Halo MCC/Infinite/general Griefing thread - Six months, two maps, no refunds

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Now, are most of these creators total shills? Yes. But they still managed to con more than half the community as well as newcomers into similarly hyping up Halo Wars 2 to be the greatest Halo product to date, far outshining Halo 4 and 5. "Impact" is a nebulous attribution when stacked up against a franchise that's been putting out dogshit for almost a decade since Reach and most of its oldest following is plagued by fatigue with the series at this point.

Is it just me or is Halo wars just extremely overrated?
Like I guess it's good in terms of console strategy games but I feel people are deluding themselves if they think it holds up as one of the great Real Time Strategy games

 

[Miller]

How about instead of a remake of Halo 1 Microsoft just rips off Helldivers but with Spartan 3's set during the middle of the Human Covenant War. Is it original? Hell no, but at the very least it would have the possibility to be fun.!

If I'm not mistaken, a Halo dev said that several employees had ideas for spin-offs in different genres (RTS, Battle Royale, co-op like Helldivers 2 before it was a thing) and the higher ups at 343 weren't interested.

 

[The Bogwater Flows On]

I'm so happy Halo ended with Halo: Reach. While I don't think it's the best Halo game ever, it was a good note to go out on.

 

[3deadniggers]

If I'm not mistaken, a Halo dev said that several employees had ideas for spin-offs in different genres (RTS, Battle Royale, co-op like Helldivers 2 before it was a thing) and the higher ups at 343 weren't interested.

343 rejected hundreds of ideas while working on Infinite. They refused to have anything to compete with while they never released anything themselves.

 

[King Dead]

Is it just me or is Halo wars just extremely overrated?
Like I guess it's good in terms of console strategy games but I feel people are deluding themselves if they think it holds up as one of the great Real Time Strategy games

For an RTS on a console, Halo Wars is pretty good. You can tell that Ensemble put a lot of thought into how to make it work, even if it would have assuredly been better not to even bother trying and just release it on PC instead. Still, the end product turned out to be pretty fun for what it was, it played rather well on a controller, and the campaign managed to work in a lot of the Halo mainstays without breaking the timeline (the Spirit of Fire couldn't relate the existence of the Flood to the UNSC because they were stranded in the end). It's just a shame that it ended up killing the studio in the end.

When viewed in the grand scheme of things? Nah, it's not one of the greats. It's very simplistic (by design, of course), so it doesn't really hold a candle to the better games in the genre. It's decent enough for a playthrough if you pick it up on sale, but not much beyond that.

 

[geckogoy]

It's just a shame that it ended up killing the studio in the end.

That was just the microsoft CEO being retarded, they weren't losing money or anything.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Is it just me or is Halo wars just extremely overrated?
Like I guess it's good in terms of console strategy games but I feel people are deluding themselves if they think it holds up as one of the great Real Time Strategy games

Halo Wars is a good babby's first RTS, and a decent console RTS since there isn't as much competition there as on PC. Just because it's simplistic doesn't mean it's bad either, it's a good time even if it does feel like action figures smashing each other sometimes instead of any real tactics on your part. The story to the first game wasn't that bad either, can't talk for the second game since I never played it.
Has anything new and interesting been excavated from the recent Macworld leak?

 

[Nameless One]

Has anything new and interesting been excavated from the recent Macworld leak?

Not really, no. The halo 3 pirate thing was cool. That's about it. Halo is dead and dried up.

 

[Nameless One]

0:30

 

[30+GameOvers]

Not really, no. The halo 3 pirate thing was cool. That's about it. Halo is dead and dried up.

What was the Halo 3 pirate thing?

 

[Nameless One]

What was the Halo 3 pirate thing?

Pimps at sea* alpha build name but its a mod idfk same names, it comes from a weird cancelled Bungie game by the same name.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Pimps at sea* alpha build name but its a mod idfk same names, it comes from a weird cancelled Bungie game by the same name.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gjp1bE3FWTE

I heard of the group and the leak, but I thought that one was a nothing burger. I will check out the video.

 

[Nameless One]

I heard of the group and the leak, but I thought that one was a nothing burger. I will check out the video.

Its a pretty cool mod as usual by inferno.

Spoiler

Though I wish he was as autistic with Dark Souls 1 modding so maybe it can finally move forward a few fucking years

 

[Endu]

With all this talk of mods and leaked gamemodes, I find it appropriate to post this old Bungie vidoc from an era where Halo was made by people who liked fun

 

[SanctedElectromagnetism]

343 rejected hundreds of ideas while working on Infinite. They refused to have anything to compete with while they never released anything themselves.

apparently there was a pitch to make a spin off game based on that space jet fight in Reach. You would have a space shuttle and would fight other players.

No idea why they didn't make this. A pretty simple game that surely would have sold well

 

[Nameless One]

Leaked Halo 2 E3 Zanzibart multiplayer demo cutscenes (2025)

3:37

One of the biggest and likely final Halo leaks we'll ever get in this lifetime.

This has been a very interesting year so far.

Multiple playable builds leaked.

1:13

While Halo Studios (343) will be stagnant, I hope more bombshells like this happen.
I'm late but if any of you have footage or record yourself playing these builds, please archive them. The leaked Halo 3 guardian forest level was struck down by Microsoft on YouTube. I'd do this myself if I had access to my computer. We need to archive everything in this leak before Microsoft try to go full scorched Earth.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Someone needs to do a full writeup of everything in this leak, like we've seen people documenting the recent Pokemon Teraleak.
Edit: Local copy of the above Forest video

 

[Nameless One]

Literal goldmine.

Anyways have a nostalgia trip. "Halo 2 Prototype" was the title of the video. This creator made a few Halo 2 montages with DVD quality, which was "a pretty cool thing back in 2005". You can find his stuff on YouTube. Projekt2k.

2:26

Songs: "Paris In Flames" by Thursday, "Your Stories, My Alibies" by Matchbook Romance, "Emotional Drought" by Chevelle, "What Drives The Weak" by Shadows Fall, "Silhouette" by Thrice, and "Sad But True" by Metallica.


Halo 2 finally had its mostly OG Xbox graphics/textures restored by a fan for MCC:

Still missing some OG Xbox effects of course, like the light/reflective bloom.

 

[Lance 45]

Someone needs to do a full writeup of everything in this leak, like we've seen people documenting the recent Pokemon Teraleak.
Edit: Local copy of the above Forest video

Any links to it?

The cut forerunner forest level would have definitely given the ark the kind of massive superstructure atmosphere it deserved. In the final game it just feels smaller and more confined than Installation 04.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Halo confirmed coming to PS5 in 2025