thanks mister vie enn one egssA comment worthy of your nickname.
"Maps? Fortunately we have a product if you want maps. And that's called MCC..."
That's exactly what I'm doing now. I will play season 2 for a few weeks and then hop back on the MCC.2 Maps and 3 modes, literally just play MCC as it provides more content, seriously they have messed up huge here.
I work in the esports industry and heard some big teams might pull their brand from HCS due to this as their players are just burnt out already with minimal content.
This isn't good atall.
People should be getting fired over this.
Bonnie Ross has to had a million lawsuits about Microsoft being sexual pests etc. there is no way she could hold on without that. She brings nothing to the table and obviously as the head can’t bring in good talent or a vision forward.
Currently playing through the Master Chief collection (@ Halo2). Never played the 343 games...they actually made the game worse??343i has had 10 years with Halo. At every turn and every chance they’ve gotten worse and worse. I have zero faith in the franchise going forward unless someone else takes over. It’s really disappointing to me more than anything, because the Halo series under Bungie was/is my all time favorite.
IMO, from a technical and communicative standpoint yes. Halo 4 and 5 had *okay* story lines. Infinite was just straight up incomplete.Currently playing through the Master Chief collection (@ Halo2). Never played the 343 games...they actually made the game worse??
The days of Halo being a marquee franchise is long dead this is not 2007 anymoreAnother example of why you don’t give your marquee franchise to some bargain bin studio.
Yeah. It's no longer a marquee franchise because they gave it to 343 who proceeded to make bad games out of it.The days of Halo being a marquee franchise is long dead this is not 2007 anymore
As i recall Bungie wanted Halo to end after Halo 3 they don't want to make Halo anymore but was force to make ODST & Reach thusYeah. It's no longer a marquee franchise because they gave it to 343 who proceeded to make bad games out of it.
IMO, from a technical and communicative standpoint yes. Halo 4 and 5 had *okay* story lines. Infinite was just straight up incomplete.
My gripes and disdain mostly come from the MP side of things.
As i recall Bungie wanted Halo to end after Halo 3 they don't want to make Halo anymore but was force to make ODST & Reach thus
causing the split from Microsoft in the first place it was all downhill for Halo after Halo 3
cause it was suppose to end at 3 anyways it was going downhill even before 343 ever touch Halo
Halo 3 ODST and Halo Reach were great games.As i recall Bungie wanted Halo to end after Halo 3 they don't want to make Halo anymore but was force to make ODST & Reach thus
causing the split from Microsoft in the first place it was all downhill for Halo after Halo 3
cause it was suppose to end at 3 anyways it was going downhill even before 343 ever touch Halo
Ok im glad that you like them but facts are Halo has been declining wise since Halo 3Halo 3 ODST and Halo Reach were great games.
Every Halo that has come after Halo 3 has been worst then Halo 3 it really should have ended like Bungie want it to endWhile you're right that they didn't want to make any more after 3, they at least put in effort when they worked on ODST and Reach. ODST was solid enough that it gained its own cult-like following and Reach, despite getting a lot of negativity at the start, was turned around by Bungie with performance patches and map updates. Now-a-days, you'll hear people list Reach as one of the best Halo games of all time, mostly because they weren't there for the bumpy launch.
And if nothing else, Bungie actually cared about supporting these games after they launched in a timely fashion. Even if they didn't want to keep making them, they kept working on delivering quality material with robust community support. Bungie used to provide weekly updates, near-immediate after-match reports, periodic heat maps for each map so the community could see where and why they were making changes to certain map elements, et cetera.
343 hasn't done any of that across all three mainline games and the MCC complication. Halo didn't start going downhill until Halo 4 and 343 tried to reinvent the wheel. They discarded almost everything that made the Bungie games successful (and don't forget they originally recast the entire voice cast, including Master Chief and Cortana, but backpedaled after beta testers complained). 343 has been out of their depth since Halo 4 and they've only gotten worse as time has gone by. They have not learned from any of their past mistakes, their story telling has not gotten better, their community engagement and update timeframes have not improved.
