By Jim Rossignol on November 17th, 2008 at 7:22 pm.
Shacknews have posted up an extract from an interview with Ensemble’s Dave Pottinger in which he talks about the cancelled Halo MMO. It turns out the model was very much “World Of Halocraft”, as people had suggested.
Shack: So you didn’t have plans to go for a more FPS-style game.
Dave Pottinger: It was definitely more of a classic MMO, but it still had that very action feel. Definitely more actiony than WoW.
So it was a lot like Tabula Rasa then?
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More games like this should be canceled.
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I dont know, there’s obviously a market for them, but does it stop creativity? Or only feul other projects that would otherwise have no chance to see the light?
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looks like they stuck master chief in a generic mmo setting
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Wow, WoW with guns.
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Wait, it was canceled? Oh well, meh.
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Would’ve preferred a Halo-themed Tabula Rasa.
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Flog it some more, I think it’s still moving!
Somebody break out the Lucas-brand barrel scraper, there’s still good stuff to be had.
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@Pavel
I thought WoW has guns?
I also agree that more games like this should be canceled. More games overall, should be cancelled.
(I’m not sure if cancel(l)ed has 1 or 2 Ls, so I’ll put both).
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So is everybody playing as Master Chief? I can’t be halfassed to read.
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Cancelled has two Ls if you’re a sophisticated Briton, and one L if you’re a filthy American.
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It has a Q if you’re Canadian. I don’t know, old zoning laws or something.
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I shower.
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Not sure if this is really related, as it wasn’t really an MMO, but I just want to play the original Halo that was first shown at Macworld, not the fun, but ultimately semi-generic FPS that was released.
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Is there an FPS in existence that is not semi- (or wholly) generic?
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am I missing something?! —> http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=307462
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damn i shouldn’t post when tired
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Hmm, all genre’s must subscribe to sort of semi-generality don’t they? JRPG’s follow a formula, as does Sport’s games and RTS’s.
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I shower once a week, whether I need it or not! :P
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While on the topic of generic games, it would seem the interview also mentions that despite preparing to dismantle Ensemble after they’re done with Halo Wars, Microsoft appear to want to continue the Age of Empires franchise. Oh dear.
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I liked the concept art they leaked for the game, very stylish over-the-top sci-fi stuff. I’d love to have an MMO in that sort of setting, and before you say ‘Tabula Rasa’ I tried that and it’s not quite what I’m looking for…
Then again I also have only played the first Halo, so I don’t know much about the setting or whether the concept art was true to the setting (I’m guessing it wasn’t by the uproar!). Kinda reminded me of the old Bungie game Oni, from before Bungie was conscripted into endless Halo clones. I liked that game too!
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No great loss, then.
If it had been Planetside-styled I’d have raged, belatedly.
It’s about time someone grew the balls to make something like it again… too bad all the higher budget MMOs these days try to steal a slice off Blizzards cake instead of going for a niche and being happy with <1 mil subscribers.
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the affront says:
No great loss, then.
If it had been Planetside-styled I’d have raged, belatedly.
My feelings exactly.
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