#2056 - HALO STUDIOS IS FUCKING DEAD editionHalo News:>Microsoft guts Halo Studios, gives the franchise to the Activision branchhttps://www.ign.com/articles/confirmed-microsoft-hands-halo-to-call-of-duty-developer-activision-as-part-of-huge-xbox-studios-shakeup>Halo and other Xbox franchises take part in McDonald's promotion with exclusive rewards (UK and Ireland only)https://youtu.be/Dr1sn4jPMMw?si=V-YS5H2cg74PrNSO>Campaign Evolved reportedly outsourced to numerous studios, potential future Halo project from Sledgehammer Gameshttps://wccftech.com/halo-studios-outsourced-campaign-evolved-15-studios-activision-sledgehammer/amp/previous >>581642175
343 XIRS PLEASE LIVESTREAM IT
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Bleach is the root of all.
LMAOing @ 343 studios
>>581943457World at War, but Blops II is peak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEIzkUf-QZsHalo finally getting some soul?
>>581943457Black Ops 2
Is Activision subject to the same contractor policy that the rest of MS studios are? I'm a WoWfag but Blizzard doesn't cycle through 14.5 billion contractors and outsource anything like MS first party studios do.A stable development team for the first time in a decade might produce something... interesting?
Activision: >To cut our teeth on the Halo IP, our first game will be a remake of Halo: Combat Evolved
So H2 and 3 remakes are canned?
>>581943935AgainAnd again
>>581944021They never existed beyond an idea anyway.
>>581944079The Campaign Evolved prequel missions feel like a tech demo for content needed for Halo 2 (grav lifts, gondolas, brutes, prophet models)
Time to admit this was the best season.
Holy shit I just remembered Halofest in December. That should be comedy (assuming it somehow doesn't get cancelled) .
>>581944438Land Grab was kinda fun, but also a complete mess.
>>581943369GIVE HALO TO RAVEN SOFTWARE
>>581943868no contractors but my faith in the next campaign is near zero, activision famously rushes devs to pump out yearly games and singleplayer stuff is bottom priority for them.
Watch this and laughhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDgR1FRJnF8
>be shit scared of gta vi and rush the game out massively undercooked>shitcan the studio Well played?
>>581944634Can't wait to have weed emblems and mumble rap on the soundtrack
>>581943369Unpopular opinion, but I won't shit on 343, because they DID put MCC on PC, making Halo relevant to me again, after a decade and a half or so.
>>581945214This, but also because they provided mod tools.
Disliking 343 is disliking Israel, the Jewish people, the true chosen.
>>581945214>put mcc on pc>gave us completely unlocked tools for every game>unfucked 99% of gearbox's and hired guns messesI'll give them props for that.
>releases one game>fucking dies
>have to use battle.net to play the next halo gameBut at least activision will probably be more open to spinoffs and shit
It would be ironic if Activision removes sprint and ADS to avoid cannibalizing CoD.
>>581945572There was a lot little things done for a bunch of the MCC games that nobody talks about.>halo 1 got footstep sounds and spread disabled for ranked, and general options to control starting weapons>halo 2 got skulls in custom games>port reach controls and much of its functionality to halo 3>3, reach, and 4 all got expanded forge palettes that include the unique items from other maps and a bunch of new items>made firefight 8-player for ODST and reach>reach firefight got an option to disable enemy spawns so you could play the beta generator defense>ODST got halo 3 weapons, enemies, and optional friendly AI>halo 3 got the 3 ODST weapons, rebalanced to better fit into the existing sandbox>halo 3 also got the option to use every weapon on every map
>>581946150>implying it won't be a mp title with a store designed to fuck you up the ass
>>581945583Our story will outlive us both.
Someone needs to spam Lehto, Staten and all those other guys on twitter and tell them to try joining this new team, sounds like they're still putting it together This time they won't get fucked over by backstabbing niggers like Pierre Hintze
>>581946396>is just the same team but under new management
>>581946268You forgot to mention Flood Firefight for ODST.Still pretty bummed out that a lot of the Flood AI behaviour was stripped out for Reach so no one can make use of the Flood and Reach's expanded Firefight systems.
>>581943686Actual kino, and I'm tired of pretending it's not
>>581946570>You forgot to mention Flood Firefight for ODST.True, I played bunch of that some months ago, seemed fun enough.
>>581946430>digsite fags were right about pierre niggerman all this timeI owe Sean an apology. He ain't getting it though.
>>581945583And it seems Campaign Evolved was mostly outsourced. So whatever else they were working on for the past 5 years might end up having been a complete waste, if the Activision studio starts fresh more than picking up and using the incomplete project.That's a downside of this, it could mean a delay where there ends up being closer to a whole decade in between Infinite and the next main Halo
>>581946570>You forgot to mention Flood Firefight for ODST.That's the "halo 3 enemies" part.I also forgot that they added support for ODST pvp through modding. Not that anyone has ever or likely will ever bother doing anything serious with that.
>>581946430Has lehto even expressed interest in making halo again?
>>581946765Kornman added a lot of just little things that quite literally no one but maybe 12 people will ever give a shit about. He re-added radar functionality to ODST too because it broke due to all the the various changes to HUD ODST did.
Corpo politics... How tiresome. Do you know, Schizo, the Regulars have threatened to resign? To quit the general? Because of this... exchange of hats?
>>581946823Yes, look at his xitter. His whole thing over the past couple months has been weighing in on >How could someone step in and fix/save Halo, theoretically? https://x.com/game_fabricator
>>581947085>Kornman added a lot of just little things that quite literally no one but maybe 12 people will ever give a shit about.I am appreciative of it all.They fixed the bleedthrough glitch for Reach, too.
lmfao
>>581947242Those polls are suspicious. I'm getting the "we're definitely totally not working on anything but we just want to what the community thinks..." surveys you occasionally get from like, Blizzard if you are a big WoW player or something energy from them.
>>581947180We have always been your protectors
>>581947972cmon guys let's give them one more chance, sounds like they really learned their lesson this time
Jobama, why did you post your King Troll greentext in the KF griefing thread and not here?
I heard about the news.I'm so sorry.
>>581949021I honestly think this is better than 343i/halo studios making the next game. They've failed so many times that I'd rather ANYONE else make it
/bag/ uncs sends their condolences
>>581943369Asha saved Halo by severing the head of the 343 beast.
thank fuck escharum isn't alive to see this
What was the best 343 halo game? As in the full package of campaign/multiplayer/etc. Don't say MCC
>>5819503374
>>581950337Infinite easy.
>>581950337MCC
>>581950337infinite by far
Finally pulling this rotten corpse out of 343's hands and giving it to a >competent developer Way too late though
>>581943369...Shit, this is going to kill MCC and Halo modding, isn't it?
>>581950647They've given it to team potential man.It currently doesn't exist.
>>581950716No?MCC is end of life and has been for some time. And 343i abandoned the modding community around the time of the Halo Studios rebrand.
If Halo Campaign Evolved was largely outsourced, does that mean giving the IP to activision wouldn't really change much of the development process?
>>581950801i doubt activision is gonna move their top devs away from cod, the new halo team is only getting scraps.
The next game is another fucking reset
>Bungie announces they're reviving Destiny 2 because Marathon failed and they need a stable income source>Xbox announces they're turning Halo Studios into a skeleton crew of middle managers, with core Halo development being outsourcedwhat if we just gave halo back to bungie?
>>581951386Doesn't sony own bungie now
>>581951085If it still uses their hybrid UE5/Reach engine, probably not. At least if Sledgehammer is on board we'll have a decent multiplayer offering with a potentially dogshit campaign.
>>581943369Reach a good shit.>>581951053What is there to abandon. Game is stable and runs fine as is. If modders want to make mods, they can. Best time to make mods when devs don't break shit with constant updates.
Has there ever been a single game that did more damage to it's ip then this piece of shit?
At least you guys still have Red vs. Blue.
>>581951210Good, wipe away all the gay 343 fanfiction. Restart from Halo 3
>>581952475A few of them were active in the modding discords and actually changed stuff in the tools (porting various features, fixing depreciated stuff, increasing engine limits, ect) stuff like that.That stopped around the time of the rename.
>>581943886You are trolling but the weapon customization menus still have issues after all this time. So it’s plausible that the bureau terminal was intentionally designed to be as simple as possible because swedes are afraid of menus.
>>581953428Bro...
>>581952475>game is stable and runs finelol
>343 wanted halo to be more like cod>now halo is owned by activisionSUFFAH 343, HOW DOES IT FEEL BITCH?
>>581952951Fuck you. We still have Crash, though
>>581947972>engine migration This is something to praise Campaign Evolved for though, unironically. It looks and runs far better on the current consoles than I expected from any UE5 title, even on the Series S. When I first watched a stream of the Series S version in its performance mode, I noticed some of the compromises but was still shocked at how good it looked
Activision is now also in charge of World's Edge, the age of empire guys. Maybe they'll make halo wars 3
>>581954018WOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAH BUDDY
At least in their brief life Halo Studios managed to remake Sergeant Johnson into Steve Harvey, that has to count for something right
>Halo Studios aka 343 is kill after 19 fucking years>Destiny is back from the deadD-Did we win??
>>581954702>Destiny is back from the deadYou mean they are kindly restoring the content people paid for and they fucking deleted because "tiger is too shit pls understand"?
anyone optimistic about this has not played cod in the last decade.now imagine how activision is gonna treat a franchise that makes one tenth of the money cod does.
>>581947180Why is halo 2 so memeable? I can't remember a single fucking thing any character said between halo 4 through infinite
>>581955087I fully expect activision to keep the halo team AA-sized for their first entry. They won't put CoD people on it but they will probably try to recruit some real talent for it. In the mean time they'll get one of the CoD-support studios to make a spinoff.
>>581955087CoD may be shit but at least it has shit content343 games are shit and missing content. Literally worst of both worlds
Find the Halo.Win the war.
>>581951210We might get a full on reset reboot. As much of a dumpster fire 343 made the story, there's something sad about the universe of the halo I grew up with basically ending.
>>581955087CoD this decade isn't that bad desu. The campaigns definitely suck outside of Cold War and BO6, but the multiplayer component is solid enough and the gunplay actually felt decent. The guns in CoD sucked to use even compared to something like Bad Company 2 until MW19.
>>581955859Modern Warfare 3 2023 multiplayer was just as lazy and rushed as the rest of the package. It didn't have any newly designed maps at launch, it was purely a collection of remakes
Halo crossover with Spyro let's goooooo
>>581953927I played Fallout 3 and NV, that are much more buggy, or so is said, and even then I couldn't complain much, while Halo to me has no problems.
>team doesn't exist yetSo we're looking at Halo in like... 2031?Halo Infinite 10 year lifespan achieved I guess.
>>581956105It very much had it's flaws, but it was nowhere near as barren and dumbed down as MW2022. The new maps Sledgehammer did for MW2023 weren't bad either, at worst their take on the IP will be Halo 5 levels of "not Halo, but fun multiplayer". Not to mention that at least we'll get content compared to waiting a year for 343 to finally getting Infinite's multiplayer in a decent state.
TRANSfinity Ward is the 343 of CoD devs
Halo's bussy belongs to Infinity Ward now
Can't wait for the next Halo where it ends on a cliffhanger where the new main villain escapes, just to be killed in a 2 minute cinematic trailer for Season 1 of the multiplayer mode.
Is Activision going to keep MCC updated then?
>>581943369Finally. Some good news for-fucking-once.
>>581957809No
>>581944021Did you really trust them enough to hope they would faithfully remake Halo 2 and 3 after they desecrated CE beyond recognition so bad that it didn't fucking sell at all even when discounted at launch in many stores?
>>581957731True. They nearly killed the franchise twice and Chadarch had to save it both times
At least caqll of halo activist edition will be less gay then 343 slop
>>581958583Holy ESL.
What a great day.
I'll buy whatever they release day onje.
ODST skin on CoD mobile when? I might reinstall that unholy trainwreck just for that.
