Inspiration can be found everywhere, from history, to other games and even proven archetypes. But we need to stop directly comparing things together in games when the similarities are shallow.
How do composers make the iconic music tracks from games that we love? And just what makes them so memorable?
A former 343 developer has revealed that mountains of Halo pitches failed to be approved, including a return to ODSTs and a push for more intimate, dark themes.
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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With its smooth jazz and iconic New Mombasa streets, we need Xbox's next Halo game to return to the remarkable world of Halo 3: ODST.
Good article; it gets tiring to see people demonize well known IP's for "not doing anything new" when the majority of new IP's, with very few exceptions, do a lot of borrowing from other games, a fact which certain people conveniently and hypocritically ignore in favor of the "but it's a new series!" argument.
Most publishers who have any long-running IP's have to deal with that BS, and lately it seems to be Nintendo getting the lion's share of it...
If a game mechanic works really well then I damn sure want other games to copy it. Imagine if no other game EVER implemented fast travel? Or quest journals. Or cover shooting. Or even the damn HUD. These are progressions in gameplay that we need to see reused and, hopefully, improved.
Why dont we also stop saying its hot or cold outside when it is while we're at it. If X game borrowed or straight stole from Y game then it did.
I agree but there are times where games are blatant copies and they should be called out.