It has just been announced that Ryan Payton is starting his own studio. The Metal Gear Solid 4 Assistant Producer was more recently known as one of the creative directors behind Halo 4.
He has said that the time had come when the current project wasn’t exciting to him anymore. He also added “The Halo I wanted to build was fundamentally different and I don’t think I had built enough credibility to see such a crazy endeavour through”.
His new studio, Camoflaj is already hard at work on two new titles.
Source: Kotaku
halbpro
That’s a shame, would have been interesting to see a “fundementally different” Halo, but I suppose MS don’t want to take risks with the franchise after Wars and ODST.
KeRaSh
Yeah, I’d like to know in what way his idea was different. Shame we will probably never find out.
Sympozium
How dare they!
Crocadillian
On one hand I don’t want them to fiddle with what made Halo great originally, as I love the franchise. On the other hand, Halo: ODST’s focus on isolation and exploration really intrigues and speaks to me, and seemed to still be integrated in the Halo universe well.
I’m sure after seeing the concept artwork and Halo: Anniversary development that Halo 4 will be good no matter what.
bacon_nuts
Camoflaj? Odd name, cool to hear about two new titles though!
MayContainEvil
It will be interesting to see what kind of games he cooks up after working on MGS4 and Halo.