Corrinne Yu leaves Microsoft for Naughty Dog TLHBO

Well Reach was hated by a vast majority of Halo fans too so that was pretty much the beginning of the end but it still felt like a Halo game and had some competitive ranking mode unlike Halo 4.

I think one of the biggest reasons people hated 4 was because 343 said ever since around 2010 or 2011 that they were gonna listen to the Halo fans on their forum more and they even updated Halo Reach and fixed some of the main problems everyone had with it. The main things people were complaining about for years ended up ruining Halo 4

When Halo 4 came out they reimplemented those same things that they fixed or tried to in Reach but made it even worse and completely stripped the game of everything that made Halo competitive by adding things like join in progress, going overboard with loadouts and not having 1 - 50 ranking or even the Arena from Reach. They eventually added a CSR system to make it more competitive but they made it so you could only view your CSR ranking (1 - 50) on Halowaypoint.com so it was pretty much pointless.

The Theater mode had less features than the Halo 3 theater and the spartan ops was just plain boring compared to firefight. There's plenty of other things wrong with Halo 4 but they were the mains ones I think

When you make top 5 games of all video game history, people want to experience the best of the best.

This is a pretty big win for Sony. Grow your 1st party while hurting the comptetions. Naughty Dog is growing to be very powerful and looks like the place all of the top programmers want to work.

Based on your saying i'd say the opposite is true.

Every nintendo dev? I hope you're just trolling. There are like dozens of studios under Nintendo EAD, most of which dev crap mario shovelware. If you can point to me a studio under nintendo ead which are as consistent as nd then fine. No doubt there are excellent games that come out of nintendo 1st party but no one studio under them is responsible for all their excellent games yet one studio (nd) is responsible for bout a dozen AAA games.

Insomniac has failed in doing anything other than Ratchet.

Sucker Punch needs some more time and budget. Second Son has the potential to blow away all ND platformers ('cause inFamous is pretty much an open world platformer with tps). But not atm.

Media Molecule also has the potential. Not enough games to say they are better than ND.

Ubi Mont. only has Rayman and BG&E 1.

Santa Monica has what? GOW and a couple games they've helped out in? Nope.

Rocksteady better than ND? They've done 2 games. Really? Reaaaallyyyy?

Platinum has 3 good games. Bayonetta, W101 and Vanquish. ND>Platinum.

Treasure better than ND? /dead

Clearly a hater. Sorry but the creators of Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, Uncharted and The Last of Us are only second to Valve and R*. And those guys have waaayyy bigger dev teams + money.

Good for you Yu..Drop the Zero and get with a Hero.

@StriateEnd said:

Lol.. in on the anti windows 8 movement

She might been a rockstar at 343 but she will just be another employee at ND.

Note that Borderlands is based on Unreal Engine 3.

this s huge nice one ND

Not surprising. Who wouldn't want work for ND? They developed not one but two of the best new IP's last generation.

I'm not blindly hating, I just have a strong opinion on game design and feel that what Naughty Dog has put forth in the past generation has been very poor. They are talented, but I feel like that talent is greatly misplaced. It's just how I am. They were better before Uncharted. After that point they stopped using the medium they work in effectively.

None of you will ever score with her. Naughty Dog however, well, is naughty

She is incredibly talented. The team at Naughty Dog are God Like now.

Video gaming existed before the PS3.

Unless of course you're talking about the PS1/2

Naughty doggystyles the lemmings and make xboner games look like last gen graphics

Apparently just about everyone at 343i jumped ship...Halo doomed!!

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• Design director left to join Visceral Games
• Lead campaign designer left to join Infinity Ward to work on CoD: Ghost;
• Lead campaign level designer left to join Naughty Dog;
• Lead multiplayer map designer left to join Bluepoint Games;
• Lead multiplayer producer left recently;
• The narrative director is now mostly working at Black Tusk (?).

I know, that's what makes it even more spectacular.

7 out of 300+ employees left. 4 or more people were hired late last year and earlier in 2013.

Did you miss the word lead and that they were for the main parts of the game?

Borderlands wasn't impressive graphically. Halo 4 definitely was. Still, I doubt this has little, if any effect on the next Halo graphically.

Dude, she already worked on Halo. I guess she wants to slum it at ND.

Funny. I hear how bad 343 did with Halo 4 here a lot. Now one leaves for ND, and Halo 4 looked great, she was the reason. LOL fvckin shyt is getting so trivial here.

343i is not doomed anyway.

343i was supposed to be the xbox dream team, now what? :)

So Naughty Dog fell apart after Rubin left according to your logic right?

So, can we say Halo 5 will flop now?

Slow news day? It's not like two new consoles just came out or something.........oh wait

A game director is not that big a deal compared to people who design the engine and game.

So when Naughty Dog lost Richard Lemarchand it ruined the company right? I know you're naive but guess what, developers switch studios all the time and life moves on. One person usually won't make or break a game studio.

