Did everyone forget the 343 interviews when they first created that firm? All of those people saying they’ve never read a book or played a halo game and they wanted to take it in a new direction? Did we all forget?
@@CALAMITY0FHYRULE You do realize that doesn't mean anything right? They could have muppets replace those people for all we know. Wait for reviews before defending this.
Where are game devs who uncontrollably geek out over the game they working on and if they working on sequel geeking out about all games that came before they either helped make or play and love.
Any video from a game company that focuses more on meeting the team of creators than the gameplay is a huge red flag. Gameplay is king, the rest is marketing. Full stop.
@@MrVvulf 100%, Halo and 343 has always been the best at doing theses little cringe Docu-series type of videos with fancy interviews that sounds so innovative and interesting but its always just flacid at the end. During Halo 4 Era specifically. Its like they really try hard to look professionnal.
@@MrVvulf its almost like the video was about the engine change and not the gameplay - and they were able to show how the environments will look. Why couldnt they do all of this quietly? no clue
This presentation is more like: we don't even have the technical skills to make our own engine anymore. Look at the shiny pixels that are the current standard
The fact that they even talked about the engine change for so long is what gave it away. They refuse to give us what we want and speak to us on our level without the corporate double speak getting in the way. Just say "we're moving away from identity politics" or "we want to focus on gameplay and less on messaging. " The graphics really? How about shovel knight and undertale? Graphics really don't matter when a game is good.
Nah the engine was indeed one of the major problems of infinite launch being lackluster and many of the people behind it have left and leadership has changed but we'll have to see how they handle things.
Honestly, when it comes to Halo, graphics are important since they were a core component of their marketability. But you can't sell a Halo game just on that, it's at best a starting point.
Graphics and the character creator are the two things that's a red flag for me if a review spends way too much time talking about them. That always means the rest of the game is mediocre at best.
@@ToyokaX its fair to note that they may not have any gameplay yet. Far as were concerned they just "began" . But hopefully this doesnt take no 5 years to make. Lowkey id love it if halo got to a point where 2 years is what it takes to bring out a new game.
"Modern audience", "My authentic self", dyed hair, a diverse staff full of women, and most of what they talk about is finally swapping to the game engine everyone else is already using and how pretty the graphics are. All red flags. This is nothing more than a renaming of the studio to try and trick people into thinking Halo isn't a dying brand.
@@vps31dev teams were women are over-represented are usually the result of positive discrimination. HR teams who do that usually put meritocracy at the bottom of the priorities.
Reach is pretty good. And looking back now at Halo 4, Halo 4 at least gave us sexy Cortana and a beautiful story between two people who love each other
Everything pre Halo 4 was solid, Halo 4 Cortana plot line was interesting but they didn’t commit to it. 343 had half of a good idea once and that was their peak.
Glad I only played halo ce and halo 2. Then I went to buy ps3 to play last of us. After that I noticed console and PC going woke. I decided to play mobile game. It's been 7 years I played mobile game and felt proud escaping woke shet. However I saw space marine 2. I felt like I want to play it. But I need to buy a PC first lol
@@dbowalker4430 Pretty good campaign, but the worst multiplayer in the franchise. Also made the spartans plastic. Then Halo 5 made the worst campaign but had pretty decent multiplayer. Then Halo Infinite has a perfect foundation and then their greed destroys it. Can't wait to see how they fuck up the next one.
pessimism, i get it but they did fired the whole management and fired like 2/3 of the team and bought the guy who fixed MCC to be the elader (including others) so cautiously optimism and being a realist is what i choose
@@ManomiiFox Don't be so naive. They've been butchering our favorite series for 10 years. Story, gameplay, characters, art, music, all of it. They've lost all good faith with Infinite.
That's how most indie games studios are today. In fact, Hello Games (No Man's Sky devs) looked like that when they first started out as an indie company.
And most of them even looked the part of nerds, who were incredibly ecstatic about the product they make. These guys look nothing like devs from 20 years ago, speak nothing like 20 years ago and most importantly, won't produce anything even remotely similiar to 20 years ago. Instead they look like ''expressive'' NPCs. That woman with purple hair for example, if you check out her X, you'll realize she's just another activist and she's a chief of staff. LMAO
What you don't realize is how much money/budget has been pissed away on the game engine for that game. Money that could have been better used on making a better game. the money spent on updating the engine with every new game, then with employee turnover alone the cost would be staggering for training people to the point where they are competent with the engine. With UE the possible available employees will greatly improve, which will then allow for better use of staff.
All the executive devs are no longer their or got fired, so all the people who worked on 5 or infinite at 343 are gone. So they changed the studio name. “Don’t blame a son for a father’s mistakes”
@@strafehelixNew people worked on every game, it didn't help because it's a collective issue. Halo 4 had different writers and people in control. Halo 5 shifted direction and had a new writer. Halo infinite also shifted direction and used new people in charge of the game. They've changed a lot every time and it still failed. A studio constantly shifting directions and never making progress.
They fired 3/4 of their staff, the ENTIRETY of management, and hired the game director who was brought in to fix MCC for PC with only 15 people to be their studio head. He really gets Halo.
There's a countless amount of things that were made worse by someone who "gets" something. Just because he got lucky once doesn't mean he'll maintain that quality. Remain skeptical. Staff getting gutted doesn't mean everything unless they gutted the right people. New hiring can just be hiring the same type of people who caused the rot in the first place. Not to mention that they dont have final say in anything, xbox and Microsoft does
Anyone who uses the term “authentic self” is dishonest. It means they have other versions of “being themselves” that aren’t authentic. I don’t trust these people to make a good halo game
Did you know that you do this same thing. It is almost like professional, personal life have different demands and "keeping it real" the same way doesn't work in every instance your life. While I don't like women working on games for men I gotta say you are being silly.
@@Ginjowgaming the problem isn’t tailoring how you conduct yourself in different environments. It’s proclaiming you’re going to be your “true authentic self” and by doing that you’re telling everyone you lie about being yourself to fool people. Big difference
@@Ginjowgaming being sarcastic is one of the ways people ease their nerves when they’re lying. Keep trying but this entire thing reeks of dishonesty. You’re just naive if you think otherwise
@@Ginjowgaming For most people that gap is small. For people that use the term 'authentic self' that gap is always very large. I'm guessing for you it's the latter.
So the black lady in the video is Melissa Boone, who is the chief of staff; and is an ally of DEI. I can't post the link but I can copy paste a section. "343 Industries has rebranded itself as “Halo Studios,” marking the start of a new era called “New Dawn.” The studio’s new Chief of Staff is deeply focused on introducing DEI in Halo games. Many fans fear it’s just a PR move to hide bigger problems within the franchise."
It’s also imperative that the fans should let their voice be heard upon seeing these red flags so the company could make some adjustments just like Assassin’s Creed.
@@Violet_Viper Have you missed every franchise burning across different forms of media? That is how it starts. Oh, there it is. We have to make a change. It begins.
@@itzCxnfidentialx it’s okie person dawg. That one person developing the game won’t affect the game that bad. It ultimately depends on the management and Pierre
I hate how immediately they begin speaking like revolutionaries as if 323 wasn't exactly that. "We're going to do things that have never been done before", that's not what we want, we want Halo.
They were speaking about how to bring back the soul of the old Halo's and staying true to Halo, but this comment section has brain rot and jerks each other off while hearing things that were never said.
"someone said i can be my authentic self" Massive red flag. Purple hair red flag. If they didn't completely gut the studio and changed management other then a rebrand then that's another massive red flag.
@@lukeGGlee Which just means the expectation is even greater. Do you see an established IP and think 'I'm more likely to buy this even if it's shit'? You should be thinking 'I like this IP, they'd better do it justice'. Raise your standards for things you care about.
