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I thought the magic of Halo died a decade ago but I see the 180 that Infinite pulled in the past year and recently learned that Staten returned around that time

I thought the magic of Halo died a decade ago but I see the 180 that Infinite pulled in the past year and recently learned that Staten returned around that time. As Feynmann said, there are no miracle men, but Staten knows the formula for making a good game. He was there when Bungie had creative freedom and was making games that they wanted to play. Having him come on as a leader with political power was the only way Infinite could have ever been anything other than a disaster. The recent IGN interview was great. It was an hour of hot chocolate for my niche demographic. It also confirmed that the magic of Halo was what we thought it was all along. You want to make a great game? Watch the Halo Vid Docs and take notes. https://youtu.be/EqfPclVRioI https://youtu.be/EqfPclVRioI

pas 5y ago
could you please tl;dr the magic for those who are completely out of the Haloverse? (I played about 3 levels of the first one, it was ok for that time, I know people really love it, but so do Doom, or Diablo, etc)
- willis936 5y ago
  Bungie in its day was very grounded and in-tune with "the player experience". The team would play the game with each other at the end of every day and have fun doing it. Only things that made the game more fun were put in. As for storytelling in the campaigns: it was a space opera complete with mysticism and an epic journey. It's really hard to stretch that into a never-ending story, but the books have done well. The games have not. The first problem is in making the self-insert chief a human. It was obvious from the beginning. When I played Halo 4 I had a mental list of all the ways the creative direction dropped the ball. There's something that 343's culture has never understood about the Halo games. They think it's a Michael Bay film because the audience is young men but it's more like Star Wars V. This is a highlight reel of what I'm talking about. https://youtu.be/6qfx9eoB-88 https://youtu.be/6qfx9eoB-88

pas 5y ago

could you please tl;dr the magic for those who are completely out of the Haloverse? (I played about 3 levels of the first one, it was ok for that time, I know people really love it, but so do Doom, or Diablo, etc)

willis936 5y ago
Bungie in its day was very grounded and in-tune with "the player experience". The team would play the game with each other at the end of every day and have fun doing it. Only things that made the game more fun were put in. As for storytelling in the campaigns: it was a space opera complete with mysticism and an epic journey. It's really hard to stretch that into a never-ending story, but the books have done well. The games have not. The first problem is in making the self-insert chief a human. It was obvious from the beginning. When I played Halo 4 I had a mental list of all the ways the creative direction dropped the ball. There's something that 343's culture has never understood about the Halo games. They think it's a Michael Bay film because the audience is young men but it's more like Star Wars V. This is a highlight reel of what I'm talking about. https://youtu.be/6qfx9eoB-88 https://youtu.be/6qfx9eoB-88