Mint Quitz status? Dude is like the #1 Activision hater out there
Activision's statement>“We’re thrilled to welcome Halo, Rare, and World’s Edge to Activision. It’s an honor and a responsibility that we do not take lightly. These teams and their games have inspired fans around the world for decades. For Halo, our goal is clear: make the greatest Halo game ever, worthy of its universe and legacy, while staying true to what made players love it in the first place. It is a bold ambition, one that this franchise deserves. We have already begun assembling a purpose-built team, unique in capability and talent, ready and excited to deliver this next chapter with the community. To the World’s Edge and Rare teams, we can’t wait to get to work together.”
>>581943369Rest in piss 3v4i
>>581952798Yes, Halo 4 and Infinite did more damage than it. 5 was the best thing 343 made
Freak the fuck out and kill everyone.It's fucking over.
>let Bungie run off and shit up Sony>Halo falls into their laps soon afterHow do they keep winning
I don't need Halo to be good again. I just need 343/Halo Studios to suffer.I hope every person involved in that studio is begging for food under highways and pimping out their kids for a morsel of food.
BROKEN
>>581951875Why wouldn't Activision build off of the UE5/Reach engine?
>>581943369Plz fucking retcon EVERYTHING after Halo 3. Just fucking do it. Not343i can't do anything anymore to stop it.Keep the Banished, the Order of Restoration and even the fucking Created if you want, just change the way they were introduced and handled because mismanagement is still the worst thing that ever happened to this series after 3.
>>581952798Resident evil 6, at least they got their shit together with re7....we've been in a downward spiral for 14 years straight
>>581959810first thing they're doing is leaving that dumpster pile behind. no one at activision knows how it works. They wouldn't be needing to make Halo prototypes if they were just gonna reuse the engine
>Humans are forerunners again
>>5819595435 killed the franchise, anyone who isn't a braindead cultist gave up on the franchise after that
>>581959993They won't. They promised the GREATEST halo game of all time. That is their ambition. And the only way to achieve such a feat lies in HIM.
>>581956115halo in skylanders....... hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooollllyy
>>581959810It could be like >>581960070 says, nobody at Sledgehammer likely knows how to use the Reach part of HS's dual engine build. It probably isn't that complicated like UE5, but I can definitely see them sticking to their version of the COD engine for a Halo game. Which would be scalable for a lot of hardware too.
>>581944524are they just gonna kill everyone
>>581960070Learning how that works is easier than getting theater, forge and vehicles going in IW10.Since the next game is meant to be mainline and feature complete.
>>581957464Probably 2032 given how long games take to make nowadays.
>>581960890Does COD not have theater mode anymore? It can't be that difficult to implement, demos have existed since the Quake engine they forked from.
>>581961087No, COD has gone very, very downhill. I don't know why, but the normies keep saying that "COD HAS GOOD CAMPAIGNS!" when it really doesn't. They were shit in Halo's heyday. They're even worse now. Just look at BO7
>Several Studios that specifically only do games with humans fighting humans.LOL THEY ARE GOING TO USE THE "EVIL SPARTANZ" NIGGAS 100% NEXT GAME AND ONWARDS!!!
>>581960910damn. steve is pushing 80, i hope we get at least one more game with him.
>>581961743If they are smart about it, they should wrap-up Zeta Halo's convoluted story next game and then have Chief in cryo for an indefinite amount of time until enough people are willing to give a not-Steve Downes voiced Chief a shot in a decade or more.
>>581961743He will cuck out for AI like the Darth Vader voice actor
>>581955735Did they really give the giant ape monster alien cornrows?
Celebratory lobby tonight?
>>581943369>HALO STUDIOS IS FUCKING DEADbetter late than never.
Don't give a fuck if it's Activision taking over as long as 343 are gone.They'll likely be using the same engine/tools they use for their CoD games and the main thing I care about is the physics. Infinite felt soulless because it had none and also lacked player collision. Without the goofiness that comes with Halo it would have blended into the crowd long before it did, in my opinion
>>581943369Retcon everything after Halo 3. Do it. No ballz.
>>581961743He already sounded too old in CEmake imo
holy hierarchy graph from our corporate overlords (oh high corpo grant us your blessings)
>>581963072he always used a raspy hollow voice for chief so i didn't notice.
I want new aliens to fucking shoot. The endless could have given me that especially with that whole creating thrall species shit but im sure they'll never be seen again.
>>581962785I play no CoD. Are their game physics fun?
Coco's cocos are now Halo.
I'm ready for Codlo
>>581963418>>581961471I will take the edgy OC spartans as new recurrent enemies or mini if not regular bosses over nothing new to shoot honestly. They just need more AI than the barebones alpha Infinite had for the bots. They could even drive. Marines in Halo 2 could drive. Spartans in Infinite can't even use turrets. Not even with Forge scripting. Jesus.
>>581963531There are no game physics in CoD. LOL
>It'll end not with a bang, but a whimper of 200 players last onlin https://youtu.be/QzK_y3KgGFw?is=rCmPafB3ZjnsvlXx
what was the point of campaign evolved again
>>581964038To bring halo to gaystation
>>581964038>Pierre: "If this is a blockbuster hit, Asha won't gut us.>Barely breaks even>Pierre: "Uh oh">*Studio gets near dissolved*>*Turned into the guys that keep the lore consistent*>*New studio makes Halo at Activision*
>>581963531I haven't played cod in decades. They never really had physics back then and I don't think it's ever been a thing in the franchiseSurely they WILL tweak things a bit because of this and add some actually weight and environmental interactivity otherwise the next Halo game will feel like a shitty mod
>>581964217>keep the lore consistent when the Activision team is more than likely just gonna throw it all away anyway lmfao
>>581964038filler content because halo 7 is barely entering pre-pre-pre-pre-production.
>>581964038>>581954519
>>581963120Halo.
Oh well. Time to fuck trenchbird.
Monkey rape status?
>>581964038one final desecration/humiliation of OG Halo
>>581960276The xbone killed Halo 5 thus killing the franchise. Simple as. Unless you were a Halo fan or brown enough to play Gears of War, you had a PS4 instead.
>>581952798The false marketing is what did it for me. I mean how do you market a better plot than the one your actually doing?https://youtu.be/gMxTfCTltUchttps://youtu.be/Gd1VjjarUl0
>CHADarch and Midhammer are hiringThere may be hope (that said it also confirms the next Halo will probably have advanced movement)
>>581964990they said it's a new team tho
>>581943482Were they really that confident about getting a sequel or did they put the post credit scene in knowing damn well that shit wasn't happening?
>>581965316>Were they really that confident about getting a sequelYes. Modern devs, especially 343, think everything they touch is God's gift to mankind.
>>5819648094 babbies still in denial that 4 is the worst game in the franchise and was such a departure from the Bungie days in pretty much every way. Even more so than ReachHalos Marvel collab was never going to do well regardless of Don Mattrick destroying the xbones launch
>>581943482Quick reminder that Halo Studios recorded literally zero new music tracks for in-game use. Literally zero it's not even a remaster
>>581964320As i said, that's Halo Studios problem now, Activision is just going to make fun shooting and that's it. Not their problem is the story gets convoluted again, that's for Halo Studios to keep consistent while weeping the loss of the IP forever.
>>5819655164 was doo doo though. 5 was great.
How many American flags will we see in the next Halo game?
Tygerpacha15 has been stamping his feet on the floor and making a tantrum all morning.How do I get this stupiduh littluh hobbituh bitchuh to shut the fuck up? Any advice is appreciated .
Halo Campaign Evolved was such a fucking failure that I can see the next Halo being some sort of PvE affair akin to Helldivers with little to no story.
>>581965793HS will be gone by next year, this is probably just a small temporary transition team before they're blasted out the airlock
How a about a halo wars 3 ??? Or even a halo wars rebootNo need to aim big at the very start, first test if the team actually knows halo
please tell me the new devs are going to ignore everything post reachi don't want any more banishedslop
>>581965891the answer is obvious my grizzly-ness…the only way to make rape bait like that shut up is to RAPE him.
>>581965874The community will ensure Pissrael is treated as it should be
>>581965565I don't want any new tracks after the bastardization of CE and 2's soundtrack with their previous remasters. It was literally so easy to just make the same tracks again with higher quality and they instead changed or added stuff to them for the sake of "their vision" of Halo. Genesong being the biggest offender of all despite being a good rock track, it basically destroyed the "fuck yeah" main theme of the Arbiter.
>>581965993halo 7 will introduce a new faction called "the unforgiven", led by a brute named "miscellaneous". their final objective is unclear but they will destroy humanity and take over a halo ring to achieve it.
remember all the goyim arguing that steam charts mean nothing and campaign evolved was akshully a huge success?lmfao
Looking back, why'd they go through all the effort of rebranding from 343 Industries to Halo Studios? Two years ago, they were making such a big deal of the studio name change, moving away from the Slipspace Engine, moving towards "Project Foundry" and "A New Dawn," only for the next Halo to end up being made under Activision.
>>581965987Halo is now under the same wing as the studio currently maintaining Age of Empires. Time is a flat circle.
>>581965874>>581961471You are going to see these guys instead.
>>581965316There's still a likelihood of a Halo 2 remake coming out in few years. It would be a relatively simple, straightforward side project. If a different team is behind it, maybe it could avoid reusing assets as much as Campaign Evolved did, and include the multiplayer. There could be plenty of demand for that
>>581966387It was damage control. It was also before Phil and the rest of the old leadership were let go
>>581966387It was a remnant of Phil Spencer's reign, who didn't give a shit as long as he had goyslop to shovel into gamepassWhat you're seeing now is Asha cracking the whip
>halo studios really thought a name change and a half-baked ue5 Indiaslop remake would be a slam dunk hit and save the series (aka their jobs)LOLI'm literally pooping my pants this is too funny Ahahahah
>>581966387They didn't know Sharma was going to step in and have less patience for them than previous Xbox leadership
>See you in the sequelHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>581965316well........ the sequel is technically out already..........
I never bought any micro transactions in halo 5 or halo infinite, I never subscribed to Paramount plus, and I never even bothered to play campaign evolved. This is my doing. You can thank me for this. You're welcome.
>>581963120I think inXile could go over to Bethesda after they release Clockwork Revolution. Microsoft will try to distribute remaining Xbox Studios to Activision and Bethesda. Maybe that will make it easier for Microsoft to spin off the Xbox division by 2030 if it's not profitable enough by then.
>>581966750This kind of shakeup gives credence that most game studios are just poorly run businesses. Some rando MBA who knows nothing about vidya games can step and and instantly make the painfully obvious decisions that should have been done ages ago.
>>581965316The Halo 2 and 3 remakes will happen but god fucking knows what quality will the have, if it's around the same as Halo CE remake then the situation has not changed. If it's the same or even better than the originals, fucking finally, something good
>>581967134Thank you, champ.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>581967245>the last remnants of Black Isle and Interplay games united at last under the banner of Todd.Pyrrhic.
>>581967395he/him was promoted to Assistant executive director of LGBTQP+ policies but alas the game was bad
Remind me how the best CoD game has better gameplay than even fucking Halo 5, which is dogshit?
>>581959664>I don't need Halo to be good again. I just need 343/Halo Studios to suffer.This is the only truth in this matter.
>>581967395>cinematic directionis this the nigga responsible for the campaign evolved cut scenes?
>>581966716In fairness, it sounded like they had another unannounced new main series Halo in the works, which now might never see the light of day. Whatever issues it might have had, most of their eggs were probably in THAT basket, for saving their jobs
>>581967395Staten and Marty got the fucking pure cinema of CE done in a small unkept office by hacking the game engine and recording bits of it with a software that wasn't even designed to be an in-game camera, one was a composer, the other was a developer that wrote mostly just lore and that's it, why the fuck do studios need to overcomplicate everything so much? I bet half of the expenditure that is never recovered is spent on roles like these in which despite a large portfolio, they still have no idea how to capture the feeling of a series because they are trying to capture the feeling of the method they were taught to use at university instead over threat of complete career loss if failed.