@@lukeGGlee being an established ip really saved the last few games, huh? Now it's an issue of straight up ignoring established lore and ruining characters and events instead of creating new terrible lore and characters
this is me with dragon age you know it's dead and its corpse is just being weekend at bernie's-d by a bunch of talentless freaks, but the nostalgia of the past just keeps pulling you in
@@snowleopardd Yes.. The ENTIRE leadership staff of 343 was replaced.. The head of the MCC (master chief collection) was brought to lead the new team and reports of between 30% and 50% of the rest of the studio was let go or transferred to other projects inside Microsoft.. on top of that they are hiring currently to replace said lost staff
@@Napster60 the studio now has 2 people who are in control of the studio that don't like video games and are far left activists. Another thing is Bonnie Ross still works at 343 by the way. 2 years ago she stepped down but she actually still works there. Her Linkedin account says she is still there and her account is active.
A competent studio would have started years ago to hand out licenses and commission work by the truckload with a franchise like Halo. "New Halowars? Sure, go right ahead." _"Squad-based tactics game like Full-Spectrum Warrior? Yes, by all means, ODST are perfect for this."_ _Persistent world-PVP in the vein of Planetside? Hm-hm."_ _Homeworld-esque space strategy? Make it so."_ And so on, and so forth.
Ikr, lease your IP out to people who actually give a shit about it and just let the cash roll in while other people do the hard work of making good games.
I mean, they had their chance to make a Helldivers-like Halo spinoff title but shot it down. For what? Who knows, but it wasn't anything good, because they've done shit all for Halo Finite. Though even if they did, it would have been a clusterfuk and nowhere near as good as Helldivers.
One of the OG Bungie dev's said "It has to be fun before it's pretty." Another dev has said "You gotta nail that 30 seconds of fun." If the studio doesn't have that in mind developing Halo it's not going to be a good game.
@iGante Hard disagree on the 4k part. 4k is pretty standard now, dude. It's not expensive anymore. You can get a 50-inch 4k TV for 500 USD, and that should last you 6 years PC Monitors I can agree they're overpriced
They said in the video that it was a research project; a new studio still has to care about making the graphics capture the essence and spirit of the old Halo games.
@@ReinaPerez-l3qYou need the hardware to play 4k in 60fps. This is still really exepensive. The majority of players wont have a setup like this. We reached a point where graphics arent that crazy selling point like it was 15 or 20 years ago. People just dont mind. They want a good game. Not a good looking game.
Yes, because a diverse work environment is what makes great games. You ever thought about applying to be a developer? You'll go far in this dying cesspool of an industry with that kind of thinking!
1:49 halo four was generally well received for its campaign, and Halo infinite had one of the best multiplayer in modern halo history. It’s not really fair to Halo 4 and Halo infinite bad games
They aren't even diverse because they all have to think, speak, and act the exact same thing. It's just cosmetic, they are basically the same exact person when it comes to how they think.
Melissa Boone was a "HR diversity leader" and is a Xbox researcher... Can someone tell me why we need one of those involved in new Halo video game projects? Why is the IP being used as a mouth piece to spew real world politics and not the current in-universe Halo conflict between the UNSC and The Banished.
@@nodosa994 Tbh, what do you expect they could come up with? The flood in the original game was like a horror movie with Matter Chief in it. Do you think they can come up with something like that with all those DEI? Halo is just a carcass of its formal self.
No It's a way to maintain microsofts shitty contractual structure. They can hire people fresh out of Uni for extremely cheap with a few years of UE experience and they'll never run out because it's so easy to learn. Has fuck all to do with a modern audience.
THE AUDACITY. to constantly insult original halo devs, not hire them for being a bungie devs, ruining halo franchise and then chaning entire studio name to HALO, a thing you ruined.,
@@kevinarzola4781 Bungie didn't want to end the franchise, have you forgoten they teased Halo 4 in Halo 3's legendary ending? What Bungie wanted was o make a different game for a change of pace and not just be stuck with a single franchise, MS wanted more Halo such as the fans, so when the obligatory games were finished and the contract wasn't renewed, they decided to sell the franchise and each party was happy with the decission. This is an hypothetical scenario, but I believe Bungie would have still made Halo if a new contract with MS allowed them to publish one game they want to make, then Halo, then another game they want to make and then the next Halo.
@@grndzro777 Agreed. "What made Halo popular is Halo's Legacy" That literally means NOTHING and is so wrong it's not even funny. What made Halo popular was the original lore, the constant tension of the fight for humanity's survival and the music. There are so many red flags and meaningless words that they use here that means nothing at all. I had zero faith in 343 and i have zero faith in this so-called "Halo studio". Expect hot garbage to come out of this woke factory. I think Microsoft's intentions are good but i also think they have no idea of whom they actually hired for the job. I will be extremely surprised if they actually release any good content. To me it looks like they are moving to UE5 to pull the good old "superior visuals" selling point, something that died out years ago.
Let me correct you. Actually, microsoft/xbox made an announcement on behalf of their rebranded studio, HALO studios, who confirmed the use of a new gaming engine in unreal engine 5 to be used in all future HALO games. 0:20
i have no faith with this studio, but pray tell, what gave it away? is it because their Wahman? *slow claps keep it up guys youre doing great work.....
I remember a sense of awe the first time I played Halo 1. Back then we were playing Goldeneye so walking out of the ship in the second mission and seeing that landscape it was such a sense of awe. It was a huge step forward. If they can create that same sense of awe then they will have something. I'm not super optimistic though.
Halo is dead. The people who own it now don't understand it. Many of our franchises have been taken over by people who don't understand the themes or vibes that made the originals so great.
Pretty but utterly hollow. I DONT CARE if the graphics are rendered down to the pubic hair on Master Chief's balls. I want a good story and fun combat. I've been shown NOTHING that indicates that has changed from 343.
I mean from the halo studios rebrand announcement you can tell some of those people never played the original halo games I think it’s wild to have people take part in making the game who don’t understand why the fans love it - I imagine when you get hired there they train you on things like: what’s the flood? What are the rings? Goofy training videos about “our shareholders” etc
I liked the nuanced look at loss and mental health issues, not so much as a joker movie.... Number 2......im nkt even sure if there is anything to gain from it
4 words have become a literal kiss of death for modern gaming or movies. Any form of entertainment: "for the modern audience" Soon as you hear it, it's going to be shit, the people making it know it's going to be shit and they're intentionally setting out to make it complete shit. They're there to crash whatever they're working on directly into the fuckin ground and by God they're going to do it as fast as possible.
Going photoreal can really lift an experience but in the same vein they could change the cartoony suits to a more mature photoreal version as well. The more it looks believable across the board the more it will be exciting as new
Sargeant Johnson- Gone Captain Keys- Gone Miranda Keys- Gone Lord Hood- Gone Gravemind- Rewritten to be less cunning and dumber Covenant- Less threatening antagonist Weapons- Look more modern, get rid of the classic design Multiplayer- Fuck You Story- Bland, worse rewrite R.I.P Chips Dubbo
There is no story to tell after Halo 3. Bringing the covenant back in Halo 4 was contrived. The only opportunities is extra stories earlier in the timeline or parallel like ODST. Something like First Strike showing the events that took place between 1 and 2. You overtake a ship fueling station and steal a covenant ship, a lot happens.
Oh, I am 100% sure the covenant will be less threatening. Almost all of the 343 creations made by Master Chief or other Spartans look badass at the expense of the covenant. It's most likely going to be how cool master chief is and how he is defeating Covenant single-handed while the rest of the normal people in UNSC is incompetent.
I can see one of two ways they could pull this off. 1. Lean heavily on the lore and make it a human vs covenant, but a master chief as a new spartan, before the halo days. Or 2. A new and interesting enemy, fighting along side the covenant, with chief and the arbiter
They are so lost they think unreal engine is gonna fix not having splitscreen campaign not having custom created maps that are advertised for the community not having forge day 1 not having amazing music that hypes you up during a fight..
@@chiquita683There is no gameplay to show yet. The point was to display new leadership/new philosophy on how they're approaching developing new titles.
Imagine how amazing Halo 3 remaster on the Unreal Engine would be. No microtransactions just pure Halo 3 fun nostalgia. I miss those days and I wish we could relive them.