Who is talking about one person? 343i lost 5 leads..LOL!

No one is sure about that. Maybe it will flop in sales at first, but if the game is actually better then halo 4 the game will not flop in the long run.

343i also has someone from blizzard now and a couple of community members are allso currently at 343i.

So I guess you agree that The Last Guardian is screwed too..LOL!

It was a joke, fyi.

ND picked up some great talent for the next generation.

Nate Wells- Art Director for Bioshock Infinite

Maciej Kuciara- Concept Artist for Jupiter Ascending,Crysis

Almudena Soria- Lead Animator at Ninja Theory

Corrine Yu- Principal Engine Programmer of Halo 4

nice.

Within the industry, there are few people we know by name due to their talents in their respective field.

Corinne Yu is one of those people.

Her work was what directly lead to Halo 4's graphical prowess on 7 year old tech. She is incredible at creating powerful and competent graphical engines in closed-box systems. She was a HUGE deal at 343i, and her work is one of the most consistently praised on the team that pumped out Halo 4.

Honestly, those are big, BIG shoes to fill. I have friends over at ND, maybe I can meet her in the local get togethers. Either way, this just means a studio already capable at producing some fine looking games just got an incredibly talented graphics engine programmer who is working on what is easily one of the most efficient and optimized pieces of tech on the market. She is going to pump out MAGIC on that hardware in a few years.

Halo 4 did many things wrong but graphics was not one of them. She was responsible for the graphics.

One person? Did you read/watch the credits after finishing Halo 4? There were hundreds in them, but this one person, was responsible for the look of the game? I'm calling bullshyt.

@kratosyoloswag: Here's the credits to Halo 4, fella. Look at the bottom of the post. Graphics engineering. The lead engineer is Thomas J Holmes, Yu was not responsible for the graphics in the game. She was a member of a team, although not this brainchild cows are making her out to be. congratulations to Ms Yu, and fail to cows.

Credits

HALO 4

• PROJECT LEADS
• Engineering Lead
• David Berger
• Pipeline Lead
• David Brickhill
• Art Manager
• Neill Harrison
• Creative Director
• Josh Holmes
• Lead Producer
• Chris Lee
• Art Director
• Kenneth Scott
• Audio Director
• Sotaro Tojima
• Lead Designer
• Scott Warner
• Executive Producer
• Kiki Wolfkill
• UNIVERSE DEVELOPMENT
• Franchise Director
• Frank O'Connor
• MISSION DESIGN
• Level Design Lead
• Ray Almaden
• Campaign Design Lead
• Jesse Snyder
• Mission Designers
• Jason Behr
• Jacob Benton
• Dan Callan
• Paul Ehreth
• Chris French
• Tom French
• Cory Hasselbach
• Justin Lippert
• Matthew Geer (iFusionIT LLC)
• Quentin Arnold Rezin (Populus Group LLC)
• SANDBOX DESIGN
• Lead
• Chris King
• Sandbox Designers
• Christopher Blohm
• Matt Findley
• Paul Parsons
• Pierre Rivest
• Ali Zandi
• INFINITY DESIGN
• War Games Design Lead
• Kevin Franklin
• Spartan Ops Design Lead
• Chris Haluke
• Level Design Lead
• Kynan Pearson
• Infinity Design Lead
• Brad Welch
• Infinity Designers
• David Ellis
• Greg Murphy
• Kevin Schmitt
• Branden Bean (Yoh Services LLC)
• Adrian Bedoya (Hanson Consulting Group)
• Jayce Diaz (Insight Global)
• TJ Perillo (Yoh Services LLC)
• Lionel Ward (Populus Group LLC)
• NARRATIVE DESIGN
• Narrative Director
• Armando Troisi
• Narrative Designers
• Christopher Schlerf
• Lindsay Lockhart (Insight Global)
• Nathan Moller (Insight Global)
• USER RESEARCH
• Eric Schuh (Lead)
• ANIMATION ENGINEERING
• Greg Snook (Lead)
• Aaron Leiby
• AUDIO ENGINEERING
• Terry Jones
• GRAPHICS ENGINEERING
• Thomas J. Holmes (Lead)
• Mike Boulton
• Bill Clark
• Adam Gold
• Jacob Liechty
• Andy Luedke
• Corrinne Yu

Nice grab. She will hopefully teach them how to code free look cameras and off rails non scripted game play.

lol

The internet is blowing up because of this. This must be a huge win for Sony.

If it has hype. Sure. I used to be such a halo fan. Halo 2 was my peak though in multiplayer.. it just all slows changed from there. 3 was good. Reach was.. different.. just please stop.. 4 was.. COD had a baby with Halo. Spawn in - insta spawn - load outs - uggghhh

Dat to the metal PS4 performance : )

But shes hot.

@StriateEnd said:

Ownage approved.