Thread 714925240

What went so wrong with Halo?

>>714925240 (OP)
Took too many notes from CoD. Copied the Ubisoft template for Infinite.

>>714925240 (OP)
Simple

343 went out of their way to hire people who didn't like Halo. When ex-Halo devs from Bungie asked for jobs they were ignored. Most people at Halo Studios in leadership positions don't even like videogames or gamers

>>714925240 (OP)
>the quality of the next game
Hmm... maybe the problem is the quality of the previous game. And the one before that one too. And the one before...

>>714925240 (OP)
No one was happy of the quality of the last four games.

>>714925428
In a way, it's understandble. You have to comply with the quota laws and you don't want those working in actually making the game. Throw them at some marketing, manager, social media area shit.

>>714925428
lol dumb bitch

>>714925240 (OP)
The evolution of the industry (see microtransactions and WOMEN) mixed with the ship of Theseus aspect of game development, and Halo was fucked even more by getting handed off between studios.

it's ok, we got like 3+ games that were amazing and perfect for their time.

>>714925806
>product manager
>19 year old nepo baby on tiktok
have they tried hiring product managers instead? these motherfuckers can't sell halo anymore.

>>714925814
>Boone
as in baboon(e)?

>>714925428
I want to die. Why did this have to happen to my favorite franchise. Every time I think I've become numb to the pain something happens.

>>714925240 (OP)
at this point a full reboot is the bare minimum they should do. but going by >>714925887 the franchise is completely dead no matter what they do next.

this will sell our gay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDgR1FRJnF8
you guys forgot to post the only video they have on the game, from 8 months ago

>>714925945
>can't sell halo anymore.
You are implying that those people were actually doing, trying, to actually do some sort of work?

>>714925240 (OP)
It started bad under Bungie and continued to be bad under 343i

Give me Halo Phil.
I can save it.

>>714925814
>>714925887
>sheboon literally called Boone
Brave Spencer

>>714925240 (OP)
They took away the best part of it

>>714925992
Fun fact! In the 10 years since Halo 5 released 343 industries have only released one(1) mainline title for the series.

>>714925992
I feel you man. I just want Xbox to cancel the IP for good at this point because anything beyond is just going to cause more pain.

>>714925428
cat helmets are based though

>>714926223
Hopefully they never release one again!

>>714925428
That girl's breath must have reeked of curry cum all the way from interviews to her first day on the job.

>>714926223
that's pretty much everything at this point
everything is so slow

>>714925887
LMAO they are so absolutely fucked. Halo under Frank O'Connor was mid as hell but those games are at least achieve what they were going for and are very polished products even if they are what no one wanted

>>714926223
>AAA games take 7-10 years to make now
>they still launch as buggy, unfinished garbage
many such cases

>>714925428
*sigh*
why are white people like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT9Oq-n9glA

https://blackgirlnerds.com/x-box-research-manager-melissa-boone-is-advancing-diversity-in-gaming/

>Part I: How Microsoft Is Using Black Girl Magic to Advance Diversity in Gaming
>Although a researcher by training, diversity is more than a job. Boone identifies as pansexual. “One of the things we love about Microsoft is we talk so openly about diversity, inclusion, and specific areas of that. We talk a lot about intersectionality. So, we celebrated Pride for a long, long time. We wanted to make sure that we have that, not only with the people who work within Xbox, but also in the products and services to make sure that all of our players and the people who use our products around the world know that how important it is to us. And they can find themselves in the stuff that we actually have, like internal employee resource groups. GLEAM [Global LGBTQI+ Employees and Allies at Microsoft] is the one for queer folks here that do a lot of work on Pride. Microsoft really supports Pride stuff.”
These things always are some sort of rabbit hole for me. I google about it... and my microsoft folder grows more and more, and end up having to check more things than before. Now, I want to check if I can find something about "GLEAM"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_LGBTQIA%2B_Employee_%26_Allies_at_Microsoft

I fucking love the wikipedia definition:

>Global LGBTQIA+ Employee & Allies at Microsoft (formerly Gay and Lesbian Employees At Microsoft[1]) (GLEAM) refers to the Microsoft employee resource group comprising LGBTQIA+ employees along with straight allies.
we are finally finding some recognition straightalliesbros... we even have a wikipedia page!! I didn't even know we have a flag!!

>>714925240 (OP)
They gave the IP to a studio that neither understood neither liked Halo. At least we got Milftana. I would still buy a Halo game if they gave us a campaign with a sexy nude Cortana but they decided they don't want my money.

>>714925240 (OP)
FUCK 343
FUCK MICROSOFT
FUCK PARAMOUNT
FUCK YOU

>>714926564
>AAA devs take forever to release a game due to a bloated development window or due to having other steady streams of income that don't require semi annual releases
>Indie games take forever to release because most do it as a side gig and don't have anywhere near the income or budget to speed up development time

>>714925240 (OP)
Why would anyone care about 343's opinion on the quality of a Halo game, all of their games are shit and they talk about being proud of this shit for some reason.

>>714925428
>>714925240 (OP)
Can bungie like, sue Microsoft for basically taking a metaphorical shit on their legacy?

Surely at this point nobody working on Halo actually knows or cares about the game, they're just making shit up.

Surely there are people in the government or the legal industry that can force these people to literally stop raping to death this game franchise

>>714926805
Good. Let it die. I'm done with Microsoft and the Xbox division.

>>714927015
That AI is only 8 years old you sick fuck!?!

>>714926863
The people with money demand trend-chasing
The people making the games don't know what they're doing
Nobody wants to make a real decision
Every game you hear had a long dev cycle and launched a shitty mess had all of the real work involved in its creation done in less than two years before launch

>>714925806
I would just hire cleaners and kitchen staff instead of outsourcing them and fulfill the quota that way.

>Boone identifies as pansexual.
lol
look at me I'm so special, everyone look at how special and unique my gender and sexual identity is!

>>714925905
343 has been bad since it's inception and that was during the peak of the dudebro dorito and mountain dew era of Xbox. Microsoft just sucks ass at creating and managing studios. Bungie Halo was good because they weren't directly owned and managed by Microsoft.
Microsoft has shown again and again that they're terrible at handling their studios and 343 is by far the worst example by never having released a single good game in 18 years of existing. And they somehow made it unaffected until just recently.

>>714926961
I like how they had to re-adjust the acronym to make sure that Gay couldn't be at the front even in this instance like they had to turn the Gay and Lesbian Alliance into LGB

>>714926961
This is why games take longer to make and are more expensive. They hire pointless people doing pointless tasks.

>>714927156
>Can bungie like, sue Microsoft for basically taking a metaphorical shit on their legacy?
Current day Bungie is 100% on board with whatever 343 is doing to the IP. They're all fucking politically correct, all of them.

>>714927156
Modern Bungie is just as shitty as 343. They are literally directly tied to Concord, being bought by Sony to lead and advise on live service games. Many developers from Firewalk came from Bungie. They are trash, stop thinking of them as the same people who made the original trilogy.

>>714927137
because it might just be even worse than normal

>>714927156
bungie never owned halo and even if they did, modern bungie is too cucked and buck broken to do anything about it.

>>714927156
Dude, they do care. They're going back to their roots by remaking Halo CE in UE5.

>>714925814
Bazz, is that yoy?

>>714927347
Microsoft is terrible at managing literally everything. The only reason this dogshit company has made it is because Bill was a greedy jew who knew how to use his capital purely to fuck competition over. Once Windows had majority market share all he had to do was keep the ship sailing.

>>714927508
Don't forget Bungie are directly responsible for TLOU2: Factions being cancelled. Even though people who didn't even like TLOU agree Factions was fun and were looking forward to it coming back.

>>714925428
Marketing Xbox to cat ladies is the bold, blue ocean strategy that will surely save the industry.

>>714927593
Yes, so all of the pajeet contractors they cycle in and out can get some reasl work done instead of having to learn their shitty custom engine each time. It's going to be soulless and terrible. It could end up being even worse than CEA.

>>714927676
The next star wars.

>>714927708
Damn the Factions team should have hired Bungie employees like Firewalk did so they got to launch their game

Imaging how much more shit would have been allowed to come out if Concord hadn't been ready so "soon"

>>714927278
I blame agile. Before everyone just used waterfall, but now we "need" a faster way to do things that is flexible to the development process.
Sure, it can work on some kind of products, but the majority of video games just don't work like that.
Waterfall just works. Plan everything out, spend a year or two executing it with little to no deviation to the original plan and bam it's done.
With agile flows like scrum, you change your entire plan every few months

>>714925240 (OP)
If they couldn't make a good game with a full team why should I be sad that their team size is getting reduced?

pfffff HAHAHAHAHAA

>>714925240 (OP)
nobody was happy with quality of the last game, and the one before that, and the one before that.

>>714927772
Spoke with someone who worked at 343 and they were like "By the time people know the engine they get fired"

You gotsta wonder, how much money are you actually saving when you constantly cycle in people who take time and resources to train and don't actually work at 100% capacity until you're ready to fire them

>>714927928
Why does he look so fat and awkward?

>>714927772
>It's going to be soulless and terrible.
It's not even gonna come out. Xbox has been closing studio after studio. Laying off hundreds to thousands. Cancelling projects left and right.
With this recent news about Halo Studios, it's probably approaching the chopping block soon.

>>714928002
DEI hire

>>714927928
new engine with new pbr, shaders, materials, raytracing and the models still look like theyre made out of plastic
really phenomenal stuff here

>>714927930
Infinite had a real shot at launch, but the lack of content and post-launch support was so hilariously bad that it failed anyway.

>>714927928
How the fuck do they just always fail to get metal and armour right. Bungie had it working 20 years ago

>>714925240 (OP)
It started at the very beginning when Microsoft ruined FPS gaming with it, then when it aged out of gaming, it try to larp as a COD stand-in. Series can only go up now since it'll become more like a PC FPS game. Basically, going a full circle and returning to the origin of FPSs, PCs.

>>714925806
who is this for?

>>714927938
Honestly that just sounds like management is under a lot of fire from above to the point they aren't making rational decisions.
I find it hard to blame any one person with how all over the place the goals they had for Infinite was.
It's all over, man. Microsoft will keep up doing these cuts for the next while, but it'll get to a stable point eventually. You can only hope games start coming out finished and thought through in the future with lessons learned from this whole mess
who am i kidding?

