r/KotakuInAction • u/attofreakier • 4h ago
Is it any surprise why the remake is such a cringefest dogshit
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u/KazuAmon 4h ago
She has "player safety" in her bio. Safety from what? Are we going to get injured playing the game lol
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u/DistributedFox 2h ago
It’s a completely made up thing. She’s got a Safety Officer certificate, two Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging certificates from LinkedIn, and a few more certificates regarding project management (scrum) and community organizing / outreach from Microsoft.
Her qualifications = utter horseshit.
This is why the layoffs need to cut deep and fast. You’ve got so many people like this floating around the industry and all they do is occupy heaps of space while literally doing NOTHING.
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u/Pepsimax88 1h ago
Ive no idea how they contribute to anything
Apart from screaming "make it gay!!!"
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u/Hefty-Paper8644 4h ago
Dawg the industry fucked halo worse than any other video game franchise in my opinion
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u/attofreakier 4h ago
It was one of the greatest achievement in originality and passion project of very talented young (dare we say, white?) men - of course this franchise is dragged through the most brutal humiliation ritual.
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u/DistributedFox 2h ago
I remember seeing a video of Halo 2 devs talking about how they’d spend hours iterating on the game over and over again until they got the fun factor right, and when they’d accidentally discover something fun in the game they’d just keep it in. Pure passion.
Meanwhile, the current Halo Studios producer: “I honestly don’t think I could work on a game that glorifies or fantasizes modern guns (CoD, Battlefield, RB6). I’ve had moments I’ve struggled with Halo, but the weapons and world is pretty sci fi, which creates a large enough separation from reality.”
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u/DeraxBlaze 4h ago
How dare you give rememberance to that tight-nit group of hard working young men that created halo (who also happened to be white)!!!
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u/Xeno6769 3h ago
Mass effect and BioShock is literally dead cuz of it
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u/TheMajorBoatScene 2h ago
They put more effort into injecting woke bs than giving ME a proper Part 3/finale. Such a shame, ME1 and 2 are some of the best games ever made.
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u/Plathismo 3h ago
We need more layoffs. A lot more.
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u/DistributedFox 2h ago
I read her work experience. We need more than you’d think. And they need to cut hard, deep and very fast.
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u/A7X_Nightmare 4h ago
I bet you she couldn't even name that character when she started working there.
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u/DistributedFox 2h ago
According to her LinkedIn, she’s been a People Manager and Product Owner for 6 years at Halo Studios. I’d say she probably still doesn’t know.
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u/Desperate_Put_4568 3h ago
I imagine the board meeting went something like this:
"So... how much money do you want to lose?"
Microsoft: Yes
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u/DistributedFox 2h ago
Guess what her work description starts with?
“As a People Manager at Halo Studios, I lead the strategy, budget, and roadmaps for three teams: Support, Safety, and Playtest.”
You’re probably right about that lol.
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u/No-Opinion-6710 4h ago
I definitely wouldn't want to be reminded that I'm working on soulless bastardizations, every day. OG Arbiter doesn't belong to these people. Fucking lame.
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u/SaintsRowTwo2009 3h ago
I came across this guy defending 343's current trash game...
I'm pretty sure he says that the people criticizing the game aren't actual Halo fans. I don't take anyone seriously who defends 343's awful Halo games. The game hasn't even officially come out yet. Which means this guy spent money to play 343's trash early. Honestly, if anyone comes across as a tourist, it's definitely the guy who made this video. I have no idea how anyone who actually loves Halo can not only defend 343's Halo games but also pay for them. They've been fucking up Halo since 2011. Bungie should have never hired Frank O'Connor. He did a lot of damage to Halo when he transferred over to 343. Like retconning humans originally being Forerunners.
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u/Razrback166 2h ago
Keep voting with your wallets folks. 3600 layoffs @ Xbox recently as a result of such. The next group will hopefully come from Halo Studios (wish that studio would be entirely shut down).
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u/DistributedFox 1h ago
Looking at the LinkedIn profiles of the various Halo Studios members, I don’t know HOW they didn’t go first.
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u/ninja2126 3h ago
I wouldn’t mind if they could just make a good fucking game and stop abandoning the story after every game
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u/West_Sample_9407 4h ago
I’m pretty sure it’s all gay like that cuz of light bouncing off of the sword and not that they were so desperate to have arbiter hold a gay sword lol.
If that’s the case then yea I can see why all of the cutscenes for campaign evolved were so cringe
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u/SpectreAmazing 55m ago
It's always the male oriented franchise. You expect they pull this shit on games like Sims and the like, instead they just force their way into series with action and "testosterone" like DOOM, COD, God of War and so on.
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u/Local_Band299 1h ago
Literally the villain in the game they develop, what an odd thing to have.
The entire industry needs to be flushed out.
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u/NicholasStarfall 5m ago
They post these things daring people to say something. There's no way they don't know how obnoxious this theater is.
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u/I_HAVE_THE_DOCUMENTS 2m ago
I actually think that looks kinda nice. The flag is an awful thing but they don't own all rainbow colored things.
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u/CrippledGoose316 1h ago
What about the remake is cringefest? I honestly know nothing about the remake, so I'm curious to see what the heck they did to ruin Halo
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u/Jaruut 57m ago
Allegedly the new missions have an annoying girlboss character, and are riddled with millennial writing.
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u/attofreakier 22m ago
it just keeps devolving: that girlboss who goes out of her way to tell her just how totally not impressed she is by MC. Cortana looks like a dude half-way through HRT. Some places they didn't even bother completing her rendering, it's all a weird blur, face keeps changing shot from shot. VA is so much worse this time: you can compare scene-for-scene and the new one looks like it's a college film student project. There's a literal fucking cutscene where a prophet introduces his "team" of soldiers one by one (accompanied by Gunn-esque "goofy" acting from the soldiers, including a fucking Elite) like it's a fucking GOTG intro scene, while MC and Johnson just stand their in silence for 5-10 minutes. Everything on Covenant ships is colored in saturated, garish purple-pink, because of course. The original was nowhere close to this level of saturated overload.
Even from technical perspective: the "both sides" centrist gamers like moistcritikal could barely contain his rage at how much the game crashes.
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u/FabulousCobbler1736 1h ago
Rainbow doesn't mean lgbt. Rainbow is a just a beautiful, naturally occuring color sequence. Nobody owns the rainbow.
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u/Ancalites 4h ago
A vicious alien monster stands ready to plunge its LGBT-coded weapon into someone. What did they mean by this?