HALO IS BACK BABY AND 343 IS DONE

[@eragonbromsson1122]

“This rebrand suits you, but it cannot hide that mark.” “Nothing ever will.”

[@flashsaberf4622]

This is just as good as the 3000th time it was posted

[@floydtron]

"Hey, aren't you that game studio everybody hates?" "Oh my no, I'm Halo Studios!"

[@CackleTheory]

There's new leadership and also them using unreal engine will be a very good thing if they continue to use Cotractors

[@KC-bi9jw]

They were never a game studio. They were and always have been a division of Microsoft. Now that division has a new name. And rightfully so, NEW leadership, NEW engine, NEW game….this is not “343” I do agree we must also remain cautious. Phil Spencer is still in charge he MUST answer to the shareholders. Nothing else matters. This is where the next Halo’s downfall awaits.

[@Aaron1512_]

@@KC-bi9jwthat’s like saying Santa Monica Studio isn’t a game studio cause they’re a division of Sony

[@bigfootwalker5399]

​@@KC-bi9jwHalo's problems didn't start or end at the studio level, Microsoft chose the old leadership and the new one! I'm not hopeful for Halo's future, TBH I don't think there's ever gonna be a new game that's good!

[@bigfootwalker5399]

​@@Aaron1512_Microsoft doesn't manage its studios the way Sony does! Everything Microsoft owns is required to completely conform from top to bottom with Microsoft's corporate culture, but Sony allows its studios far more autonomy in their studios identity! We've seen changes in management even in the executives above the studios, but the core problems continued because the only changes were which empty suits were emplimenting the corporate strategy! Why would this time be any different, I'm tired of being lied to!

[@Victoria_77773]

Stay cautious people

[@dragonclaw4159]

Agreed.

[@IKwispyI]

Cautiously optimistic

[@SupersaiyanMagikarp_]

I feel good but 343 has played with my heart before let’s hope halo studios can do this right

[@BOAYang]

It’s still 343 with “halo studios” mask on

[@SupersaiyanMagikarp_]

@@BOAYang I know but I like to move on from the 343 and embrace the new. Although ive had similar situations where there was 0 change so dw im taking my time with it

[@sloapmonkey123]

Easier said than done, but "Halo Studios" first game needs to be a hit, or this rebrand is just 343 part 2.

[@paleosam4738]

Most employees who worked on halo 4,5 and even infinite at 343 have been fired, it is essentially a whole new staff and studio

[@rainbowsixODST]

That’s good to know because “damn” those people sucked at creating a story. Honestly I’d love it if they rebooted HALO back to before Halo 4 and tried again. It’s sad a lot of the books and comics would be made non-cannon but it would be for the better imo. As for an easy money maker. Halo 1-3 remade in the unreal engine! Then Reach and ODST! It would give them time to create a story bible and plot lines.

[@JJAB91]

Their choice of employees to showcase does not fill me with confidence. One look at the bio of their new Chief of Staff sets off every red flag.

[@Everlight_TCG]

@@JJAB91 Yeah they've been infiltrated by the woke activists for a while now and if they're allowed to remain there and have any leeway to put their agenda into the next game it'll be DOA.

[@kodyshaw6991]

​@@JJAB91Why? I'm too lazy to go read it myself so help me out lol

[@metek8926]

343 isn’t gone so much as it renamed itself as Halo studios. Will be cautiously interested in where things go.

[@verum117]

All previous leaders no longer work there

[@frankm35506]

Nah they had a huge leadership shake up. It’s practically a new company at this point

[@jurassictyrantkingYT]

Well you got to admit the Old Guard at 343 is gone

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

@@frankm35506 The reputation/stain isn't. Almost all players say this for any game that moves from one team to another. While officially 343 as we knew it doesn't exist, the devastation and damage that was still lingers in the air and to truly end 343 is to execute new bangers.

[@1Loftwing1]

Yep

[@michaellane5381]

Halo was a "party" shooter, that is what we need back more than anything, local social options over Pay to Play mechanics.

[@-weak3nd-548]

Imo halo was never 'pay to play' other than actually having to buy the game itself, halo 5 did have some pay to win mechanics with the warzone aspects and halo infinite only had transactions for customizing your spartans and weapons, never really has been pay to play nor pay to win in most pcases.

[@HoboBrute]

4 player local split screen for coop would go a long way

[@smelly551]

Forge and custom game modes real made reach and 3 special. Plus awesome coop

[@-weak3nd-548]

@@michaellane5381 this could be because I'm younger but I prefer the newer games custom games, don't get me wrong, I also love halo 3 and reach's forge, but I prefer it being all colorful than just grey, purple and green in the forge options

[@Gigadomdom]

@@smelly551 Honestly give me Reach-esque Firefights and im more or less happy. The shenanigans you could get up to and the pure fun of local play with that was everything I loved

[@dynestis2875]

_When you first saw Halo Unreal Engine, were you blinded by it's majesty?_

[@dat8835]

Blinded?

[@flipyapd2321]

@@dat8835”No”

[@emilianocastillejos1330]

⁠​⁠@@flipyapd2321paralyzed?* Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the sacred ring,and desecrate it with their filthy footsteps

[@Roman_Eagle]

@@emilianocastillejos1330 Noble Hierarchs. Surely you understand that once the parasite attacked -

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

When I saw it, it was... UNREAL.

