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Glenn Israel writes: "As of today and after seventeen long years, I am officially no longer contributing to the Halo universe. There is little more I can say for the moment, though I intend to share this particular story in its entirety when it is absolutely safe to do so next year. In the meantime, I have a message for anyone and everyone who needs to hear it.
I know that the state of our industry seems dire, but never forget that you are *free to choose*. No illusion of security nor promise of wealth or fame or power is worth trading away your health, your dignity, your ethics or values - and no one can force you to. Stay strong, take evidence when necessary, and find where you belong."
I’m really disappointed to learn there are still people/morale problems. I thought the whole point of rebranding 343i to Halo Studios was to signal that real changes had been made - not to cynically rebrand to paper over the problems.
I really hope the Halo CE remake is great and gets people hyped for the future of the series.
It's inevitable with the modern landscape. Even if some issues have been assuaged, new ones crop up all the time.
I'm willing to bet AI and the lack of regulation is causing substantial upset.
He said something very marking . We tend to complain a lot about the industry but deep down I realize that we never have we been offered this crazy amount of games all available for you to play now . You can literally play any sorts of games in 2025 . Nobody is forcing you to buy the latest COD or the latest BF . You’re more of a 8 bit cozy gaming guy there’s a whole niche of modern games for that . You like micromanaging there’s games for that . I feel like we have been spoiled so much we just stopped being realistic and thinking for ourselves . We follow trends cry about stuff online when you are the buyer you have the power .
....wth happened over there?
Does this confirm a new Halo by next year?
What did they want him to do that made him feel it was morally wrong or a insult to his integrity?
Well how about that, a name change doesn’t fix internal issues
Who would have thought
Lifetime sales of 343 Industries' first-person shooters, Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians, reached nearly 10 million units worldwide each.
There were reports that Halo 4 and Halo 5 had similar sales to Halo: Reach years ago. The clickbait websites and rage bait YouTubers from 2012-2016 just wanted to spread excessive negativity about the franchise for their own benefit.
I don’t know. However, I would assume around 10 million. All the Halo FPS titles have done around 10 million sales, except ODST. Halo 3, was reported to exceed 14 million copies. I still remember back in 2007-2008, Halo 3 and COD 4 would duke it out for the most played XBL game.
@Sciurus
There is NO WAY Infinite sold 10 million. Wake up dude.
Once upon a time, there was gamers on the Xbox side who actually bought games. Those times are since long gone.
Infinite has most likely not even hit 5 million sales
So let me get this straight in almost 13 years both games sold a combined 10 millions units.
Now I’m not going to use the obscured mentality and compared it to the amount of consoles sold and say it’s a failure 🤷🏿
1Victor,
Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians, reached nearly 10 million units worldwide "each."
Read it again, there is a word in there that clears up your misunderstanding.
@thesoftware720
I apologize I skimmed through the article and the headline blinded me and stuck in my mind thank you for the correction 👍👍
Halo 4 is the best multiplayer ever! It’s even better than Titanfall 2. I admit Halo 4 got CoDified but there’s nothing wrong with taking inspiration from other games sometimes and halo 4 did it sooooo well with that speed boost plus sword combo and SAW plus damage booth combo, holy guacamole 🥑
Some crucial improvements to halo 4 could’ve been to boost the power of the AA sentinel, and whenever matchmaking pits people against each other with an armor abilities turned off completely then the map needs to routinely spawn, plentiful, predictable, power weapons. Also, all frame rate drops are unacceptable for a halo game during split-split screen or couch co-op. Just dynamically scale the resolution of the game down but whatever happens don’t let the framer dip in a Halo game for the love of all that is holy and good!
My personal gameplay of getting 30 kills in a 4 v. 4 game of team slayer up to 60.
https://youtu.be/ZYDvior_K-...
I dont understand how you play a game if you go through Halo 5 in five hours...
I've spent more than 12 hours and I havent seen the end yet. But I like a challenge and I play on legendary with my friend. That way you get to really appriciate all the details. If you WANT to run through a game, you may do just that, but why complain after? Its like fastforwarding a movie.
But I guess we're all different.
And also - the multiplayer-part of this game is flawless. I've never experienced such good servers on a consolegame before. Never had an issue with lag and I always seem to get matched with someone to play versus in a matter of seconds.
There are games I'd like to complain about regarding its lenght and the multiplayer, but this game is not one of them....
Halo 5 is literally the worst example anyone could give. I would like to make some arguments to the author.
Firstly, the campaign was NOT 5 hours. It took me 7-8 hours on Heroic and I've been playing Halo for over 10 years. There's a lot of areas where you can just run past the enemies, which I'm sure is what players did, but that defeats the purpose. It's like doing a speedrun and determining that as the length of the game. It was shorter than I was hoping sure, but it wasn't 5 hours.
Secondly, you also realize literally all of Halo Reach's multiplayer maps were taken straight from the campaign right? It was a great campaign, no denying, but one of the biggest piss-offs for me was playing multiplayer first, getting familiar with all the maps, and then finding all those maps in the campaign. There was no sense of discovery left. This means less work done because the maps were basically reused from campaign in multiplayer and firefight.
Thirdly, you didn't consider Halo 5's multiplayer. All the modes they've added, all the free DLC they've given, and how massive forge is.
Honestly, your argument would make sense when comparing Halo 5 to past Halo games, because Halo has always been known to deliver a tonn of content, and you can make the case that Halo 5 didn't quite live up to what past Halos have given, namely Halo 3.
BUT I don't understand why you chose Halo 5 for this particular argument? Literally every game nowadays has barely any content. Why did you not bring up Rainbow six? a multiplayer only $60 title. What about Evolve? There are so many more examples. Halo 5 is the one game that gave us a full 4 player co-op campaign, stellar multiplayer mode, a 12v12 warzone mode with PvPvE, a theater mode, a custom games mode, the ability to create maps via forge (with ridiculous options), and monthly free content. I think that's one of the best value for money you could get. There is literally no other game with such a broad range of content.