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Kolbe Payne
5 months
Guess it's time to say what I've been working on 😏 #PerfectDark
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Mission: stop Carrington's attack at all costs. get a first look as Agent Dark hunts down the world's most wanted criminal in Perfect Dark: | #XboxShowcase
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I’m in TEARS I TELL YA 😂 💀 💀
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He’s just jealous that he’ll never get a skin in a video game. We don’t work with pedophiles 🖕🏼
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DrDisRespect reacted to Ninja having a content pack in new battle royale ‘Off The Grid’
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Getting some weird vibes this years #TheGameAwards Rushing through 5 very important awards in a row. Meanwhile, Kojima gets 10+ minutes talking about a game that has no footage whatsoever. No mention of the 7,000+ game developers that have been laid off.
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I think we can all relate.
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3 years
My wife: “come to bed it’s 3 am” Me: “There won’t be a bed if we don’t stop the Banished” #HaloInfinite
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3 years
I’m not crying. You’re crying 😭 #HaloInfinite
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4 years
@israel2099_ Absolutely incredible work dude! 🔥 fuck that other guy that stole this.
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3 years
First credited game ✅ #HaloInfinite
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4 years
@GameSpot Guys.. I was a contractor. My contract was ending so I found a new job. This isn't news. Stop with your clickbait
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11 months
If adding female protagonists to video games is all it takes to make the worst people you've ever met not want to play them, we should add female protagonists to every game.
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11 months
These hackers need to expose people in congress. Not game developers making a fucking game.
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Culture Crave 🎃
11 months
Insomniac has reportedly been hacked by people who claim to have info on the #Wolverine game including unrevealed Marvel characters They’re giving Insomniac 7 days to pay them $2M before releasing it all
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Game dev interviews be like
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11 months
An actual teleprompter saying "wrap it up please". So they have more time for game announcements. I know this show has never had awards as the focal point. It's time for a name change.
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9 months
A really close co worker, now close friend, on Halo told me after his 20+ years in the game industry. “Fuck company loyalty, you find a better role. You take it. These corpos don’t give a fuck about you”
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3 years
I worked on #HaloInfinite for 2 years and just now realized you can control the Cindershot after you fire it…
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2 months
What did I tell ya.
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4 months
The sad thing about Dr Disrespect is.. - He'll take a 3 month break. - Announce his return to streaming. - Have thousands of like minded pedos support him. - Make a shit ton of money when he returns. - Continue to be successful while he's a pedophile
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Me playing Me developing Halo CE #HaloInfinite on my Xbox on my PC (2001) (2019-2021)
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Kolbe Payne
8 months
American workers: “get fucked immediately” Everywhere else: “we will provide support for you” The difference in labor laws is wild between countries.
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@PlayStation
PlayStation
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Sony Interactive Entertainment announces a reduction in its global workforce:
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1 year
I’m don’t want to hear anyone say remote work isn’t sustainable.
@metacritic
metacritic
1 year
With the first 119 critic reviews lodged, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is officially a Metacritic Must-Play with a Metascore of [91] "That winning formula is still so damn fun..." - GameSpot
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You guys. I made fucking hover scooter in #TearsOfTheKingdom
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1 year
Yeah great games this year huh? Why can’t we go 2 fucking weeks without layoffs at all different types of game studios then??
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Geoff Keighley
1 year
The sheer quality and scale of games this year has really been unprecedented. Can you think of another year with so many incredible releases?
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3 years
Here’s a screenshot of my all time favorite outpost I designed in #HaloInfinite . This went through multiple redesigns. Really excited for y’all to jump into this space and hear your thoughts!
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3 years
10 days until #HaloInfinite
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5 years
@emileighsrose Here is my leg tat! Chris Rose at Kulture Shock in SLC, UT.
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3 years
6 more days until #HaloInfinite
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11 more days until #HaloInfinite
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3 years
It’s nice to see that this area I designed in #HaloInfinite hasn’t changed 😎
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3 years
Yooo. This is an Outpost I designed in #HaloInfinite !
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3 years
9 more days until #HaloInfinite
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@TheRevanchistTT How fitting 💀
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3 years
3 more days until #HaloInfinite
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What is the best game engine of all time?