If Activision is smart, they will immediately retcon the Rookie's death by saying it was a clone or something. Hell, say all the characters 343i killed out of spite, due to the community not accepting their vision, were clones (Black team, etc).
>>581968078The opposite is true, they had literally no games in the works after campaign evolved
>>581968428no just retcon all the terrible 343 shit. start after halo 3
They should reboot the franchise and start again from 4. Give the trilogy a sequel that actually feels like it connects unlike 4Maybe even have the introduction to the game be the final third of 3, redone, for emphasis, eases new players in and if done well gives them a good first impression 343 fucked up the franchise in such a massive way that I genuinely believe it's beyond saving unless they retcon everything. The same goes with sequel era star wars. There's only so much nostalgia bait you can release.
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>>581968647That too.I wouldn't mind if Halo 7 ends with Chief killing Atriox and then using a McGuffin to reset the timeline back to the ending of Halo 3.
escharum threw that spear btw.
>>581968647>>581968676I'm a fan of closer, even of shit story's. Make Halo 7 and have it end in the most definitive way possible with the Precursors or whatever destroyed and with Chief either blatantly killed off or Retired with Linda and then reboot the series. And of course to hire compant devs to make sure they don't make the same mistakes that 343 did.
>>581969262Is this true sisters...?escharum isn't that strong is he..?
>>581969310the endless and precursor shit is so fucking cringe man, like some shitty fan fiction you'd see on tumblr or some shit back in the day (just missing ms paint drawings)
>>581969090Why would the McGuffin limit him to resetting back to the ending of 3, though? If you have any freedom that way, the moral "savior of humanity" thing would be to go back further to before first contact with the Covenant, and prevent that entire war from happening, save all those planets from being glassed
Escharum did that btw
Classic Halo is saved.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vConcQfcGvc
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The Endless has arrived
>>581967395NO FUCKING WAY
Will Master Chief have sex in Halo 7?
343 IS DEAD. HEH HAHA
Escharum did that too btw
>>581969735Because the McGuffin only works with a power level so enormous near the time of the destination, that power level?, Halo's pulse at the end of Halo 3.My guess is that he's just going to make a mad dash for the cockpit in order to arrive to Earth with the Arbiter. Or at least end up on another piece of the ship that won't drift to Requiem so when he gets recovered, they glass Jul and his croonies on the spot.
>>581970649with the zenkai boost master cheese would have had after 3 he would probably quickscope jul in about half a second so I really think they should just disregard power levels going forward
>>581943369rescued from the gutter to be thrown into the meat grinder.
>>581971043Such is life.
we will get activision's halo 5 mp 2.0 and we will celebrate
>next halo game will feature omnimovement, snoop dogg, and ice spiceNO NO WAIT TAKE ME BACK TO 343 I'LL BUY AS MANY REQS AS YOU WANT PLEASE
>343 is deadGOD IS REAL AND THIS IS THE UNDENIABLE PROOF.>M-MUH CODHALO HAS BEEN CODSHIT FOR A DECADE AT THIS POINT, IT LITERALLY CANNOT BE ANY WORSE AT THIS POINT, IT'S ONLY UP FROM HERE BABY.
they are mourning 343's death in da 'cord
>>581971726textbook case of stockholm syndrome right there
>>581971726You serious?
Anything after Reach doesn't matter.What does matter is 343 dying.
>>581943369Came back to say FUCK 343It’s not saving the brand but goddamn does it feel good to see those fuckers finally be shelved. Holy shit, 15 YEARS OF BULLSHITlike a nigga said >they come into the scene with a shitty remake of CE and they die with a shitty remake of CE Thank god that piece of shit bombed
>>581969527escharum singlehandedly destroyed the infinity in FOUR MINUTES, which is many times larger than any sissy german f*id. there is ZERO doubt he could do that.
>>581972075No lmao. The only people mourning it are you niggas>erm well they did port mccCool, they’re dead. And thank god for that.
343 G A P E DAPED
>>581971602soul
GOOD
Apparently the next Halo game by AB is indeed going to be Halo 7. So no universe reboot is coming. Dunno if that's good or bad.
"Don't worry bro, they'll just reboot it after Halo 3 specifically" is the most retarded take imaginable. They're gonna reset everything back to zero. They're gonna reboot Halo CE. Get ready for it.
>>581973376I'm fine with that
>>581973357Nothing here says it won't be a reboot, you fucking retard.
halo in the COD engine will be interesting.
>>581973357the atriox/banished arc will be resolved in a book and halo 7 will feature a brand new villain faction, in line with 343 tradition.
>>581973376>They're gonna reboot Halo CE.CE remakes is literally all this franchise is now
Well brothers I just saw the news. We got our wish in the worst way possible
>>581973715Nah, fuck 343i. They had two good chances, one with Halo 4, fuck that game, then with Halo 5, KILL THAT GAME, and they squandered them all. They tried to backtrack with Infinite but it was already too late. I won't feel sad for them. They did to themselves. "our Halo" turned out to be one of the worst creative and directive decisions ever made in gaming history.
>>581973715>the worst way possiblethat would have been if naughty dog got it
>>581973956I agree, but you already know whats coming next given Activisions track record with call of duty. Better buckle up for the microtransactions and dlcs
We will get assassinations back at least.
>>581973715>"worst way possible"Thank God Firewalk Studios is not under Xbox and neither alive.
>>581972439Escharum would ATOMIZE bitchuka with a single poke from his pinkie finger
if i wanted to put halo out of its misery as quick as possible, i guess activision would be the best publisher to do it.
>>581974361I don't know how strong EVAs are but i don't think any of them survive a glassing.
>>581974115Infinite already had cosmetic microtransations up the ass, comparable to recent CoDs, and if they produce DLC like adding more maps at the rate 360-era Halos did it, that's still an improvement over 343 taking forever to add anything meaningful to the package
>>581974496A glassing? Is that what you call the kidney stones that projectile violently out of escharum 's urethra when he unleashed his piss ?
>>581974692Forced.
>>581974908Forced out of escharum's urethra as his mighty grizzled groans of pain boom through the halls of the breaking chambers
>>581974115Retard. Infinite sold pretty much everything that was added to the game. I remember how weeks after launch it still looked like a Halo CE/2 lobby with how everyone had default-looking Spartans because no one had ANYTHING to put on them and many stopped bothering about challenges to unlock the few freebies due to how schizo some of the objectives were like kill 3 scorpions, and by that they mean blow it up with someone inside, in the game that gives them a time window to jump out and run, in the game in which Tank spawns were not guaranteed in 9/10 matches and the spawns could also be on your side, or hijack a ghost twice, in Infinite a slight bump of the Ghost kills anything and the grapple would not register the hijack conditional as completed many times.People's patience ran out and they sentenced Halo to irrelevancy for the Sins of 343i.
It's a shame, Infinite could have been the game that saved Halo. It had a lot of good changes in the sea of shit. The sandbox was the best it had been for years.
>>581975489The sandbox felt too safe, I think 5 had a better sandbox.
shitfinite was garbage lmfao343 never made a good game
>>581943369>Halo is being handled by Activision now>Not by any of Activision's actual studios that make CoD but rather a newly formed studio made to make HaloHow is this any different from 343?
>>581975809they'll use their custom COD engine instead of whatever slopped together shit 343 was using.
>the quake engineOh boy!
https://youtu.be/JTZYqODo7o0
>>581975489It needed more weapons but 343i was so obsessed with the idea of competitive Halo saving them that every single weapon ever added or planned or just tested had to go through extensive retarded fine-tunning just so competiTARDS wouldn't bitch about it in Ranked. Only for them to ditch them all but precision and rockets anyways since the Battle Rifle was still the go-to for anything.
>>581975809more important than the studio itself, we'll have to see if asha really got rid of the 14 levels of management that had to approve every single line of code.
Studios
>>581976108We don't need more fucking weapon bloat. The fewer weapons, the better. Just look at CE
>>581976093Whats wrong with the Quake engine? There's a reason why most modern 3d engines can trace back to it.
>>581976879We can live with it, it's just okay if they are like, forge-only or very rare in-campaign, a random weapon or even loadout skull can fix the issue anyways.
>>581976879CE has terrible weapon balance. What the fuck are you talking about?
>>581976879Only if they're distinct. Infinite is 50% headshot weapons.
>>581975809There will be management which sets goals and imposes deadlines closer to how CoD does it. Rather than letting 343 take 6 years to produce half of a game
why are people acting like activion-blizzard will make a good halo game?
>>581976879Bruh, one of the few reasons people still put up with Halo 3's awful arsenal is that it's still flexible as hell, most weapons are not viable, but they can be used for some funky stuff for customs anyways. Same reason why people still stick to Reach due to how simple the forge mode is.
>>581977339because halo will finally be allowed to die
>>581976879We need less weapon bloat but just repeating CE's sandbox won't work for modern players. What we need is a larger sandbox but also a more diverse set of enemies and damage types to use it on.Stuff like the Gravity Hammer or Brute Shot or Concussion Rifle were great additions because they naturally slotted into the physics side of Halo's gameplay. Stuff like the Beam Rifle and the Commando and the SMG is not because they're just more ways of solving the same problem which inevitably leads to either one weapon becoming the best solution (like Reach) or all the weapons being good at killing turning it into a homogeneous CoD sandbox (like Halo 4).Basically you can still have something that respects CE's design philosophy even if you have a ton of weapons. You just need to create more varied scenarios that those weapons interact with.
>>581977339They believe it can't be worse than what we have.They're wrong.
>>581977339We have no idea if it will be any good or not. But at least they will make the games and we won't have to wait 7 years to find out
>>581977290I can accept shorter story-wise campaigns released sooner as long as the story, you know, moves fucking forward at all. I can't believe we maybe got 2, perhaps 3 if the Banished get their arc cut short too, storylines that went nowhere because the cowards of 343i couldn't just merge them into an ever increasing pool of factions fighting each new game until it all blew up on everyone's faces in either Infinite or Halo 7 that they didn't even get to make.
>>581963418At least we'll have memes of The Endless to remember.
>>581963418Screencaping this post for when "Halo: The Endless" gets announced.
Anyone with any experience in gamedev, how difficult it is to make different enemies shoot each other and the player?, because Bungie got it right thrice and 343i never ever.
>>581978253343 actually did that for one level with the Prometheans in Halo 4 didn't they?
>>581978253>because Bungie got it right thriceTwice.Halo 3 is notorious for its AI issues involving multi factions encounter. Enemies will often prioritize the player when they shouldn't.
>>581963418This gun, which I enjoy, made me sad that Infinite has no drones or other bug or zerg or xenomorph-like ayys to shoot
>>581977156Retard this has been debunked a million times. Lurk more
>>581978858I actually play Halo CE. I don't need to debunk nonsense from keyboard warriors.
>>581978608Technically thrice since the updated engine for 3 ODST has better handling of it again.
>>581978947No you don't.
>last halo game was meant for 2020, delayed to 2021>next halo game won't be out until 2030 at the earliest
>>581978253>assign each enemy a faction variable (unsc, covenant, flood, etc)>design ai to only shoot at enemies with non-friendly faction variables, including the player>ai can prioritize whoever attacked it last, low hp enemies, or whatever. designer's choicethat's it
CE has excellent weapon balance that interacts with its enemy design and AI way better than any other Halo game. Just based on the amount of ground encounters cover alone it's apparent and that's without going into how satisfying the animations and hit stuns are, which every Halo sequel managed to fumble or dampen through other problems (Reach for example has great visual feedback but it doesn't matter when every Elite is a ridiculous damage sponge unless you noob combo).
>>581979641CE would have benefited from Drones. An enemy that encourages you to switch away from the pistol and aim above the horizon line.
