Halo: Reach Discussion

[ejburke]

I think only 2 of their dozen attempts at resurrecting PC gaming have involved them actually publishing games. They just launched their Games for Windows marketplace recently, so we'll see how that languishes and becomes soon-forgotten.

If they would have done things right from the beginning and stuck with it, they would be where Valve is already. But they approach PC gaming like a fly-by-night operation. They come in, try to impose their will on everyone, while only offering things that benefit themselves, and then when that fails, they disappear. Then they come back with another scam and the cycle repeats, almost like clockwork.

343 is in its honeymoon period right now. They're fucking around with Waypoint and anime, but sooner or later, they have to make a game. And if they screw that up in any way, be it critically or commercially,, I can see "Restructuring" in their future.

Do we even know for sure that Bungie will hand over Reach's/Halo 3's administration to 343i? I don't see any reason Bungie couldn't handle them as long as MS wants to keep them going. It's called servicing your back-catalog.

[=sw=warlord]

Sounds like the letter got noticed at last.

[Kornman00]

What bell do you hear which has that sound ?

[=sw=warlord]

What bell do you hear which has that sound ?

I would have to say the cloister bell sounds somewhat similar.

[Warsaw]

Put the film on your file share and link here.

Shit, I played too many games since then, not sure I still have it.

[DarkHalo003]

Errr, they didn't break up...MS closed their studio...kinda like how they're closing the site

Same difference, either way I find it mind boggling. Ensemble was great at RTS, so of all the studios to shut down why did MS decide to shut them down?

[ejburke]

Ensemble was basically costing more and more and producing less and less. Even some ex-Ensemble employees admitted it was pretty fucked up toward the end. Did you see those Halo MMO concepts? Bad ju ju. I won't really fault MS for shutting them down, but I will blame them for possibly contributing to that downward spiral and I damn sure blame them for killing the Halo Wars community, because they were too cheap to keep a forum and store a few lousy stats.

[DarkHalo003]

Ensemble was basically costing more and more and producing less and less. Even some ex-Ensemble employees admitted it was pretty fucked up toward the end. Did you see those Halo MMO concepts? Bad ju ju. I won't really fault MS for shutting them down, but I will blame them for possibly contributing to that downward spiral and I damn sure blame them for killing the Halo Wars community, because they were too cheap to keep a forum and store a few lousy stats.

Yeah that makes me a bit mad. Halo Wars was a fun game I played for about a couple of months and although my own shortcomings kept me from being great, I still had a ton of fun and all of that junk in the process. I honestly don't understand how a Multi-Billion dollar corporation could drop something so dear to some fans when it's just a small site. Is Robot still operating?

[Arteen]

Support for Halo Wars went from Robot to 343i way back in February.

[=sw=warlord]

The packs out now just not showing on the xbox market place.
Tempest seems very pretty but it definitely seem's inspired by relic.