At this year’s E3, we saw pretty much all of Microsoft’s future first-party titles to be coming to the PC. So, the big question now is: will the next Halo game come to our platform? And what happens with the Halo 5 rumours. Well, we’ve got some good and some bad news. The bad news is that Halo 5: Guardian won’t be coming to the PC (or at least that’s what Microsoft still claims). The good news is that the next Halo game will be released on the PC.
As Phil Spencer told PCGamer:
“Honestly the answer with Halo 5 is, I can go take last year’s game, rework it to go on PC, or I can have 343 look forward in what they’re going to go do,” said Spencer. “You could say I’m cheating a little bit by doing a half thing with putting Forge on PC, because we kind of have the tools working on PC to see what happens, but this is what we did with Forza, with Apex. I said, ‘This isn’t a full Forza game. Going forward, we’re going to bring our Forza games to PC complete.'”
So there you have it everyone. Similarly to Forza Motorsport 6: APEX, Halo 5: Forge will be a free application via which Microsoft will gauge interest for the PC version of the next Halo game. And like Forza Horizon 3, the next Halo game will be coming simultaneously on Xbox One and PC.
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Sweet. I love getting the 6th installment (actually the 8th, but whatever) of a long running series without getting the other 5.
They cant add old games because they are created as Xbox game. Without emulator they cant add them to PC. New games are designed as UWP with single code working on PC and Xbox. All future MS games will be on Xbox and PC with single buy option
Current UWP Windows Store games:
– Forza Motorsport 6 Apex (free)
– Quantum Break
– Gears of War Ultimate
– Killer Instinct
– Ori and the Blind Forrest
– Rise of Tomb Raider
– Minecraft (with Oculus Rift support)
– Oxenfree
– Sheltered
Future UWP Windows Store games (confirmed):
– Dead Rising 4 (single buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– Forza Horizon 3 (single buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– Gears of War 4 (single buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– Halo Wars 2 (single buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– State of Decay 2 (single buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– Scalebound (cross buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– Crackdown 3 (cross buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– Sea of Thievies (cross buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– Recore (cross buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– Cuphead (cross buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– We Happy Few (cross buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
– Ark: Survival Evolved (cross buy Windows 10 + Xbox)
Possible UWP:
– Halo 6 with cross buy?
“They cant add old games because they are created as Xbox game. Without emulator they cant add them to PC.”
Good news; I’m about to broaden your horizons by introducing you to a new & exciting concept called…. *drumroll* porting! To quote Wikipedia;
“In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed (e.g. different CPU, operating system, or third party library).”
But no hey, please, don’t let me stop you, got to keep that propaganda machine going, after all!
P.S. –
“All future MS games will be on Xbox and PC”
“Possible UWP:
– Halo 6 with cross buy?”
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Why lost time on porting old games? Better spent that time on designing new games. They need much more games as UWP to fiight with Steam monopoly.
Steam – 7000 games
Uplay – less than 100 games
Origin – less than 50 games
Windows Store – less than 20 games
They need more exclusive games as UWP with cross buy, cross save, cross play. They will need 5-10 years to bulld real Steam competitor.
Tell me something; when you read a book series for the very first time, do you also skip straight to book 6, or do you start with books 1-5 first, in order to actually be able to understand what the f*ck is going on in book 6?
When you watch a movie series for the very first time, do you start with the 6th one in the series, or the 1st one in the series, with an aim to work your way through to the 6th?
P.S. Just for the record – 99% of the world prefers to start with book/movie 1. They (we) find it makes things…… a little less confusing? Amongst other things, of course.
Halo 6 (cross buy Windows 10 + Xbox 4)
4the games in the The Masterchief Collection aren’t running on an emulator… they were all redone for the X1. You need to check your facts before you step up to your pulpit.
I think you meant the 3 episodes in between.
Because we have Halo CE and Halo 2 on PC…
It’s just that Halo 2 was windows vista only… so nobody bought it, you should be able to run on window 10.
Halo CE should run fine on windows 10 cause there’s no OS restriction.
We’re only missing Halo 3 4 & 5 on PC
Neither are “clean installs” however. That is to say, they haven’t aged well on the technical front. Both Halo & Halo 2 need unofficial fixes to work on Windows 7 for example, so I can only imagine how much worse it must be for Windows 8/10 users.
Besides all that, with the existence of Anniversary cuts for both games, the vanilla versions are now considerably inferior experiences to what Xbox players are experiencing.
So we need the Master Chief Collection and Halo 5 to come to PC to have the complete saga in HD.