>>581979641We were talking about competitive Halo. Keep up.
does anyone have that one youtube video by a guy with a funny british accent (not a regular halo youtuber) who talks about silly halo retconsand it ends with him revealing that Frank O'Connor removed the United Kingdom from the Halo universe because of the Scottish independence referendum? i cant find it. please help
god help 343 studiosgod bless them for all of their years of service for the halo community
>>581963820If we are going the traitor Banished Spartan route, it should mostly be Spartan IV with maybe a few III's in the command roles. Also a Single Spartan II as the leader as a "evil" Master Chief, like Blond deformed Book Soren I found it retard that Black show Soren had a white wife, yet their kid was fully Black. Not the biggest issue with that tv show, but I though I would mention it/spoiler]
>>581979641Hunters dying from single Magnum shots in the back, while it takes multiple body shots to kills Grunts and Jackals, makes no sense and is not "excellent weapon balance." It's sloppy unintended behavior and it's good that Campaign Evolved changed it
Does anyone have the screencap of someone going through all the bible references from the original games by any chance?
it's sledgehammer and treyarch
>Halo Wars 3 made by BlizzardImagine if we lived in the best timeline where nothing was enshittified, this would be a dream come true.
>>581980992>it's sledgehammer and treyarchthis
>>581980992>sledgehammerhopefully halo 7 comes out better than cod vanguard did
>>581979951True, though Jackals and Elites give plenty of reason to switch from the pistol. Enemy variety (and variety in general) is CE's biggest pain point. Drones and especially more Flood enemy types would've helped it a lot, though what's there is still great.>>581980018In that case every Halo sandbox has the same one gun dominance problem as CE, but much like H2 and H3 there's a lot of depth to the pistol that gives it a lot of competitive value. The H2 BR's depth comes from glitches and the H3 BR is extremely inconsistent even on host. The CE pistol's depth comes from how powerful and punishing it is. High average TTK and extremely low perfect TTK is a good combination.https://www.twitch.tv/beachlan/clip/KitschyPrettyDillSuperVinlin-nuynkfpf2WrJ_AN8?range=7d(Granted when you're talking about competitive CE you're talking about a modded version with zero spread as that's what's actually used for modern competitive play)>>581980539True, and the one really smart thing Campaign Evolved did was the addition of a proper weak point if you shoot the armor off. Hunters are obviously not the average enemy though. Just because CE is the best doesn't mean it has no room for theoretical improvement.
>>581981153Sledgehammer has a division in Toronto? I thought they were Cali only.
I like to think this was the precise moment they decided 34 had to go
>>581981697This is in the original game. Poser.
>>581981278>though Jackals and Elites give plenty of reason to switch from the pistolKind of, but just to break the shields. You still finish them off with the pistol.>Enemy variety (and variety in general) is CE's biggest pain point. Enemy variety(encounter variety, too) is a problem in every Halo game. Drones and Hunters aren't very well utilized in any of the game. ODST comes close, but relies heavily on Firefight to make truly varied encounters.
>>581980198Could also work that the traitor spartans are the boss fights while the generic mini-bosses that come alone or in fireteams are Janissaries, explaining why they just don't last a minute at all compared to the proper former Spartans. With "chromed out" Soren being the final boss or at least the first of the final bosses before we get to the AyyLmao giganigga at the end of the game, whoever that would be, Jega or an Endless or just Atriox if they are in a rush to finish the Banished arc.Could also be a good excuse to bring back the reach armor abilities as specific behavior per janissary specialty, since the Banished are scavenging Reach so they would definitely produce space TEMU versions of those dummy modules to provide to the Janissaries, with of course the named traitors using proper or overclocked versions of that technology for their gimmicks and phases.
>>581981697i'd say it was more egregious to have zero unlockable skins which were worthless anyway because all scenes are prerendered.
>>581981768it is not saar
>>581982142oopsie daisies
>nothing on Waypoint >no posts today from official Halo social media accounts >nothing from any dev on plebbit r/halo Did they lay off all the Halo Studios PR people without having replacements ready to step in? Seems like the news could have been handled better that way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmALyO82t8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmALyO82t8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WmALyO82t8
>>581982260
>>581982438Compra un anuncio.
That's Brazilian language
Did monkey rape man make it
>>581982438that's mexican language
>>581981050How does Starcraft play on the n64 anyway? Since Halo wars 3 is naturally a console first RTS series, even if it has pc ports.
>>581982314They even laid off their jester anon >>581970282For all we know, there might be like 50 minus people left at the studio, their only work being preparing the handover of docs, assets and lore to the Activision-Blizzard team that is being formed as we speak.Pierre has not said anything either, i think he just ragequit on the spot.
>>581982530>>581982609>>581982878He's from Spain
>>581965874this guy's a faggot
do you think modern bungie could make a better halo game than activision?
Spaniards, along with their gaming journalists, are way too pro‑Sony. They can’t stand Halo, and anything Xbox makes them roll their eyes, and I’m telling you straight
>>581983363Fuck no, they would turn it into an RPG. A bad one at that. And they would keep adding useless factions with schizoid backstories every new expansion.Infinite got it right with a linear system of upgrades and no weapon modding.
>>581983363Nah. If they could have, then they would have made the new Marathon something I would give a shit about, a fully featured package with a single player story campaign and so on. The extraction mode could be part of it but wouldn't be the entire thing
>>581983363i don't have much faith in modern bungie but it's definitely better than actiblizz.activision treats cod like garbage and it's their trillion dollar franchise, can't even imagine what they're gonna do to halo which is much smaller.
Choose one:a) Classic Bungieb) Nu-Bungiec) 343 Industriesd) Halo Studiose) Certain Affinityf) Gearbox Softwareg) Saber Interactiveh) Ensemble Studiosi) Microsoft Game Studiosj) Activisionk) RubyOfBlue & friendsl) Masterz1337 & friendsm) Epic Games
>>581981947Sounds great, I am a fan of the final boss being with your rival with the giggasatan big bad boss being second to last, Mostly from games like DMC3 and NG1. Also because the city destroying bosses tend to have shit fights.
>>581983363Halo 7 would have been Marathon but instead of a shell, it would have been that one cancelled robot Spartan core that got turned into a helmet.The game would have died the same death too because Bungie would have gone all-in on extraction shooter bet anyways.We should just let Bungie die the death it has chosen to go through.
Funny thing is back when MS bought Activision-Blizzard, there was some hope that Call of Duty would become treated more like Halo, slowed down and each entry given more care and time in the oven. Instead we're getting the other way around lmao
>>581977339why not? they make diablo and wow and overwatch and starcraft
>>581984352ironically blizzard seems like the best xbox studio to take on halo, but it's the activision side of the company that's getting it.the new halo team is barely starting to hire so i guess we'll see. it's activision management i'm worried about.
bungie was raped343 was...
gangraped....by me
die well..................
We fired 343... but at what cost?
You could've repented.You could've apologized.You could've acknowledged the errors of your ways.You could've educated yourself and played the classics.Yes, you and your precious series were raped. But this was meant to be a valuable lesson about the dangers of slopification. Slop begets slop begets slop. You refused to learn, to recognize the damage done by allowing FPS on consoles with 2 weapons limit and regeneration. You doubled down and kept insisting that Bungie Halo games were all time classics.343 went too easy on your bitch asses. Stock up on some lube and get hyped for collabs with your favorite rappers.
let's hope Activision gives Halo a more inspired artstyle than "DURRR!!! NOSTALGIA!!" like halo studios/343 ended up doing
Bungie Halo were all time classics, true.
>>581985628>get hyped for collabs with your favorite rappers.Fine by me.
>>581984170I can see the dialogue.>"They didn't let me pick">"This is my choice!!!">"ALL OF IT BELONGS TO THE BANISHED!!!" (Zeta Halo)>"I won't be left behind again"I can't come up with a proper weapon loadout though.
I like getting assraped, so I don't mind Activision taking over to rape my ass.
>>581985628The worst fate for Halo would be if it was given to a dev who goes >here's how a correct PC shooter should play, it was all wrong before >you are now carrying 20 guns at once and running/jumping around so fast that you can barely tell what the enemies look like, and vehicles are completely negated and removed I'm glad we're not getting that
I wish halo would move on from the same fucking aliens you've been killing for the last 2 decades. The loser version of the covenant in 4 and 5, the not covenant with brutes and red paint on everything. You don't have to get rid of the species, make them friends or something. imagine dropping on to a planet with your own squad of elite and skirmisher friends against a new alien threat.
>>581985824>I can't come up with a proper weapon loadout though.dual wielding spartan lasers.
343 was raped in the breezy fall of 2026
>>581986087I would dig a Fallout-like spin-off in which we are just a random human on a wild and somewhat disputed colony or various races that can be picked thought. Like, imagine the final upgrade of the human is either paying a hefty sum to turn yourself into a fully indie Janissary or the last reward for large faction quests is pledging alliance to either the UNSC, Banished or Created to get augmented for free in-exchange for life-long service.
>>5819861244 and 5 had the Prometheans, and 5's ending with Cortana trying to conquer the galaxy suggested there could have been a new enemy faction in the next one. But it got the soft reboot treatment so we never saw whatever a direct sequel to 5 would have been
>>581986540>PrometheansZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
>>581986296Could also give him a mech similar to the one Decimus had but with a look more similar to the Mark I mechs from Halo Legends. You destroy the mech, thinking the boss fight was kinda decent and then when Chief tries to rip off Soren from the cockpit, he punches through it himself and we see him all fully succesfully reaugmented with custom armor and other trinkets and then the final fight kind of resembles a PvP head-to-head.I had a similar idea with a Grunt Bloodstar that tricks the player into reaching a banished warehouse, thinking he's just cowering there, and then he bursts through it with a black and red Grunt Goblin with a red-ish cockpit shield customized to hell and back specifically to kill Spartans, which is how the little guy even got to the rank in the first place. Then right before the second phase of the boss starts or when it shields breaks, Echo-216 does a distraction strafe run and quickly drops us a Mantis or a Colossus or some other mech before escaping to have a mech duel with the little fucker while the score just soars.
>>581986087skill issue
It's time to start hunting down and killing Halo Wars fans.
It's time to start hunting down and killing 343 employees and fans.
>>581977156It does if you suck monkey nuts at playing videogames
>>581983997K. Halo 2 Rebalance is the only thing the Halo community has to look forward to at this point. The 343tards need to be brow beaten into playing a game that actually feels like Halo and plays to its strengths.
if the rifle doesnt stun lock it isnt good
>>581943482https://x.com/HubPointless/status/2102424626563522639
>>581951210I bet they go the COD route and do a full blown new protagonist set in the universe with another Spartan 2 or an ODST. Let Chief rest then after they have their own formula created return to him in like 10 years. This way they aren't limited to only Cortana/Chief stories but finally branch out like ODST and Reach did. People are welcoming of non-Chief protags as long as they're cool. COD always has new protagonsits.
>>581961997They're 100% retconning and ignoring all of 343's bullshit. Imagine 10 years from now at notE3 we get a Halo 4 trailer where it shows Chief rising out of the cryopod on the Dawn. Game by Infinity Ward.
>>581952798Man, they should just have Locke turn out to be a double agent for the Banished and then have him return as the final boss of the game, Chief then necks him and that symbolically represents the death of 343i Halo and we go onwards to hype moments and track sadness every once in a while. It's not that fucking difficult but i guess the leadership of 343i could never get their act together.
What a fucking failure, you shitters are pathetic
are you ready to play a new halo game every year for the rest of your life?
>>581990380Yes :)
>Halo dies>Destiny prevails
Halo multiplatform sells less copies than Wolverine(exclusive)
>>581989690Problem with that is there's an urge to use Steve Downes now while you've still got him. If you wait 10 years to do another Chief-centric game then you're either recasting him or recreating his voice with AI.
>>581990380hopefully one of them is a marine vs insurrection game
>>581989917>Imagine 10 years from nowAsha will shut them down if they take even half that long, she wants games ASAP, just look how fast halo studios went from releasing campaign evolved to now pretty much being deadThey probably have a few years at most to put something together or they're toast, the Phil Spencer free ride is over
>>581989917Chief's going to wake up to Halo 3 accurate Dawn and then instead of Jul and his bitches, it's going to be the Banished and the Order of Restoration fighting over Requiem's entrance. Or just the Order of Restoration itself. Balls if the Created are kind of a thing already but without Cortana because you know, she's with us.Not going to lie, besides a proper fucking artstyle makeover so it looks like Halo and having Palmer infamous height line (I thought you would be taller) changed to some short flirt with the Chief, the first missions of Halo 4 can stay about the same, but right when Cortana has her big melty, Chief either manages to convince Del Rio to stay and fight or a mutiny succesfully happens and Lasky and pals with us try to kill the Didact at Requiem before he fucking flees.God, either a human = forerunner or just a change of look so the forerunners don't look like retarded vampires is all that i ask. Well maybe making their armor less complicated to remember would also go a long way. Also, make him as tall as the Chief or something because we all want to beat his ass 1v1 at the end of 4 Remake or another game later.
