies put time into making really good games, they will make more money then any amount of micro transactions can make them.

This is what halo needs, if they wanna reboot the series. Idc if they need take 3 years to do it. If they wanna reboot halo CE, Take the OG game, remake with halo 2 av graphics and then add a 40 hour campaign including lore and stuff from the books. While playing as MC is cool, add the stuff from the books for the marines. Like ODTS securing alpha base, marvin mobuto mission, Jenkins, the marines final stand on halo etc and escaping.

A halo CE remake would need a REmake kind of dedication/skill/love for the bungie halos that 343 is completely lacking, given their track record. I would not get my hopes high

please tell me that's a rethorical question

I'm worried about this.

I have zero issues with sprint in halo. People just like being dramatic

CE deserves a proper anniversary/Remake. If they do this correctly it will be what Ive always wanted from a definitive edition of CE.

I would like it to be more of a Halo CE extended cut

Im just tired of playing the same game over and over again. Can we get something new AND good ? I don't see the point playing AGAIN the game, after playing it thousand times already. Maybe for newcomers or for the nostalgia rush, but i'll pass on this one.

"lets talk ah-boat"

If there was any one thing they could do with CE that would get me interested in it, it would be to create a seamless experience throughout the campaign. I'm picturing the first two missions going pretty much as-is. But when you emerge from the Forerunner Structure in Halo, time has moved to sunset. You fly directly from Halo to Truth and Reconciliation, and night falls on the trip. After saving Keyes, you fly to Alpha Base in the Spirit, making it at sunrise, and get a new base-defense mission to bridge the gap to Silent Cartographer. After that there's an underground Pelican mission (say, something happens with Echo 419 on the trip, or she's been flying non-stop since you landed so you take over the controls while she gets some shut-eye). Then you get Assault on the Control Room, after that mission's normal ending, you head back out in time for sunset and there's an additional section where Marines are brought in to fortify the structure and it gets attacked by Covenant. That will lead to you boarding Echo 419 and heading off to 343 Guilty Spark in time for night to fall again (perhaps with an on-rails turret section in the Pelican on the way there). The rest of the game pretty much plays out the same, teleporting across the ring between levels up until the end of Keyes. Between Keyes and Maw there will be an additional Banshee level. The Truth and Reconciliation (ship) being withing a Banshee mission of the Pillar of Autumn's crash site makes a lot of sense to me. The Covenant would want a foothold near that crash site, and Keyes went down with the Autumn and was brought to the Truth and Reconciliation, so having the Truth and Reconciliation (mission) and Keyes take place in the same canyon location as the Maw as a sort of retcon is an easy one to make. They could even let us see the Pillar of Autumn crash site in the background and add new dialogue during certain parts of those missions to make it clear that's where we are earlier in the campaign. Basically if all is done right, the cutscenes and new missions should blend one level directly into the next, so it feels like you never lose a blink of Master Chief's journey on the ring.

I really disagree with the argument for modern audiences expecting sprint. Some of the most popular shooters of the last little while (Overwatch and Counter Strike to name a few), have not had sprint (or clamber for that matter). It's definitely rare for a game nowadays to not have it, but I think 343 needs to realize that Halo, especially a remake of Halo 1, is DEFINITELY one of those few exceptions. If the have sprint in the multiplayer, assuming this will have one, every single map will need to be completely overhauled to accommodate for it.

They could add in cut content like missions,armors,etc. Also the inconsistency from Reach to CE is still goofy to me,even with CE:Anniversary. They could fix alot of that.

I honestly think this is really timely. UE5 is poised to make Halo LOOK absolutely stunning in ways it never has. I also think 343i is absolutely aware of the complaints surrounding Saber's Anniversary Edition of CE, especially with regard to the drastically altered lighting that didn't do it any favors. Now, my complaint with the Saber remaster's lighting isn't that the lighting doesn't look better (it technically still does) but the fact they put "lights" in places where a light doesn't actually exist in the design of the physical architecture. (And this is the main cause of everything being so much brighter) Not only that, these are usually neon-bright, and these are the lights we mainly take issue with. I think this may have also been an effort (albeit an extremely lazy one) on Saber's part to break some of the repetitiveness of areas like the Library. It might have also been a limitation of the decision to have the Anniversary Edition be a simple remaster with the original game actually still running alongside the update. (Which was honestly a stupid, pointless feature. They could have just let a player pick between original/remaster in the menu before starting the game and been fine) Now if this new release is being made in UE5, then it HAS to be a * remake.* There's no point in using the original assets in 2024; it's just too low-poly now, especially with UE5's film-level polycount capabilities. As for "modernized" gameplay.. well.. look at the DOOM reboots. Sprint = always on, in true "Boomer shooter" fashion. And Doom is doing just fine. Halo can do the same 🤣 (But in all honesty, if they add sprinting I won't be mad.)

