So on the cover of the upcoming issue of OXM it’s about Titanfall. But at the bottom it says Halo 5 It’s coming this year! Now I think OXM has alot of credibility behind them. Do you think this is true with OXM kinda confirming Halo 5 for this year?
http://segmentnext.com/2014/02/22/halo-5-to-release-this-year-according-to-oxm/
> So on the cover of the upcoming issue of OXM it’s about Titanfall. But at the bottom it says Halo 5 It’s coming this year! Now I think OXM has alot of credibility behind them. Do you think this is true with OXM kinda confirming Halo 5 for this year?
> http://segmentnext.com/2014/02/22/halo-5-to-release-this-year-according-to-oxm/
I hope Halo 2 Anniversary is to be released with multiplayer this year.
Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing. I want 343i to take as much time as they need, a 4 year cycle would be fine if it meant that Halo 5 would be an absolutely incredible game with all the features we asked for. I think a delay might be announced or OXM has old information.
> Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing. I want 343i to take as much time as they need, a 4 year cycle would be fine if it meant that Halo 5 would be an absolutely incredible game with all the features we asked for. I think a delay might be announced or OXM has old information.
I agree.
I seriously hope that the magazine is just speculating based off of that concept art image that we’ve already all seen. I don’t want Halo 5 to be released this year, it’s far too soon for another fully-fledged Halo game. We should get Halo 2 Anniversary this fall, and have Halo 5 be released in 2015.
> Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing.
No. A bad game would be disappointing.
After Halo 4, taking the risk of a two year dev cycle means one thing: they are absolutely confident in what they have planned and are absolutely confident they can deliver in a shorter dev cycle. 343i wouldn’t fool themselves. They know what they’re capable of, they know how much is at risk.
Here are some facts:
- the Halo 5 team is bigger than any other team that ever worked on a Halo game.
- 343i has gotten heaps of feedback and have been quoted to say that they have learned from their mistakes and now know much better what their community wants.
- 343i are working with (pretty much) an infinite pool of money- they won’t be lacking in that department
- 343i are a team built from some of the most skilled developers in the industries, with the richest backgrounds. Their failures in Halo 4 were mostly due to bad ideas, not bad execution.
- 343i has a running companionship with Certain Affinity, who can help them with the multiplayer (they did Forge in Halo 4 as well as a bunch of Halo DLC maps- most of the DLC maps in Reach and 4).
So, if OXM knows what they’re saying and if it’s not some huge PR stunt by Microsoft to try and throw us off the leak… It’s not necessarily a bad thing. I will judge its worth only when the box is in my hand, the game is in my disc and Halo is on my screen.
> Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing. I want 343i to take as much time as they need, a 4 year cycle would be fine if it meant that Halo 5 would be an absolutely incredible game with all the features we asked for. I think a delay might be announced or OXM has old information.
Normally yes, but work on H5 started around 4’s release, plus the team has grown larger. It’s allgood in the hood.
> > Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing. I want 343i to take as much time as they need, a 4 year cycle would be fine if it meant that Halo 5 would be an absolutely incredible game with all the features we asked for. I think a delay might be announced or OXM has old information.
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> <mark>Normally yes, but work on H5 started around 4’s release,</mark> plus the team has grown larger. It’s allgood in the hood.
Even 100 new members doesn’t make up for the time that 1 year adds.
> > Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing. I want 343i to take as much time as they need, a 4 year cycle would be fine if it meant that Halo 5 would be an absolutely incredible game with all the features we asked for. I think a delay might be announced or OXM has old information.
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> Normally yes, but work on H5 started around 4’s release, plus the team has grown larger. It’s allgood in the hood.
Work on any game starts long before a current game is released. This is the truth with every developer, and this was the truth with every Halo game. Halo 5 is no exception, and if it releases in 2014 it WILL have had a significantly shorter dev time than other Halo games. There’s no avoiding that.
I hope Halo 5 does indeed come out this year, mostly because I want the inevitable themed console that will come with it (just speculation, but undeniably likely).
I would be disappointed if Microsoft started off Halo’s Xbox One debut with a simple remake. Don’t get me wrong, I want a remastered Halo 2, but I don’t think 343 should start with that for the next generation.
> > > Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing. I want 343i to take as much time as they need, a 4 year cycle would be fine if it meant that Halo 5 would be an absolutely incredible game with all the features we asked for. I think a delay might be announced or OXM has old information.
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> > Normally yes, but work on H5 started around 4’s release, plus the team has grown larger. It’s allgood in the hood.