>>581990380There is at least one data point suggesting they don't plan to annualize Halo, at least not immediately- they say they are forming ONE new studio to work on it. CoD manages to have a new title every year because there are 3 primary studios it rotates between, plus a number of supporting ones
>>581990689Yeah, i think they are going to go ahead with a quick Halo 7, finish Chief's story and then wait a year or two before announcing nuHalo with either a new Spartan, either a IV or any III or II, or just going for the easy pick of Jerome, Alice and Douglas, could also work to have us be a random important nuSpartan-IV that gets lost but meets Red Team who are also lost and we kind of become a 4-man makeshift fireteam for the rest of the game.
>>581990689Just recast Master Chief.
>halo 7 opening>chief wakes up from cryosleep>halo 4+5+infinite were all a dream
>>581943369Congrats bros!
>>581991216At the end of the game, a single piano note sounds and we get rescued by recasted Chief and the rest of Blue Team. Chief just says "You are safe now", and the game ends or goes to a cutscene, we either get attached to Red Team or become noteworthy for our massive actions in that event, next game we meet another important Spartan fireteam and repeat.
>>581968217Back in the day the five guys with the vision controlled everything. Nowadays there are forty people in top positions each sticking their hands into the pot trying to influence things while reporting to the higherups which only look at the number reports. Add in focus groups so on and so forth it becomes impossible to put together a single vision because of the manipulation at the top. Franchises need a George Lucas at the helm who has total say in what happens to avoid fuckery outside interference.
>>581943369>we trade one villain for another
There is a chance Activison is smart enough to finally get rid of sprint.
Master Chief will return in Halo 7. Then not anymore lmao
Halo going from Not343 to Activision is like switching from Moloch to Baal
>>581992168>get rid of sprint.And add tactical sprint 2X faster
>>581992168>Activision >smart>get rid of sprintThings I'd think after hitting a crack pipe.
>>581992168>CoD devs>Getting rid of sprintYou are going to see Spartans literally sliding through the air with jetpacks and wall running with hardlight walls that the Spartan is generating as it jumps and then popping two thruster boosts down and up before touching ground and doing a power slide that ends in a massive energy explosion followed by bunny hopping.
How can anyone have hope for an Acti Halo? It’s going to be Halo 4 on steroids
Halo Se7en opens with Master Chief taking off his helmet to reveal he's been recast as Kiefer Sutherland
>>581992484The only reason anyone is hopeful is because Activision and Xbox itself knows that trying to turn Halo into CoD has failed twice already (4's loadouts, 5's lootbox bullshit) so they know that they can't go that route because 343i effectively torched the path while also seeking fortune.They are, by previous former studio fuckups, obligated to nail it somewhere near or right as Infinite did or else the game is going to flop harder than CEmake did. They can't experiment too hard or the playerbase will punish them through indifference.
Halo 7 is going to be Titanfall 3.
>>581992484got too distracted cheering for the fall of 343 to see the current state of cod
>>581992026Based
>>581992781lel, imagine AB collapses internally before they get Halo 7 out. I hope the new CoD didn't cost that much honestly. It's looking rough for it each new annual release.
Let Steve Downes chief go out with bang, one final big victory in a game that isn't complete dog shit. Then move on to a spartan 4 with his own AI or some other character. The series needs to move on from Cortana and Chief. Hell it needs to move on from shooting at elites and grunts. Yes I know 343 tried with the transformer robots, but those sucked. Replacing the variety of like 6 different Species of alien with the same orange glowy robots with shit weapons was retarded.
Great. Halo 4 2.0. Thanks but I’m not falling for it this time. Microsoft and all their IPs are dead to me for good.
>>581990689Downes may not even be alive by the time the games story is written. They can recast or if they get the rights to his voice us AI to immortalize it similar to Darth Vader giving the OK to use his voice going forward. As much as I love the Chief, Halo needs a fresh start away from the main character in order to find solid ground again. It's the same issue with Star Wars. Disney is so hyper focused on keeping things tied to the original cast and films that all of their shit sucks.
>>581993241>Hell it needs to move on from shooting at elites and gruntsNo. Probably one of the worst take ITT.
>>581954134It looks and runs like shit. Feels like there’s vaseline smeared on the screen and there’s horrendous input lag. Halo infinite felt like butter in comparison.
>>581993241do that and the activision game will be DOA and received even worse than 343
Warlock is way too fucking dark.
>>581993241No big bang final cutscene. You play as Chief for a campaign and ambiguously die in some dramatic event and you get a secondary campaign like Spartan Ops was investigating the end and failing to draw any conclusions but getting roped into a new event™Nothing would be more appropriate than Master Chief going Missing in Action which is why no ending they could ever make would be better than Halo 3's ending for him
>>581950337Infinite. Its only real flaw was its bugs and how botched its post launch content updates were.
>>581951210If they reboot it I hope to god they have the foresight and balls to start the story somewhere other than CE. Maybe make a contact harvest game, and go from there, while changing up major story beats so we aren’t just redoing halo 1, 2, and 3 again.
>>581950337halo 5, i had fun with the mp and looking forward to the pc port. this game proved that 343 should've just been a cod studio or something, the further from halo their game is, the better
>>581994182They should restart after 3 and not even address the existence of the 343i games besides maybe sometimes Halo 4 but only when talking about the MCC version.
>>581952798This game would have been better received if the art style wasn’t ass and if they didn’t sideline chief for Locke and his ugly ass armour. I actually think a cool crazy schizo cortana game could have been fun.
>>581993903Having only 1 biome in the campaign, so that it all visually blurs together, is a significant flaw. Every previous Halo campaign I played through at least twice, including a re-play on a higher difficulty. Infinite is the first one where I didn't bother again after the one playthrough and going around getting some of the collectibles
>>5819503374. 4 was as functionally close to Halo Reach as Halo Reach was to Halo 3. It might have started down the wrong path but it was still Halo.
>>581955859>the campaigns suckSo what does that mean for halo? God imagine halo with cod tier enemies. Sounds miserable.
They should just make a Halo game that masturbates you and shows you a 2007s greatest hits playlist while calling you a good boy
>>581994545>cod tier enemies.humans? imagine if insurrectionists end up being your primary enemies
>>581993903Infinite's controls feel like shit every second that you're playing it. Especially on controller.
>>581963418This. Holy fuck I remember halo 2 adding brutes and drones and thinking future games would keep expanding the covenant but they never did. We’ve been stuck with the same fucking covies for an eternity now. Also thought we’d have expanded the flood at some point too, but nope. It’s stilly he same 3 fucking piece of shit forms.
>>581994831Insurrectionists would be fine as enemies, as long as they are secondary enemies. Especially if we have actual 3 way fights like in CE and 2.
>>581994756That wouldn't be a game, and you can already do it if you want it.
>giving halo to the CoD guys instead of ID software-__-
Call of Duty Halo is America A vs 343 Halo America B.
>>581995118see >>581986087
I didn't like Halo 5. I played it to death because it was what I had for the Xbone at the time, I unlocked the entire armory out of some spiteful need for vague closure, but I didn't like it.But it was what they did to Halo Wars 2 that really broke me on Halo. Halo 2 was what just completely destroyed my interest in Halo.
>>581994831I mean CoD tier in that the enemies are stupid and the levels basically play out like rail shooters.
>>581994936Turns out it's extremely difficult to create new enemies with niches that aren't really fucking tedious to fight. The Buggers and even the Brutes still struggle with what makes them both unique. Halo fans want the cut CE enemies to have a place but the Slugmen are just Jackals and Drinol are just big Hunters who are extra pissed at you.
>>581994463Yeah but I’m talking about the flaws that killed the game. One biome wouldn’t have been a big deal in the long run if the game succeeded with normies and we got our follow up campaigns that fixed that issue. But it failed because of content drought. That was really what killed it.
>>581994545modern cod campaigns are super short, cheap, lazy, half assed, even the players stopped caring. activision only keeps commissioning them because they want to avoid bad pr.not looking much better for halo especially considering the franchise never made money like cod does.
Easiest way to replace Downes isn’t to replace him. It’s to make OC silent Spartans the norm. Pretty sure that’s what normies would eat up anyway, and rid ideal for live service slop which they probably want.
>>581995472>BuggersThey are aerial harassers. It took ODST to fully realize their potential (they were sadly under utilized in that game) and they completely disappeared from the franchise afterwards, showing up twice in Reach without any of the ODST improvements and Spartan Assault and Strike.
>>581995253I’d take that over monotonous enemy design and having 50+ weapons that are all basically the same.
Halo is Xbox. I doubt with the effort they're going through with this mass restructuring that they would let Halo become Codslop. Hell Codslop might not be Codslop several years from now. Call it cope but the evidence is all there for everyone to see.
>>581995040They could also just have Banished humans, like imagine an ODST-like but more "crude" or "Bruteish" looking guys jumping around with a hybrid covie-human jetpack, or a bunch of mad-max-ified marine-tier enemies driving around Banished Warthogs with spike turrets, Perhaps even heavy mercenaries driving lockdown scorpions. There's so much stuff that could be done to make human enemies fun to fight... 343i never even tried. They never even began.
You like this? You better get used to it, you'll be seeing a lot of it now
>>581992484Because Activision will follow the winning formula. Halo went wayward the moment they changed the gameplay cycle by adding sprint, killstreaks, load outs, and a focus on esports. There's almost 20 years of fans complaining about how 343 handled the games and all they have to do is look at the feedback and see what NOT to do. They know people want to play Halo, not COD and know that if they try to implement the COD mechanics they'll be raked over the coals for it. Their first game has to be a hit and its easily done if they make a game that feels like Bungie era Halo.If they stick to the Halo formula it'll be well recieved. It's like Pokemon, COD, Battlefield. Halo has a feel to it that people don't want changed. If they want to try new things test it in a spinoff not the main game.
>>581996150Buggers fire their guns way too fucking quickly for my taste. If they had ODST's Health and a tuned fire rate for an enemy that flies around you and comes in swarms they would be perfect. Hell make a Banshee encounter with them. Do something cool.
>>581996173We know it's truly over the moment Ghost and Price start appearing in the Xbox major ads over the Chief.Also, one of the reasons that has not happened, yet, is because the Modern Warfare games are all setup in the modern world, so if a game happens to coincide with an IRL controversial situation, suddenly it would be like Xbox has pets that glorify the incident.The Master Chief can never get that baggage because everything in Halo happens in the far future in-space and against mostly aliens, perhaps rarely with a human, maybe more in the future, but the point remains, none of the conflicts can mirror IRL current events if they happen 500 years into the future where jurisdiction, laws, borders, and fucking aliens and spaceships are the norm.
>>581996517The main problem is that they are too accurate with their shots, for something with sustained no gravity flight, they should rarely be getting a hit which would make their rapid-fire pattern of attack bearable since they would rarely land a shot unless perched or standing still or walking, even hovering should be hard for them to be consistent. Bungie never got this right, Buggers would always land their shots.
Monkey rape man... is no more...
>>581996623Didn't Bungie almost get in trouble for depicting Elites getting beheaded due to events happening in the middle east? I don't think being 500 years in the future would make than any less. People will draw parallels to anything.
>>581996517A big problem with Halo 3 swarms was that you fought too many of them at once. Even if you lowered their accuracy, they would still hit you reliably just because of the sheer number of guns firing at you simultaneously. Smaller waves going on for longer and coming from different directions would be better, imo.
