They really think the industry is in the shitter and that studios are being closed and developers being laid off left and right because Gamers are boycotting video games that have too many female/gay/black characters or not enough booba and because video game studios don't employ enough white dudes. I know they're terminally stupid and wilfully ignorant but the way Microsoft's shitty hiring practices have affected Halo are well documented and they have nothing to do with developers having blue hair or pronouns on their bio
THEY WILL FIND OUT THE HARD WAY
lmao
The multiplayer and gameplay sandbox, definitely. Halo 3's story felt pretty rushed and unambitious compared to 2 (because it's just the intended back half of 2 extended into a full game)
the sandbox/editor/custom map maker all in-game, the theater for watching and clipping replays, the online infrastructure for hosting and sharing clips and showing off your profile/rank, it was a total package that no other game has pulled off before or since
What other game could you make a custom zombie maps in game, make a sweet play with online in your custom game lobby, go and clip it in theater with whatever angles you wanted and then upload it to your profile to share at school with other kids on a browser? Real shit, it was so cool and it all worked flawlessly.
It pisses me off to no end that they gutted the theater mode's functionalities in MCC. No saving clips or even entire films, it's just a temporary list of the last 10 games you played. How could you fuck this up so badly???
I still have clips of matches from almost 20 years ago on my 360's hard drive. Apparently when MCC originally released on the Xbone they justified it by saying saving Theater clips was redundant because you could just record and share videos with the Xbone directly which is utter horseshit
Bigass lossy video file versus tiny ingame demo file that captures the entire state of the game world with every object and player that you can view from any angle, wow! It's like I'm living in the future