Veteran Halo Player here, "Remastering" Halo CE a Second time would be a poor investment for Microsoft and 343 Studios. The fact that they've revealed that "The next Halo game will be using Unreal Engine 5" and that they have been working on this for a while now. It leads to believe that this is a Full Remake of Halo CE, utilizing updated UI and Character Movement, updated sound, graphics and everything they learned with the last Halo games. Do I agree with this choice? No, because we have so much more to pursue within the Halo Universe. But does this set them up well if released on PlayStation? Yes. And If this is leading us to the next Narratively forward Halo Game, then lets hope that's the plan. Otherwise, I suspect this may be a last push for seeing if halo will survive or not.

I'm excited for a potential remake of CE in unreal engine 5!

Still no Halo 3 Anniversary Remaster!!!! 😢

Idk, if it doesn’t take any resources away from the actual newest halo game then why not. Though at the same time I’d argue that halo 2 or even 3 deserve a remake/remaster even more than ANOTHER CE remake.

2:02 I generally don’t see a problem with sprinting in Halo game, Idk why people dislike it so much

343 please stay away from this. Give it to Certain Affinity

I love CE, seems like this would be pretty awesome, especially if 343 hands over the reigns to another company to make it like the company that made Halo Wars. Are they still talking about making this?

Halo CE is honestly good enough as is. It’s not a game held back by technical limitations like Fallout: New Vegas. That being said; a high fidelity smooth and modern version would be cool, especially if it was expanded upon.

First off: If it's real odds are it won't go to playstation, Media and Playstation fanboys have been running this narrative for over a decade now. Second: There's plenty a remake could do for CE: Forge, better physics (IE: Not dying from stubbing your toe on a parked vehicle), new campaign missions that didn't make the final cut, potentially new weapons too.

I still think it's a good idea it'll be neat especially with updated graphics the cutscenes will be cooler

did 343 say this i saw this in an article about them porting old macworld stuff to mcc "The team is not willing to put out half-broken content, so we’ll be fixing stuff" okbuddy

Hey buddy, thank you for being a positive voice for the thing I love. Wishing you the best even in hard times.

I just want a new halo multiplayer that isn’t overly sweaty and mtx filled.

this remake needs to be rated M. bring the grunt glow in the dark blood back!!!

The only way to have a successful 'remake'. Is to do what Dead Space Remake and Resident Evil Remake did. That level of success.

I really like the idea of doing a remake of Halo, and if it goes really well to continue forward with the rest but have the gameplay and style of them all be very cohesive and similar. Kinda like Resident Evil or Modern Warfare in recent years, no crazy graphical or style changes between games. Also your voice kinda has a master chief under tone to it lol

yk 343 is running out of money charging people $20 for a red color for armor on HI and then after immense hate for making a bad new halo with barely any story which was horrible they decide to remake a remake of a game. like they couldve done like a Halo CE+ where it furthers the story before 2 or a prequel to Halo Reach, but no theyre gonna take an already built game most of us have played 30+ times and multiplayer 500+ hours. also lets be real. halo ce was a great game for its time but the story was very dry compared to todays games and is mostly just a nostalgia trip. its simple. we want a good story, rewarding gameplay in and out of matches, cool free customization and overall just fun, not this highly competitive, season pass, shtty elden halo ring campaign

I'm down for a remake! And if it performs well, then maybe they'll consider remaking H2 and remaster H3??!