>>581997119They only got in trouble because the Americans were still in full panic over 9/11 trauma. These days you even see giga-rape get released bi-weekly and no one gives a fuck. They only care about the latest even for a week of two, which is why the real challenge now is avoiding mascots that do stuff that could coincide with a geopolitical event. That's not an issue if your character cannot be there at all since the time is not the same, maybe not even the same universe.
>343's run on Halo starts and ends with butchering CEK-kino?
>>581997119Not sure about beheaded elites, but they did rename Arbiter from "Dervish" because of the Islamic religious connotations
>>581997423At least it was not Halo 3.
>>581997634>3 is mostly unmolested by 343i.We won, 3kings.
>>581997423pottery
>>581997746How's Edge and Waterfall?
>>581995118wasn't ID raped by Microsoft a while ago
>>581997831Terrible and pretty good, respectively.Edge could be less bad if it was removed from 4v4 and the weapons were moved around a bit.
>>581997423
Long way down, spartan.
Classic Halo: The Animated Series - Volume 1:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbojDI9b-4E
Classic Halo Computing:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgPOenXO7Vg
>>581998550I was interested in the case until Corsair's page on it said >Like Terminator 2 and Aliens, this is a sequel that is better than the original in every way-_________-
bros...
>>581999000good
>>581999000I wonder how panicked xperia is after losing all his contacts (again) and utterly shameless he is for taking the deep dickings that was campaign evolved. He really just feels like HE is the Halo guy everyone trusts and goes to.
>>581998973In every way?Nah.But Halo 2 does slap in ways CE doesn't.
>>581999000T R I P SO FT R U T H
>>581999000Thank god. Maybe they will now remove all the Islamophobia and antisemitism from Halo.
>>5819990003GODS OUR TIME IS COMING!!!
>>581999000UH 343XIRS....
>>581999000I expected it if true. I also expect new art style and new VA cast.
In the Halo general, where the threads decayJJab in the cred list slowly fades awayA number next to names that never had a faceJust echoes of a lobby that dissolved with graceOh-a ohI met your regularsOh-a ohWhat about yeeze?
>>581999000DO IT!!!RESTART FROM HALO 3!!!END YOUR TORMENT AND MY OWN!!!
Doesn’t make sense to keep chief and cortana around if they’re rebooting from post halo 3.
>>581981050I'm not convinced that anyone currently at blizzard has ever worked on an rts. But activision also has the age of empires devs now
You can’t start from halo 3. Halo 3 is just the back half of 2, and 2 doesn’t make sense without knowing the events of CE.
>>581999934every 343 game was a soft reboot. and despite all that, i'm fine with yet another reboot as long as chief gets a proper sendoff. then we can have new protagonists or whatever.
>>581999000>hidden lisperia panicking in the commentslmfao
>>581999934My bet is that the whole plot of the game is going to rescue Chief and Cortana from Requiem or somewhere else and then he's going to take the "Commander of the entire UNSC" post that Lord Hood offered him in a comic that nobody read but he rejected because we had to suffer with Halo 5 and Infinite still. That's the easiest way to pull Chief out of the mainline games without disconnecting him from major events entirely.
>>582000153Not every game. 5 was more of a direct sequel to 4.
>>581999000>Voice acts ONE official lore audiobook>Universe gets nukedLuke... I kneel...
Get ready to lose some pounds!Get ready to get shot in front of a ditch!Get ready to get dipped in acid baths!But first, you're gonna get raped!
i hope they suffer
a post-halo3 reboot sounds too good to be true and would also be a kick in the balls to the remains of 343 (and supposedly their only job now is lore consultants)but it makes a lot more sense if the h2 and h3 remakes are still in the pipeline, would also fill the gap considering the main game hasn't even started development.
>>582000073The only 2 things that really happen in CE are introducing the Flood and blowing up the Halo. You could explain both of those in cutscenes.
>>582000517
>>581998973its good they admit TESB isn't better than Star Wars
>>582000567Yeah, they should just keep the remakes going forward and right when Halo 3 ends.
Is this the halo thread?
>>582001126This is the Call of Duty thread.
>>582000567>remains of 343 (and supposedly their only job now is lore consultants)They should fire those guys immediately and get some classic lore nerds there or something because the 343 remnants are how they got us here in the first place with Forerunner trilogies, species retcons, a gorillion books nobody read, banished were okay-ish, the covenant didn't manage to return, and the prometheans became a meme, the unsc was even more of a meme and we even neared the possibility of evil spartan guys before it all maybe is getting torched.
Wish there was a vote/veto function on mcc
>>582001949You will play Isolation and Assembly and you will learn to love it.
>>581999000I feel the people hoping it's just going to erase the bad 343 parts are coping, there's a high chance they reboot the entire universe starting from the beginning before humanity found the halo's.
>>582002556kwaboty
>>582002556A new era.
>>582002556....I liked it
Is we playing Halo?
>>582002556i thought cemake cortana was pretty hot but the jerma screenshot did irreparable damage to her.not that it matters because her design changes every game anyway.
>>582002469That would be commercial suicide, 343i killed CE's reputation on their way out with that cheap remake. Nobody will happily buy and play a 4th-fucking-version of CE again.Activision should just finish the Halo 2 and 3 remakes and then restart the post-war state of affairs from Halo 3's finale. No other way to fix it without angering everyone because the bungie stuff is just incomprehensibly sacred to people that don't even play the games anymore.
>>581999934It does because they’re the mascots of the franchise and the Halo 3 Legendary ending opens up way better possibilities than Requiem. They can also make Cortana hot again!
>>581999000Seems unlikely. I do expect a new cast in the same lore set at whatever time period they want though
>>582002868i beat the remake twice which then motivated me to replay infinite so im a little burnt out atm
>>581999934>>582002942If they feel like not changing too much stuff, they should have Palmer arresting Del Rio instead of Chief and then Lasky and co. help Chief defeat the Didact, who also needs a whole ass makeup or just make the forerunners faceless again. Hell, they should make it fully ambiguous whether they are a separate species or humans once again.
>>582002942>They can also make Cortana hot again!I hope they make her black and fat, to spite you.
>>582003279ok 343 troon
>>582003279>Tomboy Cortana and HalseyDangerously based today aren't we?
>>582002942>mascotsSpartans are the mascots. You don’t need chief specifically. You don’t even need cortana specifically, you can make a new hot AI counterpart. This isn’t sonic we’re talking about.
I truly believe based on all the evidence I’ve seen that Kiki Wolfkill is patient zero for why the TV series was fucking abysmal. You saw the red flags clear as day in the H4 vidocs about MC being “human not a machine” and over the course of a decade she finally got her wish for her gay little fanfic to be made real. Her involvement is conspicuously absent from all the YouTube postmortems probably out of fear of dogpiling on a woman but I feel it in my bones that while Bonnie and Frankie were flailing around like retards with H5, Kiki was there in the shadows trying to use Halo as the medium to tell her stupid dream story. She hired a bunch of yesmen writers and directors to catch the blame and then when the TV show inevitably imploded she slinked away to sone other Microsoft department, failing upwards.
Wait, wtf lmaoWhat is going to happen to this book?Are they still releasing this?Is it part of the strategy in a schizo "torch's your now" kind of thing?
>>581943369>Founded 2007Fuck they almost lasted 20 years.
>>582004062Who cares, it's noncanon as of today.
>>582004062Bookshit is officially non-canon now oldfag.Wrap it up!
>>582004062Yes they will still release it. Maybe it will be like how Disney Star Wars still prints and releases some old media which they consider non-canon, under the "Legends" brand
>Halo is no longer a /lit/ franchiseIt's so over... We can't move there anymore...
>>582004062They should bring back Dinh's actor as a recurrent Spartan if the old universe is toast though.
>>582004062>>582004169>>582004280I'm not into goyslop literature is any of the books is worth checking out? I just started reading Heir of the Empire apparently that really feels like Episode VII.
This is what they get for killing off Rookie.
>>582005479Do you have the daylight version?
>>582005586
>>582005737Shame we never got a Warthog level on Mombasa's streets.
Don't kill the Rookie again you retards.
>>582004532I liked Ghosts of Onyx. I need to check out Contact Harvest.
Luc can't have it both waysHe was way too much of an apologist for a decade to suddenly call said decade a disaster
I defended 343 every single day and THIS is the thanks I get?
>>582004280Is there a source for this or is it just schizophrenia
>>582002891They could unironically get away with a Contact Harvest adaption. Playing as a marine fighting humans only to get hit by the covenant in the second act of the game which kicks off the human/covenant war. This lets Activision stick to what it knows while also getting set for a full fledged Halo with a spartan protagonist. Bonus points if they go for medpacks instead of jelly on the screen for damage indicators.
HaloGears of WarPerfect DarkBanjo-KazooieFableThe Elder ScrollsFalloutDoomHow the heck is Microsoft not making assloads of money off these franchises? Literal flock of golden geese and all you had to do was feed one of them. Just one goose could have laid dozens of golden eggs. Instead they strangled them all and now suddenly act surprised why there aren't any golden eggs and that maybe it's time to reevaluate how they do things going forward. Better late than never I guess lol, but why the hell did it take so long.
>>582004280Give a source or pucker it
>>582007439Phil Spencer is one of the biggest hack in gaming.
You stupid fucks. COD IS THE ENEMY. EVERY SINGLE COD PLAYER DESERVES TO DIE. TENS OF MILLIONS MUST FUCKING DIE. we are going to lose ALL customization, we are going to get more WEAPON SKINS, we are going to get more SPRINT, we are going to get TURRET SECTIONS AND THEY WILL ADD ADS FROM HALO 5 AND ALL THE "ENHANCED MOVEMENT" FROM HALO 5 BACK IN. YOU STUPID FUCKS. THIS IS BAD.
>>582007560I agree with whoever you stole that from, but 343i dying is funny and a good thing.
>>582007439You forgot age of empires and everything Activision Blizzard owns
>>582007560It's been bad. So basically we're just getting more 343 Halo since they have been making COD since Halo 4 anyway. Maybe we'll get complete functional games now. (We won't lol, COD is no stranger to unfinished, buggy games)
the best era of /hg/ is incomingGears, no 343, good shit
It’s true. CoD started halo’s down fall. It was because of CoD MW4 that we went from the best selling game of all time despite being exclusive to a single console, into the trend chasing abomination we are now.
>Gears Estrogen DayNo thanks bozo.
I never liked Cod Zombies. But I will play Halo-themed COD zombies with Flood enemies.
Speaking of gears, this is what my younger brother got me for my birthday yesterday because I thought the photo they included in that game’s collectors edition looked funny/really homoerotic.
did someone say gears?
>>582007560>THEY WILL ADD KINO FROM KINOLO 5 AND ALL THE KINO MOVEMENT FROM KINOLO 5 BACK INBASED + KINO
Happy 343 is dead day to all who celebrate.
>>582007560They said almost nothing in the press release but what they did say, specifically, is this is distinct from the call of duty team. These guys know the old beef and they also know the momentum is back to the classic style. Trust the money goblins, they know where the gold is.
>>582007560you don't get it343 needed to die>b-but codWe'll cross that bridge when we get to it. One step at a time.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAGet fucked, Jeetlo Studios.Get fucked, Halo sloptubers.Get fucked, annoying troons in the modding groomercords trying to tell us that Campaign Redeemed would be a massive success.
Give me Call of Duty but Halo (aka Titanfall) and I will play your new Call of Duty Halo. Titanfall is Call of Duty's final form, so might as well make Halo like that if you're just gonna make it Call of Duty anyway. Which was what 343 was trying to do to Halo but failing miserably at it. At least now the Call of Duty experts will turn Halo into a proper Call of Duty, not the half-assed version we've been getting for over a decade.
Anons that kept saying to adapt to sprint and armor abilities in Halo, I better see you adapting to killstreaks and quickscoping in the new Halo.
I hope Activision gives us our own nazi zombies mode, that’s the best part about cawadooty
>>581979641
>>582008937>>582009049I will not accept not!Halo again. If Activision continues to 343 the franchise, then they can fuck off too.