Every Halo that has come after Halo 3 has been worst then Halo 3 it really should have ended like Bungie want it to end
I stand by that let Halo end it time Xbox now has so many franchise that they don't need to keep making and milking Halo
Bungie the creator is no longer apart of Halo the fans keep saying that Halo is shit now but keep wanting more
it time to let it die no more Halo after Infinite
Pretty crazy that if MS had just let them move on to Destiny they’d still be a MS first party and would have a game in Destiny that is now more popular than Halo. That was one hell of a dumb dumb move from MS.Every Halo that has come after Halo 3 has been worst then Halo 3 it really should have ended like Bungie want it to end
I stand by that let Halo end it time Xbox now has so many franchise that they don't need to keep making and milking Halo
Bungie the creator is no longer apart of Halo the fans keep saying that Halo is shit now but keep wanting more
it time to let it die no more Halo after Infinite
They put a Master Chief icon in the XSX, and Phil's on record as saying Halo is Xbox. The question is: do 343i even care about Halo anymore? I'd wager: not really.I wonder if MS even cares about Halo anymore...
I am pretty sure Staten cares at least.They put a Master Chief icon in the XSX, and Phil's on record as saying Halo is Xbox. The question is: do 343i even care about Halo anymore? I'd wager: not really.
That is not the issue that Halo has. Sprint/clamber isn't why the game is in the state that it is. Halo could adopt other modern elements and be fine if the key issues being highlighted weren't there (e.g. lack of content, no new maps, etc.)all Halo needs is a good dev team. and it didn't have one since Reach, and even Reach was only made by Bungie's B team while the main bulk of the devs worked on prototyping Destiny and modifying their engine to support the open spaces and online functionalities of Destiny.
the big issue nowadays is that ever developer tries to go with the trends in spite of what is best for the franchise they work with
The fact that Halo still has a sprint button and clamber is evidence of that as coming up with other ways to make Halo feel more modern is harder than to just copy what other games do.
so no, Halo doesn't need to "end", it simply needs a team that isn't shit
I've always wondered if Bonnie and Phil have something going on because she keeps failing upwards. It makes no sense.She's definitely got dirt on someone or has some kind of connections. There's no way she has that job based on the work she's done.
2 maps lolHow much content is season 2 giving?
2 maps lol
And it’s 1 map for arena, 1 map for big team. So if you only play one or the other you are getting 1 new map.2 maps lol
Yes. And they are ‘adding’ a few game modes like King of the Hill that should have been there at launch. Single player stuff is all slated for ‘end of season 2 and beyond’ - mission replay and campaign co-op.Is that confirmed? Is there no other content being added? Battle royal? Single player stuff?
I ain’t up on halo and only really played ther single player
I guess they are betting on GamePass growth. The game is there so if GP brings new players they will eventually download it and play. It is a bit sad to be honest… The gameplay is awesome. The only downside I see is the AI (seems worse than previous iterations) and the lack of content for both SP and MP.This was supposed to be a 10 year plan, I don't see how you can recover from this, damage is already done. They keep tripping up like this, there will be no audience left worth developing for.
Rare took a while to hit their stride with sea of thieves and now the game is seen very positively.6 months seasons are long.
Don't have to be 3, but 4 should be the goal.
We'll 343 just isn't a top developer like GGG, Epic or Rare, so they're just not able to deliver that I guess
That is not the issue that Halo has. Sprint/clamber isn't why the game is in the state that it is. Halo could adopt other modern elements and be fine if the key issues being highlighted weren't there (e.g. lack of content, no new maps, etc.)
And don't you all have other games you can put your time into while 343 gets their plan together? I mean, yeah it surely sucks but they haven't given any signs of giving up on it just yet.
