graywolf323
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well it seems a bit wasted on just another Call of Duty game but am interested to see what Infinity Ward puts out with such talent
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Brian Horton (Game Director) leaves Crystal Dynamics, [UPDATE: Joins Infinity Ward]
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well it seems a bit wasted on just another Call of Duty game but am interested to see what Infinity Ward puts out with such talent
It does sound more like a case of IW and Activision going after great talent than him leaving because of the latest project. Call Of Duty 2016 and 2019 should be bangers
That was proven wrong really fast
That was proven wrong really fast
FairXchange
Member
He did an excellent job on his latest game, it's unfortunate that the corporate decisions diminished his hard work.
Thanks. Judging by Twitter he's their studio art director.
Probably E3. It's out between April 2016 and March 2017.
It's almost as if those two guys each found a new job and then left CD on their own accord after giving their notice like it was announced.
People trying to find some conspiracy theories about stealth firing and stuff like that everywhere is ridiculous. People will leave a studio to go work somewhere else... It happens all the time, even with upper management.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
Absolute savage.
How upset could they be with a great game and sales over a million, an upcoming PC release, PS4 GOTY release down the line and MS probably footing most of the bill for development and all of the marketing (outside of the PS4 release).
Probably not as tragic as a lot of people make it out to be.
ashecitism
Member
Can we expect IW (and the other CoD devs) to ever make something that's not CoD (while also making CoDs of course) or they're going to only make them in the foreseeable future?
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
This year's CoD might be s good one then huh?
Steverulez
Member
We have to protect the soldiers!
Campaign can't be any worse than BLOPS3s fucking terrible one
Lord of Castamere
Member
Considering Blops3 botched the one thing Treyarch was doing so well, I somehow doubt that.
I doubt Horton joining the team 2/3s into the game's development will really influence it any major way. This year's CoD has been in development since 2013... at least early 2014.
Campaign will hopefully be solid with the new hires, but I am not holding out much hope for the multi. Would love to be wrong, but Ghosts had some pretty shitty map design.
?? Black Ops 3 multi was great. If you are talking about SP then yeah it was terrible.
They probably weren't expecting the backlash from the exclusivity deal to be so severe so it's likely they decided back in 2014 to leave as soon as the game was done, before SE gives them more shit for not meeting targets.
That's crazy impressive.
He was Senior Art Director for TR2013 and was promoted to Game Director for Rise. Further promotion available to him at CD may have been for more business and less creative roles. That's not always appealing for art talent. It makes sense to go to another studio for another project. It happens all the time for other career paths in game dev like TD and animation (i.e. junior -> senior -> lead/director -> leave).
Steverulez
Member
Man you really don't like Aaron do you?
Im not sure why he would lose his job over the exclusivity of that game either, presumably it was up to Phil to decide on the deal, Aaron's job was about promoting the game. MS funded it, it was great and better than TR2013, it sold over a million (in-line with their other titles it seems)... I bet they are quite satisfied with that
John Wick
Member
Maybe it was them who approached SE to make the game exclusive to MS Xbox One? They seemed to be quite close to MS. It's not coincidence that after delivering such a critical success they have left?
John Wick
Member
Highly doubt MS footed most of the bill for development. I think I'd be upset if the game only sold a million at the busiest time of year. It could have potentially sold 4-5 million. Now Square gonna have to spend extra money to advertise it's PC and PS4 launches otherwise it'll just go unnoticed among the big releases this holiday season. Square lost out big time as it's damaged the brand and it's lost them sales too.
It's very tragic! That's why heads are rolling!
Steverulez
Member
I bet many people would be happy for their heads to roll if they ended moving to Activision to VP of development or whatever and also to Infinity Ward to be art director of a COD title with probably infinite resources compared to being at SE
Its possible but perhaps other things just aligned for them to move on.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
Nightengale
Member
The thing about Brian Horton's role as Game Director is that he was only in that role since January 2015. In other words, he was in charge of overall game direction for less than a year, and for the larger part of ROTR's development, he was still art director.
Daniel Chayer was the person who was the director for the larger part of ROTR's development, before he left in March 2015 to go to Eidos-Montreal to lead development on an unannounced project.
Brian Horton probably prefers to stay in the art side of the business, but took on temporary leadership in the final sprint of ROTR's development.
Daniel Chayer was the person who was the director for the larger part of ROTR's development, before he left in March 2015 to go to Eidos-Montreal to lead development on an unannounced project.
Brian Horton probably prefers to stay in the art side of the business, but took on temporary leadership in the final sprint of ROTR's development.
Jack The Nipper
Banned
Guess they were impressed with the similar parts of level design.
Isn't Call of Duty on a 3-year cycle now? What could he do when most of the game is probably finished by now. There's only ~9 months to go, I am assuming most of the assets/story/mechanics are done.
LOL!
He won't have anything to do with this year's game. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on the team that's beginning to lay the foundation for the next game in their rotation or (hopefully) a whole new project that isn't CoD.
dr_rus
Member
Yeah, that Call of Duty 17 will be really good.
Triggerhappytel
Member
I don't really play a lot of COD any more, but picked up Advanced Warfare recently and enjoyed the campaign quite a bit. It made me fairly interested in Blops3, but then I saw pretty much everyone saying that they thought it was steaming dogshit. A shame, as Treyarch always seemed to get quite a lot of acclaim for their campaigns.
Well, for one thing he's working in art, and for another it's probably too late to make any significant changes on a game which will be going gold in 9 months.
You really think Advanced Warfare is the second worst in the series? Are you talking about campaign or multiplayer, or both? That's not a sentiment I have heard before. I thought it was a solid campaign, although I'm not really a fan of multiplayer in general.
Who were these guys?
First one is a game designer, don't know him very well though. Monacelli was another community guy.