Tbf those assets they showed were initially just meant to be an internal exercise for the art team and weren’t going to be made public, I imagine marketing just wanted to use them to make the studio rebrand a bit more exciting.
for real though. How can all these companies keep destroying all our beloved franchises and lose so much money? Its spiritual warfare. They are attacking our imaginationland! xD
“We’re gonna change the recipe” literally just means they’re going to change the way they make halo games since 4. Is that literally not what you people have been begging for all this time?
This is Halo Infinite pre-game footage all over again. Everyone gets hyped and forget to wait for an actual game to come out before realizing its not great. While this rebrand looks positive everyone should temper their expectations until we see a real and finished product players are playing (and enjoying). Remember: Its still in the same 343 building, with a lot of the same staff, and still under Microsoft with the contractor limits.
Contractor limits should now not be an issue due to unreal engine being pretty much industry standard, all the contractors brought on board would know how to use it day one so no more 6 months of training, plus pretty much all of 343s management were fired so from a company standpoint it should be different. The problem is Microsoft can still interfere with the making of the game and ruin everything again but at least it’s a good step forward.
@@king_dot Yeah if the people working on it are not directly working for Microsoft then no contract limits. However if they are then its still part of MS mandatory contractor policy and will still be an issue if they work at the Halo Studios in person.
UE5 only makes working with contractors easier. No more wasting time onboarding contractors to 343's engine. You can work three months on Fortnite and then hop over to Halo.
Melissa Boone joined Xbox Research in the summer of 2015. After earning her BA in psychology from Spelman College in 2008, Melissa went on to complete her PhD in social psychology and public health from Columbia University. Her research in public health focused on how people’s social interactions influenced their risk for HIV and substance abuse - particularly with African Americans and Latinx folks, LGBTQ+ people, and women - but also how these people’s personal resilience could be developed and supported to help them avoid poor health outcomes. Melissa did a stint conducting market research in video games - which was so much fun it inspired her to make the leap to the games world. Currently, Melissa manages research across several Xbox franchises and experiences, including Ninja Theory, Compulsion Games, Double Fine Studios, and the Xbox Store. She also leads research in diversity, inclusion, and accessibility across Xbox’s games and experiences, with a focus on making Xbox a place where everyone has fun! nah im good
In reference to his minds eye when he was 11, it’s almost like they’re capturing that first “holy shit” moment in an MMO, for me it was around 10 playing EverQuest for the first time, every MMO I play after gets compared to that for me
"we're looking for artists (who are women/poc/trans), we're looking for designers (who are women/poc/trans), we're looking for engineers (who are women/poc/trans)..."
DEI has rotted companies. Thinking its for the best when it removes the incentive to hire based on skill. In other words, DEI forces companies not to hire the best but to hire a demographic.
Then it leaves room for money laundering. Halo Infinite cost 500 million dollar. (Hey i have a friend, ill get them hired and they can do nothing and get 150k/ year for 3 years.)
They renamed 343 as halo studio with a lower case h and highlight their diverse new team that supposedly is going to save the franchise, if hope for halo being good again was non existent when they were called 343 then I really don't see them turning it around with a name change...
Halo is so dead, they’re considering putting it on PlayStation. Not gonna lie, I’d buy it for the novelty, just to say I had Halo on PlayStation. Kinda like buying Sonic Adventure 2 on GameCube after the Dreamcast (sadly it was a good console) failed.
@@Zhtrik it's a blow to make it available on the more popular platform? People don't buy xboxes anymore. PlayStation is the default console. Even if the new halo could be slop, it being available to a new audience could give it sales revival due to curiousity
Gotta be honest, i don't think i have ever met a single girl in my entire life who was a Halo fan. So kinda wondering how they managed to fill their dev team with all these supposed Halo fan girls. It already reeks of being disingenuous. It was a game about being a badass soldier dude killing aliens and saving the world. It wasn't about the "intricate characters". The main character was LITERALLY a faceless voiceless dude. It was about making war with cool guns and cool vehicles and cool aliens, that's it. It was the Monster-Truck made-for-boys game, and that's why guys loved it. I'm not saying women shouldn't be working on the dev team. But when you put them in front of the camera and have them gush about "what makes Halo such an incredible game" just reeks of being inauthentic and forced and already tells me everything i need to know about how nobody on this team actually cares (or knows) about what made Halo a successful game. It's like watching some girl talk about the Die-Hard movie franchise and how it was so good because of its "deep characters and world building." No, it isn't. It was about a manly man being a manly man and saving the day. That's it. Nothing more nothing less. Because if they were being authentic, all you would see is a bunch of GUYS in front of the camera talking about how it was so badass to pick up cool guns and vehicles and become an army of one against an entire invasion of aliens with your bro with couch co-op. Trying to turn Halo into a diverse game made for an audience of both men and women is like trying to make lipstick and marketing it to men. It's not going to work. Some products are just meant for one side of the aisle, and there is nothing wrong with that. Halo hasn't really been enjoyable for me past Halo 2. But it really sucks that we have had to sacrifice so many IPs that had potential just to prove that we were right all along and have these companies learn the hard way.
Putting a pink haired wokie in charge of Halo is just more proof that Microsoft has no idea what they are doing. I have zero faith that these people will make a good game.
I met exactly one girl who was a halo fan. and that was in elementary school, and that girl most likely became a halo fan because her older brother got her into it anyways.
Not enjoyable past halo 2? You literally devalued your entire paragraph with that one sentence. If you don’t think halo 3 and Reach were top tier you know nothing
Ill save you the trouble. How about instead of hoping it might be good, we go based off their track record. It's GOING to be woke and therefore bad. No need to get sad bc we know bungie themselves couldn't capture lightning in a bottle twice, let alone this off brand studio 343 disguising themselves as "halo" studios. How pretentious.
The original Halo gave us something truly unique, not just visually, but emotionally. We connected with it on a level that made it unforgettable. Ever since, we've been waiting for that magic to return-but it hasn't. What Halo really needs isn’t just better graphics; it needs fresh ideas. To succeed, it must offer us a new experience, pushing the story far beyond where it currently stands. Creativity costs money, and they need to invest in that instead of just milking what was first created. It’s a simple concept: just because we love a song doesn’t mean we want to hear it on repeat. Halo has to evolve.
Did everyone forget the 343 interviews when they first created that firm? All of those people saying they’ve never read a book or played a halo game and they wanted to take it in a new direction? Did we all forget?
You do realize they fired a majority of their management right
@@CALAMITY0FHYRULE Look at the people they used for their video, you think they changed much?
Considering they were consulted for the Halo show, I am past the point of having any hope in future Halo games.
@@aj.j5833 what is that supposed to mean lol?
@@CALAMITY0FHYRULE You do realize that doesn't mean anything right? They could have muppets replace those people for all we know. Wait for reviews before defending this.
"for the modern audience"
It's so over boys, pack it up 💀
Making Halo great again. For the modern audience. Not the Halo fans.
@@rykehuss3435making it great for the ign testers
following the halo tv show here we go. 343 is a expert at wasting microsoft money
Modern audience had money, the others do not and do not buy it anyway.
@@rrtsdufmodern audience is very small AND ususally dont play Halo.
Is nice to see Microsoft still follows their philosophy of hiring people who have never played Halo to make Halo games
Get ready for Master Quief
@@deadjoker13 Ahahaha, comment of the decade!
Where are game devs who uncontrollably geek out over the game they working on and if they working on sequel geeking out about all games that came before they either helped make or play and love.
The stance Chief makes at the end when lighting up the sword is wrong... I'm not saying hopeless but lets all pray.
You can't receive your dose of Mark'sis agenda if they hire people based on merit, talent, and skill. You raycists.
"Halo. It's finished."
-Cortana
"...It's finished."
-Master Chief
bro 💀
“It is finished!”
- Jesus Christ
"Halo for a modern audience"
*Into the trash*
Any video from a game company that focuses more on meeting the team of creators than the gameplay is a huge red flag.
