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Weekend Confirmed 149 - Nintendo Direct, Strike Suit Zero, The Cave, THQ death-rattles
by Jeff Mattas, Jan 25, 2013 11:00am PSTOn this week's episode of Weekend Confirmed, Garnett and the two Jeffs are joined by indie developer Brendon Chung of Blendo Games (Flotilla, Gravity Bone, Thirty Flights of Loving, Atom Zombie Smasher). With Nintendo Direct in the rearview, the crew breaks down the resulting news and announcements, followed by some gaming talk about a host of games ranging from the Far Cry series to the more recently-released indies Strike Suit Zero and The Cave. Some talk about the end of publisher THQ and the sale of its studios and IPs is unavoidable, before things get wrapped up with another batch of Finishing Moves.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 149: 1/25/2013
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So 343i's failure is now complete.
Hopefully - though not likely - they will take this as motivation to go back to the drawing board and create something more in line with the pure, competitive nature of the previous Halo games, and not let their penis-envy of the CoD population dictate their design choices.
Given the choice between CoD and CoD lite, why would anybody choose CoD lite? Instead of making CoD Lite, how about they try making Halo again, and if they feel the need to evolve it, then evolve it in their own way.
Piss away your hardcore fanbase and the rest will follow quickly. Lose enough people, you become irrelevant.
343i - The company that killed Halo. Let's see if they can somehow bring it back from the dead with Halo 5.
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Having the competitive entity most associated with Halo say 'yeah, no thanks, you've been usurped' basically just corroborates what the cratering population numbers and the unanimous displeasure from core Halo fans have been indicating for a while.
343i dropped the ball in the multiplayer area. In a big way.
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