Marketed and advertised in a way that made thousands of fans expect a surprise in the storyline, "Halo 5" was actually received with disappointment and overwhelming negative feedback from its players. In response, "Halo" franchise director Frank O'Connor and 343 Industries' Kiki Wolfkill banded together to redeem the series in the upcoming "Halo 6."
Many fans clamored with the apparent lack of MCPON John-117 in the previous "Halo" installment. The biochemical and cybernetically-enhanced soldier known as Master Chief received very little character development, which caused the launch disaster of "Halo: The Master Chief Collection."
"We took some digs for storytelling in Halo 5, but they were absolutely merited. We very much realized that people wanted Master Chief's story of Halo 5," O'Conner acknowledged in an interview with Games TM Magazine, as quoted by Eurogamer.
343 Industries' Wolfkill also had a few words to say about the fans' reaction to the previous game installment.
"It felt personal, and not in a personally attack kind of way, but personal in a deeply saddening way. That was a big threshold moment for the studio in terms of how we go through something like that, both from an emotional and morale standpoint and from how do we learn and move forward and not have this happen again?" said Wolfkill.
To appease the fans and build on the feedback, "Halo 6" is expected to be mostly about Master Chief. There will be no new playable characters and instead, the developers and their respective teams are looking to improve the current world of "Halo" by making it more realistic and compelling. Due to this new goal, fans will have to tide through a long wait.
"Halo 6" will not be released this year but a teaser and an official trailer are expected to be featured at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this June.