>>582008519i'm not that concerned about the dev team, the issue is activision higher ups. if they treat their own star franchise like shit, what hope does halo have?
Sean Dubbs has kept it real this entire time. The true Halo youtuber of the people we don't deserve. Yeah, we.
Based Asha?
>>582009318
>>582007439After events like #MeToo (i am not joking with what i am about to say), every Xbox studios was hit with a bunch of content guidelines that they cannot forsake or else MS rapes the studio and forces the rule enforcement. The list kept growing bigger and bigger, until it hit a peak of insanity a couple years ago when the list said that women that look attractive CANNOT be part of the game unless their participation is non-story important or just a rare NPC and so on. And that's just one rule out of a whole ass list. At the same time, award shows made similar award guidelines and because Xbox and co. want that sweet award PR, they complied even further with both, and that's without taking into account constant legal scanning to avoid plagiarism issues (Marasisters... You were not even on Xbox) and a constant need to talk with cultural consultors about any and any IRL culture reference or material. These became all the insane layers of management that kept bloating the budgets of every single project XBOX and other AAA title publishers tried to get out. What you are seeing right now is that house of cards completely falling apart after it has caused costs to skyrocket way beyond the expected scope of time for profit, and regarding profit, so many flops over and over are also why it's just not a sustainable model.For the record, they are cutting jobs, but the guidelines remain the same, hell, they keep getting stricter (now they ask for stuff like diversity racial quotas and complete neutrality towards non-minority cultures or else it causes penalties in-house or instant disqualification from awards) so there's a higher chance all of this shuffling will end with even worse titles as there's even less personnel that can check that everything's going as intended while the top people still want the same and even more well enforced quality control that also aligns with the ever more so strict rules and conditionals.There's no winning until those dissapear.
HCS IS DEAD!!!343I IS IN ITS DEATH BED!!!REJOICE!!!
>>582009253Why would they compete with themselves? Now they have Pepsi and Coke under one house. No need to make Coke taste more like Pepsi, let the offerings stand distinct and you’ll have many customers.Also, the studio that brings Halo back from the dead instantly gets a gorillian good boy points from the public. This is a massive win for them if they don’t fuck up their chance.For their faults, Activision is a serious company, unlike 343. If nothing else, buying in low and selling high is enough of an incentive to do it right.
Activision-Blizzard is going to run Halo to the ground on-purpose so people get no choice but to play CoD or several old titles with zero support left in the slightest anymore.
>>581999000It’s official now…HE WON.
>>582009409Proof?
>>581999000>The real Halo 4 is coming
>>581999000Checked and thank god i wanted this to happen so badly, 343 fucked up the lore
Halo lost this war years ago.
>>581999000>source?>me
>>582009968>the final chapter of frankies epic ends with a monke staring at the screen while unleashing the next glupshitto ancient evil on the galaxy
>>582009968he got his home world blown the fuck up and all the generals he left to take care of his org got master chefed. there's a high chance all the brute bitches died on the home world as well so he will forever remain a brute virgin.
>>582009968Not even canon anymore. Less than coloring book tier.
>>582009983I don't have the link right now but the doc was published a while ago, the other one involving game awards, can't remember which ones though, was published last year. Which led to the Fable director speaking up about that.
>"My name is Atriox and I am the last thing you will ever see.">Is the last thing you ever seeFucking... kino...
>>582007439They kept Phil Spencer, a guy who was more concerned about being seen as a "nice guy" by parasocial internet xbox fans for more than a decade than making good games. Asha is more of a business person who knows you need to cut bloat and fat and focus on core franchises but the question will be does she know how to actually manage game studios? In theory Activision makes sense but we shall see
>>582009968>genuinely and unironically was the last face we ever saw in his continuity>only being in history with an undefeated record against Master ChiefLMAO
The canon ending of Halo is on Earth, inside the ark.
Nothing ends.
>>582010675The canon ending of Halo is Master Chief saying "No, I think we're just getting started"The rest was all conceptualized after Bungie were forced into making a sequel
>>582010883HOLY BASED
>>582010883
>>582010883MIS PIERNAS
>>582010883You know what? I concede. CE only. CE forever.
Marcus Lehto? Yeah. He's alright.
>>582010883Alright. I have heard enough.Remake CE again.
Halo CE's campaign with Halo 3's multiplayer? Yeah, that will save Halo, but 343 would never.
>>582011615Way ahead of you.
>>582010883>forcedNah. Jason Jones actually pitched MS the sequel first to the dismay of most of Bungie because "But Jason, you don't do sequels".He naturally got bored and pissed off to China during H2 dev.
>>582010675>>582010883My headcanon ending is the “Believe” advertising campaign. Humanity has entered a new era of peace, unified by the existential struggle and walking into their uncertain future, victorious together. The era we played is destined to fade into history and legend, as the last veterans of the age tell their old man’s tales before they eventually fade away. The story they tell is equal parts embellishment and reality, but for what it means to humanity it might as well all be true. Chief is remembered as an almost mythic figure, the individual who made the difference. His fate remains a mystery, but his impact will never fade.
>>582012075>The era we played is destined to fade into history and legend, as the last veterans of the age tell their old man’s tales before they eventually fade away. The story they tell is equal parts embellishment and reality, but for what it means to humanity it might as well all be true. Chief is remembered as an almost mythic figure, the individual who made the difference. His fate remains a mystery, but his impact will never fade.
>>582010883If they didn't intend for any sequels, why did original CE have the post credits showing Guilty Spark survived the ring's destruction? Included before they had any idea how that game would perform and how important it would be to the Xbox brand
>>582012220>brainrotted this bad by capeshit
>>582012220They always planned for sequels Bungie is just perpetually "fuck you dad you can't tell me what to do!!!!".
>>582010750It's so fucking funny that we never got the endless, makes the memes so much funnier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDNB5rlExQM
>>582012420Hey, that's me!
>>582011730well, the mcc has that and more
>>582012561Now they just need to add Halo 5 to it. Maybe after the Halo 5 mod comes out, 343 will DMCA/CeaseAndDesist the modder and then they'll steal his work and add it to MCC.
>>582012379That's not an answer :)
>>582012743>343 will DMCA/CeaseAndDesist the modder and then they'll steal his work and add it to MCC.You retarded motherfucker, 343i is fucking dead.
>>582012743i don't understand why fangames/ports keep announcing shit before release, it's like they want to get dmca'd.
>>582012743They were aware of it over a week ago now, nothing happened.
Hiddenxperia status?is he going to starve to death now that Halo is finally dead?
>20 people leftLMAOOOOOOO
>>582013130How many Halo Studios staffers remain? Do you even know?
>>582013130YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE
>>582012938I've watched enough Dragonball Z to know it's not over until the final kamehameha/spirit bomb disintegrates the last molecule of the big bad. Until 343 Industries is fully disintegrated, and I mean all personnel released and all the equipment and assets sold off/destroyed and the building itself not renewing its lease, then no, 343 is not dead. It's just going to regenerate until it's back to full power.
The H5 on PC things are fine legally.
>>582013248>I've watched enough Dragonball Z to know it's not over until the final kamehameha/spirit bomb disintegrates the last molecule of the big bad.
>>582013017Yeah, they're waiting for the dev to finish development and fix any bugs. Then they'll swoop in.>>582013079Now he'll be able to cover and review Halo mods on the steam workshop and highlight community-made stuff like animations or fanfiction. What he should have been doing this whole time. Heavily edited Let's plays of mods would be nice too. He can stream the footage on twitch or whatever then cut it down to bite-sized chunks and basically advertise the mods.
littulh pork 'o rican be is back
343, it’s finished.
>>582013501Wrong flag.
>>582013512It's not illegal to make a translation layer, nor is it illegal to mod H5 Forge to make it load the xbox .modules.
all fired 343 employees are being ushered into escharum's chambers...
Halo Studios employee, Bernie Gores, committed suicide last night as a result of his layoff.
>>582013419doesn't matter, law bends over for whoever has more money. projects like these rely on the good faith of the ip owner.
>>582013512>What he should have been doing this whole timeWhat was stopping him from doing it?
>>582013756Didn't stop Rockstar from harassing random youtubers who didn't break the law. The modder has laser sights locked onto him. He just has to make one wrong move. MS loses nothing by waiting and biding their time, they can pull the trigger any time they want at their own convenience.
>>582013815(Quick, Minto-chan! Now is the time for you to escape!)
Someone out there spent their entire youth caring too much about this franchise, patiently waiting for the next real entry, and there won't be another game until they're in their forties.Not that I know anyone like that of course.
>>582014048The mod makers aren't a part of the club.
Activision should hire Minto.
>>582013843?
>woke up with a sense of closure on this franchiseIt's like when I watched Andor S2 last year in regards to Star Wars. I'll be fucking in my 40's by the time the next game comes out, definitely not going to be the target audience.
>>582014048Networking. Getting chummy with 343/Bungie/Industry insiders for new content. Without those shackles, he is now free to engage more directly with the rest of the community (like modders and fans that make creative halo content like animations/movies/machinima/etc). He can start doing his own stuff too besides just reporting on news. He actually did some mod and lore coverage before, but now he can do it more often.
>>582014380Certified Call of Duty Vtuber.
>>581943369Halo... its finished
>>582013815the rape chambers or the being violently killed and eaten chambers?
>>582014330Better late than never, we could have been stuck with 343 for another decade.
>>582014825>343 loves halo & their fanslmao
>>582014825>"343i loves Halo and their fans">
Lol the pro-team got shitcanned, we might actually get good Halo again and not 4v4 BR balanced 3 lane maps
>>582015191They got canned because Activision-Blizzard is going to place one of their pro-teams to playtest their Halo.Also, it seems like the guy who did Infinite's sandbox was rehired by Activision-Blizzard for the Halo team.
Michael Schorr was fired too.
>>582015191You're retarded if you think that won't continue to be the case.
Halo is so broad and has a ton of content (new even). Even if there were no more new Halo games ever coming out, you still have near endless replayability. There's fangames, mods, books, all the fanart and cosplays and animations and stuff fans and devs have made. You can still reach out and talk to the devs themselves. You can see all their interviews about behind the scenes stuff. I still haven't watched Red VS Blue outside of season 1's dvd. I also need to finish RWBY. I'm also looking forward to Ruby's Halo 2. There's a shitload of mods I've never tried yet. And I still need to beat Ruby's Halo 1 and SPV3. Then you can do stuff yourself, like make a needler model or ODST armor. You can host online tournaments or even locals (maybe even rent a day at a hobby shop or some kind of conference room/hall for competitions even if it's just once in a lifetime, etc.Hell, find yourself a good woman(female) and get married in-game, and have that Jon youtuber have Arby n' the Chief crash your wedding as guests and kill all the players in-game who came to attend your virtual wedding. Halo players are lucky to be fans of Halo. Imagine being a fan of some hyper niche one and done game no one even knows exist. Halo fans are spoiled, Halo is not even close to being dead.
>>582015791Personally I think people should broaden their horizons and play more than just Halo.
>>582015791>"Halo is not even close to being dead.">*Monkey Paw curls*
>>582015791>Halo is so broad and has a ton of content (new even). Even if there were no more new Halo games ever coming out,Maybe so, but I- >you still have near endlessAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>There are ANTI reboot peopleIs this what Stockholm syndrome looks like?
me thinks halo studios not so toughbreak open easy
>>582016290I only support a partial reboot that starts after Halo 3's ending. Full reboot?, im gone. Other dumb reboot like after Halo 4 or 5?, im also gone.
>>582016290reboot can mean many things.a reboot prequel to the bungie games?a reboot of the whole 343 trilogy?a soft-reboot sequel for infinite?master chief, or a new protagonist?does master chief get a proper sendoff?reboot the whole fucking thing so neither bungie or 343 games are canon?
>>582016072I mean the good stuff about Halo will never die. It seems like the bad stuff (343) is finally being burnt away. We know we're getting a new game too by new devs. What's another 4 or 5 years of waiting for the next Halo? I've been waiting for a good Halo game since Halo 3. But now I have mods and classic Halo on PC to keep me busy. Like >>582016058 said, it's not like you have to sit there and wait diligently for a new game, you can go do something else while you wait. You don't have to over it. We just got campaign evolved, so you know someone is gonna try to mod/fix it, especially now that it's on Unreal so we might not need official mod tools.
