Microsoft needs to port the Master Chief Collection to PS5 and Switch 2, enable crossplay with all 4 platforms, and say goodnight to the Halo franchise. Halo went from a legitimate cultural phenomenon to a joke.

>>714350280 (OP)
No, I like Halo

More liek Gaylo

>>714350280 (OP)
>Microsoft needs to port the Master Chief Collection to PS5 and Switch 2, enable crossplay with all 4 platforms
honestly im fine with this if only for the fact it would help keep the population alive forever
its literally impossible to queue for something like btb on halo ce

>>714350280 (OP)
Also release it on GOG without DRM, that would be great.

>>714350280 (OP)
I have been playing this more recently. Microsoft is cutting thousands of jobs and replacing them with indians, who knows how long the servers will even still be up

>>714350538
It'll never happen due to how the multiplayer is linked to Xbox Live.

>>714350731
Release it without online multiplayer.
LAN only is enough.

Doom did the same

>>714350280 (OP)
They do need to port them at some point because the Xbox as a platform is having some very rough times and they've already bent the knee on publishing outside of their ecosystem

Halo can survive, but the issue is how directionless the studio is and how openly shameless they are by focusing on monetization instead of delivering more stuff to do in their shitty game

Not everything 343 did was ABSOLUTE shit, they just handled it so badly it became worse than that, but there are a few cogs moving in that machine

Spartan Ops were the right idea, just executed terribly
Moving away from Humans = Forerunners is a smart way to introduce new enemies, but the niggers just kept splinter Covenant aliens anyway and did nothing while bringing in some orange limp dicks to waste time
Cortana's death palyed straight and then immediately retconned
Etc

>>714350731
Eh, people would pay for the campaigns i guess
I just want Reach firefight outside of Xbox at this point

>>714350280 (OP)
iirc there were plans or at least rumors at some point but it never happened.
unlikely they will do it unless they release another mcc collection (which I think may be rumored too).

>>714350538
I am so fucking thankful for GOG and especially for gog-games. I used to worry about Steam shutting down one day but now I don't care at all lol

>>714350280 (OP)
How active is Halo 3 multiplayer on this? Thinking about buying it since it's on sale.

Gaylo was never good. It's pure slop for ameriniggers.

>>714351772
i think there are still people playing but don't expect it to be super active, especially if you're not in na.
only buy it for the campaign and co-op with friends, multiplayer if you can find games as a bonus.

>>714351906
it was hyperborean kino, brownie.

>>714350280 (OP)
Won't happen. They're remaking Halo 1 right now. The plan is to sell each Halo game at full price and milk Playstation users as much as possible

they also need to remove Halo 4 from it but yes OP

>>714350932
>another mcc collection
how

>>714353264
another remaster of the games since it's old now
they also didn't even do 3

>>714350280 (OP)
they also need to add Halo 5

>>714354518
lmao no thanks
they need to throw 4 in the trash like >>714352683 said and just ship the actual good bungie games.

>>714350280 (OP)
I'm mostly on Xbox, and I want this. They can't make Halo games anymore. They can't make shit anymore. If enabling crossplay on as many devices as possible keeps Halo 2 and Halo 3 alive in some compacity, do it.

>>714350280 (OP)
they ought to implement the modded servers into the browser so I dont have to launch a whole different program
>>714351772
its the most active out of them all, I have no trouble finding a game

>>714354778
is halo 2 played on MCC? i wanted to try it out but I heard it was hard to find games

>>714351772
only people playing are people who have never stopped playing since 2007. only fun if you are willing to get gud.

>>714350280 (OP)
I want them to allow mods in the custom game browser. The current system sucks.

>>714354841
I've only been on MCC a few times in the last couple years. Finding more people to play these games with is the very reason I want them on PlayStation. Microsoft is killing this series, and the sheer amount of people on PlayStation are the defibrillators.

>>714350280 (OP)
This will not save Halo, a new MP-only game could potentially save Halo but COD exists, a spin-off game not starring Master Chief cannot save Halo, only a Master Chief game, whether those are remakes or new games, can save Halo and it must be on PC, Switch 2, and PS5. Halo can no longer take risks or rely on old games to save it, it's over.

I want it to happen because I know that my Xbox 360 wont last forever and as much as the PS5 is memed as a formerly two games console I actually really do like the controller and I think Halo would play great on it.

Yeah I agree.
Its a dead IP. Microsoft should have axed 343Industries years ago, but unfortunately they chose to keep the clown show going for well over a decade.
The only thing going for Halo is the modding community on MCC, outside of that its a complete joke. I dont even have Halo 4 installed on MCC either because it fucking blows.

Microsoft executives were debating whether to close down 343 so maybe there's some hope after all. They could finally put an end to this nightmare.

>>714354518
Everybody is on the chopping block over at Xbox, bringing back Halo 5 is a no go.

>>714353264
Halo Combat Evolved could use a proper remaster or a proper port anything but the Sandy Bitchford spaghetti code

>>714354518
>>714356520
I'm all for game preservation but trust me Sonybros, save this pile of shit for last. Like very, very last.

>>714355423
fwiw there are other ways of playing Halo 2 besides MCC, you can even play it on the OG xbo if youre into that kind of thing

>>714354841
you can find the occasional game but it takes time, that and in H2 cases especially for the og version all the players are some of the sweatiest tryhards so every match is a one sided stomp, in other words you are either getting carried hard by your team maters plowing through the enemy or you are getting raped hard by the enemy team

Microshit is holding this game hostage from me until I give them my phone number

>>714350280 (OP)
they're giving up on xbox as a concept, but halo is still a very viable ip if handled properly.

unironically, they need to either portspam this shit on literally everything (hot take: including mobile!) or use it how it was intended: killer app for xbox. either let me load this shit on my phone, rp5, pc, gaystation i don't own, and sega saturn or make it into something so good i'll buy the new xbox just to play it.

>>714359554
Xbox is dead, Halo can only push Master Chief FPS Halo games now. If Halo tries anything else, Microsoft will shelf it forever and kill Halo Studios who is like a support studio for third parties now already. One mistake and Halo is dead. MP game, and spin-offs are out of the question.

>>714360267
eventually they're going to have to kill off chief, or find a way to make it so he can de-age somehow through forerunner bullshit, or start the whole franchise over. at present, it seems they're taking the last route, which frankly is really good because it means we'll get another halo 2 and 3 in all likelihood.

best case: these guys pull a gundam and have a never ending mainline series, and then have alt universes and spinoffs. but that won't happen because michael soft and 343 don't like to do cool shit or take risks

>>714356504
>well over a decade.
Almost 2 decades*
Lil reminder 343 has been around since 2007, yes, this shell of a company has been in 75% of Halo's life, fucking shit up since day 1.

Halo waypoint for the 360 was a laggy piece of shit, its incredible how early we had signs of how we were so fucked.

>>714350280 (OP)
>modern wolfenstein, doom and zelda, tomb raider are all successful
I dont think porting is the problem here.

>>714360659
>eventually they're going to have to kill off chief
Did you just completely miss what happened today. If anything, they're going to kill off any character that isn't Chief or nuTana. They already have AI prepared to replace Steve Downs and Jen Taylor. Killing off Chief is a risk, and if you're make a risk today, Microsoft is shutting you down. Today's layoffs permanently killed Halo spin-offs and non-Chief games. No one is safe anymore. They will also not reboot it because that's also a risk, you saw what happened to Perfect Dark.