343 studio head Josh Holmes, explains and defends 343's decision to offer additional Halo 5: Guardians content at a later date.
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.
Daily Video Game writes: "GameStop is running a new pre-owned game sale on over 1000 pre-owned games that offers four pre-owned ($9.99 or less) games for $20 across multiple gaming platforms right now, including PS3 and Xbox 360!"
Given the nature of backwards compatibility on new systems, this is a great sale in case you missed out on some gems from last gen.
Most of the games on Xbox are on game pass. The Switch games in this sale are trash c'mon farming simulator that's laughable. The PS4 games should be cheaper. I can't wait for the GameStop going out of business liquidation sale.
These sales, while potentially great, really struggle to be valuable given you can't easily parse what games are in stock. You can't just say "only show what is online & what are in my nearby stores". Probably 60-75% of these games in these massive lists are out of stock for shipping, and out of stock locally. It makes it a chore to find anything you'd want, much less 4 of them, much less enough if you wanted to get to a free shipping tier. It's a bummer.
NoobFeed Editor Joshua Burt writes - There are many games in the famous Halo Franchise that are stellar titles and need to be revered. And some that do not. These games stand out from the crowd and deluge of colossal Halo titles. Games that made Halo great. We do need to iron out what qualifies the game for this list. They have to be in the Halo franchise… Obviously.
Halo 3 at the top is correct the only thing id change is swap infinite and halo ce around.
Why should he have to defend a Forge that has literally 8x more obejcts than any forge before it and infinitely more complex lighting and scripting and stuff coming out post launch. Or the 15+ FREE dlc maps we get after launch bringing it up to a total of OVER 40 maps overall. Any halo fan who values the story and multiplayer as much as I do would gladly accept an October launch to play this amazing campaign and multiplayer on the condition we had to wait until the end of the year to get forge and earlier for BTB.
I know I'll get called a fanboy for this, but even with the delayed features, I think this game is one of the best packages of content for a *single* game (fps obviously, rpgs blow everything out the water in terms of content) in a VERY long time. This game will eventually have nearly 4x as many multiplayer maps as Battlefront, a multiplayer only game, is launching with. I think that's a pretty good effort on their part.
It is a shame 343i have to constantly answered to Those people from Neogaf on every little thing. Some people just can't even be happy about free post launch contents. Smh
There is nothing to defend while "the others" release games without single player at full price.
I see Microtransactions as nothing more than something that takes away from the game itself, no matter what type it is. Devs that add them to their game is constantly cutting something, which could've been added to the game as an update.
AAA (''F2P'') games are unfortunately the future. This is to be expected in any game being made now, and not something i'm willing to pay full price for.
Oh, you unlocked that cool helmet today? Well, i just paid a few bucks and got it immediately. That can be applied to pretty much anything in the vein of these games, and it greatly devalues accomplishment.
I hate people that talk about ALL micro transactions like they're all bad. I guess it's not their fault, they're just ignorant.