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Halo Infinite multiplayer creative director Tom French leaves 343 Industries
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Now get rid of Stinkles sanctimonious ass and I’ll look forward to their next game
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Didn't Stinkles get MeToo'd?
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Another one
ParaSeoul
Member
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
If so that would be quite ironic. I haven't communicated with him since he went to reset.
James Sawyer Ford
Member
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/frank-o’connor-the-janitor-stinkles-of-343-industries-accused-of-sexually-grooming-teenage-girl.1550562/page-3
I guess they determined it wasn't real if he's still working there. Either way, Frank needs to go for sure. The output of 343 for so many employees is LAUGHABLY bad.
I loved Halo Infinite's gameplay/controls...but those were already an established thing in Halo. It should not be difficult to have an enormous and evolving amount of content from such a large team with an established formula.
I think Frank spent too much time on REEE preaching political extremism rather than doing his job
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The whole studio closed down because of DriveClub?
Lionhead closed down after Fable Legends debacle?
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Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Ohhh that thread. I even posted in it lol. Completely forgot about that.
Klayzer
Member
Lol. Number one answer right off the bat. I don't think Driveclub had the same expectations of a Halo title though.
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Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
Unfair though, it could have become Sony’s GT Horizon so to speak. Oh well :/…
Klayzer
Member
Yeah. In retrospect, Sony was to hasty in pulling the plug on the studio.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
The game was delayed and then had one of the worst releases ever. Sony did what was deserved.
Captain Toad
Banned
By that logic Microsoft should deservedly pull the plug on 343.
Klayzer
Member
The same, but different GIF.
feynoob
Banned
should have done by the time they did halo5.
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
Nah. The game was perfectly playable and had a great launch. They just failed to sustain it with content.
Nemesisuuu
Member
Pardon my French - now that would be good send off message.
ReBurn
Gold Member
Something tells me this one was cornered and thrown overboard
Codes 208
Member
Didnt sony also close down/cut ties with the PS all-stars devs after that failure?
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
He must have dirt on somebody at MS because he should’ve been the first to go after Halo 5
DaleinCalgary
Member
he's the only one proud of his time at 343
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
gothmog
Gold Member
I wish Microsoft used logic. 343 deserved to be dissolved years ago when it was just a "maybe this isn't working out" kinda vibe. They could have gotten a lot of positive press and did not even need to get rid of anyone as much as shuffle people around . Waiting 10+ years until basically it got so bad that the leadership started jumping ship means there's a larger management issue at Xbox. I hope whoever was protecting them gets their just deserts as it was not fair to the general staff of 343 working hard on the games or the consumers.
CuNi
Member
I would love to agree with you, but I have a greatly opposing opinion on that matter.
Dissolving one of their best, most experience FPS devs that was making profitable, critically successful games would have been an extremely dumb decision.
Especially hilarious when you end with claiming you’re interested in the welfare of the ‘general staff of 343 working hard’, the same staff you wanted let go in the first paragraph.
10+ years ago was Halo 4. Critically and commercially successful. That’s when you wanted them to be dissolved? Especially at a time when MS first party studio count was starting to drop behind the competition?
Chukhopops
Member
Game is actually fine now, wait time under 30 seconds for BTB and good variety of game modes. It could use a Forge spotlight playlist and maybe some MP PVE modes. They sure took their time but I’m having fun with it.
Game went from the bottom of the Xbox rankings to Top 10 F2P games for a reason - I think people just parrot the same outdated arguments since launch.
Mibu no ookami
Member
Can you imagine how difficult it would be to recruit to a company like this?
When people leave, especially talented people (not saying he was or not) and you struggle to replace them, especially with talented people... it's basically game over for your studio.
God of War Ragnarok for example makes it VERY easy for Santa Monica to recruit. People want to be part of the next big thing.
Similarly, people would have wanted to be recruited to work on Halo, but at this point, it might be something people actively avoid. Who knows when Microsoft decides to pull the plug on this studio and you're out of a job.
bitbydeath
Member
Evo got sold off, not closed.
Gamerdude123
Banned
good. Now fire everyone else at 343i.
You should have taken the 10 seconds to Google this up.
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/22/sony-shuts-evolution-studios-video-game-driveclub
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Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
What was wrong with the launch?
Darkmakaimura
Member
Was the Halo Infinite that bad of a game? I don't really hear too many good things about it.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Not at all. It's still one of the strongest games released so far in this new gen, but people can't get over trying to paint it as some horrible game. Even reviews don't agree with the negative trolling the game has gotten. The campaign to me is easily one of the best in Halo franchise history, if not flat out the best. The multiplayer just flat out plays and feels incredible. Yea, yea, people want new stuff added to MP faster, but the core game that's there is still amazing, and it keeps getting better and better, so I don't share the negativity about the game, but then I never did agree with people on this game.
