Ex-Halo Lead Announces New Project After Leaving Team Xbox

So Netflix turning into a games publisher now?

@Kaloudz
Totally agree reboot using unreal 5
Amazing campaign and story etc.
some of my best fps gaming moments with Halo of the old days.
I think the idea with Halo Infinite was a good one but some how in the 6 years they messed it up.

This is the first we've heard of Netflix joining into AAA gaming, last we heard they were doing simple minigames and the like, so they're finally a genuine Game Pass competitor now I take it. That's going to be quite the value bundle with all the TV and gaming your heart desires in one package. Good, it'll keep GP/Plus pricing down!

Makes me wonder where the guy from Media Molecule is headed, too. Seems to be a lot of talent poaching by the cloud startups.

@Kaloudz
Thing I’m not sure that’s what Microsoft want going forward or maybe the developers are sent in certain directions.
Or the drive and true desire is not there for big top end AAA games.

Good luck! Always exciting starting a new job 👍🏻

A lot of companies have tried to get into AAA games. Most fail.

Especially, coming from the movie/retail side to try and get in.
Netflix may have a perfectly good game and they may execute well. But it is only one game and if it is solely tied to Netflix rather than being multi-platform its chances of succeeding decrease even further.

They add in "live service" and it has zero chance.

@UltimateOtaku91 They've been trying to become a game publisher for a few years now. They own the developers that make Oxenfree, and have been the publisher for multiple mobile games like Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story

I've played a couple games on Netflix, I'm playing kentucky route zero on it just now but have played into the breach, spiritfarer and poinpy, which have all been good. There is a fair amount of rubbish but there are some decent games on the library. Worth checking out if you already have netflix.

@Kaloudz Disclaimer: I might sound angry in this text but I am not.
FIRST WE FINISH CHIEF'S STORY AFTER INFINITE!
Halo has already gone through a new direction between 3 and 4 (new art design, focus on Chief as a human etc), then through another harsh pivot into Sci-Fi space opera in 5 and also a spiritual reboot in Infinite and another art design change, granted it was a return on original art-design but still. I strongly feel a complete hard reboot, while cool, can be a very bad thing right now. The franchise needs to make "one last game" and fully conclude Master Chief's saga before going crazy with more new ideas.

@grumpypotato Staten has a permanent legendary status after the original Halo trilogy and seems like a genuinely great person. Bu honestly, it is not really known how good Staten's creative work is after Halo Reach right? He was mostly a bit like Rod Fergusson, somebody that went into troubled studios and helped them wrap up the game and ship it. His work on Destiny in Bungie was supposedly scrapped and he left/was fired and Destiny's success of today probably has little to do with his work.
Finally, his time in 343 probably did a lot of good and I think without him the game would have been far worse but again, I doubt his presence in the last year of that game's development largely changed whatever good or bad qualities Infinite had.

Netflix has the sequel of Valiant Hearts which I loved on PS!

It speaks volumes that more prominent people involved with Halo have left the company than we've seen actual updates since Halo Infinite launched.

@grumpypotato Wow what a take, you must be great fun to be around, something akin to Abe Simpson shouting at clouds 🤣.

As for this, this could be really interesting if Netflix are entering the console/PC gaming space. More competition and hopefully some decent games will come our way.

@BrilliantBill I wouldn't be surprised if Master Chief's story is ended in novels. It really does seem like Microsoft is replacing Halo with CoD on the games front.

@Kaloudz A bad story is a bad story, and a bad campaign is a bad campaign, be it a reboot, a sequel or anything else. A reboot won't help if they can't get the fundamentals right. They might as well begin a new IP.

@Kaloudz Considering that the voice actor (Steve Downes) is 70something years old, it is logical that if you want to wrap up the arc of MC do it fairly quickly, and preferably over the course of either one very long game or two shorter games. Then when all is done and settled, both he and the voice actor for Cortana can retire from their roles so that there is a clean break.

The future Halo reboot should also probably be something like the Modern Warfare reboots. Where you experience broadly the same events and characters but also slightly different.

@Kaloudz You sure can with AI voice generators, which might be where lots of franchises are heading. (Hopefully not...)