Ryan Payton leaves 343 Industries to found Camouflaj

Don’t blame his, I wouldn’t want to work on Halo either, rubbish game that is.

@1

I quite enjoy it in co-op and competitive multiplayer from time to time, but have little love for the games in single-player or for the lore contained therein.

Absolutely understandable. Halo and Creativity just don’t work together.

I imagine it’s very difficult to take over a project like Halo and actually be allowed to make any changes. Any grand ideas you have about direction are likely to be shot down for fear of pissing off the already-rabid fan-base. And you can sort of see the concern – it’s a very hard act to follow. Too samey and it’ll be berated for not moving on, too different and it’ll be berated for “not being Halo”.

In a way I think they should’ve let Master Chief go and done more spin-offs in the same universe instead.

@4: You can already see the reactions of the fans asking why Master Chiefs armor is different. While it looks quite the same.

In fairness to him, he was apparently originally tied with that Halo Chronicles/that Peter Jackson project when he came in. When that got canned, I guess he was shipped over to Halo 4.

So it’s true then, working on Halo as well as playing Halo can cause severe bouts of depression.

I don’t blame him at all.

Disappointing to see some people’s total lack of respect to the hard work of these developers. It’s understandable to not like something, fair enough to criticize it’s weak points but plain insulting how some people just trash talk it because it doesn’t meet their standards.

@8: Just like yesterday: You’re overreacting.

@9, I’m not overreacting, I’m reacting to others overreactions, my post wasn’t aimed at anyone in particular here, Joe’s the most critical & he wasn’t that bad, Halo’s just a target because it’s large title which will always bring out opposition but that doesn’t change the fact that Bungie & now 343 worked really hard on their games.

I don’t particularly care about the games, but give the developers some respect.

Depression isn’t funny shit either. The guy has clearly had a fairly rough patch. Hats off to him for pushing through. Hopefully things work out for him in the near future.

Speaks volumes for what they’re doing with the new game though for him to leave during the middle of the project and not even want to finish Halo 4 THEN leave.

@10: How can you tell they are working hard?

@13, The industry as a whole is infamous for how hard these developers work, they deserve a little more respect for both their work & themselves too.Guessing otherwise would be a very ignorant assumption.

Lol @ people having absolutely no idea what this guy was doing on the project yet commenting on his departure. Btw, has been working for MGS4? All the best!

Besides, he wasn’t talking about creative side of the next Halo game, he was describing how what he was doing wasn’t creative enough for him. Big difference.

Quote : ‘… fundamentally different and I don’t think I had built enough credibility to see such a crazy endeavor through … ‘

Well, at least unlike internet folks he can see what a giant failure can the game end up being if you aren’t certain you can pull it off.

Yeah, I find Halo depressing too.

Jokes aside, it’s great that he recognised the situation and was able to do something about it. Terrible name for the new studio though.

@14: So you don’t know for sure that they are working hard. How do they deserve respect? Isn’t that their first game?