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Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo (www.pcgamer.com)
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At least we will get another Fallout from the hands of Obsidian right? Right?

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[–] [S] 15 points 4 days ago (6 children)

CODification here it comes. Couldn't be worse than the current state of Halo though?

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    Halo became what it is now because they tried to turn it into CoD, so it couldn't be better either

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    I would argue that it probably does give better odds for it at Activision. They already have CoD. They don't need to turn Halo into CoD. They can just use Halo to do something new.

    I think I remember that they made a CoD with like mech suits or something, and a lot more movement mechanics, and it wasn't received well. That's basically what Halo is. Now they can go fully into that without CoD players complaining that it isn't CoD.

    I don't have much faith in this, but I do think there's better odds for a better Halo with Activision probably. 343 didn't get it. Activision may not, but doing something new has to be better than continuing to fuck things up over and over.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (3 children)

    343 has been trying to do "something new" (chasing trends, mostly) every time they didn't remaster an existing game, it's not necesssarily going to work out.

    At this point Halo is just a brand, a franchise, a trademark to be slapped onto whatever the IP owners want to do with a popularity boost - the story (/ lore / narrative) has been brought to hell and back and to hell again, and the gameplay has been bent so much with each title that it doesn't really have an identity anymore either.

    CoD players won't like it because it's not CoD, Halo players will play it for a few hours because At Least It's Kinda Fun I Guess™, everyone else will be like "Halo? Like, the one Jesus had?", and whatever contractors Microsoft/Activision will hire won't be given enough time, space or resources to cook something that is more than mediocre.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    I mean something new as in let someone else have a try. 343 has been failing constantly. Letting them keep trying probably isn't going to solve the issue. It's worth trying literally anything else than having them keep at it.

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