privitsan02
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Well, we had ODST and Reach without Chief and they were fine. Did better than Halo 4 and 5 anyway.
Best wishes.
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Well, we had ODST and Reach without Chief and they were fine. Did better than Halo 4 and 5 anyway.
Best wishes.
Giant Bomb email section rumor confirmed?
Miles Quaritch
Member
Would be nice if they did have a definitive end for MC in mind ala UC4. There's only so much you can do with MC... it's time for him to retire...
His downfall is he specifically stated someone fucking with Reach on their "last day" with code they put in the TU..
when
- that guy still works there
- you can't update Reach that easily
- the engine does not have that functionality in the TU
one of those fakes that tried to add too much detail. I'm laughing
Except there is alot of bullshit like his comments on splitscreen even though 343i have stated it never got that far in development.
Spartans never die.
I consider Halo 5 campaign to have the best feeling gameplay/gunplay out of all the Halo games for sure.
But I also consider the Halo 5 campaign to be the worst campaign out of all the Halos. I didn't mind the story. I just didn't like the level design and the enemy encounter scenarios at all.
Halo 5 had much better level designs than Halo 4 which was mostly a corridor crawl.
You may feel that way but it wasn't to me. I had a far better impression of the Halo 4 campaign when I finished it for the first time than for Halo 5, despite preferring Halo 5's gameplay/gunplay and actually liking some of the promethans more. That's how bad I found the level design/enemy encounters. Don't even get me started about the multiple warden fights. So poorly done.
Every other Halo game after my initial solo playthrough I immediately start a co-op playthrough right after either online or local. This is the first one where I really didn't want to revisit the campaign. (this is actually a reason why I didn't bring up no splitscreen co-op as a criticism).
LordOfChaos
Member
My brain: Wait, 2020 wouldn't be 20 OH MY GGGOOOODDD
19, but still. Doesn't feel nearly so long.
Anyways, i think there are so many natural places the lore could take them that they haven't yet in games. How about the Ancient Humanity vs Forerunner period, that would be supremely interesting. And the second judgement of the Precursors is supposed to still be coming, I'm convinced it wasn't the teeny Flood outbreak. What about games in the slight past with a younger Blue team working together? The first few Halo books alone are enough material.
Younger Blue Team would also sidestep the MC voice actor being semi-retired.
Because those screenshots came from a trailer that was beyond the scope and budget of most fakes.
Corporal Hicks
Banned
Read through all the messages yea.....still don't believe it. However, it would be more believable if Master Chief fucked Cortana and had a holo/human hybrid baby.
I mean, that is what 343 has been leading up too, right gaf?
I mean, that is what 343 has been leading up too, right gaf?
VincentMatts
Member
Also made by Bungie. This is 343.
As long as they get a good cutscene showing it I'd be 100% game.
CraigerGamer
Member
4chan always confuses me. I hate the layout and it's hard for any sort of conversation or topic to flow consistency. Maybe there is a settings that will allow me to view a page that makes some sense in its layout?
It took me forever to glean anything worthy of reading from that page.
Maybe I'm just too old for this shit.
It took me forever to glean anything worthy of reading from that page.
Maybe I'm just too old for this shit.
NippleViking
Banned
Almost assuredly bullshit, but damn do I want to believe.
That sounds sick.
That sounds sick.
Comfort Jones
Banned
Just as plausible as the Bloodborne leak my ass.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Stinklez poo-poo'd this at the Xbox FanFest as well (thanks Frankie, Kiki still rocks).
No, they finally made better multiplayer than Bungie. They just need to improve their campaigns.
This unless it's Perfect Dark
I don't even know why people suggest 343i make new IP's. Like do they not realize that 343i was made just to make Halo? Hell, it's name is a Halo character's name!
Besides the warden fights, H5 easily has the best on foot combat in the series.
Caipirinha
Member
The major issue is MS forcing devs to make old IP over and over and over. There's no need for more Halo games, it was what it was and that time has passed. I honestly don't think that the originals ever had a narrative or characters worthy of so many sequels, Master Chief himself is probably the most bland and uninteresting protagonist you could possible imagine.
The idea of going back to the Combat Evolved style of game is nice but I think 343 would make much better games if they were allowed to let their creative juices flow and create the story and the world and characters from the ground up according to their own personal interests, rather than being shoehorned onto Bungie's, that even Bungie wanted to move away from in the end.
The idea of going back to the Combat Evolved style of game is nice but I think 343 would make much better games if they were allowed to let their creative juices flow and create the story and the world and characters from the ground up according to their own personal interests, rather than being shoehorned onto Bungie's, that even Bungie wanted to move away from in the end.
"Forcing?"
Okay do you know why 343 is called 343i?
People don't go to work for 343i to make new games. Microsoft isn't "forcing" them to make more Halo. The men and woman of 343i went to work there with the intention to MAKE more Halo.
