@TheHeeyyy: I was thinking the same thing :(

magictroll

@The SmacK:

Rock star team for the win!

/un-sarcastic fanboyism :-D

Ragnarok_Comes

@SolidLatino83: *Sigh* I said I look forward to MGS5. It's seperate from my previous statement I was making. I just Plain look forward to MGS5 in general.

@banana_ridah: *waves a Incheon United jersey*

휘성

@The bigger the lie, the more they believe!:@flukielukie: Don't feel bad. It's just cool to hate Halo.

robbo_the_hood

its always interesting when an ip changes developers, so i'm excited to see the direction this game goes in

Alchemy_Comrade

Nice to see Payton get a gig closer to home! Good luck Payton!

ADDITIONAL GENERIC HALO IS THE SUXXOR COMMENT

ADDITIONAL GENERIC MGS4 IS A CUTSCENE COMMENT

excel_excel

@DarkHavoc99: Yeah, I'd probably go with B-List cast. Still, the team has a lot going for it.

TOWER_JUNKIE

@The SmacK:

oops "environments"

The SmacK

@SolidLatino83:
Gearbox and Id though. At the least it would be humorous to see what happens.

DarkHavoc99

@TheHeeyyy: Yeah, and since it's set in the Halo Universe, the cut scenes will be praised unanimously; unlike in Metal Gear.

XRFlip05

@휘성: As I've said before, I agree.

DAE-HAN MIN-GUK MANSAE!!!

banana_ridah

@휘성:

It's a shooter game....I'm not sure story has ever been important in a single one...

It's about immersive enviormants and gameplay.

You can go all the way back to Wolfenstien 3D if you need to figure that out...

The SmacK

@The bigger the lie, the more they believe!: "Unless Payton can somehow magically make all the 13-20 year old homophobic racist go away of course."

There's something for that already.

It's called the mute button.

Ion_Predator

Booooooooooo

zkotaku

@The bigger the lie, the more they believe!: Your asking people to understand. Can't be having none of that.

He helped out , but unless he's Kojima himself , his part in the game was part of the team. Which dosen't make him an less or more important then any of the other Kojopro staff members.

He seems to be a great guy , and I look forward to what he does. People just need to hate on MGS4/Kojima any chance they get imo.

휘성

Looking forward to some details on what the game is

kidko

@DarkHavoc99:
Wait, this comment wasnt for you wtf.

DarkHavoc99

@휘성: Agreed.

@IceColdEskimo: You're gonna hate on him just because he gets a job at Microsoft Game Studions after previously working at Kojima Productions? You do know MGS games have previously appeared on a Microsoft console, right?

Moron.

banana_ridah

@휘성:
But he didn't do anything for MGS5. He's like that annoying dude that rowdies up the crowd for the real rapper.

SolidLatino83

@휘성:

You want a hug, too?

Awww come err, snuggle face.

The SmacK

@Artful Dodger:
Basically nothing. All he was at Kojima Pro was a poster boy seeing as how he was the only one that knew english.

SolidLatino83

@KooPaTRPa:
Finally somebody that understands Payton's "contribution" to the game.

SolidLatino83

@DarkHavoc99:
I would hardly consider Ryan Payton an All-Star

SolidLatino83

@Brian Crecente: It's a trick! Don't fall for it!

Mister_Jack

@The bigger the lie, the more they believe!: I couldn't agree with you more. The metal gear universe is a product of Kojima. The biggest contribution Payton made to the story of the game was that he made sure the subtitles didn't suck.

KooPaTRPa

@Brian Crecente:

Yeah, same here, I see periods and commas and even quotations!!!

OH SNAP!!! Triple exclamation points!!...

...

...

!

The SmacK

@The bigger the lie, the more they believe!:

I wish MGS4 had more game in it. Pretty disappointing at the end. MGS3 was best.

OGHowie

@The SmacK: Your recent comments are hopefully sarcasm. If not , your an idiot.

휘성

@armless-phelan: There have to be characters with a in depth background to begin with. Aside from Masterchief having somewhat a story.

휘성

@EL_RIEL: i've seen worse

belo

Id rather have confirmation on the Bloomkamp Halo movie pleeeeaaase!

juscallmeweasel

Every Halo is pretty much the same , so I guess he'll just help in making another one in the series.