Rubys Rebalance already remastered CE enough

They better add coop splitscreen or else its finna be a problem🤨

i'm placing money on it's going to be a shitshow at launch, either literally unplayable like most of 343 games at launch, or lacking almost all content, or the focus is once again $$$$$MICROTRANSACTIONS$$$$ I do not trust 343 and it feels like it's just a money grab trying to save this sinking franchise.

It's crazy that even though we've been arguing about sprint in Halo for half of Halo's existence, I'm still split on it. I can go either way, but I tend to feel like sprint isn't as important as people think it is. Fortnite didn't have sprint when it popped off, Doom/Eternal didn't have it, there's modern examples of successful games just not having sprint, but somehow people act like if every new Halo doesn't have sprint it'll be the death of the franchise. At the end of the day, if the game takes years to add basic franchise tentpoles and locks basic customization like the color white behind a paywall, people won't want to play it. We need a finished game to release in a functional state, bare minimum, sprint or no sprint.

In the customisation menu in infinite, the graphics on the Spartan models is extremely good but those really good graphics drop in quality in gameplay.

UberNick it a reboot it a remake or remaster and I'm for it.

I feel like since we got a remaster already, and that the game is easily available on Master Chief collection (not lost to old hardware), than a remake is justified! I’d play it!

343 and MS have made so many decisions with this franchise over the last decade that made no sense for Halo so who’s to say they won’t make another dumb decision by just doing another remaster of Halo CE but for the PS5. Never put faith in 343 or MS when it comes to Halo until we see an actual product. Also just caving in and accepting that things like Sprint will be in this possible remake? This is the reason why 343 and MS have been able to get away with so many stupid decisions over the years because the fans/community dont push back hard enough on this stuff and they just feel comfortable implementing shit that Halo fans never asked for. Have a back bone and push back against stupid decisions like implementing sprint into classic Halo or they will keep making stupid decisions.

I like to see it as a remake, like imagine if we'll get some characters from the novels of The Flood and First Strike to show up in the game. And extra weapons or extended areas we can explore further and even being in Unreal Engine sounds good. A remake for the 343 Guilty Spark can be even scarier and maybe a few changes of the looks with flood biomes slowly spreading around the Pillar of Autumn and Truth and Reconciliation since the Flood are trying to get off Installation 04 as possible to spread even further. I like to see how the remake is gonna be. A remastered doesn't work on me since we got that anniversary years ago and it doesn't need another one, so I have hopes for this one. And having it in PlayStation sounds good too so we can get more players to play this game.

If 343i did a remake, my vote is for an ODST remake!

Millions of halo fans would come back if they made halo just like the classic halo games but 343 hate money and being successful obviously.

If they remake for a “modern audience” like i think they will, i wont be mad ill be apathetic and drop Halo altogether. Back in the day being apathetic about a possible halo3 remake would be unbelievable but thats what its come to unfortunately

Are you all really trusting 343 to do a semi-competent half-assed CE remake??? Is that amnesia treating you well?? We've seen it over and over for a decade now that someone else has to take the reins.

lol my dude I don't think anyone will complain about sprint over all else that could go wrong besides the classics had faster walking speed to make up for the loss, as long as we don't zoom around like old school doom/quake I'd see it as a good addition holding onto power-ups/med-kits would be cool too rather than use them on the spot, hell add the silver team spartans as coop characters like in halo 3 adding no change to the story, maybe standing in the background or whatever during a few cutscenes but I'm done with the new games if we get a silver timeline reboot. I'd legitimately go back to the classics and not look back.

Kashiiera already made an excellent Mod for that, i would rather play that tbh. The should just do Halo 3 Anniversary already.

They need to take the gears of war approach swallow there minuscule pride and make a gritty prequel game set in the middle of the human covenant war simple then they just need to write a good story

I thought halo infinite was already a spiritual reboot? Lmao I’m kinda done with halo after that trash