>>582016508>I only support a partial reboot that starts after Halo 3's ending.That's retarded. Picking and choosing what is and isn't canon when it's all in the same medium is a recipe for disaster.
>>582016290Define reboot. If reboot means starting from Campaign Evolved, then no thanks. I'd rather just see spinoff Halo games. I don't think even a Halo 3 sequel is gonna be good without the lead original Halo devs. Just cut everything after Halo 3 lorewise, then make spinoffs with new characters. Have some games take place during the covenant war too on other planets and stuff. No need to bring back Chief and Tana if you're just gonna character assassinate them anyway. I don't want another Halo 4.
>>582016957nah
Whatever you do, remove sprint.Sprint has no place in Halo.
>>582016998The only confirmation we need is that rampancy doesn't affect Cortana and that she can put herself in sleep mode too so we know she and Chief will be fine even if we never see them again.
>>582016290I'd be ok with a reboot if it follows one more game which gives Chief some kind of sendoff. Don't just immediately discard everything. Disrespect for all of 343's Halos would by extension be disrespect for Bungie's work and Halo as a whole, as the former built upon the latter
The Regulars lost.
AI got that one.
>>582017181>The only confirmation we need is that rampancy doesn't affect Cortana and that she can put herself in sleep mode too so we know she and Chief will be fine even if we never see them again.
>>582017240They should just have Halo 7 end with everyone that has been built up to zerg rushing Zeta halo, Atriox gets killed by Chief or something, the Endless get BTFO and then the ring is blown up again, Chief and Joy go into cryo together. This time they might not wake up because he's not leaving her behind, whether or not they both dies is irrelevant, that universe's fight is finished.
>lol reboot the series after a 20+ year old gameHalo 3's writing is horrendous and they aren't going to be marketing the game towards 40 year olds.
The Puerto Rican lost.
>>582017596Now the series is dead, are you gonna post hands, Diaz?
>>582017521The only other good solution is going through with the remakes of Halo 2 and 3, 3 needs a severe rewrite, and then doing the same thing with the partial reboot. That's the only way it will all work out. Anything else and interest will just implode and down the drain everything will go.
>>582017507This is literally the plot of the next Halo book. How did you know all this, anon?
>DIAZ OUTTA NOWHERE
>diaz
Halo 1, 2 and 3 aren't even cohesive stories.
>>582017958
>>582017958i................ i........... i just want to see the covenant again........................ no other faction has their swag................
He was right about everything btw.https://vocaroo.com/114pD3qWIVqT
>>582017958>Indirectly implying 343's game were cohesive.
>>582017958It's a good thing their gameplay holds up.
At the end of time... a moment will come when just one regular remains. Then the moment will pass. The regular will be gone. There will be nothing to show as if we were ever here... but stardust. The last regular, alone with Minto. Am I that regular?
Forced.
I hope they add new female characters that are attractive and pleasant to be around. Cortana has been singlehandedly carrying Halo in this department for far too long and even 343 managed to ruin her for no reason.
>tfw when even 'Forced.' will become a long-forgotten meme, replaced by something even less memorable
>>582018685weapon was pretty cute and jen's performance carried infinite hard
Halo.
They're not getting rid of any of the canon from the 343 games and books, you guys are retarded
>>582018518Superior thread theme:https://youtu.be/SMVik3EFVn4?si=8unOinS5NFIplNQD
>>582018935>the 343troon says nervously
>>582019069>still can't relax enough to pull the source from his gaping holeCome on, let's reach a little deeper
>>582018935>He thinks they are not going to reboot it after Halo 3.lmao
>>582019187>dude halo 3 is my childhood game they should reboot the series but keep my favorite game canon!!!!!
>he thinks it won't be a full canon rebootlmao
>she thinks
i'm trans btw
>>582019364I've yet to see an argument why this wouldn't be a good thing. It's just a bunch of emotional retards crying that they need to keep the games they like canon because they are attached to them.Yeah man why start with a clean slate when you can tie yourself down to 20 year old baggage once more.
i'm puerto rican btw
>>582018518>>582018954>We have abandoned our mission.>Our game is dying>All our memes...>...all our gamenights...>...all our mods, are foolish.>In the face of this... >...we are...>...dust. Nothing more.>And to this dust, we will return.>When she chooses for us to die.>It is not our place...>...to challenge Minto.
>>582019704
>>582019941>muh childhood>muh memories>muh xbox live friendships>muh bungie>muh marty
yo pierre you wanna come out here?
I'd do some shit for a Halo reboot that takes itself seriously.The Halo 3 ad campaigns and the We Are ODST trailer are beloved and those are completely serious. The world and designs are way too cool to be stuck in a series that takes itself as seriously as a Marvel movie.
>>582020208>The world and designs are way too cool to be stuck in a series that takes itself as seriously as a Marvel movie.Thankfully Staten is gone.
>>582020263WAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>582020079I guess that gun he was born with pointed at his head finally went off.Seriously what the fuck did he mean by that?
>>582020263AAAAAAAIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Say something nice about them.
fastest thread in months
Most news in months.
>>582020263
>>582020540Frank is mostly blameless (albeit still kind of an idiot) and hitched his wagon to the wrong horse, Bonnie and Kiki were blatant diversity hires who had never successfully shipped a product worth giving a shit about or at all during their professional tenure at Microsoft pre-343i
>>582020263Unironically yeah. I genuinely hate ODST.>let's not do operator kino but do a gen x nerd show reunion and have the cast quip at eachother for 2 hours straight
>>582020540I enjoyed reading Frankie's Bungie Weekly back in the day.
>>582020208good taste
More like, what's stopping MS from making an easy cashgrab Mario Party clone with characters across all their franchises?>Masterchief, Dragonborn, Banjo, and Joanna Dark playing minigames to get the highest gamerscore in Fuzion Frenzy 3>Xbox Racer Xtreme, where Minecraft Steve tosses some dynamite in front of Banjo as he zips by in his minecart, it blows up the car, but Banjo uses his nuts and bolts to repair it. Arbiter on his Ghost steers clear, but carefully observes the scene, as Forza Horizon 6 driver drifts right through in his AE-86 Sprinter Trueno blasting Eurobeat...>Xbox weapon-based 3D tag fighter made by the Dead or Alive devs (Tekken devs can't be trusted right now), featuring Spartan-458 with a shotgun and grenades, Atriox with his Gravity Hammer, alongside other Xbox characters like Marcus Pheonix with his Lancer, Conker with his frying pan, Vault Dweller with a power fist, Ryse Spartan with his Xiphos and rounded shield, The Pirate Lord with his pistol and cutlass...and guest characters like 2B with her swords, Leon Kennedy with his combat knife and pistol, and Scorpion with his harpoon. Let's all this game, "Weapon X".You don't have to hire me, Microsoft. Those were free. You're welcome.
>>582019307This but unironically
>>582020940Frankie is really funny to me. Like you said he's kind of an idiot but him going from glorified forum jannie to franchise manager is hilarious.How did he do that?
>>582021724PS kind of tried that and it wasn't very successful. I think maybe because Nintendo's games all having a stylized animated style makes it less jarring for all those characters from different universes to exist in the same space. PS and Xbox characters don't work that way
>>582021724*XBOX Weapon X
Halo killed itself. You'll only get call of doody from now on. Hehehe
halo is finally retvrnin to dark and gritty roots from ce
>>582022174This is not the correct way to post with Escharum, anon.
>>582022037They can figure it out if they try hard enough. The game has to be good too. They can't just slap the various game models in and call it a day. They can pick out a unique art style and design the characters around that style.
>>582022174>from now on you only get cock of doody 4: modirn gayfuckstupid
>>582022804hat-ha-hat-hat-ha
Halo is being played.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1_PbabxeVk
>>581945214>MCC on PCMcc was unplayable on both my console and pc for nearly 3 years. Garbage port. Shit was a disaster. It was only good after 5 years. The idea was pretty fucking sick though and if you've never played them I guess its a good way to play them.I legit remember so many times trying to get a game going with friend's or brother and some fuckery occurring where I never was able to get it going. 343 rest in shit
You guys good?Just checking in.
>>582023264I just bought REQ packs last night. Where does the money go to now?
>>582023321Frankie's piggybank.
>>581943369I guess that's it...
>>582006584
>>582022014When Frank O'Connor left Bungie (sometime after they announced that they'd be going independent), he wasn't immediately hired by 343i (which may not even have existed yet), he was essentially working under Microsoft (as Director of MS Game Studios Franchise Development Group) to assist with the franchise transition, after which he was eventually hired properly to work at 343i. I guess he was just the first guy to show up and he had already worked on Halo so MS higher-ups probably just said "fuck it, why not, you're hired."
>>582020540I hope they all die painful deaths
>>582024580I'll have a McExtra with no onions.The fuck you mean you stopped selling these in 2013?I want to talk to your manager.
>>582021724here's the thing, smash bros players don't care about "the best, most balanced platform fighter", they just wanna play the latest smash bros. mario party fans don't care about "the deepest, most fun party game", they just wanna play mario party, same goes for mario kart, soccer, tennis, etc. i think it's fine to make other games in the genre but going big budget (like ms is prone to do) is just asking for a flop.
Surprised there isn't a post from Marty rambling about golden geese.
>>582025486SOVL
>>582025486BIG BEAUTIFUL HALO
Legendarily incompetent company
>>582025869MS yeah but sadly they're too big to fail.
>wake up>jeet4jeet is dead
>>582020540I wanted to hatefuck the incompetent foids and Frankie is an inspiration to jannies everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dpOFH7XfSY
>>582026259Buy an ad.
I clicked the video and liked it.
Wardogs won.
Da cord is here.
DEY HEA
Activision will have a fully functional and featured game at launch.…But we will get microtransaction raped.
>>582026681>…But we will get microtransaction raped.But enough about Halo 5 and Infinite.
We'll make it.
I won’t say I’m hopeful, but it does feel like an oppressive weight that I’ve been living with for many many years has suddenly been lifted away. 343 was a curse and we survived it.
>>582026681>…But we will get microtransaction raped.As opposed to 5 and Jeetfinate?
>>582026802>lowered crosshairHalo.
>>582026776>>582027073Have either of you played CoD in the past 10 years? Shitfinite had microtransactionslop every week but CoD has 10 new ones every day.
>>581980057I think that was c3sabortooth but hes not British
>>582027282>Have either of you played CoDNo.
>>581964850Kino ads but did 343i even have a story developed?This sounds like the Oni and Spartan IV were set to be the bad guys this time around.
>>582027123Halo.
>>582027374Very much so.
>>582026776>>582027073I don’t think you realize what’s coming lol. Even if they get an all star team and everything is perfect otherwise, we’re gonna get raped and gaped, that’s how Activision rolls.
>>581967271This was necessary but killing Id software was fucking retarded, and nothing has been made yet in Asha's reign. The Xbox is still as barren as ever.It genuinely feels like jeets are pushing the narrative that Asha is good because she is killing woke but she has only fired people and hired jeets.If anything studios are laid off immediately after they make an announcement.
>>>/v/748270643>>>/v/748270643>>>/v/748270643
>>582027490yeah the issue is actiblizz management, not the devs themselves. doesn't matter if they hire the best devs on the planet if leadership prioritizes monetization over everything else.
Don't let Baza make the new thread.
>>582026259>Uh, I think Judgement Day just arrived.Terminator IS Halo.
>>582027557People have curry fever about her, it's weird. They're saying she is killing da woke but then you see senior engineers, designers, ect get laid off.
Fine, I'm baking.
>>582028151Forced
>>582028151Forced.
NEW>>582028458>>582028458>>582028458
>>582028151hes based and /hg/pilled
>>582026259I'm waiting this.
>>582027073As long as the default armor is good looking... We don't really need any other look.
>>582018935