[@AvaaSlays_Swiftie]

A rename and unreal engine 5 doesn’t mean halo is back lol. Problems way way deeper than that. Game industry got people blinded by these plastic graphics.

[@narfellus]

Bungie's Halo was a unique bit of gaming that all came together at the right time with the right people. 343 showed that cannot be recreated, and I give this "Halo Studio" a 10% of pulling off a good game. I predict a 90% chance that we get something on par with Infinite, and that's not good enough.

[@Reaper_Rin]

That's MK V armor at 4:40. Cmon man its on the halo combat evolved cover art, my guy.

[@MediQate]

“We do also get a look at a Spartan, in what looks like some Mark VI armor” as the camera slowly pans across three angles of 117 on CE Mark V…

[@RoderickVI]

You mean John Halo? Is that why they called the studio after John Halo's surname?

[@drkmtr9090]

Give the guy a break eh?

[@loganchandler7621]

@@drkmtr9090no? This guys whole channel is HALO. How does a channel based on this get stuff wrong

[@Zarik15]

It’s almost like he’s human and makes mistakes like everyone else.

[@executable3]

I see the name change is having its intended effect. A lot of people think this is a new studio when it is not. A lot of the old problems will likely remain.

[@NoNameTaken117]

Didn't they change the leadership? Like the same ppl that did most of the bad decisions for the franchise?

[@KerryFlanagan-p4x]

The leader ship is a purple haird woke women........ we going full on woke now with halo. It's gna be worse.

[@NoNameTaken117]

@@KerryFlanagan-p4x agone being scared of a colored hair women, where's the masculinity?

[@Zero.42]

Old problems? I think you mean “people”

[@laurenfazenbaker9777]

Yeah ....the problems are DiVeRsITy DEI woke bullshit that has nothing to do with the game. Look at the studio lead...a black woman with purple hair, rainbow flags, and pronouns. You really think that's not going to be all over the game?

[@robertdrowning6717]

Moving to unreal will 100% make development easier. Unreal engine is incredibly standard in the industry, taught in schools, etc. While we'll lose some of the fun bugs that emerge from weird proprietary code, it'll save a lot of headaches. Kerbal Space Program and TF2 both suffered from these problems. Kerbal's physics engine development siphoned employees and arguably resulted in the studio being shut down, and TF2's dusty old source code sounds like a real bear to cut through.

[@jamieknight326]

Aye, I agree. I suspect the one time cost to switch gets paid back tenfold with easier hiring & simpler dependency management within the pipeline.

[@ThatGuyNamedRick]

I will always have a soft spot for the Quake engine, Fast Inverse Square Root, Reflection Math, etc., it paved the way for a lot of other engines to not only look good but play just as well. Quake gave us "Slide" so Source could give us "Surf" , Quake gave us lightmaps so Unreal could give us baked lighting, and Quake gave us Prediction/Rendition compensation for modern games to have latency compensation. Quake's story crawled so Half-Life's could walk, and later on for Modern games to finally run. I miss the days where innovation and storytelling, not just graphical fidelity and trend-riding, that made a game stand out and be memorable.

[@PackHunter117]

Well to be fair we won’t know fully until we play it for ourselves how different it’ll feel compared to the old games

[@Theanimeisforme]

Tf2 is still on source 1 right? So that makes sense. The counter point is cs:go's switch to the updated engine, source 2.

[@vicentegodoy5493]

It cant possibly get any worse right?...right?

[@frankm35506]

Yea it could lol Infinite was pretty good

[@ThatGuyNamedRick]

Nah I'm actually looking forward to a sequel to Halo 3 back in 2007

[@nickmhc]

As a Star Wars fan, lol It can not only be bad, but you can be called a terrible human being regardless of your personal actions and political record for a decade or more

[@Skölly-b6h]

@@nickmhc I wouldn’t compare Star Wars situation to Halo it is not that bad, halo situation is not as bad as Star Wars even though Andor is good that is what meant to say

[@EngineerOfChaos]

Halo 5 story with Halo 4 multiplayer and exclusive to the Epic Games Store for PC

[@awdgaray]

Oh my poor, sweet, naive, summer child...

[@hoenheim94]

One aspect to this engine change that I think we as a community need to be really skeptical about is the degree to which it will likely facilitate the godawful labor practices 343 has been doubling down on for the better part of a decade at this point. A major reason that Slipspace caused the problems that it did was because the studio insisted on having such a disproportionate fraction of its workforce be limited to contracting rather than bringing them on as employees. Thats also the major driver for how muddled and unfocused Infinites development was; by every 8 to 12 months a siginificant portion of the dev team would be brand new people. Even putting aside the obvious moral issues that come along with working so hard to undercompensate their workforce as much as possible, shifting to Unreal won't fix a lot of these underlying problems that it creates, especially if they decide to double down even further on their reliance on contractors.

[@Farmsy__]

The management I assume that is responsible for a lot of these practices are all gone. Leadership was gutted. But it will remain to be seen.

