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And six months of XBL for $25 if you need it. Or maybe $30 for half a year of Game pass.
they started with that announcement and then talked about who they'd bought out.
Also Devil May Cry 5 looks awesome. Thought Nero was Nu Dante for a moment and was even more excited, but it still looks pretty good.
it was Chief, its Halo 6 and he'll be the star.
The Initiative is just that at this point. They're still creating the team.
Undead Labs has been working with Microsoft for ages, and Compulsion's We Happy Few has been in development/early release forever on the Xbox... and Playground Games has been working with them for ages too.
The only one that's a shocker or unusual is Ninja Theory, if only because they were pretty cozy Sony for a while? Here's a statement from them:
What's interesting is that this all may have kicked around circa 2017.
There are other AI in the Halo verse. Maybe he found someone else.
I vaguely recall Halsey spiriting away another copy of Cortana too at the start of Halo 5?
He's not going to settle for any old AI.
Four, technically. The Santa Monica thing is something they're building from scratch.
And nothing on avatars?
maybe we'll get word on those on Inside Xbox tomorrow. they're definitely the kind of thing people bitch about being featured at the main event.
maybe minecraft, but id have to imagine the avatars thing, given how much of a thing it seems to be with loot and whatnot, would be part of the main event
Official site.
Roland(?) was still on humanities side at the end of 5.
EDIT: but his hologram was orange and the AI chip was distinctly white/blue.
He lands on and instantly kills the any survivors from Noble Team, right?
Roland was still on humanity's side based on his personality, yeah. And one would presume the AI from Halo Wars 2 would stay loyal to humans as well. But... who else?
The Superintendent from New Mombasa already defected.
For me im more tired of the promethean prothean generic precurser bots than anything
more covenant, I like fighting enemies that know im fighting them, and can feel fear and anger and such, and have relatable motivations
Im sick of fighting zombies and robots
oh i don't think there will be a great number of AIs on our side. maybe we'll contact one or two new ones during the campaign but think the odds will be stacked against us. can we bring Exuberant Witness? she might not be able to provide much help outside her own installation, but she'd still be fun to have around.
Halo 5 went a long way to making the Prometheans actually fun to fight, by giving them things like hijacked vehicles, aircraft, combined arms, etc. In other words, making them more like the Convenant.
Honestly, I think at some point human enemies need to make an appearance. Pretty much everything in the franchise aside from the video games has generally handled the grey-on-grey morality of human space and the UNSC well, the games might as well catch up.
I think flash backs would be tricky to handle, but certainly not impossible (GOW4 did an excellent job with them, though only briefly).
Right now, it would be horribly inappropriate to fight humans as humanity is in the worst position it's ever been in. The AI's that were key to fighting back against all the previous foes are now enemies. So human ships can't fly, human tactics are hugely set back, and various human living situations and economies are just GONE. Also, giant teleporting, world destroying super weapons.
Honestly, the conditions you've described are an excellent match for one of the inter-nation (and in any case intrahuman) fighting that sets the stage for the original Halo. Putting aside the whole, "The human civilization you know isn't the first one--it's what clawed back from the last one" angle, do we think humans have learned enough lessons not to come to odds again? Hmmm.
Huh? The war against the Covenant ended the Insurrection. How would a much worse war against a nearly unbeatable enemy not draw humanity together? When it's that or die... people get pretty good at delaying their grudges.
Not so much apparently. The Hunt the Truth radioplay with Keegan-Michael Key already showed the potential for newer, local human conflicts--they just weren't as large as the pre-Convenant ones.
Hunt the Truth is pre-5. That was the ideal time for Human vs Human conflict and things were heading that way, but the events of 5 are galaxy defining.
True, it is before the events of the game, but the issues aren't entirely extinguished. I still think it's within the realm of possibility for smaller conflicts (if it wasn't clear, I'm not some sort of lore master), which could help mix things up down the line in future titles. There are also the option of flash backs.
wonder what it could be.
if they do that i wonder if they'll port over the MCC too.
That would basically be Forge combined with the other multiplayer functions and the singleplayer game, I imagine?
I wouldn't be disappointed, but I'm hoping for something else.
Again, I don't ever check out Inside Xbox, so I could be talking out of my ass.
because they see the two platforms as being complimentary and the Xbox brand has expanded beyond just the console.