>>714928193
they delayed the game for 3? years.
They would have released the trash heap if people hadn't bitched, the only difference between what they showed and what the final release was probably amounted to a coat of paint.

and the game took like 7 years to make?

and yeah, multiplayer was abysmal. It was fun for about 1-2 weeks but then there was nothing new to play on it, then costumes and stickers for 2 years, then 2 maps, then nothing.

There will never be another video game like Halo 3 ever again.

>>714928016
It's coming out, it's one of the chosen games, it just will barely have Halo Studios involved in the development, just leading it.

343 went out of their way to hire people who don't like Halo and this is what they got.

I don't think zoomers here were old enough to digest how big the Halo IP was for games in the west in the 2000s. Master Chief was Mr. Video Game for a solid decade, and look now

>>714927015
>tfw the guy who created Milftana is now working on a Metroid game

>>714928370
Good, a game being "good" because of its popularity isn't a good game at all.

>>714928370
I cut my console fps teeth on halo after being pc only since goldeneye.
Nothing will replace all of the custom maps and game modes, the shit talking in and out of game.
That was the last time I had actual fun with halo, and couch coop was half of that fun.

>>714928002
see >>714925887

>>714928269
Extremely optimistic thinking you have there. The series is going to get buried or turn into much lower budget productions.

I'll never understand why Microsoft didn't try just span out Halo as a franchise into having spinoffs and shit with all their various studios. Hearing about the cool various spinoffs Microsoft has shot down over the years always makes me sad. I'd love another Halo Wars as well.

Halo hasn't had a successful game in like 15 years. If the entire studio got laid off it might save the franchise

>>714928487
By the prophets

>>714928462
it was popular because it was good, not the other way around.

>>714928415
Outside of the Xbox ecosystem, no one cared. I rarely even see people talking about Halo here.

>>714928219
Halo 3 lighting holds up shockingly well for a 2008 360 game. The best looking game of the modern era is H2A, which is just sad.

>>714928487
I'd love to get a recommendation list of military sci-fi from her

>>714928517
Honestly, after playing many Nintendo FPS games and PC FPS games, I started to dislike Halo, interestingly, it made me somewhat like Infinite's campaign and interested in where PC gaming and UE will take Halo going forward.

>>714925806
There are no quota "laws".

>>714928643
because the only thing outside of the xbox ecosystem is MCC, and everyone played it when the actual games came out. And that release was so botched that it left a bad taste in most peoples mouths, same situation as infinites multiplayer.

>>714928657
Yep. Even the awful fucking CE:A new graphics somehow look better than Infinite. Infinite may genuinely be the ugliest game in the series.

>>714925240 (OP)
Instead of rule of cool they tried to make a 'deep' and 'interesting' story line. Then on top of that overmonetization probably at the demands of Microsoft.

Man I completely forgot about random Mexican dude

>>714928661
>nintendo fps
like what?

>>714928550
>The series is going to get buried or turn into much lower budget productions
Good, more money doesn't equal good. Maybe with less money, they can make an actual video game instead of trying to larp as some Hollywood movie.
>I'll never understand why Microsoft didn't try just span out Halo as a franchise into having spinoffs and shit with all their various studios. Hearing about the cool various spinoffs Microsoft has shot down over the years always makes me sad. I'd love another Halo Wars as well
As shit as Microsoft is, even they knew that's a waste of money, try that now and they'll gut Halo like they've done all their other risky projects currently.

>>714925240 (OP)
>>714925428
I think it's especially bad because really, what the fuck can you do to fix this?
inb4 fire everyone and get a new team
Congrats, you're back at square one.
343 was literally made from the ground-up for the sole purpose of making Halo and they still fucked up
Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't all the people from the Bungie days who went to 343 are all gone as well?
Who is there to teach, mentor, etc?

>>714928415
>343 went out of their way to hire people who don't like Halo
Nerd cave theory has utterly destroyed this industry.

>>714928639
It was popular because Microsoft hyped it up with ads up the ass. It was never good, it was overrated by normal faggots that didn't belong in gaming. What came before Halo was popular because they were actually good.

>>714928835
>343 was literally made from the ground-up for the sole purpose of making Halo and they still fucked up
dumbass they hired people who purposely hated halo or just didnt get it. i mean LOOK AT THE FUCKING PERSON WHO WAS RUNNING 343 FOR THE LONGEST

>>714928835
I dont recall anyone of note joining 343 from actual bungie. I thought they all went to destiny after reach?

>>714928323
The whole industry needs to shrink for that to happen, and the firings and cuts are nowhere near that point yet. Publishers applying the investor model of infinitely increasing profits led to this, and it all needs to be slapped down in a hard reset. Live service games need to disappear, gacha has to be regulated out of existence, all mtx and gambling banned. Smaller games need to become the standard for AAA.

>>714928752
I think Infinite still looked better than CEA, it was a step up from 4 and 5 too, but definitely not great.

>>714925240 (OP)
It was normalfag slop from the start. It just worsened as the volksgeist worsened. Sorry you had to find out this way that your childhood was built on foundations of goyslop.

Master Chief collection on the Switch 2?

>>714928921
>it was overrated by normal faggots that didn't belong in gaming.
that unironically made it fun to play. A whole crop of noobs to pwn and shit talk.

>>714928950
I meant for why 343 even exists to begin with
Why Microsoft poured billions of dollars to make a studio

>>714928921
Halo had serious production values that very few games could match at the time. But when everyone else caught up, they had nothing to fall back on.

>>714928643
Halo was a dumbed down FPS made for people who never played one in their life. It was always going to be looked down upon when left Xbox, that's why Halo's true introduction to PC gaming, Infinite, tried adding Doom 2016 elements to save it. Series going to need to add more than that if it's going to regain some relevancy. But Halo needs to give up on the dying normalfag audience it cultivated.

>>714928886
that was true until a point. When games started getting worse, diehard fans still went and bought the new game
it's just that doesn't keep up if you put out nothing but trash, you have to toss a bone at least once in awhile

>>714928921
>>714929054
I'm referring to halo 3 specifically.*
I never had an OG xbox or played halo 1-2 on there, just 1 on a pc toaster a little.

>>714928886
They are correct but you can at MOST stretch it for two entries into an IP. Not games, entries, anything from games to shows to books. Then you have to double down and pander to them hard. They will forgive the world once or twice but the second they thing you hurt or destroyed the thing they like they will go out of their way to spite you. Once your foundation is gone its over.

>>714929065
*poured millions

>>714925240 (OP)
Microsoft hates gamers and wants them to accept an existence in their pig pins eating whatever obnoxious, woke, low IQ MTV slop they feed them. That's why they hire Karens who outright say that they never even considered having a career in videogames and who feel the exact same way about gamers to leadership positions, and then who turn around and lie and say that they always loved videogames when they get caught. They relate to them.

Then they have the gall to play the victim when gamers turn the humiliation ritual back on them by laughing when the slop farm doesn't pay the bills. Pure narcissism.

>>714928995
>Live service games need to disappear, gacha has to be regulated out of existence, all mtx and gambling banned. Smaller games need to become the standard for AAA.
Now you're just asking them to close Pandora's Box.

>>714928821
Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, Turok, Doom 64, etc. Nintendo always felt like they made their consoles play FPS games like they were meant to be played. Microsoft gimped the genre, tried to do the same with RTS, and refuses to even update their controllers to current standards. Those bastards are literally holding back gaming.

>>714925240 (OP)
>somehow managed to make garbage that no one is satisfied with
how? who the fucks in charge? Do they just not confront each other about this shit?

A good IP is more than an idea, it's having passionate people behind that idea who want to make a good game.
All of the people who made halo cool are gone now. Microsoft can parade its corpse around, but they're not fooling anyone. I mean just look at >>714925887. Fucking grim.

>>714929065
first of all learn to speak english properly, secondly this was the only franchise that even made microsoft money. i mean it made xbox what it was. look at videos of people hyped for halo 3 or even reach. microsoft wanted to keep milking it so after bungie left the logical thing to keep it alive was to create a studio just for halo. however during this time the industry started to become more retarded with its inclusion crap and microsoft sucks at managing studios. basically horrible timing all around and horrible people being hired
fuck 343
fuck microsoft
and fuck JANNIES

>>714929087
>Halo had serious production values that very few games could match at the time
We never needed this

>>714929241
none of those games were nintendo though.
rare, rare, who cares, id.

>>714929290
see >>714925887

You also can't call any of these people out if you're an internal staff because of toxic positivity. You'll lose your job and probably get labelled some sort of ist

>>714929241
This post is just tendie simping. The targeting system in old n64/GC game was aids, and the wii pointer wasn't much better. It worked fine for slow games like Metroid Prime, but anything faster paced felt like ass. And you don't get to say MS is holding back the industry due to shitty controllers when there are cases of Switch 2 stick drift fucking weeks after it launched.

>>714925806
they have to stop letting people make these especially women

>>714929404
They were exclusive to Nintendo's console for a time. Nintendo always made FPS games that played like they could be on PC from N64 all the way until the Switch while Microsoft fucked the genre until id saved it in 2016.

>>714929459
Where's my fucking gyro, where's my fucking mouse controls, where's my fucking trackpads, touchpads? Why is Microsoft still making this lame ass controller from 2005 when everyone else has made advancements passed them. Halo died like Xbox, stuck in the past. Microsoft contributed to nothing positive in gaming.

>>714929087
Halo just suffered the same fate as arena shooters on PC, but delayed for consoles. At its core it was a gimped team based arena shooter slowed way down. Once other console shooter franchises started challenging it, Halo had no way to significantly improve the gameplay without moving away from the simple arena shooter model and being rejected by old fans. So eventually it fell off, like arenas did on PC. Bungie left at the perfect time, because even if they stayed in top form Halo would have still declined.

>>714925806
We need another video game crash. More layoffs please.

>>714925240 (OP)
They all the money and time in the world and just can’t get their shit together and give us a proper game. Everything about Infinite was underwhelming: dated visuals, boring campaign, features that bungie was inexplicably capable of delivering at launch 15 years ago are gone and trickled back into the game via updates over years of time… like wtf is their fucking problem. ALL THE MONEY AND TIME IN THE WORLD WITH THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE

>>714926961
>go to job interview for a programmer position at a game development studio
>immediately announce that I'm 1/4th latino
>start talking about how I like to suck cock and have buttsex
>tell the interviewer that some days is feel like a woman
Imagine doing this shit in the 90s when did this behavior become normalized?

