This feels sad for everyone involved.
There’s so many okay games that could be remastered into excellent ones.
If I didn’t have the Master Chief Collection, I would obtain my copy before Microsoft makes it have an “accident”.
My prediction: Minecraft crossover DLC within a year of release.
Advertised with a chicken jockey riding on a covenant walker.
Halo 1 will have 3 different versions on PC before Halo 5 gets any. H5 must have really sucked.
The good: Gunplay was the best of new 343’s Halo games. They made the Prometheans fun to fight. Warzone was the only good thing to come out of 343’s multiplayers. The lootboxes which could be earned was better than infinite’s paid season passes and expensive armor cores. They also had probably the only good iconic anything from the 343 games in the Guardians. On top of that, they had the best villain of the 343 games (evil Cortana).
The bad: They brought back Cortana after a amazing send off. The Didact never appears again despite having a teaser at the end of 4. Half the story is you playing a random Spartan chasing John for being “suspicious”. The team dynamic isn’t great and is leaned into. Warden Eternal SUCKS. And then he sucks again. And again. NO SPLIT SCREEN, AT ALL! No real Firefight, but none of 343’s games have had real Firefight.
Anyways, infinite sucks and I wish it didn’t exist. I’d rather have had a Halo 6 close out the Promethean story and do more with the Guardians.
I think the original trilogy (plus Reach and ODST) work because while there’s a ton of lore, the really convoluted stuff is kind of at the background to the moment to moment feel of the game. The most forward facing content is a pastiche of other easily digestible scifi that’s all mixed together in a fun, interesting way. You’ve got conventional humans who feel like a straight expansion of the colonial marines from Aliens up against a diverse and interesting array of aliens. The Covenant are a refinement from Pathways Into Darkness and then the Marathon games. You’ve got the flood as a space zombie change of pace.
It all mixes together well and the more detailed lore can be built on top of it. There are many intentional gaps and hooks which can suggest things without having to be addressed explicitly, leaving room for some mystery.
After those games, the series kind of imploded under the weight of its own lore since the developers/writers chose to bring all of those mysterious elements to the forefront. It gave less interesting enemies to fight, and less motivation to care. I doubt many people have moments from those games burned into their memories the same way moments from the original trilogy are.
The regular multiplayer was great but it’s quite similar to Infinite’s multiplayer. I didn’t like Warzone and yeah the campaign really sucked.
The original magic and talent behind the Halo series is long gone. All that’s left is a corporate shell with billions of dollars to burn on a soulless cash grab for those looking back at the series with nostalgia.
Well said
Wait. Didn’t Halo: The Master Chief Collection already have a remaster for Halo 1??
Yes, but there are a lot of complaints. The classic visuals were missing effects present in the original xbox release, and the remade visuals lost an enormous amount of personality and detail. I don’t think I would buy halo 1 again (certainly not for more than $10) but it would be nice to have a definitive version
The MCC Halo had a graphical remaster on the original engine, that’s why you could swap between original and remaster visuals on the fly. The upcoming project is a remake on a new engine with changes to gameplay and design.
Oh.
Dun wannit then. :(
Yes. Halo CE plus changes on a new engine sounds strictly worse.
Sprint? Thats not Halo. We have told 343 this for 3 games in a row and they just refuse to listen.
Halo is long dead. The brand name is the one thing left.
343 needs to go back and rewatch the VODs Bungie put out explaining their weapons triangle, and the reason for shields and armor
The bar was set so low by the remaster that this will undoubtedly do well.
This is my first hearing of this. With the latest Xbox news, I doubt I will consider the pruchase.
You can always play it without having to consider purchasing it