[@trekker683]

​@@Farmsy__as I understand it it was Microsoft that forced that practice on 343.

[@wruenvadam]

The difference here is that it is already a well built and established engine. A lot of the work has already been done. Slipsace was built from scratch which is way more time consuming and considering the time that Microsoft wanted to release it, it just wasn't possible for them to get everything quite right with the engine and still have the full vision of the game completed.

[@willshea2460]

Well if it's an already existing and accessible engine I don't think contract work would be terrible. But they should limit what positions are contract because before it seemed like almsot every position even Coders were contracted.

[@wruenvadam]

@@willshea2460 Yeah but the base engine for Halo Infinite was built by contractors, and since its new, and not all the information was passed down before they left, It made it really difficult to work on. With an already established engine, it wont be nearly as difficult because everyone will already know how to code in it no matter who works on it, so contractors coming and going wont be nearly as big of a hit as it was for Halo Infinite.

[@greyisland217]

4:41 that’s chief, he has 117 stamped on his chest plate

[@Zero.42]

Why is he wearing a diaper?

[@graysonconagher]

Don't go assuming it's all good just yet, there is so much that could and would go wrong with this. It's seemingly just a rebrand and engine change

[@frankm35506]

Nah they had a huge leadership shake up. It’s practically a new company now

[@Vashkey]

@@frankm35506 new =//= better. Know whats not new? Microsoft. The same Microsoft that allowed Halo to get to the state it has

[@DonCrack97]

He's a shill in 343's pocket, wouldn't expect him to be logical and honest

[@jamesh4616]

Okay. Now we need a Star Wars leadership change too.

[@austinbaccus]

And whoever is in charge of Amazon's Lord of the Rings show. Good grief

[@tyrannosuperior5248]

And a company change. As long as it's owned by Disney, their going to put identity politics in front of good storytelling.

[@HVLLOW99]

​@@tyrannosuperior5248 Disney is loosing billions as we speak. Only company big enough to buy Disney is Apple.

[@mariobadia4553]

Good luck with that lol

[@CackleTheory]

Agreed

[@PeytonOG]

Halo is not back and 343 is still here. They changed their name

[@GazingTrandoshan]

Research the past year I beg you PLEASE . How can you type this so confidently when you are objectionably wrong

[@PeytonOG]

@@GazingTrandoshan I still play Infinite, fn. Updates have gotten minusculey better but not enough to win the casual halo fan over.

[@hmon661]

@@PeytonOG No, he means all the old management were let go last year and many of the old devs were layed off at the beginning of this year. The people responsible for Halo 4 and 5 aren't really there anymore.

[@PeytonOG]

@@hmon661 I just watched Mint’s video on it. I see what you mean now

[@Itz2Cat]

@@hmon661 But halo infinite is still a scum fest. Why are they not trying to gain some good rep back? Last i checked, it costs £60 to recreate my reach spartan. New management hasnt made it less scummy. Im redownlaoding infinite rn to see if im wrong but last time i played, everyone was saying "halo is back" when the the flood stuff got added. In that same week of me playing they announced that there would be a price increase because of the "added value" of cross core helmets. How on earth are people ok with this. Literally insane.

[@chaotixthefox]

Need to reset the story back to where 3 left off and pretend the last 3 games didn't happen.

[@uhagi6720]

Honestly, just recycle the Banished and reboot the series after H4. Cortana's death was a very good way to force a more Chief focused story in future games, yet they completely failed to do so in 5 and Infinite.

[@misterbrady100]

The chief wakes up, and realizes it was all a bad dream.

[@Richard-iv3ii]

A blessing for sure

[@BeastofNormandy]

Hey Eck thanks for 7 years of videos been watching for about 4-5 years now. Enjoyed every video, though some I haven't watched I enjoyed the Halo, Star wars, and the versus videos. I loved your dreadnought video it is possibly my favorite part of your channel. I hope your family is happy, and have a saving knowledge of Christ. You along with SW theory, Stupendeous wave, 100% star wars, SW central, are my top Star Wars youtuber. I pray you will have a blessed year, and that you'll continue to do these videos as long as you love to make them. Take care man, love the channel, happy that your still here and haven't dropped in quality. God bless and have a good day tomorrow.

[@versedaaron]

The versus series is what got me here, I'd love to see more

[@BeastofNormandy]

@@versedaaronsame here

[@VaccaVanni]

It’s still 343… just with a name change

[@glorytopotatokind3670]

Now it's the time to retcon 343's canon

[@IronMan-ds5bi]

"Our next game will be 'Halo 4 (2025)' and each copy will come with a code to download 'Halo 3: Remastered'"

[@venchiswag]

@@IronMan-ds5bi That would be so hard

[@Adolf-Rizzler]

​@@IronMan-ds5bidon't do that. Don't give me hope

[@executable3]

This is pretty much the only thing that could get me excited for the next game. 343 just made countless questionable narrative decisions from retconning the forerunners from being ancient humans to being very generic looking aliens, to their obsession with Cortana and AI rampancy in general among many other things. From art to narrative and beyond nothing they ever did felt like Halo (though they at least seemed to figure out art with Infinite) because I don't believe they actually knew what Halo was. Having said that it's still the same studio just renamed (and the chances of retconning well over a decade of their stuff is pretty much 0) so my expectations are at a solid 0.

