Halo's franchise director also told us what Halo 6 would be about
Halo 5‘s campaign didn’t exactly work for me, this much I’ve written. Not in snobbery. I don’t hate popular done-over-and-over-again things in principle, any more than I hate baseball, chess, or the Tour de France. As Stephen King put it in his National Book Awards acceptance speech, you “don’t get social or academic brownie points for deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture.”
But popular doesn’t entail safe, and Halo 5‘s story, despite what I’m sure comprises an unfathomable amount of developmental work, feels too much like kicking back in the easy chair and putting your feet by the fire. Characters end the game as they began it. Even the twist at the end just feels like a tee-up for Halo 6.
Halo franchise development director Frank O’Connor graciously engaged some of my criticisms after I’d finished the game. Here’s what he told me:
Halo is going multiplatform…kind of
Microsoft was quick to fire back against the FTC’s latest claim
All the whiners 😭 complaining about Gamepass, where were they when Sony increased their prices and introduced several tiers for PS Plus membership?
When Sony does it, it's perfectly acceptable. When Microsoft does it, all hell breaks loose...
Hypocrites 🤡 much!
BTW, I bet most whiners 😭 complaining don't have or even care about Gamepass. They whine simply because it's Microsoft.
We were very vocal and many people including myself cancelled their subs. Tf are you talking about? 🤣
As isarai..said. even i cancelled it when they raised their prices. Im enjoying single player games now.
It's not the price increase the main problem. It's the removal of day one releases for console users while PC user are safe (for now). It's a weird message being send to console fan ( "You should have bought a PC bro !)
This has nothing to do with PlayStation, this is about Microsoft breaking its promises.
Bringing up PlayStation is just a petty deflection attempt to not take responsibility for their own actions.
People are unhappy because this has caused thousands of people to lose their jobs, four studio closures and xbox owners should be mad about price increases and the fact that Microsoft paywalled day one games breaking their promise to their own consumers. Now even if you don't want Call of Duty you're paying for it.
The xboners like you who keep defending this type of stuff are actually making things worse for yourselves because you keep sending the message that no matter how much Microsoft bends you over by breaking their promises you're still going to defend them.
Xbox gamers make gaming worse for everyone every time they defend this type of crap.
@Einhander1972
When ponies like you accept anything Sony does without complaining, that's the major problem here...
Sony can do anything they want, and people like you will simply take it with a smile.
This has nothing to do with Sony.
It just shows how weak the argument is when the best you and Microsoft can can do is deflect with whataboutism's.
This is about Microsoft buying a huge publisher then going to court and saying things they knew weren't true, then going back on their own word. They went into court and knew telling the truth wouldn't be popular with either the court or the public so they lied in court. That is what is being judged here, not anything that Sony did.
You claim we are defending a price increase, but you are defending outright lies that have caused studio closures job losses and your own price increases and new games are paywalled to a higher tier.
And what did you get? Games that you were already going to get without buying these publishers. And on top of that now regardless of if someone actually wanted the games they are forced to pay extra for them.
The scale difference between our two arguments is huge.
"Sony can do anything they want, and people like you will simply take it with a smile"
Isn't that what you are doing with Microsoft's price increase you hypocrite? I bet you were the first to complain about Sony's increase, but not surprisingly first to defend Microsoft's increase because you are a hypocrite.
They didn't "remove day one" for console users, they created a tier that doesn't get them. They basically brought back Live Gold with GamePass games instead of monthly drops.
Yeah I complained when Sony increased their prices it was dramatic and they didn't even comment on why it was fine and I'll complain here to
In fact there was a huge outcry just because you missed it doesn't mean it didn't happen
It wasn’t the same thing. Sony’s tiers didn’t take anything away from people. Two of the tiers already existed. No promise was broken. Xbox tiers are breaking promises MS has made regarding day one, while also increasing price.
People were complaining and pissed. Only you seem to think Sony gamers graciously accepted it. You sure do whine a lot don't you
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@Hotpot
"Your turn, criticize MS yourself, right now."
He's a hypocrite so he won't. He's going to simply take it with a smile on his face like the pic in his avi 😭
I’m not trying to be an ass here when asking this, I just genuinely want to understand more. What’s the case that the FTC have?
@crismon
Microsoft said to courts when they purchased Activision they wouldn't raise the price with gamepass but they did after they got Activision.
@slave3: “It a warp lol ftc is need but this case against Ms is over.
😭😭”
Well at least PLAYSTATION GET ALL Xbox FORMER “EXCLUSIVES”.
GEAR is next on the list of lubricants before they ram the big HALO on PlayStation.
So enjoy winning that FTC battle to badly loose the war 😭😭.
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I mean, yeah.. if any of these tier options aren't right for you, you can always just buy your games the old fashioned way.
You can buy games the old fashioned way now. Microsoft’s end game is releasing Call of Duty exclusivity on Game Pass.
For now.
I can assure you, Microsoft wants subscriptions to access their games.
Just a matter of when not if or optional.
If the price raise was attributed to the acquisition. Nobody can make that claim, and every sub service has been raising their prices. Sony made a massive one not long ago.
The problem is Gamepass price was already raised last year, just for them to raise it again this year. That right there will help the FTC's argument
It's only gets magnified when Spencer's words don't match what the company does. He said publically gamepass wouldn't change as a result of COD. He said the price wouldn't change. Both of those things were clearly untrue. Among other things
They didn't just raise the price though, they also removed day one games from the standard tier and paywalled new games behind a more expensive tier which they also raised the price on.
