This is sorta like that analogy where you're standing neck deep in piss, and somebody comes over with a bucket of shit and Microsoft had to choose if they wanted to take the bucket of shit or duck down under the piss.
title gore massacre
That title is dreadful and you should feel bad
I mean, considering how Halo 4 and 5 came out... did we really?
Anthony Burch writing a halo game doesn't entirely give me confidence
halo 4 was good, just enough of reach and just enough of the bungie 4 games, 5 was dogshit but 6 (or w/e they wanna call it) seems to be going to follow closer to the franchise in general
God yes, imagine what they could of done with the money they would have gained from the project.
Imagine Anthony Burch having an even greater ego than he already does.
Gameplay-wise Halo 4 was fine. It was the lacklustre story, questionable art direction, and reliance on the player having read supplementary material that dragged it down.
Halo 5 was a fucking train wreck though.
That said, given Gearbox's recent history, I'd say one middling Halo game, one bad Halo game, and an initially bad and later much improved collection of the first three games is a much better alternative to whatever Gearbox would have done.
Halo 4 had a lot of issues with the core gameplay, but had a well-designed campaign.
Halo 5 was a lot better in regards to core gameplay, but the campaign had a terrible design.
Now I can't help but imagine what a Borderlands style Halo game would be like.
Any dev writing: "this warthog needs fuel, check that crash site for some"
Gearbox writing: "Ah chief. Big guy, we need to get this warthog going. bummer that it wont move, see its out of fuel, that would be a good thing to have right? Warthogs like fuel! Now im thinkin there might be fuel near where that pelican made an unscheduled landing, you could check it out or maybe we could just push this hunk of junk down the road and hope we dont get a bullet in the ass, though you might get one anyway since there were some of them enemies around it. I did mention the enemies right? The same enemies that there shot it down, might feel good gettin revenge on them. Better git goin now before they skedadle on outta here."
Look at every single property Gearbox has handled in the past decade outside of Borderlands and then ask that question again.
I think it was more in reference to just ending halo entirely, as god intended.
Homeworld ended up pretty descent.
considering what had happen to alien: colonial marines, I'm glad bitchford didn't get his grubby little hands on halo
case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIbXNNz-JME
I have mixed feelings about this.
On one hand, I feel like we dodged a bullet. On another, part of me thinks that if they approached making a Halo game like they approached making the Half Life expansions, we may have gotten some games better than 343 could've put out. And who knows, maybe their experience of porting Halo to PC could've opened the door to PC ports.
However, there's also the possibility that Gearbox could've just pulled a Colonial Marines with the Halo IP and funneled MS's Halo money towards other games, ultimately outsourcing the development of the game eventually resulting in Halo 4 being a complete and utter mess (well more than it already is).
Also, it's interesting reading the articles about this, especially the ones regarding Bungie's agreement with Activision and barring developers like Valve, Epic, and Gearbox from being third parties involved with any ports of Destiny games. These being requested by Bungie, so it seems Bungie weren't exactly keen with Gearbox at all.
Your supposition that BL is immune is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fskUpNqHR7M
343 might not have been the best choice for Halo, but Gearbox would've been far worse considering their history of games.
Maybe we'll get Halo: Opposing Force? TBH it would be pretty cool to see the war from the Covenant's perspective
Honestly, the funniest part about that is that the game relied on "ego" which depended on you hiding like a scared bitch in order to wait for it to regenerate.
Somewhere in another timeline Halo fans are eternally suffering
So, this one?
i mean, the halo game they would have made would have been stunningly shit, but think of how good Borderlands 3 would have been with the money they could have siphoned off
While I didnt enjoy Halo 5, and thought Halo 4 was rather mediocre, I am sooo glad Gearbox didnt get the rights. Good god.
If they did that with Microsoft they would have been sued them into the ground and other companies would have bought their licenses.
Now that i say that out loud......
I'm not sure what I would have wanted them to do plot wise with Halo 4, it's hard to think of something that doesn't feel like an artificial sequel that just exists because MS wants more money.
I'd rather they'd done something like Reach and gone to a totally different part of the Halo timeline, and maybe having a different dev do a radically different take could have worked, instead of just trying to copy Bungie with a less competent dev team
Not Gearbox though
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