343 Has No Plans To Add Halo 5 To The Master Chief Collection

To be fair, if you have 5 you can launch it from MCC.

I had a 360 and now have a One X. Series X ordered.

I hadn’t played any Halo games until a few days ago after downloading MCC, half way through Reach, loving it!

They can just release it separately on PC so, I'm onto you 343

I'd love this as I used to play Firefight a ton back then.

All Halo games are in gamepass right? If so no issues with this for me personally

I mean, I would have been happy without Halo 4 as well.

I think anyone buying MCC was looking to return to a legacy title anyway. I think the strength in the title is one of being the go to title for the classic games, rather than just all Halo games.

Makes more sense to have a separate release on PC. MCC was all about bringing pre-XB1 games to XB1 and then to PC. Halo 5 is already a XB1 game and there's a base on PC with Halo 5 Forge so seems to make the most sense to fix up the XB1 version and bring the full game to PC with crossplay.

Halo 5 will be part of the future Spartan Locke Collection lol

I wasn't expecting 5 to come to MCC...

Didn't they state this a long time ago? Maybe just clarifying due to new speculation.

PC owners should eventually get 5. I mean, it makes no sense to have Halo 1-4, ODST, Reach, Infinite and ... not having 5.

@Nickolaidas I expect it to come after MCC is finished (4 is testing this week). Something in the interim between MCC and Infinite.

Slightly off topic, how is Halo 5? The last one I played was 4 on the 360 which was good but nowhere near as good as 3 imo.

Pretty big bummer. I bounce across all the Halos in MCC frequently. Halo 5 always gets the shaft though because I can't just jump in to it on the fly for a game or two. Unforfubately quick resume doesn't fix it either as 20seconds is still too long for that kind of setup.

@Fenbops IMO Halo 5 is the best post-Bungie halo game.

How about you patch in some split screen co-op 343i?!?! Not a loss as this game is the weakest main series Halo game there is in my view.
With the delays to Halo infinite and what seems to be going on at 343i it sounds like the next one could also be an utter mess.
I'm beginning to wonder if Microsoft bought Bethesda with the intention to give Halo to a developer with actual talent like ID software or Arkane. Maybe even Machineroom games...
The only reason I'm so unhyped for Halo Infinite is because 343i are making it.

@Fenbops I still enjoy the multiplayer. The story had potential to be great but gameplay wise it feels good. The weapons also feel good to use.

@Fenbops I really don't get the hate-train that game is getting. I recently replayed all of the Halo games, and discovered in this playthrought Halo 4 and 5.
And man, what an experience !

Sure, this is not Bungie anymore, we can feel it. Something is different, don't know what, in gameplay or level design... But on the pros side, the story and general cinematic experience is just awesome.

You really need to play all the previous games before getting into Halo 5. Just to appreciate how powerfull the story is. And that ending, gosh !!

I really can't wait to get my hands on Infinite, now.

Port Halo 5 to PC then 343!

That’s fine, it’s easily my least favorite Halo game.

@Odium I'm still confounded how people can dislike Halo 5 more than Halo 4. Halo 5 atleast had a coherent plot. Chief tries to save a friend who he finds is beyond saving so she is now his enemy.

Halo 4 was a will they won't they Romantic Drama that did literally nothing with the big bad so much that they just hand waved and killed him off screen.

@InterceptorAlpha They're both subpar tbh. Halo 4 was just kinda all over the place, between the bad guy, the whole cortana "love story" thing and the ending with how to beat the didact.

Halo 5 had a more cohesive plot, but it's still a bad one no one wanted, cared about or liked. 5 at least has solid gameplay.

@InterceptorAlpha I wasn’t a fan of the other Spartans part of the story and a lot of it felt like a Michael Bay movie to me. If I’m being honest, I wasn’t a big fan of either of them, but I enjoyed 4 a little more. I enjoyed Cortana becoming an enemy, much more than I enjoyed her decent into madness. It’s been a while since I’ve played it, so it’s possible a replay would change my opinion.

@Menchi @Odium We recent replayed through all 7 shooters for Halo Infinite. We started to have it done before Infinite then it got delayed.

Anyway, everything you described is how I felt about 4. If anything Halo 5 feels like an apology for 4 to me. And they gave me something I've been begging for since Halo 2 let me down and didn't include, Blue Team, specifically Fred, Linda, and Kelly. Got rid of classes. Made everything a level playing field. I could do without the advanced movement mechanics except maybe clambering, but yea. If Halo 4 is the ultimate sinhimanity committed, Halo 5 is a solid okay to me. As far as the plot goes, it felt like a solid Halo 2 esque mid point. But at the same time I'm also someone that loved the ending of Halo 2 and felt it was very cinematic for the time.

@Menchi @Odium @InterceptorAlpha My issue with both is that for every one thing they do right, they do about five things wrong.

Both games were touted as a return to Halo's roots (and hence why I don't trust Infinite on face value), but while Halo 4 removes bloom, it added flinch, loadouts, killcams, etc. All things that worked against the MP gameplay. Similarly, Halo 5, tried to correct Halo 4, but overcorrected, removing flinch, but now having Spartan abilities, ADS (and on autos), REQs and so on.

I feel this is true of the Campaigns. Halo 4 had a nice story with Chief and Cortana, but things like QTEs, the Forerunners and the level designs let the game down overall. Again, Halo 5 added things like Blue Team, but then barely featured them, brought back Cortana as the villian, and again failed to make the Forerunners an interesting foe.

This isn't to say the Bungies games didn't have problems. They had plenty, but the problems they had didn't detract from the fun or counter other gameplay elements as I seem to find in the 343i games.

It already has so many games on the MCC, Let's not get greedy..

@InterceptorAlpha I’ll have to give it another try, maybe I’ll like it more on another play throughs.

@Richnj I think you perfectly hit the nail on the head for 343’s run with Halo so far. They can’t seem to find a good balance.