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343 boss: next gen Halo 5 will be "genuinely amazing", Halo 4 is "best game in the series"

"2012 was supposed to be the end of the world," he began. "Instead, it was the beginning of ours. Halo 4, despite being the seventh or eighth game in the Halo series (depending on how you count them), was our first game. That is to say, our first-ever fully fledged title, built from the ground up creatively and technologically.

dirigiblebill4143d ago

Bigger environments, Scarab battles, Firefight and more crazy gadgetry like the Bubble Shields, pls.

Gazondaily4143d ago

""Halo 4 is the best and fastest-selling Halo game in the series. "

Is he actually saying best game or best selling game in the series because to me it appears as if he's saying the latter.

nukeitall4143d ago

He is saying it is the best game AND the "fastest" selling game in the Halo series.

He is NOT selling "best" selling, not yet at least.

TheGamerDood4143d ago

Genuinely amazing? They're promising a lot now aren't they.

MikeMyers4142d ago

So will Halo 5 finally handle more than 16 players online?

shutUpAndTakeMyMoney4143d ago

Which is the best halo idk.. Why nobody ask them for a new franchise on 360? idk...

nukeitall4143d ago

Because not everybody constantly wants new franchises. Some of us was eagerly anticipating the 4th Halo with Master Chief.

I was!

darthv724142d ago

polyphony digital for a new franchise on PS?

BitbyDeath4142d ago (Edited 4142d ago )

I agree with Darth, even Polyphony Digital should mix it up a bit every now and then. Surely working constantly on one title must stale the imagination.

Even if it's a small PSN/XBLA type game. I know i'd certainly welcome more random games like Tokyo Jungle and Journey.

Intentions4143d ago

This.

Seeing as the X360 held H4 back in terms of scale etc.

Walker4143d ago

best game in the series ? are you kidding me ?
Worst Halo campaign since 2, and the MP is average at best. Not totally fucking it up was a major achievement, but it's not the best anything.

IMO: Halo 3 > Halo:CE = Reach > Halo 2 > ODST > Halo 4

StrongMan4143d ago

Exactly.

Halo 4- 87 metacritic score.

Best in the series?

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Gazondaily4143d ago

Oh so now you use Metacritic, but when comparing GT with Forza and the like, its all of sudden, magically broken.

Metacritic is broken- only because of a couple of downright ridiculous reviews did it get down-voted.

greenpowerz4143d ago (Edited 4143d ago )

As time goes on and generations pass games have different expectations.

Comparing the same game across different generations isn't the same as comparing two different games in the same genre with media reviewing the offereings of both.

Twilight is still right and you failed.

So many variables in comparing the same game across the series life span, Amount of Reviwers, how old the series is etc.

When reviewers review the different games in the same genre they use benchmark approaches and not just *if its changed or stayed the same* approach

Loki864143d ago (Edited 4143d ago )

As a professional Halo player (who gets paid to play), you couldn't be more wrong. This is the best feeling halo since Halo 2. Halo 3 had screen tear, misdirected shots, and performance issues. Reach had several issues with targeting and performance slow down.

The real order according to most actual fans:

Halo CE>Halo 2>Halo 4>Halo 3>Halo Reach>Halo ODST.

DOMination-4143d ago

Halo 3 the best in the series? Really?

Mainsqueeze4143d ago

My Halo order from best to worst is Halo 2, Halo CE, Halo 3, Halo 4, Halo Reach, Halo ODST. I can't stand the maps in Halo 4, the only map 343 made that truly supports competitive play is Haven. I was planning on going to an MLG event or two for Halo 4 but then i realized that 343 has no idea how to and maybe even no intentions of supporting the competitive crowd. Plus there's a huge chance that Halo 4 won't even be at a single MLG event due to contract issues and a lack of support from 343 and Microsoft. I also dislike the use of jetpacks and thrusters in competitive play since it makes it too easy for players to save themselves after putting themselves in bad situations as well as gain power positions on the map. Also 343 failed to put in a competitive ranking system, I'm always getting worthless max level players on my team that have negative KD's and lose the game for my team. Currently the only playlist in halo 4 that doesn't support 5 or more players is Infinity slayer, the only playlist that doesn't have vehicles is oddball, and SWAT is the only playlist that doesn't have a radar. The first map pack consists of only larger vehicle based maps and zero maps based on competitive arena play. What the hell happened to good old 4v4 Halo games on smaller maps based on how good your 4 shot was with the BR?

I do however think that the campaign of Halo 4 is probably the 3rd best in the series behind Halo CE and Halo 3. Jump heights, player speed and shot detection are all the best the series has seen since halo 2 as well. And once the BR was implemented and load outs were taken out of competitive play it started to feel a little more like the good old days of Halo 2 and 3 and not the jetpacking boltshot camping fest it has become of late. For me Halo 4 could have been the best in the series, but 343 lack in supporting competitive play turned me off from it. Here's to hoping Halo 5 will be good for both casuals and competitive players alike.

