Brian Jarrard, Bungie's community and franchise director, spoke with GamesIndustry.biz about his company's divestment from Microsoft. The full interview with Brian Jarrard will be published next week, but follow the link for some excerpts.
Not every Halo game has been a banger, but the franchise still has a raft of the greatest games of all time.
Infinite is a dumpster fire and as much as I like ODST, in no universe it ranks above Halo 2. This list is trash.
Best to worst: Halo 3, Halo 2, Halo Reach, Halo CE, Halo 4, Halo ODST, Halo Infinite, Halo 5.
The Xbox 360 was a fantastic console in its day with some truly classic titles, but what are the seven best games for the console?
I'll go with,
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Culdcept Saga, Shadow Complex, Ace Combat 6 with the flight stick,A Kingdom for Keflings, A World of Keflings.
Bonus Kinect Games: Happy Action Theater and Sesame Street.
*Skyrim was so bad on PS3 that it almost deserves to be #1*
Ah yes, Shadow Complex! Good indies back in the day. Summer of Arcade. I enjoyed Trials Evolution as well.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
Would love to play Ace Combat6 on PlayStation, but Xbox decided to buy exclusivity and keep it off a competing platform.
The only mainline game I never played except for one level at a friends place. Game sold less than any other in the series if I remember correctly.
360 had Namco hitters AC6 and RR6... both quality titles. You should at least bust out the 360 for AC6 if you can score the flight stick. Its great.
When the current gen XBOX offering is so lacking people need to refer to games released two generations back....
It's a nostalgia peice same reason we get thousands of YouTube videos on sega genisis. Something people have fond memories for but the era is long gone.
It's xboxs golden year imo it was their genisis years the time where they stuck it to the market leaders Sony.
They stuck nothing. Sony screwed themselves giving Xbox an opening. They would have gotten the usual smack down if the PS3 had launched at $399 and was easier to develop for.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
I think the inevitable conclusion is that we'll see other developers making Halo games with greater frequency. Microsoft is addicted to the Halo franchise, to the revenue that it generates, and they are going to want more of it. Now that Bungie won't be a part of Microsoft there's less motivation for Microsoft to let Bungie control the fate of the franchise. Obviously serious Halo fans won't like this, but the fact is that the Halo brand sells - like crazy - and Microsoft would probably prefer a new Halo every 12 months to one every 36 months.
It will be interesting to see if being independent will allow Bungie for flourish or if they'll struggle to move past Halo. Will Halo fans go for whatever they do next, or will they ask "why didn't you make another Halo"?
damn stop talkin about halo and make new games..
be any multiple maps added to halo 3 and how much of a delay there will be now that this split has occurred. Here's hoping Halo Wars from Ensemble gets out the door this coming year.
I for one look forward to the new gaming series "Circlet" staring "Expert Commander"! :D
All I want to know is if Bungie is making games exclusively for Xbox360 or if they are gonna make some multi-plat games.