Dr. Samuel Hayden
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Rebs Gaming: Halo 2 & 3 Remakes Are In Development
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DEAD ORIGINAL
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Let me guess, no multiplayer
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no multiplayer because they cant make it GAAS and thats all these idiots care about
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Without multiplayer it's pointless. Id rather just play MCC which I got for like $9.
Spirit Icana
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Helix exclusives, or PS5/SX/Steam/Switch 2 versions as well?
Tobimacoss
Member
Obviously.
Good guess. Multiplayer will be only Project Ekur F2P on every platform.
VolticArchangel
Member
RIP MCC for PS5 and Switch 2.
JoduanER2
Member
Its happening all over the industry. Thats why all the studios are going hard on remakes. Developers can no longer make good games
stickkidsam
Member
I'd love to see a faithful remake.
Unfortunately this is 343. They're just gonna flip assets and change the story to make it lame and ga- I mean congruent with new lore.
Unfortunately this is 343. They're just gonna flip assets and change the story to make it lame and ga- I mean congruent with new lore.
Pop
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hououinkyouma00
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This shouldn't surprise literally anyone. Especially after they decided to remake Halo CE versus port MCC. They were always doing at minimum the original trilogy.
Porting MCC to new platforms allows them new sales on said new platforms, but these remakes will get them sales on Xbox One, Series S/X, PC, PlayStation, and Game Pass subs as well as Switch 2 if they decide to later. I still think these are mainly to pull people in on new platforms aka PlayStation more then anything while allowing them to make more money.
Yeah, I wish there was multiplayer (though I'm not one of the guys who thinks CE is useless without MP because I don't associate CE with MP nearly as much as 2/3/Reach) but they have to be working on a new Halo multiplayer title and I doubt they want to be out there trying to support 4 titles all at once.
Plus, they already ended development for MCC unless something changed that I missed so porting MCC likely would have only been single player as well on new platforms (I would have still bought a single player only MCC on PS5 or even ala carte because fuck Halo 4 outside of H4 Cortana)
kpopSuperstar
Gold Member
The most important, it's their Mario. The parallels between Xbox's success and failure is directly mirrored in Halo's success.
If they could deliver Halo and Gears like they did in the 360 era they would be fine.
hououinkyouma00
Gold Member
People shit on Microsoft for their prior focus on the "big 3" aka Halo, Gears, and Forza but there was a reason for it especially during the 360 generation.
Microsoft was very smart to see the potential in Halo/Bungie when they did. Honestly if the franchise stayed the way it was (strategy-ish game and Mac exclusive having been originally announced publicly by Steve Jobs which still blows my mind that people don't know that) I doubt it would have blown up the way it did.
The key however was always Bungie. Say what you will about modern Bungie but Bungie of old was god tier. The problem with non-Bungie Halo is simply that the people in charge and the devs don't understand Halo (which is funny because you can say the same thing about modern Gears as well) and what made it fun and/or unique. 343i (fuck you, changing your name doesn't help) doesn't know what to do and never have and I think that should be painfully obvious to everyone now that they are just remaking Bungie's titles versus making their own.
Unfortunately only one of those franchises still have any sort of major quality left to it (I say major because I still play Infinite multiplayer from time to time and it's a good game now, but it still pales in comparison to the Bungie era).
People say that Halo isn't important anymore but it's only not as important because they can't release a quality title. If Halo had continued to be of the same quality or a new title was Halo 3 tier it would be extremely important.
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Spirit Icana
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Good games are hard to make. Zelda would be an important IP for anyone, but those Zelda dungeons with 3D puzzles that Nintendo makes is only possible because of the incredible synergy, philosophy, and craftsmanship of the people/team that makes 'em. There's a reason Nintendo/Iwata bent over backwards to keep Masahiro Sakurai on Smash Bros, despite him leaving Nintendo during the GameCube era (got him a team, an office, a big budget, almost everything Smash surrounds that guy). Donkey Kong has never since re-captured the atmosphere of the SNES country games since Rareware left the series.
Losing Bungie was a big loss for Halo (of course, Bungie is not who they used to be either, so it's mute now). Microsoft didn't understand that the talent, in many ways, are far more important than the IP by itself. No Marty O'Donnell on the soundtrack will naturally lend a different feel to the series' atmosphere. Different management styles, different vision for characters like Kortana (lol), and a different team synergy, are going to produce new results, whether for better or worse. I think most today believe it was for the worse.
Microsoft knows how to spend money, and by golly, they spent! The Halo games don't have an investment problem. They had other problems that required more money to be wasted on fixing them, because the Halo IP was so important. But no money is going to replace having the right people where they need to be. And so we have Halo where it is today. We'll see if Sharma can understand talent, and get the right people where they need to be within this massive organization that Phil has ballooned out the stratosphere.
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kiphalfton
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If the game is broken (gameplay/controls/etc), is expensive to buy original, and/or graphics look hideous, I get it.
However, the MCC is totally fine like you said.
I think this is just companies wanting to do the bare minimum, while padding out their game catalog.
hououinkyouma00
Gold Member
The last time I played MCC multiplayer it was a hack fest but it's been quite awhile since I bothered. Singleplayer has obviously been fine for years.
Freelance Yakuza
Member
I remember when people said that Halo was too big to fail
they said the same about COD too
I guess it's MS anti-midas touch
diffusionx
Gold Member
Microsoft is totally creatively bankrupt, this is embarrassing.
CuteFaceJay
Member
they need to quit dicking around and just port MCC to PS5 and Switch 2, GGEZ!
DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
They already remade Halo 2. On the MCC it looks amazing. This wouldn't make a whole lot of sense.
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Capcom manages to do both.
GreenAlien
Member
Each of them needs to be remade into a trilogy. Lets forget all about 4-6.
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ComputerBlue
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They better have multiplayer or Microsoft won't get a penny for me.
flying_sq
Member
TBH, the could probably rename MCC "Halo" and just put all the games in it. The game is already designed to download the different games in chunks depending on what you want. Just add the new ones as additional DLC or something.
hououinkyouma00
Gold Member
It's been that way since 343i took over. They been riding the coattails of Bungie for nearly 2 decades now without any of the talent to back it up.Nothing but stolen valor with this series these days.
