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Prototype of cancelled ''Mega Bloks Halo'' Game surfaces (basically ''LEGO Halo'')
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killer rin
Member
This looks awesome. Why was this cancelled?!
forgot my disclaimer *or announce it at launch for a year later >>
either way, it looks awesome.
chronic_archaic
Member
I'd buy this if it came out.
Bluekaveli
Member
This looks cool as hell.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
This looks really fun
wolfhunter777
Neo Member
Maybe for the best
Zeouterlimits
Member
Looks pretty. Don't think the gameplay appeals to me personally, but looks totally within the Lego games wheelhouse, perhaps with even better action.
I'd be interested to see how they would have marketed it.
I'd be interested to see how they would have marketed it.
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
This is one of the things I've been saying Halo needs lol. I wonder how many people actually were suggesting this as it seems like a good fit to make Halo more lighthearted in tone.
Maybe not the art style, but certainly the charm. Plus, I think that's what franchises need in their repertoire to expand its demographic.
SenseiAsad
Member
I came in ready to laugh at it, but...I would straight up have bought that. The Lego games have been stale for years but a Halo world in a bright, N64 art style, with easy going gameplay, platforming and maybe a more humorous take on the Halo story? The simpler gameplay could also be a callback to original Halo trilogy (i.e without sprint, etc). Put in some destruction, split screen coop, and I'm be in day one.
343 are definitely looking at branching out the Halo IP, so I hope this isn't the last we see of it, it seems like a genuine way of bringing the universe to a different audience. Stinkles, get in here!
343 are definitely looking at branching out the Halo IP, so I hope this isn't the last we see of it, it seems like a genuine way of bringing the universe to a different audience. Stinkles, get in here!
woah, N64? everything there was horrendous polygons, this is nothing like that.
SenseiAsad
Member
Eh, maybe bad wording on my part, just reminds me a lot of Banjo Kazooie.
KeyChainDude
Member
I can see why it was cancelled, there's really no exact public for it even if it looks very very fun to play. A shame.
Probably less than Halo Wars 2 will.
I've said this before, but 343i should release an anthology of short 1-2 hour Halo games, in the same fashion as Halo Legends and Evolutions. All by different third parties and all with creative freedom (apart from lore, where appropriate) and different genres.
This would have fit perfectly into that.
No, but I don't know why. They're happy to have Jurassic World and Back to the Future represented. The former is pretty bloody, and the latter has terrorists shooting civilians.
This would have fit perfectly into that.
No, but I don't know why. They're happy to have Jurassic World and Back to the Future represented. The former is pretty bloody, and the latter has terrorists shooting civilians.
Nah, they closed in March last year, iirc.
Ok, maybe it's a coincidence....
Disney Infinity was released in 2013. Developed by Avalanche Studios over the base of their previous game Toy Story 3.
Toy Story 3 was developed by Avalanche Studios but ported to Nindendo DS by n-Space in 2010.
I guess if n-Space took that concept to create this vertical slice while Avanlanche was doing Disney Infinity. DI was ported to 3DS by Altron.
lightskintwin
Banned
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Hah, keep up the good work Borman.
DAREALGUMMY
Member
See how one fan base reacts to something different compared to another?
Dead.
samurai1226
Member
So somebody decided to cancel that but allow things like Spartan Assault and Spartan Strike to exist? Oh man...
This game looks really fun. It even had coop and a firefight mode with base building! That's more than the last main Halo title gave us...
This game looks really fun. It even had coop and a firefight mode with base building! That's more than the last main Halo title gave us...
It's indeed somewhat arbitrary regarding the violence, but in general those franchises are still aimed at a wider age-range than Halo. LEGO also had the Indiana Jones license and that has guns and nazis. They also had Prince of Persia which seems odd to me, but I haven't played the modern games or seen the movies.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
The primary purpose of the Spartan games was to boost the struggling Windows Phone brand as well as the Windows Store on tablets. Both had far smaller budgets than this would have had, and the console ports of the first game would have been much smaller in cost than that. Apples and oranges.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
The M rating makes all the difference. Lego isn't going to license a 17+ brand, regardless of how the actual content compares to other IPs. Prince of Persia only got a pass because the license was specifically tied to the PG13 Disney movie (and Disney has multiple deals with Lego), not the games.
That said, Halo 5 was rated T and if Halo Wars 2 follows in the original's footsteps it may be as well (edit: ah, I see the ESRB already rated it and it is indeed T). The Spartan games were also T. So it's possible the door could be open going forward. I feel like Mattel having the toy license now could be a good sign too, as I don't think they normally license IPs with higher age ratings either, but I could totally be wrong.