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brendude13 said:
selnor said:
brendude13 said:
yo_john117 said:

A couple of points I must address.

--If you watch everything including the stuff at the end of Halo 3 you will realize that the Story is in fact not wrapped up nicely.

--The vast majority of Halo fans are in their teens. 14-22 is probably Halo's biggest fanbase.

--Milking is irrelevent unless the quality gets horrible or they release 2-3 games every single year.

 

As long as Halo's quality stays high then I say bring on the yearly releases!

I haven't actually played Halo 3 yet, I didn't have an XBOX when it released and I haven't had chance to come back to it yet, I will in the coming months though. I was just going on what other people and my friends have said about the game and I played some of the final missions round a friends house.

That sounds like the right demographic. I wasn't using age as a way to insult the game, I was just pointing out that the game had a huge following amongst younger people, younger people are far more likely to be loyal to the franchise.

And for the last part, I don't agree with that, they need to release games in moderation. Annual releases will guaruntee that the game would be a lower quality than if they spent 2 years or so on development of the game. When Microsoft announced 4 games in one conference, it really did make it look as if they were only in it for the money. There are just far too many Halo games.

Anyway, I hope for the sake of the fans that the quality of the franchise remains high, but I wouldn't expect too much.

It seems Halo fans are taking this "milking" discussion as a direct dig at the franchise and they are starting to act very unreasonable and over-defensive. I would also like to point out that budget ports or handheld games are not retail releases, if you are going to argue, at least do it right.


@ Bolded: Unless its called Duke Nukem Forever. ROFL.

Just so everyone knows. Halo 4 - 6 is taking 10 years. According to 343. Halo 4 will have taken 3 years by its release date.

Haha true, many games have been culprits of that recently.

And lets hope rhat 343i employee is right, 3 years development cycle sounds great. I still can't get Don Mattrick's quote out of my head though and the fact that nobody corrected him or picked up on it, with the rate that Halo games have been released as of recently I wouldn't be surprised either.

Actually I am certain there will be a Halo game every year yet every Halo game will have more than 1 year of dev time simply because 343 studios is a rather large studio so each game will get the care it deserves (I am almost certain of that) and Halo fans get an awesome Halo game every year!