We’ve been hearing for months now rumors of a new Xbox, with the latest rumors setting 2012 as the release for Microsoft’s next console, which had led many to speculate that the announced Halo 4 would be a launch title. You can set aside those rumors and speculations as Frank O’Connor, the development director at 343 Industries has confirmed that Halo 4 is indeed an Xbox 360 title.
In Halo 4, 5, and Infinite, Master Chief became a more nuanced, human character.
In spite of the Halo series’ struggles, 343 deserves praise for adding nuance and characterisation to the ever-beating heart of Halo - The Master Chief. Playing through Infinite, it's abundantly clear that the events of the current and previous trilogies have irrevocably changed the iconic hero. He’s no longer the ‘blank slate’ that was previously presented by Bungie. He’s a fatigued, damaged and fallible protagonist, and one who is meandering through currents of grief, while reveling in his newfound agency. Giving the Chief a compelling and meaningful voice was no small feat, and 343 should be proud of that victory.
This article completely misses part of the appeal of the original iteration of character in the original game trilogy. It was the Chief and Cortana vs an entire alien collective. The blank slate Bungie displayed in their games was genius, he was an mysterious hero a wide audience could identify with because he wasn't as clearly defined as most characters.
The books added a lot of lore and backstory but most Halo players just want a fun game with exposition that doesn't get in the way of gameplay, it's why the Cortana level in Halo 3 was derided.
Not every character has to be a damaged soyboy, a soldier has to suck it up and do his duty.
The 343i Master Chief has is based on the books. However, in Halo 4-Infinite, the Master Chief overtime become. gradually becomes more willing to show some emotion.
It’s a law of nature that eventually, every long-running game franchise will have a particular entry that gets dinged for straying too far from what made it so fun in the first place. Your Super Mario Sunshine, your Dragon Age II, Assassin’s Creed III, and so on. Whether or not that opinion changes more favorably over time, the initial specter of negativity will forever hover it. Microsoft’s Halo is no exception, except that negative specter hasn’t hovered over one particular game, but one whole studio.
Halo 4 released 10 years ago today, and its disappointing reception was just an omen of things to come with 343 Industries at the helm.
Halo 4 and infinite have a 87 on metacritic and five a 84🤣. 343i need contents and everything else will play it self out.
Halo 4-6 are like the Star Wars sequel trilogy
They all just seem like a brand new games with small connections to the last one but no solid arc connecting them, you’re just told stuff that happened off screen in between the games and nothing makes sense
It’s like they didn’t plan a new trilogy out
I'm getting a good gaming laptop soon and i'm finally going to play through the Halo franchise again plus Infinite but i never played Halo 4 before .. can anyone tell me how's the campaign in comparison to the games before it and compared to Halo 5 ?
Well of course they will say that if MS has not yet announced the next xbox =\ This is pretty much common sense. That is like PD saying Gran Turismo 6 will be on PS4. I'm not saying it is or isn't but honestly I believe this will be a launch title for 2 reasons. 1) It's the start of a new trilogy and is the perfect launch title to get people to buy the next xbox and 2) There was never a 360 logo shown at the end of the trailer like every other trailer at e3 for 360. Just my opinion anyway.
if the nextbox is real they will continue to say Halo 4 will be on the 360, they won't want to let people know that the nextbox is in development if MS want to keep it on the low down.
didn't Nintendo do the same with Twilight Princess at the start then move it to wii (as well as gamecube) I'm not 100% on that though.
who knows, we will see next year I suppose, I do hope it is on the nextbox personally, I would say Reach was a fitting end to Halo on 360, not including CE:HD remake.
He said it was on 360, he never said if it was on another super secret console as well.
I wonder if it will be on the 360 and next xbox. I know nintendo did this with zelda but i is a little different to halo as its main pulling power is online. I dont think they could have this on the 360 and next xbox for this reason unless they can some how get 360 amd next xbox version to work the same online.
I do think halo 4 will be a release game for the next xbox but if it is not i dont see the next xbox being out until 2013 as the halo name is too big to put out the same time as a new console.
As opposed to what, the PS3?