Gamer Euphoria staff member Andy Writes:
''All right, I’ve given this editorial 60 minutes to circulate my mind since the end of Microsoft’s E3 conference. To read full key-notes and impression, follow me here. Fill your mind with the events that just transpired – then come back.
Microsoft’s announcement of the returning Halo series was easily their gem of the conference. Now before I get started, I would like to clarify that I am in fact a fan of the Halo universe. I wouldn’t denote myself a fanboy of the franchise, but I’ve enjoyed the games in the series up until now.''
I tried to let the shock-value (or lack thereof) drain from me before I began writing this editorial. I’m not really sure how I feel about this announcement – usually I have a pretty opinionated mindset, but here, I’m baffled.
Let’s start from the beginning. Was the actual announcement of Halo 4 diminished due to the accidental information leak on the official xbox website earlier this afternoon?
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Not really. 4, 5, MCC, and Infinite are only remembered for their shortcomings and failures when the franchise was purely known for being a system seller and an all-time great. There's a reason 1, 2, 3, and Reach are looked back on fondly, and it's not because of nostalgia.
I don't know of anyone that speaks fondly of the later Halo games, I would like to play 5, but I know it's not good, and I'm just waiting on Infinite to hit my strike price. I played MCC a lot later after it came out, so must of those bugs/issues were gone by the time I played it.
To say it dropped the massively is just not true. Many in the community hold H5 as the best mp mechanics in the entire series and say its what 4 should've been. Its campaign was trash but the MP is Fantastic and many faces of the community still play today and it only made 500mill in the matter of months but sure it dropped the ball massively. 4 was hated due to all the changes at once. And CoD like feature and rightful get hate but it's campaign story was liked by a majority of ppl. 343 hasn't nailed ot 100% but they get 1 thing perfect but F up in other places. Infinite had a good campaign and design but the story was a mess. The MP improves upon what Halo 3 was and is what many ppl wanted to go back to but it lacked content severely. So massively aint the word. Dropping the ball massively is when it's pure trash and unplay/unenjoyable. Most ppl blind by nostalgia so soon as 1 thing aint the same its hated cause Halo set the bar so high
FYI reach was not that good.
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Many have speculated on why M$ first cancelled what was a Halo game in September, handing that convenient spot to Gears Of war 3. Then of course the whole no 360 logo at the end of the trailer. Add to that the strange logic of starting a new Halo trilogy at the end of the current gen...O_o
It would seem to me that the perfect time to launch a new console would be together with the beginning of a trilogy for the systems top exclusive...Win/Win. I know at one time it was like that but the sales of Kinect could sway M$ to stay the course...a BIG mistake in my book.
With Nintendo launching a yet to be fully disclosed console in 2012, the new acquisition of Skype, windows 8 and the continued support of Windows 7 phone, Kinect and XBL across all platforms and the race to the cloud...it seems the time to strike would be now. Don't forget the deals signed with LG, R.I.M and Facebook...it sure seems like something big is coming.
I agree with @Inside_out
If Halo 4 was announced with a new console, I'd be siked, but the trailer that was presented to us at E3 didn't make me excited one bit; It just made me question why now or why at all.
Talk about milking a franchise.
Why not leave the high of Reach and be done with it like Bungie said they would???
Just feels like too much Halo in too short of time.
Its not CoD.
Hey might as well send off their console with a bang right?
To me it makes sense to announce the game early, and just let the hype build up the whole way. Why deny and deny a game for months that everyone knows is coming. Instead they just announce it, give very little info about it and then let the hype build up as people dig and grasp for every little bit of info.
It also doesn't make sense to make Halo 4 a launch title for a new system. The sales will be severely hindered because the system will not have the install base that the current gen systems have. Halo became a huge hit after its release. It was just another launch title before hand. Usually your AAA titles don't start coming until a year or so into a cycle.