Halo MMO had been green-lit Comments by Oli Welsh

17 November, 2008

Was a prequel, and a "classic MMO".

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iokthemonkey

17/11/08 @ 16:41

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And my post is a prequel to a story that hasn't gone live yet!

kangarootoo

17/11/08 @ 16:42

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The article is broked in FireFox :(

AphoticCosmos

17/11/08 @ 16:45

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Article is broked in Chrome too

Fix plz!

seasidebaz

17/11/08 @ 16:46

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My word that's an impressive amount of breakage!

So much big writing, so little time...

Pastici

17/11/08 @ 16:47

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Hmm, I don't care about the Halo series but I am peeved there is no story. I can't watch people arguing about it!!

TheMoonRat

17/11/08 @ 16:51

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This article is better than halo

MasterNameless

17/11/08 @ 16:52

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I got the impression the story worked in IE then, but it doesn't. IE is barely working on this crappy work PC though mind you...

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17/11/08 @ 16:52

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Story = 8/10

Lutz [mod]

17/11/08 @ 16:55

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Nope, fail in IE too.

unacomn

17/11/08 @ 16:56

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I think I understand.

Beware the gibbering twelve, they see all beneath, beyond and between.

Oli [staff]

17/11/08 @ 16:57

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Apologies. Fixed.

seasidebaz

17/11/08 @ 16:59

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Well, I was expecting the article to be a big longer than that once it was up, but meh...

I'll never understand why MS don't like MMOs. Then again, looking at FFXI, I do understand.

Yossarian

17/11/08 @ 17:02

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This news is easily two or three months old.

seasidebaz

17/11/08 @ 17:22

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@retibra:

What I meant was massive install times, massive amounts of space taken up, and even more fees on top of the Live subscription. I'm not saying it's a bad game, but it wasn't made for a console simple as that.

UncleLou

17/11/08 @ 17:23

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This news is easily two or three months old.

Source, please.

(The screenshots leak doesn't count, because that was a different news).

Mogs

17/11/08 @ 17:42

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Death of a WoW clone = win.

Tomo

17/11/08 @ 18:00

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I'm always intrigued by these stories. I'd absolutely love to see how far cancellations get before they're canned.

The early version of Resi 2 is a fascinating example too.

illusiondance

17/11/08 @ 19:48

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good lordy, if this does go ahead in any shape or form its an abysmal idea. (triple exclamation mark)
i quite like the hallo franchise and would fancy playing the RTS, but an mMo is just sheer stupidity. why not just make it another 'universe' and avoid all the reasonably important story relayed headaches?

MvK

17/11/08 @ 20:12

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The udders are chaffing :/

Mox

17/11/08 @ 23:00

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Sometimes it's like Planetside never happened.

miiiguel

17/11/08 @ 23:09

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Agree with ilusion, I mean, MS should take good care of Halo IP. If they don't behave, I vote for UN (or some supra national organization) to protect it as a digital monument of the western civilization.

Nodebug

18/11/08 @ 08:45

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Good thing it got canned. I don't see a WoW type MMO working in the Halo universe. Now a Planetside clone, THAT would be awesome.

SpyroViper

18/11/08 @ 09:03

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It takes Ensemble 4 years to make a simple RTS. It takes other devs 2 1/2 years to make a really good FPS. Do the math. Ensemble are a bunch of slow coaches in the industry. That's why M$ wants them gone.

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sneetch

18/11/08 @ 11:31

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Classic MMO, bah: that means right-click the mob to begin auto-attacking with your battle rifle and then push the "Armour Penetrating Shot" button every 5 seconds as soon as it cools down to do 125% weapon damage and ignore armour on your next shot, kill 10 grunts and you get a quest reward of a green [Sergeants Battle Rifle]. Woot, +2 DPS!

What works in WoW doesn't work in sci-fi, for me, at least. A Planetside-a-like on the other hand would be awesome. Something where skill makes more of a difference and entering fights is more unpredictable (I mean, standard MMO fighting is normally very predicable, you know within a few seconds whether or not you'll win, after a few hours you can even predict how much health you'll have at the end).

Then you'd just have to release it on PC, no way I'm playing a MMO with a controller. :)

/aside God-damn! I hate those pop-up ads. I now add LOTRO: Mines of Moria to the list of games I'll never own.

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