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Subject: *Sigh* the bad news we were all dreading from Microsoft...
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Posted by: Achronos
It isn't our shiznit anymore.

I'm not so sure some posters are right when they say all 343i wants is profits. Just based on their recruitment quality, I'd say they put the story and quality of the Halo games high up on their list of priorities (perhaps they know a good continuing series will net them more money for a long time? idk). Perhaps this is my optimism or rationality kicking in, but I'll judge 343's games when I actually get to play them, and not use hearsay and preconceptions to cloud my judgment.

Let's not hate the new kid on the block just by looking at him or trusting rumors your friend told you.

  • 01.18.2011 1:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: Lord Snakie
I'm not going to tell anyone "I told you so", because I've done that enough with scarcely enough proof, but my opinion is that it's going to be straight crap from here on out. I've bailed the Halo wagon, and, in my opinion, wisely so.
Meaning that you stopped buying Halo Games? I do love your Halo Posts. Please don't stop.

  • 01.18.2011 1:25 PM PDT

What spectagon are you in?

Posted by: privet caboose
You do realized there's pretty much been a Halo game every year since 2007 right?


Exactly, we've had 3 years of a halo game every year and they've all been pretty good IMO. Microsoft are smart enough to realise that if 343 released a completely new halo every year( halo4,5,6...) it wouldn't do the Halo franchise any favours.

  • 01.18.2011 1:33 PM PDT

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  • 01.18.2011 2:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: Onyx81
Meaning that you stopped buying Halo Games? I do love your Halo Posts. Please don't stop.

In my opinion that's what 343i is counting on, the die-hards to not be willing to give up the series despite what they're probably going to do with it. I'm not going to fund them for the sake of holding an e-title, or being able to talk about it with friends, and so yes, I've moved on from all Halo material. Instead, I'm producing my own game that fits my principals. And it's looking awesome.

  • 01.18.2011 3:30 PM PDT

I am a Floodian

Well, so that makes Halo another franchise that is going to get run into the dirt. Gears and Call of Duty will meet the same fate.

  • 01.18.2011 4:08 PM PDT
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Since it seems that the account didn't transfer, that's my new account everyone.

Meh, we all knew this was happening sooner or later. It was just a matter of time.

  • 01.18.2011 4:13 PM PDT

To be honest, when I first saw all this in the weekly update I thought 2 things.
#1- there is an actual legendary ending but,
#2- No matter what anyone does,(kill all the bobs, hit all switches etc) that until the "time" mentioned in "There'll be another time..." is reached there won't be a legendary ending.

The weekly update by bungie has slowed my hardcore search for what unlocks the legendary ending.


Posted by: grey101


Good more MC

bad news...Story line ruined. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!


i think that it would be wiser for microsft to give 343 MORE time to make halo games seeing how every game was rushed and meet with alot of bad reviews. Reach pulled it off due to being made right after halo 3 and bungie being used to short due dates.

But the true halo is the story and gameplay, not multiplayer. So they SHOULD give 343 all the time they need to make a kickass game that will sell alot and over time than pop out halo's ever year (which i know they would despite what they said). because i'll offically switch to dead space, mass effect, or fallout if a new halo is out 2 days before the annual call of duty.

  • 01.18.2011 4:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: Lord Snakie
I'm not going to tell anyone "I told you so", because I've done that enough with scarcely enough proof, but my opinion is that it's going to be straight crap from here on out. I've bailed the Halo wagon, and, in my opinion, wisely so.
I'm going to give them a chance, but I'm not expecting anything great.

I just can't see completely passing it off without actually playing it for myself.

  • 01.18.2011 4:21 PM PDT

To be honest, when I first saw all this in the weekly update I thought 2 things.
#1- there is an actual legendary ending but,
#2- No matter what anyone does,(kill all the bobs, hit all switches etc) that until the "time" mentioned in "There'll be another time..." is reached there won't be a legendary ending.

The weekly update by bungie has slowed my hardcore search for what unlocks the legendary ending.


Posted by: Lord Snakie
In my opinion that's what 343i is counting on, the die-hards to not be willing to give up the series despite what they're probably going to do with it. I'm not going to fund them for the sake of holding an e-title, or being able to talk about it with friends, and so yes, I've moved on from all Halo material. Instead, I'm producing my own game that fits my principals. And it's looking awesome.
Like? We seen your creative abilities in The Precursor, The Flood, and the Acceleration of Evolution. What do you have in mind?

  • 01.18.2011 4:23 PM PDT

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My name is Tyler. Computers and Video games is what I love to do.

As much as I hate to say it, the Halo franchise needs to end. As much as I love all of the games, I really don't want to see the whole franchise ruined like what happened to Call of Duty.

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Posted by: Jon Paul Jones
The bad news can go one of two ways.

  • 01.18.2011 4:46 PM PDT

And that Call of Duty is getting whored out like a $5 Chinease hooker?