>>714929657
Already happening, baby

>>714929739
2020

>>714929657
>>714929761

>>714929706
But the UI.

>halo 4 was bad
>halo 5 was bad
>halo infinite continues to be bad
Why the fuck didn't 343 get the boot years ago? Halo "is" the Xbox brand and you have shitheads that treat it like garbage.

>>714929535
nintendo didn't make dick. They published or at least sanctioned them.
doom still felt and played better than consoles back then, same for quake and HL etc etc.
64 was the king of couch coop though.

>>714930081
because that would be racist and sexist now.

>>714928661
>Nintendo FPS
>like Infinite's campaign
At least you're consistent with your shit taste

>>714928415
I remember how TVtrope didn't give Master Chief his own page or even a way to find his character (they just shove him in Spartan List).

>>714926805
Literally this.
>why didn't they keep making good Halo games
Because Halo sales were declining which is a big problem when it is THE platform mascot. Imagine how Nintendo would react if Sonic supplanted Mario as the premier platformer and also became the most successful video game on the planet. That's basically what happened to Halo after Modern Warfare came out. That's why they shamelessly copied the new shooter that was eating their lunch and when that didn't work tried a desperate moonshot that became a clusterfuck under the weight of its over-ambition.

Ironically since Microsoft now owns Call of Duty outright, the next Halo will probably be better since Microsoft will be willing to selling for "merely good Halo games" again.

>>714925240 (OP)
343

How about we go back to bad motherfucker Halo man in helmet who savior of mankind pls, kthx

>>714929653
oh dang, you're right. I didn't think about it that way. /v/ fucking hates arena shooters. There literally was no saving halo.

>>714929739
>I like to suck cock and have buttsex
>excellent
>tell the interviewer that some days is feel like a woman
>You are hir--
>1/4th latino
>I'm sorry, we are currently searching for latin/e/i/x/u/ only. But, we will call you back if a position for someone with your skills is available.

>>714930586
>the next Halo will probably be better since Microsoft will be willing to selling for "merely good Halo games" again.
Literally the opposite since Halo won't have to compete and best with COD. You need that fire in you to succeed and when releasing "merely good Halo games" is all you need to do, you'll do the bare minimum. This is what pic related means.

>>714930081
Halo Infinite isn't bad in the same way though. They actually returned to the franchise's roots and the core mechanics feel better than ever. The problem was they originally tried to make an open world Halo, failed, and had to cobble together what they had into a playable game at the last minute.

>>714925428
I can't bring myself to hate these people. They're too autistic to be intentionally malicious. Their existence is cursed.

>>714930586
>>714931057
If Halo stuck to its guns after Reach it still would have declined, but it would have been decent and respectable.

>>714925992
I feel your pain brother. All I have left is waiting for the inevitable master chief collection PS5 port where I will switch to PlayStation to have one last hurrah playing Halo with new people before I drop the series entirely. the series will never return to even half of what it was.

>>714931098
Anon, the entire time Halo spent trying to compete with CoD is when the franchise went to shit. It's not even Microsoft's biggest IP anymore. If they're going to blow their load on another crazy ambitious game, it'll be Elder Scrolls.

I genuinely don't understand the culture at these studios. If I had a flagging franchise, I would make certain to hire majority white and Asian men (mostly white) who grew up playing and loving Halo, which many straight, interested and focused 30-40 year old men did.
How hard is it? Why must they fill their ranks with pudgy women and fat boons? How do the execs plan for continual fire/rehires and restructuring and never address this one simple point to see if it could work, which it fucking would?

>>714925887
>A bunch of unmarried roasties
You guys have no to blame but yourselves for not wifing these ladies up.

>>714925887
not one of these fuckers has ever stayed up all night playing Teacher in custom games with their boys, laughing like retards while roleplaying as teachers they hate from school.

>>714930083
Yet FPS games on it still played better than the shit on Xbox which fucked PC shooters hard for years

>>714931316
>It's not even Microsoft's biggest IP anymore
not to shitpost or derail but what the hell is the biggest microsoft ip? c

>>714925240 (OP)
By last for games are you referring to Reach or MCC? Because if your counting MCC, CE Anniversary should also be added to that pile.

I dropped Infinite immediately when I learned it starts with sone covenant offshoot magically destroying the humanitys strongest flagship outside of the screen and Chief losing to some fucking monkey he has been killing hundreds before.

>>714931062
latinaeiou

>>714930196
Your game is a linear piece of shit, it's a wonder the iq levels for games dropped over the years when you need to a good old babysitting from the devs themselves.
>no exploration
>no puzzle-solving
>no proper boss fights
Your game was the start of move forward to win game.

>>714931318
I know you retards don't believe it, but software companies ARE almost entirely white and Asian men. When you see their diversity ads, that's literally it. Those are all the diversity hires in a studio of 500 people. I have never worked on a dev team that wasn't all white and Asian dudes.

1. Retcon 343 post Bungie Halo, dismiss it garbage fanfiction by Grunts and Brutes. Tell everyone involved in the creation of said works to publicly apologize for their horrid writing, programming, voice work etc.
2. Do not make more Halo media. Include an official mandate on the level of the Geneva Convention.

There everyone is happy.

>>714931138
Just because they need to be culled doesn't mean you have to hate them. You still need to do what needs to be done, like putting down a sick farm animal that threatens the rest.

>>714928550
Spreading the franchise around would dilute the brand value . Better to release one flagship game instead of many cheaper ones.

Letting 343 make them

>>714931138
No need for hate, I bet a lot of people have actual good intentions. Hate is reserved for people like alyssa mercante.

>>714927156
Many Halo Bungie employees stayed at Microsoft to keep making Halo

>>714932160
False.

>>714925240 (OP)
It went on too long. Reach it's natural end in 3. They squeezed a little more juice out with Reach but that was all you had left. There was nowhere else to take the series, gameplay or story. It was over. No one could've kept it good for this long. Should've just let it die.

>>714925887
Casey Wu could get it. Love me some thicc asians

>>714928696
>There are no quota "laws".
>DEI gang walks up to CEO in his luxury office
>"Nice place you got here. It'd be a real shame if it got 'mostly peaceful'd' to the ground. Now us, we're all peaceful-like -- but modern crowds are so volatile these days, as you well know. What say you hire us, and nothing bad'll happen. Capiche?"

>>714928417
Wouldn't it be funny if Sylux ended up being a cute girl haha (as a joke).

>>714925758
When you say "last four games" are you referring to Reach or MCC? If your counting MCC then CE Anniversary should also be counted.

>>714925887
Jesus Christ
/pol/ was supposed to be satire, not reality

>>714931481
Unironically Minecraft, the sales of that one game dwarf anything.

>>714930586
Next Halo game is most likely going to take elements from classic Halo, classic FPSs, and twitch shooters going forward.

>>714925240 (OP)
cod killed it. ppl say that putting in sprinting or trying to be like cod killed it but ppl just don't play that type of fps anymore whether its like quake or whatever. they needed to go full on heavy mode like make a spartan actually feel like a tank supersoldier type thing or something with realistic mechanics including sprinting, ads, etc. and whatnot that makes it feel weighty not their half assing cod mechanics.

>>714925428
What's wrong with cat helmets?

>>714931184
>If Halo stuck to its guns after Reach it still would have declined, but it would have been decent and respectable.
In hindsight we know that would have been the better call, but at the time gaming and especially shooters was a rapidly growing market so the fact that Halo was declining in a surging market was a big problem. Also, CoD wasn't considered its own thing separate from the rest of the market yet. I bet most of the users on this board were CoD kiddies playing nuketown. Point being, every business analyst would have told Microsoft to change up the franchise to recapture their flagging player base.

They should honestly kill Halo at this point. There is no hope left for it anymore

>>714928752

Same thing with the Forza Motorsport series. The 360 games Forza 3 and 4 looks leagues better.

>>714931184
Halo couldn't stick to anything because the people that made Halo the way it was moved on to new things. No one coming in after them as a completely new team in that environment would have made something that respected Halo.

>>714933253
Okay but having a bunch of retards immediately change literally everything was the worst possible outcome and it's what we fucking got

>>714933253
The people who made Halo tried mixing things up a little with Reach. Most of Reach's changes were viewed negatively, apathetic at best.

>>714931784
Honestly I think you could save the 343 games with a remake of them.
4 just needs to retool the prometheans to have 5's soldiers replacing the majority of knights, save knights to function like bosses, and add one more enemy class to them, maybe trilogy sentinels. Make Diadact a real boss fight. The mp is unsalvageable but I'll address that later.
5 needs a retool of the story mode (no Onyx, no cortana resurrection, warden can be the bad guy, or diadact since he didn't die) but otherwise it's a perfectly playable game, just add sentinels. MP is probably the best 343 has made so just get better maps, 3 lanes for every map is boring.
Infinite needs to get rid of the open world, add the prometheans as a third faction, add humans into banished, make the mexican guy less of a pussy, change the wizard bitch to not be "worse" than the flood, fix the alien weapons being shit.

>>714931481
>biggest Microsoft IP
Minecraft, Call of Duty, Candy Crush, World of Warcraft. But those are all consistent moneyprinters more than blockbuster showcases. The big event IP for Microsoft moving forward is likely going to be Elder Scrolls and Fallout. Halo will be relegated to a similar role to Doom. Maintained for its historical legacy and potentially some surprisingly good/faithful new installments (if 343 figures their shit out), but it'll never recapture its cultural juggernaut status.

>>714930449
TVTropes being autistic and stupid about random shit isnt anything new

>>714931316
>After Starfield and Oblivion
Good luck to them

>>714933494
>Giving vehicles health
>BTB reduced to hiding behind rocks and walls and plinking each other with DMRs because nothing smaller than a Scorpion could survive more than five seconds out in the open
God I want to strangle which retard came up with that idea.

>>714925240 (OP)
Putting women in charge. Bonnie Ross and Kiki Wolfkill ruined this franchise. They ran it to the ground.

>>714934179
>Putting women in charge ruined this franchise
How?

>>714925887
Fire all women to save xbox

>>714925887
crazy how any retard with eyes can see the giant red flag here, yet shareholders will completely ignore it

>>714934209
some statements are absolute, anon.
>water is wet
>the sun is bright
>women don't belong in leadership positions
you know?

