Halo 5 Launches At #1 In UK, But Has Lowest Debut For Series Ever

It's almost as if the original series developer didn't make the game or something. Then, in an effort to pee on their territory, took every step imaginable to make it feel more like a spin-off to the dedicated fanbase.. Then, just to sweeten the deal, made it the shortest campaign ever. Don't forget to add some Raiden-sauce to this recipe. Halo fans love the idea of only having three freaking levels to play with their iconic hero/father figure.

How could anyone imagine something going wrong here? Whodathunkit? I mean, wouldn't you hate it if people thought to themselves, "You know, the one thing missing from this decade+ running super franchise is microtransactions." So, let's add that too. BRILLIANT!

What the hell did I spin? Oh I know, absolutely nothing, I just told charizard what people on the official Halo forums have voted for in terms of purchasing percentages for digital and physical sales related to polls.

If you don't care then take a hike, if you don't care then you needn't even respond to me. Damage control has been nearly non-existent because of the exact things I've said before and will continue to say, there's nothing to damage control. Why do you think the Halo 5 hype thread vanished so quickly? The complete lack of arguing taking place because cows cannot gain traction against this game, franchise or community, it's too big and people who like it don't care enough to entertain idiotic and incessant ranting from people who are throwing tantrums.

The biggest flop in system wars history and you shitheads have got nothing, it's very funny.

Great news. Halo killed real fps.

"Killing Spree..."

You are aware that they are calling it the best Halo MP of the series, right? You know, the MP where it was so famous for... Oh nevermind you are a cow, so any remark you make on Xbox One, an exclusive game for Xbox One, or even an accessory created by a third party is just classic cow butthurt, and still so much for Halo.

Master Chief making cows salty since 2001.

Read my edit, then.

Remedy is no where near Naughty Dog. Alan Wake has a 83 metascore and sold so poorly on Xbox 360 Remedy had to beg to port it PC. I can't remember the last time a Naughty Dog game scored that low. Uncharted 4 will probably sale 5 or 6 times what Quantum Break will do as well. Street Fighter 5 will probably do at least 3 million sales on PS4 by the end of 2016. Add on the PC sales and it will be more than fine. The Xbox 2016 lineup is not even comparable to PS4's imo critically and definitely not commercially.

You're smoking some real shit my friend, I wish I could be this high...

Greatness awaits.

That's funny, people were defending the SP when MCC came out and the multiplayer sucked.

Xbox One has one retail exclusive in the first 9 months of 2016(that is one more than it had this year though) while PS4 has Street Fighter 5(console exclusive), Uncharted 4, Ratchet & Clank, MLB The Show and Persona 5. Second half the year The Last Guardian, Horizon Zero Dawn, Gravity Rush 2, Nier Automata, Star Ocean 4 and Gran Turismo Sport(this could be earlier than the Fall though). Quantum Break, Recore(we don't even know if this is a retail game or anything else for that matter), Scalebound and Gears of War 4 looks weak in comparison. I did not list digital only games, but that would make it look even more imbalanced.

People listing PS4 2016 game lineup in a Halo 5 thread.

Rare Replay came out in August, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition came out in August, Forza 6 came out in September, Halo 5 in October, Tomb Raider comes out in 8 days, Fable Legends comes out before the end of the year, ReCore comes out in Spring 2016, Quantum Break comes out in April which is also Spring 2016, Crackdown 3 comes out Summer 2016, Gears of War 4 comes out Fall 2016, Scalebound comes out Fall of 2016 and there is also likely going to be a Forza Horizon 3.

Quit playing the bias horse blinders game, it makes you look dumb.

Crackdown 3 has a beta next Summer. The actual game is not releasing in 2016 as far as we know. If you notice I did not list any remasters/remakes for Sony or Microsoft so that is why some the games you mentioned were omitted. Otherwise could have listed God Of War 3, Tearaway Unfolded and Uncharted Collection plus Gravity Rush Remastered this upcoming February. Nothing you said changes the fact that Xbox One only has one retail exclusive in the first 9 months of 2016. I would love to see how you can spin this into a positive!

