Habitual Morbidity

Lol, I'd stop after Campaign.

To be honest I'd just rather remove drops all together. I don't like how it destroys the skill gap.

Stopped reading at "witch".

I'm skeptical that they are doing anything novel that will lessen the harm of the short time they were given. However, I hope I'm wrong and that Halo 5 feels as fresh as every new Halo game has.

Remember how Bungie wanted ODST to be a DLC but Microsoft pushed them into making it a full game? It's the same sort of scenario with 343.

343 is doing their best but Microsoft is totally in control of releases.

It seems to me that choosing to release it in 2014 is a money grab. Why not develop it for another year like every other Halo game? Every sequel game usually goes through pre development before the original games release (assuming it's a sequel of a sequel). Cutting a whole year off subsequently cuts content from the game.

I'm just worried, because I love Halo and would hate for games to be hastily developed for the sake of monetary gain.

Do people read my OP at all? Where did I ever say Halo 5 was going to be bad?

>Implying all the time they spent before it was an FPS doesn't count as dev time. I never said it was going to be bad.

Why bother? You ignored everything in my OP. You're just here to flame and troll. Until you come up with some legitimate points I'm done talking to you. I'm not going to let you derail my thread even further.

What am I supposed to do? Let him insult me all he wants? It appears to be a certainty that Halo 5 is to be released next year. I'll update my OP.

Your posts are pathetic. I'm making assumptions based on inference. I am not pretending to know everything. Seems like you can flame on this board all you want.

Again, you're still strawmanning my arguments. I didn't even mention the trailer in my OP. And you're still being rude, just because I'm disagreeing with you. Are you really that weak willed that you can't deal with a difference of opinion? You really have to personally attack and disrespect me?

Assassin's Creed 3 and 4 are good examples of what's wrong with game developing these days. Strawman and Ad Hominem attacks show just how weak you and your arguements are. Can't just have a civil discussion? Does this forum have any moderation?

Lol, I can't believe I didn't notice that. Quite fitting if you think about it. Well, the hardcore community may have been upset, but it sold really well, so I don't think they will change their ways. It makes them the most money. Personally, I was really impressed with Halo 4's campaign. They had plenty of time to make it great and I think they delivered. It worrys me that Halo 5's campaign will be shoddy. I personally think it's extraordinarily unlikely that they had any meaningful development of Halo 5 while working on Halo 4. I hope I'm wrong, I'm just looking at the situation objectively.

Like I said in the OP, a short dev time gives them less oportunity to make unique in-game assets. And the only work I imagine them doing on Halo 5 while working on Halo 4 is storyboarding and reusing Halo 4 assets.

Halo 5 is set to be released in 2014. That means the game was developed for two years.That's not enough time to make a truly great game. Such a short time means they will almost certainly be reusing assets unlike in other Halo games. Halo 5 may be exactly like Halo 4. This sort of mirrored game is unprecedented in the main Halo titles. Let me explain to you my reasoning and why long development times are so important. Every big Halo game since Halo 1 has taken three years to release and has relied on entirely different graphical assets and a completely different engine. Each Halo game is different. This has made for some pretty incredible games, each being a brand new experience. Halo 5 is going to break that cycle. They will most likely have to reuse assets if the game is coming out so soon, otherwise they could not make the date. Longer development times almost always make good games. So much so that it is almost objective fact. For example, Call of Duty has two year development times. Every year they use almost all the same assets. It has been running on the same engine for years ever since Call of Duty Modern Warfare's release. It is literally the same game every year with minor changes. At the opposite end of the spectrum are games like Skyrim with very lengthy development times. There were 5 years between Oblivion's release and Skyrim's. Skyrim is an incredible game with a lot of content. It could never be that way if it weren't in development for such a long time. There are many other examples I could use, but I (and many of you, probably) can relate to these examples the most. In conclusion, without a longer development time Halo 5 is doomed to be a repeat of Halo 4 with some minor improvements. It's being released this early so Microsoft can keep making consistent money off the Halo franchise. Activision is successful using the Call of Duty model, so why can't Microsoft? It's good for corporate wallets, but it's not good for hardcore gamers who really care about the quality of their games. Unfortunately casual gamers out number hardcore gamers as potential customers, so it wont matter if we are alienated. I don't see why Microsoft couldn't have made Halo spinoff games to breach the gap between now and a 2015 release. It's unfortunate that they made the decision they did when they had so many other options. http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/10/4414738/halo-xbox-one-2014

Normally I'd agree with you; I never wanted to see his face either. But after all the **** I had been through with him it seemed fitting. And it wasn't his whole face. Just a glimpse. His whole face would have been different. I would have been entirely against it. But they wisely chose not to. They know how important his face is to us and I feel like they did a good job giving us not too much, but just enough.