>>714925240 (OP)
the story was done with reach. then they decided to rape the story for shekels. this is what happens when unskilled people who don't give a shit are in control

>>714931098
The benefits of Halo losing to COD
>forced to take elements for the FPS genre it tried to kill in 2001 becoming more and more like the PC shooters of old
>Halo can be Halo but in a new era
>Halo can gain a real fanbase who aren't normalfags
>Halo can focus on its singleplayer
>budget cuts will allow it to focus on gameplay over trying to put Hollywood set pieces in the game
>Halo can finally find an identity especially being on other platforms
Losing to Doom and COD, old and new, was the best thing to happen to Halo. It'll finally become something over fading into nothing.

>>714932485
We're way ahead of the curve.

>>714934209
Because Halo is a franchise that caters fundamentally to heterosexual men and women can't understand the mindset of heterosexual men nor do they make any effort to.

>>714933635
>Candy Crush
>As of September 2023, it had reached over $20 billion in lifetime revenue.
This is the audience AAA publishers want. How far past are we on the "We want the CoD audience" scale?

>>714934209
It's normalfag trash, normalfag trash attracts bigger trash.

>>714931774
That means nothing if most of the diversity rot infests half of the creative team, too.

>>714925814
>Black
>Purple hair
>Red shirt
Is that...?

>>714934302
Can't save what's already dead

>>714925347
Yeah pretty much exactly that
They got scared of CoD4MW and changed course, although I thought shit was beyond repair once 3 hit. It wasn't bad but window being blocked off in H3 Lock/Blackout was the soul being removed from the game.

>>714934392
I've listened to a few shareholder calls. A lot of them are not gamers, they just invest because they think they can make money. They see that Fortnite makes a billion dollars and want to get in on the action.

>>714925887
And people told me the new halo studio would be different than 343.
I mean I guess being worse than before does technically count as different.

>>714931774
>a studio of 500 people
Why does there need to be that many people in a game studio?

>>714934984
They're an improvement because it looks like they're on track to never release a game :^)

>>714934779
How is this even happening.

>>714935076
Fair point, also wholesome.

>>714925240 (OP)
I loved Halo 4, but they had no creative direction with talented people together, like with Bungie. Now, Bungie is overrated with Halo. Their stories outside of Combat Evolved are terrible, and they gave less of a shit about weapon balancing as time went on, but you could see the passion of what these people wanted.

343 was meant to satisfy studio demands. They wanted the franchise to be as big as Star Wars with their strange app and spin-off media titles, they wanted micro-transactions with Halo 5, they wanted all of the old fans back by completely forgetting the story they were already telling and going back to the beginning even if it made no sense with Halo Infinite which included Fary Cry level design which was crap for the Halo formula.

Complex answer: it would take a while.

Simple answer: Xbox wanted Halo to support their entire corporation, regardless if it made sense or not.

halo needs a doom 2016 tier re-imagining which probably isnt gonna happen

>>714925240 (OP)
no balls, no soul

>>714935318
Microsoft would sooner close id than let them touch halo.

>>714925240 (OP)
Same thing that went wrong with every popular game of the early 2000s, the people who knew what they were doing left, and the new people now just use the IP to push their gay political agendas

>>714935227
Microsoft were a complete and utter detriment to Bungie, you can look at their games before Microsoft vs their games during and after Microsoft. Microsoft's been in console gaming since 2001. I find it embarrassing that they still don't understand anything about gaming to the point that even someone like Bobby Kotick called them out for it. I'm glad people are finally starting to see that Microsoft is the worse video game company, yes, even worse than EA.

>>714935412
i forgot they literally own id, but thats not what i was saying.

>>714934209
Because women don't play or understand shooters

>>714935318
Infinite was technically that, it needs to be pushed further and it also needs its Doom Eternal moment as well. Infinite was a decent first step in taking elements from classic FPS games, it needs to be taken further.

>>714935412
That would kill Halo further, Halo needs to be Halo but it needs to properly evolve. Infinite was a decent first step. Having id just copy and paste Doom over Halo and call it Halo would be Halo 4 all over again, at that point, kill the series because it's way past its prime, by that point.

>>714925240 (OP)
> Staten comes back to direct the team
> 343 takes the opportunity to tear down every thing he does and make him undergo a humiliation ritual.
Tell me why should I even pretend to respect these dregs?

>>714935529
>the people currently employed at halo studios are capable of a doom 2016 reboot
yeah definitely

>>714935470
Xbox had EVERY advantage known to man. The financial backing, talented devs, good hardware (red-rings of death not included), but they kept fucking up every generation. They never recovered from 2013's E3 - always online consoles, no used games, always online Kinect, overpriced consoles, their devs were forced to make everything into a multi-media IP instead of just focusing on main games. As someone who has been with the console since 2001, the Xbox brand deserves to fail with how utterly incompetent the higher-ups have been running this section of Microsoft. And the worst part? Xbox will crash, the suits will get golden parachutes, and then the suits will pretend everything they did was sunshine and roses and couldn't do anything else. This is why you don't hire from outside the industry.

You don't know what I'd give for a great Crimson Skies sequel.

I swear to fucking god, it unironically feels like phil was the only reason microsoft didnt shutdown 343 and shelve halo

this ip is so fucked, I seriously do not understand why they keep subsidizing this dog shit studio. Every motherfucker there should be fired.

>>714935874
It's the only brand recognition because Xbox let every other IP, except Gears of War, fall into obscurity. At least SONY pretends to care about their older IPs with references in their newer games.

>>714935854
I remember being actually hurt by Sega dropping out, hell even Atari deserves respect, but Microsoft, I can only remember them destroying the game industry for years before they finally decided to just fuck off, no, not go bankrupt and are forced to leave, just fucked right off without a care in the world. Truly the worst.

>>714935653
>Having id just copy and paste Doom over Halo and call it Halo would be Halo 4 all over again
I forgot id is physically incapable of making anything but the same exact game over & over again forever. Thanks for reminding me.

>>714925428
Cat ear helmet was extremely popular during launch, though.

>>714925806
>constant hand movement when talking
This shit's so fucking annoying

>>714935874
Phil didn't know what he was doing when he took over Xbox. Epic Games had come to the realization that Gears of War was over and were ready to move on, Phil thought everyone was still stuck in the 7th gen mindset and brought the Gears IP from Epic and forced their newest studio at the time to make more Gears games when no one asked for it. Even Don Mattrick knew Gears of War's time was up. Phil was always an idiot hyped up for nothing.

>>714925887
>Wu
Wrong Wu hired!

Remember when they had Corrinne Yu for Halo 4's engine only for her to bail because 343 was that badly mismanaged?

>>714936337
Theres beating a dead horse then theres going full necrophiliac on it which is what they did to gears. They could've gone on as it was instead of desecrating it but thats basically what microsoft has done to everything they've gotten their hands on.

>>714936101
The worst part is that they're bragging about how well they're doing when they have massive layoffs. Hi-fi Rush was bragged about regarding selling well, and then they closed the studio. They acquired *massive* companies only for them not to know what to do with them and cause even more lay-offs. They have gamepass, which (as basically a streaming service) they didn't realize was eating into their own profits regarding selling games.

We are in the era of the dumbest capitalists known to man in order to see their shareholders smile for one quarter of hypothetical growth.

>>714936580
Yup, I should have known that Phil was going to be making more bad decisions after that purchase because I knew that was a bad purchase. People were also cheering on the Bethesda and ABK buyouts. I was pissed about both. Everything Microsoft touches they destroy.

>>714936580
I can at least understand Gears 3 including women. The government collapsed and women being forced into breeding programs and men being forced to the front lines no longer meant anything. Not to mention, they're all supporting Marcus as the main character.

But HOLY CRAP, was making Kait the focal point of their new games a terrible move with horrible retcons and a character who no one gave one iota of a shit about.

>>714928835
Nothing to fix really.
The original team created something cool, and went on their path in life.
Now its up to someone else to to do something.
Same can be applied to Bioware, CDPR, Rockstar, Naughty Dog, etc.

>>714936580
E-Day seems to be a massive step in the right direction. But you just know they will inevitably reveal some faggot shit that will ruin the whole game and make the hype disappear immediately

>>714925240 (OP)
>you get to work on Halo
>your bosses tell you this once you're on the right track
It's a shame. Cool setting aside, Halo also went on to apply successful multiplayer concepts from PC to Consoles, all of which kept being doubted only to surpass expectations.
Except now without Ed and the tenure of Bungie, it was easy to push around 343 (not that they didn't make bad decisions of their own - of course no exec/higher-up sat down and made all bad decisions) to the point they were constantly prioritizing trend-chasing over what was already tested and proven as good stuff to have on launch-day.

>>714930081
>Why the fuck didn't 343 get the boot years ago?
Because Microsoft had to make a new Bungie to carry the torch for Halo and they created 343. And it was awful. What if they fired them all and shut the studio? What then? They'd just have to make another studio, and well, unless they figure out how to not repeat that mistake, well they'd just be making 343.1 studios. Might as well keep the studio and have a bit of a reshuffle and believe them when they say "we understand our mistakes and will improve."
And they did in fact change their ways, 5 is way different to 4. Except not in a good way. They got even worse. So they have another reshuffle and another series of meetings to say how they plan to do something different and that gave them infinite.
Point being at every stage 343 was doing what Phil Spencer and his handlers wanted. Shutting down the studio and hiring more Microsoft yes-men and fat women would achieve nothing different.

>>714933494
>>714934109
It wasn't just things that got mixed up; roles got mixed up and suddenly art directors were creative directors and gameplay designers who usually barred stuff from the game, were tasked with focusing more on Destiny (and then let go from Bungie).
Reach's creative director in more recent years is on-record for realizing abilities (as they were done) are inferior to non-ability gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfJCQbJA3v0&t=3854s

>>714937409
>Marcus Lehto
Speaking of, why didn't 343 just pay him to use the high poly Mark V model he made for fun?

>>714936836
>Everything Microsoft touches they destroy.
In fairness you can say that about every big publisher that buys a small studio. The big problem is that good studios happen because passionate people put their own money on the line to make something happen. They have a stake in the business and a cut of the royalties and this makes them decent money on the game that made them famous. And then a big publisher like EA/Microsoft come along and offer them $LOTS for their studio and well, all the people who made your favorite game are now filthy stinkin' rich and are just going to phone it in for the next game until they can cash out. There's just no way to stop that. You can't buy a studio on a promise that they make another fan favorite that sells billions, you have to use actual cash and at best a contract that says you have to at least clock in for a year or two.

