Halo: The Master Chief Collection Is "Black Eye For Us," Franchise Director Says

He should not have said that. It makes it sound as if the entire game didn't work and that's not the case.

He should have said that Halo MCC multiplayer was a black eye for them. The campaign part of the game is excellent!

It is so nice to see a developer openly and honestly admit that they made a mistake. He explained the complexities that allowed it to happen without sounding like he was trying to justify the problems.

The only thing worse that making mistakes is not learning from them. Look at Gearbox, which trashed its reputation with the awful outsourced Aliens game and then followed that up by trashing its reputation further with a cheaply outsourced Borderlands remaster that has appalling framerate and screen tear issues.

They should give Halo 5 to people who wasted their money on the collection at half price if you ask me. What a joke.

Fan's that purchased The collection should receive Halo 5 at half price or something if they truly care about the fans they screwed.

I know it had/has some bugs esp in multiplayer. But HALO is the reason I moved from PC to Xbox in the first place. You took 4 individual titles put them in one collective title, which included anniversary editions for 1 and 2. You brought Halo to the Xbox 1 so users don't have to go back over to X360 to play them. Halo MCC was my first preorder and predownload on X1. I am still thrilled to have it on X1. I've played the SP campaigns from H1 to H4 again and fell in love with Halo all over again. Sure, it has had it issues with MP, but I disagree that's it a black eye. I remain an 343 fan and Bungie can go suck on Destiny... :) - WranglerActual

I really do sympathize. Taking all those different games and engines and having them all work together as a singular cohesive game must have been extremely difficult, ESPECIALLY the networking part.

It was just cool to have all the main Halo games on the XB1. The single player at least.

Sounds like this game was simply released too soon. Microsoft wanted their money and set unrealistic goals for a project that proved more complicated than expected. Face it, if the X-Box One had a smoother launch Microsoft wouldn't have been pressured to push TMCC out before it was ready. You can't always pin the blame on the developer, even if said developer takes responsibility for the problems.

This game was one of my biggest disappointments last fall, bought it to play with my best friend in another state and we had nothing but problems. He's sworn off the Halo franchise from now on, I'm still interested in this game and have high hopes, but I'm going to wait for reviews to make sure that it's functioning properly on release.

4 great single player games, 2 remastered for a great price is a black eye? I was never interested in the multiplayer this go round so it didn't matter to me. I have played all of the campaigns multiple times over the years. Such a great saga.

So the guy at the studio that did not do a good job on the Halo collection is saying they will do a good job on the NEXT Halo? Seems legit and impartial.

Frank's comments are complete shit. You should never feel sorry for anyone who can't deliver a working product months post-release while being paid millions just in pre-orders alone. I have bought every single Halo title before, and the Master Chief Collection by far ruined all fun and feelings I ever had for the series.

I will not be buying Halo 5, as they are obviously trying to sweep their faux-pas under the rug while pretending it didn't happen. The fact that they were shamelessly promoting the next title during MCC's initial launch period is what lost 343i their credibility, and myself as a loyal customer.

It was fun while it lasted.

Redemption is at hand. If Halo 5 is even a fraction of what I played in the beta, it will be great

Really dropped the ball on this but I've been enjoying it more and more lately... Things are starting to stabilize.

That's our Frankie, he's always been one to look us in the eye and tell us what's up. 343i was built from the ground up to be a killer Halo developer, MCC was the result of outsourcing that while profitable, failed. Nuffsaid.

No doubt that Halo 5 will be a sight to see, juuuust waiting to see who has the best pre-order bonus. Not too interested in Gamestops Hunter class junk.

"Frank O'Connor assures fans Halo 5 won't have the same problems".....oh man, say it isn't so....bugs are part of gaming now.

/ sarcasm

For once i think gamers should give 343 a little break on some of the problems they had.Like he said, they had to bring all five engines together and more then one team was working on it.I'm surprised it came out as good as it did.

No matter how hard I try, I just can't get into these games. I've tried almost everyone, I even bought a 360 almost entirely just to play them, and while the gameplay is solid and fun, the storyline is just not doing it for me. I find the lore to be a bad sci-fi cliché, and masterchief has about as much personality as a dead moth, and at the end of the day it's usually a games story that keeps me interested all the way to the end. Oh well, I'm not going to enjoy every staple in the gaming world, and I still consider these games to be great classics, that helped mold the fps genre. I really hope Halo 5 delivers for this franchises fans.

Halo MCC is probably the best game ever!

Don't care. Loved playing through the single player campaigns. This collection wasn't a failure for me.

honestly....why? they managed to put every halo game on one console in hd at 60 fps. that's an accomplishment. the multiplayer took a bit to get up and running but its wicked fast now. they should not be ashamed of this collection

The last two games we released were a disappointment, but TRUST US, the next game won't be! Preorder now!

Best Masterchief collection ever! I put hundreds of hours in to the campaign. Obviously Halo 5 is gonna be a day one purchase for me

I too am also one of the many who got the collection only to be gravely disappointed with the final product. I feel a bit comforted that someone from a gaming company admitted that they know the game lacked charisma and the consumer fan base largely disapproving of it. But it worries me that in the same statement, he assures us history won't repeat itself with Halo 5. I've seen such promises before and while I like to believe them if Halo 5 does in fact fail to impress, than that would likely be the end for the franchise considering no one will want to touch another game involving the word Halo ever again. We will find out soon enough.