[@NoName......]

​@@IronMan-ds5bi Didn't Activision do that with Infinite Warfare and COD4 Remastered and people HATED it?

[@kodredcud]

343 isn't done, they're just rebranding. And maybe it's foreshadowing that the most creative name they could think of was "Halo Studios" lmao

[@KerryFlanagan-p4x]

Yah imagine call of duty makes a new studio called "call of duty studios" Wow. Could of maybe come up with a ton of of other names.... like "Precursor studios"

[@Itz2Cat]

Look at the logo as well. Its like the most 343i thing ive ever seen. If the words in their logo werent literally "halo" you would never be able to tell that it has anything to do with halo lol.

[@johng1z23]

Those unreal engine technical showcase reels look like the beginnings of the rumored Halo CE remake. The cliffs, the forerunner structures, the snow, the flood infestation, and most importantly the Mark V armor.

[@jamieknight326]

This sounds like a solid decision. Maintaining a bespoke engine isn’t as much of a competitive advantage as it used to be, but the costs have sky rocketed. I’m curious to see what they can achieve in unreal engine. Especially around things like visuals, performance & accessibility.

[@jackpackage4278]

Purple hair lady being chief of staff instantly killed my hope. Do people actually expect her to hire the best people? I judge anyone who actually has hope for this😂

[@frank-b6169]

Bro it’s the same company. Where’s all the hype coming from? 😂 Y’all stay hydrated and GOD bless.

[@VinceP1974]

Halo Studios: 343i with even more incompetent leadership and all-in with ESG/DEI How anyone can view anything positive about this is crazy to me

[@nathand.9969]

What we need is a Halo game set near the start of the war, possibly on Harvest in 2525?

[@MetalFalcon99]

SGT Johnson spin off would be fire

[@nathand.9969]

@@MetalFalcon99 1000% would love to see it!

[@KerryFlanagan-p4x]

Yes. This. We don't need a third halo ce remake. We had Halo CE. We had infinite which also was an apparent soft reboot..... gosh not another... Just take us back to the start.... harvest... yes please.

[@insipidpanda6097]

Unreal is going to make short-term contracts explode. It will be significantly easier to onboard contractors and opens an even larger volume of devs to which they can churn. They haven't changed or learned anything, this is just a new coat of paint.

[@lucasandrews8308]

Same people/company. Just a rebrand. Still 343 boys…

[@Bi9Clapper]

I know you aren't into Halo as much these days so a couple of quick things to point out and some that were covered in this post trailer interviews. - Multiple projects in development - Projects have been in development "for a couple years now" - Working in UE5 opens the door for onboarding new talent 1000% easier. - New leadership specifically says they are doing things differently and are not making games how they used to. - A CE remake has been rumored for a while now and the fact that they used CE models and MK.5 is almost certainly no coincidence. We very well could see the CE remake next year and that being used as the testbed for the next mainline game (which has been rumored to be in development for a couple years) and that could come in 2026 marking the 25th anniversary as the franchise as a whole. MS/343/Halo Studios themselves have specifically pointed out the 25th anniversary as something they are looking at to have something big for.

[@shadowslayer205]

I wouldn't mind a remake of CE on par with the Halo 2 anniversary remake. Its current 'HD' version on MCC just sticks out like a sore thumb next to Halo 2 AE.

[@vorpal6685]

I hope they follow the same recipe as the Resident Evil Remakes, Halo CE RE, Halo 2 RE and finally, Halo 3 RE, going to all platforms, Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo and PC

[@danielgertler5976]

The thing that always baffled me with 343 is they were created to expand the lore and make the side multimedia products... and yet somehow halo's story became unfocused and completely went off the rails

[@LAV-III]

4:40 MARK 6?! Eckey lock your doors

[@Noswalla-rb1iw]

Same people same studio. Different name. "Guys, they'll never expect it"

[@Zirodays]

Wasn't it the same old leadership at the start announcing this, Like the chief of FUCKING staff. I swear these new leadership is going to be personally picked puppets.

[@MistahFox]

Not the same people, almost all of 343's leadership has been replaced with Pierre, the guy who saved MCC now being in charge. It carries 343's legacy but if you compared it to the studio from 3 years ago it would be almost entirely new, for better or worse.

[@Noswalla-rb1iw]

@@MistahFox I was just made aware of this, thank you. Though it doesn't remove any of my caution from any upcoming halo game.

[@legoman716]

Can we please get playable elites and dual-wielding back?

[@MaestroKaestro]

343 isint done. The switch to unreal is so they have an easier time bringing on 18 month contractors rather than having a dedicated team. It's just a name change. They are still saying the same shit "a new direction for halo". We need more than a couple of hat changes and some cool looking still renders.

[@frankm35506]

Nah they have all new leadership now. Everyone who started 343 was let go over a year ago, it’s a whole new team

[@AssassinsFear]

What proof u got of that

[@DanskiOG]

I had the exact same thought bro, the original engine was never the problem, the problem was that they didn't have a permanent team to actually learn the engine.

