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Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:24 pm
by Sarge
Speaking to
GamesIndustry.biz, Phil Spencer has revealed that there are several Halo games in the works. The head of Microsoft Game Studios said that Halo is one of their first party multi-faceted franchises that can span across several games and genres:
Well, there's more than one team building Halo games right now. There are more than two or three teams building Halo things right now. Some of them we will own, some of them we won't. It's never been, for me, about who you own or don't own - it's about working with the best creative talent in the industry.
clicky
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:32 pm
by Hound
Halo Kart FTW
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:47 pm
by Moderator Sir Geoff
Have Microsoft™ ever heard of the phrase quality over quantity? Let us look back at Halo™ 3 for a second, rememeber it? I say with great certainty that most of us have forgotten about its existence. The general consensus reflects that Halo™ 3 is an appalling game married by a semi-decent multi player. It's injustice that an appalling game can reach higher scores from the press because it is packaged with a free version of the previous game's multi player mode. Legendary franchises aren't milked and do not have their quality compromised. Look at the Killzone™ franchise for example, there's only 3 games and it's the most popular franchise of the last millenia.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:02 pm
by Skippy
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:12 pm
by Kanbei
Moderator Sir Geoff wrote:Have Microsoft™ ever heard of the phrase quality over quantity? Let us look back at Halo™ 3 for a second, rememeber it? I say with great certainty that most of us have forgotten about its existence. The general consensus reflects that Halo™ 3 is an appalling game married by a semi-decent multi player. It's injustice that an appalling game can reach higher scores from the press because it is packaged with a free version of the previous game's multi player mode. Legendary franchises aren't milked and do not have their quality compromised. Look at the Killzone™ franchise for example, there's only 3 games and it's the most popular franchise of the last millenia.
Do you work for Sony Defense Force?
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:13 pm
by This is me breathing
Moderator Sir Geoff wrote:The general consensus reflects that Halo™ 3 is an appalling game married by a semi-decent multi player.
Actually only morons think that.
How exactly is this news? We already knew they had Halo Wars, Chronicles and 4 in development and they'd already hinted there were more coming.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:16 pm
by Exxy
I don't get the milking part, it's a game that's the face of a console. Just like Mario is, that gets milked more than Halo.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:18 pm
by smurphy
As long as the games are good I don't mind.
Spin offs so far: Halo Wars.
Damn.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:22 pm
by Christopher
smurphy wrote:As long as the games are good I don't mind.
Spin offs so far: Halo Wars.
Damn.
I know, I don't get why everyone is hating on Microsoft for wanting to make money from a series that has made many people happy.
The Halo universe is so rich and the books have really help flesh out that universe.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:31 pm
by Kanbei
I want the spin off games to help the universe not exploit it. It's such a fantastic universe it'd be a shame to see it exploited utterly until it's nothing but a joke.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:49 pm
by The Alchemist Penguin
We have yet to have a bad Halo spin off (
), so anyone who claims this is a bad thing is a dirty, dirty cynic.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:41 pm
by BID0
Moderator Sir Geoff wrote:Look at the Killzone™ franchise for example, there's only 3 games and it's the most popular franchise of the last millenia.
What is Killzone? Is it a PC game?
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:08 pm
by Shadow
If we get one Halo game a year from different devs, I'd be very happy.
It doesn't feel like they're overused the franchise yet, I'd go as far as to say it's been under exploited so far.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:12 pm
by Venom
Xbox 720 launch day.
Halo MMO at launch.
WoW!
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:14 pm
by Bigerich
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:27 pm
by Extralife
Legends wrote:Xbox 720 launch day.
Halo MMO at launch.
WoW!
World of Halo.
I'm not interested in this whoring of the franchise. As far as I'm concerned Halo has ended after 3 and that trilogy is how I will remember it.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:55 am
by FirstSecond
Would love an online only Halo done in the style of Planetside.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 9:58 am
by Shadow
FirstSecond wrote:Would love an online only Halo done in the style of Planetside.
Like Planetside, but not as rubbish? That'd be ace, and it'd gooseberry fool all over MAG too, so I'd say it's a possible that MS would want to do something like that.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:12 am
by FirstSecond
Shadow wrote:FirstSecond wrote:Would love an online only Halo done in the style of Planetside.
Like Planetside, but not as rubbish? That'd be ace, and it'd **** all over MAG too, so I'd say it's a possible that MS would want to do something like that.
I wouldn't say Planetside was rubbish, in its day the game was great, but I remember first getting it and finding out what sort of PC you needed to actually make the game half playable, it was sort of like the Crysis of it's day.
Re: Microsoft Confirms Several Halo Games in the Works
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:52 am
by Beans
Although I think future Halo games would sell well, I don't think the sales would be anywhere near the proportions of Halo 3. Halo is for the hardcore and I think the hardcore have finally had enough of the Halo universe.
