I have to agree with Gearbox, from a financial point of view it's hard to get funding with experimental projects when repetition is the key to a lot of companies success.

Blizzard hasn't made a new IP in 11 years.
Fumito Ueda's team however has never done a sequel... I know most games share an universe but Randy Pitchford's complaint is about innovation and all of their games are different from each other

Get over it.

Sometimes something new just for the sake of something new doesn't work. Take a look at Damnation.

And games generally get better in successive sequels. The developers don't have to reinvent the wheel in a sequel, so they can make the game deeper and more fun. Take a look at the progression from Halo 1, in which the game had LAN only multiplayer, to Halo 3, with near flawless matchmaking and file sharing integrated with Bungie.net. What's so wrong with some studios doing what they do well?

And Infinity Ward may seem like they aren't being innovative, but until Call of Duty 4, the series was all about WWII. So I'd say they took a big risk with COD4, and that was only 2 years ago.

Halo is fun on occasion, but I'm not really one that gets super excited over it. I'll leave that to the frat boys when they have their downtime from Madden 09. I really would like to see Bungie do something non-Halo related.

Didn't Bungie say they were working on 3 separate games. One was ODST, the second is Reach and the third is unannounced. Unless something has happened since then.

@Static Jak

Halo 4, maybe.

@Monodi: Shut up.

@Original post: I don't know much about Infinity Ward, but I'm certain Bungie has something in the works that isn't Halo related. All the Halo games being released now are being done by smaller groups in the very large company.

we need bigger and better location transitions. like with the battle front 3 video. we need future games where it like warhawk but all over space/planets.

we need a game like with features from
MAG(alot of players/different factions) +
SW battefront 3 (space travel) +
warhawk (air and ground vehicles) +
killzone 2 (multiple changing objectives/classes.squads) +
maybe some resource management for building space ships and mother ships.
and maybe something kinda like UT onslaught mode but on multiple planets. and well i guess it would be an MMO

a space/future online shooter with multiple factions.
you can fight ground/air battles on different planets with somewhat local vehicles.
but certain special space ships can travel into space, where you can still fight space battles, and goto another planet if your faction needs you. if you can make it alive.
of course you would need classes to fix/ build vehicles,spawn weapons/ammo,pilots etc. front line infantry.

once in space there might be factions specific space station where you can change class/weapons meet up with squads mates and join up for an assault on another planets that one of the other factions is controlling.
you can use resources you have collected at the space to buy upgrades weapons,vehicles etc.
fighting/killing other players/completing objectives etc. give resources.to your factions totals bank account maybe.

you could have big mother ships (that can be destroyed by players flying other ships etc) that can shoot at planets and take out alot of people(your own as well if not careful)

or something

DO WANT new games, Bungie.

With the success of Halo and Call of Duty 4, I can't imagine these companies aren't rolling in money and aren't able to have a LITTLE bit of say in what they do next.

I mean, Bungie keeps saying they're moving on to other stuff but obviously MS wants them to stick with Halo for as long as humanly possible and will throw blank checks at them to continue doing so.

Can't these companies AT LEAST make some Xbox Live or PSN games between projects? We'd get our new IPs, and they would make a few bucks because people would eat these games up based on pedigree alone.

I agree, but I'm also not unhappy with having excellent games within the CoD or Halo series either.

As long as they keep making great games, it doesn't matter to me. I mean, sure, new IPs would be awesome, but I'm not going to beg for them. Whatever these two make will more than likely be good, so we'll just have to wait and see what they throw our way.

While I may agree with this mans sentiments, that fact that he:

A) Doesn't know that IW don't release a CoD game on a yearly basis.

B) Is willing to ignore that fact in order to get himself into the news.

Shows he is in no position to comment on anything. Maybe if Gearbox had developed anything worth a damn since the Half-Life 1 expansions they would be in a position where people would willingly buy sequels to their games.

Just because something's new doesn't mean it has to reinvent the wheel.

Take Epic for example. They had their huge following with Unreal. They stuck with that franchise from 1998 to 2004 Then made Gears of War. It's still an action game, but it feels way different to Unreal Tournament. I think BOTH Bungie and Infinity Ward should follow Epic's example.

I want new Nintendo IP's but it doesn't happen does it? Everyone is quite content to get sequels and remakes non-stop from them so what's the difference? As long as the games are good, I suppose I don't really give a crap, someone else can make new games. They were the new IP's at some point so lets see someone else make a seminal franchise.
Besides, IW re-invenvted CoD with 4 and the multiplayer was a revelation, Bungie look like they are doing some different stuff too.
There are new IP's out all the time and they don't all suck do they?

Personally I'd much rather have 1 excellent franchise game than 50 shitty new IPs... not that I'm saying Borderlands isn't going to rock I'm almost certain it will in fact rock. Besides, I'm sure most people will agree Modern Warfare 2 will be one of the best games of this year, you just know Infinity Ward will deliver, they always do... Bungie on the other hand...

I think Bungie mostly sees the Halo games as one project. One that they evolve (or try to) with each installment. After Reach, they should have quite some cash and time to work on other things though. Before they start work on the inevitable post-Halo 3 game for next-gen :P

Actually, if they would do a NEW Halo game for next-gen, it would likely be around 2015? Would go nicely alongside a Halo movie if they ever start work on that.

Don't really care what IW does. They changed a lot from COD2 to COD4 and I am fine with them doing what they do well. There's enough FPS variety games anyway.

I really don't care as long as they make good games.