ZigZagLagger4142d ago

who the fuck uses the metacritic score to judge a game? that shit is way wack, son!

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Black-Helghast4143d ago

Halo 4 better than Halo 3? 343's boss doing Crystal Meth or something?

lastofgen4143d ago

you believe that odst and halo reach are better than halo 4??

lol..

General Shrooms4143d ago

I agree, I want to like it so much but I can't. Halo 4 is worst halo. (at least in terms of multiplayer)

Lvl_up_gamer4143d ago

IMO: Halo CE > Halo 4 > Halo 3 > Halo Reach > Halo ODST > Halo 2

Halo CE is only my #1 in the franchise because I hold such strong nostalgia towards it remembering the times using XBC or Gamespy to portal into multiplayer and play online matches with my buddy on blood gulch. Subtract the nostalgia I had....Halo 4 all the way.

crzyjackbauer4143d ago

H4 multiplayer is garbage
hell even reach's multiplayer aint that bad compared to 4

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SuicidalTendencies4143d ago

Best in the series? The campaign was decent at best. The thing that really pisses me off was no firefight. Instead, we get shitty Spartan Ops, and the real pisser is you need a gold account to play despite the fact it can be played alone. Yeah, I'm probably not buying any more Halo from these guys. Bungie at least looked out for their fans.

BlackTar1874143d ago

I couldn't believe the Gold for Ops. I was at my brothers playing when i first saw this i was kinda upset but i have gold so it didn't really affect me just thought how scandoucious

EddieNX 4143d ago

Halo 4 was great. But at the end of the day it felt like Halo 3.....

majiebeast4143d ago (Edited 4143d ago )

Thats a pretty arrogant statement to make.

HebrewHammer4143d ago

They're drunk on Microsoft money at the moment.

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Nintendo says Switch 2 will be officially announced before the end of March 2025

This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct this June regarding the Nintendo Switch software lineup for the latter half of 2024, but please be aware that there will be no mention of the Nintendo Switch successor during that presentation.

Profchaos8d ago (Edited 8d ago )

I'm excited for a switch 2 however I don't feel it will be coming this year as per the tweet in they are commuting to a reveal in this Japanese financial year in 2025.

Realistically we will get one last holiday season to focus on the switch because it would be madness for Nintendo to go into the holidays where the switch always performs well when they have announced a switch 2.

I'm thinking we see a announcement late Jan 25 personally with a release between March and June depending on when the software is ready and how strong the holday sales were if they need to boost those figures for the next earnings call or not

gold_drake8d ago

yea agreed. they'll probably match it with the new pkmn game they announced

VenomUK8d ago

So it begins!

Where one contender pulls out of the game, another comes back bigger and stronger.

Nintendo Switch 2 - let the games begin.

Cacabunga7d ago

A new Splatoon launch title for sure.. hoping they change the recipe and make it open world.

I think it’ll come out Q1 25. Let’s wait and see

H98d ago

There's a event in June for games on the switch and they said there won't be a switch 2 announcement so no way they will announce the console after june and still release it in the same year

Eonjay8d ago

So, I think they will shoot for another FYQ4 release (like with the first Switch) but I am confused by the headline:

'[...] Switch 2 will be officially ANNOUNCED before the end of March 2025' This implies that the Switch 2 isn't coming out till maybe holiday 2025 or maybe even 2026. I think they will be better served by NOT releasing when GTA 6 launches (unless there is some shocking reveal that it will run on Switch 2). Release early 2025.

Neonridr8d ago

I'd say it'll be released before March 2025 tbh.

notachance8d ago

Holiday announcement with summer launch

thesoftware7308d ago

It should be an interesting year; Sony, Nintendo, and MS all have new Hardware to show.

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PS5 Pro specs leak video taken down by Sony

Sony is taking actions as video by Moore’s Law is Dead, has been issued with a copyright claim.

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andy8528d ago

And people say it's all fake because Sony haven't said anything 😂 conveniently forget the PS4 Pro was only announced 2 months before release.

BeHunted28d ago

It's fake. There's no factual evidence other than his own made up specs.

Hereandthere28d ago

What were the specks Sony was afraid of showing?

Shikoku28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

Digital foundry put a video out saying what he leaked was exactly what they also knew about the PS5 PRO. So no it's not just stuff he made up

Babadook728d ago (Edited 28d ago )

If it’s fake what copyright does MLID infringe upon?

😂

andy8528d ago

Aye because they'd go to the effort of copyright claiming it if it didn't exist 🙃😂 you'd have to be a special kind to be thinking its not a thing by now

Cacabunga28d ago

They need to reveal it with uncharted killzone or a heavy hitter like this

Ironmike28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

U mean the specs that we'll established digital foundry which said these are the actual specs published a video on 2 weeks ago I mean they are only one of most trusted sites for tech information but they just made up a video for the sake of it

Christopher27d ago

I would love for it all to be fake, but lots of people are saying they've seen/heard the same thing. But, man, we 100% don't need mid-gen upgrades when we're failing hard to optimize current hardware.

