Microsoft: “We lost our way” with latest Halo releases

Man has a point. Halo without Master Chief is like a doughnut without a sugar coating. It looks the same, but just isn’t as satisfying.

Halo for PS3!… Runs away.

And with a flourish from Bungie and a bow from Microsoft, Master Chief gets trotted out yet again for another contrived fight against the Covenant. The joke is on you, however, dear fans. Bungie decided to end his story after watching him do wheelies in a 4-by-4 and having him fight the equivalent of an AI core from Portal. Was it in any way not clear that they are completely and totally devoid of new ideas for this universe? And you think Microsoft can do better?

I will drink your tears and your anger when Halo 4 is released. It will flow like sweet, blessed Sacramental wine, nourishing my justified hatred of this thoroughly overrated franchise.

@ 3

Damn, you seem a bit depressed, bro. Do yourself a favour and get some relief. Hookers aren’t that expensive these days.

Drinking peoples tears and anger is pretty goth.

how can you hate a franchise?
dont play it and shut up

@3.
Funniest. Comment. Ever.

You sound like Eric Cartman on the “Scott Tennerman” episode of South Park.

@5, yeah, that is pretty goth

@ 3

Seems like someone forgot to take their happy pill today.

You lost your way since you created this atrocity of overrated franchise.

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haha i just watched that episode

Funny, because Reach was infinitely better than Halo 3.

But of course….why should people bother to grow a franchise when they can just keep trotting out the same main character over and over again.

I guess 343 just doesn’t have the creative spark that Bungie has….to be able to tell the stories of other SPARTANs/ODSTs/etc in the Halo Universe.

Noble Team was great.

Oh, come on. They didn’t “lose their way,” they did exactly what they set out to do. Namely, keep the franchise raking in dough without trotting out the same silent protagonist and wringing every last drop of blood out of the concluded story arc. Also, Bungie probably had a say, considering they were developing it.

This is marketing for Halo 4, not a mea culpa.

Translation:
“We really wanted Master Chief everywhere, but Bungie had other plans, something about being ‘original’? We at Microsoft dont recognise that word.
Fuck them now they’re gone, ODST & Reach didnt sell as well as Halo 3, and we’re pretty sure its because the Chief wasnt in them.”

I loved Reach, it was my favourite Halo! (after 1)

ODST was shit though.

Reach sold less, really? I know it’s a crazy idea but I do believe it’s predecessor was out for a tad bit longer. I also think for a glorified expansion pack that was Odst it’s quite an achievement to perform that well.

On a sidenote, fun fact: only people who hate the franchise are mental patients and ironic zealots.

I love all the Halo games including Reach but all the quasi military bullshit seemed so dull and charmless in Reach… I would welcome a return to some properly fantastical sci fi storytelling. Also, for goodness sake do something new with it. No one wants to see more of the Flood.

So is he saying that he doesn’t think Reach did well? I find that frankly astonishing, because there’s always at least one person on my friends list playing it every night, even now.

Halo was good on xbox, but shit on xbox 360.

Yeah, they lost their way. They introduced recoil to a franchise which somehow became popular while being little more than a point-and-click bunny-hoping fest with good musical score. Yes I’m hating.

To be honest, Reach was fine except for Spartans taking their helmets off. I preferred to think of Spartans as barely human anymore and when they all starting showing their normal, human faces it dulled it a little to me.

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Agreed. I kinda liken Spartan’s to Judge Dredd in that aspect in so far as it is completely unecessary to see their faces and that as faceless protagonists, they do just fine.

Ok, I will admit ODST was way off course to what the other halo games were like BUT it wasn’t necessary bad. In fact some of the parts are absolutely fantastic. Just too bad exploring the city was a pain a lot of the time but it was still a great game just not too much like a halo game.

Reach however is amazing! I remember some of the parts like new covenant cruisers showing up and genuinely thinking ‘shiiiiiit’. Really, really great game but I do preffer the original 3 over the 2 newer ones in all honesty.

The one thing I have wanted to know since the end of halo 3 was what the heck is going to happen next!? Halo 4 will be amazing.

It’s odd writing ‘halo 4′, something about the 4 it’s just allways something I never thought would happen you know because of bungie slowly but surely moving on with the franchise. Cannot wait, far too excited for it.

@3 Yeah maybe you’re talking about your anger or the anger of fans who constantly hate on the game…I’ve been playing Halo since the original when I got the first X Box at launch and I’ve loved every minute of it…so quite wasting your time hating, the only people that complain about Halo are either PS3/PC fanboys, or just people who have nothing better to do…the people who play it, don’t cry about it like you…

@7 which makes him totally unoriginal and gives him no credibility whatsoever

@15 Agreed.

And to end it all, Halo started with Master Chief which means it should end with Master Chief, should they do another trilogy? Maybe not, but they’ve been successful with every entry in the franchise thus far, and I’m sure 343 knows what they are doing…it was started by an ex-Bungie employee anyway…and he was just the Franchise Director of Halo…but I’m sure he knows nothing about making a Halo game right?

“Reach is one of the best stories in the Halo universe.”

Ahahahahaha!