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Liked the series but there's plenty of other strategy game to enjoy rn.
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Eurogamer: 343 is done with Halo Wars 2, no current plan for a Halo Wars 3
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343i has always been involved in some level on all the games attached to the Halo IP. Creative Assembly may have been the primary dev on it, but 343 also assisted and oversaw things.
They killed it.
Halo 2 was a depressingly unambitious sequel. It felt like Creative Assembly had no ideas for how to innovative the game, and most of the enthusiasm from them and 343i seemed to be for Blitz which was pay-to-win and clearly inspired by Clash Royale. It was also extremely rough at launch, I experienced performance problems, bugs, crashes, frequent de-syncs online, and so on.
I really enjoyed the first game, it's the best example of how you can translate the genre to console.
I really hope I'm not saying this kind of stuff about Age of Empires IV in a few years time, because while I liked Halo Wars, Age of Empires was basically my gateway into gaming. Fucking it up would be unforgivable.
Halo 2 was a depressingly unambitious sequel. It felt like Creative Assembly had no ideas for how to innovative the game, and most of the enthusiasm from them and 343i seemed to be for Blitz which was pay-to-win and clearly inspired by Clash Royale. It was also extremely rough at launch, I experienced performance problems, bugs, crashes, frequent de-syncs online, and so on.
I really enjoyed the first game, it's the best example of how you can translate the genre to console.
I really hope I'm not saying this kind of stuff about Age of Empires IV in a few years time, because while I liked Halo Wars, Age of Empires was basically my gateway into gaming. Fucking it up would be unforgivable.
The game received 3 years of updates. It's fine to move on at some point.
Still playing Halo Wars 2 regularly. Such a great multiplayer game, it's in such a better place than the first game with pretty much every unit being viable compared to the first game that had much more limited strategic options.
I hope to see Halo Wars 3 at some point
Still playing Halo Wars 2 regularly. Such a great multiplayer game, it's in such a better place than the first game with pretty much every unit being viable compared to the first game that had much more limited strategic options.
I hope to see Halo Wars 3 at some point
Halo Wars strikes me as a series that makes sense as a "once per generation" kind of thing. Not every series needs new entries every three or four years.
Once Halo Infinite has been released and they sit down to really take a look at their future roadmap, I'm sure the question of HW3 will come up again.
Once Halo Infinite has been released and they sit down to really take a look at their future roadmap, I'm sure the question of HW3 will come up again.
They waited eight years between Halo Wars and Halo Wars 2 only for it to slump. If they want to make a success out of a Halo Wars 3 they need to do a lot more than just give it some breathing room. I think the first step is to see whether Microsoft make a success out of Age of Empires IV, because if they can't it's very hard to imagine Halo Wars 3 having any chance. I mean with respect to the franchise, look at the (lack of) activity in this thread. The franchise just doesn't register.
Halo Wars 2 didn't sell very well IIRC, it was honestly lucky that Halo Wars even got a sequel in the first place. Both are good games though.
At least Halo Wars 2 introduced the Banished, which seem to factor heavily into Infinite, so those games did at least contribute to the series overall.
At least Halo Wars 2 introduced the Banished, which seem to factor heavily into Infinite, so those games did at least contribute to the series overall.
Surprised no Steam release, that would probably be some easy extra money for relatively little work.
Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it was a waste of time, Halo Wars as a whole was well worth the time.
I absolutely love Halo Wars. I got almost every achievement on the 360 and One and have put thousands of hours into the game. But Halo Wars 2 is awful, really awful compared to the first game. It bears almost no resemblance visually, and gameplay wise that it shouldn't have been called Halo Wars 2.
Hope that 343 will be able to make Halo Wars 3 once Infinite has launched. Either with Creative Assembly or with Relic Entertainment (after Age of Empires 4) depending of their schedules.
Halo Wars 2 is such a fantastic game, especially the Multiplayer and the Horde mode. Still playing every week or every day and always finding 3v3 games within 30 sec/1 min. Too bad it released before Game Pass was a thing though, it really could have helped the game even though it did well.
Sad about no Steam release though.
Halo Wars 2 is such a fantastic game, especially the Multiplayer and the Horde mode. Still playing every week or every day and always finding 3v3 games within 30 sec/1 min. Too bad it released before Game Pass was a thing though, it really could have helped the game even though it did well.
Sad about no Steam release though.
I stand by the DLC campaign being one of my favorite "popcorn RTS" experiences in years. 5(?) incredibly hectic missions.
IIRC it was Phil's love for the first game that got the second one made, It was never viewed as a big game as RTS on console is such a small niche, even on PC too.
I hope if Halo Wars 3 happen that they will reutilize some of the ideas of the failed pitch from 2017, especially the space battles and capital ships concepts.
Relic is already making Age of Empires 4 and CA is working Total War: Warhammer III.
I'd be down with Halo Tactics.
It didn't sell as much as the first one (and Xbox One sales would have prevented this anyway) but we know that it "sold more digital copies than physical copies by a notable margin" at launch. There is Gametstat but I don't think this site is reliable for Xbox games (was more than 3 million players in total I believe).
It wasn't the big success of the first game on the 360 but it wasn't a failure neither. It launched at a time when Game Pass didn't even exist unfortunately and wasn't helped on the PC side by being on the Windows Store only.
If it released today on Game Pass with +18M suscribers + Steam and Windows Store, it would do very differently for sure.
2 is superior on every point (especially the gameplay) except the map variety (though 3v3 has way more maps but these are less unique).
YayYap and cannon fodder rules.
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It sold fine for what it was. Nobody was expecting a console based RTS to sell millions and millions of copies. And it had a fairly good community for a bit of time
Halo Wars in the style of Sins of a Solar Empire would be amazing.
Good.
I want new types of games in the Halo universe that aren't RTS or twin stick shooters. I want third person shooters and RPGs
I want new types of games in the Halo universe that aren't RTS or twin stick shooters. I want third person shooters and RPGs
This is what I want. So much.I hope if Halo Wars 3 happen that they will reutilize some of the ideas of the failed pitch from 2017, especially the space battles and capital ships concepts.
We never got good numbers about Halo wars. It seemed it did not great. But was all based on NPD physical first week.
Zhu said later this.
Zhu said later this.
You think they would at least put it on Steam given how important the game is to Halo Infinite's plot.
It is available on Gamepass/MS Store.
What are you talking about? The second one has been on PC for awhile.
