: It's truly amazing how a company with people so passionate about Halo could
: manage to totally f*ck up the franchise. I mean, Jesus... Half of Bungie
: said they were tired of Halo and wanted to do something different for the
: first time in 10 years. But even they couldn't have made Halo 4 such an
: awful game if they had tried.

Come on. It wasn't awful. An awful game you either don't finish or you finish with great pain.

I don't know why everybody expected it to be excellent. Being an industry veteran doesn't mean much if you're coming from an AAA studio that makes mediocre games. If 343 had pulled people from Platinum or Naughty Dog, then you could get hype and expect excellence.

So where were people coming from? Ion Storm (Pre Deus Ex). Gearbox. McFarlane TOYS. If you assemble a team from bad to mediocre studios, of course it's going to just be okay.

That being said, I honestly think they will try to do better moving forward. And if they read my posts on this forum, then they know exactly what they need to do.