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HaloGAF |OT| Not a thread about Halo

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xxjuicesxx

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Madness said:
Aren't more and more studios actually outsourcing because it saves time and is cheaper? That's why EA has put so much money in Mainland China setting up studios and hiring recent grads etc. They'll offshore or outsource the grueling work to them to save costs.

I don't blame 343 really, it's just the way the industry is. 343 was a new studio trying to deliver one of the biggest IP's etc. I think I read an interview with Kiki where she said at one point, they had almost 500+ people working for Halo 4, that's got to mean most of them were contract workers.
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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for a good man to do nothing.

343 needs to step up and not do what is cheap, but what is right.

You can see the patchwork of Halo 4 is nothing compared to a company tied together working its heart out to produce a Halo 1 or 2. That shows, people aren't dumb they can see it. The higher numbers of the later games can thank Halo 1 and 2 and the empire they created.
 
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Barrow Roll

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Madness said:
Be glad it's not Vancouver. Almost June and today was the first day of sun we had in like a month of rain and cold weather and the temperature barely cracked 16 degrees Celsius which is like 61 Fahrenheit.

I set up the portable AC last month when it hit 29 degrees for a few days but since then, near useless.
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oh god i live in the same city as this guy

this is madness
 
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Ozzy Onya A2Z

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xxjuicesxx said:
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for a good man to do nothing.

343 needs to step up and not do what is cheap, but what is right.

You can see the patchwork of Halo 4 is nothing compared to a company tied together working its heart out to produce a Halo 1 or 2. That shows, people aren't dumb they can see it. The higher numbers of the later games can thank Halo 1 and 2 and the empire they created.
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The outsourcing is not always about cost sometimes experience or quality or time saving requirements are paramount e.g. cgi scenes or terminals or books or figures or CA maps as they've got Max and a decade of mm experience with Halo. I would like to see more maps in future titles split between 343i & CA but all the other outsourcing is fine by me. Most of 343i partnerships are top tier in their respective fields.

Saying that 343i didn't put their heart and soul into Halo is poor form mate. You may not like decisions or direction but ease up in that department. In terms of a small core passionate team creating great things I agree wholeheartedly. I also agree some playlists should cover CE & Halo 2 maps and settings. I disagree the whole game has to be like that.

Also FYI MS/Larry Hryb have confirmed an all games E3 with no TV talk.
 
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Ozzy Onya A2Z said:
Saying that 343i didn't put their heart and soul into Halo is poor form mate.
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343 Industries is Microsoft. The very same Microsoft that made people buy Crackdown to play a beta for Halo 3. The very same Microsoft that made the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack an exclusive early release with the purchase of an $80 version of a game that wasn't even in the same genre. The very same that took the custom emblems introduced in Halo 2, the custom armor introduced in Halo 3, threw in weapon skins, and then locked 75 of these items behind retailer-specific pre-order bonuses, redundant SKUs, and apparently in action figure packages that go on sale almost a year after release.

The only soul they have is comprised of the essence they sucked out from their fans.
 
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Poker Face said:
All kinect games.
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HiredN00bs said:
343 Industries is Microsoft. The very same Microsoft that made people buy Crackdown to play a beta for Halo 3. The very same Microsoft that made the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack an exclusive early release with the purchase of an $80 version of a game that wasn't even in the same genre. The very same that took the custom emblems introduced in Halo 2, the custom armor introduced in Halo 3, threw in weapon skins, and then locked 75 of these items behind retailer-specific pre-order bonuses, redundant SKUs, and apparently in action figure packages that go on sale almost a year after release.

The only soul they have is comprised of the essence they sucked out from their fans.
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Damn.
 
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Demoncarnotaur

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I really think Halo Spartan Assault will be this years "ODST", standalone SP + Halo 4 MP. Further, I bet the story is a evolution of Spartan Ops Season 2 (bleh).
 
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HiredN00bs said:
343 Industries is Microsoft. The very same Microsoft that made people buy Crackdown to play a beta for Halo 3. The very same Microsoft that made the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack an exclusive early release with the purchase of an $80 version of a game that wasn't even in the same genre. The very same that took the custom emblems introduced in Halo 2, the custom armor introduced in Halo 3, threw in weapon skins, and then locked 75 of these items behind retailer-specific pre-order bonuses, redundant SKUs, and apparently in action figure packages that go on sale almost a year after release.

The only soul they have is comprised of the essence they sucked out from their fans.
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You're just mad you're buying those action figures for DLC anyway.
 
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kylej

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hired noobs with the cutting edge observation that microsoft is a business

next up, describing the ways the sky is blue
 
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xxjuicesxx

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Ozzy Onya A2Z said:
The outsourcing is not always about cost sometimes experience or quality or time saving requirements are paramount e.g. cgi scenes or terminals or books or figures or CA maps as they've got Max and a decade of mm experience with Halo. I would like to see more maps in future titles split between 343i & CA but all the other outsourcing is fine by me. Most of 343i partnerships are top tier in their respective fields.

Saying that 343i didn't put their heart and soul into Halo is poor form mate. You may not like decisions or direction but ease up in that department. In terms of a small core passionate team creating great things I agree wholeheartedly. I also agree some playlists should cover CE & Halo 2 maps and settings. I disagree the whole game has to be like that.

Also FYI MS/Larry Hryb have confirmed an all games E3 with no TV talk.
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Well agree with whatever you want but just take a gander at the population charts and realize you're wrong. Thank you in advance.
 
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Barrow Roll

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Pretty sure Reach population numbers aren't being updated in game anymore, unless there are other means of checking that I don't know about.
 
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