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> Work on any game starts long before a current game is released. This is the truth with every developer, and this was the truth with every Halo game. Halo 5 is no exception, and if it releases in 2014 it WILL have had a significantly shorter dev time than other Halo games. There’s no avoiding that.
But with a bigger and better team and a greater understanding of what the fan’s want.
i’d just like to know one way or the other what game we’re getting, and at least like to know when we can expect some info.
> > > Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing. I want 343i to take as much time as they need, a 4 year cycle would be fine if it meant that Halo 5 would be an absolutely incredible game with all the features we asked for. I think a delay might be announced or OXM has old information.
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> > Normally yes, but work on H5 started around 4’s release, plus the team has grown larger. It’s allgood in the hood.
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> Work on any game starts long before a current game is released. This is the truth with every developer, and this was the truth with every Halo game. Halo 5 is no exception, and if it releases in 2014 it WILL have had a significantly shorter dev time than other Halo games. There’s no avoiding that.
Let’s say 1 Employee works for 8 hours per day, and 250 days a year.
If 343 had a team consisting of 250 people in 2010, they managed to put in 500k hours into the game per year.
Increasing the development team with 50 people will only increase the development time with 100k hours per year.
While increasing development time by 1 year, will increase the time put into the game by 500k hours/per year.
Increasing both will increase the time put into the game by 600k hours.
A few more people in the studio doesn’t hold up for 1 year loss of development time.
> > > > Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing. I want 343i to take as much time as they need, a 4 year cycle would be fine if it meant that Halo 5 would be an absolutely incredible game with all the features we asked for. I think a delay might be announced or OXM has old information.
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> > > Normally yes, but work on H5 started around 4’s release, plus the team has grown larger. It’s allgood in the hood.
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> > Work on any game starts long before a current game is released. This is the truth with every developer, and this was the truth with every Halo game. Halo 5 is no exception, and if it releases in 2014 it WILL have had a significantly shorter dev time than other Halo games. There’s no avoiding that.
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> But with a bigger and better team and a greater understanding of what the fan’s want.
Very true, as I said in my first post. This is not a doomed game, by any stretch of the word.
> > > > Moving to a two year cycle would be highly disappointing. I want 343i to take as much time as they need, a 4 year cycle would be fine if it meant that Halo 5 would be an absolutely incredible game with all the features we asked for. I think a delay might be announced or OXM has old information.
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> > > Normally yes, but work on H5 started around 4’s release, plus the team has grown larger. It’s allgood in the hood.
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> > Work on any game starts long before a current game is released. This is the truth with every developer, and this was the truth with every Halo game. Halo 5 is no exception, and if it releases in 2014 it WILL have had a significantly shorter dev time than other Halo games. There’s no avoiding that.
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> Let’s say 1 Employee works for 8 hours per day, and 250 days a year.
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> If 343 had a team consisting of 250 people in 2010, they managed to put in 500k hours into the game per year.
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> Increasing the development team with 50 people will only increase the development time with 100k hours per year.
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> While increasing development time by 1 year, will increase the time put into the game by 500k hours.
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> Increasing both will increase the time put into the game by 600k hours.
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> A few more people in the studio doesn’t hold up for 1 year loss of development time.
The thing is that the situation was much more complicated than you think it is. When development began on Halo 4, they were a team of 8 (IIRC). As the years progressed, more and more people were added to the team- but they began extremely small and it surely took them time till they grew into a normal sized team (at least a year IMO). With Halo 5, they began big and grew bigger.
Pretty sure Halo 5 was confirmed for 2014 last year at E3. Where’ve you been?
> Pretty sure Halo 5 was confirmed for 2014 last year at E3. Where’ve you been?
Not under a rock when the big leak spring out (parts of which were confirmed to be true).
Also, they never said Halo 5. “Your Halo journey on the Xbox One begins in 2014” is what they said, pretty much. The vagueness in the name is definitely weird.
> Pretty sure Halo 5 was confirmed for 2014 last year at E3. Where’ve you been?
All Microsoft stated was that a Halo game was coming in 2014.
Its obviously Halo 5. I don’t get how that’s hard to see.
> > So on the cover of the upcoming issue of OXM it’s about Titanfall. But at the bottom it says Halo 5 It’s coming this year! Now I think OXM has alot of credibility behind them. Do you think this is true with OXM kinda confirming Halo 5 for this year?
> > http://segmentnext.com/2014/02/22/halo-5-to-release-this-year-according-to-oxm/
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> I hope Halo 2 Anniversary is to be released with multiplayer this year.
Why do people think that if 343i is to release a H2A, it would come with multiplayer? At best, you’ll get Halo 4 maps.