Not sure that will happen after they virtue signaled her hard on stage, right after she was catching flack for their initial showing and delay.Start with Bonnie Ross. Get the incompetent leadership out first.
Not sure that will happen after they virtue signaled her hard on stage, right after she was catching flack for their initial showing and delay.
Opinions such as this are also poison to the franchise. Sprint and Clamber are fine and you don't technically have to use them and I believe you can turn clamber off. Also Halo Infinite is the most refined when it comes to gameplay. The only glaring issue is lack of maps, modes, and free armor, all of which are slowly arriving. Outside of this I can 100% guarantee that this game has 1000% more maps than Fortnite.while it might not be a big issue itself, the fact that Sprint and Clamber are in the game is a symptom of why they suck as developers.
they are chasing trends without thinking about how to make Halo different and unique. "just make it play like every othr shooter" is basically their objective.
not only that, apparently early during development they even were not entirely sure if they should go back to weapon loadouts again... which is alarming that this was even discussed at all
also, Halo Infinite will basically be dead by the time they finally finished it if the trajectory doesn't do a complete 180
343 wishes that were as efficient and competent as Rare. Rare had a GAAS/MMO solid content drop game plan in place before Sea of Thieves was even released. There was never a big content drought. The first big content drop for SoT was eight weeks after launch.Rare took a while to hit their stride with sea of thieves and now the game is seen very positively.
I would like to think by season 3 or 4, 343 will have their Halo seasons together.
343 wishes that were as efficient and competent as Rare. Rare had a GAAS/MMO solid content drop game plan in place before Sea of Thieves was even released. There was never a big content drought. The first big content drop for SoT was eight weeks after launch.
This is what Rare released for SoT in the the first six months:
-The Hungering Deep (Adventue/Raid content, Megalodons)
-Skeleton Thrones (Skeleton Thrones and Bilge Rats Adventures)
-Gunpowder Skeletons (New Enemy & Another Bilge Rats Adventure)
-The Sunken Curse (Another Bilge Rats Adventure)
-Crused Sails (Campaign and added Skeleton Fleets to the game)
-Curses Crews (Bilge Rats content and cursed cannonballs)
Rare also added a whole new area of the map, The Forsaken Shores, seven months after launch, with tons of content.
Bonnie Ross needs to go on a temporary career enhancing detail to Rare to see how things are done.
Another sad stat for 343 is that more people are playing SoT on Steam right now than Infinite and MCC combined. I also predict that in a couple of months, Infinite will drop below SoT on the Xbox charts.
Halo Infinite needs a reboot at this point.
This MS mess up so bad with that one letting Bungie go & losing Destiny as a potential massive 1st party IPPretty crazy that if MS had just let them move on to Destiny they’d still be a MS first party and would have a game in Destiny that is now more popular than Halo. That was one hell of a dumb dumb move from MS.
Halo as the original 1st person shooter game in my opinion need to endall Halo needs is a good dev team. and it didn't have one since Reach, and even Reach was only made by Bungie's B team while the main bulk of the devs worked on prototyping Destiny and modifying their engine to support the open spaces and online functionalities of Destiny.
the big issue nowadays is that ever developer tries to go with the trends in spite of what is best for the franchise they work with
The fact that Halo still has a sprint button and clamber is evidence of that as coming up with other ways to make Halo feel more modern is harder than to just copy what other games do.
so no, Halo doesn't need to "end", it simply needs a team that isn't shit
Maybe it's not the issue, but at the very least it made most of the Bungie-era players abandon the franchise. Clamber and sprint greatly impacts map design and gameplay fluidity. The bungie games were very nuanced. Very different from most shooters out there.That is not the issue that Halo has. Sprint/clamber isn't why the game is in the state that it is. Halo could adopt other modern elements and be fine if the key issues being highlighted weren't there (e.g. lack of content, no new maps, etc.)
And don't you all have other games you can put your time into while 343 gets their plan together? I mean, yeah it surely sucks but they haven't given any signs of giving up on it just yet.