: I would agree. It seems highly unlikely they'd "waste" development
: time cleaning things up to enable campaign films. It feels like 343i
: hinted that they could add it later just to appease the fan base with the
: intention of letting us forget about it as time went on. I find it really
: hard to justify not including a feature that was so well-received by the
: community. Halo 4 is my least-played Halo game to date (factoring in time
: since launch, of course), and things like this at least partially
: contribute to why.

: -SR

Just as long as films in PvE games and other features (eg, skulls in firefight/spops) return in H5, things will be okay with me. Of course, I don't own an xbone, nor plan on buying one any time soon, so I guess my opinion doesn't really matter :p

The lack of these features made Halo4 the Halo game which I spent the least amount of time with (I never even finished getting to SR130). Films always felt like a return-on-investment of my time spent playing usually fun missions. Skulls made playing those missions over, and over again less repetitive.

The Grunt translator in Chief's helmet that somehow broke after Halo3 also helped with wanting to play PvE games repeatedly. "Gosh, what will those silly little grunts say next when I blow them up with a RL for the bazillionth time!". Now it's like "wtf did I just step on? oh, that was a grunt talking?". I wonder how much Covie dialogue was reused from Reach but just processed through a different filter to sound different.