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3 years
Oh. My. God. 😂
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1 year
I would like to know who did the VFX and audio design for this. This is incredible. #JediSurvivor
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3 years
This baby is all my design tho 😍 #HaloInfinite
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1 more day until #HaloInfinite
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1 year
Fucking sad that there is zero job security in our industry that brings in about $180 BILLION a year.
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2 years
Game Studios. Please hire more juniors.
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11 months
Halo Infinite should be on this list.
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9 months
Sorry but there isn’t a difference between Chief and John-117. He is the same person throughout all of Halo. There isn’t a personality switch. 🤦‍♂️
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@IGN
IGN
9 months
Halo's Pablo Schreiber says there's "no point discussing" whether or not Master Chief should remove his helmet on the Paramount+ series because it's necessary to examine the difference between Chief and John-117.
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3 years
7 more days until #HaloInfinite
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Kolbe Payne
4 years
When Level Designers start adding grass and ground textures to their levels.
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Kolbe Payne
3 years
52 days until Halo Infinite comes out. Not gonna lie, getting little nervous 😅 This will be my first shipped title. Players will experience my levels and gameplay I designed for the first time. Will they like them? Or hate them? 👀 I just don’t want to fail ya know.
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2 years
Just found out I can play Xbox gamepass on my tv with no Xbox required 🤯
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3 years
I hate to break it to ya. But the cook book writers don’t do the level design, environment art, playtesting, QA, feedback and implementation of new levels and content for Halo Infinite.
@Halo
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3 years
Time to upgrade your armory right alongside your pantry. Announcing, the official Halo Cookbook from @insighteditions ! Available for pre-order right now, releasing in August. 🍕
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3 years
#Halo fans want one thing. And it’s disgusting 😉
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3 years
I know where every single one of these are. How? I placed them all 1 by 1. 👁️👄👁️
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Oh ya know. Just Phil Spencer posting a screenshot of Annex Ridge, my favorite outpost I designed in #HaloInfinite 😭 😭
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Kolbe Payne
3 years
If you look closely. You can easily see that #HaloInfinite   is fucking beautiful. Compared to #HorizonForbiddenWest , which looks fucking beautiful. Fuck your console war bullshit. Enjoy all the games that this industry delivers to us. Console wars are for doodoo heads 😊
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3 years
Soon™️ #HaloInfinite
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4 years
It’s 2009 and you turn on your Xbox 360 after a long day of school. And you just sit and listen to the main menu music of Halo 3 ODST 🤤
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2 years
#TheLastOfUs TV show is already better than the entirety of the Halo TV show.
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4 years
Last week working on Halo Infinite 🥺💚
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3 years
We really out here getting spoiled in December.
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Kolbe Payne
2 years
Please add a progression system outside the battle/season pass in your multiplayer games. Having a battle pass be your only form of progression isn’t the way. And it’s always paid.
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Kolbe Payne
3 years
My favorite Grunt dialogue during playtesting: I came up to a group of grunts and crashed the mongoose in front of them. One of the grunts laughed and said "HAH, he can't even drive that thing" 🤣😂 The grunt dialogue in #HaloInfinite is the best in the series.
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POV: When you personally attack game devs. Grow up.
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Me every single night at 1am
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4 years
Still my favorite Halo meme of all time
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4 years
All I want to do is play Halo Infinite this Fall.
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3 years
5 more days until #HaloInfinite
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2 years
Game industry be like:
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2 years
Sad to see that my local In N Out pays better hourly wages than my QA co workers made working on Halo. Pay QA more.
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Kolbe Payne
4 years
It's time I updated this! Today is my last day on Halo Infinite. Excited for the future. 💚
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Kolbe Payne
4 years
Just realized this. After zooming in on this photo. This area in Halo Infinite is all my design 😏
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4 years
When #LevelDesign -ers place trees and rocks.