Oh yeah , the Kojima Payton comments are really old and ignorant btw. He's his own person , and I look forward to what he does in the future. As I look forward to MGS5.

휘성

I guess I was the only person who enjoyed Halo 3's campaign. Oh well. I still feel it could of had those quiet parts from 2 and 1 but it was suppost to be a blockbuster game I guess.

flukielukie

@IceColdEskimo:

You want a hug?

The SmacK

@austintatious: what are you talking about?

Brian Crecente

@The bigger the lie, the more they believe!: @EL_RIEL:

Yes...yes....HALO BAD! HALO FOR HOMO HATING RACIST FACE!

HALO GIVE EVERYONE AIDS!

We all totally understand your argument...

Whatever...

The SmacK

@OriginalGman:
No one even understands what the hell it is. It was deemed an "experience" not a game or movie. WTF?

DarkHavoc99

Feels like a back stab =[

IceColdEskimo

Should be an interesting combination.

I always saw him as an English-speaking PR exec that Kojima used to connect with American society.
Microsoft is an American company, so I'm curious what his ultimate role will be in the new Halo project.

Artful Dodger

So... should I be looking forward to a new Halo game?

or should I be looking forward to a new Halo CG movie?

Grimalkin

ryan payton is a good guy!
i wish him luck with the new company...

he let me and friends in to meet kojima during the mgs world tour in san francisco, they cut us off in line and we were the only ones in mgs4 cosplay. He walked all 4 of us in and escorted us all the way to the front to meet kojima-san.

goodluck ryan! i hope you can add a real story to the halo world.

jackd4y

Talk about a step down........

GrandfatherParadox

I'm confused about the status of the Peter Jackson project/game. I thought I'd heard he wanted out of it? And just adding all these big name people to it now, when we've been hearing about it since Halo 3's release, seams strange.

OriginalGman

@austintatious:

Yes....it's all a joke....

ha...

.....

.....

haaaa....

The SmacK

Ooo! Octocamo is finally coming to Master Chief!

TheMurderer

Halo 1,2,3 had the worst animation, worst story, worst cutscenes, worst voice acting. COMFIRMED!!

Halo 4 should be better now with all that Payton learned working with Kojima .

EL_RIEL

Payton didn't write or direct MGS4 so stop all the kojima in Halo comments. And even though MGS4 is my favorite game of all time i still wouldn't touch a Halo game with a ten foot pole. Unless Payton can somehow magically make all the 13-20 year old homophobic racist go away of course.

The bigger the lie, the more they believe!

Nice. He was a great guy, and kept MGS fans in the loop with his KP Podcasts and was genuinely excited for MGS4. Not to mention, he made MGS4 so much more fun by convincing Kojima to adopt Western controls for MGS4. Hope the job is good for him, and I hope he brings his expertise at localization to improve the story of Halo 4 or whatever Halo project he worked on. Cause, seriously, Halo 3 needed some major work in the prose department (Johnson offed by Guilty Fucking Spark? Then Guilty Fucking Spark as the final boss? Abandoned Corrupted Cortana Plot Thread, etc).

jackydoe

@armless-phelan: They hired Payton, not Kojima :P

Struct09

@armless-phelan:

Fuck no, we got a western design team here. None of that anime freakishness.

Light on story, heavy on action. Just the way I like it...

The SmacK

So he went from MGS to MGS. Well played Payton, well played...

XeroKool

I'm confused by Brian Crecente's lack of punctuation in this post, as well as his last. Brian, is this a joke I'm not getting?

austintatious

Cut-scene, action, cut-scene, cut-scene, cut-scene, action, swap disks, cut-scene.

Artdeux

That could be a pretty kick ass design team...

They should put out some cool stuff.

The SmacK

Pretty freekin sweet. All-star cast for this one.

DarkHavoc99

LOL. Note that they put Ensemble into the "Existing studios" section. I dont know if thats an oversight concerning Ensemble's future or an insight in Bungie's.

Modus_Operandi

1-hour Halo cut-scenes CONFIRMED!!!!