Gameplay is king, the rest is marketing. Full stop.
It's gonna be like destiny 2 with a halo reskin
Yeah, we got read of programmers and math majors who were doing the engine so we can have a whole team of artists with noserings and purple hair...
@@MrVvulf 100%, Halo and 343 has always been the best at doing theses little cringe Docu-series type of videos with fancy interviews that sounds so innovative and interesting but its always just flacid at the end. During Halo 4 Era specifically. Its like they really try hard to look professionnal.
@@MrVvulf its almost like the video was about the engine change and not the gameplay - and they were able to show how the environments will look. Why couldnt they do all of this quietly? no clue
The problem isnt the engine its the people making it.
This presentation is more like: we don't even have the technical skills to make our own engine anymore. Look at the shiny pixels that are the current standard
The fact that they even talked about the engine change for so long is what gave it away. They refuse to give us what we want and speak to us on our level without the corporate double speak getting in the way. Just say "we're moving away from identity politics" or "we want to focus on gameplay and less on messaging. "
The graphics really? How about shovel knight and undertale? Graphics really don't matter when a game is good.
Nah the engine was indeed one of the major problems of infinite launch being lackluster and many of the people behind it have left and leadership has changed but we'll have to see how they handle things.
100%
@@Shademastermcc Graphics do matter for 3d games. you can't just point to 2d games and say "See! graphics don't matter!"
I like how companies are still thinking that graphics = sales.
...in a world where games have already looked good enough for like 20 years now
Honestly, when it comes to Halo, graphics are important since they were a core component of their marketability. But you can't sell a Halo game just on that, it's at best a starting point.
@@fressfisch And where games with stylized art direction are timeless pieces you can enjoy the same as when they came out.
Graphics and the character creator are the two things that's a red flag for me if a review spends way too much time talking about them. That always means the rest of the game is mediocre at best.
@@ToyokaX its fair to note that they may not have any gameplay yet. Far as were concerned they just "began" . But hopefully this doesnt take no 5 years to make. Lowkey id love it if halo got to a point where 2 years is what it takes to bring out a new game.
"Gaylo" was the biggest foresight of the century
😂😂😂
"What's the soul of Halo?"
Marty O'donnel gave Halo its soul, but Bungie fired him for being a conservative and kept his music for themselves.
and destiny sucked ass except for ttk forsaken and maybe the final shape
No doubt
And his stocks
Well, they own the music rights.
1000% facts
"Modern audience", "My authentic self", dyed hair, a diverse staff full of women, and most of what they talk about is finally swapping to the game engine everyone else is already using and how pretty the graphics are. All red flags.
This is nothing more than a renaming of the studio to try and trick people into thinking Halo isn't a dying brand.
What does woman got to do with how a game performs lol?
@@vps31 Have you been living under a rock this past decade?
Yeah... this is gonna suck. Just keep playing japanese games.
@@vps31dev teams were women are over-represented are usually the result of positive discrimination.
HR teams who do that usually put meritocracy at the bottom of the priorities.
Ugh… exactly this. Woke feminist propaganda with absolutely zero intention of creating an actual good Halo experience.
"I was told that I can just be my authentic self"
Well, the rebrand has failed.
Yep, 10 seconds, and I was already rolling my eyes.
As soon as you say that you know there's a problem...
I really hope she isn't a writer lol
I actually thought she was being sarcastic. I mean, who talks like that?
Haha it’s she just so authentic? She said the words. These people are so fake 😂
The true Halo ended with Halo 3
Reach is pretty good. And looking back now at Halo 4, Halo 4 at least gave us sexy Cortana and a beautiful story between two people who love each other
Everything pre Halo 4 was solid, Halo 4 Cortana plot line was interesting but they didn’t commit to it. 343 had half of a good idea once and that was their peak.
Halo 4 was good asf
Glad I only played halo ce and halo 2. Then I went to buy ps3 to play last of us. After that I noticed console and PC going woke. I decided to play mobile game. It's been 7 years I played mobile game and felt proud escaping woke shet. However I saw space marine 2. I felt like I want to play it. But I need to buy a PC first lol
@@dbowalker4430 Pretty good campaign, but the worst multiplayer in the franchise. Also made the spartans plastic. Then Halo 5 made the worst campaign but had pretty decent multiplayer. Then Halo Infinite has a perfect foundation and then their greed destroys it. Can't wait to see how they fuck up the next one.
Pattern Recognition > Everything Else
Its the fundamental basis of human intelligence
This. They're still on the diversity kick.
The white man's superpower
@@ReginaCæliLætare no no, browns and blacks have it too 😂😂😂
@@ReginaCæliLætare Lol gut feeling is another
Cool shiny graphics will only get you so far. This is a 343 rebrand, nothing will change.
Nah if it releases on the Playstation it'll be a 10/10. Playstation users don't care for story, they care about graphics first
pessimism, i get it but they did fired the whole management and fired like 2/3 of the team and bought the guy who fixed MCC to be the elader (including others) so cautiously optimism and being a realist is what i choose
What makes you think that? @@Blank55600
@@Blank55600PlayStation literally has some of the best story games on all platforms 😂
@@ManomiiFox Don't be so naive. They've been butchering our favorite series for 10 years. Story, gameplay, characters, art, music, all of it. They've lost all good faith with Infinite.
I miss the days when the studios looked like a bunch of friends making a game
Now you have feminists...
@@marcelvastolorde652 with a Mark'sis agxnda...
So true, you watch an old iD interview, gamers making games. Now it's activists building agenda ads.
That's how most indie games studios are today. In fact, Hello Games (No Man's Sky devs) looked like that when they first started out as an indie company.
And most of them even looked the part of nerds, who were incredibly ecstatic about the product they make.
These guys look nothing like devs from 20 years ago, speak nothing like 20 years ago and most importantly, won't produce anything even remotely similiar to 20 years ago. Instead they look like ''expressive'' NPCs.
That woman with purple hair for example, if you check out her X, you'll realize she's just another activist and she's a chief of staff.
LMAO
R.I.P Halo 2001-2024 You will be forever in our hearts 💔
Um mean till 2016
Halo was ALIVE the past few years?!?!
2001 - 2011
@@Ooooo1678 reach sucked, infinite was dope
Didnt expect to see a Concord character working on Halo.
They were kinda unemployed after that ship sank so they take any job they can
I did, no sexy cortana or anything.
That's exactly what I thought the moment I saw her lmao
She’s the one that’s going to destroy the franchise. Someone showed her background and the games she worked on. Not a good start.
@@vitaliyred622 cortana was never sexy in the actual good halo games
If I had a dollar for every player who thought graphics were the problem, I'd be legally broke
-10,000,000 Aura
*laughs in vampire survivor*
What you don't realize is how much money/budget has been pissed away on the game engine for that game. Money that could have been better used on making a better game. the money spent on updating the engine with every new game, then with employee turnover alone the cost would be staggering for training people to the point where they are competent with the engine. With UE the possible available employees will greatly improve, which will then allow for better use of staff.
So they changed the name of the restaurant, the exterior got a facelift, but the same crappy cooks are still in the kitchen.
No, they hired even worse chefs to shit in the food
You will eat their food and you will like it.
All the executive devs are no longer their or got fired, so all the people who worked on 5 or infinite at 343 are gone. So they changed the studio name. “Don’t blame a son for a father’s mistakes”
They literally have a person wearing a 343i sweater in the video.
@@strafehelixNew people worked on every game, it didn't help because it's a collective issue. Halo 4 had different writers and people in control. Halo 5 shifted direction and had a new writer. Halo infinite also shifted direction and used new people in charge of the game.
They've changed a lot every time and it still failed. A studio constantly shifting directions and never making progress.
No one had a problem with the graphics or engine. Its the people who they hired that is the problem.
They fired the old devs and management. Google is free you just regurgitate what asmon says
It's to make developing the games easier for the developers. It's not that hard to piece together if you listen to the video.
