>>724163609
just name it something else but keep the main themes
>you play as a supersoldier defending humanity
>multiple alien races held together by crazy cosmic religion
>AI mommy gf guides you through ancient alien superstructures that are actually genocide machines
>some kind of infection that the machines are designed to destroy

all of the details can be completely changed as long as you keep the spirit of the original, the problem that people have is when you use the same names of the characters and change the content. that's why everybody either loves or hates Cortana design changes or Chief's armor changes.

just make new characters that fit into the archetypes of the old characters, change their personalities a bit to change relationship dynamics, change visual style, etc.

Halo Reach is the perfect example of how you make a Halo game withouth damaging the original, it baffles me how 343 could never grasp this, they just added characters and fucked up our view of the old characters. In Reach the only interaction with Chief is viewing him as he enters the storyline of CE, absolutely perfect continuity.

we have no idea what we have lost