Papacheeks
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Halo Infinite Lead Narrative Designer Leaves 343, Joins Riot Games
Aaron Linde is leaving the Microsoft studio following Infinite's launch in December.
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Halo Infinite Lead Narrative Designer Aaron Linde Leaving 343
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Mister Wolf
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Probably already finished his work on Halo Infinite: The Endless.
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Microsoft Has Filed for Halo: The Endless Trademark - IGN
Prior to its recent release of Halo Infinite, Microsoft filed a US trademark application for 'Halo: The Endless'.
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Papacheeks
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Is that the next expansion/Area? Is it still on ZETA HALO or totally new location?
Mister Wolf
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I expect that to be the name of the expansion. Pretty sure it will take place on Zeta in new location/biome
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Javthusiast
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Exactly. Infinites story is meh at best.
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The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Very informative post. Thank you for your contribution.
PS your avatar fits perfectly to your post. Congratulations
manfestival
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Finished the game last night... and I can agree with this post.
oldergamer
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He's likely leaving for more money, or something that has stock options. Why is this even news?
Spaceman292
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Are you saying the story was good?
remember_spinal
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Pedro Motta
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MY NAME IS ATRIOX.
Fbh
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Best of luck to him but it doesn't seem like a big loss for 343, if anything it's an opportunity for them to improve on what is still one of their main weak points.
343 has struggled from the very beginning to give their era of Halo a compelling narrative, and as much praise as Infinite is getting for its gameplay and world, most comments I've seen from reviewers and users seem to mostly agree the story is one of the few weak points in the game.
343 has struggled from the very beginning to give their era of Halo a compelling narrative, and as much praise as Infinite is getting for its gameplay and world, most comments I've seen from reviewers and users seem to mostly agree the story is one of the few weak points in the game.
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JerryinSoCal
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Didn't he come in after other people who had the same job had left during the development of the game? I know they had several people leave. There is hardly any story to infinite so I doubt this is a big loss one way or the other.
coffinbirth
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I wonder how much of the campaign that Staten chainsawed off ends up as expansions. Seems like Phils comments about making the campaign episodic make a lot more sense now knowing that 2/3 of the content was supposedly cut.
Edgelord79
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Gotta be honest here, kind of shocked that people leave jobs to pursue other opportunities..
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Fess
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It really makes you wonder in what state the game was in before Staten jumped aboard.
I’m not a fan anymore, I’ve basically stopped playing it now. The core gameplay and controls and grappling hook is tuned to perfection but the empty open world and samey main quest battles has turned it into one of my biggest disappointments 2021. I just don’t have fun anymore, I liked both Halo 4 and Halo 5 more, they felt much more varied and kept me interested enough to finish them.
mansoor1980
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SnipeyMcGee
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Oh no. What a huge loss.
Lone Wolf
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Yeah the game is overall very bare. No co-op, no Forge, no Warzone, no Firefight. No score attack mode. I expect this game to be loaded with stuff in a couple years time, but it had to be in development hell for a couple years at least. The gameplay is great but it needs more content and to drop last gen.
MiguelItUp
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I haven't touched the Infinite campaign, so I don't know how the writing is, but I was unaware Linde worked on this. He used to be a Destructoid editor in the mid/late 2000's. That's pretty wild.
I wouldn't really take this as anything special, probably just received a better opportunity, so he took it. Happens all the time, people quit, change jobs, get laid off, etc. Haha.
I wouldn't really take this as anything special, probably just received a better opportunity, so he took it. Happens all the time, people quit, change jobs, get laid off, etc. Haha.
Kuranghi
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Holy shit this is so funny, especially if you read it in a stereotypical Russian accent.
BouncyFrag
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Get someone in who will give us the Halo game from a Grunts perspective that we need and deserve.
Haggard
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This.
That guys idea of writing seems to have been throwing darts at a Scrabble board.
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Sosokrates
Report me if I continue to console war
Everytime somone leaves a studio people think it means something. People leave all the time from all companies, means nothing.
fatmarco
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The cutscene dialogue is the biggest issue. Did anyone actually care what Escharum said when he monologued?
It's actually amazing that 343 thought those scenes were good and I'm surprised they didn't think to rewrite them / re - record them after last years reveal because Escharum excited exactly no one.
It's actually amazing that 343 thought those scenes were good and I'm surprised they didn't think to rewrite them / re - record them after last years reveal because Escharum excited exactly no one.
alabtrosMyster
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Because when someone leaves a major studio it means that it's about to close, and the parent company is on the way to the gutter, this is a well known fact of the gaming industry.
STARSBarry
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The best Halo game narratively that 343 helped produce was Halo Wars 2, and almost like they knew they had shit on board writers they hired external contractors for that title which produced the banished and Atriox as an antagonist.
So what does 343 in house do once there back in charge? They produced what ever the fuck was infinites story, and sideline the best thing they have had since Bungie handed off the series.
All I can say is... this is most likely good news, people would have to try extremely hard to produce something as bad as infinites shoe horned relationships and exposition dumps of far more intresting events that chief was too busy being in a coma for you to handle.
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Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
Except he was a full time employee, not contractual.
oldergamer
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Enough with the bullshit takes on 343. They put a good game together. Most of the complaints are stupid. The game is fun.
Bungie isnt coming back. Get over it.
Bungie isnt coming back. Get over it.
Red Crayon Aristocrat
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The Boner Quest guy wrote Halo Infinite?
Sad to only learn that after he's leaving.
Sad to only learn that after he's leaving.
VAVA Mk2
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Joe is already working on writing DLC too. Joe is one of the co creators of Halo anyways and been fundamental in its lore so I am happy where we will be going...
mcjmetroid
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Well everyone liked the game except neogaf then. I wonder why
Deputy Moonman
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Chris_Rivera
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TheThreadsThatBindUs
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Halo Infinite story was pretty bland. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either.
That said, they wrote themselves into a corner with Halo 5, so even if H:I had the greatest writers in the world working on it, there would be only so much they can do with that shit as the foundation.
Honestly, I found the continued focus on MC and Cortana to be f*cking weird and creepy. Like how is anyone supposed to take seriously a story about this big gruff armoured, faceless super soldier and his unrequited love for a naked purple hologram lady who lives in his head?
Bungie's writers should have dumped Cortana long ago, but instead, they went and made the entire series story mostly about her.... uuugh!
That said, they wrote themselves into a corner with Halo 5, so even if H:I had the greatest writers in the world working on it, there would be only so much they can do with that shit as the foundation.
Honestly, I found the continued focus on MC and Cortana to be f*cking weird and creepy. Like how is anyone supposed to take seriously a story about this big gruff armoured, faceless super soldier and his unrequited love for a naked purple hologram lady who lives in his head?
Bungie's writers should have dumped Cortana long ago, but instead, they went and made the entire series story mostly about her.... uuugh!