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Seraphim27d ago (Edited 27d ago )

if I recall Sony lowered sales expectations for PS5 earlier this year. if that is the case we won't hear anything about a Pro until next year or shortly before/when it's dropping. After all, if the Pro was dropping this year/fiscal year they wouldn't have lowered expectations.

As for squashing rumors. Yeah, shit like this prevents potential buyers from adopting now, just like slim rumors in the past. It only makes sense to keep things under wraps from a business perspective. Despite living in a technological age of unfettered access to information we don't need to know whats going on behind closed doors be that at Sony, Nintendo, MS, or amongst any development studios. When the steak is done we shall feast.

JackBNimble27d ago

By the time games are actually made to take advantage of the pro spec's the ps6 will be released or close to it.

jznrpg28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

Just announce it already! I want to preorder one asap. But in reality they don’t want to lessen PS5 sales until Pro is ready to launch so I understand the business part of it. September is probably when they announce it with an early November launch like the PS4 Pro

Ironmike28d ago

Pro won't lessen sales sames ps4 pro never and the ps4 pro was more relevant at the time cos move to 4k this not needed

RaidenBlack28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

Yea, my brother got his PS4 (coz of a good deal) after the PS4 Pro's release.

darthv7227d ago

^^same here. I got a base 4 for only $100 off a guy who bought the Pro. then a few months later I found a guy on craigslist selling a pro for $100 because it was left behind by his former roommate who moved out. That was the beginning of my obsession to buy up the different variants of the PS4 that were released.

As of now I am really only missing the 500m one and the gold slim but otherwise I have pretty much all the other retail ones. https://consolevariations.c...

crazyCoconuts27d ago

Anyone with 4K that appreciates 60fps is gonna disagree about it not being needed.
DLSS is a god send for Nvidia, and there's been nothing like it for AMD...yet ...

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DeadlyFire27d ago

They will announce it around E3 timeframe about May-June whenever they do a showcase for the year.

neutralgamer199228d ago

Just announce it this thing will sell well

Ironmike28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

I don't think it will pll still haven't seen the potential of ps5 yet

Cacabunga27d ago

agreed, but it might sell if they announce some 1st party games to lead the way. if people see the difference with the base version they can move on. for my sake I am still gaming mainly on PS4 (still not finished with RDR2 due to lack of gaming time). I have a huge backlog on PS5 I am hoping to get into.

mark3214uk28d ago

why? game makers havnt even come close to maxing out current spec yet, were getting al lthese new TFlops and game maker are making crappy remakes not worthy of the ps3

Minute Man 72128d ago

The guts of the 5 and X are 5 years old

fr0sty27d ago

People keep saying that, yet we still have games running at near HD resolutions, 30fps, and ray tracing features turned off.

PRIMORDUS28d ago (Edited 28d ago )

I would take that video and upload a torrent of it, fuck that copyright bullshit. If your going to do something that has a chance of being taken down, make a torrent first share it. Then Sony or any other company is helpless and you can laugh in their faces, taunting them to try to take it down 🤣

LoveSpuds28d ago

With kind of analysis and advice, you could be a lawyer for Trump!🤣

tronyx1228d ago

As much as the PS4 Pro didn't represent a major % in the playerbase, announcing a 'better' model will hinder sales from the 'base' model. They are right, business-wise.

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XDefiant misses launch window, Ubi says a new release date will be announced after stress test

XDefiant was originally supposed to be out in summer 2023, but following a seemingly-successful beta test in April of that year, it was bumped to October 2023, and then delayed again to an unspecified future date. In its February 2024 financial report, Ubisoft slated XDefiant for launch in the fourth quarter of its 2023-24 fiscal year, which ended March 31.

A week before that date arrived, rumors surfaced that the game would be delayed yet again, and a few days later Ubisoft made it official.

"The game has always been community-first, with player feedback as a top priority," the development team said in the update. "While we hoped to go live by the end of March, there are still some improvements that we need to test before that."

Ubisoft said it's "finishing preparations" for a server stress test that will run for 12 hours on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. "After this short test, we expected to be able to lock a launch date and start sharing more about exciting content XDefiant has to offer in the future!"

just_looken43d ago (Edited 43d ago )

The previous news was from the team/rumors this is ubisoft themselves now saying the game is delayed again no new date set but they will have a stress test on a date that has not been set.

So the game is delayed to _____ TBD
Network stress test at ____ TBD

Ubisoft we make games whenever for whoever we just do not care

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X-2342d ago

I'm just going to be honest here and say what people seem to not want to, XDefiant success is going to be short-lived and it's because it's a game that's going to be under Ubisoft's umbrella. The development team can be absolute rockstars, but with Ubisoft steering the ship it's not going to go anywhere.

Profchaos42d ago

It could be a truely amazing game (it won't be) but with Ubisoft it will be monitized within a inch of its life.

smolinsk42d ago

The game is dead move on. It's the same with the Finals. These short period hype games doesn't last.

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