>>714937409
All they had to do was make armor abilities as map pickups (except armor lock, gay shit) and it would have worked well. Everyone would have neutral starts. Maps could be designed around the abilities that were placed on it. Dying meant losing the ability, or it was on a timer. I remember the MLG playlists actually did that with the crazy roll ability and it worked well.

>>714936885
>But HOLY CRAP, was making Kait the focal point
The 2010s were full of randomly shoving women into action protag roles. Investors were looking for growth and the female market was largely untapped. It just turned out--kind of obviously in retrospect--that women had no interest in action games and would rather play life sims.

>>714936836
Not to take away what phil has done but there's a reason he was never once reprimanded in any way for destroying xbox for a decade. Mattrick wasn't even fired for what he did, he wanted more money and they offered him a position the hardware division but zynga offered him even more money to be their CEO so he left. In other words the execs at microsoft didn't see anything wrong with what mattrick did and wanted phil to continue where he left off which he basically did.
Microsoft basically lucked themselves into being in a position where they can fuck everything up and still make tons of money. Now they're the equivalent of a black hole that sucks up everything in its orbit killing it in the process.
>>714936885
>I can at least understand Gears 3 including women.
I mean shit they had women in the first game doing dispatch far away from the front lines which is fine. But yeah its like they thought to themselves "how can we fuck this series up to the max?" I honestly don't know how you can accidentally fuck up such an obvious & simple formula sp badly the way they did without it being deliberate.
>lets make a game about roided out military guys facing impossible odds into a story about a woman
Nobody can be that stupid.

>>714925240 (OP)
I liked infinite a lot for like, a month.

>>714937559
>Speaking of, why didn't 343 just pay him to use the high poly Mark V model he made for fun?
Because that would make too much sense.

>>714925240 (OP)
I think a good way to bring it back is to bring a hero shooter element to it.

But it's make your own hero, your armor pieces effect your class,weapon, speed and damage output.

Then they can have the classic arena style for the vets as although mode

>>714937713
>But it's make your own hero, your armor pieces effect your class,weapon, speed and damage output.
Complete side-note, but I would have loved to have seen a Halo game where (maybe after completing the main campaign the first time through) you could cycle through all of Chief's armors so you could choose how he looked in cutscenes.

>>714937204
Releasing the editing kits is the only good thing these faggots have ever done

>>714925428
>this is a cat box, this is an xbox
I have been unemployed for a year, not getting any more than 20-something interviews after thousands of applications, and stupid whores like this are why im not getting the job. Women DESTROYED marketing and the retards running the show somehow think the line going up is the catlady's doing, and not improving conditions.

I fucking hope AI annihilates all of these fucking faggot fake ass jobs and these stupid motherfuckers have to move into section 8 housing and use foodstamps to survive.

t. Out of work Senior Project Manager (not product manager, which is a fake job for women)

The truth is no one needs another halo. The series has run its course.

>>714937176
>But you just know they will inevitably reveal some faggot shit that will ruin the whole game and make the hype disappear immediately
Its gonna happen, it looks too good right now, they'll figure out a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory somehow like they always do.

>>714925240 (OP)
Halo could play exactly how it did 20 years ago and zoomers wouldn't play it.
It's going the way of the boomer shooter.

How about a game where oh, I don't know, they finish the fucking story? Total covenant death

>>714925240 (OP)

The tech now exists to render an entire Bishop Ring megastructure in real time. If they're not gonna use that in a game named after it, there's no point to making new Halos.

>>714934109
>Giving vehicles health
They had health since Halo 2. The problem was they made them vulnerable to non-heavy weapons, so you could plink them to death with the dmr instead of needing rockets and grenades. They also messed up the physics on the warthog so dmr shots can actually flip you over. Insane choices for that game.

>>714925240 (OP)
the same thing that happened to every modern dev; dogshit hires with retard activist views that have been normalized amongst certain segments of society but that normal people, and the people in the hobby they're yoinking, do not like and will not tolerate

>>714937907
>zoomers
and? easy solution; don't try to chase zoomers.
every time they're told this people scream "NOOO BUT MUH POTENTIAL GORILLION PROFITS" despite literally never hitting that potential on the slot machine a single time. "NOOO IF WE DO THAT IN 50 YEARS WE WONT HAVE AN AUDIENCE FOR IT" and? your audiences are seperate, they will not mix, they do not overlap, get the fuck over it. continue enjoying your profit from catering to one market with x/y/z ip for 50 years, whilst catering to other markets with a/b/c ips.
it is not complex whatsoever. these people are just lazy, don't want to do the work that it takes to cater to different groups, and won't invest any money whatsoever unless it's on a gorillion return slot machine with 0% odds.

>>714933064
>hindsight
Nah, all the evidence you needed existed. All that was left was to actually do your job which is simply to think about game design for most of the day. Abilities were instantly met with criticism. You don't conclude from that, that you should spawn people with the most criticized one + an extra.
You don't ditch Firefight and replace it with Spartan Ops. You could easily remix that effort into having standard gameplay + variant playlists for abilities. "Why not both?" was an easy, obvious play to make considering Halo was already making room for wacky modes that changed the main gameplay up + no one was asking for a mode like Spartan Ops that additionally drained budget with fancy CGI cutscenes (cool as they are).
>me point gun down me move forward fast
Is obviously not the only way to go a speed-boost (if you think the market demands one). IRL regular soldiers can run AND gun. Just let super-soldiers do that with an accuracy penalty while using the boost. So many ways to vary that penalty per weapon too. So now players can be shooting while moving at max speed (just like before Sprint) but the maximum is higher and there's a reason to not have it on 24/7.
Need more skill-factor? Turn the cosmetic gun wobble into a real factor affecting aiming when you're sped up (lower stability/grip). Moving fast and if you turn left your gun will veer a bit further left than normal due to momentum at those speeds? You can learn to press the fire button a bit earlier so the shot comes out at the right time. 100% possibly to get the hang of considering people already learn other forms of estimation like when to toss a grenade or lead a projectile sot he damage occurs when they desire.
There were and still are just so many better options, especially for a shooter where most weapons don't down someone in just a few shots via raw damage or aiming at the head. It's really obvious if you actually think about design and not just chasing trends blindly.

>>714937559
I couldn't say for sure. Wouldn't be the first game a new version of a design was offered and later on something more on-point came out, to maximize hype and money. I suspect Hayabusa will get a more faithful variant later on if Infinite still gets that much support.

>>714925240 (OP)
It ended, but they kept milking it.

>>714938012
Vehicles in 2 and 3 wouldn't be destroyed until the driver died. Reach-onward, the health was independent and it made vehicles a deathtrap that became way too easy to chip down.

>>714925806
Dumb bitches can't manage videogames for shit, put men in charge and have these cunts back in the kitchen.

>>714925806
It literally makes zero sense for these women to be in any company related to video games other than the fact that it's a do-nothing daycare job for them. These bimbos are the last kinds of people I'd think to be anywhere NEAR video games.

>>714925814
>opinions are my own
Why do so many people have this in their twitter bios?

>>714937965
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>>714938265
>don't try to chase zoomers
It is a really weird obsession. So many games came out, did well and became beloved, without trying to trend-chase Halo during the trilogy, much less be a "Halo killer".
>shill and bootlickers
Disgusting how they only accept it's fine for Halo to not be #1 after a 343-era game takes a horrendous dip in player retention despite trying to appeal to some "broader audience".

>>714939409
So they can talk about how much they hate half the country without getting in trouble.

>>714927928
This legit looks worse than Halo 2
That was 21 goddamn years ago.

>>714925240 (OP)
Halo has been dead since 2008. Franchise has been zombie longer than it was alive. Halo fags needs to come in terms with the reality.

>>714928696
if your company is larger than I believe 100 employees then yes the government actually requires you send them data on the make up of your workforce and if they deem it discriminatory you can face fines and legal consequences.

here have an ai slop answer that explains it for you

1. The EEO-1 report monitors workplace diversity:

The EEO-1 report is a mandated compliance survey used to collect workforce demographic data by race/ethnicity, sex, and job categories.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) uses this data to monitor workplace diversity and ensure compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

2. A lack of diversity in your EEO-1 report can raise concerns and potentially trigger investigations:

Low diversity could suggest potential issues with your hiring, promotion, or compensation practices, leading to scrutiny from the EEOC.
If an employee files a discrimination complaint, the EEOC will review your EEO-1 data as part of their investigation.
A history of low diversity could impact the outcome of such an investigation and potentially expose your company to legal action.
A company's stance on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) can influence customer and investor decisions, so a perceived lack of diversity could negatively impact your company's reputation and financial stability

basically (((blackrock))) won't give you loans you need to keep kicking the can down the road and the aipac led kike compromised usa government will let people sue you into nonexistence because how dare you not have at least 30 women, 15 POC, 10 homos, and 5 trannies at your 100 man company

>>714939107
They still had thier own healthbar. How else do you think Halo 3 managed the damaged appearance? A new warthog with a full health driver can take more hits than a beat up hog with the same full health driver.

>>714925806
Its the boomers and gen-x (yeah we notice you pulling the strings behind right after the last few boomers) feeding these women in the workforce, sugar daddy and all. Especially the gen-xers sitting at the upper management roles now.

>>714939760
>Franchise has been zombie longer than it was alive
Many such franchises!

>>714939947
Yes, they had health, but it was nothing like how the more recent games did it. As long as you didn't die, the vehicle would last forever.

halo 6 was supposed to be a hero shooter
a former 343 concept artist published some images of this game's direction on artstation and explained in great detail
it wasnt until microsoft execs showed up at 343offices and asked them why the fuck they were making this bullshit game that it forced 343 management to axe all of it and reuse whatever they had on infinite.

yeah theres no way they're ever going to produce a good game, 343 are a poisoned well, they literally could not care less of what anyone thinks as long as microsofts always there to bail them out.
this company just needs to die

>>714937204
This reminds me of how Destiny's initial story was so poorly regarded by the powers that be that they decided to launch Destiny without a story entirely

To the point they didn't know what "The Darkness" even was when they launched the game.

>>714937615
This why I hate investors, they're stupid, the problem wasn't that women and minorities were being blocked from playing games, it was simply that it didn't interest them. If they really wanted women to game, the should have made some sim games like Animal Crossing to engage women into playing games.

