En av de förmodligen största anledningarna till att multiplayer-läget i Halo 4 inte gick hem hos fansen i samma utsträckning som med föregångarna är lånade element som "perks", upplåsningsbara förmågor och liknande. I en intervju med Giant Bomb har Frank O'Connor, Franchice Director på 343 Industries, pratat lite om hur den feedbacken kommer påverka Halo 5: Guardians.
O'Connor säger: "The funny thing is we've seen first person shooters get more and more complex, and more and more sort of reward driven and stuff. There has been kind of a backlash about it. Not just with our stuff but with other people's games. That it's just too much and people want something sort of simple. As eSports comes back they want something more balanced and more symmetrical and fair."
"I think it's a seesaw, and I think that it is tipping back towards the - and eSports is certainly driving a lot of that - is going for things that are really truly competitive rather than just sort of reward driven. But I think you can have your cake and eat it, you can have both of those sets of experiences in a game. And sort of reward people in the campaign and make sure that your multiplayer is something pure."
Han avslutar: "There's a lot of basic fundamentals in games that haven't changed. Guess what, side-scrolling platforms have never gone away but they're really back in a meaningful way and people are doing clever things with it. I think if you take those original premises and doing something original with that's fair to the genre of game that's in then I think these things can have really long legs."
Fansens (och våra) böner verkar ha hörts. En beta, något som Halo 4 aldrig fick, för Halo 5: Guardians är planerad att starta i december och alla som köper Halo: The Master Chief Collection får delta.
