User blog comment:Cubuff37/My Official Review Of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare/@comment-1916935-20150131200152/@comment-3967954-20150205080433

Advanced Warfare was too much of a leap and Halo was too little of a leap. This is a recurrurant problem with sci-fi games/movies/etc. If we're talking 2050 (a time most of us will likely be alive to see), military technology won't have changed that much - we'll still probably be using 80's, 90's and 00's gear, just like how we still use a lot of cold war tech now (albeit modernized slightly). Older tech isn't suddenly going to become ineffective just because the times have changed, and it would cost way too much and benefit the army way too little to develop lasers. Also, mech suits are never going to happen.

With Halo, suggesting we'll still be using centrefire weapons 500 years into the future is like setting a game in the year 1999, where everybody is still using muskets and riding horseback. We can't even begin to imagine what military tech will be like in the 2500s, but I'm willing to bet that centrefire will have been phased out completely, and we certainly won't be using 7.62s. Vehicular warfare will have likely completely changed too. Maybe Bungie should've set it in, like, the 2100s or 2200s?

Predicting the future is very easy to get wrong (because doing it accurately is impossible), but a bit of research can help. Saying that in 2050, soldiers will be jumping around in exosuits and fumbling about in mechs is just as ridiculous as saying that in 2500, our military forces will be essentially the same as they are now except they have a handful of super-soldiers.