Microsoft intends to make VR waves with the Windows Mixed Reality platform.
Today the Halo Livestream unleashed a torrent of news bits, updates, and insight on a pretty diverse range of topics near and dear to a Halo fan’s heart – including Halo 5’s Overtime content update, important Halo esports info, and news on Halo: The Master Chief Collection. Plus, the release of Xbox One X in just a few weeks will usher in a new way to experience some of your favorite Halo titles making them look and play better than ever before.
Get out of this MLG crap and focus on the game being fun.When Blizzard made overwatch they didn't make it for MLG, they made it fun first and it naturally just become the biggest MLG shooter.Start by making Halo actually play distintically again and not having ADS,Sprint,etc. so its just another clone of another fps
I miss the iconic maps and space jumps that made halo
Couldn't have said it better. They developed Halo 5 alongside pro gamers...their first mistake. Why can counter strike keep out sprint but halo can't?
I appreciate halo 5 in the sense that atleast they understood getting rid of the class system was good and that ever player starts the same.
Also maybe what they did with weapon spawns and having them be seen and countdown on the maps was a good change they should keep idk but I think we can say halo 5 took halo in a better direction than 4 was taking it
I wanna pretend halo 4 multiplayer never exsisted
Improvements and updates to fix long standing issues with MCC three years post launch is not acceptable and not something I think they should be praised for. Enhancements yes, but resolving faults, absolutely not.
"It’s painfully short, unfortunately: perhaps ten waves at best. And like trying to pop balloons with a pellet gun at a carnival ride, none of your targets fight back. They also don’t come in from your flanks or attack you from behind. You don’t even have to engage your brain, thinking about when to reload – its endless clips - or when to swap out your gun to meet the next threat effectively. And criminally, you don’t get to pick up an energy sword and gut something."
Waste of a launch game opportunity if you ask me. Microsoft need to go so much harder with its key brands.
But why? Why didn't they go the distance and create more than a tech demo, but a system seller?
Because then Xbox fans would be upset they're not getting a Halo game. Who knows, they've been so quiet on what Halo 6 actually is (beyond re-introducing split screen and more focus on the Chief) that the research from this experience could go into it for a launch Xbox VR title/"experience".
But again who knows, because Scorpio was going to have the highest fidelity VR and they walked that one back.
343 industry:
I'll admit it, when VR first became a "thing," I was skeptical. The idea of putting on a headset seemed claustrophobic and the promise of truly inhabiting a virtual space felt far away... boy was I wrong. There are precious few opportunities as a creative team to get to explore a truly brand new medium - the mixed reality space is exactly that, and it's magical. Here at 343 Industries, we are just starting to dip our toes into the mixed reality space but we are hugely passionate about the potential to truly explore and play in our universe with this technology.
"343 Industries ‘skeptical’ of VR at first."
Then MS ordered them to do it.
Just wish they would leave them alone to focus on HALO 6.
It's a tiny free title to compliment the VR product. I highly doubt it's taking any notable time away from Halo 6.
I've seen gameplay of it, it looks absolutely like a absolute gimmick and still looks like it has the same crappy artstyle 343 has.
I miss bungie
Yeah part 1 and 2 were great but after that Halo went down hill and over a cliff! Thank you Bungie....smdh
Y'all are obviously entitled to your own opinions but really? Crappy art style 343 has? I find their art style to be one of their most defining pro's in the games. Never heard that one before...
I miss Bungie too. But 343 could do this if they would realize the franchise is more important than their studio. Great studios do not make great games. Studios make great games and the great games elevate the studio that made them.
If 343 would stop competing with Bungie, cease attempting to out Bungie Bungie, focus on caring for the wonderful canon they have been provided, and quit attempting to eradicate the history and influence of Bungie they could create something wonderful. They fired 4 of the biggest problems at 343 so I do have hope. Now if they would realize they are making a game for the general consumer and not professional gamers, and give up using multiplayer to drive the sale of Req we could get a great game. But after HALO 5 I have serious concerns.
Can we stop with the 343 slander? Most key people from old bungie are still with 343.
Bungie is a shell of its former self.
I miss Marty! Would love it if joined the crew at 343i. For me the only thing taht was missing in Halo4 and 5 was its theme music. Maybe the next trilogy will see it's return. Other than that it was a solid game to me.
@hamburgerhill,
As an owner of every single OST the ones from 4 and 5 just do not compare. Another case of an arrogant music director thinking he could come up with something better. "It's time for a change" No. No it isn't you idiot. Stop screwing with the formula, all you are going to get is defizzed Coke.
Halo 6? Lmao.....if they can actually pull it off great it something tells me this trilogy is going down in flames.
You needa chill tf out bro lol. Seems like you were looking for a place to spew hate about 'em.
I need to chill tf out because in my opinion Halo 4 and 5 felt way off? I'm confused with your comment. Maybe you should chill out and not take things so personal. 343i can make a great Halo game so long as it finally feels like a Halo game.
you sound triggered. All I'm saying is, isn't it too early for another halo game??
Someone needs to know their internet speak and actually learn what "triggered" means.... especially coming from the person complaining about another Halo and VR being great only when MS makes it.
Yes another HALO and not already. It will be next year. That is 3 years without a new one. So what if a new one came out every year? The question is never how often they come out but rather can the studio innovate on the IP in the right way while keeping other parts of the IP intact enough that they should make a new one.
Is your post because you do not want to play another HALO or you just do not want to hear about it? Never mind. Plenty of HALO fans want this game. They want 343 to step up to the plate and not only say they have learned from their mistakes, but SHOW they have learned. You do not want HALO? Fine. Don't let the door hit you. But there is a reason a new HALO game will get a midnight launch everywhere. It matters. It is a valuable and incredible series gamers love and 2018 is far from being too soon.
Sure the team at 343 is massive enough that a separate team could handle this and not impede on Halo 6's improvement.
halo 6 would be a bad idea! Both halo 4 and 5 were terrible! Aside from the online in 5. I wouldn't let 343 touch the franchise again,they actually ruined it. They should just pay bungle to make the halos for them or hire another talented company.
Yup, leaving people hanging about the fate of MasterChief is kinda evil of them.
Not only that but 343 just isn't as talented. It still has the same generic crappy art style they had in halo 5
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Really don't get why MS is sending the mix message of supporting VR on PC and not console what with the PS4 able to do it yet the XBX can't. Isn't currently anyway.
This could be the game to show off vr on the Xbox x but Ms are keeping g this close to them selfs on this I don't see Ms doing a sony and saying only their vr works but working with 3rd party's and any windows 10 vr will work with the Xbox x. For me I'm still not sold on vr but if Microsoft are getting involved then maybe it will stand a chance then just sony pushing it on console.
This is not a game. Its a 5 minute demo. They did tease that they might be doing more in the future though
This won't come to XboneX. After all, Phil the Almighty said himself that VR will come to XboneX when it doesn't feel like "demos and experiments".
So VR is coming to Xbox at somepoint after all.