> 343 has very obviously failed to produce anything.
Not really? I mean, we’ve seen about 8 minutes recently as well as different behind the scenes stuff for Infinite alone. Sorry if you didn’t like their previous installments.
> Hundreds of millions of dollars in development. Years of planning and work. A brand new game engine… and what have we seen? Nothing.
Incorrect, we’ve seen tests for their engine, we’ve seen gameplay, we’ve seen behind the scenes footage of recorded stuff. Unless you’re working on the project and know something we don’t, you can’t really say we’ve seen ‘nothing’.
> The gameplay reveal is a meme. (COVID is not a valid excuse - game has been in dev for years and was supposed to be shipped this year)
I feel like a lot of people just say that because it makes their statement feel relevant to something “it’s such a meme”. Also, Covid has drastically slowed things down at the end of the run, the delay is purely a response to the community, something they promised they would do. You know, because they said they are actually taking our feedback to heart to give us the best experience.
> Nothing has been revealed since.
Phil Spencer apparently just tried a recent build a few weeks ago and has high hopes for it. So while we haven’t directly seen any updates, I’m fine with that because they can’t show us an update every single week or even every single month. The reveal was no more than 3 months ago, it’s not like a year has gone by with no word about it.
> H4 had loadouts???
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> What??H5 was an arena shooter with the title “Halo” but wasnt halo. Dont believe me? Look at gameplay that compares the 343 games to the Bungie games.
Yes, 343 wanted to try something new and it wasn’t well received, as indicated by a lack of said loadouts in 5. Also, can we please move passed this? Stop comparing two different companies for their choices on making a game. 343 is not Bungie, Bungie threw the reigns away and jumped ship to make another game and 343 was given them. 343 is not Bungie and the old days of Halo are gone. Sad as it is we can’t simply just mope about and complain about 343 not living up to Bungie’s standards when Bungie didn’t even want to make a sequel to CE at first (or rather, one of the creators didn’t like making sequels). It’s like complaining that your dad doesn’t cut the crust off your PB&J sandwich the way mom does. You can still enjoy it, it’s just going to be much different.
Is Halo 5 more like a modern day arena shooter vastly changing it from what Halo was? Yeah, but that’s not the worst thing in the world, a new generation of gamers exists and we can’t simply exclude them by repeating an old formula. As the older generation, we should pride ourselves on being more flexible to the changes we witness in games. We may not always like it, but that’s just how change is.
A true Halo experience isn’t what we hold onto, it’s how we enjoy it.
> 343 has failed in previous games of the IP and has failed before Infinte was even launched.
Perhaps they failed to live up to your expectations, but they by no means have failed to create a game worth enjoying.
> Cancel Halo Infinite and fire 343i. Give the franchise to someone who cares.
No, we are not canceling a game this far into development. Who would you even say could make it ‘like Bungie’? Microsoft is not about to juggle the Halo title after all of the hard work and effort 343 has put into the series at this point. They are doing their best, perhaps try giving helpful feedback and you might see something you like. No promises though.
> Look at the viewage of Halo on twitch… its a ghost town. Halo has been failed as a franchise by an incompetent studio that was gifted the IP by Microsoft.
Who cares? Like honestly, when did we come to a point where a game’s entertainment value and play value is determined by how many people stream it on twitch? In case you haven’t noticed, people on twitch tend to bounce between games and usually pick the esports scene to get attention.
Let me ask you this; if you’re playing a game purely to get attention, are you truly having fun? Or is it just a means to a paycheck? Granted you can have both occasionally, but you should be playing a game purely because you enjoy playing it. Not because (insert streamer here) is playing it with 20k+ viewers or because 100-500 streamers are streaming it live day in and day out. Twitch is just a means to give attention to games while delivering content to generate money. In fact, if you look up games like Overwatch, they too are in a low viewership, a game that no one would shut up about 4-5 years ago has very few streamers anymore but the game is still very much alive and enjoyed.