As good as an update is, I wish they would have shown some Multiplayer gameplay. That would tide me over until the next drop of footage. At least we know the MP most likely features BR starts.
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Halo Infinite Launch Window Confirmed (Fall 2021)
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You can't tell me this Joe. I was already excited enough. I had already maxed out the "hype meter." Stop trying to break it.
P.S. He's not kidding when he says "the Halo we imagined back in 2000." It was an open-world game before Microsoft bought them.
I honestly can't believe they actually got a full year to go back and fix some and polish stuff. Good on Microsoft can't really say much else
Good to hear it, I hope this generous stretch of time obviates the perceived need for crunch. Those screens are looking really solid.
This map made me think of Reach's Countdown.I'm not sure why there's such odd obsession with the worn industrial aesthetic.
Halo 5:
Infinite:
All of the screenshots outside of the two for the multiplayer maps look good. I'm just worried that the multiplayer maps are going to lack inspiration, as I felt Halo 5's maps (in terms of aesthetics and design) were downright terrible.
For some perhaps, but I'm not going to make any silly predictions like that until I see more footage and try it myself.
It sucks but I'd rather take their time. With it being a full year just drop the Xbox One version.
Missed this news. I hate gamers and warriors man. I don't care how it looked I could be playing that multiplayer now. Fuck
Yeah a few other developers could and should have applied the same methods to their own releases.
Codemasters and CD Projekt....
I feared it, but not surprised the delay was a year long. If they bit the bullet on the delay, they were gonna make it worth it.
I love most of the MS studios but have no faith in 343. That said. I hope they knock it out of the park. I want to eat a huge slice of crow.
Good luck 343, I want to be excited about Halo again
Good luck 343, I want to be excited about Halo again
The delay is a good idea. It'll be here in no time anyway. Plus it now releasing around the anniversary is appropriate.
I'll just have to play the other games again for the millionth time in preparation.
I'll just have to play the other games again for the millionth time in preparation.
This looks amazing. I am all for getting better games and finished products. Here is to hoping they continue the momentum.
Silly? I'm just going on my personal experience with Xbox first party games as a whole for all of the Xbox One generation. Subjective? Yes. Silly? No.
I don't care how rude this is.
343's handling of the Halo Franchise since taking over in 2010 has been a complete embarrassment, and the fact that Microsoft let their Flagship Franchise get to this state is very depressing. If Halo : Infinite is not a good game, the Halo franchise needs to be given a nice long break, and transition 343 Studio's onto other projects. Take the Halo franchise away from them because they clearly aren't capable of working on it. 500+ developers working on this title, a nearly infinite budget, like 3 companies outsourced and brought in to help create the game, and this is the state the Game is in despite having since 2016 to start working on this title.
Build a new studio from the ground up that are actually capable of producing a good Halo title.
Hoping for the best, as a massive Halo fan, but 343's track record this entire last decade doesn't leave me optimistic.
343's handling of the Halo Franchise since taking over in 2010 has been a complete embarrassment, and the fact that Microsoft let their Flagship Franchise get to this state is very depressing. If Halo : Infinite is not a good game, the Halo franchise needs to be given a nice long break, and transition 343 Studio's onto other projects. Take the Halo franchise away from them because they clearly aren't capable of working on it. 500+ developers working on this title, a nearly infinite budget, like 3 companies outsourced and brought in to help create the game, and this is the state the Game is in despite having since 2016 to start working on this title.
Build a new studio from the ground up that are actually capable of producing a good Halo title.
Hoping for the best, as a massive Halo fan, but 343's track record this entire last decade doesn't leave me optimistic.
Wow, a whole year. I did not expect that.
As disappointed as I am that the game is going to need a whole extra year of delay, and as... confused... as I was by the demo in July, I think Microsoft deserve a ton of credit for delaying their marquee title not just out of the launch window (which would've been a really painful decision), but giving the team an entire additional year to make sure it's the best it can be. That's bananas, and not something Microsoft would've done 7-8 years ago. Especially when you consider all of the contractual tie-in marketing that continued on without it.