If you had stopped at ADDING new things to the levels, I would agree with you, but then you had to and start talking about changing levels and making them into COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES! This is SOOO frustrating. Why?? Why do you guys INSIST on changing things that don't need to be changed?? They could easily add new areas to these levels without altering anything about the base design, but you guys are so fixated on wanting NEW STUFF that you're willing to make this a different game just so you can get your fix. You have way too much faith in modern game developers. It WILL be inferior to what we got in 2001. You want something new so badly? Then focus on whatever halo 7 is gonna be. Don't ruin this opportunity for a faithful remaster of CE to do it. CEA was an abomination. This is a chance to correct that error. Adding stuff that SUPPORTS what is already there is a GOOD thing. ALTERING what is already there just cause you've played CE a thousand times is a BAD thing. It just comes off as selfish. Wanting to deprive newcomers the opportunity to experience what we did in the beginning; just cause you've all grown bored of it. I suppose you want them to hire new voice actors to re-record dialogue for the campaign too, even though that's absolutely unnecessary, since the script and voice performances are already there. You guys constantly talk about wanting Halo to do well so its audience can broaden, but somehow that doesn't apply to updating something we know is really special. We apparently MUST alter that experience from the ground up. I don't understand any of you Halo RU-vidrs anymore. This is the exact reason I hope it's NOT a remake. Halo has been plagued by this urge to just change things for the sake of change ever since Bungie left. It's clear to me that this community can't handle the concept of change. 343 wielded it like a baby playing with a gun, and now We are giving in to the same mind virus.

If it’s a remake I’ll give it a try if it’s a remaster I won’t bother playing it

I waited in line launch day of Halo: CE. I've put thousands of hours into this game every year. What I want is more of the Haloverse. An extended story. More locations. What happens if I save EVERY marine? I honestly would not mind a graphical upscale as long as I felt like I was Master Chief on the first ring. For people talking about art vs fidelity... Theres OG Star Wars Batlefront. And then theres Modern Star Wars Battlefront.. ...Modern Star Wars Battlefront is so mf Sexy that it's insane and it does NOT take away from the Star Wars Battlefront feel. Halo can easily do the same and your arguments on Art & Style are honestly stupid. Halo isn't "Stylized". Its not Cartoony. Its not cell-shaded/ hand-painted/ pixelated/ blah blah blah. It was a Sci-fi space odyssey. It has it's elements of realism. Its "design" comes from the serious reiterations and time crunch that the game was under, and it had to RUN on an xBox. The OG xBox. Those polygons and lack of detail are so that they could have these large open worlds, a decent AI structure, mission triggers, sound quality, and enough memory left over for smooth gameplay. Halo deserves the dreams and potential it was built on. And the og xBox was a roadblock. You don't need to gate keep it. You still have the Original Games... So Let 'em cook.

I have ALWAYS wanted to wipe my own memory to replay halo ce for the first time. I think they should try this out and if it succeeds "remake" halo 3.

Halo 3 remaster would make better sense.

I don't want SPRINT. GOD. I hate unlimited sprint too in modern FPS games... Screw modern gaming and modern audience, they don't understand damn about gaming.

I'd play a remake. When it comes time to play with my kids I will start with the oringal though.

i dont trust 343 to do a ce remake, they will find a way to butcher it. the game is already available on console and pc might as well port it to playstation

I replayed Halo CE on legendary. It was super frustrating, I forgot how clunky and dumb some parts of the game was

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if it goes well i hope they make a halo 2 remake with the cut content, better bossfights (they suck ass) and maybe even fight the unsc as the arbiter

because we're in the remake era of video games, why the hell not?

It will never be as good as the OG.

Touching Halo CE will only do it an injustice. It was perfect at launch. Leave it alone. Whore out any other Halo game but leave CE alone.

That’s what I’m saying man wtf, they already did this twice, where’s halo 3 anniversary!!!

Everyone here is delusional. ALL THEY’LL DO IS ADD MICROTRANSACTIONS.

I have genuinely got a fucking panic Attack every time a modern game says they want to make It accesible for "Modern audiences" Because every time they say that its always a pile of shit regardless of the IP they work with. If they do a remake il give it another year or two after release before il Even consider buying it Just to have plenty of information to go off wether its actually good or its Just More 343 slob.

"Halo CE is too repetitive" fans when they go to the same location twice (it looks similar to itself): 😡😡😡😡

I don't care what the "modern audiance" wants it's a remake of the game it should be 1 to 1 gameplay.

Eh, just go whole hog and remake the original trilogy in ue 5. Make it one continuous story. Add removed content. Make 1 & 2 have more cohesion with 3. Could be great.

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