Rebranding is meaningless if they keep the same practices and people.
They fired 3/4 of their staff, the ENTIRETY of management, and hired the game director who was brought in to fix MCC for PC with only 15 people to be their studio head.
He really gets Halo.
The game director for MCC literally saved MCC, the community has a lot of faith in him.
Guess you'll be happy to know that the staff got gutted.
There's a countless amount of things that were made worse by someone who "gets" something.
Just because he got lucky once doesn't mean he'll maintain that quality. Remain skeptical.
Staff getting gutted doesn't mean everything unless they gutted the right people.
New hiring can just be hiring the same type of people who caused the rot in the first place.
Not to mention that they dont have final say in anything, xbox and Microsoft does
yeap, i saw 1 pink hair lady and the hope is gone already
Anyone who uses the term “authentic self” is dishonest. It means they have other versions of “being themselves” that aren’t authentic. I don’t trust these people to make a good halo game
Did you know that you do this same thing. It is almost like professional, personal life have different demands and "keeping it real" the same way doesn't work in every instance your life.
While I don't like women working on games for men I gotta say you are being silly.
@@Ginjowgaming the problem isn’t tailoring how you conduct yourself in different environments. It’s proclaiming you’re going to be your “true authentic self” and by doing that you’re telling everyone you lie about being yourself to fool people. Big difference
@@Deebus it is also obviously sarcasm. so that is 2 strikes. Outrage for the right reason is dope. It is just really weak to be upset about sarcasm.
@@Ginjowgaming being sarcastic is one of the ways people ease their nerves when they’re lying. Keep trying but this entire thing reeks of dishonesty. You’re just naive if you think otherwise
@@Ginjowgaming For most people that gap is small. For people that use the term 'authentic self' that gap is always very large. I'm guessing for you it's the latter.
01:00 Ain’t no way they hired Concord characters to make halo
Bahaha
I'm pretty sure that's peele in drag
I'm dead
Concord characters found themselves suddenly needing work, yo.
😂😂😂
we're fucked... there is a generation of 30-40 year olds (like me) that will forever only play older games
Nah you'll just play indies
@@SirBladewindindies are the last bastion.
So the black lady in the video is Melissa Boone, who is the chief of staff; and is an ally of DEI.
I can't post the link but I can copy paste a section.
"343 Industries has rebranded itself as “Halo Studios,” marking the start of a new era called “New Dawn.” The studio’s new Chief of Staff is deeply focused on introducing DEI in Halo games. Many fans fear it’s just a PR move to hide bigger problems within the franchise."
Yup. It’s why they’re trying to be more stealthy with the DEI push nowadays
DEI?
@@captainflowers748diversity equity inclusion. Basically legal racism hiring
@@NostalgiaHDOSoh no....
It’s also imperative that the fans should let their voice be heard upon seeing these red flags so the company could make some adjustments just like Assassin’s Creed.
The purple hair lady has me highly concerned..
she looks like a concord character
At least she’s a 2 for 1 😂
That's their chief of staff. She's your generic Leftist with a progressive flag in her LinkedIn bio, along with pronouns.
The hair ALWAYS gives it away hahaha
With reasons.
0:47 "I was told I can be my authentic self"
I can already see a problem.
How
@@Violet_Viper Have you missed every franchise burning across different forms of media? That is how it starts.
Oh, there it is. We have to make a change. It begins.
@@pheonixblue01 I legit seen one person like that. Y’all are just nitpicking at this point
@@Violet_Viper??? How not ☠️
@@itzCxnfidentialx it’s okie person dawg. That one person developing the game won’t affect the game that bad. It ultimately depends on the management and Pierre
0:52 "theres so much to do that i never run out of things to do"
that is a quote of all quotes
I saw the hair at 1:00 and instantly saw my childhood burning up in flames again.
It already burnt up
They said again for a reason@@crazychase98
😭😭
let her cook maybe halo wont be shit this time (hard cope)
Burning up? Shit just got atom bombed. You can enjoy the shadows if we're lucky.
I hate how immediately they begin speaking like revolutionaries as if 323 wasn't exactly that. "We're going to do things that have never been done before", that's not what we want, we want Halo.
wow what an amazing comment, couldnt agree more, we all just want halo and heres another studio trying to reinvent the wheel. ffs
They were speaking about how to bring back the soul of the old Halo's and staying true to Halo, but this comment section has brain rot and jerks each other off while hearing things that were never said.
Exactly the same Frank O'connor said when they hired people to make the new generation of Halo post Bungie 😂
The hair instantly knew ITS 10 MORE YEARS OF ABSOLUTE DOG SLOP LETS GO MY CHILDHOOD IN FLAMES YEAH BABY!!!!
Haha said the same thing....game will go woke and fail
"aight imma head out" as soon as i saw that purple mohawk lol.
It's a good indicator of knowing nothing is going to change
gotta love it when someone with a background in psychology and DEI is one of the heads of a video game studio
If only you had a bunch of Halo games you can play that were excellent
The Chief of Staff for this "new" studio was an HR diversity leader... we all know what that means for the quality of talent coming into this studio
"someone said i can be my authentic self" Massive red flag. Purple hair red flag. If they didn't completely gut the studio and changed management other then a rebrand then that's another massive red flag.
True but this is Halo with already established characters and places. Not some random game like Concord that they pulled out of their ass
@@lukeGGlee Which just means the expectation is even greater.
Do you see an established IP and think 'I'm more likely to buy this even if it's shit'? You should be thinking 'I like this IP, they'd better do it justice'.
Raise your standards for things you care about.
i had the exact same comment
@@lukeGGlee being an established ip really saved the last few games, huh? Now it's an issue of straight up ignoring established lore and ruining characters and events instead of creating new terrible lore and characters
Yeah, that’s why I’m going back to Nintendo for the first time since the Wii, so sick of these freaks
Having hope for halo is like having hope for Diablo. The original teams been gone for decades
Don't hurt me mentioning Diablo, what happened from D2 to D4 is absolutely devastating
Doomer
this is me with dragon age
you know it's dead and its corpse is just being weekend at bernie's-d by a bunch of talentless freaks, but the nostalgia of the past just keeps pulling you in
Facts
This is facts
Does the rebrand include different employees?
Yes, modern employees.
@@snowleopardd Yes.. The ENTIRE leadership staff of 343 was replaced.. The head of the MCC (master chief collection) was brought to lead the new team and reports of between 30% and 50% of the rest of the studio was let go or transferred to other projects inside Microsoft.. on top of that they are hiring currently to replace said lost staff
@@Napster60 the studio now has 2 people who are in control of the studio that don't like video games and are far left activists. Another thing is Bonnie Ross still works at 343 by the way. 2 years ago she stepped down but she actually still works there. Her Linkedin account says she is still there and her account is active.
@@ravneo
Who and what positions?
It always has. They're only allowed to work there up to 18 months due to microsoft.
A competent studio would have started years ago to hand out licenses and commission work by the truckload with a franchise like Halo.
"New Halowars? Sure, go right ahead."
_"Squad-based tactics game like Full-Spectrum Warrior? Yes, by all means, ODST are perfect for this."_
_Persistent world-PVP in the vein of Planetside? Hm-hm."_
_Homeworld-esque space strategy? Make it so."_
And so on, and so forth.
Ikr, lease your IP out to people who actually give a shit about it and just let the cash roll in while other people do the hard work of making good games.
I mean, they had their chance to make a Helldivers-like Halo spinoff title but shot it down. For what? Who knows, but it wasn't anything good, because they've done shit all for Halo Finite.
Though even if they did, it would have been a clusterfuk and nowhere near as good as Helldivers.
One of the OG Bungie dev's said "It has to be fun before it's pretty." Another dev has said "You gotta nail that 30 seconds of fun." If the studio doesn't have that in mind developing Halo it's not going to be a good game.
But..but...but look at the pretty graphics! New graphics engine! So pretty! Jingle keys! Jingle keys!
Yeah fuck graphics nobody can afford 4k anyway
@iGante
Hard disagree on the 4k part.
