At least we will get another Fallout from the hands of Obsidian right? Right?
So is Halo Studios/343 just…dead now? Seems like they’re dead if they don’t have Halo. Kind of in their name.
I think the plan is to have them do publishing and IP management, like what happened with LucasArts.
They made awful games so who cares. I don’t think even Activision could have made it more like a Call of Duty clone than 343 did.
Deck chairs on the Titanic.
I honestly believe that Xbox will stop existing as a company in a few years.
As I remember, back in the 90s, the CEO of Activision hated video games.
So of course that zombie of a company is still fucking up gaming.
Activision in charge of Halo? That’s a deathblow if ever I heard one.
On the bright side, Activision is quite capable of making the exact same game over and over again and consistently. Their knowledge of beating the dead horse is borderline necromancy. Can’t say the same for 343.
Activision doesn’t only publish Call of Duty though. They publish all kinds of games: Sekiro, the Tony Hawk games, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc.
Way more potential than what 343 had. I mean, 343 was purposefully NOT hiring former Bungie-era Halo employees. The important ones, like Marcus Lehto, Marty ODonnell, heck they only brought Joe Staten to get Infinite “back on track” and then promptly kicked him to the curb too. 343 definitely deserved this earlier, I am gonna be honest.
The games you mentioned ring in my head as mid-2000s highlights, with nothing more than blatant money grabs published in the last decade. Not very indicative of a healthy studio imo. They may have once been capable of turning out good games, but that was roughly in the era 343 was turning out good games too
It literally doesnt matter. Halo died with Bungie and Bungie died with Halo.
Post bungie halo has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion, the series has survived the last 16 years on reputation alone.
Halo infinite was pretty huge though, wasn’t it? Granted one being the only stand out isn’t saying much.
It was…ok. it had a good reception but no staying power because it was ok at best. They stopped working on updates too, i think a year into the 10 year project or whatever it was supposed to be.
Halo Black Ops
CODification here it comes. Couldn’t be worse than the current state of Halo though?
Halo became what it is now because they tried to turn it into CoD, so it couldn’t be better either
Microsoft Is the worst thing that ever happened to computers
Ehhhhh, if we could see into the multiverse ball, maybe. I’d fucking hate to see a timeline where Apple was the dominant consumer-grade OS producer through the 90s and 2000s.
“I wonder what will happen if we put all of our eggs in the same basket?” - Famous basket-dropper.
Fallout with ads from Obsidian.
There’s no saving these IPs now.
Well Halo has no where to go but up at this point so why not.
at least double fine got out… well i don’t want to say “before” microsoft started gutting everything but at least they got out
also daily reminder that the xbucks you spend on xbox fund genocide
Activision is also overseeing Age of Empires as well… Couldn’t let Sony outshine you in “who can shoot themselves in the foot hardest” could you?
Even as an RTS fan I can admit the genre is basically dead anyway.
While I can’t say that you’re wrong, Age of Empires 2 has a solid and extremely loyal community, and they just released a new expansion that everyone is super happy with (especially compared to the last two.)
From what I’ve heard, Bethesda and Obsidian have always been great places to work. I hope Microsoft isn’t ruining that for the devs. Hopefully the increasing union presence in Microsoft will bring worker interests back into consideration.
bethesda has only ever had layoffs twice in their history, i think one was before morrowind and the other was after asha took over xbox
Makes sense, they were in dire straits before Morrowind, and well, Microsoft is Microsoft.
I imagine Bethesda hasn’t been fun to work for for a good 10 years now.
Word is that NOBODY wanted to make starfield other than Todd Howard. Apparently once whispers of being bought happened, he wanted that game out because he knew Microsoft would never allow them waste time on something that isn’t elder scrolls or fallout.
Companies that make “boring” games are often great workplaces, while those that make bestsellers (such as CD project red, rockstar, etc) are shitholes putting workers through hell and constant crunch.
Really? Isnt it just Todd going around demanding things? Id never want to work under that narcissitic dick.
With all the bullshit you’re spouting off I’m surprised you haven’t pulled the “Todd hates Obsidian/New Vegas” card yet.
I can only go off of what I’ve heard directly from Bethesda devs, who from what I’ve seen generally have the attitude of ''he is a great boss who has been given too much to handle as the studio got bigger." You’re probably referring to the ‘seagulling’ post which, afaik, was a 4chan post without a source.
Seen many things, him in interviews and Q&As, and have no idea what you are talking about with 4chan. Guy is full of himself.
It was an assumption based on the only similar staff perspective I have heard of, my apologies.
Guys, let’s bring Skyrim to (insert random platform). - Todd
Lmao
“Guys, I know you are making the next Elder Scrolls right now, but I have this really cool space game I want you all to work on instead! It wont be shit I promise!”
Well, hate it love it, at least they’re trying something instead of making the same ip over and over again. I thought people whine about AAA being sequel prequel sidequel
Bruh, we haven’t had a real Fallout game in 11 years!
this guy 100% lost to todd in high school chess 😂 all over the thread hating on him and shit
