Can Halo Be Saved? - Inside Games Roundup

its sad to see Infinite was the least amount of time I have ever put into a Halo game with it sitting on my steam account at a woopin total of 4 hours. Its a dead series to me, in the same way Assassins Creed is dead to me as well which is saying something on how far its fallen.

Taking anything the director of monetization says even somewhat seriously, who's whole job is to prey on weaknesses in human nature and extract every cent possible from them, is certainly a take. He is one of the literal non-decent human beings he himself is talking about.

Is the Inside Gamescast on hold? Just curious, I enjoy the long form chats b/w Bruce and Lawrence

Ngl i feel the Ubisoft guy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the gamer-sphere feel so cynical and it rubs off on everyone. Like, in every damn community there’s the vocal minority that just ruins the vibe. Even now, I’m complaining about the complaining.

Ubisoft has been shooting itself in the foot for a long time now and they get mad when people point and laugh.

Tbf Ubisoft have been churning quantity over quality for a while, disconnected from consumer feedback, pushed MTX and NFT"s, toxic work environment scandals, and insist we get use to not owning games. Not exactly tugging my heartstrings with playing the victim.

A California law making game developers/stores tell you you don’t own digital games, you’re welcome. Also PHYSICAL MEDIA 4 LYFE!!!!!!

Honestly, not sure how good or bad this would be for the studio; if they remade Halo reach, CE, 2, and 3 in UR I’d definitely pay money for it. Even if they changed up mechanics (allowed sprint, allowed dual wield, qol mechanics ect” but kept all the original voice actors where possible, yeah I’d pay.

No microtransactions, split-screen co-op, back to Halo basics, more linear campaign design, forge available on day one and unlockable armor.... but it's gonna be a 2020+ game so I'm pretty sure it won't have those lol money is more important to gaming today instead of player enjoyment.

"Halo Is still a great series". Yeah, the Bungie part.

Can Halo be saved?

No. It can't be saved. There's your answer.

I used to love halo but after reach I was done so if they make it good like the old days I’ll jump back on the ship

why doesn't microsoft try to sponsor the nfl and just put quarterbacks as spartans in commercials

You guys are going to talk about the Halo Team making it and there interviews? "It's a place you can be you" No mention about DEI focus.

I'd imagine they got Halo: Combat Evolved "Unreal Edition", Halo 7, and Halo Wars 3 in development.

Make Halo Gay
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If they retconned everything 343 has done and restarted at halo 4, maybe they could save it. But no, they're just going to bastardize combat evolved AGAIN. To the people saying it's basically a new studio because of all the layoffs: weren't the last few people who worked on the original games at bungie included in the most recent layoffs? Isn't the team that was left after the last round of layoffs the one responsible for officially canceling all future development and campaign expansion in infinite to focus on multiplayer cosmetics? It sounds to me like it's just the monetization team left, and they're trying to somehow spin massive layoffs and giving up on infinite as a good thing by playing off of people's hate for 343 with a new name.

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Yeaaaah, 343 scrapping their own dedicated engine so MS can more easily cycle contract hires in and out doesn't convey confidence.

The early look wasn't good either tbh
The lighting is off and it looks like "Mario in UE5"

can halo be saved? yes! will halo be saved? no.

I'm gonna wait and see if Halo's direction will acknowledge Bungie's era was where people's interests were at. Not holding my breath, though, their community manager has mocked that mentality before

Maybe Ubisoft should start making games that are unique and not a Farcry 3 clone

Riiight, the gamers and the media are the non-decent humans in this whole Ubisoft shit show. Definitely not the suits who forced the artists to make cookie cutter soulless cash grab games that no one wants to play..

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Friendly reminder that 343 said that Infinite was a "platform" upon which the next ten years of Halo content would be built. The "failure" they are trying to move away from is the absolute pantsing they got from the stingy monetisation model of Infinite.

I do think it weird that there are SO many channels wishing for developers' downfalls. It feels like the channels producing schadenfreude content has only become more the norm. It's an interesting shift in the space.

Halo Tactics please? I actually LOVED the Gears tactics game

Ubisoft had it coming. They get what they fu*ken deserve

Everyone is putting their eggs into UE5 engine so be interesting to see how that goes

YESS they got brian a new camera and mic!! welcome everyone, we are now in inside games' golden era 🥰🥰

I liked the bones of halo infinite but that the problem thats all there was bones could have been good smh

The digital license conversation needs more information for people. Everyone needs to know that this isn't a new thing. it has been the case and buying physical also means you're only buying the license. Even DRM free on GOG is only a license, but obv drm free means you can download it and keep it on your local storage for the rest of your life. But just to iterate a moot point true preservation is a digital drm free copy, but you still don't technically own it.

No lol

Haven't seen a good Halo game since 2010

One day, Inside games could open with a Halo Machinima again

It was more of a storytelling problem over a graphics problem

Halo Infinite told a fantastic story. Saying otherwise is silly...

I'm so happy i found you guys again. I used to watch you all the time during a dark period in my life. Feels like reconnecting with old friends.

Stevy - “I’m a man, that’s why I voice my opinion and have little conviction to stand by it so I delete my posts” 😂

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Halo Wars 3?

I own all of my games I only buy physical. I did buy soul caliber six this year digitally, but it was only eight bucks.

I am as spectacle as it is possible to be. The change to unreal will help with them bringing in so many short term contractors, but that system microsoft relies on nowadays is a bad one anyway so it won't save the development problems in my opinion.

So today we learned that A: Ubisoft has a Monetization Director (not at all a red flag)
and B: that he's a snowflake who can't accept that his job is the reason the company is failing. It's not on us... we're customers. That's not how business works dude. Business isn't like social media where you can white knight your way through life.

Yess give the people a vision of Halo that they’ve never seen before HALO WITH A 3RD VIEW optional to play in 1st or 3rd

Too many tank tops here