4k is pretty standard now, dude.
It's not expensive anymore.
You can get a 50-inch 4k TV for 500 USD, and that should last you 6 years
PC Monitors I can agree they're overpriced
They said in the video that it was a research project; a new studio still has to care about making the graphics capture the essence and spirit of the old Halo games.
@@ReinaPerez-l3qYou need the hardware to play 4k in 60fps. This is still really exepensive. The majority of players wont have a setup like this.
We reached a point where graphics arent that crazy selling point like it was 15 or 20 years ago.
People just dont mind. They want a good game. Not a good looking game.
Their team sure looks very diverse! I'm sure quality of their games is going to be amazing thanks to this.
I didn't see any little people. Unacceptable.
to be fair it's like 95% white guys, 2 women were play testing and u had like what other 4?
They should hire Ricky Berwick to be community manager. He'll tick a lot of those diversity boxes.
@@Grymyrkfacts!!!😂😂😂
Yes, because a diverse work environment is what makes great games. You ever thought about applying to be a developer? You'll go far in this dying cesspool of an industry with that kind of thinking!
"Fans are going to be excited"
Moron, the fans already left!
And they probably don’t have any real interest in playing it
I'm still here...
Nah, I'm still here.
At this point, I'm just circling until the remakes drop.
halo fans never die, just missing in action
Fans dont want UE5 slop
1:49 halo four was generally well received for its campaign, and Halo infinite had one of the best multiplayer in modern halo history. It’s not really fair to Halo 4 and Halo infinite bad games
purple hair = hard pass
Wallet closed.
"Hire more diverse more people and get more diverse perspectives and ideas" NO! Jst do what Halo 1-3, ODST, and Reach did right and build off of that.
This was literally never said in the video
They can't, they are no longer straight men
@@bigdaddynero it was. rewatch gng
They aren't even diverse because they all have to think, speak, and act the exact same thing. It's just cosmetic, they are basically the same exact person when it comes to how they think.
"Roughin' up foreigners"
Melissa Boone was a "HR diversity leader" and is a Xbox researcher...
Can someone tell me why we need one of those involved in new Halo video game projects? Why is the IP being used as a mouth piece to spew real world politics and not the current in-universe Halo conflict between the UNSC and The Banished.
Because BlackRock
ESG score..
Just to add salt in the wound....the Banished sucks as an antagonist.
@@nodosa994 Tbh, what do you expect they could come up with? The flood in the original game was like a horror movie with Matter Chief in it. Do you think they can come up with something like that with all those DEI? Halo is just a carcass of its formal self.
What is a Xbox researcher? Go spend time in the lab throwing chemicals at a Xbox and see what happens? Sounds like a made up title
7:20 anyone else notice how the clock on the computer went back in time
"We had to make a change to take it into the future." Sounds a lot like changing it for a "modern audience".
No It's a way to maintain microsofts shitty contractual structure. They can hire people fresh out of Uni for extremely cheap with a few years of UE experience and they'll never run out because it's so easy to learn.
Has fuck all to do with a modern audience.
@@Ricolaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamad I believe it
Did you see the woke feminist Chief of Staff. They doubled down in crazyness. Probably fired the last reasonable dudes
They fired all the old 343 staff
THE AUDACITY. to constantly insult original halo devs, not hire them for being a bungie devs, ruining halo franchise and then chaning entire studio name to HALO, a thing you ruined.,
Old halo devs are with destiny now, no?
@@jbreezy137they hired some Bungie people originally but a lot were turned away because they "wanted to make it their own".
@@rickyspanish645more like they refused. They wanted to end the franchise and Xbox bought it from them
@@kevinarzola4781 Bungie didn't want to end the franchise, have you forgoten they teased Halo 4 in Halo 3's legendary ending?
What Bungie wanted was o make a different game for a change of pace and not just be stuck with a single franchise, MS wanted more Halo such as the fans, so when the obligatory games were finished and the contract wasn't renewed, they decided to sell the franchise and each party was happy with the decission.
This is an hypothetical scenario, but I believe Bungie would have still made Halo if a new contract with MS allowed them to publish one game they want to make, then Halo, then another game they want to make and then the next Halo.
@@cubetamalvada893 bungie themselves already stated that they didn’t want to make Halo games anymore.
That’s why Xbox/Microsoft bought the IP.
DEI hire ✅️
Modern audience ✅️
Self-insert ✅️
Is this is a Concord speedrun category?
new directions that's never been in before? this entire feature is filled with buzzwords and red flags.
Self insert where?
@@grndzro777 Agreed. "What made Halo popular is Halo's Legacy" That literally means NOTHING and is so wrong it's not even funny. What made Halo popular was the original lore, the constant tension of the fight for humanity's survival and the music.
There are so many red flags and meaningless words that they use here that means nothing at all. I had zero faith in 343 and i have zero faith in this so-called "Halo studio". Expect hot garbage to come out of this woke factory.
I think Microsoft's intentions are good but i also think they have no idea of whom they actually hired for the job. I will be extremely surprised if they actually release any good content. To me it looks like they are moving to UE5 to pull the good old "superior visuals" selling point, something that died out years ago.
Nah man, Master Chef MUST transition, don’t you know that?! 😂😂😂😂😂
@@grndzro777this comment is filled with buzzwords
Let me correct you. Actually, microsoft/xbox made an announcement on behalf of their rebranded studio, HALO studios, who confirmed the use of a new gaming engine in unreal engine 5 to be used in all future HALO games. 0:20
1:00 shes with sweet baby 1:10 wrote for sweet baby 1:19 publicly supports sweet baby Halo is cooked
Despite the bad news I'm happy, so many people's pattern recognition has begun to kick in to make slop like this DOA.
i have no faith with this studio, but pray tell, what gave it away? is it because their Wahman?
*slow claps keep it up guys youre doing great work.....
Who is sweet baby
wait for real??
Amen
Halo 7: The Concord
😂This is great!
@@crimsonjinouga8510 go read a book kid
The moment i saw the purple haired lady i knew it was over.
A number of faces are known DEI pushers, it's over.
Dustborn character
Spoilers dude 😂
same
DEI hire. She also did inclusion stuff for another company. Its over. 😢
I remember a sense of awe the first time I played Halo 1. Back then we were playing Goldeneye so walking out of the ship in the second mission and seeing that landscape it was such a sense of awe. It was a huge step forward. If they can create that same sense of awe then they will have something. I'm not super optimistic though.
Ngl it’s hilarious knowing that they changed the studio name because they needed to specify “we are not THAT studio everybody hates anymore”
They hoping hard that people forget 😂....proper coping with that one!
@@ArnoldJudasRimmer.. Looking at who they chose to promote this game, gives me zero hope they actually learned anything as well.
STOLEN from mastercheeks ^
Same people same product
I mean they fired a few people that had high positions in the company
Halo is dead. The people who own it now don't understand it.
Many of our franchises have been taken over by people who don't understand the themes or vibes that made the originals so great.
Taken over DELIBERATELY. Always assume the worst with the intentions of these folks and you start to understand how their corrupted minds work.
Pretty but utterly hollow. I DONT CARE if the graphics are rendered down to the pubic hair on Master Chief's balls. I want a good story and fun combat. I've been shown NOTHING that indicates that has changed from 343.
It’s been the same combat and enemy types since Halo CE. As long as they keep it that way and improve on the visuals. The game will be fine.
Infintes combat was really good tho, its everything elsd they can't handle
Watch mint blitz videos dude Halo infinite is a super fun game
@@bosskey23the massive decline in sales, and relevance would be against you I'm afraid.
@@bosskey23 No, it won't. Games need innovation. Even Halo.
I mean from the halo studios rebrand announcement you can tell some of those people never played the original halo games I think it’s wild to have people take part in making the game who don’t understand why the fans love it - I imagine when you get hired there they train you on things like: what’s the flood? What are the rings? Goofy training videos about “our shareholders” etc
Same people hyped for new Halo were hyped for Joker 2 a year ago. Some people never learn
Better to have hope than not.