[@CAL1MBO]

The original engine was the problem. Absolute copium bro. The engine was so difficult to use they couldn't fit all gamemodes on the screen lmao snd netcode bugs were never fixed

[@Dang00TheAlien]

⁠@@CAL1MBO That’s a UI problem not an engine problem my guy, and what, do you want Halo to look like fucking call of duty with every single game mode on the screen at once. You don’t need to meat ride the funny number company anymore bro and this ain’t reddit either, no one says crap about smoking copium. What you need is some fresh air 😂

[@jurassictyrantkingYT]

Also I'm hoping one of those three new projects is Halo Wars 3

[@Itz2Cat]

Halo wars 2 and H2A are like the only products that i cant believe 343i made. Actually i dont think 343i made halo wars 2 lol. But H2A is like insanely good if you compare it to their other products.

[@LauraTons]

i want to see a definitive statement about how they plan to keep people long term or not.

[@austinbaccus]

And for all of Microsoft, not just Halo

[@KevinKoolx]

Switching to Unreal is the most significant change since Bungie handing off Halo to Microsoft!

[@Epiclizerd]

You know it good when 343 does not exist anymore. I like halo infinite a lot but I could have done so much better glad we got a whole new thing

[@bruhgod123]

343 still exists they just rebranded.

[@GazingTrandoshan]

@@bruhgod123 Research the past year I beg you , almost everyone got fired lmao , its the skeleton of 343 with a ton of new talent this time lmao

[@bruhgod123]

@@GazingTrandoshan Are we gonna ignore the past 4 games that have been fucked up entirely.

[@therealtrabo]

​@@bruhgod123Four games? You mean 3? This is almost an entirely new staff, mainly in leadership. This is largely a new studio and NOT just a renamed 343.

[@bruhgod123]

@@therealtrabo Are we gonna forget MCC's launch?

[@Logan-il1rw]

“We changed our name!” “Halo is back baby!!”

[@hughlion1817]

I just want these fools to get scammed again and for the studio to go bankrupt. Oh wait, pretty sure that's exactly what going to happen xD

[@Logan-il1rw]

@@hughlion1817 right with u bro lol

[@87mstockwe]

Just can’t believe in it…we all felt so good and so hyped when they teased infinite that first time too. Microsoft has bungled this horribly since, well since Halo 4 onwards.

[@thealphaomega4888]

Don’t be fooled. Just cause 343 is gone doesn’t mean this new company will be any better. Stay frosty and don’t be deceived again

[@xxxxxx7469]

- Rename studio - Pick new engine ... Okay? How did this save Halo? Its still dead as a duck

[@retrodz65]

It looks absolutely beautiful, what I think would make it look even better is if they would use the same models and style of halo wars 2. Jeromes armor, the marines, the banished, all the models look peak Halo to me and I think it would incredible in UE5.

[@GazingTrandoshan]

People dont forget last year a bunch of layoffs occurred , almost everyone is new on this team , so its a rebrand but almost 90 percent of the staff is new lol

[@Itz2Cat]

Bad apples still remain.

[@Zero.42]

Still too many blue haired alphabet people and hoplophobes in a department responsible for an ip as big and important as Halo

[@midtown3221]

Uh, it's still 343i. Nothing means Halo is back. Same people, different name. It's a REBRAND. Halo died after Halo 4 and Reach.

[@Manas_Choudhary]

This is still Microsoft behind the scenes, and I will never trust them to do a decent job with Halo. But I do like the fact that things are moving forward with Pierre at the helm. I hope he gets the freedom to make big and independent decisions for the studio.

[@austinbaccus]

Microsoft was behind the scenes for the good Halo games too.

[@NoNameTaken117]

@@austinbaccus True but they were also behind the scenes for 4, 5 and Infinite I just hope they they arent so profit driven for the next projects

[@Manas_Choudhary]

@@austinbaccus The Microsoft that made good games knew the importance of cultivating a team for years to come, instead of chucking people out after 18 months like they do now. Productivity, creativity, and efficiency are by-products of financial security. Bungie proved that, and Halo Studios could do too if Microsoft gets its sh*t together.

[@ZSTE]

@@austinbaccusDifferent leadership at Microsoft then compared to now.

[@austinbaccus]

@@Manas_Choudhary the 18-month thing has been going on for decades. It used to work because games used to take 3 years to make - and half of those 3 years was planning. So having contactors for a max of 1.5 years made sense, even if only from a business POV

[@Starlesslemon]

The fact basically all the OG devs and every single person from a leadership position has been fired makes it basically an entirely new studio. The rebrand has me excited. But, I expect to be burned like everything Halo related for the past 12 years.

[@Td825]

Kind of be cool if they remastered Halo 3/ODST in Unreal Engine 5 to get practice for the team…as long as it isn’t sold for a full priced game.

[@emperortethysusdacertified8175]

If you've heard any of the rumors, supposedly the campaigns of the three original trilogy games are all being remade into one big game.

