What Happened to Halo?

you do not want Halo why would anyone want Halo bubbles legally awaited video games finally goes on sale do you understand the tax it puts on you we kind of might have jumped in ahead of time without really thinking what do I need to know to play this game it's the beginning of a second Trilogy uh in the Halo Universe basically there's this dieback uh he created a single blue closer which turns he turned it against humanity and but then he screwed up Humanity showed them it's been 20 minutes 20 minutes of searching how can you tarnish this Legacy it was supposed to be a love letter to the fans yeah it's like they just grab all these features from Call of Duty and just Jam them into Halo let's criticize Halo Infinity we've been missed calls mismanagement for four games in the franchise now three four three didn't earn this the correct answer to the question who is the worst game developer is 343 Industries I came from 2007 had more content than Halo impact no way they're going to sell us the iconic red color the classic red color twice and you know we let them down [Music] you see I've been a huge Halo fan since the very first game I literally skipped out on my job for the day just to play Halo 3. and I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one which is why I want to talk about Halo and what I believe is stopping 343 Industries from making it the Juggernaut it deserves to be and there's three major problems with 343 the vision the gameplay and the community does anybody know that your friend is a little girl and you I know no not that Community you weirdos are one of the main reasons Halo was so special but before we touch on that we have to start the game's Vision A Game's vision is the single most important piece of the puzzle without a singular focused Vision the game May skew into different directions different audiences and become fragmented uh the Deep dive I wonder if that sounds familiar so I repeat the most important part of a video game is the vision and its consistency Bungie's vision for Halo has consistently been a single player sci-fi Space Opera mixed with a multiplayer for you and your buddies to enjoy any way that you choose oh I know what the ladies like 343's vision for Halo has consistently been different with every single release well one thing to make really clear none of us inside of 343 look at this road map and are happy with it Halo 4 was a continuation of Halo 3 story with a deeper science fiction take and more personal character arms she said that to me featuring gameplay that was undoubtedly stolen from Call of Duty so Halo 4's Loadout system frequently and sort of appropriately gets compared to other FPS games including Call of Duty now already from day one Halo's Vision had been breached from a winning formula to a new untested formula it's about a sort of useful default role-based loadouts that suit your style of play but that's not technically a bad thing so long as the vision is maintained and iterated on let's say you take over a beautiful pizza store and I'm choosing pizza because your boy loves pizza more than he loves himself I know that's not healthy but I love pizza now let's say that you sell your version of the pizza but the customer says hey man this is worse that's actually a good thing because you can improve on the formula by using your previous pizzas as a Baseline and then just compare against that oh that's yeah that makes sense you can try again and again and tweak until you get it just right you got the best pizza in the game but it becomes basically impossible to measure satisfaction if you change your pizza store into a burger store after backlash from your pizza now all of the criticism you received is pretty much useless and you have to start again because you have no Baseline can't really compare a burger to a pizza so what did 343 do on their next release well in Halo 5 they change the formula again didn't they they got rid of the Call of Duty stuff and they went back to Arena multiplayer with new Power Ranger abilities focused on highly competitive play instead of social games they removed big Team Battle for a Pay to Win grind Fest wait won't Rec packs with special weapons break the exquisitely refined balance of Arena multiplayer secure your noise hole Soldier grown-ups are talking cut 90 of their features and modes that launch and try to replace Chief with a new character no one liked but no I save us okay so already after one game three four three has turned what started as a pizza but was really a hamburger into something new like a hot dog but again it's okay if the hot dog is iterated on and tweet so next Halo game Halo infinite what do they do [Music] okay guys you're pitching us a pizza again that's that's great you boy loves pizza we've already established that but now you have fans who love Burgers even these beasts recognize and hot dogs and I'm guessing they're a little confused I'm not gonna commit to you man but it gets better because then the game actually releases and we find out that it's not even a pizza that we were promised it's a hot pizza burger Halo infant multiplayer is free to play which is new to the franchise no God please no they put the chief back in Focus the missions changed they always do they created a story based multiplayer no one asked for that's Commander larret she's in charge of the Spartan Academy which is the kind of contextual rapper that the whole multiplayer Universe lives in which caused them to take forever to add Maps modes and all of that because it had to go into the narrative but again nobody asked for him they got rid of the ground pounds the shoulder charges the stabilization and the Boost sort of although they kept clambering Sprint and sliding and despite the game having more development time than any Halo in existence it would launch once more without all the features prior Halo games had 343 has never had a consistent vision for what their Halo is we will always have split screen in going forward