Halo Wars 2
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Oct 9, 2026
ShaneHOST
I, I think they kinda, I think it was kinda set up for failure w- in term...
ShaneHOST
Like, don't get me wrong, like, I love the, uh, Awakening: The Nightmare in Halo Wars 2, but that gave people an itch that wanted it back and it gave, I think it gave a lot of false hope.
Austin MurphyHOST
That's what Halo Wars 2 did in general.
ShaneHOST
Hmm.
Austin MurphyHOST
It was really good.
Papa ScotchHOST
...
Papa ScotchHOST
Halo: Wars 2.
Chump SlapHOST
Halo Wars?
Papa ScotchHOST
Yeah.
Laper LardenHOST
It's just such a brilliant collection of games that I am constantly going back with, but constantly going back to with my friends and enjoying.
Laper LardenHOST
And, you know, even even stuff like spinoffs like Halo Wars 2, I just cannot see a timeline in where a sequel to Halo Wars would ever have happened if it was another development studio overseeing Halo at that point in time.
Laper LardenHOST
And yeah, sure, you know, Creative Assembly made it, but Um, I'm just, I'm very happy that we got that game.
Laper LardenHOST
Um, cause it was such a pipe
BrianHOST
When it comes to 343's era, they've had Halo longer than Bungie.
BrianHOST
They've put out three of their own games, and you have Halo Wars 2, which they worked with Creative Assembly to put out.
BrianHOST
You have the mobile games, you have... fireteam raven arcade machine um you have like an additional 35 novels comics all this stuff that's been put out to flesh out the lore so um whether it's rebooting the series in its entirety bringing it back to ground zero and just starting fresh or picking up where bungie left off and erasing the 343 stuff either way you're getting rid of a lot of content um And I know people are split.
BrianHOST
I mean, there's always the option, too, that all the lore and all the games continue to count and stay as canon.
LukeGUEST
And then after...
LukeGUEST
We then got Halo Wars 2 in 2017.
LukeGUEST
And then from there on out, it was, like...
LukeGUEST
Halo Wars 2 was three Halo games ago.
LukeGUEST
We had Halo Infinite and Campaign Evolved in that time.
LukeGUEST
We've had one original game.
Matt LawrenceHOST
I mean, that's good, but that's also not an original title.
Ryan JohnsonHOST
Halo Wars 2 though, which is-
Matt LawrenceHOST
Creative Assembly would have made that
Ryan JohnsonHOST
... was still g- was still good.
Ryan JohnsonHOST
They did that one?
Matt LawrenceHOST
Creative Assembly made that.
Matt LawrenceHOST
Creative, Creative Assembly made Halo Wars 2.
Matt LawrenceHOST
They probably published it.
NickHOST
Didn't get a lot of love.
NickHOST
Halo Wars 2, amazing.
NickHOST
Introduce the Banished.
NickHOST
People everywhere love Halo Wars 2.
NickHOST
Didn't sell well enough.
NickHOST
And that was ensemble, really.
NickHOST
Or no. uh relic made halo wars 2 i don't remember who anyway 343 didn't directly develop it they got then relabeled to halo studios of course they will only focus on games currently in the market a studio built for halo is no longer making halo i am cautiously optimistic I would not be too jazzed if they reset the lore or they went back to just going on from what Halo 3 was.
NickHOST
I don't think that serves anyone long term.
Sun KimGUEST
And then being on that central team, it was a great experience, especially early on, 'cause it was, like, rapid fire project after project of, like, every three to nine months was a new project, right? [laughs] And, like, new genre, learning the, you know, new engines, new tools, new soundscapes and whatnot.
Sun KimGUEST
So had a ton of great opportunities to work on, like, really famous franchises like Crackdown, uh, Gears of War 4, worked on Halo Wars 2.
Sun KimGUEST
Like, just a bunch of fun things back in the day.
Sun KimGUEST
And yeah, um, did that for about, like, seven years, and then, uh, at that time, uh, one of my, uh, old colleagues reached out to me, um, Kristen, and she was working at, uh, Polyarc, which was a VR- or which is a VR studio.
DavidHOST
The other one that I re-downloaded again is Halo Wars.
DavidHOST
Halo Wars 2.
DavidHOST
But actually, I think I want to go through the campaign, so I may re-download Halo Wars.
DavidHOST
Halo Wars 2 is really good.
Mr. McSpicyHOST
It's really good, but they were having problems with people playing that when it was in the middle of its life cycle.
Mr. McSpicyHOST
You're not going to get any multiplayer games now, are you? Oh, I don't know.
DevinGUEST
If we would have had Archothers, I always wanted an ODST sequel that was actually basically just like Contact Harvest.
DevinGUEST
I think I remember somebody saying that someone had pitched that and someone said no. not to segue into another type of breaking news, but Kevin and I were talking a lot around that time because as he was focused on Halo Wars 2, being the whole-ass writer, I was kind of like the boots-on-the-ground eyes for the franchise team on the day-to-day.
DevinGUEST
And so, yeah, I mean, naturally, again, we talked about this and the difference between lore and story, but...
DevinGUEST
With Halo 5, again, being on the horizon, they were trying to stitch some stuff together in a way that wasn't just relying on transmedia properties, which I've definitely decried.
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Laper LardenHOST
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Laper LardenHOST
Do you have
TarasHOST
any insight into... like not not you know to completely go off on a tangent about voice actors uh remember in halo wars 2 david scully like johnson he didn't come back to do johnson in halo wars 2's johnson dlc do you know anything about that
DevinGUEST
i remember outwardly using the term scabs and getting in trouble um because there was a there was a voice actor strike around that time um but like everyone everyone in the bungie community like uh fan wise or former employees have stayed really really mum and like uh like uh fiercely protected the privacy of david scully it's something for me as a fan that i've always like i've wanted to know because truly is like one of the most iconic video game characters of all time um like as much as we love steitzer or like chief i think that kind of the voice of the halo brand and energy and spirit in a lot of ways is summed up by avery johnson as a character and uh i i don't i don't know if they knew how to reach out to him uh At that time, there's a lot of stuff like people didn't have all the numbers for people.
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