[@dat8835]

​@@emperortethysusdacertified8175 that could be incredible... as long as they don't F up the story

[@joehutson4928]

The upside of the Project Foundry, is that it ISN'T a traditional test bed/tech demo. They said in an interview with Xbox Wire that they designed these environments while strictly adhering to how they would develop the environments FOR a game. And that, while these showcases aren't showing off a new game specifically, that pretty much all of it is "game asset" ready. So it IS beautiful, but more importantly, it's what we can actually expect. SO stoked.

[@St.Sparta]

343 just has a name change, and everyone loses their minds. A NAME CHANGE… The cycle never ends.

[@a_waff1es_0pinion76]

It’s not just a name change, all the higher-ups got completely replaced. A lot of the team was let go and replaced with new people.

[@St.Sparta]

@@a_waff1es_0pinion76 Here we go…

[@Videot78]

Forgot the part where it’s literally an entirely new development team

[@Videot78]

@@a_waff1es_0pinion76yeah it’s a whole new team, people like this guy just underplay that as if it’s not a huge implication of something good

[@a_waff1es_0pinion76]

@@Videot78 exactly

[@SDPPPodcast]

Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath.....

[@randomshittutorials]

So 343 isn't done, they underwent a name change to get rid of negative associations, and give us new false promises!!! LET'S WATCH EVERYBODY SCREAM AND CRY AGAIN OVER A GAME THAT WAS FINISHED AT SEPTEMBER 14, 2010!!!

[@waitean09]

The story needs a lot of work. I miss the elements of mystery and exploration. Theres so much potential with Zeta Halo i hope the deleve more into that deeper lore element with the Precursors and the Flood. The Banished story feels like surface level stuff.

[@Itz2Cat]

Halo 4 was a bad direction and not halo. But it wasnt a terrible story and you could write yourself out of it. Halo 5 made it so you couldnt write yourself out of it. Infinite, instead of starting from after 3 or 4, started from after 5. I believe the only way to get out of this now is to retcon or just start anew.

[@bengeorge9063]

Why are you guys all clamouring "Halo is saved". Its the same company that ran it into the ground.😂 Stay cautious people

[@helentheseasoncat9790]

So, halo still be developed by the same studio, just dropping the in house engine, effectively changing nothing. Let's be cautious

[@austinbaccus]

Changing the engine changes quite a bit. We also can't tell if they've changed leadership, which would also change quite a bit. More than "nothing" lol

[@NoNameTaken117]

Didn't they change the leadership? Like the same ppl that did most of the bad decisions for the franchise?

[@austinbaccus]

@@NoNameTaken117 we don't know. I have yet to see a before-and-after of the leadership roster

[@Slomoshun4u]

Did we watch the same video? This is a rebrand with a lot of 343 people, not a ground up new studio.

[@Dark_Heart5580]

If they really are partnering with Epic, I hope they don't make it an exclusive. We've seen time and again that making games epic exclusives tend to make them flop pretty spectacularly.

[@Haschlol21]

Microsoft have too much power for that, I just hope Halo releases on Steam in the future

[@banishedepsilon1802]

I don't think they'd make Halo an EGS exclusive on PC. Microsoft's PC game releases were all DOA with Windows Store exclusivity. Now MS puts all their new games on Steam day & date of the console release.

[@banishedepsilon1802]

Also, Microsoft is already putting their new big Indiana Jones game on their direct competitor's console just months after Xbox. I think that says something about Microsoft and exclusives...

[@flakboy1000]

Hope the art style is on par with the graphical fidelity

[@alienfeline1279]

Here’s hoping! 🤞🏼

[@BluntBrothersProductions]

Wow… I really hope this is a good sign!

[@flarezona9889]

BBP

[@Itz2Cat]

If it has anything to do with halo and looks too good to be true... It is.

[@Darkfieros]

Vid title indicates brain rot. Just cause they tagged new graffiti over the old name doesn't mean they changed the people running the show.

[@hughlion1817]

Yep and I'm just liking and commenting to boost non slop-shillers . Much obliged

[@treycarter6736]

Using “brain rot” commonplace indicates being 12.

[@hughlion1817]

@@treycarter6736 so young yet so perceptive :D Because he's right that we're likley in for more slop while the player base dwindles until these franchises aren't marketable and the shills inevitably pivot to some narrative along the lines of "X isn't popular anymore"

[@Darkfieros]

@@treycarter6736 We're all 12 when we play video games. Overall consensus on Halo games. 1-3 are a beloved trilogy. 4-5 were a departure from previous story and storytelling (Locke viewpoint), I appreciated the attempt to jump to the new story but it fell flat for myself and most. Infinite (AKA 6) I REALLY enjoyed the gameplay of the campaign, but was beyond confused at the story as it completely left behind 4-5 and didn't explain what the hell happened. As well as killing Cortana offscreen, these were MONSTROUSLY stupid ideas (I used the term stupid, must have been 12 at some point in my life). The books and other games were supplements to the main game, not to be made the forefront. Not touching the lack of game support for a year either. This studio has seen the sliding of a LOVED franchise, and you ain't convincing anyone cause you tagged a new name on the sign out front. They may get some love for remaking the old games, but they get no street cred back till they start making their own.

[@JeansWithPockets541]

My controversial Halo opinion is that I liked 4, and thought ODST wasn't as fun. I only played the campaigns, and I don't have Halo friends. Also I liked the UNSC's art style in the 343 games. I can't say I liked what I've heard about 5, but I haven't played it.

