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The Halo Combat Evolved Remake looks like it might be real, and with a potential reveal at the 2025 World Championships, let's look at what Microsoft needs to let Halo Studios do to not repeat the failings of 343 Industries... and maybe that involves coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 and PS5?
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00:00The Halo remake is right around the corner and I am so excited about it but I have real concerns
00:05that maybe won't be as good as it could be because the people who work on these games
00:11tend to do things that are silly and you just need to look back at most of 343's decisions
00:16and Halo Anniversary which was also full of weird, weird, weird decisions.
00:20Get their ass!
00:23So here are 10 things that I think are super important for them to absolutely nail it.
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00:45This might sound stupid but the first thing is actually market the thing.
00:49Microsoft are famously really bad at doing their marketing if you've not noticed the whole
00:52this is an Xbox thing and you know owning Call of Duty on Game Pass and then never saying
00:57hey you can have your own Game Pass every year and a lot of other games and pay this much
01:01a month
01:01or you can spend £70 and get it on PS5. They just didn't do any of that.
01:05They need to have something mega to show off with this game. Make everyone go
01:07oh crap Halo is back and they're already doing this like the wrong way.
01:12The big reveal of Halo Combat Evolved Remake is seemingly happening at the Halo World Championships.
01:17The what? Yeah, right? The what?
01:20Like they're not doing it at Summer Games Fest, they're not doing it at any of Big Jeff's Big Things.
01:28They're doing it at the Halo World Championships which is just bonkers.
01:31They should legitimately call Summer Games Fest and Game Awards Big Jeff's Big Things.
01:36I think that's what they should be called by now.
01:38I understand if they want to say this is for the community, we're revealing this to the community
01:42because we want the community to enjoy it. But my god, communities are great but they don't make
01:47big money. You gotta promote the game to make the money. Remember I Love Bees from Halo 2. Do that
01:53s**t.
01:56Anyway, so the next thing they need to do, bring it to Switch 2. I have this theory that the
02:01reason
02:01that Gears Reloaded did not do well on PS5 is because that was an Xbox 360 game and the people
02:06who have
02:06PS5s would have had a 360 back in the day because the 360 was a banger console and they had
02:11Gears of War
02:11there. This is different. This is a full-blown remake that from the ground up go with a novelty
02:17Microsoft. We've never really had a handheld Halo game in any capacity other than maybe,
02:23Spartan Assault? Was that an iPhone? I don't even remember that Halo game!
02:28So the idea of playing the first Halo game on Switch and going out and about is so much more
02:33alluring
02:34than having it on the other console next to the other. I do have a question as well Tom.
02:38You said Switch 2, right? But don't Xbox have their own middly appealing handheld console coming
02:47out soon that costs a lot of money? Wouldn't them putting it on Switch 2 take away their own stupid
02:53business plans? I mean maybe but also Diversify have more money. I think the actual argument is if you put
03:01it on PS5 it makes no difference than playing on an Xbox Series X because the consoles are just next
03:06to each other in your living room. Put it on the Switch you can play it on the go, put
03:09it on the RIG
03:09LIX. Yeah you can play it on the go but I think the novelty of having Halo on a Nintendo
03:15console
03:16will probably just be like f**k yeah I'm buying that bastard. Just pump up the sales. The next thing I
03:22think Ewan will really appreciate is I think everyone in the world will appreciate stay faithful to the art my
03:26guys. The biggest issue everyone had with Combat Evolved Anniversary was it just didn't look like
03:31Halo in some ways. The dark eerie corridors of the library where you couldn't really see what was
03:36around the corner. You could see holes that just looked like foreboding pits of fog replaced with
03:40nice glowing blue bits of light. No don't do that just don't don't. Be faithful to Halo. Be faithful to
03:48everything that made that game but it was but expand on it in ways that no one expects.
03:53We're talking about a game that's 25 years old Tom. I'm 34. Don't let the concept of ooh fancy
04:01graphics make you think everything needs detail everything needs to be visible. Let that fog be
04:05in the way. Let things be mysterious. Let things just be spooky. One two ah ah. Off the back of
04:14saying
04:14being faithful with the graphics? You don't have to be too faithful to the story. Expand it and do more.
04:20Get things like Sergeant Johnson and give him more of a role. He became a huge part of Halo 2
04:25and 3.
04:26But there is space for Sergeant Johnson to become a core part of Halo 1. Let him fly. We deserve
04:32more
04:32Johnson. His death in Halo 3 was one of the most depressing things in my entire life. And I've had
04:37bad
04:38things happen. Jesus. I'm stopping this video to perform a welfare check. Tom. Tom. Tom. It's okay.
