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Activision is making the next Halo

A statement from Activision president Rob Kostich regarding Halo:
“For Halo, our goal is clear: make the greatest Halo game ever, worthy of its universe and legacy, while staying true to what made players love it in the first place. It is a bold ambition, one that this franchise deserves. We have already begun assembling a purpose-built team, unique in capability and talent, ready and excited to deliver this next chapter with the community.”
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I'm actually excited to see what they make. I haven't been excited to see a new Halo game for 15 years.

Halo Studios and 343 were terrible and it was clear they could never make a good Halo game from the very start with their first game which was a Halo CE remaster in 2011. They should have shut it down then instead of destroying a billion dollar franchise.
 
Like a lot of titles that were super innovative at one time, I'm not sure Halo ever translated to a present where other games already ran with what made it special. It'll always have some nostalgia power, but I don't know if it was ever going to be what it once was. This might at least give things a spark instead of just being Halo with a bunch of trendy mechanics tossed in. If things stayed as-is, I'm pretty certain the next Halo would have just been some kind of roguelike battle arena clone. Hell, it might still be but at least there's maybe some new blood involved.
 
I'd like to know who is part of the team being assembled to create the next Halo. From there I'll have a somewhat reasonable idea how the game will turn out. Could be surprised but who knows at this point.
 
AceGoober said:
I'd like to know who is part of the team being assembled to create the next Halo. From there I'll have a somewhat reasonable idea how the game will turn out. Could be surprised but who knows at this point.
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Same. But I think it's safe to assume the game will be better than anything 343 has put out.

Although it would be hilarious if they made the team up of 343 people. That would be some next level trolling.
 
sharknice said:
I'm actually excited to see what they make. I haven't been excited to see a new Halo game for 15 years.

Halo Studios and 343 were terrible and it was clear they could never make a good Halo game from the very start with their first game which was a Halo CE remaster in 2011. They should have shut it down then instead of destroying a billion dollar franchise.
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More hope than I've had in about the same time frame. I liked the series for the campaigns though, so they would need to about face on the story direction they've taken since 4 for my interest.
 
They seemed to finally re-figure out the multiplayer, with the last game (Not the CE Remake).

But otherwise.....Halo's singleplayer, and overall as a franchise, has floundered for years. Decades.

Activision can certainly make a videogame. And they are probably bored AF from making Call of Duty.

This doesn't feel good. But.....I do think there's a good chance it results in a good game. And maybe even a great one, if they actually take some time for pre-production on writing and planning.


**The big whatever though, is this game is likely only JUST starting pre-development. So, its gonna be years before it actually releases.
 
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When these small companies sell out to giant firms it's always over. I can't think of one where they left them be to still make awesome products.
 
OFaceSIG said:
When these small companies sell out to giant firms it's always over. I can't think of one where they left them be to still make awesome products.
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343 Industries was created internally by Microsoft specifically to handle the Halo franchise after Bungie left. They were never a "small" company or independent. They were rebranded to Halo Studios when Infinite came out.

The Coalition was created in the same way to handle the Gears franchise after Epic stopped making them.
 
OFaceSIG said:
When these small companies sell out to giant firms it's always over. I can't think of one where they left them be to still make awesome products.
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Bro what? This is probably the best example of the exact opposite.

Halo wasn't made until Bungie was bought my Microsoft. Bungie went on to make Halo 1, 2, and 3 which are considered some of the greatest games of all time. Then Bungie split from Microsoft.

Then Microsoft created 343 to take over Halo. They never made a good game and destroyed the Halo brand. Halo Studios was also made by Microsoft to take over Halo and also failed.
 
sharknice said:
Bro what? This is probably the best example of the exact opposite.

Halo wasn't made until Bungie was bought my Microsoft. Bungie went on to make Halo 1, 2, and 3 which are considered some of the greatest games of all time. Then Bungie split from Microsoft.

Then Microsoft created 343 to take over Halo. They never made a good game and destroyed the Halo brand. Halo Studios was also made by Microsoft to take over Halo and also failed.
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yep I didn't understand the history, my bad
 
sharknice said:
Bro what? This is probably the best example of the exact opposite.

Halo wasn't made until Bungie was bought my Microsoft. Bungie went on to make Halo 1, 2, and 3 which are considered some of the greatest games of all time. Then Bungie split from Microsoft.

Then Microsoft created 343 to take over Halo. They never made a good game and destroyed the Halo brand. Halo Studios was also made by Microsoft to take over Halo and also failed.
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The small correction here, is that Bungie was indeed developing Halo----to be a PC game in the RTS genre. As they got further into development, they decided to pull the camera in, for a 3rd person viewpoint. And the game was then going to be a sort of hybrid game. Overall, it would have been an RTS. But, you take direct control of the units. And they were re-doing all of the physics and animations, to compliment direct player control.

Microsoft basically bought Bungie for Halo. And I'm foggy on what happened next. But.....I guess Microsoft asked them to scale it down to an FPS, since Bungie was already known for that. And Xbox wasn't the right place for a Hybrid RTS game which otherwise probably would still play best with a Mouse.
 
chameleoneel said:
The small correction here, is that Bungie was indeed developing Halo----to be a PC game in the RTS genre. As they got further into development, they decided to pull the camera in, for a 3rd person viewpoint. And the game was then going to be a sort of hybrid game. Overall, it would have been an RTS. But, you take direct control of the units. And they were re-doing all of the physics and animations, to compliment direct player control.

Microsoft basically bought Bungie for Halo. And I'm foggy on what happened next. But.....I guess Microsoft asked them to scale it down to an FPS, since Bungie was already known for that. And Xbox wasn't the right place for a Hybrid RTS game which otherwise probably would still play best with a Mouse.
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It started as an RTS in early development, but by the time they showed anything publicly it had already changed to a third person action game.
When they revealed it at macworld in 1999 it was a third person action game. You controlled master chief and could give orders to marines. It wasn't a hybrid RTS or an RTS at all. It was sort of like the old Rainbow Six games where you can give your squad orders.
The genre shift from third person action to FPS was bungie's own decision (although they were technically part of MS at that point). MS didn't really tell them what to do at all, they had a lot of independence, they just had to have it ship for xbox launch.
 
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