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Wasn't Campaign Evolved mostly outsourced anyways? Feel like it'd be pretty easy to do still since 343/Halo Studios wasn't solely behind it. If anything just having 343 do it with the same outsourcing would make it just as simple since they've been demoted to a support studio, and won't have resources going to whatever the next mainline Halo is.

Fingers crossed Activision could do what 343 never could with Halo - actually tell a story, beginning to end within the game, without needing you to read webcomics and other external material to understand what's going on. The gameplay varied each game, but their inability to tell a story within each did not.

He-Man going from April 2026 to Summer 2026 to Early 2027 is painful.

@Odium I'd prefer full on remakes of those. I remember despite being a 4 Player Co-op game, the first game especially had a bunch of one player or two player only bits that were a slog for everyone else waiting.

I'd rather have cheap, upscaled ports to get them on everything and have fresh servers for stuff like Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2.

@Jark Yeah, that's another factor that makes having sympathy difficult because of the bad actors. There's so many reports of 'layoffs' that were just temp employees upset they didn't get signed on again right away.

@kmtrain83 Oh I'm not saying for this situation specifically, just as an overall factor when it comes to layoffs in gaming. Don't know the details like you said, but I would very much believe 343/Halo Studios has a lot of meaningless positions.

@AI-Generation This. So, SO many studios now have what feel like endless bloat jobs & positions that balloon the time and cost of everything they do, and add virtually nothing to the company.

Despite stuff like the voice acting being really lackluster, I want it and stuff like the CoD ports to do well simply because I want more older games on modern hardware. Although for games with Multiplayer, it'd be nice if they changes SOME known problems with hacking beforehand...

@Fiendish-Beaver I think the only Survival with occasional Objectives I've played (not that I played many period that weren't from the Activision Transformers games lol) is Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 1. And while a decent few made you venture from your defenses, most were for bonus Coins and completely optional.

Any series that goes on this long is gonna face some form of an identity crisis. If not from the gameplay than from the team behind it changing. But whether or not people still like it as the series, as something different, or not at all is the big question. My example being Fallout 4 - great game, but an awful Fallout game.

@TryToBeHopeful For doing the Fanta Quest, they gave us a Skin for Halo Infinite to Redeem first. Probably what you're thinking of.

Just saw there's also a Skin called the Hidden Blade Armor Style free from a Discord Quest. Watch the 26 second video, get a code for Halo Waypoint.

Waiting for the Fanta Skin to be sent via email. Wish the Skins appeared in Cutscenes though - would definitely give them more of a purpose outside of showing off to Co-op players or playing in Third Person.

There's also currently a Twitch Drop Skin called Stream of the Crop available after watching Channels until August 4th.

The only reason I got the game at all is because they didn't charge a full $70. Zero chance I was paying said full $70 to play early and for some extra Skins.

The Fallout Remasters are gonna be real bad like Oblivion's, aren't they?

Looking at the LASO Skull list, it's way more manageable than most. It's still LASO mind you, but no Foreign or Recession Skulls specifically are gonna change things a lot from Anniversary.

People just want simple games that can be picked up and put down whenever without a timer, that don't need a massive time commitment to complete. That's why I'll always be in favor of ports, Remakes, & Remasters of these games over most modern AAA games. I'd love more backwards compatible stuff for anything that wouldn't be better off with new online servers.

If 2026 Obsidian was anything like the company at it's peak, this would be huge. Sadly like most game companies, it's a shell of its former self. So this will at best lead to a mid Fallout game, worst case it drags the Fallout IP and Obsidian through the mud even further.

I'd hope they're just talking about cutting the bloat positions in 343/Halo Studios that seem to be a major detriment to the IP. That or Halo is getting sacrificed for CoD and Activision, which is so backwards.

Bought it at the original launch price and still don't feel like I've gotten my value out of it... only reason I got one was an Xbox One X cost just as much at the time.

As much as I'd love the Transformers games to be Backwards, I think it'd be both better and more practical to just Remaster them. Without the multiplayer they're not really worth the effort of porting, War for Cybertron especially since it had a Co-op Campaign that doesn't hold up nearly as well solo.

And unlike the Spider-Man games of which I'm unsure of, Hasbro would gladly license out to Microsoft to get those games back out there. Hasbro both wants the money to fund their own game studios and it would promote their toy lines of the games. So at the very least War and Fall of Cybertron would be easy to get back on modern consoles. Not sure of Devastation or the extra red tape the movie-tie ins would require.

Not looking forward to the LASO Achievement/Trophy having seen the list of Skulls. I don't think there's an combination that makes it bearable, and I doubt they learned anything from the other LASOs they made.

Almost half a dozen studios begging for their lives, but hey, Gears E-Day is an Xbox Exclusive now! They're listening guys!

Dang, I said if it was priced properly at $40-50 I 'd get it Day One, lol. Ain't no way I'm paying $20 extra to play a few days early, some skins, & art books I'll never look at though.

