Halo 4 Won’t Touch Core Mechanics of the Game
Speaking to CVG, creative director of MS's 343 Industries - and former CVG employee - Frank O'Connor said he doesn't think the Halo series needs to be taken in a radical new direction... it just needs to go "deeper".
"Bungie tried to reinvent [the Halo series] every time," he told CVG. "If you think about it, with Halo it was about putting the controls on the sticks, which hadn't been solved properly.
"With Halo 2 we recreated the System Link, LAN party experience on Xbox Live and that wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been on Xbox... So there are a lot of things that comes from partnership with the hardware and platform guys, and a lot of innovations come through necessity, which is going to continue to happen with us.
"Ultimately the core game mechanic and strength of the universe doesn't need to be changed, it just needs to be taken deeper. We want to make Halo games - we don't want to make Call of Duty or Ridge Racer. We want to make Halo games because we understand what's special about Halo."
Despite the fact that the next Halo will be the fourth on the current Xbox hardware, O'Conner said he doesn't think it'll be a problem producing another innovative instalment.
"I would say that one thing that has happened with previous Halo games regardless of hardware or platform shift is that there were always ideas left on the table due to time constraints, there were also ideas that didn't quite work because people didn't take to them or audience player patterns weren't exactly what we expected," he said.
"So no matter when it comes out, the next Halo is going to contain improvements. Some of them are going to be dramatic innovations while others will be slight tweaks.
"You've got to say 'what can we do to make this better?' It doesn't matter if that is a giant innovation or a small tweak, you've got to do it all over the board. That's how Bungie approaches it."
In the same interview O'Conner told CVG he thinks the next Halo will be "scrutinised differently" without Bungie at the helm.
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Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/294955/halo-4-will-feature-dramatic-innovations-and-slight-tweaks/
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Captain_JtaggerPosted:
00Zac00 in my opinion halo sucks. i like more realistic games like forza3 and cod7.
Listen to yourself. CoD is not realistic wtf?
marcusmonsoonPosted:
00Zac00 in my opinion halo sucks. i like more realistic games like forza3 and cod7.Forza 3 is a racing game and Black Ops, relistic? Please, don't embarasse yourself again like that.
SolarisPosted:
royceunion7 this game is better be good becuase after every one got bored of halo 3 thats when halo was basically over! ODST WAS THE **** WORST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED!! im glad that i didnt buy that **** or i would have blown my brains out for wasting 60$ and halo reach was a pretty much turd on the ferris wheel cuz that game was also shitty
ur a ****** mate, these games tho containing the halo name weren't built to be the same as the original halo story line, they were build to show a different side and have a different style. I am not saying they were as good as halo 3 but they were still good, ODST was just short and was designed differently i still enjoyed destroying the covenant and firefight was beastly. Reach was great, i am glad it wasnt the same a halo 3 coz i played that game so much that i had become bored of it i needed something similar but not identical. However i was a little disappointed on the ranking system, non the less the graphics were awesome. i believe that it was a good marketing scheme to make these 2 games not 100% like halo 3 coz it got ppl wanting a game like halo 3 more and it would make the next release of a halo 4 more exiting. This is my opinion and i no u have the right to ur own just dont bag out a game b4 u look at the bigger picture. Like Blackops ppl say it is shit, its fantastic just they took an element away from it that the community loved which changed everyone's opinion about it drastically.
royceunion7Posted:
this game is better be good becuase after every one got bored of halo 3 thats when halo was basically over! ODST WAS THE **** WORST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED!! im glad that i didnt buy that **** or i would have blown my brains out for wasting 60$ and halo reach was a pretty much turd on the ferris wheel cuz that game was also shitty
MillerLitePosted:
Double down? do they mean there going to put much more funding into the games? It would be a step in the right direction.
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