>>714937662
>Not to take away what phil has done but there's a reason he was never once reprimanded in any way for destroying xbox for a decade. Mattrick wasn't even fired for what he did, he wanted more money and they offered him a position the hardware division but zynga offered him even more money to be their CEO so he left. In other words the execs at microsoft didn't see anything wrong with what mattrick did and wanted phil to continue where he left off which he basically did.
>Microsoft basically lucked themselves into being in a position where they can fuck everything up and still make tons of money. Now they're the equivalent of a black hole that sucks up everything in its orbit killing it in the process.
How is this company still alive, lol?

>>714940386
It still amazes me to this day that they just kinda fucking made it all up as they went along and then we eventually ended up with this. Holy fuck that game should have ended with the taken king, still pisses me off to this day that they took something so thematically cool and drove it to its own grave.

>>714937576
Sometimes you just got to say no to the $, it's not worth it if it destroys your studio.

>>714939702
>work-in-progress
Should become better looking unless they once again get tricked into trying some massive undertaking never done before in the series and end up looking like Infinite pre-1 year delay. Of course we all know how Infinite launched despite looking more like Halo than 4/5 after that delay so no holding your breath.

>>714925887
If you work in the aaa industry you will never make a profit again. They flooded everything with these fugly whores. There is no escape.

>>714940386
Oh yeah, something about rejecting the story Staten put together only to end up taking bits and pieces of it anyway.
I wonder if Microsoft even has access to the plot/notes Marcus says exist for story beyond the Ark that required either a massive game or a whole actual trilogy. He really only let slip 343 (likely by necessity than genius) had similar ideas but didn't leave the Forerunners as mysterious as those rough plans would have.

>>714939760
I did years ago, it was a product of its time, it gimped the shit out of FPS games and led it to the dark ages in the 7th gen and half of the 8th gen, but it was successful during its era. Halo now needs to find itself like Doom did and make a new genre of FPS like Doom 2016 to survive in this new landscape. One that remains Halo but modernizes the series to current standards with fast-paced gameplay.

>>714940773
It's tragic and funny to see people go: Sprint is justified because Spartans are beyond natural humans, but somehow the thought that they can be moving fast AND shooting (especially in campaign) with just some meaningful impact to their aim being the price for the enhanced speed.

>>714925240 (OP)
I mainlined halo direct to my veins from 2001 to 2009 or so

It's pretty simple to explain what went wrong: They tried appealing to people who don't like halo. They shifted towards ADS and faster movement speed and more abilities and it just wasn't what I wanted to play.
Then on top of that they raped the story and injected identity politics and feminism and other brainwashing/propaganda corpo-libtard-bootlicker shit into the stories which just killed any thought I ever had of even trying the games out.

So:
1. Stopped appealing to me
2. REALLY REALLY stopped appealing to me

And now its a dead franchise nobody plays. Probably shouldn't have catered to "halo2sucks.com", feminists, and "gamers are dead" journalists; none of whom liked halo nor wanted to play halo.
Instead they should have catered to me, the guy who spent 8 years of his life playing halo every day.

They didn't cater to me so, here we are. Don't know what else to tell you besides cater to me if you want to make money. There's millions of guys like me out there. You don't even need to fill your game with mechahitlers or anything, just don't be retarded and gay.

>>714940910
You try and tell zoomers that spartans in the original game were ALWAYS sprinting and they lose their damn minds.

>>714941287
I wish they did cater to the halo2sucks.com people. Nothing else plays like CE.

>>714925240 (OP)
Bungie got extremely tired of it because like all their projects it only held their interest so long. They bailed out and it turned into a nostalgia fueled cashcow that died because it was a cashcow from 2 on.
Also it was shit.

>>714941376
>>714940910
A good middleground would to add a momentum mechanic, where moving forward without jumping for an amount of time would add regular sprint speed on.

>>714941376
Spartans in the original game move like 30km/h, they literally jog/walk faster than most soldiers can run

it just doesn't feel like that because the scale of the game is so huge

>>714941496
This, if they would have actually made that Halo CE 2, I could see Bungie grabbing more elements from PC shooters and making Halo more of a thinking man's game like those games. It seems like that's where they wanted to go with it with CE just being a rush job but then they instead went for making Halo 2 a Hollywood game to rush that shit out the door. With all the backlash Halo 2 gained back then, I wish no one built off its poor direction for the series. Halo 2 promoted laziness from devs.

>>714941376
Like I'm fully willing to deal with a toggle that lets us move even faster than the trilogy in every direction with an appropriate trade-off, since their bosses must be mandating some form of boost button blindly.
I just don't get how no dev has successfully argued for that over "move faster forward and stop shooting". It's so primitive and outdated for a concept like Halo where you are far less squishy than other shooters. Of course having Armor/Spartan Abilities as tools for Customs is another matter.

>>714941690
CE was meant to be a Tribes clone, but with charged-up super jumps instead of skiing.
Many of the things in CE were just a result of one guy working on the multiplayer over a few months. Like powerups, those were originally MP-only until some of the campaign level designers wanted to use them in their maps.

>>714941563
This but maintain momentum while jumping 'cause it just makes sense.

>>714941751
Buff sprint, but make it a limited map pickup that disappears when you die. Only have a few "spartan abilities" and treat them all like map pickups. There, spartan abilities are fixed for Halo's gameplay and maps.

>>714941563
I'd definitely like to see that playtested in some alpha/beta or whatever, although I suspect expoliters will find some way of enabling a jump and we'll get a spazz fest that isn't so appealing out of it. I'm all for silly side-modes but there's a certain level of spazz I do not want in standard modes.

>>714941865
That'd make for a very interesting public test build.

>>714941865
So, MLG Reach prior to ZBNS?

>>714941983
Yes >>714937601

>>714928696
I find it hilarious how unaware normalfags are of just how fucked the system is, even when they engage with it daily.
Please, continue.

>>714942024
I still would have preferred abilities drop on death, which was functionality present in the final game but never made available in the menus.

>>714928835
Literally stop making Halo games. That's it. Halo has run its course, any new entries, even if they didn't end up being trash, are pointlessly extending a finished story. Sentence all 343 employees and Microsoft executives to thirty years of hard labour. Let someone else make a spiritual successor with similar gameplay to the classic games.

>>714942113
I figured it would make more sense to treat them like the old OS/camo pickups. You could make them drop on death, but then this would cause the number of abilities to increase over a game and potentially all end up on the same team.

>>714942185
>but then this would cause the number of abilities to increase over a game
Not necessarily. If people spawn without any, and you don't respawn the abilities unless they fall off the map, the number of abilities in play would stay more or less consistent throughout a match. Yeah, one team could control them all, but they can already do that with weapons.
I'm not a fan of treating them the same way as OS and Camo are, because both of those have a hard limit on how long they can be in play per respawn cycle. If you don't die with a jetpack, you keep it for the entire game.
I get the value in keeping an ability out of play for however long after its user dies, but I also think it's weird that you drop everything but the ability on death.

>>714926961
That's a dangerous gamergate (Nazi dog whistle) conspiracy, chud

>>714925240 (OP)

They kept making games after 3

>>714942165
Pretty much, Halo's biggest problem is that it could not adapt, so it died. Many people misunderstood what that meant. Halo shouldn't have copied those other games; it should have saw the changing times and modernized the series while keeping it Halo. Bungie couldn't do it, 343 failed to do it. Maybe third parties led by Halo Studios can do it. Modernize Halo without throwing out what makes Halo, Halo.

>>714925240 (OP)
Microsoft killed it, fuck Microsoft.

>>714942185
>>714942391
I want to add onto this and say that it would have been interesting if armor abilities never recharged on their own and simply disappeared when the meter ran out. Not exactly possible with what the game allows, but still a missed opportunity.

Apologize this instant

>>714942507
>Modernize Halo without throwing out what makes Halo, Halo.
Yeah so it can join all of those super popular successful arena shooters still kicking around on PC. You just can't do it without it not being Halo anymore, unless you force every "innovation" into the arena shooter formula like >>714941865. That still would have gotten stale and plain fucking weird after a while, but it definitely would have been better than Reach and all of the bullshit 343 did.

>>714942652
Ryse and Dead Rising 3 as day one exclusives were more solid than people gave credit at the time

>>714942746
Halo has never meaningfully changed up its formula.

>>714942746
They should've just made the whole game BtB
BtB was always the best game mode and none of the shitty PC arena shooters had anything like it.
>inb4 someone pretends to actually like Quake for neckbeard brownie points

>>714927928
Promo Vs promo

>>714928752
Nah Infinite is the better 343 looking aesthetically game

>>714943659
ehh

>>714943659
In terms of shape/design, yes. But everything looks like its made of plastic and playdough. Even worse than Halo 5.

>>714926961
>Part I: How Microsoft Is Using Black Girl Magic to Advance Diversity in Gaming
how is this an actual, nonsarcastic title

>>714943852
The Cortana on the left is the entire screen, and on the right, I think, it's a zoom. There's a scene with nuCortana that's practically identical or better on the left. The flaw with Infinite's Cortana is that it doesn't have a video filter, something to hide the smooth "skin."

>>714943921
>plastic and playdough
Hard disagree
Halo 5 feels like it's made of rubber

>>714944569
While you're right it really only seems to be a problem prevalent in Multiplayer. No fucking idea why. It's like they are just using a whole different set of shaders and shit because the campaign looks fine. It's all the shitty Forgeworld maps. Infinite has the same problem where some maps look great and others look dog shit (mostly forge creations)

>>714942746
>Yeah so it can join all of those super popular successful arena shooters still kicking around on PC
I think Halo's multiplayer days are done, Certain Affinity can try something with it but it won't really generate a buzz no matter how many Youtube shills try to shill it. Halo is something people will play for a short period and then just drop it and never return. In terms of singleplayer, go wild. Halo's singleplayer always had potential due to being sci-fi, having a massive lore that still has holes to fill, and the classic rule of cool. Just continue the power fantasy of the Master Chief making him more badass and cool, it won't be super popular (doesn't need to be), but it will gain a great following.

>>714932485
>/pol/ was supposed to be satire
no it was not. you just chose to believe that. and so this is the future you chose.

What happens with PC controls with Halo moving to UE?

>>714925240 (OP)
Master Chief is just a dude in a suit. He literally can’t punch someone. And his helmet not have Batman’s X-ray vision

>>714946891
based schizo poster

>>714946891
I think he's a pretty cool guy

>>714925240 (OP)
how are they not defunct yet
ever since Halo 4 its been non stop floppa from them, each game selling worse than the last

>>714925887
Aww geeze dude.

