It’s Official Halo: Campaign Evolved Is Coming to PlayStation Following the New Remake Announcement

A former Sony exec said porting exclusives to PC was almost like printing money. MS was already doing that, so the untapped revenue stream is PS. Gears Reloaded on PS has only sold approx. 260K copies so far. But it is added player base for the MP and juicy user data, that would not exist otherwise. Probably did not add too much extra expense to do the port. The hardware is so similar now, unlike the PITA Cell was BITD.
 
I think one of the reasons I saw (and still see) a lot more players in Forza Horizon 5 this year is cuz the game came out on PS5.

I've never been down with exclusives, even though I realize that exclusives sell systems. Microsoft has been dead last for two generations now, but I appreciate that they release their games on PC at exactly the same time as on Xbox consoles. Sony waits years cuz they want to maximize profits for PlayStation consoles first. But at least the Sony games do eventually end up on PC. I don't care how long it takes, so long as it finally happens. Would be cool to see Halo MCC come out on PS5 as well.

I also really like this modern era of cross-play, where players on different platforms can all play together. I also like cross-progression cuz my save files follow me no matter what platform I play the game on. That's something else I also really appreciate (although for Microsoft games, you usually have to get the game through the Microsoft Store rather than Steam if you want cross-progression, and I don't do that, cuz f*ck the Microsoft store and UWP apps).

As for this Halo 1 remake, I see it is using UE5, so I really hope there's no hitching and stuttering and sh1t. Visually the game doesn't look that much better than Halo 1 Anniversary's new graphics and art assets, but we've only seen these videos so no telling what the final product will look like. I still think a remake is unnecessary, especially since we already got a remaster, but whatever. Although a lot of fans seem to believe that the only reason they are doing this remake is cuz they lost a lot of talent and have no idea how to make a new Halo game (and Halo Infinite was meh), so the only thing left for them to do is rehash the past. Well, the controls and physics and AI should be updated, and they are modifying the levels for better balance and flow, so the remake does stand to improve on things over the original 24-year-old game. The music was already remastered for Halo 1 Anniversary, but the original soundtrack was better. I think that's gonna remain the case with the new remastering of the music for this new remake in UE5. Also there are 3 new prequel levels that take place before the original first level of the game.

Once again I see PC is getting shafted with split-screen multiplayer. Serious Sam 3 can do it, Gears of War 4 and 5 can do it, Doom 64 has like 7P or 8P split-screen on PC, but not a single f*cking Halo game has split-screen multiplayer on PC, and that is hella weaksauce. 4P online co-op is new for Halo 1 though. 4P co-op was originally introduced with Halo 3. Oh yeah, games like Gears 4 and 5 and Halo MCC support LAN. Will this new Halo 1 remake support LAN? I hope so, but that is such a rare thing these days. Back in August I was playing Halo MCC co-op with my bro who was visiting, using two desktop PCs. We tried to do LAN but couldn't get it to work, so we had to fallback to online co-op.

They will probably charge full price for this remake. It should be discounted for people who own Halo MCC. Well as usual I'll be waiting for a deep discount. And of course I always try before I buy.
 
Well on the plus side, they said they'll be releasing on PC/Xbox/PS moving forward but I do wonder how long it'll be before we hear about a new game as I'm sure there's got to be something in the works.
 

The console wars have (officially) ended​


Trump And GameStop Trade ‘Halo’ And Console War Memes​

ByPaul Tassi,

  • On Friday, Microsoft announced that for the first time, a Halo game was coming to PlayStation, the new Halo CE remake of the first game.
  • GameStop issues a joke press release declaring the 20+ year console war “over.”
  • The official government “Rapid Response 47” Twitter account retweets the press release, declaring that this is the 9th war Trump (has claimed to have) ended.
  • GameStop quote tweets that with a seemingly AI picture of Trump and Master Chief shaking hands.
  • the official Department of Homeland Security account tweeting a Halo picture, using it to recruit for ICE by using the Halo slogan “finishing this fight,” and then “destroy the Flood,”

www.forbes.com

Trump And GameStop Trade ‘Halo’ And Console War Memes

Donald Trump's White House has gotten involved in the console wars and is now trading AI memes with GameStop. Yes that is a real sentence.
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
 
DAPUNISHER said:
Generative AI was used - https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-gaming/halo-campaign-evolved-remake-impressions-1235451111/

Maybe AI will be a boon? Can't say I'd complain if development cycles were much shorter. That would reduce costs too. My cynical side says it will just result in AI slop shovelware.
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It's really frustrating because AI could be a good tool when used right, but there seems to be only two prevailing opinions of it. One thinks it is the devil and hates it no matter what, the other thinks it's magic and can do anything at the click of a button.
 
GodisanAtheist said:
-Yes, we cannot allow AI slop to take human slop's jerbs
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Hopefully those workers will continue going indie and turning out more games like Expedition 33, Stray, Holo Knight, Hades, Stardew Valley, etc.
Peter_Brosdahl said:
I just thought this was funny.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1982927899482296533
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The hallucination is someone buying an Xbox in late 2025 :p
MadMummy76 said:
It's really frustrating because AI could be a good tool when used right
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That's the opinion of my kid, a software engineer. Finished getting all of his degrees and certs a couple years before AI and the current crop of "vibe coders" thank goodness. He says a chatGPT subscription through his employer makes him more productive now.
 
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