[@red9mm]

Interesting... we shall see

[@donovannotmyname7306]

They may call it Halo studios, but if the leadership stays the same, then we can expect the same.

[@alexiscastillolopez6739]

All the heads of 343 are gone so...

[@CAL1MBO]

All of the leadership changed buddy

[@benmacleod7000]

I’m really Hoping these are concept images for the rumored Halo CE Remaster!

[@padawann930]

Ahh yes they release an unreal tech demo and suddenly its " Halo is so back boyzzz" Nah dont fall for it. Just because they rebrand does not mean there not the 343 weve dealt with for the last 14 years. Old leadership is gone but new leadership is people that ahve worked with that old leadership and they came up with there own ideas for those bad halo games. Marketing 101 dont like what there saying about your company? Change the name, change the conversation.

[@NiniSuperior]

Completely agree. I love Bungie's Halo and I play the old games like once a year but I don't consider myself a Halo fan anymore. The remaining fanbase that this franchise has is completely lobotomised and will get excited for the smallest things. I have CERO excitement or hope for future Halo stuff and I doubt they'll prove me wrong.

[@NoNameTaken117]

Wasn't majority of the bad decisions from the terrible leadership and not from the devs? I'm sure you remember how 1 of the devs gave the idea of a helldivers 2 type of halo game and it got rejected by the old leadership? Totally sounds like the devs fault and not the old leaderships... You can't blame the new leadership just because they were forced to do what the old leadership said.

[@Carson-to4zr]

Bro they literally just changed there name and updated graphics. Nothing good will come from this.

[@nathanpeterson3704]

I mostly agree with your points Eck, but I will not stand for this Halo 4 slander. I'm not gonna pretend like it's the best Halo gameplay or story, but it's a solid addition to the franchise.

[@bruhgod123]

Ah yes, a game with overpowered enemies, a terrible weapon sandbox, a terrible story and a terrible art style is a solid addition to the franchise.

[@Skölly-b6h]

@@bruhgod123 quit disguising your opinion as if it was fact

[@bruhgod123]

@@Skölly-b6h Halo 4 is a dogshit game in literally every way.

[@Skölly-b6h]

@@bruhgod123 no it’s not

[@bruhgod123]

@@Skölly-b6h Name one good thing about it.

[@Itz2Cat]

Im really glad to see people still not go full "halo is back" bs. I hope that 343is blunders haunt them to the end of their days. Even if we get a good halo game, i still want people to remind them that it costs £60 to recreate my reach spartan in infinite. And thats excluding the colour. Or sorry, should i say "coating". And oh, dont forget that the halo show was green lit. Never forget.

[@jamesportal14]

6:59 hot take i love halo 4 art style

[@right8630]

😂 go away

[@MistahFox]

I was there at HCS Worlds when they announced it live, they said the studio would no longer be run like a tech company and I really hope that means no more primarily relying on contract workers

[@jurassictyrantkingYT]

I have to say that I'm actually super excited for 2026, because obviously it's going to possibly be the launch of the next Xbox console on Xbox 25th Anniversary and what better game to release alongside the new console then Halo Combat Evolved remastered with Unreal Engine 5.

[@gasracing5000]

Halo on Unreal 5... should have some sweet 30fps gameplay at 1080p with the 4090... cool, cool, cool

[@zalrohglekgolo6149]

"Halo infinite was a step forward" "The Terrible Halo 4 art style" "I know a few people liked Halo 4, I straight up did not" Idk, Halo 4 doesn't deserve the criticism. I've been defending it for 12 years, and I don't want another game similar to Halo 3. Halo 4 was the last evolution of the gameplay going from 3-R-4.

[@m0urn1ng5tar5]

I can admit Halo 4's story wasn't terrible. But I really don't like how it flies directly in the face of Bungie canon.

[@chaotixthefox]

It wasn't an awful game, just the beginning of a drop. I feel it did not make good use of its primary setting, and executed a suboptimal plot line.

[@zalrohglekgolo6149]

@@m0urn1ng5tar5 the problem is Bungie more or less stopped caring about their own canon when they worked on Halo 3. There's too many inconsistencies, A lot of Bungie's lore doesn't add up AFTER Halo 2 and then in their pissing match with Microsoft they retconned the holy Trinity of books that arguably did a better job at telling the story then they did. Jason Jones literally said on camera "we don't feel the need to adhere to stories we wrote a decade ago". At least Halo 4 sets the record straight tho.

[@theRok29]

Halo 4 was trash, the immediate exponential decline in active players at the time is proof alone that the community overall heavily disliked the game

[@m0urn1ng5tar5]

@@zalrohglekgolo6149 Which book were you referring to that was retconned? I mean the first one that came to mind was obviously the Fall of Reach since that clashes with Halo Reach.

[@schmidtyfilms9592]

I ain't hit an eck video in awhile and DAMN that intro hitting

[@robertetchingham7337]

They've killed literally every game after Halo 4. INCLUDING INFINITE. I'm not looking forward to anything made by people, even remotely related to 343.