As disappointed as I am that the game is going to need a whole extra year of delay, and as... confused... as I was by the demo in July, I think Microsoft deserve a ton of credit for delaying their marquee title not just out of the launch window (which would've been a really painful decision), but giving the team an entire additional year to make sure it's the best it can be. That's bananas, and not something Microsoft would've done 7-8 years ago. Especially when you consider all of the contractual tie-in marketing that continued on without it.
While it's possible that they can't introduce any major design changes, they've still got a year left. If the team has to spend any time optimizing for One X|S, that's time saved.
It's easy for me to say this as I picked up XSX, but I'm all for dropping the current gen on this title. The main reason being that they've described it as a "platform", and even if MS wanted to commit to supporting One S with first party content 1-2 years in, Infinite could be getting updates well beyond that. Perhaps they could just make an announcement that future support for One X|S will be dropped?
Wow delayed a whole year when it was so close to just coming out as it was. Just shows how needlessly rushed they were.
From Staten in the blog:
So, the main story beats and world are all pretty much built and ready to go. They are just taking their time on fleshing it out and optimizing. I'm glad to hear it.
This AMAZING news. In Joe Staten we trust.
Love everything I'm hearing about this and the screens how so much promise. Lighting is significantly better.
With the pandemic still around, delaying it was absolutely the right thing to do, all games being shipped are suffering from bugs, hopefully, by summer next year Devs will be working together indoors which should really streamline alot of the disruption WFH has brought.
Love everything I'm hearing about this and the screens how so much promise. Lighting is significantly better.
With the pandemic still around, delaying it was absolutely the right thing to do, all games being shipped are suffering from bugs, hopefully, by summer next year Devs will be working together indoors which should really streamline alot of the disruption WFH has brought.
I think the game would be a better product overall. Maybe support the One X and the Series S/X?
I just wanted to say those multiplayer screenshots look great until I saw the in-engine render BS again. It's not going to even remotely look like that huh.
Either way, I see a lot of improvements on the visual side. Any info on the story aspect ? I thought H5 had such bad writing but the villain dialogue at the end of Infinites demo was honestly worse than anything in Halo 5. That has me immensely worried. More so than the visuals. Honestly they need to improve every aspect from visuals to story to gameplay (gameplay felt 1 step in the right direction but not a big step imo, the grappler needs an upgrade, has to feel more fluent feels like the grappler is an arrow that never bends at all times when it should be fluid, gunplay could use some more oomph gameplay should take some ideas from Doom). I'm not expecting a legendary Halo game, since it's 343, but I just want a good Halo game with a kickass single player campaign. Hoping for a better multiplayer as well. 5 lacked everything as well aside from maybe gameplay mechanics. I hated the map (design), the whole industrial monotone aspect, felt so lifeless to me. As fun as the gameplay was. Hopefully they have a battle royale type of game mode because if there's 1 game that would be PERFECT for it it would be Halo, imagine hijacking all sorts of vehicles, flawless executions, the chaos it could cause, I'm just picturing a large battlefield with banshees, warthogs, pelicans, tanks with a large group of soldiers pffffff...a well executed Halo BR game like this could be BEAUTIFUL.