I'm curious if only new games will be exclusives. Like if they Remake Gears 2 that'd be on the table for Multiplatform, but if people wanna play the newer or newest entries like E-Day, gotta get an Xbox. Just because it'd be so bizarre to port Gears 1 and Halo Campaign Evolved then stop after all that marketing nonsense.

Assuming Ubisoft doesn't do something spectacularly stupid, $40 for both games is an AMAZING value. Hell to 100% the Achievements/Trophies for though unless you're amazing at Platformers.

Exclusives might be a tough one to do between the conditions for buying Activision and them already putting Gears, Forza, & soon Halo on PS. And I'm not sure if Timed Exclusivity would be enough to justify getting an Xbox over anything else.

Free online AND cloud saves would be huge over the other Console Platforms though, enough to sway a good few people I'm sure.

Hope they hit up the Activision licensed library if they can. I'll buy stuff like War for Cybertron, Spider-Man Web of Shadows, X-Men Legends, or Marvel Ultimate Alliance Day One... if they don't make too many dubious choices to change things. Still on the fence for Campaign Evolved, since they're holding out on giving more details as of now.

I'm a bit worried about this Remake. It's allegedly close to release, but we haven't gotten too many updates on it. And there's a lot of factors we don't know that'd make people pass on this, like the price. Even $50 for CE with no Multiplayer or any kind is gonna be pushing it if they don't announce more features.

@smoreon It's to put them on PlayStation, simple as that. And if they're remaking Halo CE, they're gonna remake 2 & 3 at the very least too. I'd imagine (or hope at least) with these Remakes they'll be changing/tweaking a few of the more frustrating bits of these game too, instead of just re-painting them. Like making the Library in CE less repetitive or the Boss Fights in 2 less frustrating, aside from the changes we already know like Sprint, more weapons, more enemy types, & the new Missions. So unlike CE Anniversary and 2 in the MCC they won't be 1:1 with the originals.

But how was the Dead Rising 1's latest Remake unjustified? It was more than graphical, they changed a lot of the gameplay in it to be less janky (guns especially) and made the infamously bad Survivor AI better. Not a fan of all the changes, but it's far from just a new coat of paint.

Depends on the game and the quality of the Remake. Like I love Fallout 3, but if the upcoming Remake has more bugs than the original, I'd rather just not replay it. But for the most part, I'd rather replay an Xbox/PS2 or 360/PS3 game over most modern AAA releases now.

A bit late with already putting your 3 biggest IPs on PlayStation, no? I guess Timed-Exclusivity is still an option, but it's not quite the same.

Really weird that some of them are buggy or unoptimized. You'd think games like this would be pretty simple and similar in terms of making them run properly.

I want online play and nothing else, can I pay like $20 or $30 a year for that?

Worth noting that recently they changed the amount of time it takes to get your gift card from Rewards now. Used to be instant, now it's massively delayed. I have no doubt whatever this change is it's bad.

360 games I couldn't fit in the budget during the last sale. And the same will be for the next big sale.

I want a cheap Tier that's online and nothing else. I don't want Core where I pay extra for a bunch of games I already own.

I wanna know the price. I don't care how pretty it looks, if they plan on charging anywhere near full price for a Campaign and nothing else they're insane.

Out of the consoles I remember buying at launch, no. The Switch 2 is a weird in-between, because if you bought it for new stuff, god no. But I bought it specifically with the intention of it just being a better Switch 1, so I'm not sure.

Honestly wouldn't mind an equivalent to The Exchange in Campaign Evolved for cosmetics that you have to earn, not buy. Without Multiplayer it'd be a great way to add replayability. Just also hope there's a toggle like the MCC to turn it off for people who don't want to see it.

Not touching the Marvel MaXimum Collection until there's a decent sale or they add online for a few games other than X-Men. I understand the Cowabunga Collection costs $40 and this costs $25, but I can't imagine giving the extra 3 or so games with Co-op online servers would cost much more to do.

Not quite what I was hoping from a new Serious Sam game, but conceptually it could work. This is one I'll be waiting to hear what players say post-launch.

Make a Tier where I get to pay the lightest fee possible just so I can use Xbox Live with none of the other nonsense attached.

Waiting to see the REAL games that go on sale. The OG Xbox & 360 ones.

I'll be picking up more 360 games on sale I couldn't fit in the budget last sale. A lot of them are only $10 or $15, but every dollar saved counts.

Being able to bring a limited number of items to NG+ is a great change IMO. Not quite the biggest one the game needed, but a much appreciated one when it encourages you to NG+ multiple times.

@FraserG My hopes are very much dashed, but at least I know the reality of things now. : (

@RejectedAng3L They did show 2 games that aren't currently Backwards Compatible on the promo image. So there'll be new ones, it's just a matter of how many it'll be.