Halo Studios (ex-343) already in turmoil - "I don't think anybody is really happy about the quality of the product right now"

If MS is smart they shut down 343, its wild that they got 3 chances and all 3 games were terrible insults to the franchise yet they dont get shut down.
 
Boo Who? said:
You forgot to mention Halo Reach, arguably the best Halo game. :messenger_beaming:
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Yeah Reach how did I not remember that. So 343 had a chance to make good halo games, look at the Coalition with Gears of War nobody worries about bad Gears of War games. Call of Duty I think has 3 + developers making games.
 
This is hilarious. It wasn't long ago that they made a big deal about going to unreal 5 for the next game, there was a positive vibe around that like the series would get back on track. Not so much I guess, eh…
 
drganon said:
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Too late:

 
I've said it before and I'll say it again.. Xbox generally has no idea how to make good games, they just don't. Lack of exclusives is what has basically killed them. How they couldn't see this like 10+ years ago is astounding.

Phil Spencer is a shit CEO!
 
Sebastian1295 said:
It'll never get to the level it should be because 343 studios are a pile of shit that lack talent and creativity. They have destroyed halo and its lore, and have shit on the story of master chief repeatedly with each new game they release. They're talentless hacks.
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I still seriously doubts QA cuts and rotating armies of medium to short terms of contractors helped there mate… the MS way…
 
DenchDeckard said:
Oh Xbox. Making it very hard for anyone with an ounce of love for the platform to not come around to how much of a shit show this has been

Im sorry Gaf for being far too lenient on this shitty company.

Whole division needs a complete clear out of upper management and let someone else have a go.
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I think this is a good time to add a "Did you know" moment: Did you know the next Halo after Infinite will be the first Halo game to ever appear on a Sony platform?
 
clarky said:
300 people doesn't sound like anywhere near enough to be working on 2 full blown Halo games.
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It seems good to me. If 100 of them are doing the Halo 1 Remake and the other 200 are working on a new Halo game from the ground up.
 
My friend and I got a spiritual awakening with the Halo Series thanks to the MCC as we never experienced it when it was released and it definitely hold up to new players like me even for this generation. We're about to complete Halo 3 in our completion run but I dread anticipating Halo:4 as it's the one a lot of people have judged to the be the start of the downfall of the series
 
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Yes! Just close this bitch and can Halo... like for real, I dont think they will ever do something note worthy.

Im even surprised they have let them still do something: they literally took one of the most iconic games in recent years and proceed to burn it to the ground but they just wanted to be CoD or whatever was popular, so they could get their bonus.

I would call this one of the worst take over of an IP, but then Disney took over Star Wars.

Anyways, just fuck 343/Halo Studios and just can the IP. The story was told and everything they did later was so bad it just become a mid tier game.
 
I'm playing both sides so I always end out on top.

-happily will see 343 and whoever fail even more miserably. The purple hair devs hate the audience and the game.
-if they pull off a miracle yay a good Halo game.

either will suffice.
 
I booted up Halo this weekend just to see whats up..

Its so fucking dead.
The whole presentation is lifeless.
 
genesisblock said:
My friend and I got a spiritual awakening with the Halo Series thanks to the MCC as we never experienced it when it was released and it definitely hold up to new players like me even for this generation. We're about to complete Halo 3 in our completion run but I dread anticipating Halo:4 as it's the one a lot of people have judged to the be the start of the downfall of the series
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How is Halo MMC these days in terms of reliability and player counts?

I'd like to have those old games on PS5
 
A marketable Halo would be so simple AI could do it. I never understood how they could do so shitty with this easy slam dunk fps game.
 
Zacfoldor said:
A marketable Halo would be so simple AI could do it. I never understood how they could do so shitty with this easy slam dunk fps game.
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It's clearly not.

The Xbox 360 Halo games were total packages in terms of singleplayer, story, lore, universe, competitive multiplayer, co-op, replayability, score mode, this is not an easy game to make. Nobody makes games like this anymore. Maybe that's part of the problem, the old Halo games are literally impossible to make today with modern studios and modern audiences.
 
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It's so crazy that this was one of the biggest ip's in all of gaming at one point. And now it's just so forgotten because of disappointment after disappointment of releases. Is this game even in anyone's top 50 games they'd be looking forward to? Its that bad that it may not be.
 
diffusionx said:
It's clearly not.

The Xbox 360 Halo games were total packages in terms of singleplayer, story, lore, universe, competitive multiplayer, co-op, replayability, score mode, this is not an easy game to make. Nobody makes games like this anymore. Maybe that's part of the problem, the old Halo games are literally impossible to make today with modern studios and modern audiences.
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This.

I Think they are down to 300 staff total at the studio. No way can they deliver what is expected of a Halo game in todays climate with so few people. I believe they have 2 projects on the go and also whatever (life) support Infinte needs.

Not sure what the average staff requirement is on a AAA game is these days, never mind something with the scope of Halo. What COD take to churn out an entry? About 500-1k?
 
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