343 just can't capture lightening in the bottle that Bungie caught over and over with every main Halo. They were handed the business after big bro went off, but just keeps missing the beat.

Only a person in a gaming drought is thinking about a 2016 lineup.

This, just keep waiting and waiting and waiting, then when the waiting is over, claim victory.

The MP is better than Bungie's Halo games.

So the lolz worthy elephant in the room is now that, looking back to recent, consistent commenting from lems bragging about their superior line up and plentiful triple AAA exclusives for this holiday season, and they don't even buy the damn things lol.

Would love to see a break down in classic nyadc fashion of how any of his comment's content is unfathomable to the point where drugs are needed. The board certainly knows you like to be extremely specific, despite being full of hot lem nonsense 100% of the time.

The force is getting weaker with this franchise it seems.

A lot of salty Cows now. Maybe it's because they will never have a great exclusive FPS series like Halo.

Looks like NyaDC is about to have another meltdown. LOL @ him comparing Remedy to Naughty Dog. When was the last time Remedy won a GOTY or had half the sales/critical acclaim of Uncharted or TLOU?

Naughty Dog hasn't made an interesting game since Crash Bandicoot, you newage Michael Bay suckups have no idea of what a quality game is... I'd take a Max Payne or Alan Wake any day of the week over an Uncharted or The Last of Us...

You're trend following nobodies who like what you're told to like.

yep the meltdown is happening, these umbrella style hot air insults are a good indicator when it comes to nyadc.

the max payne games were good lol at the alan wake mention though

edit: delicious irony with the michael bay comment too, since QB is 10 X more cinematic than any naughty dog game, I mean hell it has it's own tv show accompaniment together with recognised actors.

@nyadc: LOL classic Nya damage control and lemming bullshit. All those millions of copies Uncharted and TLOU sold and are still selling means nothing because he says so lol. His bullshit lemming opinion means Uncharted and TLOU aren't "interesting" despite them getting hundreds of GOTY awards between them and outscoring Remedy's games on MC. GTFO dude, you're a clown lol.

I think everything should calm down in a few days for awhile once all the big games of the year release and the latest NPD is released. Now I just need to wait about a month to buy this game.

@magicalclick

I think at most digital sales should be about 20%(and maybe slightly more than that) higher than retail from what I recall. It looks likely that halo 5 will sell anywhere between 10X-15X higher in the US compared to the UK.

Think the 150 k came from Chelsea Fans looking to keep their minds distracted from the current state of the club.

I just don't care anymore, you people are stupid and annoying, you follow trends, you follow because you're followers. It doesn't seem like you have the sense to think for yourselves or to rationalize games for you, it's blind platform allegiance and whatever comes along with that. You don't like Naughty Dog games because of who they are or the content within, you like them because they're owned by Sony, because they're PlayStation games, don't be so naive as to think we can't see it.

Halo? The same can't be said of that, the Xbox wasn't something, it didn't have a following or fanboys when it released because it was the first console, Halo launched with the Xbox brand and was loved for what it is as a game, not because of what platform it's attached to, the same cannot be said of Uncharted and The Last of Us.

Look at QuackKnight, he's spouting off about game of the year awards and scores, what other people think of these games, not what he thinks, because he doesn't think, he likes what he's told is good. I like Alan Wake because I found it to be a profoundly good game with an engaging narrative, dialog, gameplay, setting and story, you may not feel that way and critics may not either, but that affects my feelings on it in zero capacity. This isn't gaming anymore, this is a bunch of sheep following Hollywood-esque marketing hype instead of following their own personal interests.

I was interested in Quantum Break because of the the style of game and my personal interest in time travel, not because of the cinematic value, marketing hype or anything else, because of Remedy's world class ability to convey a story through a game. They also do not release games very often so when they do happen to come out it's a big deal, they're not pumping out sequels left and right.

I pity you...

@charizard1605:

These things are dumb since they don't include digital downloads.

I'm not surprised, coming off of MCC, i'm sure people were wary. That being said, it's a brilliant release from 343, and Warzone is one of the most interesting MP modes in a long time.

Most of the people I know purchased the game digitally, which isn't tracked.