  • 01.18.2011 5:20 PM PDT

I can see it now:

Halo: Legends: The Video Game 2: The Forerunner Saga: Part 1

  • 01.18.2011 5:33 PM PDT

Halo is one of the most important part of my life.

i think BOTH are bad news.... i think is still too early to move with MC again.

And also Microsoft its looking too ambicious for this.

  • 01.18.2011 6:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: fatman1236
As much as I hate to say it, the Halo franchise needs to end. As much as I love all of the games, I really don't want to see the whole franchise ruined like what happened to Call of Duty.


Unfortunately, I agree. I would rather see Halo die off than to see it whored out by Micro$oft. I am, though, cautiously optimistic about 343i. I've also seen Legends. It was somewhat painful for me. I haven't read Evolutions, but the fact that they split it into 2 books and only added a grand total of 2 new stories to their "Volume II" has pretty much put off any interest I may have previously had in buying it. That made it abundantly clear (not that it wasn't already) that profit was their main concern. However, I will give 343i the benefit of the doubt when it comes to their first game, although I'm not getting my hopes up. Quite frankly, I think Halo 2 was probably the best Halo game, and 343i has a lot to do to make an honest-to-goodness Halo game that is driven by story and character rather than sales figures and aggressive ad-campaigns.

I loved Halo. I still do, actually, but I love it for the story. I always have. But it seems after Halo 2, the quality of the story really started to decline. I enjoyed Halo 3, and it did have an entertaining and emotional story, but Reach made WAY too many breaks from canon. I didn't really care for any of the members of Noble Team. They were, in my opinion, rather flat characters (especially Carter). I did not feel the same things when they died as I did when Miranda died, and Johnson died, because I cared about Miranda and Johnson. They had dimension. They weren't just box-cover decorations.

But at the end of the day, Micro$oft is a business. Their goal is to make a profit, and the truth is that anything with the word "Halo" on it will bring in millions of dollars a year. From their standpoint, they'd have to be stupid not to take advantage of it. Although they could have done it in a way that was more respectful to the product itself. I don't want Halo to be reduced to a money-making tool.

I fear it has come to that now.

[Edited on 01.18.2011 6:38 PM PST]

  • 01.18.2011 6:36 PM PDT
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... each Halo game got bad reviews? What are you smoking?

Name one that has averaged bellow an 8.

  • 01.18.2011 6:56 PM PDT
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I don't understand how this is news. The articles are dated July and September 2010. We already knew about this since Comic Con.

  • 01.18.2011 8:08 PM PDT

I like my Covenant like i like my woman, screamin and with a sticky on there face.

I'm looking forward to MC's return. Expanding the story and universe was cool and all but I'm ready for the main character to be back.

  • 01.18.2011 10:07 PM PDT

"Concise and devoid of elegance...what I have come to expect from human communication"-Endless Summer

Every two years would make for a garbage game...but MASTER -blam!- CHIEF HOLY -blam!-

  • 01.18.2011 10:09 PM PDT

To be honest, when I first saw all this in the weekly update I thought 2 things.
#1- there is an actual legendary ending but,
#2- No matter what anyone does,(kill all the bobs, hit all switches etc) that until the "time" mentioned in "There'll be another time..." is reached there won't be a legendary ending.

The weekly update by bungie has slowed my hardcore search for what unlocks the legendary ending.


Posted by: Lord Snakie
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
No, Franky shot the "Halo game per year" thing down a few days/weeks ago. Its not gonna happen.

Nope, he shot down any Reach sequels, if we're thinking about the same article/interview. Carefully pay attention to context.
Wait, then what the hell is halo C.E., 2, and 3?

  • 03.12.2011 6:28 PM PDT

Hmmm, I don't know what to say...

Chief? I haven't seen him for ages. Good. But I don't think that a game every year is going to make it.

As we've learned from Call of Duty, Quality =/= Quantity

  • 03.12.2011 6:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: Silent Eli
you are a good translator
Idiot can be a hard language to learn, but once you get it down, everything becomes so clear! The whole world will make sense to you.

I trust 343i based on recent developments.

  • 03.12.2011 6:50 PM PDT

MLG = Man Lacking Girlfriend

lolbloom
lolarmourlock
lolreach

Here we go, Micro$oft trying to screw everyone out of money and satisfy their eternal greed.

  • 03.12.2011 10:03 PM PDT

To be honest, when I first saw all this in the weekly update I thought 2 things.
#1- there is an actual legendary ending but,
#2- No matter what anyone does,(kill all the bobs, hit all switches etc) that until the "time" mentioned in "There'll be another time..." is reached there won't be a legendary ending.

The weekly update by bungie has slowed my hardcore search for what unlocks the legendary ending.

If microsoft is going to do this to halo, then they need halo wars to come out as well. It would basiclly be like this.
343 makes a halo game every 3 years.
Then Robot Entertainment or Bonfire studios would make another halo game about a year and a half later after 343's game.
This would help with Microsoft wanting more games.

  • 03.13.2011 2:03 PM PDT

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