Can 343 deliver a new halo game only 2 years after halo 4 less time than the typical 3 years taken for bungie’s games. This game is their last bastion in my opinion I’m neutral on the 2 year cycles. Do you guys think they will deliver with halo xbox one
I’ll accept a 10 year cycle if it means a quality game. But to answer your question, no, 2 years doesn’t seem like a long time. But 343 is a much bigger team now, and can get more done in less time.
I think a two-year cycle is fine as long as it can still deliver quality games. In fact, I’d prefer a two year over a three year.
It really depends. We still don’t know if the next installment will be Halo 5 or a stand-off experience like Halo 3: ODST was. If I remember correctly, ODST was released 2 years after Halo 3 and it was one of the better Halo games in my opinion. The amount of content 343i wants to offer will determine the amount of time it will take to create.
I honestly have no idea, then again, we have no idea how long they have been working on it for.
My main concern is that they will put dead-lines of quality.
I hope they don’t take to long, because I want a new Halo since I’m not playing Halo 4.
> I hope they don’t take to long, because I want a new Halo since I’m not playing Halo 4.
What?
We already know Halo Xbox One is coming in 2014.
4 Years
If they have the infrastructure and systems in place to make a quality game in two years, I’m just fine with it.
Halo 4 had a longer cycle and was glaringly incomplete in several areas. Now that you have an established studio and some continuity, i would expect realistic time frames to be much shorter than they were for their first release.
Three-year cycles worked in the past since the games were good enough to have long lifespans.
Since that isn’t the case anymore and since Microsoft likes money, two-year cycles are the norm for Halo now. I suppose the new schedule is good for people who can’t get enough content.
One year gets boring, Three years is a little too long. Don’t even mention four years. Two years is the optimal waiting time, and most AAA games follow that rule. (Excluding AC, which is getting boring really fast.)
Quality over quantity people. If you rush, then you have an unfinished product. Don’t make that mistake again 343, use your time wisely.
Reach could’ve used a 3 year cycle. 4 needs to go ASAP. They need to make the next installment good enough to last 3 years so they have enough time to work on the one after.
If they’ve learned from 4, yes, afterall they do have a bigger team than Bungie.
> I hope they don’t take to long, because I want a new Halo since I’m not playing Halo 4.
I play it errday Brah.
I’m kind of worried that it has a 2 year development cycle.
Halo 4 felt rushed and it took 3 years.
I prefer three years long developement cycles. If a game is supposed to be developed and released within two years, it can easily suffer from lack of polish if the game has a lot of content. Latest Halo games do have quite a lot of content to offer so it can be a pain to polish all of the game modes properly can be very difficult to do within two years.
More time to develop means more time to reiterate features. I find it hard to think of any reason why a shorter development cycle would be better. The cycle is probably shorter due to financial reason, but as a gamer I find it difficult to appreciate that.
> More time to develop means more time to reiterate features. I find it hard to think of any reason why a shorter development cycle would be better. The cycle is probably shorter due to financial reason, but as a gamer I find it difficult to appreciate that.
Maybe it means they aren’t trying to reinvent the Halo wheel. Or maybe it means they have a more coherent vision for what they are trying to do. Or maybe all the people they brought in that worked on games like Jade Empire now have experience building an fps.
I can think of any number of reasons why at two years, they could have a polished game and another 12 months would only serve to muddy the waters.
> It really depends. We still don’t know if the next installment will be Halo 5 or a stand-off experience like Halo 3: ODST was. If I remember correctly, ODST was released 2 years after Halo 3 and it was one of the better Halo games in my opinion. The amount of content 343i wants to offer will determine the amount of time it will take to create.
This. With stories saying that Halo Xbox One is not Halo 5, I don’t think we should jump the gun. This could be a spinoff like ODST or Wars, with Halo 5 coming out in 2015. Honestly, I’d be perfectly fine with two years between main Halo games if they ditched versus multiplayer and had only a campaign and a co-op mode like Firefight or Spartan Ops, but that’s never going to happen.
> > It really depends. We still don’t know if the next installment will be Halo 5 or a stand-off experience like Halo 3: ODST was. If I remember correctly, ODST was released 2 years after Halo 3 and it was one of the better Halo games in my opinion. The amount of content 343i wants to offer will determine the amount of time it will take to create.
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> This. With stories saying that Halo Xbox One is not Halo 5, I don’t think we should jump the gun. This could be a spinoff like ODST or Wars, with Halo 5 coming out in 2015. Honestly, I’d be perfectly fine with two years between main Halo games if they ditched versus multiplayer and had only a campaign and a co-op mode like Firefight or Spartan Ops, but that’s never going to happen.
No, this is definitely Halo 5. No report ever stated the Halo game isn’t Halo 5, but rather that the reveal wasn’t for Halo 5. The reveal was that Halo is coming to the Xbox One, beginning 2014. The game is still Halo 5. It was called Halo 5 by Don Matrick (ex-executive of Xbox- which is a very funny sentence) and even by Corrin Yu (343i employee). On top of that, the game is set to pick up the story where Halo 4 left off (with Master Chief) and is supposedly a “legitimate” Halo game with its own online multiplayer and a teased Forge mode at the least. No matter what they call it in the end, this game is Halo 5.