Halo is officially dead. It’s been dying for a while, this seals it.
For long time halo fans in the aughts, this is literally the last thing any of us ever wanted. Halo was always a completely different game than Call of Duty, but business never understood that and so today officially marks the end, where the Halo we knew is gone, and anything new will be a CoD clone more than anything else.
I’ll remember to play one of my favorite Halo Songs at your funeral.
Uh… I mean press F to pay respects. o7
Now Halo becomes just another Call of Duty. Great.
I remember the big CoD vs Halo “wars” back in the day, and this is exactly what I didn’t want. I liked Halo’s slower combat, more strategy combining shields, grenades, melee, and weapons. Now (5 and Infinite confirmed) it’s just another twitch shooter, with pistols/rifles that act like snipers and everyone trying to one shot. The few Infinite MP games I did play I was always alone in the warthog while others just went on solo. It’s not the same experience it used to be.
Halo had already been going towards the Cod play style ever since Bungie quit making it.
The last thing I wanna see is Call of Duty: Spartan Ops or whatever the fuck, but let’s not pretend that 343/Halo Studios are any better. Their stewardship of the Halo franchise has been an unmitigated disaster from the start.
Not only that, they’ve already switched hands at least once (depending on your take is the ship of Theseus). There are fans that didn’t like 2, 3, Reach, ODST, especially 4, 5, and Infinity.
I’ll continue remembering the parts I enjoyed and I’m sure John Halo will continue his adventures in the hands of new people.
Ahhh Call Of Duty, rewriters of historic war crimes…
Is this some kind of sick revenge plot? Because COD somehow got even shittier under the MS umbrella?
Now the makers of COD are going to make Halo even shittier?
Is this a perpetual motion machine powered by enshittication?
That’s why I think I’m just calling it. Halo 5 was bad, Infinite had good gameplay but the story was meandering and boring.
Campaign Evolved was the second remake of the original, which again is just graphic flashiness with none of the understanding of what made the game special to begin with.
Multiplayer has been moving from the magic that was 2 and 3 to more CoD style because they don’t understand that you can have a shooter that isn’t a twitch shooter. So I don’t have any hope for their multiplayer either.
I’m very sad, but I’m just kind of done with it.
Fun fact: Campaign Evolved is technically the third remake.
Bungie was originally a Mac exclusive game company when they were bought out by MS. Halo was almost complete at that point and had to be ported to DirectX. The original PowerPC edition got a release eventually as well as an updated Universal Binary version that, due to the MacBook Air, is the only game I know of to have an official no-CD patch.
