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by Victor Mildew » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:57 pm

Jenuall wrote:Redfall is something that people should absolutely be remembering. But it's from Arkane and will therefore be one of the best games of the generation that no strawberry floater plays


I'll play it if I can reload every time I get spotted.

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by Jenuall » Thu Jan 19, 2023 4:58 pm

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by Christopher » Thu Jan 19, 2023 6:40 pm

Has a franchise as big as Halo was, ever seen such a huge decline?

I remember the Halo 3 launch being huge, bigger than most movies.

Halo Infinite just came and went. Shame, as I love the series, even 4&5.

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by ITSMILNER » Thu Jan 19, 2023 6:47 pm

I remember the Halo 2 launch as well being huge.

The original trilogy, ODST and Reach were a brilliant series of games, then it started going downhill with 4

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by Mafro » Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:05 pm

Christopher wrote:Has a franchise as big as Halo was, ever seen such a huge decline?

I remember the Halo 3 launch being huge, bigger than most movies.

Halo Infinite just came and went. Shame, as I love the series, even 4&5.

Halo 3 launch was insane. Everyone was talking about it, the marketing was brilliant.

Series was strawberry floated as soon as Bungie left.

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by Pedz » Thu Jan 19, 2023 8:05 pm

Saw something online about up to 60 staff being laid off and the ex-staff saying that Halo was set up to fail by Microsoft with bad management.

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by Bertie » Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:22 pm

Victor Mildew wrote:
Jenuall wrote:Redfall is something that people should absolutely be remembering. But it's from Arkane and will therefore be one of the best games of the generation that no strawberry floater plays


I'll play it if I can reload every time I get spotted.


Eeewww.

Halo is a strange one. It clearly was victim to lots of people with different views. Open world vs linear. Next Gen only or both. MP flopped hard for me and was messy with lack of co-op and and forge and then battle pass just thrown at it.

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by Monkey Man » Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:38 pm

Lengthy thread from a reliable french leaker -

twitter.com/BathrobeSpartan/status/1616169276984942599



TLDR

- 343 will no longer be a game development studio but will be oversee external studios working on the Halo IP. Coordinate Halo Infinite follow-up & Franchise the Halo license to other studios. They started approaching other studios in 2020. Should result in several more games, both big and small in different genres.
- This is already happening in season 2/3 of MP - Forge (SkyboxLabs), Maps & content (Sperasoft) & Battle Royale (Certain Affinity).
- Splipspace engine will continue to be developed. Access will be given to external studios.

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PostRe: Halo Infinite (XB1/XSX|S/PC/Cloud) - Joe Staten joins Xbox Publishing. Campaign team hit hard by lay-offs.
by Photek » Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:58 pm

I want an ID take on Halo side story like ODST.

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by Photek » Thu Jan 19, 2023 10:00 pm

Christopher wrote:Has a franchise as big as Halo was, ever seen such a huge decline?

I remember the Halo 3 launch being huge, bigger than most movies.

Halo Infinite just came and went. Shame, as I love the series, even 4&5.


Infinites Campaign is Leagues above 4&5 imo.

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by Mafro » Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:23 pm

Absolute disaster

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by Jenuall » Thu Jan 19, 2023 11:42 pm

Considering 343 was supposed to have been specifically hand picked to carry the Halo franchise it is something of a clusterfuck that this is how things have gone

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by Garth » Fri Jan 20, 2023 12:02 am

They really fumbled Halo Infinite's release with big features missing and the shockingly barebones content pipeline after so many years in development, it's a massive shame IMO because I loved the core gameplay.

Strangely I was just saying to a friend about a hour before this leak that this is what they should do moving forward, let another studio have a go at it.

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by Monkey Man » Fri Jan 20, 2023 7:42 pm

Jason Schreier says -

I ran these bullet points by a few people. While it's true that 343 is focused on multiplayer, the stuff about campaign DLC being scrapped is false (I don't think there was much of that planned in the first place), and a lot of this is either wrong or just speculation.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/halo-i ... t-99983491

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by Jenuall » Fri Jan 20, 2023 9:41 pm

Plans change

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by Peter Crisp » Sat Jan 21, 2023 12:23 am

I hope they give Halo to Peter Molyneux.
He'll sort it out.

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by Garth » Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:04 pm

twitter.com/Halo/status/1616918614254157828


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PostRe: Halo Infinite (XB1/XSX|S/PC/Cloud) - Joe Staten joins Xbox Publishing. Campaign team hit hard by lay-offs.
by Winckle » Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:41 pm

Why is that an image? It would fit in the character limit of Twitter.

We should migrate GRcade to Flarum. :toot:
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by Photek » Mon Jan 23, 2023 12:10 pm

Winckle wrote:Why is that an image? It would fit in the character limit of Twitter.


I think it’s because they needed to hammer the point home, the Halo fan base is horrible so they’d presume who ever runs the Twitter account wouldn’t be ‘official’ enough, no ambiguity with the new studio head saying it.

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PostRe: Halo Infinite (XB1/XSX|S/PC/Cloud) - 343: "Halo and Master Chief are here to stay".
by Johnny Ryall » Mon Jan 23, 2023 12:14 pm

As pointed out in the press it's border line offensive that they tweeted that without even acknowledging that large swathes of real people losing real work. Tech layoffs going hard this month.


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