I have Halo CE Anniversary on Xbox 360, I wouldn’t mind playing it at 1440p 60FPS on PC…
Halo 5 sucked even X1 gamers thinks that way but I wouldnt mind Halo collection plus Halo reach on PC!
Yeah, my buddy acutally bought an X1 for Halo 5…. and then sold both the game and console a month later because he hated it. Also it had no couch co-op, and that is just so dumb.
Your friend was smart, wish I had smart friends like that.
Don’t worry, Halo 4 and 5 are not Halo games, they are imitations at best. Same will probably be true for Halo 6.
Halo 1-3 and Reach (for the story only), are the only true Halo games.
Couldn’t they have another team port it? I know how difficult porting a game can be, but honestly, its microsoft. They have the money and a team talented enough to do it.
No it won’t.
Why would the average PC only gamer be interested in jumping straight into the 6th installment of a franchise if he most likely has not played the prior games?
It’s the same story with Gears of War. Release a damn collection or few people would care.
Do Halo games actually have a story?
The Bungie games had a (with one exception) great story;
– Combat Evolved was great, & it set up an amazing universe,
– Halo 2 dropped the ball due to some internal f*ck-ups that made them waste a load of time, resulting in it being by far the weakest Bungie entry, but
– Halo 3 wrapped it all up in an excellent finale – not to mention ODST….. <3
– Then came Reach, which is (contestably) Bungie's storytelling peak.
Footnotes:
Halo 2 & 3 were originally intended to be one game, hence the cliffhanger at the end of the game. Seriously, they f*cked up the story so badly in 2, the only reason they even got to do 3 in the end was because of how well the Multiplayer portion was received.
Halo wasn't originally conceived as a trilogy, Bungie just had a lot of elements they never got to use in Halo 1, so they used them to create Halo 2, & because of their f*ck-ups, Halo 3 in turn.
The 343 games? Too much of a story, even. Hell, they're so cliche drama-infested, it's ridiculous. Granted, some people will argue in favour of Halo 4 being either the best, or just second best Halo game (story-wise), but yeah, no, & Halo 5 is in some ways even worse.
Thanks!
This, again?
Box Art or f*ck off, seriously…..
It’s obvious at this point (see pre-release “Halo 5 on PC” remarks) that they’re just trolling us. They have no intention of bringing Halo 6 to the PC, it just makes them look “gracious” to appear as if they may, eventually bring Halo 6 to the PC. He didn’t even clearly outright state “Halo 6 is coming to PC,” he just made vague allegations.
“Halo 5: Forge will be a free application via which Microsoft will gauge interest for the PC version of the next Halo game.”
Typical moron-level Microsoft decision. /eyeroll.
Footnote: It might be worth noting in the article, Halo 3’s 10-year anniversary is 2017.
Assuming Microsoft wants Halo to be an “annual” IP, then we can safely consider 2016’s entry to be Halo Wars 2, 2017’s entry, “Halo 3: Anniversary” (probably as part of a “Halo: The Master Chief Collection Redux” package (featuring Halo 1-5) as an Xbox “Scorpio” launch title), & 2018’s entry to be Halo 6: [insert].
Note: that doesn’t automatically guarantee a remaster of Halo 3: ODST unfortunately, or the inclusion of Halo: Reach in the “redux” collection either (MCC only added in ODST after launch, & Reach has yet to make an appearance on the Xbox One outside of backwards compatibility with the X360).
The point of this being; if Microsoft does indeed intend to bring Halo (back) to the PC (read: Windows 10), then they’ll likely show an indication of that intent by bringing the Master Chief “Redux” Collection to UWP first. After all, words are words, & actions, are actions.
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He’s referring to Halo Wars 2. It’s rule #1 of PR to be so vague that people buy it something you never actually said; if he wanted to confirm something, he would’ve actually said it. It’s part of his job to heavily calculate every word he says ahead of time. He didn’t accidentally use a Forza analogy when he could’ve so easily just said Halo; it means Halo is similar but the same (i.e. only spin-offs).
As you said “And like Forza Horizon 3, the next Halo game will be coming simultaneously on Xbox One and PC”. Yep. That’s Halo Wars 2.
And not bringing back older games? When have they ever done that with console?
Windows 10 is not PC John.
“The next Halo game will be coming to the PC”
PC or Win 10 ? also how many halo coming to PC articles you are going to publish ? do we get another one tomorow ?
id rather have destiny on pc.
Map making tool made for a game not available on PC is supposed to be the gauge for interest of Halo on PC?
Map making + multiplayer with friends (w10 xbox app friends list).
Halo 5 sucked even X1 gamers thinks that way but I wouldnt mind Halo collection plus Halo reach on PC.
id rather have destiny on pc.i hope destiny 2 get a pc port.