I swear that needs to be posted in the main post of every Halo thread so people would stop suggesting it.
formasymphonic
Member
I actually enjoyed H5's campaign but there was a thing about it that lacked something I couldn't put my finger on until a while after.
I realised that the for the majority of the other games, the premise is about having an objective to prevent or escape some major event and that's what builds the tension for the game and progression of the narrative.
For H5 though, the major events are the emergences of the guardians. But by the time you play through the game 5(?) of those have already happened so you aren't preventing or escaping them and are just following a trail of what's going on.
It ends with *setting up* the required major event to stop or escape but at that point the game is over... The tension that you need throughout the game is spread over into H6.
That's fine for H6, but leaves 5 lacking, and imo would have been something better suited to more a episodic gaming distribution method than the usual AAA release timeline.
It's not as bad as H2's cliffhanger and the wait for H3, but it's still not great. And H2 at least had you play as Arby to stop a ring from firing which gave some kind of catharsis.
I realised that the for the majority of the other games, the premise is about having an objective to prevent or escape some major event and that's what builds the tension for the game and progression of the narrative.
For H5 though, the major events are the emergences of the guardians. But by the time you play through the game 5(?) of those have already happened so you aren't preventing or escaping them and are just following a trail of what's going on.
It ends with *setting up* the required major event to stop or escape but at that point the game is over... The tension that you need throughout the game is spread over into H6.
That's fine for H6, but leaves 5 lacking, and imo would have been something better suited to more a episodic gaming distribution method than the usual AAA release timeline.
It's not as bad as H2's cliffhanger and the wait for H3, but it's still not great. And H2 at least had you play as Arby to stop a ring from firing which gave some kind of catharsis.
Halo 5 selling over 5 million copies says otherwise. Also, please tell me how Master Chief is anymore bland than other big name characters from Sony or Nintendo? Compared to other FPS franchises that are popular today Halo has a far more expansive cast of memorable characters than anything else.
I don't think that will stop them. But yeah, people shouldn't expect a developer named after a Halo character (343 Guilty Spark) to be creating a new IP.
It's called 343 yet people post this every time.
Anonymous said:
EquivalentExchange said:
Whoops. This is verifiably wrong.
Team Arena alone sees at least 35k+ unique players every day. It's also not the most popular playlist/game mode.
#TeamFake
I think the point people are trying to make when they say this is that even the most avid of Halo fans probably don't want to make Halo for their entire career and the structure of 343 (and MGS in general really) doesn't offer a great deal of creative freedom outside of their major tent pole franchises.
So while they will be fine in the short term there is a real risk of attrition and losing talent as time goes on and there's nothing for these individuals who've had there fill to do within MGS, except move on to Gears. Then, as the Halo brand becomes less interesting as time goes on there will be less new blood to keep the franchise fresh.
This is my feeling, at least, and it's my biggest gripe with Microsoft making studios named after their respective series - eventually the creative talent will dry up and there's no other outlets for them at Microsoft at the moment.
Halo 5's campaign isn't perfect, but it much better than Halo 4's.
Because they're a small sedan with a 4.3L engine?
exmachina64
Banned
Well, it'd make me more interested in Halo.
CalamityPixel
Member
Ha. That was when he answered my question about where the fuck is poncho chief.
I prefer his story to the actual one.
Thats over the course of a day(24hrs). The leaker is talking about the current population playing not the cumulative over 24hrs.
#TeamReal
Except he no longer works at 343 Industries, so how would he know that?
Scully Scully Scoo
Member
halo is dead. used to buy the games at launch but now i will only pay £15 like i did with h5. multiplayer is just so blah and campaign is super short with uninteresting plot.
are we really completely ignoring the real 343 employee debunking this just a couple of pages ago?
NeOak
Member
Bravo!
I agree with this. Also, Karen Travis taking Halsey and panting her like a standard deranged scientist still makes me cringe, after the effort Nylund put into her journal for the Reach LE.
NeOak
Member
I hope this is included in a future post mortem of Halo 5!
sammyCYBORG
Member
I just don't know what Halo can offer anymore. We've seen it all before at this point, unless they drastically change it, at which point just make it a new IP.
Halo 5 was fine. Fun. A good romp. I can barely remember it already, though, and the only thing that has stuck with me is how convoluted and awful the narrative has become.
Destiny is shite but I respect Bungie for realising Halo was done and moving on. I think Microsoft need to do the same.
Halo 5 was fine. Fun. A good romp. I can barely remember it already, though, and the only thing that has stuck with me is how convoluted and awful the narrative has become.
Destiny is shite but I respect Bungie for realising Halo was done and moving on. I think Microsoft need to do the same.
Depends on what your definition of "shit" is. Those saying it's one of the worst of all time and absolutely horrible can indeed fuck off since it's nowhere near either. However, it was a very disappointing entry in the series with a nonsensical story and very questionable design decisions (things that look like hub worlds being used as 30 second levels)
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