And the FTC's appeal also brings up the job losses and studio closures as evidence that this deal should have been blocked.
Well, one thing is for sure Microsoft knows more than anyone about misleading people.
The fact is Microsoft said they wouldn't raise prices due to the merger then they did including making a new tier of game pass. They said they wouldn't fire people and they did. And they also closed studios so it's hard to argue that the effect on the consumer and the industry hasn't been negative.
This is a incredibly weak rebuttal.
Go and google the FTC case against Sony for misleading it's customers about the PS Vita. Then come back and discuss who knows more than anyone about misleading people.
What you claim Microsoft said is just lies. They never said they wouldn't raise prices or fire anyone. And even if they did it's their right. You statement is pretty weak and proves nothing but you have a bias just like so many other people here. You guys are just butt hurt that Microsoft won this case and it backfired in Sony's face because they threw stones and thought their own deals would not be a factor but they were. As a matter of fact it was one of the factors that helped MS win the case. Just take the L because it's a done deal. It seems the only effects from this deal is upset playstation only fans who thought the deal was never going to happen. Microsoft won. Get over it. Stop worrying about things we have no control of. Just play games you like and don't focus so much on who made it and all that petty stuff.
You're here again Sony grrrr in a MICROSOFT article
Just chuffed you've given up the obsession with Jim Ryan with just a few more sessions and you'll be able to comment on the actual article you can do it reaper the community is right behind you
Chin up
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You don't understand.
Sony is not part of this appeal at all. Sony wasn't even a part of the original FTC case. The FTC brought this case aledging that Micrsofts buyout of ABK would have a negative impact on the industry. They claimed that it would cause job loss and and that the consumer and the industry would be negativly effected from the buy out including from price increases to game pass.
Sony was only there to provide testimony on how they expected the buyour to negativly effect thier buisness.
They did not file the suit.
This appeal is of the ruling that blocked their injunction, and the FTC is presenting evidence that the buyout has in fact had the negative impact that they said it would and which was the basis for their injunction call.
The fact that you and Microsoft need to keep bringing up Sony instead of actually defending the actions themselves shows that you don't actually have a defense at all.
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The next entry in the Halo franchise is in development in-house at 343 Industries, contrary to earlier reports.
I see it's good they're developing in-house but question is will it be a good halo game?
Next mainline Halo sequel likely to continue with the in-house slipspace engine (since they invested so much in its development) ...and the Halo 1 Remake likely to be UE5 based one and act as UE based Halo template for future Halo projects
I know this is gonna twist a lot of people's panties, but I'm over Halo. The peak for me was 3 and Reach, after that they've been boring and extremely by the numbers. Infinite was not that great, in my opinion. Was it horrible? Absolutely not. But I'm starting to get the feeling of "if you've played one, you've played them all" ever since 4. My apologies to those I triggered.
I liked it but the problem i had with it is that a lot of the campaign story stuff requires knowledge of the Halo lore and tie-in stories.
They clearly made this Halo for multiplayer, but the campaign was the worst in the series. I will play the campaign again for the fun factor and coop play, but you got to admit they could of done better. The problems with the campaign is the repetitive boss fights of the same enemy over and over again for like 5 times. It made me feel like 343 ran out of ideas to make more variety of enemy bosses! We got 3 version of the same boss at the end that made the game more frustrating, and the storyline was the weakest one. The campaign have some good moments like that (spoiler free no worries) coming down from the sky moment, which I can't spoil is the highlight of the game wow! It is the closest we will ever get to that Locke team sliding down the snowy mountain cutscene you wish was playable. You have the multiple path ways through the battlefield where all 4 players go through to reach the same point(another highlight). One thing to take note is that there are only 12 missions, not 15 missions as stated. Those 3 missions are nothing but fake rpg open world like hubs, where you talk to 2 npcs then mission complete! Not joking. One of those hubs you revisit to do the same thing? I wish these hubs were not apart of the missions. All Halos before this had all full level missions, so what is the point of these hubs? I see this game as an 8.5 for the best multiplayer in the series,but the campaign is a bit lackluster.
Plus alot of people need to take note of this, and I hope the developers fix this, which is the low framerate from a distance issue. I notice this issue in both single and multiplayer. Yes the game is smooth in 60fps, but the enemy and player walking animations look weird, wonky, and downright ugly! Its like those animations are moving in 30fps, and while the whole game world is in 60fps at the same time. The problem is up close also. The only other game I can think of that had this problem, was Dark Souls 2 back when it was for PS3/360/PC.
At the end of the campaign when i beat it my instant reaction was the game was the best campaign.
Frank is right you cant please everyone.
But i dont see how any of the halo`s from 1-4 is touching halo 5.
Its just not possible even the places you go and the traversal through the enviornments.
Even the story really takes the halo series to the next level.
People need to get that the whole covenant and flood stuff is lower level.
We are on a whole different journey now. Stuff went down in this game i tell ya.
As a long Halo fan, I can safely admit that this was the best Halo thus far. Not in terms of story, but as a whole package, it's an amazing game. 60fps makes a big difference, and it was a welcomed trait that I'm glad 343 studios committed to. Story wise, it's better than all but the first game. I don't think any entry in the series will repeat the magic of being a lone survivor and feeling the adrenaline of being the last spartan. The series is in safe hands, no doubt, and most of the negative reviews from major gaming sites are simply taking shots for more generated view counts. Gaming journalism is no longer something you can trust when it comes to honest reviews. Read user reviews and play the games for yourself to find out whether a game is great or not. Just my opinion.