Angryjoe didn't give this game a 6/10 for nothing. Its not a very good game. Lems themselves aren't buying it, it looks that rough.

@silversix_: Have you played it? It's by no means perfect, but it's still a good game.

What a meltdown lol.

So by your stupid logic I love buying games I don't like because I'm following trends? How does that even make sense?

Well, what if I told you I love the Uncharted games and I've beat them all multiple times and I even bought TLOU twice. Whoops, there goes your stupid lemming logic out the window. I brought the GOTY awards/sales to prove that a village idiot's opinion like yourself of Uncharted/TLOU on System Wars carries no weight in the real world compared to the countless awards and million of fans the Uncharted/TLOU has created over the years. You said Naughty Dog hasn't made any interesting games since Crash and I proved you wrong. You have no argument clown.

I did not, but are we really going into the "if you didn't play it, you can't say anything about x game"? I've seen a bunch of multiplayer on twitch and some campaign. The poor story got me interested so i'll check the whole thing on youtube. From the look of it and what i've been saying for over half a year, this looks like a copy of Halo 4 (angryjoe said the same thing in his review). Copying an average game *especially for high Halo standards* wasn't very smart. And what's up with the extremely short campaign? 343i been saying and repeating multiple times how their campaign is 12h long, at the end, its under 5h long. What with that? Also, 3 missions as Chief? I dunno dude, this looks like a clusterfuck to me.


People been saying that 343i is the majority of what's left of Bungie but looking at all their three games,,, i'm not so sure about that.

@silversix_: Nope... More that it would definitely impact your opinion, rather than be the sole determining factor. The story was decent. It was neither groundbreaking, nor particularly bad. It focussed more on Osiris, which was fine, but it kind of undermined the whole Cortana/Chief thing they're trying to portray. For myself, on Co-Op, the campaign clocked in at 10:35 -

All-in-all, it's really not that short. Legendary would definitely add to the length, but Heroic was relatively easy with co-op. There were some tough moments, but respawning is pretty straightforward.

The gameplay is probably the tightest that the Halo franchise has actually seen, and that's saying something. It was pretty good in 4, but it's high-quality here.

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Still, I would recommend playing it to form a stronger opinion (if you can).

Not many big games came out so I'm not surprised.

That makes these low numbers even worse. It released before all the big games and still had by far the worst launch in series history. I mean if xbone owners ain't buying it to play Halo are they just buying the system for inferior versions of multiplats? Forza 6 was the worst selling in the series too. Not a good sign for m$ that people are clearly tired of their biggest franchises.

So when you melt down you don't call the emergency services, you jump off the deep end and split an atom. I couldn't choose just one reactionary reply so I basically closed my eyes while I viewed the folder and clicked none stop for ten seconds. This was the result.

But fucking lol, dude there is nothing profound in what you're saying at all. Your integrity is paper thin and compromised by being a very bitter and jaded xbox fanboy. There is nothing more to you at all. Stop letting this board get to you on a personal level. It will make you say dumb shit like this.

false, he said he was happy with the numbers, a number that could be anything. Nice try though.

i have never seen nya melt this much WOWZ. A true lem meltage

Another meltdown by nyadc? Try and take this forum a little less seriously, buddy.

Crazy to think Halo 5 flopped on the xbone. Does not bode well for multiplayer numbers over the next few weeks as people move onto black ops 3, battlefront, fallout 4, tomb raider etc.

Being happy with a number, means that the number was good in HIS opinion. Since Microsoft's opinion is the only one that matters...

We know the numbers though and they are BAD. Being the lowest selling game in the series by a large margin is not good. M$ also says they are pleased with hardware sales too despite getting their ass kicked on their home turf every month by a Japanese system and being non-existent everywhere else in the world. Stop taking everything they tell you as gospel.

Please share the global number of Halo sales. Oh wait you don't have them, you are referring to UK sales. Since when does UK sales translate to WW sales?

The xbone only sells decent in 2 countries - US and UK. Sales are the worst in history in one of those and m$ still hasn't publicly announced any sales for it even though they did right after 2,3, Reach, and 4 released. Just face the music, it sold poorly for a Halo game and is not the system seller it was intended to be.

Neither do PS4 owners

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