Well as long as it is in a form of a game then I'm all for it. A novel, comic would be good but I haven't gotten into them, so that would suck. Either way it is nice to know that the Chief will be back, in what form anybodies guess is as good as mine.

I hope they go deeper into his character, and reflect his personality from the books.

Please call Halo 4 Marathon. You could sprint across a Halo ring. Thus the cool name Marathon!

Awesooooooooooooooooooome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

is anybody else worried they are going to burn out halo?

This is what i think Bungie SHOULD have done for their last Halo game.  Master Chief is made the Halo games.  He is probably the biggest video game icon and I'm sad that Bungie didn't finish the series off with him.

They still need to finish him soon though, you can't have a character live for nearly a decade and not get stale.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!I liked odst and reach looks awesome but I want master chief back.

There has to be a prequel.  Not just for Halo but for Gears as well.  I want to know more about the Covenant-Human battle and where Master Chief came from.  From Gears I definitely want to know about Marcus and Dom's history from the Pendulum wars.  

Sorry Chief, but get your preparation H ready, because Microsoft is about to pound you till your a lifeless corpse, then pound you some more.

Reach is going to be awesome, but i want master chief back

Halo 4 anyone?

You know I love the Chief but I won't be sad if his story was over I mean it ended in this kind of mystery that lets you interpret on what might happen next and it was fun to do that to me.

I know it's the "cool" thing to hate on Halo, but I actually like the series and the story they have. The problem I had with Halo 3 was how they told the story. It just didn't grab me, presentation wise. I'm eager to see what's next for the Chief.

That said, I think 343 is going to inject some life into the series. MS would be stupid to not give them whatever they need to make Chief's next game awesome. Can't wait.

Uh... no. It's not Halo without Bungie and Bungie made it fairly clear that this series runs right into Marathon... spiritually at least. So unless they are going to remake Marathon without Bungie, I doubt that's even possible and certainly won't be nearly as good as it should be if it is, then this will not be right. Of course it does help that they are picking things up with where Reach is at right now, graphically and whatnot, but my prediction is that the next game won't feel quite right and then this series will start going the way of MoH, baring the currently unreleased new MoH game. Keep in mind, Halo is Bungie's brainchild, I don't expect these guys to be able to come in and know everything they should about the Halo universe when creating a game. It's sad that this industry has come to be so dictated by CEO's attempting to boost their already lucrative salaries by pushing sub par titles out the door, see also Crackdown and other recent MS published games, and perverting the name of great franchises. Next great game series to get run into the ground after Halo will be God of War, because you know Sony isn't going to stop making one of the only games it has that can truly compete with a Halo game.

This is both cool and bad news at the same time. On the one hand, I'm happy to know he'll make a return.  On the other hand, I'm worried that this may be the turning point where they start shoving out half-baked Halo games like what may be starting to happen with COD

Bungie makes a Halo game once every three years (with the exception of ODST and Halo Wars.) We're going to have to wait a while.

Let it end already.

yes he is coming back!!!!!!!

lol So many haters on the Halo Universe.  As a huge fan of anything Halo, they could literally tell any story in the Halo Universe in any way and I would need to have it.  Call it blind consumerism but with how deep the Universe is and how well laid out it is, at this point you can't do it wrong.  More of what I love?  Yes please!