Hope for the best but expect the worst. Can’t be disappointed that way.
Some people likes joker one as well an where excited for it. The first one was trash as well
@@Nitemerican Hope was in Pandora's Box.
@@Nitemerican I'm with you. There might be a good game at the end of this but I will wait until reviews come out.
I liked the nuanced look at loss and mental health issues, not so much as a joker movie.... Number 2......im nkt even sure if there is anything to gain from it
DEI still in full swing within Halo Studios I see.
When everyone knows what you mean by DEI, you're not hiding your bigotry.
@@PaulGuy 😢
@@PaulGuy😢😢
90% of the people in the vid were white people what are you on about
@@PaulGuy😢😢😢?
4 words have become a literal kiss of death for modern gaming or movies. Any form of entertainment:
"for the modern audience"
Soon as you hear it, it's going to be shit, the people making it know it's going to be shit and they're intentionally setting out to make it complete shit. They're there to crash whatever they're working on directly into the fuckin ground and by God they're going to do it as fast as possible.
Just stop liking everything and you wont be disappointed anymore
MK1 seems to be on the same path...sad. Bring back great games again!
Going photoreal can really lift an experience but in the same vein they could change the cartoony suits to a more mature photoreal version as well. The more it looks believable across the board the more it will be exciting as new
Sargeant Johnson- Gone
Captain Keys- Gone
Miranda Keys- Gone
Lord Hood- Gone
Gravemind- Rewritten to be less cunning and dumber
Covenant- Less threatening antagonist
Weapons- Look more modern, get rid of the classic design
Multiplayer- Fuck You
Story- Bland, worse rewrite
R.I.P Chips Dubbo
Rip Marvin Mabuto the marine that almost cleared the library alone.
For me Halo ended after 3.
@@halo129830A true hero
There is no story to tell after Halo 3. Bringing the covenant back in Halo 4 was contrived. The only opportunities is extra stories earlier in the timeline or parallel like ODST. Something like First Strike showing the events that took place between 1 and 2. You overtake a ship fueling station and steal a covenant ship, a lot happens.
Oh, I am 100% sure the covenant will be less threatening. Almost all of the 343 creations made by Master Chief or other Spartans look badass at the expense of the covenant. It's most likely going to be how cool master chief is and how he is defeating Covenant single-handed while the rest of the normal people in UNSC is incompetent.
Look up The 3 girls they showed in the trailer😢 halo is cooked before it even starts
Hey I can already tell from that hairstyle Jesus Lord.
What are their names?
Oh did they 😂😂😂
what's up with them, other than the obvious
@@abicrystalwing1543obvious is not enough?
MODERN AUDIENCES
Always know its gonna be woke slop when you hear that
You just know
@@rykehuss3435 When was it said..... it was never said.....
I can see one of two ways they could pull this off.
1. Lean heavily on the lore and make it a human vs covenant, but a master chief as a new spartan, before the halo days.
Or
2. A new and interesting enemy, fighting along side the covenant, with chief and the arbiter
They are so lost they think unreal engine is gonna fix not having splitscreen campaign not having custom created maps that are advertised for the community not having forge day 1 not having amazing music that hypes you up during a fight..
Who cares about forge just make a good single play first. They can't even do that
@@crazychase98 A lot of people care about Forge. Zero reason and zero excuse to not have it day one. Theater mode too.
thankfully mods are native for UE, tho it depends on how game is complied. but reverse engineering it is not impossible.
@@crazychase98majority of halo infinites maps are made in forge, its a bigger deal than you think
Unreal Engine isn’t going to fix the trash writing.
Shame they stopped making Halo Games after Reach... Damn shame but oh well, we had a great time.
remember the halo 2 trailer! the hype the dual wield guns the arbiter 🔥
peaked in halo 3, but yeah halo reach was good, after that it was all downhill
It's really crazy they haven't made a game since then
Best thing to come out of 343 was Pixar Cortana. A design they immediately forgot in the next game 😭
Reach was peak imo. Straight disappointment after.
Sweet I’ll just let this childhood memory die too then…
lol he still has fond memories bahahahahaa
Opening a Halo trailer with DEI hires rather than gameplay is crazy
@@chiquita683There is no gameplay to show yet. The point was to display new leadership/new philosophy on how they're approaching developing new titles.
@@chiquita683 black and/or woman = DEI
yep i already gave up on halo.
Imagine how amazing Halo 3 remaster on the Unreal Engine would be. No microtransactions just pure Halo 3 fun nostalgia. I miss those days and I wish we could relive them.
Dude, I'm 1:18 in, and i already know this is going to suck balls. RIP Halo
I was just gonna say im 60 secs in and dont tell me master chief is now a chick...this aint 😂gonna be good
I thought the exact same thing at the exact same time
Funny, I had a similar conclusion at exactly 1 minute in. 1:00
Incel logic, do some research and you might find out that some of your favorite games have women too lmao
Master Chief is a black trans lesbian woman now
Remember Reach
pepperidge farmers remembers
never forget
🫡
Book was pretty fucking good.
I remember 🍒
"for the modern audience"
It's over.
nobody said that...
'We brought in the writers from the hit Halo TV show to write our new story...its gonna be great' 😂😂😂
I saw the woman with the colored hair and my expectations have now entered the abyss.
Ain’t she from Concord?
Lol I dont get it. Why would your expectations go down over a single black woman with purple hair. There were dozens of people in that video.
Uh, they prefer hair of color. Lol
@@AntoSimoes
You'll learn in time
@@TheCrackFox Oh, my apologies. lol
“It needs to be fun before it’s pretty” -bungie campaign engineer.
Tbf those assets they showed were initially just meant to be an internal exercise for the art team and weren’t going to be made public, I imagine marketing just wanted to use them to make the studio rebrand a bit more exciting.
Purple hair instant 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Just saying saying Modern Audience is a massive red flag.
@@ChronosChris The code words of death lol
Thought the same, unfortunately
I hate how that's a red flag now. People with colored hair when I was a teenager were cool.
@@ooooswain That was a long long long loooooooong time ago, now colored hair just identifies cringe.
"War, war never changes." -that one guy in halo.
That Black lady with a TikTok hair
Who's here believe that she's a SBI Spy
concord 2.0
100%
for real though. How can all these companies keep destroying all our beloved franchises and lose so much money? Its spiritual warfare. They are attacking our imaginationland! xD
@@Randy_Marsh896Top Manager think no DEI is the risk but it is the opposite. They will learn it or go broke. Ubisoft will be the first one
1:00 shes with sweet baby 1:10 wrote for sweet baby 1:19 publicly supports sweet baby Halo is cooked. (Copied from a more informed commenter.)
''A game where I can be myself'', ''We're gonna change the recipe'' welp, let's pack our stuff boys.
I'm already on the train omw out.
They should learn to cook before making new recipes. lmao
“We’re gonna change the recipe” literally just means they’re going to change the way they make halo games since 4.
Is that literally not what you people have been begging for all this time?
@@cyphoah8748 didn't they change it for the infinite as well?
We only playing MCC for the foreseeable future
This studio with 500 could never do what og bungie was able to accomplish with just 50.
The people you hire matter.
Because too many useless women ...50 men in one Team can do more than 499 men and 1 women
That last part i didnt understand but i agree with the first part
@@choppers1036 edited! Meant to say “the people you hire matter”
The same thing about halo:ce remastered occurs about the colors being too earthy. Needs less browns and more purples, deep blues, and bright greens
Those women destroyed Halo.
Indeed
1:08 anyone who says the word "craft" like that is about to ruin a franchise even more.
Agreed
She looks like her son likes halo
Sounds exactly like she practiced her speech and is pretending to be excited about games (She doesn't actually care because she's a SBI supporter)
This is Halo Infinite pre-game footage all over again. Everyone gets hyped and forget to wait for an actual game to come out before realizing its not great. While this rebrand looks positive everyone should temper their expectations until we see a real and finished product players are playing (and enjoying).