[@JJJBunney001]

You realise that 343 was formed out of bungie staff right? 343 has been there since day 1

[@robertetchingham7337]

@JJJBunney001 just because they made great halo games in the past doesn't excuse the dumpster fire they've been making now. Idgaf, who's running the show rn. Bungie, 343, or anyone. Whoever is doing it right does not simply doesn't know Halo anymore.

[@IRLtrolls]

I don’t think Bonnie Ross gets enough hate for ruining Halo. Everyone needs to remember how bad she killed Halo 4

[@girthquake0]

343 still exists they just changed their name. Like how Facebook rebranded as Meta. Be very cautious.

[@iamnathanael2132]

New name, new engine, entirely new leadership with probably different thoughts about Halo. Essentially this is an all new studio, I'd say

[@SocksyyAU]

@@iamnathanael2132 Yep agreed

[@bruhgod123]

@@iamnathanael2132 Even if the studio cared about the Halo community it wouldn't matter because Microsoft still owns it.

[@iamnathanael2132]

@@bruhgod123 Right. I'm not a fan of the way Microsoft manages their studios. If they would just let the team make an awesome game then people will buy it. Money. Boom. But they stifle their creativity. They didn't do that with Bungie

[@Kenji-117]

All of this looks good but there are certain key things that are very subtle that gave halo its unique characteristics. Remember when you enter a new area and the screen UI vanished for a second and a phrase appeared on the bottom right corner saying something like "full circle" after landing on the new alpha halo in H3 for example while a new soundtrack starts playing which builds up slowly as the action progresses in the mission. Stuff like is is something that boosts up the gaming immersion to a new level and Bungie back in the day nailed it. The undertone lifts the vibe and feeling in a mission to a whole new level.

[@RavenJoe]

Remaining extremely, cautiously optimistic. But, if everything storywise from Halo 4 and onwards is not retconned, then I'm honestly not interested. That's not to say there wasn't anything good from the 343 Era, but there was more bad than good.

[@rstriker21]

I don’t hate the story, but it’s direction didn’t feel like halo, and it was very disconnected, a recent novel kinda retconned that issue but that’s always been a criticism of 343, you shouldn’t need to read novels to appreciate the story.

[@nuclearterrorist8119]

Not to be that person who pisses in everyone’s Cheerios but I’m seeing a lot of issues with this one

[@melikwalker296]

This is where I have to disagree with you. I kinda like Halo 4 and Halo 5's new art style. It actually felt more advanced

[@bruuuuuuuuhhhh]

Halo 4 Elites can't hurt me anymore

[@jamesvarela233]

Technically yes but no, we still need to remain cautious, since the same people affiliated with 343 is still involved, they just turned into Halo Studios tbh. It’s still 343 but with a different name.

[@x2leon263]

You say there is new hiring and others say its the same studio is just a name change. Soo what's the truth, guess we will have to wait and see. The people who hate halo better not still be working there.

[@OverlordZephyros]

NO WOKENESS

[@Elayzee]

Hardly. Everyone in that video looks like Sweet Baby Inc alumni who have master's degrees in Gender Studies & Interpretive Lesbian Dance Theory. This doesn't fill me with confidence whatsoever.

[@SeanMather]

Oh I’m that one person, I like 4/5! Infinite was fine from a story standpoint, but it was so hollowed out because of the open world, and the jump in time actively made 4/5 worse as they just hand waived over a lot of the story, which is disappointing.

[@thomaskelley6521]

It’s a reboot it’s not back it’s destroying the entirety of halo completely. Weird how literally anything will get these halo KZbinrs to freak tf out

[@tylerschofield]

One thing i miss about the original trilogy, odst and reach was the story had such high stakes. We were fighting to save humanity from extinction. It feels like 343 didnt even try to make an epic story because it would be hard to compete with those games story wise. The banished and stuff really always felt like a cheap covenant knock off and not much of a threat because they are just the remnants of an already defeated military. I think we need a proper flood threat or maybe they remake the originals, or we have some halo games set in the time between reach and halo 1.

[@alfredbuchon5456]

It is also because other studios within Microsoft also handle the UE 5. That would help the studios to support each other when the chips are burning.

[@abelramirez7320]

1. Playable Elites 2. Forge at launch 3. Coop campaign at launch 4. Classic customization 5. Firefight at launch 6. Split screen 7. Functional custom game options and theater at launch. These are all the bare minimum that they have to achieve with the next main entry. We shouldn't accept anything less than this because these are all things that Bungie achieved on the Xbox 360.

[@tonysladky8925]

Man, I've been out of Halo since the original trilogy wrapped up, but man am I feeling nostalgic for it. I'd love to get back in in the future, especially if it starts appealing to the people who have been soured on it in recent years.

[@10007638]

“Y’all ever heard of Worldcom?” Stringer Bell

[@free2befree]

I refuse to get my hopes up, but OMG the thought of a C.E. remake in UR5 makes me sooooo happy.

[@Lockerus]

The Slipspace Engine still used bits of the old Blam engine they've been using since Halo CE, so it wasn't even entirely new.

[@bob-g3e3x]

Just a rebrand with plenty of DEI incoming....say hello to Gaylo