ThisisXbox: "Microsoft’s first hint towards both a new Halo game on the current Xbox 360 and the next-gen Xbox console, Xbox 720, Xbox Loop or if preferred the newly rumoured Xbox 8, comes today via a job posting on the Microsoft Careers website."
Halo 5: Guardians and several other Xbox One exclusives will become playable on PC thanks to a new Xbox One translation layer
Isn't this the foundation for your next Xbox?
This is exactly what some of us have been talking about...a way to bridge existing console users into a Xbox branded PC
I am just astonished that MS wants to make as much money as Xbox as possible yet so many of their older games aren’t on PC
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.
This kind of a non story in my eyes, it's just talking about putting a halo game across multiple platforms, it could easily be talking about the PC. This probably should have been submitted as rumour.
This actually makes a lot of sense, I've been saying that Microsoft could easily make a Halo game for the 360 and the 720. Both consoles would use XBL anyway, do it'd be easy enough to play them competitively against each other. Sort of the way Final Fantasy Online was for the PS2 (remember the HDD add on?) and the Xbox 360 and you could actually play together.
Something tells me we might hear something on the next Xbox this year.
Ryse is now confirmed by Crytek as a next gen game, Remedy is rumored to be working on the next Alan Wake for the next Xbox and were getting things from Epic games.
I'm not 100% convinced we'll see it launched this year, but color me shocked if we don't at least hear something about it.
The job ad in full is definitely not a port to a PC, you don't need a brand new Art Director to start from a blank canvas for that. If Halo 4 was a windows 8 game, 343 Industries as a whole new Halo team would have taken that into effect from the start of development process not near the end of it.
I cant wait until we see the next xbox. Im sure there are alot of wonderful things to come from Microsoft.
Well, the article says Halo "content". So there'll probably be some Windows Phone app similar to Waypoint, more animated shorts, maybe some viral stuff for the internet, so on and so forth.