Halo Infinite Delayed

Halo Infinite delayed. Thoughts?

Lol, 343i is just the worst.

So no exclusive for x-series at launch then why buy that thing?

LOL! Sony just won next gen.

Halo never been good since original.

original was only good but they never evolved its formula instead went full MP in future installment.

So people calling for delays and predicting the game's gonna be delayed.....

Nobody saw this coming. Lol.

Sarcasm, of course.

I guarrantee the next step will be 343 getting shut down (or reduced to just MCC) and Bungie returning to the franchise. Or bringing in some outsider like Creative Assembly.

I believe everyone is aware of your opinion on the matter by now.

It wasn't ready, I don't care if the demo was an E3 demo, they put forth the best they had AND that was it?!

It's not ready, it needs to be delayed or they would have had an Anthem or Fallout 76 situation and it would have been the death of Halo

I'm in no rush I just want them to get it right. Will be playing on PC. Dont plan on upgrading to series x from ps4 for atleast 2 years.

Game Pass!

Good news overall. Craig needs time for a makeover.

Halo 1 was long campaign. a proper SP game. Halo 2 was first time "screw SP and lets focus on MP" and then series get popular because of MP as a result original concept abondon.

Halo 1 is only Halo game exist.

Thank God. This is such great news. Delay until it's right. Don't rush to launch.

Wasn't exclusive

No surprise really. Series X launch is all about gamepass.

I am aware of how you feel.

Yeah but why play on x-series when ps5 is gonna have exclusives like spiderman 2 and the same multiplats

its like picking up ice cream at the store and only getting 1 scoop when i get 3 scoops with ps5 its just absurd. X-series better be cheaper or something to justify itself next to the ps5 exclusive game library at launch.

There's two things about all of this mess.

Firstly, how in the flying **** didn't they have enough time to make a Halo game? Five years, huge budget and its not ready (and i'd bet you ANYTHING that if it didn't receive the shitshow it has gotten, THIS is what they would've considered as a finished game) after all this time? What are they doing? What is 343i doing? What kind of worthless dev is that? They're messier than the current Bioware 🤣🤣🤣

Secondly, it is a good thing that they delayed it, i even predicted that they would, and its nice to see them have the balls to do so.

And people say that shitting on a game that looks abysmal is pointless/trolling. Look what happened... you can be certain that the final product (hopefully lol with 343i you never know) will be much better.

More like...

so the series x will launch without a triple A game? Lmao

Bwahahahahahaha

343 had 5 years, $500 million dollars and the help of additional studios and still couldn't get this game out for launch.

The biggest problem with Xbox this gen has been the higher ups continuing to allow this talentless hack of a studio to completely kill the main reason people buy Xboxes for which is Halo.

Wise move from what we've seen and heard

Nobody here is saying how there is now no launch exclusives on the X-Series its pure multiplat machine now.

Remember the n64 it launched with mario 64 wave race 64 it had games on there that u couldn't get anywhere else WTF microsoft. You are not a game system without exclusives.

Every game gets delayed.

Cyberpunk, Serious Sam, Mafia, ... All got delayed.

Remember when 343 said they were embracing the memes? What a crock. They were shooting whiskey and bawling their eyes out.

Before the reveal they said E3 2020 was their year to "own the show"

https://gamingbolt.com/halo-infinite-was-going-to-own-the-show-at-e3-2020

They actually thought their game was a banger until everyone else laughed in their faces.

This. I still dont think one year is enough time, and I dont even believe it will make it in 2021.

The problems with the game are much deeper than surface level polish, and inherently baked into the design philosophy of the game. They need to just scrap this shit and start over, or hand it off to another developer. Tuck tail and migrate from Slipspace to Unreal Engine 5 if they have to. They wouldn't be the first.

Square Enix spent untold years and a fuckton of money on the Luminous engine, dropped it after one game, and switched to Unreal Engine 4. Kingdom Hearts 3 restarted development from scratch 2 or 3 times since its 2014(I believe) announcement. And it ended up being well recieved.

Most of their other first party devs are all working on Unreal Engine 5 anyways.

I remember when they said that. Then I saw the footage and was like, "Are we looking at the same game?". I know for a fact Phil Spencer's egomaniacal ass was probably chewing everybody's asses out after that reveal while faking a smile for the public.

This is actually a good thing IMO. I'm glad they decided to fix it instead of releasing a mess of a game then "fixing" it later.

But it's been supposed to be from the start...slowpoke much

Lol, you cows really are the worst... you're genuinely more excited/happy that Halo got delayed than actually being excited for anything on PS5. Damn you're a sad bunch. Wow.

Anyway, this isn't surprising at all. And it's for the best. Whilst it is disappointing that we won't get Halo at launch, there will still be plenty of stuff to play (best versions of multiplats etc).

Unreal Engine 5 will probably help but I keep reading stories about how they outsource work and have contractors come in to work on the game, basically the game is full of Patchwork code that hardly anyone knows or can understand, a lot of it being from problems with the Engine. So unreal 5 might help

Ah well,best looking and running third party titles it is

HaH

Something else to note here is they only commit to 2021. This is no simple 3 month delay. Watch it be delayed until next holiday.

Xbox has literally no games for the next year lol.

Lookit all the happy Sony warriors!

You almost never see them this happy.

Is Series X gonna be delayed too?

Maybe this is a PR stunt so they can claim talent when they're able to release at the original date.

Because there is currently nothing to be excited about on the PS5... AH!

Lol, blaming covid. I don't see other devs having this issue. 343 must be anti mask.

There goes 1 year of the 10 year plan as well.

Red flags started flying for me when they were talking about adding ray tracing at some point after launch. RT is a large part of what makes next gen graphics next gen.

I had been hearing stories coming out of 343 even before COVID hit. It was not a happy place.

I'm glad MS let them slip from the launch window and actually finish the game. Hopefully it will pay off.

Understandable. If the rumours are even remotely true, the game needs to cook a bit longer. No worries, I can wait.

You couldn't be more full of shit if you tried.

Yeah but people want launch exclusives that push a system into next gen

Microsoft needs to delay the x-series till they get some next gen exclusives that are ready for us at launch to push us into the next generation.

You can't just delay halo you need a x-series delay ps5 is hitting wtih spiderman 2 and big hitters like that.

dude you know thats PC stop lying to people

@kazhirai: I'm talking about now dipshit.

So because it happened at a slightly later time while still being in the heat of the pandemic it's somehow different?

You're an idiot.

@kazhirai said:

@Ant_17 said:

Lol, blaming covid. I don't see other devs having this issue. 343 must be anti mask.

There goes 1 year of the 10 year plan as well.

You couldn't be more full of shit if you tried.

Also, basically every other game that was supposed to come out this year has been delayed. Shit, we haven't even heard from Nintendo since COVID hit.

@kazhirai: explay to me how grounded came out just fine, with no delay cause of covid?

I wonder what Antwan3K think of this juicy news.

@IMAHAPYHIPPO: Nintendo released AC and Origami King since Covid hit. They also held a Nintendo Direct and are rumored to have another this month.

Good. 343 needs to get their shit in order. I bet MS weren't altogether pleased.