04:47It's okay. It's okay. There we go. There we go. It's not okay. I had to move to Newcastle about
04:54to move because of the crimes.
04:59But expand on what you've got. We have so many stories about that period of time in Halo that
05:04there is room to adapt them. The book First Strike by Eric Nyland is a banger and goes so deep
05:09into
05:10the actual events of the first Halo game. There are actual soldiers who have characters who have
05:13stories. There are also Covenant who have a story. And it's one particular grunt who you just kill on
05:20an elevator near the end of the game. He has a whole story until he gets killed by you.
05:24You can go into that. It's great. You've got glup-shitto potential? There is some serious
05:29glup-shitto potential. Hell yeah. Fuck yeah. Here we go. Glup-shitto time. But also we could have the
05:34Arbiter. Have the Arbiter have a little bit of a show up because Halo 2, he was blamed for the
05:38destruction of the Halo ring, which is why he became the Arbiter in The Mark of Shame. So have him
05:43there
05:43while it's all going down. Show his downfall so we can see where he goes next. And I think we
05:49can
05:49bring all those story elements in in a way that the first game never had a chance because they
05:55had no idea they were making another game. Do it. And following on from that, my next point,
05:59which I sort of covered a bit there. Use this as an opportunity to tie Halo 1 into Halos 2
06:03and 3.
06:04Halo 1, like I said, did its own little silo game. It was made without any concept that this is
06:08going to
06:08be something huge. So it never sold so many scenes for the future. It had a few. It had a
06:13few.
06:14There's such an opportunity to tie in different beats that were missing. I mean, Captain
06:19Keyes could mention Miranda. Just be like having his little pipe in his butt with his little flood
06:23man and be like, Miranda. Also while we're talking about that, Halsey. Get some Halsey references in
06:29there. Captain Keyes is in this game. He'd be doing it with Halsey and Miranda is their daughter. So
06:36use that as an emotional hug for when Keyes does get, you know, right through the face by Master Chief.
06:43There's an opportunity to open up actual emotional beats that were never there in the first game
06:47and expand on them in fantastic ways. I think that's something they really should do.
06:51And you know what? While we're on the topic of the flood, despite the fact I spoke about that several
06:55sentences ago, keep them. Keep them scary. Please keep the gore, keep the blood, keep the violence,
07:02keep the horror aspects of those bad boys because Halo 1 was an M-rated game. It was a violent
07:07game.
07:08Halo 2, also kind of violent. Halo 3 kind of felt a bit softer except for when, you know,
07:13the prophet of regret or truth, whichever one it is, got sorted through the chest. From then on,
07:18it feels like 343's Halo game just forgot blood existed and that needs to come back. I want to be
07:24as scared as I was when I was a 10 year old boy playing it for the first time. The
07:27flood are such
07:28a huge part of the franchise which have been thoroughly ignored from the 343 era and it's
07:33time for them to come back with a bang. And if you're going to do it right, do it in
07:36the game that
07:37they first appeared with a bang. Do you get it? Because a lot of guys go. They do, they explode.
07:42We need goop. We need blood. We need viscera. We need sinewy, goopy, gonzo goop. I'm gonna have
07:50the goop boys. Goop me up bad boy. There ain't enough goop on this Halo sub. Give me more goop
07:57stat.
07:58And while we're on the f***ing topic of the flood. Jesus Christ, they're a kids watch.
08:05If you could punch anything in Halo, what would it be? What would I punch? Oh.
08:09I think a lot of things in Halo were heavy. Yeah. Because grunts are big. Like grunts are about
08:14this big. No. Yeah, grunts are big boys. You're telling me a grunt is my height? Yeah,
08:19because Master Chief's a big boy. So like the grunts are pretty much like human size. Oh. So
08:24they're scary in person when you're a human. Oh, I think I could beat up a grunt. Okay. Actually,
08:30people in the comments, can you vote on if Ewan could beat up a grunt? I think I could handle
08:35a
08:35grunt. You could beat up a grunt. I see it. I'd like, I'd have to maybe like wrestle it,
08:39like, you know, jump on it and be like, and then like, you know, do a whole, you know,
08:43I could do it. I believe in you. Yeah. Thank you. But do you? Yeah. Do you believe in Harvey
08:49Dent brackets Ewan from Warculture Gaming? I'm not going on it. Let me just check my notes a second
08:55because I forgot about every word. Oh, yeah. Redesign the library because it's dog s**t. It's
09:00the worst level in Halo 1 and needs just to be completely redone from scratch. Keep it spooky,
09:05keep it scary, but just alter the way it flows, please. Just you have the opportunity to make that
09:09level work in a fantastic game. Halo Combat Evolved is a 10 out of 10, but you knock off a
09:15point to 9
09:16because of, you know, the library. Okay. Let Master Chief just not say much. He spoke far too
09:23much in 4 and 5. They cut it back in Infinite. Let him just be the vessel for the player
09:28again.