TheHeeyyy

So does this mean that Halo is going to have a bizarre, emotional, and slightly (or blatantly) inane plot full of lovable and insane characters?

armless-phelan

@HelderP: They can't , That's all they know.

휘성

@휘성:

No way....those games had ok stories...nothing amazing just better than most shooters.

It's the gameplay & graphics that really made those games stand out.

The SmacK

@atomicn: It's not even CGI , it's the games engine. I get that feeling you've never actually played a mgs game , it's all good though.

Oh , and yes you can skip the intro , with furthers proof you've never played it.

It's ok to blindly hate , keep on truckin'.

휘성

@Artdeux:

oh please don't get my hopes up

Delvar15

@Brian Crecente: i'll bite.

"It's Official- MGS4 Producer Now Working on Halo"
"It's Official: MGS4 Producer Now Working on Halo"
"It's Official! MGS4 Producer Now working on Halo"

i only bothered 'cause i'm bored.

bialia

would you guys stop with the "1 hours cutscenes Halo" incoming joke? seriously.....

HelderP

@FreakyFavabean: you know, you could switch the terms metal gear and halo in your comment, and it would still be true.

fanboys, take note.

bialia

@The SmacK: Wow , Half-Life must be right out then. It has a very good story attached to it. So did Bioshock.

휘성

Masterchief is now a chain smoker?

TheFamous1

So its gonna be like Halo 4

Big ass intro CGI 1 hour long can not skip?
15 minutes of gameplay
PLOT 1 Hour CGI
CGI

CGI
CGI

please no cgi is not gameplay. hopefully people buy games to play them not fuckin watch them...

atomicn

You spat in the face of one of your supporters today, Mr. Payton: me.

You went from MGS4, top of my list this year, and you did a wonderful job making the controls and shit work alot better.

And now you're working on a Halo game, one of the most generic franchise to come along, ever. You better have some magic up your sleeve to even make me consider wanting to load that garbage on my console. Respect--

On the flip side, I hope Ryan Payton is getting ASSloads of money for this.

Genocyde

@XRFlip05: it's probably wrong to admit that, but i lol'ed.

bialia

@XRFlip05: Yeah, and since it's set in the Halo Universe, there will be thousands of people saying it's overrated before anyone even says a good thing about it!

I'm sorry, I just get really annoyed seeing things like people saying "I know I'm THE ONLY ONE who thinks this, but Halo is all that great." I see whole conversations made up of people who each claim to be the only one to say the exact same thing that they are all saying. And these people, in my experience, greatly outnumber the rabid halo fanboys, who can also be very annoying. Personally, I think Halo is an awesome game. It's not the best thing ever, but I have to give due credit to Bungie. I also have to give credit to Konami for making their own incredible game (I'm actually enjoying it even more playing through a second time). Metal Gear's cutscenes are pretty much always awesome, and the people who complain about them have no idea what they're talking about. You can skip them if you REALLY want to, for some reason.

FreakyFavabean

He helped to create the new MGS camera system. But, now that he has done that, Kojima Productions has no real need for him, if you ask me. I don't consider him an ingenious producer. He just produced a Kojima masterpiece. I would hardly give the credit to him. He was just there because of his Western game experience. Now, the whole team has that experience.

Halo will stay essentially the same, except it will get worse as it is milked to death by Microsoft.

Ansem

Not necessarily a huge step for Halo as we know it but for the Eastern market this is huge for Microsoft sales. Think of it a "globalization" of the Halo brand.

dadeisvenm

@robbo_the_hood:

My point exactly...

Everyone needs to get off the fanboy horse and just mosey on over to each other and exchange some heterosexual man love...

It's ok to like Halo...you won't get made fun of by the otaku...

The SmacK

@robbo_the_hood: It's cool to hate MGS Series as well.

휘성

@jackd4y: That was pretty cool of him. Sounds like a stand up guy.

AsauPrime

@armless-phelan:
Well I do prefer a little icing on my cake.

Strife56

@KaneRobot: Nah it's not. I don't expect every game to be so astoundingly different from the previous installment. I don't think Payton is going to drastically change Halo , he'll just be working on it.

휘성

Actually it could be quite interesting, it's good to have fresh blood on the Halo franchise, perhaps they may do something a bit more interesting like System Shock.