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3 years
8 more days until #HaloInfinite
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4 months
Have y'all noticed that all the big name streamers. (TimTheTatman, Courage) to name a few. Stay very silent on this type of stuff that happens in the streaming world? Silent about Nickmercs and his Anti Trans agenda. Silent about Doc being a ped0. Hats off to Ninja 👏
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Ninja responded to the Dr Disrespect situation "a settlement, no matter what it looks like publicly...it usually means someone did something."
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3 years
No, YOU stayed up until 1:30 am playing #HaloInfinite 😤
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3 years
Whenever I used my Dev nameplate in MCC/Halo 5 I just got told to fix the fucking game 😞
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Kolbe Payne
4 years
I cannot fucking wait.
@IGN
IGN
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“You may have seen people talking about this lightly before, but we’re extremely excited to confirm that Halo Infinite will be one of many first-party titles included in the Xbox 20/20 event in July. Get ready.” - Unyshek, 343 Industries
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This is done on purpose. No one wants to take damage that is entirely out of their control. Plus, Storm troopers canonically have shit aim. So it works out perfectly. 👌 #MayThe4thBeWithYou
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Kolbe Payne
3 years
Oh man. The console war warriors are already comparing Halo infinite to Sony games 🤦‍♀️ Why can’t we just love all games.
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Kolbe Payne
5 years
@just_fatz @itsthetaylorjoy The phone isn’t in sight tho. 😏
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Kolbe Payne
2 years
Corporations: We are implementing a mandatory in office work environment. The environment:
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Kolbe Payne
3 years
Ngl. I would always play around in 3rd person mode during development using debug controls 😛
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Kolbe Payne
3 years
100% complete for the #HaloInfinite campaign. Saving the Legendary run for co-op next year. Took me a minute on remembering where I hid a lot of the Audio Logs and Propaganda Towers. Hope you all enjoyed this game just as much as I did. 💚
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I fucking did it.
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Kolbe Payne
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The sad thing about Dr Disrespect is.. - He'll take a 3 month break. - Announce his return to streaming. - Have thousands of like minded pedos support him. - Make a shit ton of money when he returns. - Continue to be successful while he's a pedophile
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Game industry be like:
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The only Halo tier list you need to agree on.
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3 years
It is mine. Time to frame this later today 💚 #HaloInfinite
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3 years
4 more days until #HaloInfinite
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Kolbe Payne
4 years
#4Games I’ve worked on. Okay actually it’s just one, 😂 but I’m super excited for what the future holds for me. 👀 I cannot wait for you all to see what #HaloInfinite is like on Thursday!
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Kolbe Payne
4 years
If you aren't playing Halo Infinite in 120 FOV. You're playing it wrong. Every play test I would crank that shit up first. The amount of times I've died in this location is too high. The forerunner interiors are a freaking beauty as well.
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1 year
I mean I’d block you as well if you spouted this idiotic mindset about my industry, game, developers and studio.
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3 years
Me watching everyone get their #HaloInfinite flight invites. 😭
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Kolbe Payne
2 years
Normalize devs waiting to show gameplay when it’s ready and not rushing us to show a buggy, Perfy, unfinished thrown together demo.
@IGN
IGN
2 years
Xbox Exec Matt Booty wants to show off Fable now, but the developer wants to wait until it's properly ready.
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Halo Infinite 😏
@Boogie2988
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5 years
You are now quarantined in the last video game you played. What's that like?
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Kolbe Payne
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I had an insane opportunity come up and I just couldn’t let it pass. Next Monday will be my first day at @CrystalDynamics as a Level Designer! This is such a HUGE step for my career and more importantly, my family. I’ll be full remote 😊 Cannot wait to get started!!
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3 years
Always gonna be haters. Fuck these racists.
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I whole heartedly believe this is the right decision for the Halo franchise going forward.
@Halo
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A New Dawn. We're entering the next chapter of the franchise and changing the recipe for how we make Halo games. Go behind the scenes with Project Foundry to explore the creative potential of Halo in @UnrealEngine 5. 🎥
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Very proud of this one 😂 #ObiWan
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4 years
Level Designers working with their Environment Artists. Part 2
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3 years
Oh. My. Fucking. God. 😂
@ImKadaddle
Kadaddle
3 years
POV: You’re a Marine inside of @MintBlitz Warthog
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