09:29It was such a huge part of those games, those 1, 2, 3 and even ODST to an extent and
09:34Reach.
09:35They were all solid protagonists and that is such a great way of just making the player feel like a
09:39super soldier. As soon as Master Chief got all emotional, got all sad about his AI girlfriend,
09:45started seeing Cortana raise his AI girlfriend. Cortana touched his chest and going,
09:49you don't know how long I've always wanted to do that. No, no, none of that. None of that.
09:54Chief says nothing except bad-ass lines like boo when he scares a grunt in Halo 2.
10:00That's what Master Chief is about and we're not going to talk about the TV show because he does things.
10:06I kind of want to see the Lancastrian dub or the Lancashire dub of Halo now.
10:12Rather than Chief talking like this, he just goes, boo.
10:16Boo. I need a weapon.
10:19I need a weapon, lad.
10:21Master Chief, you mind telling me what you're doing aboard that ship?
10:24So, finishing fight.
10:28I see the vision. I see it.
10:30We went on a tangent there and I don't know if it's going to be in the edit, but yeah,
10:33Master Chief just needs to keep quiet. And if you are going to make him speak, do we like it
10:37in Infinite?
10:38Because in Infinite, he was pitch perfect. He said little bits and bobs that really helped
10:43the people around him. He was a supportive person, yet also broken, but also quiet and he let you
10:48embody him. Unlike Halo 4 and 5 where he just goes absolutely off the rails. Those are bad games.
10:57It seems pretty confirmed now that Sprint is going to be in the remake, which I can see why a
11:01lot of
11:01fans aren't happy about. To be honest, I don't mind as long as it's handled right. If the maps are
11:06still the
11:06exact same size and build, then Sprinting just won't work. It'll just ruin every sort of tension.
11:12It'll just be the worst possible outcome. But if Halo Studios are taking the time to make these
11:16levels bigger and grander and open up the scope, then Sprinting, yeah, put it in there. I don't care.
11:22Every modern game was Sprint. Halo Infinite had Sprint and I had no issues with Halo Infinite having Sprint.
11:26It really helped. I enjoyed it. I am a monster. I like Sprint in Halo. What are you going to
11:31do about it?
11:32Get this man a Sprint.
11:36Oh, he's running away from the floor. If he comes out and Sprint is a big deal and it's ruined
11:41everything, I will say sorry. I'm sorry. It's your fault, Tom. I did this. I asked them to do it.
11:46I rang up Mr. Microsoft and went, hello? Hello, it's me, Gary Microsoft. Can I have some Sprint, please?
11:53Here, have all the Sprints in the world! Yay! Is there a drink called Sprint?
12:01A Sprite? I didn't say that though, did I?
12:06And my final point. A real big one. Keep it separate from the multiplayer. Most of the biggest
12:11multiplayer games now have a bit of separation. Call of Duty multiplayer now feels separate. Let
12:16this just be the standalone campaign. Let it breathe. Let it live. Let all the effort go into
12:22something and give it all the love in the world. Let the multiplayer team do what they're doing.
12:26Don't make them involve each other in what they're doing because then you just end up with some hodgepodge
12:31mess. This is the Halo remake and this is the multiplayer. They are two different things. Two
12:36different beasts. Let them be free from each other. I think that's very important to give this game
12:42all the love and care it needs in the world. Ewan, please come over here to sing us out.
12:47I'm going to do the Halo themes. I'm being hooked everywhere. Hang on, hang on, hang on,
12:52hang on. We got this. We got this. We got this. It's fine. We have a professional studio environment.
12:56Right, you ready to do the Halo theme? Yeah.
13:11Hello, Halo, Halo, Halo, Master Chief and Cortana.
13:30We're adults. Anyway, that was all the things that I think
13:33my Halo needs to be good and stuff. What Culture Gaming is what we're called and Tom
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13:49How would the picture X get on the ceiling?
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