Either way, I see a lot of improvements on the visual side. Any info on the story aspect ? I thought H5 had such bad writing but the villain dialogue at the end of Infinites demo was honestly worse than anything in Halo 5. That has me immensely worried. More so than the visuals. Honestly they need to improve every aspect from visuals to story to gameplay (gameplay felt 1 step in the right direction but not a big step imo, the grappler needs an upgrade, has to feel more fluent feels like the grappler is an arrow that never bends at all times when it should be fluid, gunplay could use some more oomph gameplay should take some ideas from Doom). I'm not expecting a legendary Halo game, since it's 343, but I just want a good Halo game with a kickass single player campaign. Hoping for a better multiplayer as well. 5 lacked everything as well aside from maybe gameplay mechanics. I hated the map (design), the whole industrial monotone aspect, felt so lifeless to me. As fun as the gameplay was. Hopefully they have a battle royale type of game mode because if there's 1 game that would be PERFECT for it it would be Halo, imagine hijacking all sorts of vehicles, flawless executions, the chaos it could cause, I'm just picturing a large battlefield with banshees, warthogs, pelicans, tanks with a large group of soldiers pffffff...a well executed Halo BR game like this could be BEAUTIFUL.
Sounds like Destiny's shader system for the "coatings".
And that is 10000% perfect and amazing to hear. Can't wait to see how decked out and obnoxious I can make my MP player look ahaha.
Great job everyone, just don't overdetail the Forerunner environments now and we'll be set <3
And that is 10000% perfect and amazing to hear. Can't wait to see how decked out and obnoxious I can make my MP player look ahaha.
Great job everyone, just don't overdetail the Forerunner environments now and we'll be set <3
so did the in-engine trailer from 2018, i'd prefer they show some gameplay.
but if the game ends up looking like the screens it will be fine.
I think gamepass can hold the console over until fall 2021. Once halo drops, I predict a flood gate of 1st party games to follow.
Hey! gameplay looked fantastic, and I'm thrilled with what the extra time has allowed 343 to do. Good luck with everything!!
If it wasn't hitting in spring, it wasn't releasing in summer. At that point it's fall and a massive blowout for the game.
If we take what this interview is saying at face value, it sounds like the team was satisfied with the way the game felt, but they knew they weren't where they wanted to be in terms of visuals. We don't know if the delay discussion was happening prior to July, but a recent interview with Phil (I forgot which one), kind of alludes to that having been possible.
It just seems too messy to make that split, but who knows?
In fairness, 343 were handed a pretty difficult situation. They were a new studio handed a massive franchise with a pre-existing audience that had just had it's epic conclusion - the main macguffin neutralized, the main antagonists broken and scattered - and told to make more. And they were doing so at a time of huge underinvestment in Microsoft's first-party studios, when Halo largely had to make it's ~3 year cadence as a holiday tentpole. No slowing the train down for this nascent studio to take some extra time to figure out what to do with this franchise.
Mistakes were most certainly made - most notably with the woeful launch state of the original MCC - but I don't envy that studio the hand they were dealt.
And we don't know the budget for Infinite. The 500 million dollar figure was, AFAIK, from a single source that was never confirmed to be reliable.
That was a very good end of year blog, lots of real details and pertinent screenshots. Overall they seem to have a pretty good plan and I'm personally onboard with coatings, though I know they won't be able to help themselves and will have cosmetics that ruin the visual atmosphere of the game in Multiplayer. I hope they can be disabled...
Well, other than the standard costs of development, which really is just employee, office and licencing costs. A delay on a product has costs in the form of renegotiating and restarting entire PR and Marketing Campaigns.
For a big cultureal icon title like Halo, Microsoft goes absolutely nuts with that stuff. They plaster the brand everywhere and in everything. So all that stuff that you see now with the logo on pizza pops, Slurpee cups, mega blocks, billboards, commercials, ads, ect. All that stuff will have to be restarted. Which will cost Microsoft a small fortune.
Of course, thankfully for Microsoft. Halo makes a Metric fuck tonne of money between game sales, the sales of its expanded media, and licencing. Which is the reason why Microsoft goes insane for Halo marketing.
Having just started Halo 4, I actually get this. So much about the Prometheans (and the game as a whole) feels overdesigned compared to Halo 1-3 :/
I was hoping for early 2021, but if the visuals get significantly revamped then I'm ok with it! I'm sure there will be plenty of games to hold me over until then.