It looks like 343 Industries took this Halo thing seriously when they inherited it from Bungie. So serious that they have ten years worth of material in mind, leaving room for technological innovation and new ideas, of course.

"Story is funny because I've been thinking about where the Halo story goes for ten years," 343's Andy Connors says. "And even as a fan, I wonder, 'What's gonna happen next?'

"We have things mapped out pretty far, probably about ten years, but they're pretty vague; they're big plot points. We think that X will happen, we think Y will happen, and we think that they should go visit Z. There's a danger that you'll get granular in your planning because if this was a novel, you could just write an end. But this is not a novel."

He went on, "New technology appears and gives you new opportunities, pieces of the sandbox end up being less or more popular than you might have expected. And so the constant shift in reality, never mind the technology of the gameplay content, should be the thing that defines your gameplay universe."

Halo 4 is due out November 6th.

[Via Game Informer] 

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