343 Industries Will Continue Developing Halo

Official Halo Twitter account says that Master Chief is here to stay.

[Orchard]

This rumor was immediately debunked by various outlets including Bloomberg etc, so I’m not super surprised by this statement.

That being said, I think their time is up and they should give ID software the chance to make a Halo game.

[Sonyslave3]

They both can make halo game🤔

[Orchard]

Touché. Fair point.

They’re also going to inherit a lot of heavily experienced FPS studios with Activision Blizzard so maybe let some of them have a bash at the MP too.

[DazaMc]

Halo red, Halo blue. FIGHT!

[VenomUK]

IF, the next Halo game takes has development problems and takes an excessively long time for its release and it is not a clean launch and has missing features, then the blame goes right to the top of Xbox.

I wonder if we what we'll see is that 343i continues to 'develop Halo' whilst another studio, like Id Software is brought in to partner with it, like with the new Perfect Dark game which is being 'developed by the initiative' but has brought in Crystal Dynamics to make it.

[Profchaos]

I don't want to see a id software halo my preference is to see id continue to make doom and quake style games.

I feel like they have doom style games embedded in their DNA and any switch to open world of open level style games like halo just never works for them eg rage.

There's surely another team that isn't 343 that can take this is honestly like to see the coalition try halo they have been an amazing team

[Sonic1881]

I know right. I'm not interested in an ID software Halo. I rather have them make a new IP

[InUrFoxHole]

Idk man 343 just showed with infinite, they get the halo feel and gameplay. The story was great. They lacked content and features.

[Jin_Sakai]

“ 343 Industries Will Continue Developing Halo”

Boo. Just let someone else do it! You guys have failed in one way or another with every entry. Let another developer have a go at make Halo.

[RauLeCreuset]

I'm not making any predictions, but if it's of comfort to you, nothing in that tweet states that 343 will continue to LEAD development for future Halo titles or develop story content for Halo Infinite.

[Obscure_Observer]

First time I read about that stupid rumor here on N4G, I´d warned some delusional people that they were about for disappointment. Lol.

It didn´t take long. XD

[RaidenBlack]

If Acti-B deal goes through, then it'd be a pretty good decision to make a new studio, borrowing devs from CoD studios, to develop future Halo games.
IW made a stellar space CoD game ... the interest is already there tbh.
And ofcourse the deal comes with Starcraft and Overwatch folks as well.
But ...
The deal's controversial, so its better to take help from ID for the time being and maybe Arkane Ausitn as well?
MS has also got Roundhouse Studios, who worked on Brink and are the developer behind OG Prey.
And Finally there's Coalition and their tech expertise, the studio to save other studios.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

We need ID SOFTWARE to work on QUAKE and DOOM or a new IP.

[sadraiden]

Or.... they could make an entirely new franchise and actually innovate.

Why the hell would you want iD to stop working on iD projects to make Halo 12?

[shadowT]

Good or bad news?

[-Foxtrot]

After Halo 4-6

Bad

[Sonic1881]

Agreed

[Profchaos]

Give halo to the coalition they do incredible work and basically revived gears and drive new graphics and tech they could make a ue5 based halo look like a flagship game unlike 343 and the slipstream engine

[Sciurus_vulgaris]

Then who would develop Gears? Not mention both Studios be rampantly criticized for abandoning their respective franchises.

[cthulhucultist]

It seems that Coalition already works on various projects (not just Gears)

https://gamingbolt.com/the-...

So the capacity is there. If however all secondary projects are side projects of small scale, then it would not be feasible to handle a Halo scale project unless they abandon Gears (unlikely)

[CBaoth]

Nonsense. Now that Rod Ferguson left Coalition, let's just see if they can make another Gears first ok? Not one of their internal teams is capable of making good games consistently. Hence the reason they need to buy up publishers and not devs. Remember they tried to do what Sony does and ended up with Compulsion games lol

[DOMination-]

Rod Ferguson is at Blizzard these days isn't he? So he'll be back to Microsoft soon anyway and Phil Spencer could do a lot worse than put him either in charge of Xbox Studios or similar position - he's got a track record of fixing teams and projects and it sounds like Xbox needs as much help as they can get.

Playground has consistently released great games (even though I think FH4 & 5 had their issues) but yeah, other than that, I think its a fair point.

