Gameplayer sat down with Frank O'Conner, Lead Writer on Halo 3, to discuss the upcoming Halo 3 blockbuster and the aftermath of the Multiplayer Beta.
Remakes of the campaigns featured in Xbox Game Studios' Halo 2 and Halo 3 are currently in development, according to a new rumor.
That's Microsoft's gaming division for you...kill off developers making new ip while trying to capitalize off some long lost glory that has no hope of ever being what it once was thanks to recent decision making favoring unrealistic profit goals and greed. What a joke.
So much bitterness. Why be upset over something like this. Just don't buy it and stick with what you prefer.
Give it rest medman..., take a deep breath and try to not sound so invested in something no one is forcing you to read, buy, or play.
"Console war"is over, Sony won, be happy.
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I'm invested in people losing their jobs and their livelihoods while Microsoft execs tout record profits for their gaming division. Not sure why you wouldn't be invested. Could be you one day. Good luck.
So what’s their solution to having multiplayer? Wait until Halo 7?
That was one of the most memorable parts of Halo..
I'm not sure spending the heavy investment in time to recreate the multiplayer here is the answer either though.
Remaking the campaigns is a great idea to bring the new players up to speed. But if the multiplayer is included in each it'll just fracture the player base of each release.
I think it might be better to turn these campaigns out quicker and have 1 multiplayer game to keep everyone in one place
Maybe having an Halo Online and just release the Combat Evolve maps. And when Halo 2 releases have those maps release. I don’t know but I would like to play a newer version of Halo multiplayer. I know times have changed, and Fortnite is all younger kids really play. But back then it was Halo and you connecting 6 Xbox’s together lol.
I agree. I think that'll segment the playerbase and once 7 comes out, players might realize it sucks and go back to the older games. Especially if 7 is live-servixe, they'll be shooting themselves in the foot on the one good leg they have to stand on.
Kinda surprised they didn't just port MCC.
Maybe more $ to by made with separate remasters
Wouldn't have that problem if it were MCC being released. Gotta wait for 7 to be disappointed with MP all over again cause if they half baked Infinite what makes people think they won't half bake the next game? MP works in past HALO games not cause of nostalgia but because it's MP that isn't concerned with the endless service approach.
There is so much cognitive dissonance over Infinite. People say they didn't like it because it was a live service. Yet if you look at what the criticisms of it were at the time it came out and when the playerbase started falling off, the primary issue people had was a lack of updates. In other words, it wasn't enough of a live service.
Which is really an encapsulation of the problem with multiplayer today. So many people think that they want to go back to the "good old days" of mid-2000s multiplayer (The first few Halos, Socom, the first few Battlefields, CS 1.6, etc), but in reality if a multiplayer game like that came out today, people would whine about the lack of content within a month of launch and go back to a live service with a grindy progression system.
Why not just port the MCC? 🤔 That was the easiest layup ever and you completely missed it
I thought the same thing, then I realized that they wouldn't include the remakes in that edition. We may get a different version of Halo MCC in the future with all of the remakes included. I just want them to include Halo 5 at some point for PC.
I wonder if Microsoft will port Reach over to Playstation I quite enjoyed that game. I played Halo 3 and it was not bad I have Halo 2 on the OG Xbox I just need some cables to hook up to my tv to play it.
A new Halo 3 mod turns the iconic Master Chief into a Pokémon % Master as functional Pokeballs come to the game.
That is very impressive to skip the article here is the direct link to the video
https://x.com/GashnorOffici...
Full animiation then a code change to make the target that comes out of the ball to be in the same class unsc not a easy thing to do.
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
Chava: So how is your game coming along?
Bungie: Erm, everytime we try to play on an actual console, a member of staff dies because of the explosions that take place whem the Microsoft Xbox 360 Computer Entertainment System is used for more than thirty minutes. [sound of explosion in background]
Chava: Okay, what do you think you'll be working on after Halo 3 is completed?
Bungie: Well, we're thinking about a driving simulator. We currently know that the game will be called Grand Tourisme.
Chava: That sounds a lot like Gran Turismo
Bungie: What is Gran Turismo?
Chava: A game for PS consoles
Bungie: Sice when do you play games on a console, we prefer bombs. Time bombs to be exact. [followed in the background by an explosion]
Chava: What can you tell us about the single player game?
Bungie: It will be crap. The only good part of our game will be the online multiplayer. You must, of course, have a xbox live gold membership subscripsion in order to take part.
Chava: What? So not only have i payed £280 on a timebomb, but i also have to pay £40 a year to play online?
Bungie: Yep. But don't worry, we include achievements with our game.
Chava: Achievements?
Bungie: Yeah, a sentence of writing will appear on-screen when you have reached an important milestone in the game. Your Gamerscore will then increase.
Chava: what is the point in that?
Bungie: It allows other members of the xbox community to see how much of a halo geek you are.
Chava: So you dont do anything with this Ga(y)merscore points?
Bungie: No.
Chava: i conclude that the 360 and halo 3 is overrated shyte.
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The HALO phenomenon is very interesting and i think is a good economic research subject. What's with this HALO hype? Is it that many people bought the xbox because it was new and it was an Amercian console and it turned out that there was only one relatively big game on it - halo? So people just made themselves love it since there was nothing as good to play? It is very likely that halo1 was the game that actually saved the xbox from a death. I heard that halo2 was disapointing but it had more FX so it clearly contributed to the HALO/xbox brand. And now the biggest hype in computer entertainment history over a game that until last month nobody knew anything about except for a noninnovative mulitplayer beta 2 months ago. Does 4 milion preorders mean that xbox=halo fans, whose console was killed prematurely, wanted to live the good old times again, just bought the 360 and preordered the halo3?
That and the fact that MS relied the success of this two consoles on halo and conducted a massive halo marketing ad campain in the US and now it wants to do the same in europe with help of friendly (or payrolled) magazines such as EGM/1UP? And people just bought the ads and the publisher-generated hype like they buy any fad that's on some MTV for example?
Why is it so hard for some of you fanboys to accept that MILLIONS of people LOVE halo? The halo franchise was the no 2 franchise last gen (GTA was no1) so it OBVIOUSLY appeals to many of us. If you don’t get or like halo you are a minority. It’s not just egm that rated it well, every other respected game mag game both halo 1 and 2 near perfect reviews. Let me guess MS paid them all to give it good reviews. If that is the case then why didn’t brute force get good reviews in egm or any other mag? It was an MS game and MS hyped the hell out of it.
Halo fans don’t love halo because we are brain washed, we don’t love halo because it’s hyped, we don’t love halo because our friends love it we love halo because its fun as hell. I don’t need other people to tell me what is or isn’t fun I am perfectly capable of doing that myself. I am 27 years old and I have played just about every game in the history of games that has been rated a AAA title. I have been a multi system owner EVERY generation of systems. I currently own all 3 and a hardcore gaming pc and you know what I think halo and halo 2 are 2 of the greatest games ever made. I don’t tell you guys what you should or shouldn't like so shut the F and let me and the other halo fans like halo. All the people that I meet that don’t like halo ironically suck real bad at it. Coincidence? I think not.