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343i is dead, renamed Halo studios.
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Badlucktroll
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DaleinCalgary
Member
If I change my name to Ryan Reynolds does that mean I'm good looking now?
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Concept art looks great
UE5 move is probably good since it seems like Coalition is kind of the technical backbone of Xbox Studios, so they can share resources
But I’ve been hoodwinked by trailers of Halo before
UE5 move is probably good since it seems like Coalition is kind of the technical backbone of Xbox Studios, so they can share resources
But I’ve been hoodwinked by trailers of Halo before
DeltaPolarBear
Member
As one of the replies said, the studio had not EARNED the right to be called Halo Studios.
If anything they should have been disbanded entirely and replaced by a new team. Renaming them Halo Studios has the same vibe as calling them "High quality on-budget on-time game studio".
Just because you give it a nice name doesn't fix anything. North Korea is called The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but fat lot of good that name did for them.
If anything they should have been disbanded entirely and replaced by a new team. Renaming them Halo Studios has the same vibe as calling them "High quality on-budget on-time game studio".
Just because you give it a nice name doesn't fix anything. North Korea is called The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, but fat lot of good that name did for them.
Guardian Monkey
Member
So it’s on the front page everywhere else tomorrow morning.Xbox are so bad at their job, they can't even follow the basic, common sense rules for these things. Who. The. Fuck. announces something like this on a Sunday??!?
xBlueStonex
Member
Incredible move in the right direction. The 343 name was beyond tainted.
Edit - for those wondering why it was announced on a Sunday, today is the HWC 2024.
Edit - for those wondering why it was announced on a Sunday, today is the HWC 2024.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Logo looks like Lego bricks.
Nydius
Member
Renaming 343i to Halo Studios doesn't magically remove the tainted reputation.
Everyone will always know Halo Studios is just 343i, the same people who have run Halo into the ground.
Kacho
Gold Member
Kinda sorta the same people. Bonnie Ross, Kiki Wolfkill and Stinkles all got future endeavored. It’s a new era so the name change makes sense.What’s the point if it’s just the same people/management involved anyway? They want to drag the Halo brand name even deeper into the dirt by attaching it to a bad studio?
xBlueStonex
Member
They cleaned house over the last year or so (Bonnie Ross leaving was high profile news), and conducted massive layoffs. The leadership team alone is almost completely different:
Mister Wolf
Member
I'm looking forward to UE5 Halo. Infinite was a great campaign.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
The games still have enough dedicated base of players, but compared to the hey days it's probably at like 10% of it.
I always thought Halo could be an awesome sci-fi adventure game like Mass Effect. Or a slower paced open world RPG like Fallout.
Ridicululzz
Member
The concept art looks cool at least
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
As long as 343 is dead.
dreamstation
Member
Now we just have to rename Guerrilla to Horizon Studios
James Sawyer Ford
Member
They cleaned house over the last year or so (Bonnie Ross leaving was high profile news), and conducted massive layoffs. The leadership team alone is almost completely different:
Frank O’Conner is still there
Eww.
The most he’s done for Halo is spend his mental headspace talking toxic politics on reee and Twitter
Naked Lunch
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You realize almost all the studio heads of 343 - and lots of others - were fired from 343 after Infinite, right? Including studio head Bonnie Ross. The studio was utterly gutted.
The person now in charge is the guy that fixed the MCC - Pierre Hintze.
So yeah - it basically is a new team.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Fine to change the studio name but the main change has to be the studio leadership. Can then give it any name you want.
I hope that they can learn from other MS studios with the Unreal 5 engine, because it has become a shortcut to reduce any effort at optimization department with rare cases, rebranding to such a boring name like Halo Studios feels so corporate, I hope that they actually get the right lessons and not DOUBLE DOWN on what was wrong.
semiconscious
Member
perfect! & then just rename aloy 'guerrilla girl'...
Codes 208
Member
The studio leadership was changed drastically in the past two years. Just about all the og big heads are gone and its being headed by the guys responsible for turning halo mcc around
The new name is actually fitting considering the context
Javi97
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No, it will be the entire Playstation division that will change its name to Horizon entertainment and the next console will be the AloyStation
Kacho
Gold Member
Nah. He left last year.
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Banned from Era for being racist
Banned from Halo Studio for being a hack
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Robb
Gold Member
That’s somewhat reassuring at least. But the output will have to do the talking. Fingers crossed.They cleaned house over the last year or so (Bonnie Ross leaving was high profile news), and conducted massive layoffs. The leadership team alone is almost completely different:
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Me and you both agree. It makes me nervous thinking 3 years out how much Sony WON'T be pushed.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Nothing nitpicky about it. It’s awful.
Just use a Ring. A Ring. Like a Halo. I’m sure the god awful Microsoft marketing dept. had its derp hands designing that blocky whatever it is.
Kacho
Gold Member
Oh yeah, definitely. No free pass or good faith for this studio. They need to earn respect back, like Bloober.
nemiroff
Gold Member
Xbox should've shut them down after Halo 4 and given the franchise to someone else..
But now there are too many games to play to be concerned about past stuff. So these days I'm more curious to see what will happen if they continue forward: Good schadenfreude content, or by chance something good to play.
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Well that's limiting lol
I believe this is why the other team left because they wanted to make more than Halo.
ZehDon
Member
Quite literally the opposite.
In any case, this is good to see if for nothing else than as an admission from Microsoft that 343i's tenure simply cannot continue. A new name on the box is symbolic at best, agreed, but it's symbolism necessary to start repairing the damage done. "343 Industries" is a toxic name with literally nothing but a decade of monumental failures attached to it.
Of course, we got similar marketing fluff when 343i took over, but hey - I want nothing more than one more good Halo game, so I'm happy to try and be optimistic until "Halo Studios" gives us a reason not to be.
Nevadatan
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Look, im, as the majority of long time halo fans, jaded after so many blunders, and yes, skepticism is natural. but, i also need to be honest and im at least okay with ditching blam in favor of Unreal.
blam has been dragging Halo as bad as the rest of the other bad decisions 343i did. and at least with unreal they have a common ground with The Coalition which could be a good thing.
but, like the other peeps here have mentioned. the "new" studio cannot just simply regain the broken trust of fans with words or fancy videos, they need to prove they worth with a new game.
blam has been dragging Halo as bad as the rest of the other bad decisions 343i did. and at least with unreal they have a common ground with The Coalition which could be a good thing.
but, like the other peeps here have mentioned. the "new" studio cannot just simply regain the broken trust of fans with words or fancy videos, they need to prove they worth with a new game.
Hollowpoint5557
A Fucking Idiot
How much was it again that they spent creating the engine for Halo Infinite just to dump it after 1 game? 