and that's a huge problem we have had to make the difficult decision not to ship campaign Split Screen Co-op they simply don't know what Halo is your inability to safeguard Halo was a colossal failure you're just guessing every single time hoping to strike gold we are a very competitive game that's our DNA that's who we are right you go back all the way to the very first Halo right multiplayer I mean it's it is a highly competitive game I can't tell you how insane that is but yet here we are five games in of course you have different visions and people have different opinions about what direction it should go in the vision has never been clear but what is clear is this problem stems from the very top changing Halo 20 years of box product models to a free to play model is not something that is going to be inherently satisfying for most of our players you simply can't make great pizza for your boy or your customers if your boss threatens you to make a hamburger hot dog at the same time and that's the thing that creates the the creative tension it's literally insane I don't even know what that would look like let alone work on there's only so much that we're going to be able to action on now um but that's the beauty of being a live service look credit where credit is due with every release 343 did consistently focus on one thing herewise 343's next problem Dave changed Halo to be a competitive first game with the perfected sandbox sweaty multiplayer and what's worse they don't even understand what competitive is look just let me show you I've only played maybe two matches one was bot match one was a quick play now I did my first rank look at what the game puts me up against onyx onyx Onyx my first ranked on a brand new account 343 what would make you think that makes sense what a horrible experience for newcomers who want to play the game don't get me wrong competitive is an amazing part of the community foreign [Music] has a long history with competitive Halo we went to MLG Toronto MLG Meadowlands and even went to a private exhibition match at Red Bull Los Angeles office which yeah it's as awesome as it sounds I did get hustled into buying a 20 rap album from some guy named Encore but they did have amazing blueberry lemon pancakes now I still think about to this day La is a weird place anything can become competitive so long as passion exists eating can be competitive they both are struggling to keep what's in the mouth in and even weird stuff like solving Rubik's Cubes as fast as humanly possible but let's be real though a healthy competitive game is not 343's goal because what they really want is to monetize a passion fan base [Music] but there's one problem in this plan to make money in a competitive scene 343 needs you all of you anyone with an interest in the game that has a pulse should be invited and that has never happened with any of 343's Halo games curious as to why well let's roll the clips here's Halo 5. how much different the series now Halo 3. okay okay I get it okay how about a different game let's do a different game let's be fair yeah now Counter Strike this was the one versus four the play of passion's life it's planted so open and he's gonna have no idea smoke goes on to it he's not picking it yet passion needs patience and he's spotted he knows he's not on it okay okay let's not even compare games let's compare to a completely different sport okay okay I get you let's another one here's Halo infinite now here's chess foreign do you see the problem boosts slides repulsory bounces to the moon the learning curve to what's happening and more importantly what's possible has skyrocketed you see competition isn't based off American Gladiator Power Ranger Edition it's based off tension and tension is created through audiences awareness of how a player or team perseveres through a problem that creates pressure the more pressure the greater the tension but to have tension viewers like you and me need to have the context and the quicker that we can understand the context the easier the viewing experience is meanwhile Esports for Halo is like here's a billion team names that just sound cringe to say out loud with a bunch of player names that also sound cringe this is the last time you've seen a tweet from sundead saying here's formal horror here's uh Ninja streaming never because the game is dead and that's what I'm saying where everyone is boosting at the speed of Power Rangers a shot thrusted behind a wall then another guy came out made him one shot thrusted back behind the wall turned around made another guy one shot thrusted back behind the wall so that's three kills I would have had in any other Halo game but I don't feel tension because Anything could happen at any second and who knows what's gonna happen so why do I care it's the reason that OverWatch is unwatchable God what is more satisfying than that [Laughter] serious valorent hasn't superseded Counter-Strike the game it literally copied from you simply can't expect someone outside the competitive scene to roof for a game they simply can't understand within seconds of watching it thankfully I can prove it let's look at a custom mode known as the classic Halo league so it's the same game just a different style now it's time to pull this one away obnoxious able to come in perfect shot see back then Bungie didn't have to create the competitive settings the community actually did it for them specifically MLG and the scene flourished because of it whereas 343 is the Arbiter of everything with total control and this brings us to 343 Industries biggest problem and one of the major reasons their games continue to dwindle in popularity the things that we're going to try and do is have a much more open dialogue with the community community schools communities community community their relationship to the community is abysmal and there's no clearer example than this video I'm not sure how [Music] what you just saw was not made by 343 it wasn't made by a million dollar VFX company and it wasn't