Sales have nothing to do with my point. Neither halo 4 or halo 5 are good halo games. Halo 4 as a whole and halo 5's campaign was just...very bad. Not even the good multiplayer saves it.
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Halo Infinite Creative Director Leaves Company [Update: Lead Producer on Campaign leaves as well]
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Our opinions differs and that's alright. I really like both a lot so I consider them a success along with counting units moved too. We can't down play 10 million units. That's quite a lot of software.
The one thing I didn't like about 5's campaign was fighting that commander dude over and over. The open area fights were awesome. But again that's my opinion.
That reply from 343 still doesn't address creative director leaving because of creative differences?
He still left with a year left, so who is taking lead role for creative director? Which is a super vital role.
He still left with a year left, so who is taking lead role for creative director? Which is a super vital role.
The whole purpose of a new engine was to make better tools so development would be easier and to have the tools to make new DLC at a more efficient rate. So yes, tools were bad. Now? Probably not.
343i has also commented Halo 5 had a lot of crunch and they've tried to make Halo Infinite free of crunch. Employees probably weren't happy about the H5 crunch. Management might be a issue, idk anything about it tho.
As for 5 years of development, I'm sure artist, writers, MP map designers, etc etc weren't sitting around. Lots of story boarding was probably going on, among other things
Halo fans have every right to feel annoyed/mad at MCC. It was broken for awhile. And no doubt, some of that blame falls to 343. But some of that falls to Microsoft.
No video game developer wants to release a bad game. It takes years and years to build a game. I don't think they want to release a broken product, have fans upset, etc.
The fact is Microsoft and the Xbox division has seen a huge shake up since the launch of the Xbox One.
MCC didn't get a good launch, 343 tried to fix it up but pretty soon they had to move on because of budget reasons.
With the launch of the Xbox One X, and the various shake ups at Microsoft, the Xbox division receives more funding. And 343 was able to go back and fix the game, and improve it further.
They added ODST, are in the process of adding Halo Reach, importing the maps from Halo 3/Reach file shares into MCX, rotating playlist, added mixtape match making, custom installs, etc. And to top it all off they've been very transparent the past year about MCC further improvements and development.
I'm not saying you (or anyone else) should forgive 343 or MS, because like I said earlier, they delivered a broken project and it was the right thing to fix it.
But just FYI, MCC is fixed, it's a wonderful game now, and it's only getting better. If you're in the mood for some Halo 1/2/3, definitely pick it up. You'll have a great time.
Oh no. Do...do you think this could be...the end?! Please, Jegriva, tell me it isn't so!
Quote I saw on Reddit from a 343 developer. We should probably threadmark it.
I just fear another Destiny-like story.
"I don't have the time to explain to you why I don't have the time" and wizard coming from moons, and thingamabob doing thingamajig.
I am actually concerned for the campaign. Strongly disliked Halo 4's story AND level design and really hated Halo 5's story.
The core gameplay itself in Halo Infinite I'm sure will be great and any additions/removals 343 utilizes will be to the series benefit, especially on the multiplayer side. But am honestly pretty pessimistic regarding the campaign.
The core gameplay itself in Halo Infinite I'm sure will be great and any additions/removals 343 utilizes will be to the series benefit, especially on the multiplayer side. But am honestly pretty pessimistic regarding the campaign.
I get why you're including sales, but they're irrelevant to the point. Call of Duty: Ghost was the 2nd highest selling game of 2013 but it is widely regarded as one of the worst call of duty games ever.
I think if 343 had a track record like ND people wouldn't be worried as much. So I think the UC4 example is not a good one.
If Infinite doesn't blow away expectations, not only will it damage the franchise to a pointof no return, it will probably put Xbox at last place again.