Halo Infinite launching in Fall 2021 but things aren't looking so good

Context:

>500 million dollars budget game

>500 employees working on it and two companies are working as support

>The ''biggest game'' at Xbox Games Showcase

>It turns out to be an uninspired boring fps with an "open world"

>The game isn't even full open world

>Your game is now a "platform" because it wants to become a game as a service such as Destiny 2 or Fortnite.

>Reveal it to the world and it looks worse than 360 games, ironic because its for the so called most powerful console in the world

>MS try to act chill and cool embracing the Brute/Craig meme but removes the ugly screenshots released to the public

>Damage control began
>Tries to justify the shit graphics because they wanted it to be like old Halo games
>Blame the lightning
>Blame the pandemic
>It was a "demo"
>Game was running on a PC, not even a console

>MP is f2p so lots of hackers and mexicans

>Reveal that the studio outsourced for animations is the same one as Mass Effect Andromeda
>It is revealed that the game has been in development hell, rebooted several times
>It's also revealed that other MS internal studios are assisting with the development of the game

>Few weeks later, the game is delayed
>Still blames corona for the delay but not the disastrous reveal
>Spencer reveals that they even considered to release the game in pieces to meet the 2020 deadline.

>It's rumored that they're dropping the Xbone version and can't run at 1080p
>Kills the launch of your most powerful console ever and gives a free pass to the competition
>One of the directors abandons the game just a month ago

>It's finally revealed that the game will launch in Fall 2021, a full year later of its original release date
>A whole year of salary for all developers and staff
>Likely overtime pay
>Restructuring brand partnerships and endorsements such as Doritos and Monster.
>Another year of marketing to ensure the hype doesn't completely die off
>Craig/Brute/Monke is unceremoniously removed from the game

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they lost me at "wants to be like destiny 2"
that's enough for me to not buy a game

Halo is like sony's GoW but GoW is actually successful.

just

F U C K

are xbros gonna let them get away with launching the series x with no exclusives and lying about it being the most poweful console?

if sony tried some shit like this with the ps5 shuhei youshida would be dragged through the streets by the playstation nation and publicly lynched.

i want xbros to succeed because it makes playstatoin succeed. but i will not fight on your behalf.
if you refuse to get physical, you should at least go on strike and demand a few free months of game pass or something

I really don't like games as a service. What was wrong with making a halo 6?

all ms games are live service filth now. gears 5, sea of thieves, forza, halo infinite.

i like halo games. they're pretty fun. whats weird is ive never cared about halo games. never anticipated one never wanted to play them. i was just bored one day and gave it a shot. i have no interest in these games.

I can't believe that people spend 500 million before they realize that a game isn't working.
Is it difficult to invest 500k in 5 programmers for a few months until they deliver a fun prototype and only then spend money on orchestras, famous actors, motion capture, 30k different hi quality 3D assets, etc?

They correctly assume people will buy it anyway for the name. The goal isn't to make a good game.

Pretty much

IT WAS OUR TURN XBROS!!!!

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That looks more soulful

I'd play Saturn Halo.

I'd play Saturn Halo so good.

343 is a hack of a company that doesn’t understand Halo. Let’s just talk about the story:

You know what the foundation of Halo’s story always was? It was a war story. All characters, all plots, all side missions, all objectives, revolve around the central conflict between the UNSC and the Covenant. In the same way, Saving Private Ryan’s story is fundamentally a war story, based around WW2.

343 ripped those foundations out, and now, there is no overarching conflict. This changes the entire feel, tone, and setting of every Halo story since Reach. Think of Saving Private Ryan, but instead, it takes place in modern France. You lose the core of the story, and everything falls apart.

343 replaced the foundation with character drama, but unfortunately, 343 can’t write decent characters worth a damn! Palmer is an obnoxious and arrogant prick, whose almost completely written out of the game after Halo 4. Lanky is fine, but boring as fuck. Every Spartan they’ve created (from Halo 4’s Spartan Ops to Halo 5’s new team members) has been boring, forgettable, and annoying. There’s just nothing, but older characters with better motivations and development than “frat bro in Spartan armor #3637”.

TL;DR 343 ripped out the war-story foundation of Halo, replaced it with a cheap character drama, that involves characters no one gives a fuck about.

the 360 raped the ps3 in the back of an alley and halo3 came out a year after release
pretty sure you sonyroaches havent recovered from that one still

I disagree. If anything one of 343i's biggest mistakes with the direction of the universe is trying to return to the status quo of a big galactic war when that should be over and the Halo universe should be in a period of relative downtime.

>there is no overarching conflict.

There is: Vs Jul's Covenant, the Didact, the Prometheans, the Banished, the Created. But this is bad, we've gone through like 4 fucking major enemy factions in 2 games and less then 10 years in universe, even though the UNSC was in shambles at the end of the Covenant war. it's dumb

Dont care, still buying Halo: Infinite

I love that Bungie left to make Destiny and now, 7 years later, Microsoft is like "hey maybe those guys that made our most successful franchise ever were onto something".
I only realized this year with clarity that ODST was literally Destiny 0.5.

OP here

That's cool, to each his own, hope you like it :)

I love reading ODSTnigger delusions

They haven’t tried to make an overarching war story, they’ve tried to make 4-6 different small conflicts with different characters (all of whom suck dick for a host of reasons) feel like something more unified.

It’s like Saving Private Ryan, but done over the span of the Korean War, the Vietnamese War, and then Desert Storm. It just doesn’t work.

>Craig/Brute/Monke is unceremoniously removed from the game

Brutes aren't in the game anymore?

PS3 outsold the 360 and 360 pioneered all the practices that made console gaming retarded

3rd world shitholes and the consoles snoy peddles in them are irrelevant to me and anyone who's not a lowIQ brown piece of dogshite
if you want to pretend 360 wasn't the place to game during that whole generation, Im just gonna laugh in your stupid nonwhite face

what a mastermind user you really are some genius, the savior of the industry I might say

All I'm reading is that Sony is finished and Snoys having a historic meltdown in Fall 2021

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Games are constantly iterated on during development often even soft rebooted, and in games as big as Halo infinite there are tons of different gameplay systems interacting together. A game not working is a few tweaks away from being very fun, tuning can take a lot of time and money.

I mean I'm thankful for 360 resurecting PC gaming besides CS and TF2.

Based
Bunch of snoysneeds in here

>proves him right

Gonna be honest, can't tell if you're insulting me or agreeing with me. I have no idea what the community thought of ODST.

>I have no idea
then why the fuck are you posting

I unironically don't care so long as Forza Horizon 5 and Backwards compatibility are good

Acting like the average Zig Forums poster has an IQ over 70 is a bad play.

Post source on the 500 million budget