[CBaoth]

agreed Dom, Rod has shown a timeliness to finish quality projects on schedule. MS would do well to put him in charge of software development when finally acquired. But at the present, he's not employed at MS. Really the question is though why restrict his talent to just Gears? Let him oversee game development and put Cliffy B back in charge of Gears. This bit of humble pie since he left Epic did wonders for his ego and who else cares more for the franchise than he and Rod?

[sadraiden]

Who revived Gears? Last time I checked, Gears 5 was shite that needed cross promotion with a shite Terminator movie to be profitable.

[Profchaos]

Gears 5 metacritic of 84% critic and 8.2 user on the original release of the x1 console.

So pretty far from a bad game it's not 100 but if you played gears 4 which was critically well received but has a low user score of 7 or judgement which pretty much everyone dislikes at at 5.7 user scor and then 5 you wouldn't be complaining at all.

Is it a return to form of the original trilogy no because it's a game that formed its own path it wasn't gears 1 but made in 2019

So yeah I'd still say it ushered a bit of a franchise revival it was actually a good game even I played it and loved it after feeling burnt out by the franchise after playing every entry since the 360 days

[ZwVw]

They should be removed just off of the fact that they gave the Halo TV series show-runners free reign to do whatever they wanted with the brand. To which, they've (writers) admitted to not researching the games or studying any of the franchise's lore (novels, comics, animated films etc.) because it was below them to. Resulting in an imposter Master Chief who barely wears his helmet.

[sadraiden]

and yet, Microsoft signed off on all of it. It's almost like the lore was just lightning in a bottle and Microsoft couldn't care less if the nerds are impressed, so long as that money train keeps on chuggin. It's almost as if Halo is a cynical property that only rears its head if its time for Microsoft to cash a cheque.

[Pocahontas]

I loved the show but I’m pretty easy to please.

[Zombieburger638]

Ok fine let 343 continue to fumble at every step but at least let another studio give it a go. It literally can not be worse than the legacy of 343.

[Crows90]

But will it be good?

Lot of waiting for infinite...it wasn't infinite..but the waiting part felt like it was infinite.

[CobraKai]

Booooo.

[Godmars290]

343 may continue, but whose going to be in 343? Who in it now is really worth anything?

[giovonni]

I’d like to see what ID software could do with the Halo universe. We can all agree it’s vast. ID doesn’t necessarily have to continue the story of master chief. It would be cool if they did spin offs or maybe tackle the campaign of Fumirole.

[Bathyj]

Did it occur to anyone that no one should make Halo games? at least for a while.

[SpacedDuck]

Bad news for Halo to be honest.

Hopefully the entire leadership team at 343 will be fired or replaced and they can figure out this game.

In my opinion every 6 months you need at least 4 new maps and fresh modes not just reiterations of Land Grab added.

We have also only had one classic map return in almost 1.5 years since the game launched.

Not good enough.

Bring in Blood Gulch and others to bring back the older fans.

Also how the hell is Infection still not a main mode?

Forge is fun for ten minutes and then mundane.

[Traecy]

Sad news.

[ironmonkey]

Lol yep another Ms title to be thrown under the rug.

[gold_drake]

not sure this is the best of news tbh haha

[Auron]

Id software please.

[sadraiden]

No. I want original iD games. Not tired 23 year old grandpa shooters for people who can't accept that they're old now. If Halo sucks now, then it sucks. Time to move on.

[Zhipp]

Doom is even older than Halo so I don't exactly see your point.

[AuraAbjure]

Halo 4 couldn't play several split- screen couch co-op multiplayer maps without significant frame rate drop.
Halo 5 is a soulless abomination and will not be mentioned.
The Master Chief Collection didn't work for over a year. Halo Infinite drowns players in dopamine hits with its abhorrent bird chirp sound effects after every single solitary headshot in multiplayer mode.

343 I. just sits on the most intriguing part of Halo lore i.e. neural physics and star roads, instead of incorporating that stuff into their games.

[talocaca]

Why does Microsoft keep treating one of their very few successful IP's like trash?

It's clear that the franchise has collapsed under 343. Why keep it there? At this point, outsource the next Halo.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

At this point this could be considered bad or good imo I think bad due they have proven they can't develop halo right.

[ALMGNOON]

another flop incoming.

[Destiny1080]

it looked like minecraft was the inspiration for the last one

[agnosticgamer]

Damn right when I thought Hall franchise had a chance again.

[HyperMoused]

I think Halo needs to miss a year and get back on track, everything Halo has ended badly in the last bit of History, the sub par game, the TV show, it needs to rethink what it is and deliver the next iteration flawlessly to stay relevant. More mediocre or bad content is killing the franchise.