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EspadaGrim on 03 July 2020
shikamaru317 said:

At this point I think that The Initiative pretty much has to be a Mistwalker like concept and incubation studio. Them being an incubation studio aligns with pretty much everything we've heard, Phil saying they were challenging themselves to do both new things and old things in new ways, the recent job listing for their "next IP" instead of their first IP, the fact that they have less than 50 devs after 2 years of hiring, the studio head saying he wanted The Initiative to be small and agile, and now 2 different insiders saying that they heard from their sources that The initiative was doing both Perfect Dark and a new IP.

I hope that it's true, the more AAA games MS has in the works the better. Will be interesting to see which studio/s is doing all the grunt work.



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sales2099 on 04 July 2020

Guys there’s a new book in September that is post Halo 5 where Chief and Blue Team head to Reach to salvage some tech that could help fight the created. Only to find that the banished are occupying the planet. This will tie into Halo infinite so I say to keep an eye out for this one.



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sales2099 on 04 July 2020
Ryuu96 said:
sales2099 said:
Guys there’s a new book in September that is post Halo 5 where Chief and Blue Team head to Reach to salvage some tech that could help fight the created. Only to find that the banished are occupying the planet. This will tie into Halo infinite so I say to keep an eye out for this one.

That book sounds both hype and annoying - Returning to Reach is awesome but it'd be better in a game and also, stop telling important plot points outside the games! I hope this 'tech' turns out to be nothing so come Infinite non-readers won't be like "Wtf is this tech? Where'd they get it? They went to Reach? When?" I also hope it's a different Banished crew than the one in Infinite.

It's like Didact, I can't wait for the mess when he returns where everyone has thousands of questions how/when/why and 343 has to explain somehow in a game that he never actually died, he went to a Ring, killed some Spartans, found Chief, had a fight, got a composer dropped onto him and now he's a robot.

I think it’ll just serve to reintroduce the banished and maybe a prominent character that we’ll see in game. I’d say it’s more a callback to the first novels that had Reach and perhaps show Blue Team sticking with Chief in Infinite



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Angelus on 04 July 2020
trunkswd said:
Ryuu96 said:

That book sounds both hype and annoying - Returning to Reach is awesome but it'd be better in a game and also, stop telling important plot points outside the games! I hope this 'tech' turns out to be nothing so come Infinite non-readers won't be like "Wtf is this tech? Where'd they get it? They went to Reach? When?" I also hope it's a different Banished crew than the one in Infinite.

It's like Didact, I can't wait for the mess when he returns where everyone has thousands of questions how/when/why and 343 has to explain somehow in a game that he never actually died, he went to a Ring, killed some Spartans, found Chief, had a fight, got a composer dropped onto him and now he's a robot.

In the early days of Halo the books added to the overall story, but they weren't necessary to read. I loved The Fall of Reach, The Flood, and First Strike, but weren't necessary to make the original trilogy make sense. 

Same, they were very much complimentary. Telling stories that took place in the past, re-telling stories from the games in greater detail, telling stories from teams far removed from Chief and his conflicts from the games. 

Now, every Halo book, and comic that releases seems to hold vital story elements that have important implications for the immediate events of the next game(s). I very strongly dislike this.



Goatseye on 04 July 2020

The characters in Halo 5 were a good break from boring sardine tin can soldiers from the previous mainline Halo entries.
Locke didn’t just show up as a Spartan IV in the Halo universe, even though he’s only recently mentioned in the lore. He was a headhunter for ONI and could’ve been an exciting addition to the Hunt The Truth diaries development, if they had followed up on rogue Chief in the game.
Saving humanity every damn Chief game is getting boring af. Let the writers show us a new Halo, the universe is expansive and to tie it down to just one Spartan that can’t swim, it’s wasting a good franchise storytelling.



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Goatseye on 04 July 2020

Sorry but Halo fan base is like Star Wars’... cancer!



Goatseye on 04 July 2020
Ryuu96 said:
Seems like Microsoft is discontinuing the Xbox One lineup - Xbox One SAD 1TB, Xbox One S 1TB, Xbox One X 1TB have been discontinued on Amazon.

Nice! That means more flexibility with the pricing for next gen consoles.



Goatseye on 04 July 2020
Ryuu96 said:
Goatseye said:

Nice! That means more flexibility with the pricing for next gen consoles.

I was thinking that, might mean an even lower price for Series S.

That’s what I think. Also, it would diminish the probability of parents confusing the newer hardware with XOne family during holidays.



Angelus on 04 July 2020
Ryuu96 said:
Seems like Microsoft is discontinuing the Xbox One lineup - Xbox One SAD 1TB, Xbox One S 1TB, Xbox One X 1TB have been discontinued on Amazon.

I consider it incredibly vital that they do in fact discontinue all these models, and get them off store shelves before the new systems arrive. Casual customers walking in the store can't be looking at Xbox One S, and Xbox One X next to Xbox Series S, and Xbox Series X. Just can't happen.



Spade on 04 July 2020

Any word on FF 14 coming to Best Box One? Or did Phil lie? I wanna get married.



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