even made by a team it was made by one guy this guy Halo VFX and he loves Halo and after working full days at ilm yes the ilm that makes Incredible VFX for these iconic movies I'm about to show right here he puts in all his free time into creating a beautiful CG Halo experience for the fans where are we and he does it completely free but he's not the only one you see because some fans break down Halo lower unfortunately for the ancient human and profit races these infections first showed up on their worlds some build incredible maps and modes some teach and commentate on the competitive scene if you don't hold Crouch this jump is either very difficult or completely impossible heck even I've thrown my hat into the ring all of us do it because at the end of the day we're passionate about Halo we want it to succeed and we want to help but sadly there's zero communication literally none Halo is a game that's grown because of the marriage of gameplay and Community yet with every release of a new Halo we lose more and more of what makes the experience definitively Halo everyone proximity chat was out in Halo 2 giving players the ability to talk to all players in the game depending on their location people think that I sound like a girl now now it's gone pre and post game lobbies are a place players can show off their ranks and get to know each other before and after the game 15 years I'll have a good run now it's gone rolling lobbies allowed us to cue up with people we just played with to keep the fun going my friend messaged me he was like dude it's like 5 a.m where you are go to sleep and I just replied with Halo 3. and now it's gone 343 Industries has consistently focused on Reinventing the wheel of Halo with every new release only to walk it back slightly after it fails Call of Duty gameplay that didn't come from the community and that failed replacing chief for lock that didn't come from the community and that failed removing big Team Battle same thing story based multiplayer same thing removing split screen same thing seasonal free-to-play live service game who asked for that showcasing a horrible art style in the first next-gen gameplay demo for Microsoft's most respected French and new console heck with that one they even caught the exact soft guard I swear that that was a bad day for everyone all around every step of the way this company completely ignores their community and what made this series popular instead of embracing the community and working together and because of this Microsoft was forced to intervene [Music] after infinite's abysmal performance the team's been completely gutted the player population according to the data that we have shows the population doesn't care for the seasonal content it's it's dropping the bucket we have a TV show that's nothing like the games and most shockingly despite being the Marquee franchise of the Xbox it wasn't even mentioned in Microsoft's biggest gaming event of the Year these are the works of the very greatest creative teams from around the world to put it in perspective followed 76 and Elder Scrolls Online got more love than the company's most influential franchises that helped build the console to what it is today and Microsoft's not messing around because all year and still to this day they've had a hiring freeze on 343. I mean look you can just go to the career page right now and see it's blocked and it's been like that for a while I love Halo and I'm always Gonna Love Halo it defined my childhood and I feel pretty confident it probably defined yours as well but the honest truth is Halo needs a vision it needs gameplay both competitive and uncompetitive folks can enjoy and most importantly it needs to work with the community without these Halo will die slowly as nothing but a memory except [Music] there is one thing 343 Industries is filled with talented people artists Engineers designers and a lot more these are people who go to work every single day and want to create the best Halo they can and In fairness they've definitely had some wins for the franchise she said that to me once but the horrible decisions everyone hates do not come from those who put their Blood Sweat and Tears into the game they come from management and so-called leaders who create empty promises and lack the confidence to stick to a single consistent Vision the only way to take back Halo is to have full transparency with the community and work together because we want you to succeed because we want you to be recognized for your ideas because we want you to be paid for all of your hard work whether you're an artist making sure we have the most detailed and accurate Spartan armor that ever existed whether you're a professional Halo player fighting for a livable salary or whether you're a forged map Creator spending days metically making sure your map is perfect to play on we want each and every one of you to succeed and we want Halo to win so invite us in be transparent let us help it's expected to have bigger first day Revenue than any movie [Music] Halo I love Halo I'm a Halo fan I love Halo the first copy of Halo 3 to a man Halo is one of my favorite game franchises prizes of all time I love Halo I love everything about it I love it I grew up on Halo it's built into my soul the memory sandbox the story and the campaign a lot of who I am what I like what I love and what I love to do grows from Halo 4.4 million units in 24. the only reason that we set up a red face here is over there I don't think I talk about it enough but I adore him it comes from Halo the only reason they have a little faith over there because we have a red base here [Music] I hope so is that true Spartans never die they're just missing in action [Music] if you like to see how we got to this point Halo's tragic history you're definitely going to want to click this video right here to stay informed keep it cute

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Length: 22min 12sec (1332 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 22 2023