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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · Nov 20

Goemar floated this idea, and since I already had everyone's handles organized in a spreadsheet from the last migration it made this (relatively) easy to make #blutoid go.bsky.app/K6xaMDZ

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1h

Natural diegetic sign posting is unironically great!

The goal is to draw your eye without breaking your immersion in the game world. The only reason this is post worth is because of how terrible many developers are with this stuff by comparison lol

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 11h

While I'm very happy w/ Romulus and AE, I'm also curious how his film would have turned out.

(Can't have been worse than Covenant 😂)

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 13h

I'm not sure that's true? The Xbox was marketed as a PC for console gamers, from a company established in the PC space, and the FPS had long been established on PC. It's why they bought a PC developer to make one. I don't think Goldeneye had any impact on that or Halo's ability to succeed.

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 13h

Yea that seems to be the case, and there's no functionality in the OS to install a game from cart so that's not an option either.

I would expect every multiplat game w/o a a PS4 version to either be a key card or a code in box

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 14h

a cat is laying down in a dark room

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 14h

"the franchise is cooked" and they're a year removed from the best film since Aliens plus a really great TV show 😭

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 14h

Yea I played the first one like 3 years ago, figured that was enough of a gap where I'd be into the sequel. I think I'm approaching the end of the second "chapter" and it just hasn't grabbed me yet

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 15h

#blutoid thinking I might drop A Plague Tale: Requiem.

I really liked the strict linear nature of the first game, where each scenario was like a small puzzle you had to solve. Making it wide linear encourages you to explore, but the game fights you if you try, and I kinda hate that?

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh. Sorry. Just pissed at the idea that Xbox probably gutted the core art team at Halo Studios because they think they can remake the first game by running a bunch of other people's work through some genAI bullshit.

Capitalism ruins everything, man

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine Satya Nadella showing up to your local Best Buy next to a guy in a suit of armor to sell you the first copy of Halo Infinite lol.

Shit, even Halo 2 was a cultural event when it came out.

Switch 2 was huge, GTA VI will be huge, but Halo was huge for its time too!

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

#blutoid I think people forget how huge Halo 3 was.

They sold 3+ million copies in a week on a system with less than 12M units (and a good chunk defective lol). Steam has 10x the active userbase and only 8 games have ever seen these player counts (a fraction as many people had broadband in 2007!)

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

Also dope: starting college when a new Halo dropped and realizing the building of dorms we were in was networked such that we could do massive LAN parties lol

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

Yea nothing is beating putting an OG Xbox and 4 controllers in a backpack and then also dragging the CRT from my friend's living room into his basement so we can get a system link game going with a group of our buds 😂

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

If you own Ultimate then Reloaded is a free upgrade fwiw.

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit this was incredible lol

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

And then flash forward to my 30s, visiting a buddy who now lives in another state who i grew up playing Halo with, and we can't play the new one together, irl like we used to, cause it has no split screen.

Ugh.

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

I think DX:HR did a great job of honoring this legacy, too. The thread with Faridah, the full impact of which is a small moment that comes out of nowhere some time later, is one of the most memorable experiences I've had with this medium

And I will carry that shame to my fucking grave 😭

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

Also probably hasn't helped that the industry's marketing has consolidated almost entirely around (1) Keighly run events and (2) Nintendo, who fucking hate the games press lol.

Seems they both read the room on where this situation was going

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

This is almost certainly true as the way the industry defines "game players" includes people who play mobile slop or have a couple live service games/series and that's the only things they touch.

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just gonna call it now, cause the direction under Phil Spencer's leadership at Xbox has been clear:

Halo Studios, the rebranded 343, is maybe gonna ship one game before closing shop and the franchise gets entirely farmed out to dev contractors.

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

Almost every art lead who worked on Halo Infinite has left the studio.

Yea.

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

#blutoid yea this seems great, I think

Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 1d

Long time Halo Art Director Glenn Israel leaves Halo Studios with ominous message:

"There is little more I can say for the moment, though I intend to share this particular story in its entirety when it is absolutely safe to do so next year"

➡️ www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/...

#Halo

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ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 1d

Responsibility is probably on the aggregates not to include their score, no?

Relatedly: outlets reviewing a multiplayer mode/game they haven't done real world testing of is a little sketchy IMO

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 2d

Love the cycle we've gotten into with Battlefield, where one game has a campaign and it's terrible, then the next game doesn't and people complain, and never once does anyone in charge at EA go "hey what if we made a campaign that didn't suck??"

ctg867 @ctg867.bsky.social · 2d

I look forward to playing this in 5 years after I get it on sale for a dollar because Saudi Crown Arts is trying to promote Battlefield 2143 or something lol