Halo Wars includes final farewell from Ensemble Studios

Sadpanda

To all the crew at Ensemble, thanks for the memories!!

"LIsa - you can smash your Zune now!"

Classic.

AoE II was awesome. I just wanted to say that.

If Halo Wars does well, why would they go out of business?

I wish it was just a stop-motion video of them spelling out "F.U.M.S." with their poop.

So sad.

..and I only watched upto the end of the main credits..

Hopefully the key talent from Ensemble forms their own studio and buys back their old licenses. I hate to see the RTS developer that set the standard for the genre as I see it dissapear forever. Like FASA it was a hugely influencal developer that was underappreciated by the industry and dropped by Microsoft.

They should have put spoiler alert on the title!

j/k... ;-D

My heart still aches for Ensemble. What a way to go out.

What a grand idea for a game's credits though! Much more interesting than simply a list of names and job titles.

Ensemble Studios is probably my favorite developer ever. I can't even count the number of hours that I spent playing Age of Empires 2. I very rarely invest that kind of time into any single game. So rarely, in fact, that I think AoE2 is the only example from my entire lifetime of game playing.

Now that i've seen the credits all i need to do is go out and buy and beat the game -.-"

Good luck to them, and thanks for the fun playing AoE and Age of Mythology. Truly amazing franchises.

I hardly ever heard people talking about how much they loved Ensemble, and their games, until Microsoft shut them down.

I wonder how many a genuine fans like myself, and how many didn't really give a shit until they got closed down? Wagon Jumpers perhaps?

All the same, it's a shame to see Ensemble go. They are the people behind some of my all time favourite PC games. And after spending some time on Halo Wars late last week, I feel I can safely say they may have gone out with their best.

Halo Wars just seems to work so well. I had my doubts how well the Halo world would translate over to an RTS game. An RTS game on a console to boot.... They really pulled it off though.

If you don't have Halo Wars yet, go and get it! :)

Erm, not to sound callous or anything, but this doesn't seem that different than the closing credits to Halo 3, giving the people who worked on it a moment to give their "shout out" to whoever or whatever. Not *that* big of a deal.

Don't get me wrong; I think it's pretty cool that the people who put their hard work into it get their moment, as it were. It may not mean a lot to us (especially things like the corny "rock star" pictures in the Rock Band credits), but I'm sure it means a lot to them. It'd be nice to get that kind of recognition in my own job. (Then again, I program business applications; not much of what I do includes "closing credits." :/ )

Those guys are awesome.

I bought Halo Wars LE,pretty standard stuff for their level of awesomeness but considering is a console RTS for the Halo community is pretty cool.again I'm not to deep in the game,I'm stillh oping to play as the flood for great justice.

My only complain is the H3 map pack but I guess I should be complaining with Bungie.

The mythic map pack is just Sandbox alone the other 2 maps are very meh.Assembly is a small and confusing clusterf*ck,imagine pit but round and purple and alot smaller.I swear it looked bigger in the HD video.The particle effect is just bad I mean it makes me sleepy for some reason

Orbital I must admit while it looks good,okay I think I saw some new textures too bad you can't see directly outside of the ship is a snake desing for team matches again very basic stuff.Stiil I can't find the damn skull.


Sandbox is a lot of fun but Forge being what it is the fun is limited but is the most versatile map of the whole game.

Still my favorite map pack is still Legendary (Again that’s not saying much) Ghost Town reminds me of COD4 and Avalanche is great for heavy team matches. Blackout well I manage to do some modifications in Forge to turn it into a shooting gallery but for matchmaking it sucks.

Heroic, the less I say about this one the better.

They will be missed.

i like how many of them thank ensemble yet i don't see a single "thanks Microsoft".

grrr
why did Microsoft have to do this.
These guys were amazing.
i probably spent hundreds of hours in AOE 2. i stil play it sometimes.
RIP Ensenble

Halo 2 deserved much lower than a 90% average on metaCritic.

microsofts genius money making plan:
step 1: come out good game
step 2: close down the studio that made the game
step 3:????
step 4: profit

I just watched it here.. I did get to the end after all.. I cancelled on the 'end transmission'