I'm fine with Halo moving to Activision. Halo studios had their chance multiple times and there are plenty of super talented FPS devs at Activision that are just waiting to get off COD support duty.
Honestly the best thing now would be if the sheer greed/desperation at EA from the huge debt the Saudis and Kushner forced on them leads to them actually selling off or licencing out IPs, something EA has historically been extremely averse to doing (for no clear reason). So in a sense Halo going to Activision is similar to the best case here now. Some other studio buying or licencing ME.
Eh. Could be worse. The real monkey's paw would be a company buying it who would never actually use it and/or never actually put out a narrative game. I'd honestly prefer Ubisoft buy it to say, Paradox.
If the paw doesn't curl, maybe CDPR can buy it though.
You have to climb a mountain with the Mako on every planet to reveal the points of interest on the map. Each POI is one of 12 gameplay activities copied thousands of times across the solar system. World exploration follows a fixed order because enemy levels gate your progression through accessible areas. Gameplay at the start is the same as in the late game, just with higher damage numbers. Story missions mostly involve the main character being drugged while you hold down the move-forward button and let the level designers go wild with their latest tunnel-of-horror ride.
Sure... name a Studio that would actually have the time and the talent to pull it off though and not fumble "their first game" in the franchise because "they need to find their stride"...
I don't know - loads of studios come out of the gate strong. Bit Reactor had never made a game together before they made Zero Company, to give a recent example. I think the best bet would be a new studio formed explicitly to do this, if you really want to succeed.
The real issue isn't that it couldn't be done, it's that it would need to be a sale rather than a licencing to attract top talent. And EA are more likely to want to licence. If we do see more ME games I would bet on something smaller-scale, like an ME XCOM-type game rather than a full-on narrative RPG first.
If we just want to look at "have the skills", then CDPR would be the #1 choice, maybe they could dump Project Hadar for it, but I have a feeling Project Hadar may be space SF anyway. It seems very likely that or something Lovecraftian. They certainly have experience doing a great job with licenced IPs.
Dream scenario really is the spiritual successor type games being good. We need more titles like Greedfall where other studios try the Bioware formula. Im willing to give up the ME ip to get away from EA
Man I wish that studios would ever just sell the rights to shit, but knowing them, they'll just hold onto everything Bioware ever made and never let anyone do a single thing in any of their beloved universes ever again
ME3 ending is the little domino that lead to the middle sized domino of Anthem that lead to the big sized domino of Veilguard and that's what crashed through the door and let the wolves in to tear Bioware to pieces.
The bitter thing about Bioware is it sounds like they still had good talent that wanted to do right by the legacy of the company and make good rpgs but the studio heads kept getting in the way.
I get that, I’m more concerned with the possibility of them rebooting the franchise. The novels are what got me consistently returning to Halo through the 343 years, and if all that’s washed away then I can’t really be bothered to care what comes after personally
about that...take it with a grain of salt mind you since this YT channel is the only person who has talked about this so far but Rebs Gaming has been right in the past so we'll see.
I'm fine with Halo moving to Activision. Halo studios had their chance multiple times and there are plenty of super talented FPS devs at Activision that are just waiting to get off COD support duty.
Lmao. If you think that Activision will be anything but GenAI slop, I have beachfront property for sale that you might be interested in North Dakota.
It’s still insane to me though. Many of these franchises are so beloved by all, but it’s just not enough anymore. Industry’s truly going in the wrong direction.
Oh really. Tell me how much worse it's gonna get. Tell me how bad it is that talented FPS devs are gonna get a break from COD support duty. Go ahead. Id like to know.
Ok, so first of all, im fairly sure you havent played, like, most post pandemic, warzone era call of duty games.
Its gotten BAD, every 2 releases we get as brand new gimmick mechanic that gets ditched for the next one and annoys the shit out of people (all the weird shit in MW2, omni movement in BO6, etc.), then every inbetween entry is a pseudo sequel thats effectively just a 70 dollar expansion to the last game (Vanguard to MW19, MW3 to MW2, BO7 to BO6) where they basically just change the assets, tweak the gimmick mechanic a bit, and literally let you carry over your progress like its an expansion disk for a PS1 game, these also usually have HORRIBLE campaigns that are at best 6 hours long and full of warzone slop.
Lol I have disregarded your opinion. Has no idea the history of these FPS studios, how much talent they hold and how they are all dying to be taken off COD support duty. An FPS going to Activision doesn't immediately mean a COD clone. Have some critical thinking skills and prior knowledge related to what I talked about before wasting that amount of time on your response.
Has no idea the history of these FPS studios, how much talent they hold and how they are all dying to be taken off COD support duty
yeah ok buddy.
Let's see: Treyarch? Blundell, Vonderhaar and Zielinski all left so thats literally the 3 leads that made black ops what it is, Infinity Ward? its been hollowed out for a decade, current leads are hacks that cant write for shit and all the important talent like mission designers and animators have left due to bad treatment (look up who made the distinctive MW19 gun animation style), Sledgehammer? founders left a while back.
And thats just the main ones, nerve and high moon are hollow shells too, while raven was ok till the whole cold war takeover debacle they had with sledgehammer, which led to the unionization and then a bunch of leads leaving frustrated that they were still leaving mistreated.
TL;DR: you dont even know who these people are and what their names are, dont even direct a word towards me if you cant be bothered to know who is making your games.
Same. I'm not thrilled about it, but after Halo Studios couldn't nail what should have been an easy slam dunk with Campaign Evolved how can anyone trust them with yet another attempt at a mainline game.
343/HS was a dumpster fire from the start and got more chances then they deserved. You really have to be dense to take one of the biggest IPs in gaming and run it into the ground because you don't like it.
There was an app on the 3DS called pokemon bank. For the past couple years it’s been active despite support ending for the 3DS shop. It’s the only way to transfer pokemon from 3DS and before to pokemon home on the switch.
The option to move my gen 3 pokemon forward to the new games always made me happy, and now that it’s closing in February, I’m in a rush to transfer all my pokemon and finish up shiny hunts I wanted to do. After the shutdown I have no reason to play the old games anymore
Oh they were open about it shutting down at some point, and they gave 6 months warning. It just sucks, cloud based anything is horrible. It’s the main reason I’m never getting another console
Between being priced out of my favorite hobby (PC gaming) thanks to chatbots, bioware finally being taken out behind the shed to join everyone else in the mass grave, and then let's just say "global affairs" to keep it civil, this whole past couple years have been a bummer.
343 had more than enough chances to make a good game. Worst part is the apathy about this news. Not even disappointed in this news when these studios have been riding on nostalgia from 2000 to 2012 and mediocre products after that.
Sorry but, Activision has way more of a chance of making a good Halo game than 343 (Halo studios) ever did. 15 years of mediocrity and excuses. They deserved to be shut down. Awful company that never truly understood what made Halo great. At least Activison have a huge amount of experience making massively popular FPS games. Even if you don’t like call of duty, there’s a reason it remains a juggernaut to this day.
Sorry but, 343/HS did infinitely more for Halo than Bungie ever dreamed of and produced two of my favorite games in the franchise so seeing it go to Activision to be filled with AI slop and promotional collabs is literally the worst possible case scenario.
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u/jlarz56 8h ago
Sad day to be a Mass Effect fan