>>714947432
Novels, merchandise, and microtransactions are keeping them afloat along with the Halo Championship Series. Master Chief is also a huge moneymaker for them. UE5 may just save them but it won't be because of them, they're too damn incompetent, it'll be because of third parties in the US and EU making the games for them while they just lead it like with Halo Wars 2.

343 feels like it has 3 good game devs keeping halo infinite afloat; because it’s actually really good. Then you start to smell the raw sewage seeping in from the cracks and notice there’s probably 1000 diversity hires also working there.

>>714947640
It probably is, Microsoft is winding it down and firing the remainder of the Infinite team because they no longer want in-house teams making the games, just leading it.

>>714925240 (OP)
W*men

>>714925240 (OP)
Isn't it obvious?

>>714925806
Why is some female teenager anywhere near a product aimed for males????????
Nevermind we all know why she's working there. You know exactly what I mean.

>>714925887
They will stay

>>714933005
The game has bigger priority problems than new helmets.

>>714925240 (OP)
Female and Irish management

>>714925887
at least I was able to experience the golden years of halo before it fell hard from grace

>>714925887
This looks like the main cast from 2016 Ghostbusters

>>714926223
>10 years since halo 5

what in the hell

>>714933115
>kill
It's been dead for years, morons keep buying the chopped up corpse and then complain it's not good.

>>714928835
literally fire everyone and get a new team. This time without diversity hires.

>>714933115
Halo died when it couldn't adapt in 2010.

>>714951894
>343rd post
>Halo died when it couldn't adapt in 2010
Pottery

>>714925567
correct post and no replies for 300+ posts because everyone wants to get mad at faggots

Maybe if the show was good that would have helped? Fallout having a good show actually brought 60k people and their all time peak to FO 76. Didn't sustain but I bet they made a lot during this time

>>714952259
For the singleplayer, maybe. Halo multiplayer? Not in a million years. Halo games are too punishing for noobs.

>>714944771
>others look dog shit (mostly forge creations)
I find it kind of funny how Forge maps somehow got uglier the more sophisticated they became. Halo 3's random assortment of shipping containers and stone blocks with massive seams between them looked great, Reach's structures allowed for "real" maps but the plain metal texture on everything felt a bit bland, and then it progressed into pretty much a full-blown map editor but everything looks so plastic and half-finished.

>>714944252
Black Girl Magic is an unironic quote from The Marvels, I'm pretty sure

>>714931062
Bungie is so fucking co-opted by these niggers that it's not even funny,

>>714937827
>t. Out of work Senior Project Manager (not product manager, which is a fake job for women)
That's a fake job too. Paper pushers all need the fucking rope. Learn to weld.

>>714952259
Don’t forget FO4. Game had like 300% increase in daily players when the show launched

>>714925428
>Piscitello
Did Matt get his sister the job to crash two games with no survivors just so he could write some juicy bits on it?

>>714925428
Genuinely HOW do these people keep.getting hired? I've seen so many of these tranny devs fail upwards that I think the entire industry needs to burn to the fucking ground.

>>714927156
>implying Bungie still holds the rights to Gaylo at this point
Any studio that gets bought out by M$ has to sign over everything on the off chance that they get EA special because the IP is worth more than gold to them. Undead Labs learned this lesson the hard way right until M$ threw the founder and his wife out via a glorified hostile takeover. Considering they just got gutted with the rest of the 9000 I wouldn't be surprised if they're on death's door at this point.

>>714925428
>>714925240 (OP)

>>714954542
I don't understand why all of these smaller studios keep allowing themselves to be brought out by these bigger companies? I would only be fine working with Nintendo or Valve.

>>714928643
>I rarely even see people talking about Halo here.
BECAUSE
THEY
FUCKING
KILLED
IT
10
FUCKING
YEARS
AGO
CUNT

>>714954894
In their case they already had an exclusivity contract anyway going from Xbox Live marketplace to the Xbone. The initial team was only like 20 people and the game itself sold 5 million copies at 20 bucks a piece. They got paid well for it but the second game more or less flopped when it served as a prototype for selling stuff on M$'s own storefront. I reckon the idea would've done a lot better as a multplatform when zombie games were still the mainstay. So much so they wouldn't need to take the deal in the first place.

>>714928643
>I rarely even see people talking about Halo here.
>Halo 4 so bad that Halo 5 was a reboot
>Halo 5 so bad that Halo Infinite was a reboot
>Halo Infinite needs a reboot but 343 imploded

>>714928415
Halo 2 and Halo 3 both broke the record for most successful entertainment launch, shit was crazy big.
>one million gamers online

>>714925240 (OP)
I don't think anybody has ever been happy about the quality of a 343i game

>>714930586
>>why didn't they keep making good Halo games
Because making good games is difficult.

>>714955007
So what? People talk about old games all the time.

>>714930586
>the next Halo will probably be better since Microsoft will be willing to selling for "merely good Halo games" again.
Return to form doesn't happen in this day and age

>>714925240 (OP)
It made too much money too early in modern gaming history and fell victim to “its too big to fail”, that combined with a bunch of other bullshit. It basically got turned into a flaming turd due to low effort and then swept under the rug when they realized it’s too different now to nostalgia pander and their audience is now a niche of aged millennials compared to the rest of people that play CoD along with all the other popular shooters.

>>714925240 (OP)
Made by a dev that need extremely heavy tardwrangling and beating into shape to actually deliver a product. Now in the hands of completely different people compared to even that.

>>714947849
that brute closup single handedly killed the game
you can't make this up

>>714925240 (OP)
Bungie couldn't cope with not being the top dog FPS so they chased trends with CoD and 15 years later we are here.

>>714958281
>the moment bungie got let off the leash we got a piece of lazy shit asset flip to knock 1 game off the contract, and reach which was the mortal wound of the series

>>714954507
It in fact wasn't all conspiratorial nutcase jargon when people were saying these freaks were infiltrating the industry and rising to decision making positions and hiring more of their ilk 5‐10 years ago, who coulda thunk it?

>>714959713
With hindsight I got the impression that the "trend chasing" in Reach was probably using Microsoft's money to do some prototyping for Destiny.

>>714930586
>the next Halo will probably be better since Microsoft will be willing to selling for "merely good Halo games" again
I admire your optimism really. Current Microsoft are in the process of fucking Xbox up chasing for the big bucks. The pursuit of that Call of Duty money in Halo still goes on based on that, and I doubt they'll let Halo studio do anything other than go for trends like before.

>>714925240 (OP)
Never owned a halo game or xbox, but I played halo 2 co-op a lot at a friend's house and yeah it was fun, but still who gives a shit about this series everything in it just oozes lameness.
I'm honestly amazed that it has lasted this long

>>714963784
go back to sucking dicks on reddit

>>714955779
>old games
do they talk about dead old games?
retard
also any time there is a thread it INSTANTLY devolves into shit flinging

>>714964852
>do they talk about dead old games?
Yes.

>>714958281
Don't forget they cried and shat themselves in a rage everytime MS wanted to do a Halo thing without them, while also whinging that they don't want to be the Halo factory.

>>714932160
>many

The most inconsequential janitors who worked at Bungie yeah, and they gave free reins to the fucking forum moderator from bungie days

>>714925240 (OP)
Halo as a franchise was completed, nothing could be made that added anything substantial to the franchise without subtracting much more.
It also doesn't help that 343 eroded the gameplay identity of halo and made it another generic shooter.
But like I said adding more sand onto a completed sandcastle just makes established walls crumble

>>714964852
Yes. I see Mega Man Legends threads every week. No so much Halo.

>>714960759
I figured Bungie were sick of Halo by that point and just wanted to try different things without having to try too hard.

>>714925428
Is there a single person still in denial that gaming is dead?

>>714942073
that's because they're too busy having sex, incel. you're just seething about trannies instead.

>>714926805
>A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth
kino

>>714931138
No, it's a total lack of personality, humor and wit. You can hate it. These people recognize these quirky things as stuff other people find funny so they cling to them and make them their personality

>>714925240 (OP)
Failed to adapt their super soldier fantasy to something more interesting with modern trends. Why play a boring ass Spartan with no abilities who can only jump high and flip warthogs and uses a shield when you can play a badass Space Marine, which has classes and abilities?
Halo needs class-based gameplay and they need to reinvent what it means to be a Spartan super soldier fantasy. Spartans are out, Space Marines are in.

>>714925240 (OP)
Halo started with a bunch of dudes wanting to make a cool game with cyborgs, aliens and lots of awesome guns. They did well and got funding to make more, but like other anons mentioned, the story and setting ran it's course and any attempt to "modernize" the gameplay just ruined what made it work in the first place.
Not only is there nowhere left to take the narrative, but the people who made it work are no longer around. You can make a reboot/spiritual sequel like what Halo was to Marathon, but the culture is different, and anything made under Microsoft or current Bungie would be absolute dogshit.
Maybe if a bunch of ex-devs make something good out of this, like with Expedition 33, but the budget might be too big of a requirement. In any case, Halo as a franchise should be laid to rest, no need to keep desecrating it.

>>714926190
Is that the same negress that started the metoo movement? Their noses are identical.

>>714927156
They actually could if it is demonstrably proven that the brand damage was intentional in order to devalue it. But it would be difficult to prove without an internal investigation and such investigations usually conclude with "We investigated ourselves and concluded that we are okay."

>>714947849
what a miserable picture
DEI needs to die unironically, its like every industry is forced to have half of their company be incompetents

>>714971603
Worse than that, because the half of these morons are usually also in decision making positions. Doesn't matter if you have 100 normal or based dudes working on a project if Karen is the one steering the ship.

>>714935874
because masterchief was and probably still is to xbox execs, their mascot character. like sonic is to sega or mario is to nintendo. inside xbox one x and whatnot you'll find these master chief easter eggs even.
halo was the launch title that sold millions of xboxes and xbox 360s for microsoft after all. and valuable enough that they'd let bungie go independent in exchange for giving them the franchise.
halo has been dead for so long, and xbox doesn't even know what its identity is anymore, that they should just take 343/halo studios behind the shed and put it out of its misery already though.

>>714925240 (OP)
343 and the terrible story killed Halo. The moment people don't care about the world and story of a game, because it was writing by retarded wokies the games die, see Overwatch or Retail WoW.