Remember: Its still in the same 343 building, with a lot of the same staff, and still under Microsoft with the contractor limits.
Contractor limits should now not be an issue due to unreal engine being pretty much industry standard, all the contractors brought on board would know how to use it day one so no more 6 months of training, plus pretty much all of 343s management were fired so from a company standpoint it should be different. The problem is Microsoft can still interfere with the making of the game and ruin everything again but at least it’s a good step forward.
It doesn't look positive.....
@@king_dot Yeah if the people working on it are not directly working for Microsoft then no contract limits. However if they are then its still part of MS mandatory contractor policy and will still be an issue if they work at the Halo Studios in person.
UE5 only makes working with contractors easier. No more wasting time onboarding contractors to 343's engine. You can work three months on Fortnite and then hop over to Halo.
UEVR Injector is gonna be insane on Halo
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nah im good
yikes 😬
SBI was a hydra. Three more heads have spawned.
No, SBI was the lone Hydra head poking out of the ground. The swirling mass laying beneath is slowly being uncovered for all to see
I can imagine them in a meeting: “hail hydra!”
@@artnull13he was referding to the ancient greek dragon, not the marvelslop
@@marktulo what do you think the marvel slop is referring to - the same thing buddy
aye purple hair is gonna make sure she brings some sweet baby inc to this
Spent more time on her hair then in coding class.
I wish you were wrong... But 3 of the people in the video have past affiliations with Sweet Baby lol
In reference to his minds eye when he was 11, it’s almost like they’re capturing that first “holy shit” moment in an MMO, for me it was around 10 playing EverQuest for the first time, every MMO I play after gets compared to that for me
The black lady with the purple hair is my biggest worry.
Nothing changed
dont worry, shes only the chief of staff.
@@sfelton8943 save the halo franchise. Kurosaki ichigo
@@Wid21425 we're gonna need shinzo abe for this one
*insert Henry Cavill Witcher* “Fuck”
"we're looking for artists (who are women/poc/trans), we're looking for designers (who are women/poc/trans), we're looking for engineers (who are women/poc/trans)..."
We are looking for talentless freaks that will refuse to work because "That Guy" looked at me.
DEI has rotted companies. Thinking its for the best when it removes the incentive to hire based on skill. In other words, DEI forces companies not to hire the best but to hire a demographic.
Then it leaves room for money laundering. Halo Infinite cost 500 million dollar. (Hey i have a friend, ill get them hired and they can do nothing and get 150k/ year for 3 years.)
@@tatewinters5565500 Million? And they learned nothing
Why did you spell trash wrong
They renamed 343 as halo studio with a lower case h and highlight their diverse new team that supposedly is going to save the franchise, if hope for halo being good again was non existent when they were called 343 then I really don't see them turning it around with a name change...
Yeah halo is dead and it ain't reviving lol
Halo is so dead, they’re considering putting it on PlayStation. Not gonna lie, I’d buy it for the novelty, just to say I had Halo on PlayStation. Kinda like buying Sonic Adventure 2 on GameCube after the Dreamcast (sadly it was a good console) failed.
@@Zhtrikhalo isn't gonna die cause it's going on PlayStation. It'll die (again) if it's just a new studio continuing to make slop games
@@spanishginger I think it’s a blow to Halo’s identity though, kinda like if Mario was on Xbox. Don’t you think something would feel…off.
@@Zhtrik it's a blow to make it available on the more popular platform? People don't buy xboxes anymore. PlayStation is the default console. Even if the new halo could be slop, it being available to a new audience could give it sales revival due to curiousity
this project of theirs is basically what people were expecting halo 5 to be. what the fuck where they doing all those years?
Gotta be honest, i don't think i have ever met a single girl in my entire life who was a Halo fan. So kinda wondering how they managed to fill their dev team with all these supposed Halo fan girls. It already reeks of being disingenuous. It was a game about being a badass soldier dude killing aliens and saving the world. It wasn't about the "intricate characters". The main character was LITERALLY a faceless voiceless dude. It was about making war with cool guns and cool vehicles and cool aliens, that's it. It was the Monster-Truck made-for-boys game, and that's why guys loved it.
I'm not saying women shouldn't be working on the dev team. But when you put them in front of the camera and have them gush about "what makes Halo such an incredible game" just reeks of being inauthentic and forced and already tells me everything i need to know about how nobody on this team actually cares (or knows) about what made Halo a successful game. It's like watching some girl talk about the Die-Hard movie franchise and how it was so good because of its "deep characters and world building." No, it isn't. It was about a manly man being a manly man and saving the day. That's it. Nothing more nothing less.
Because if they were being authentic, all you would see is a bunch of GUYS in front of the camera talking about how it was so badass to pick up cool guns and vehicles and become an army of one against an entire invasion of aliens with your bro with couch co-op.
Trying to turn Halo into a diverse game made for an audience of both men and women is like trying to make lipstick and marketing it to men. It's not going to work. Some products are just meant for one side of the aisle, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Halo hasn't really been enjoyable for me past Halo 2. But it really sucks that we have had to sacrifice so many IPs that had potential just to prove that we were right all along and have these companies learn the hard way.
Putting a pink haired wokie in charge of Halo is just more proof that Microsoft has no idea what they are doing.
I have zero faith that these people will make a good game.
I met exactly one girl who was a halo fan. and that was in elementary school, and that girl most likely became a halo fan because her older brother got her into it anyways.
Preach bro you said the things I would love to say but packaged it perfectly
Not enjoyable past halo 2? You literally devalued your entire paragraph with that one sentence. If you don’t think halo 3 and Reach were top tier you know nothing
For a supposed Halo fan you sure did forget about all the times Master Chief talked.
“It’s not a game its a research project.” 3:00. Nah, research implies you’ve *learned* something.
Yeah they "learned " how to copy old assets into UE5...
Wonder what the last 3 games they put out were.... Wouldn't that be research. I feel like they have so much research ready by now.
No, it doesn't. Research is what you do to learn something.
@@Tartersauce101 Yeah, it does. It *implies* that, after you’ve completed the process of Research, you’ve learned something from that process.
@@thecerealkiller5326 As you said in your OP, they are using current tense. Not past.
This is gonna be a DEI abomination, I can feel it. If they take Master Chief's helmet off and make him black and gay im gonna lose my whole mind.
Ill save you the trouble. How about instead of hoping it might be good, we go based off their track record.
It's GOING to be woke and therefore bad. No need to get sad bc we know bungie themselves couldn't capture lightning in a bottle twice, let alone this off brand studio 343 disguising themselves as "halo" studios. How pretentious.
master chief removes his helmet to reveal he is actually a lady and her name is master queef.
You’ll get to play as Master Chief’s mixed race daughter who never wears her helmet and is 10x more badass than her father.
@@maxx1927Chief Queef
@@maxx1927 I'm fucking dieing at that commment dude 🤣
New leadership, new employees, new game engine, new studio name to represent it all.
Hell yes!
you're in for a rude awakening, my friend lol
Master Chief will be a gay black woman with her gay male ai companion, Cortano.
Cortanx
He is going to be in a wheelchair even though he is a hologram
Don't you mean Cortanx
I should've read the replies first
@@BarackObamerHimselfEXCLUSIVE UA-cam wants to translate that to english.🤣
Executives have already been outed as activists. It's a rebrand, nothing else. Same people, same problems.
This shit isn't gonna change anything.
if your selling point is "look at how real the graphic are!" your product sucks.
The original Halo gave us something truly unique, not just visually, but emotionally. We connected with it on a level that made it unforgettable. Ever since, we've been waiting for that magic to return-but it hasn't. What Halo really needs isn’t just better graphics; it needs fresh ideas. To succeed, it must offer us a new experience, pushing the story far beyond where it currently stands. Creativity costs money, and they need to invest in that instead of just milking what was first created. It’s a simple concept: just because we love a song doesn’t mean we want to hear it on repeat. Halo has to evolve.