Halo Infinite

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Tim Longo, creative director for the upcoming Halo Infinite, left developer 343 Industries this week, Kotaku has learned. It’s part of a leadership shakeup that arrives late in the development of the next Halo game, which is scheduled for release in fall 2020.

Longo, an industry veteran who also served as creative director for Halo 5, had moved to a different role a few weeks ago, according to two people familiar with goings-on at 343. This week, he left the company entirely.

When reached by Kotaku, Microsoft confirmed Longo’s departure and sent over the following statement:

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Roles and responsibilities of various team members regularly evolve to meet the needs of a game, throughout development. We have recently had two changes to the Halo Infinite development team. Our Executive Producer, Mary Olson will now take charge of the Campaign team on Halo Infinite as the Lead Producer, utilizing her many years of experience at 343 to help craft a great campaign for fans.

Additionally, Tim Longo has recently departed our team and we are truly thankful for his many contributions to our games, our studio and the Halo universe. We wish Tim nothing but the best in his future endeavors.

The overall creative vision and production of the game remains led by Chris Lee, Studio Head of Halo Infinite.

We have a world-class team building Halo Infinite and the overwhelming positive response by fans has us energized, more than ever, to create the best Halo game to date, alongside Project Scarlett in holiday 2020. These changes have no impact to the release date for Halo Infinite.
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In addition to releasing on Xbox One and PC, Halo Infinite will be a launch game for the next-generation Xbox, which is codenamed Scarlett. It’s envisioned as a “spiritual reboot” for the series, according to 343 studio head Bonnie Ross. The studio hasn’t shown any actual gameplay just yet, but put out a cinematic trailer featuring protagonist Master Chief at E3 of this year.
 
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I'll be honest, I thought it looked kind of underwhelming. I mean, Halo is MS' tent pole franchise. It is the cornerstone from which the entire platform was built around. It has like a 500 million dollar budget behind it. It's been in development forever. Plus it's being shown running on their brand new next gen console (Edit: It has now been confirmed that it was running on PC) and to me it just looked....like Halo. What I was hoping for was a complete transformation. A new beginning for Halo but that's not what we got. This was the game I was looking at to pull me back into Xbox and it ended up being the biggest letdown of the show. I honestly thought the Destiny 2 expansion looked more impressive.
 
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So people are mad because it looked looked like Halo and they wanted it to look like something totally different?


Okay......
 
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Storyline will make or break it. A great SP campaign is a must. In today's world MP isnt going to carry Halo.

I also got a heavy feel of Thanos from the bad guy.

That is also the worst pilot I have ever seen. Flies straight at an AA gun, gets shot, is surprised. Flies straight at a second one, gets shot again.

Then roll footage from Halo 1 landing on the ring for the first time.
 
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zhangliao04 said:
I'm curious. What were you looking for?
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I was genuinely looking for that "Mario 64" next gen leap for this game. I mean, this is freaking Halo man! It's the cornerstone from which the entire Xbox platform is built! This should've been the show-stopper for their event. But instead to me it looks like somebody took Halo CE and fan-modded it. Muddy textures, poor character models, pop in everywhere, flat looking graphics, poor enemy AI. There have been side by side pictures posted of this game up next to even older Halo games and the older versions actually look better! There are other CURRENT gen games right now that look way better than this game looks. It just makes me think, damn! If MS can't get THIS game right, what hope is their for the rest of their next gen library?
 
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It just doesn’t look good. lol. I know, I know.. but the gameplay is all that matters. Let’s not kid ourselves here. This is “high end pc competing next gen console power” and it looks like an outdated game.

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Brave Volunteer said:
I was genuinely looking for that "Mario 64" next gen leap for this game. I mean, this is freaking Halo man! It's the cornerstone from which the entire Xbox platform is built! This should've been the show-stopper for their event. But instead to me it looks like somebody took Halo CE and fan-modded it. Muddy textures, poor character models, pop in everywhere, flat looking graphics, poor enemy AI. There have been side by side pictures posted of this game up next to even older Halo games and the older versions actually look better! There are other CURRENT gen games right now that look way better than this game looks. It just makes me think, damn! If MS can't get THIS game right, what hope is their for the rest of their next gen library?
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We shall see in a 4'ish months. I have the luxury of having my Game Pass Ultimate still going on during that time so I won't have to buy Halo Infinite at release. I'm going to play it on PC and see what it delivers and try to hold out on buying a Series X or PS5 for a little bit. I still have my original XbOne running at 900p 24 fps!

As far as the enemy AI, honestly that wasn't a fault for me because I highly doubt they up'd the difficulty for a 5 minute game demo. That was Easy mode, most likely. However, I will say the Warthog sounds like a bumblebee muff's Honda Civic.
 
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zhangliao04 said:
We shall see in a 4'ish months. I have the luxury of having my Game Pass Ultimate still going on during that time so I won't have to buy Halo Infinite at release. I'm going to play it on PC and see what it delivers and try to hold out on buying a Series X or PS5 for a little bit. I still have my original XbOne running at 900p 24 fps!

