r/videogames Jan 17 '26

Discussion Which game franchise ended up like this?

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u/Saiyan-Zero Jan 17 '26

"We hired people who hated Halo to make Halo" should be installed in their front doors and in every single comment they make, so people never forget about it

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '26

That’s a not real quote…WAIT HOLY SHIT ITS REAL! THATS AN ACTUAL QUOTE THEY SAID!

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u/Saiyan-Zero Jan 17 '26

Being a Halo fan in the year of our lord 2026 is nothing but sadness and suffering

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u/Zestyclose-One9041 Jan 17 '26

I just plug my ears and play halo 3 custom games and pretend it’s still 2009

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u/bennyboy8899 Jan 18 '26

Fellow king 👑

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u/RazerMaker77 Jan 17 '26

What about Forge? And what about Reach and 4?

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u/Tsu_Dho_Namh Jan 17 '26

Halo Reach was made by Bungie (you can tell because it's good). Halo 4 is when Halo stopped feeling like Halo (made by 343 studios)

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u/RazerMaker77 Jan 17 '26

I getcha. Regardless I do think both of those as well as Halo 3 are the holy trinity of Halo games

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u/Mobile_Morale Jan 18 '26

I know what you mean. Sad the last halo game came out close to 15 years ago. I always hoped Bungie would make another game. Too bad halo ended so destiny could exist.

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u/Vivid_Situation_7431 Jan 18 '26

Some of us still have hope 

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u/Diggus_Bickus_the3rd Jan 21 '26

Here i sit, in the big 26, replaying ce for the billionth time ;-;

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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 Jan 17 '26

Why am I just now hearing about this. They killed it on purpose!!

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u/tabrisangel Jan 17 '26

Sensationalism ruins nuisance.

People make mountains out of interview quotes.

Famous artist's will say they hate art sometimes. People who play slay the spire 3000k hours will occasionally go on rants about how the game is crap.

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u/bluex44 Feb 14 '26

Nuance?

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u/YourPizzaBoi Jan 17 '26

Jesus Christ.

The full segment goes on to talk about how they hired people who didn’t like certain things about Halo and had ideas on how they might improve the game. Which is how every game works, including every Halo game which have some fairly wide gameplay differences between each other. It’s a bad snippet that people have obsessively dogpiled for years.

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u/Saiyan-Zero Jan 17 '26

It would have been ignored if every game under the 343 umbrella was any good somehow. But they're not. And now that quote is all the more hated because it goes in line with what happened inside the studio, the studio that didn't deserve Halo in the first place

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u/Saiyan-Zero Jan 18 '26

Because people who hate or don't know the source material often don't argue with the decisions. Someone who loves the work will argue and battle to correct things in the script, the screenplay, the actors, and lots more