>>714925806
It really frustrates me I have a doctorate and can’t afford a Porsche and this bitch does nothing but eat and video herself and has one

>>714972178
it's leased retard

>>714925428
"There's this blank area around the years Concord existed, where were you during this time?"
"..."
"Answer ze question."

>>714925428
pogchamp cat helmets

>>714925240 (OP)
DEI

>>714926043
why did they have to make the spartans gay and lame?

>>714971894
At this point Microsoft literally has nothing else besides Master Chief, because instead of spending the past 25 years cultivating a line-up (That they literally fucking had thanks to all of the studios they gobbled up specifically for their IPs), they threw shit at the wall hoping it would stick time and time again, and quickly abandoned what they thought didn't or couldn't work in the modern era. All of Rareware's IPs have been sitting on a shelf collecting dust because they're literally too fucking stubborn to find proper places for them. They killed their own console with the likes of Don Mattrick and horrible naming conventions, and they're so fucking incompetent that they allowed 343 to completely ruin the name of Halo, which used to literally be on top of the fucking world and with tons of good will left behind by Bungie. They are fucking incapable of getting it right because the company is entirely ran by execs in suits that believe video games require a specific formula in order to maximize profits, only for random fucking indie games made by literal who dev teams locked in a bedroom for a week to completely outsell all of their AAAA games because they disregard word of mouth and actually making the game fun in favor of pandering to retards and tranny troglodytes who don't buy games.

>>714926043
Black women are literally the most unthreatening people possible and I'm sick and tired of the industry shoving them in our faces acting as though they're to be taken seriously. Like that one black bitch in the Obi-Wan Kenobi show that may as well be the main character, and of course she isn't actually a bad guy.

>>714973039
California tries their best to push strong black women.

I thought 343i said they learned from their mistakes.

>>714973343
They lied

>>714925240 (OP)
They replaced an elite team of experienced developers with a bunch of women, homosexuals, and Indian contractors. Granted it took many years for the rot to set in but this was inevitable. Not that Bungie have covered themselves in glory since but they delivered legit 10/10 games in this series.

>>714973329
And it failed miserably because not even black men like black women

>>714936514
I remember Corrine Yu having nice tits and being quite attractive on top of being a computing genius. And Halo 4 was maybe the best looking game on Xbox 360.

These are the types of people you pay millions of dollars to keep around but MS chased her away and handed it off to idiot pajeets instead.

They should add alien women

>>714925806
This board is so fat, gay, brown, and black lmfao.

Not one of the replies bothered talking about how that Anon who called women in the workforce 'jewish daycare so they don't have kids' remains undefeated. This is literally a peak example of jewish daycare for a foid in action, and no one here said it before I did. You're all useless.

>>714973590
>Nigger with a gun to someone's head
Typical

>>714959713
Microsoft really warped their minds. I doubt before Microsoft they wanted to the top dogs of FPS.

>>714925428
Who doesn't like cats?
Concord had zero cats and it flopped.

The writing was already on the wall with Reach (and even arguably Halo 3)

>>714972178
You should have tried harder to be born an attractive woman.

>>714926043
Literally looks so goofy and ridiculous, putting niggers in positions of power is akin to one of those work calendars that has pictures of Monkeys wearing suits and ties. Don't bother trying to tell me I'm wrong, because I'm not.

>>714963242
Well, at least the campaigns and multiplayer are now separate, so they can do whatever to the multiplayer while the campaigns no longer need to be anchored to it.

>>714974020
We want the black female audience.

>>714973590
>design a character with a cool mask
>immediately takes it off
Lame

>>714973329
They purposely get the ugliest ones, makes me sick because it feels racist to my race.

>>714973773
>you're useless if you're not as brainrotted as I am

>>714954507
>Genuinely HOW do these people keep.getting hired?
Nepotism. Either they're nepobabies with frustrated rich parents who try to find their useless children some token job, or they fuck the manager.

>>714974162
>Nigress holding the spear she's about to chuck looks unsure of herself and ill-fitting
It's funny that you go to any of these actual African tribes that have been lost to time and the women do nothing but the simple shit women are natured towards, like foraging berries and birthing their brothers' babies. Really flies in the face of everything modern society is trying to lie to us about.

>>714974445
>That huge fucking nose
Thank you Mother Nature.

>>714974445
nose is so big it almost looks like a prop

>>714929096
You are shit at video games

>>714974272
Good to know I made you so angry because I called you out. You being fat, gay, brown, black, and/or jewish means you aren't a human. Your opinion is as worthless as your existence.

Stay mad.

>>714974162
Like I said, goofy and ridiculous. I would like to apologize for mocking Monkeys in my previous post by comparing them to niggers, Monkeys are wonderful animals, niggers are worse than a plague.

>>714974445
lets see their israeli passports

>>714925887
Did even 5% of halo players account for women? Seriously, the only IP more dudebro and male I can think of is Gears of War

>be anita worshipping feminist retarded whore
>halo gets the fame of being "le epin virgin game where incels say nigger faggot and disrespeckt le heckin wholesome whaaamen"
>343 guilty spark buys the rights
>first executive order is to place an illiterate retarded feminist to rape the story
>halo 4 arrives
>hype has never been higher
>people start playing it
>multiplayer is abysmal dogshit
>everything is nerfed because muh balance
>campaign is the most boring shit ever conceived
>cortana is a premestrual syndrome bitch that yells at master chief because her hormones say so in order to cure that mentally ill incel from his toxic masculinity, emotional unavailability and improve his emotional intelligence
>gamers puke while playing
>you succeeded in destroying the franchise as was your mission to begin with
*SQUEALS* WHYYYYY AAAAREEEE THE INCEEEELLSSSSS NOT BUYING OUR PROOOOODAAACKT
>nobody bothers with touching your game that literally shaped a culture with a 10 foot pole anymore

Pic related: women destroyed the world in a suicide bombing attack because they were offended by jokes.

I really liked the semi-OW approach of Infinite, I honestly loved the campaign

We know what works, we have the formula for what works and we know what needs to be done for this to be a smash hit.

It needs guys kissing, gay relationship drama. Make the game about that and it's a fucking home run.

>>714974750
>Did even 5% of halo players account for women?

No! And that's exactly the problem. We need to grow our fan base by being more inclusive.

>>714925887
>i am an ugly whore
>chad refuses to even look in my direction
>i will take these young men and destroy the thing they love just to hurt them for fun
Revoke women's rights immediately.

>>714974738
Both goyim, your detector failed

halo was never good and only got popular because it was made for the retarded mass population. it deserves everything that has happened to it

>>714975202
They hated him because he spoke the truth

>>714975202
Shit take, don't talk or post anymore until you die.

mods are gonna delete this thread now you fools

>>714974589
deluded and an asshole, what combination

>>714934209
Any time women are given control of a male space, they change it to be "about women". Whether that's a movie franchise, or a game, or a website, or whatever. Women don't actually want male things so it ends up appealing to no one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYkAgLQ_0eU

>>714975326
Xhe's posting porn on purpose so we stop calling out feminist for their retardness.

>>714975434
Women want to marry you just to divorce you and take your dog so they can put it down in front of you. And troon your son.
That's literally all they do.

>>714975326
trannies hate halo

>>714975567
Xhey are still salty of all the time I shotgunned xhem, it was foreshadowing LMFAO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>714975471
But porn is kryptonite to feminists

>>714966842
>>714965003
i dont see it so it doesnt exist

>>714925887
>>714925814
>>714925428
>company gets taken over by nogs and fags
>franchise fucking dies
so much for leftists being the creative ones

>>714926223
The only good thing that’s come out of 343i is Halo Wars 2 and they didn’t even make that one

>>714975981
Only when white men are enjoying it.

>>714926961
i mean it’s cool that xbox has a gay department but when is xbox gonna get a competent dev department?

>>714928370
Sure, whatever. What hurts me more is there will never be another videogame like Halo 2

>>714928696
retard

>>714950730
Hahaha

>>714974162
>Niggers beating romans
I dunno chief, seems fake to me

>only some images getting deleted
The mods needed to be doxed harder.

>images being deleted
Yep, they're here

>>714976150
Who do you think is reading this thread?

>>714976738
This is how they think barbarians looked. Seems kinda racist if you ask me.

>>714925240 (OP)
GIVE

HALO

TO

SOMEONE

ELSE

>>714934638
This teebeeaych.
Its the equivalent of letting a boy direct all Hallmark movies, and then women getting mad when they now all revolve around gunfights, monsters, and big titties.

>>714925806
>>714929657
I wish for it too but people on higher positions, like this cunt is going to get off easy.

>>714935653
>>714935543
Halo is so fucking easy it hurts. Just make a fucking Halo. A real, fully simulated Halo. (In universe they are too big, have UNSC build a tiny one from fragments). You get an open world that is funneled as a giant corridor. Best of both worlds. You get some fun new elements to play with (sniping the upturn curve, crazy day night cycle with star/planet skybox in realtime on the ring giving, ODST style drops in the game) that are periphary to the core game. We all agree that there is a perfect Halo in there somewhere already, so you just stick to it.

Halo 1 was like the promise. The opening levels in space, huge levels, incredible skybox. It all came together to feel like the Halo was real. The way to bring Halo back is to fulfill the promise. Give us the Halo. Of course, this is all head canon with a totally different studio not filled with pajeets that love Halo.

Use Halo 4's 'oorah Spartan Training multiplayer, the Halo is a UNSC military installation. Copy Halo 1's story but Chief is woken up at the New UNSC Halo to get retired because he is not needed. But shit hits the fan and we redo story beats of Halo 1 in new game. Of course, this all assumes a new studio not filled with Indians, but competent white programmers that love Halo.

Halo should just accept its foundations no longer qualify for a brand-leading franchise. It should learn to stay in its lane and do well at what its fans are looking for. Let it be a solid team arena shooter focusing more on strategy and map control with its slower gameplay. It will never capture the cod or battle royale markets by doing that, but it was never going to anyway no matter how much it tried to chase trends. If Infinite launched "content complete" with co-op, forge, theater, etc instead of focusing on retarded marketing gimmicks, then it could have actually succeeded as a live service game.

>>714925240 (OP)
>What went so wrong with Halo?

they had a dumb bitch in charge they promoted to get rid of. I bet bonnie was sucking phil's dick. Microsoft can't manage people.

>>714925240 (OP)
The Bungie CEO trooned-out and became the 3rd most important person at MacroShart.

>>714925887
Interesting how only the nog and azn look like actual womyn...