But I always like to remind trolls that it is one of the most strongly reviewed new AAA titles so far this gen. It reviewed as high as it did while not even having campaign co-op at launch. Cause it's that good. I just hope they don't end up losing their main janitors also, or else we'll get a thread about that too.
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Darkmakaimura
Member
That's good news. I wish I could play it. I have a lot of Halo encyclopedias and pretty much all of the games but I'm unable to play Halo Infinite.
I did read about and watch the ending and that concerns me a bit because it seems like they're going away from the lore that those books were, which are supposed to be canon. I know that won't bother a lot of people but there's a lot of lore that people like me who are into that kind of stuff take seriously.
Edit: what I'm referring to is that new alien race you find out about who can supposedly manipulate time. The books pretty much made the Precursors/Flood the most dangerous thing the Forerunners ever dealt with but it looks like the games are going to do something entirely different now.
The Precursors/Flood were pretty much godlike extra-dimensional beings that may have predated the universe so it kind of struck me as weird they are going with another new alien race that is supposedly even worse than them.
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Very well reviewed game with multiple GOTY awards. Then 343i messed up with the post launch content rollout (really slow delivery) + MP bug fixing, angering a vocal group of fans.
Also a consistent target of console warriors here who’ve largely succeeded in pushing a narrative that an 87% MC rated game is ‘bad’
SenjutsuSage
Banned
I'm a lore maniac. Have all encyclopedias, every novel, every audiobook. Even have some of the signed by the authors themselves. Halo Infinite does indeed follow the lore pretty closely. It just reveals new elements of it concerning the forerunner history and something they apparently feared more than anything else aka
The Endless (they have a proper name in the latest encyclopedia - Xalanyn) They're immune to the firing of the Halo Rings. Halo Infinite touches on nearly every major period throughout Halo's history from games as well as books. There are even Keyes flashbacks that expand a little more, they dig a little bit more into Halsey and the creation of Cortana, and so much more.
https://www.halopedia.org/Xalanyn
Halo Infinite is bringing a lot of mysteries that have been hanging out there for years full circle and are ready to reveal some big revelations, which is what I've wanted Halo to do rather than play things safe. A thread beyond the flood. They're digging more and more into mysteries like The Domain. We may learn quite a bit about who ruled the galaxy prior to the Forerunners. Also, it's possible that the guardians are not actually forerunner at all, but could be weapons from a different species. Lots to unwrap, but I like where they took the story and lore. And I enjoy what they did with Cortana's story and the new AI.
It's very possible that the Xalanyn ARE the Precursors or an offshoot of them in some fashion. It was said Forerunners betrayed those that came before them. Perhaps the Xalayn were what came before, perhaps they are the universal caretaker the forerunners overthrew. But their technology is far beyond forerunner tech by the looks of it. They even modified that laser to cut into forerunner infrastructure like butter, something that surprised the new Cortana.
https://www.halopedia.org/Xalanyn
Halo Infinite is bringing a lot of mysteries that have been hanging out there for years full circle and are ready to reveal some big revelations, which is what I've wanted Halo to do rather than play things safe. A thread beyond the flood. They're digging more and more into mysteries like The Domain. We may learn quite a bit about who ruled the galaxy prior to the Forerunners. Also, it's possible that the guardians are not actually forerunner at all, but could be weapons from a different species. Lots to unwrap, but I like where they took the story and lore. And I enjoy what they did with Cortana's story and the new AI.
It's very possible that the Xalanyn ARE the Precursors or an offshoot of them in some fashion. It was said Forerunners betrayed those that came before them. Perhaps the Xalayn were what came before, perhaps they are the universal caretaker the forerunners overthrew. But their technology is far beyond forerunner tech by the looks of it. They even modified that laser to cut into forerunner infrastructure like butter, something that surprised the new Cortana.
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Darkmakaimura
Member
Yeah....
I really like the whole precursor and flood thing and was hoping they wouldn't mess with that but I guess now there's something worse than them or at least worse than them according to the forerunners. I just think they should have delved more into the precursors and flood in the games before introducing already something else.
I really liked the whole lovecraftian elements of the flood and precursors.
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SenjutsuSage
Banned
I suspect they ARE the precursors. We were never told that much about them. Even the "Forerunner Domain" may not truly be a creation of the Forerunners after all.
Darkmakaimura
Member
Oh it wasn't.
The precursors built the domain. That's been known for a while. I believe it was even said the Domain might be an actual precursor itself.
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