- Sabata ( @Sabata11792@ani.social ) 6•2 days ago
Betting on another bland and soulless corpo cash grab that wears the skin of another nostalgic childhood memory.
- psvrh ( @psvrh@lemmy.ca ) 5•2 days ago
What I am really unsure about is if there’s even a market for Halo anymore.
I’d like to think that a plot-heavy, dialogue-heavy game has a place in the modern era, at least after God of War and Ragnarök, but I don’t know if that’s what the kids want, and I really don’t think the industry wants it because it’s expensive and the ROI is low compared to PvP extraction shooters, which are cheaper to make an easier to monetize.
I want to play a story through, and I want to care about the story and the characters and the dialogue. I cut my FPS teeth playing Marathon (Bungie’s predecessaor to Halo) and never got into the shallow-plotted shooters that id Software was pushing at the time, but I think the market has largely passed me by.
This focus on the engine and the focus on company structure does not give me hope.
- denial ( @denial@feddit.org ) 16•3 days ago
But same studio
- stonerboner ( @stonerboner@lemmynsfw.com ) 9•3 days ago
Yep. I am fully convinced corporate studios don’t give a single shit about the players or game outside of how much money they think they can squeeze out of us.
- Didros ( @Didros@beehaw.org ) 4•2 days ago
…duh?
- stonerboner ( @stonerboner@lemmynsfw.com ) 2•2 days ago
… bears?
- Didros ( @Didros@beehaw.org ) 1•2 days ago
The people at the top of every company is there to make the most profit possible, reputation be damned.
- Cagi ( @Cagi@lemmy.ca ) 10•3 days ago
We have a studio full of the exact same people who don’t get what made their predecessors great. They will continue to miss the mark with new branding and new tech.
- BaroqueInMind ( @BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ) 2•3 days ago
So when can I play Halo on my PlayStation?