You never know. Though I'm not a fan of cutscenes on any game at all. I prefer to play a game, If I want to watch a game I'll put in a DVD thanks. Cutscenes are not games.

Sega and Phillips learnt this the hard way with the Mega CD and the CDI, Panasonic with the 3do.

scotty999

...with a line-up that talented and experienced in different areas, whatever they end up doing is sure to be of high amazing quality, i am excited to see what they come up with.

ungivenglory

@휘성: You say that like every Halo being similar is a bad thing. That's usually what happens with sequels, just so you know.

Zelda nonwithstanding.

KaneRobot

@TheFamous1: Does his helmet work enough to even get a cigarette in there. Having to lead every campaign would probably make anyone chain smoke.

휘성

@EL_RIEL: If you think Halo 1/2/3 were the worst in those categories, you haven't played many games.

KaneRobot

usaully i would say something mean about people who do that but ryan seems like sucha good person i wish for the best with him at his new job. hey maybea he can show halo what it takes to have some tactical gameplay ;)

Elijah Man

no offense, but I am sure this gives Halo fanboys erections, but I own a PS3 and a Wii and when I did own a 360, it failed. Anyways, my point is that Halo is the most over rated game of all time, why? Because it just happened to be that one good game that available on XBOX back in 2001 that everyone leached onto.

bucocky

I heard they are tapping Stephen Hawking to do the physics

TheLegendof_Erick

@juscallmeweasel: That's been dead for a while now.

mind in rewind

Do you know what producers do? Nothing. They schedule stuff and order food when your at work late and offer some ideas that usually never go in the game.

Murdoc

Hmm if Kotaku can make rumors come true... Predict that Geno from Super Mario RPG will be in the next Smash Bros! Please?

Saigin

Wow Halo may actually gain a story. I never fully felt into the game story the comics were much better in that department. It makes sense though he said he needed to be state side do to family issuses and I imagine he still needs a job to pay the bills.

TheNexusRebound

@FreakyFavabean: Oops, I meant "I know I'm the only one who thinks this, but Halo isN'T all that great."
and @bialia: They are both awesome games that many people complain about for what I believe are very stupid reasons.

FreakyFavabean

The new internal Halo is looking to have some pretty sweet talent. Microsoft's gonna need a dream team, besides Bungie, if they want to come close to raising the extremely high bar that the Halo franchise set. It looks like they've been making a big effort to make that team too by the looks of it.

Moar_pr0nz

@bucocky:

Seriously. Halo is a game for kids that have never played a PC game like Quake 3 Arena or UT2004. The mods in those games put Halo 1,2,3 to shame.

ViciousViper

Hmm... I think Microsoft is trying to create an all-star team of game devs. Ryan payton introduced the new control scheme to MGS, Corrine Yu made the engine for Prey (...Good engine, sucky game. Seriously, this could turn Halo into a better game series, or burn the series to the ground.

akumaserge

@Genocyde: k thx bai

-Payton

MysteriousStranger

@bucocky: so while halo fanboys get erections, sony fanboys get angry and use the generic argument of "halo sucks"?

MysteriousStranger

@Genocyde: k thx bai

- Payton

MysteriousStranger

@Artful Dodger: He helped to westernize MGS4, but seeing as Halo is already westernized I don't know how much of a help he'll be. I doubt they want to easternize Halo, because he's probably capable of doing that as well. My guess is that he'll just do more PR and contribute very little to the actual game, seeing as he still has family issues to worry about. He may help in voice-over production as well like he did with MGS4's English voice-overs.

Pizookie

@GrandfatherParadox: yeah, he'll acutally be part of a game dev team, not a movie one

MysteriousStranger

good for MSGS, payton's a good dude from what i've seen. i wish him good luck with his new position =)

demonknightinuyasha

@Strife56: Delicious cake...Leading to another shooter (ok, shooter IS stretching it a bit)with a great story, Portal.

My360broked

Halo has changed.

Musika13

@MysteriousStranger: Yep, the only thing "Halo haters" can ever do is say "Halo sucks" and "PC game this, this, and that is far superior." I guess its cool to say someone sucks or is an idiot if they like a controller better than a mouse/keyboard.