As far as the enemy AI, honestly that wasn't a fault for me because I highly doubt they up'd the difficulty for a 5 minute game demo. That was Easy mode, most likely. However, I will say the Warthog sounds like a bumblebee muff's Honda Civic.
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Maybe I just set my expectations too high. I don't know. But I honestly was more impressed with the footage of the Destiny 2 expansion. I was willing to give MS a clean slate going into next gen. I was very open to the idea of getting an XSX but then I saw THIS and I'm like...yeesh! One thing is very clear to me now though. Game Pass is what MS is all about now. It's not consoles. That event yesterday was not an Xbox Series X event, it was a Game Pass event.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Maybe I just set my expectations too high. I don't know. But I honestly was more impressed with the footage of the Destiny 2 expansion.
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To me, the Destiny 2 trailer was typical for almost every other Destiny 2 trailer. Bungie lost me with all of the crap they pulled with Destiny 1. Haven't gotten back into it ever since. I'm sure it's better now, I just have other games I need to play and still have fun with so now I'm good with not playing it.
 
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zhangliao04 said:
To me, the Destiny 2 trailer was typical for almost every other Destiny 2 trailer. Bungie lost me with all of the crap they pulled with Destiny 1. Haven't gotten back into it ever since. I'm sure it's better now, I just have other games I need to play and still have fun with so now I'm good with not playing it.
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I just meant graphically it looked more impressive.

I think more of the blame for Destiny 1 needs to go to Activision. They forced Bungie to pull certain content out of the game so they could sell it as DLC, which is why it felt so incomplete. Originally there wasn't even supposed to be a Destiny 2. Bungie wanted Destiny to be a 10 year ongoing game. However now that Bungie has broken away from Activision, they have made Destiny 2 free to play, which I think is a better business model for that game.
 
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I'm sure I'm in the minority but I don't really care about graphics all that much. If the game is fun I'll be fairly happy. That being said, I doubt those are the final graphics we see. It seemed like an early demo. I would imagine the graphics improve by game release and we already know the game is getting a ray tracing update to lighting after launch (delay due to COVID).
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
I just meant graphically it looked more impressive.

I think more of the blame for Destiny 1 needs to go to Activision. They forced Bungie to pull certain content out of the game so they could sell it as DLC, which is why it felt so incomplete. Originally there wasn't even supposed to be a Destiny 2. Bungie wanted Destiny to be a 10 year ongoing game. However now that Bungie has broken away from Activision, they have made Destiny 2 free to play, which I think is a better business model for that game.
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I'm going to wait and see what all can be done on the graphics. I really like the openness of Halo: Infinite. I get why people are saying "it's like Halo"and it's because I think they heard the voices that kept saying "Halo has deviated from it's roots." So, what they did is go back to its roots just like what was asked for. I'm excited either way because I don't have to pay a dime to play it when it comes out this fall :D. I may even check out the Destiny 2 stuff. Apparently all of the DLC content will be available to those with Game Pass.

As for Destiny 1, what really irked me so hard was the "Look, we realize we really messed up so here is a new DLC and in order to play it you have to pay $60 again." And they changed the voice of the floaty guy who is 343 Guilty Sparks' cousin.
 
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I was really underwhelmed by the Xbox presentation, and in hindsight it makes the PS5 presentation look far more impressive. I think they've stumbled out of the gate once again by focusing too heavily on Game Pass. It's an awesome deal for sure, but it doesn't make sense based on them touting the XSX's power. They've got two conflicting philosophies going on right now--play from multiple devices (Xbox One, PC, XSX) and deliver the most powerful console (XSX). I think that's going to hold them back for a while because they want their games playable on 2013 hardware and lower-end PCs.

Meanwhile Sony and their developers are free to push the envelope with the PS5.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
I just meant graphically it looked more impressive.

I think more of the blame for Destiny 1 needs to go to Activision. They forced Bungie to pull certain content out of the game so they could sell it as DLC, which is why it felt so incomplete. Originally there wasn't even supposed to be a Destiny 2. Bungie wanted Destiny to be a 10 year ongoing game. However now that Bungie has broken away from Activision, they have made Destiny 2 free to play, which I think is a better business model for that game.
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What are you going to play Halo on?
 
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LouderVol said:
What are you going to play Halo on?
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As of now? Nothing. I see absolutely nothing in Halo Infinite that I don't already get from Destiny 2, other than Warthogs. Bungie is releasing a free 4K/60fps patch for next gen owners for Destiny 2, plus their new expansion "Beyond Light" looks really badass! I cannot wait to play it. 343 Studios is a cover band. Their versions of Halo pale in comparison to Bungie's. Halo to me now is simply a name.

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I'm sure I'm in the minority but I don't really care about graphics all that much. If the game is fun I'll be fairly happy. That being said, I doubt those are the final graphics we see. It seemed like an early demo. I would imagine the graphics improve by game release and we already know the game is getting a ray tracing update to lighting after launch (delay due to COVID).
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I agree with you to a point. However if you're trying to sell me on a 500.00 next generation console, you'd better give me a compelling reason to do so. I just feel like MS utterly failed at this by showing Halo Infinite in the state it's in currently. I personally think graphics and gameplay are equally important. Better graphics improve immersion. Plus, what's the point of having new generations with better hardware if graphics don't matter?
 
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In other Halo news. The MP in Halo Infinite is going to be F2P and support 120fps framerate for those with TV's/monitors that support it.

 
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Halo was an amazing game.

I remember first playing it with the original controller that was the size of a frisbee and being blown away by the campaign.


Then came halo2 and the online multiplayer was amazing.

Fast forward to now and 353 totally sucks in my opinion. Halo 5 runs and plays smooth but have the maps are mod made. I love Halo and have logged more time playing Halo online than all other games combined but I fear the franchise is dead in the hands of 353.
 
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