Then yet Halo 4 will launch and more than likely put every other shooter and most other games to shame in sales. Lol.Then they will insult you first and say "It's not about sales."

Magically eliminating the fact that the Halo series continues to be played for years just like some of the best PC shooters. I don't know, maybe some people actually think its fun, but they're just n00bs if they think that I guess.

It's simply popular, that is not an opinion, it is fact, there are no excuses, when something like CoD4 comes out and shows what it can do in the face of Halo then other games can as well, not Halo's problem its wildly popular. Make something better to the masses.

AnonUserAnonymous

Somehow I now have more faith in future halo games.

kagebutsu

@EL_RIEL: You're a dumbass.

TheGuilty1

Damnit, I want this guy's carreer!!!

rich8606

@XRFlip05: That's because the Metal Gear cutscenes were just downright boring at times.

TheGuilty1

@austintatious:
Nitpicking!

Strife56

...who ISN'T working on Halo?

Red_Maniac

@EL_RIEL: Say what you will about Halo 2 & Halo 3 but Halo CE was a revolutionary game and one that has its place in the hall of fame.

Nexus6

this will make me play halo

TheNocturnalSun

Oh god, I want a game not a fucking movie.

Jeff

If he can actually help make the next Halo game something that resembles a life instead of an abortion like the last 2, I'm all for it.

I actually liked the first.

RichardChaos

With an all star team like that, this game better be shitting bricks of gold.

mergedwarrior

I'd say he'd help Halo be a great series again, were he not the one who probably influenced all the things I disliked about MGS4.

Rinaldus

@Jeff: And modify the control scheme to the western style... oh wait, nevermind.

stretch

I might actually play Halo now... of all the Halo games combined I probably haven't spent more than 10 minutes total on them.

Neer'mo

But can Master Chief's love bloom on the battlefield?

mcderek3000

@FreakyFavabean: You, my good man, are a messenger, delivering the words of truth. I've always thought that anti-fanboys (people who irrationally hate certain games) are just as stupid as fanboys (people who irrationally love certain games).

AvidAbey

Ryan? RYAN? RRYYYYAAAAAAANNNNNN!

Mr. Tambourine Man

@armless-phelan:

LOL do you forget that Ryan Payton is a producer? He doesn't have anything to do with the script. Hideo Kojima worked on the script of MGS. Ryan Payton just came into help make MGS4 more applicable to a Western audience. Which just means that Ryan Payton will be awesome for Halo.

MGSchick

Hopefully he'll being some breaths of fresh air to the series. I'm glad to see he's back and in business working on quality games.

Blah8

@flukielukie:

I loved the 4player co-op in the campaign but you have to admit, the driving game at the end is a stupid way to climax the game (which for me it didn't).

JakeDunn

@armless-phelan: No.
Payton was the producer, not director.

What this will mean, however, is that certain aspects of gameplay will change.
Metal Gear Solid 4's control scheme is based on that of Gears of War. Payton insisted that the Kojima team study easier-to-control Western games and adapt them for MGS4. This meant that MGS4 had an awesome control scheme.

Eranmane

@XeroKool: Oh! I see what you did there.

TheTimeisback4Good

good for ryan! i'm glad he's picked up a sweet gig. i've always gotten the impression that he's a nice guy from all of the interviews he did for mgs4

AroundTheFur

@MysteriousStranger: @AnonUserAnonymous: So , what does that make you guys? X360 fanboys for having to remotely defend a comment on Halo?

휘성

@휘성: Well I was talking about Halo the Game. Not Halo the game I need to defend because its on xbox 360, Not everyone is making this a PS3 vs 360 war, that is what YOU personally took out of my comment.

Had I made the same comment about WoW you would have never responded because it would have been a game strictly for PC and not a counter point strictly to the PS3. I am simply talking about Halo the FPS vs other FPS's.

This has nothing to do with the 360 besides the fact that the game happens to be exclusive to the console. Chill out bro. My opinion (not fact, just opinion) still stands that besides CoD4 I think Halo is the next best shooter based on fun.

AnonUserAnonymous

I hope that with the new additions to Bungie, and after the semi-interesting 'Halo Wars', I hope they make some form of sequel to Halo 3.

And make it a first-person shooter.

KK