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[Umbasaborne]

Lmfao, remember when halo was good? Halo 1-4 are legitimatley great. It’s a shame that 343’s incompetence killed this franchise. At least we will always have the master chief collection

 

[Danjin44]

 

[STARSBarry]

Lmfao, remember when halo was good? Halo 1-4 are legitimatley great. It’s a shame that 343’s incompetence killed this franchise. At least we will always have the master chief collection

No because people have gaslighted me so much in telling me that infinite is GOTY and the best Halo has ever been on this forum.

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Umbasaborne]

No because people have gaslighted me so much in telling me that infinite is GOTY and the best Halo has ever been on this forum.

I agree that it plays pretty well. But just about every other aspect is a major fail

 

[01011001]

Lmfao, remember when halo was good? Halo 1-4 are legitimatley great. It’s a shame that 343’s incompetence killed this franchise. At least we will always have the master chief collection

4? lol, 4 was the worst by far.

 

[Umbasaborne]

4? lol, 4 was the worst by far.

Nah, the story was great

 

[01011001]

Nah, the story was great

who cares about the story? the Leveldesign was ass, the enemy behaviour was annoying as hell, the final boss was a QTE, and the Multiplayer was trying to be call of duty.

 

[diffusionx]

No doubt MS cut the budget of this franchise to the bone and told them to get their shit together before they start thinking about another major investment. Halo isn't a major priority for them anymore, nor should it be. 343 destroyed the franchise.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Reducing or cutting out cinematics is the first thing every company should look into. Sink that budget into hiring coders to improve gameplay. Or just bank the savings.

Every game company seems to bring up sky high budgets. Well, stop hiring endless graphics artists and CGI programmers to do cinematics.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Cod and other shooters looked up to halo, now it’s flipped

 

[Catphish]

They sure did a number on conditioning the masses of Nu gamers. They were right when those psychological papers leaked from EA and the like several years ago. That they had to dig their feet in and take short term bad press and criticisms from us gaming dinosaurs, that eventually you keep pushing something in attractive packages, the populace would eventually fall in line. Especially if you condition the new generation of gamers to grow up with that, who never experienced how gaming was prior.

As depressing as it is true.

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

I remember a time when a MP game could exist without being GaaS.

Those days seem to be long gone. Titanfall was goddamn amazing MP but I guess it didn’t have a battle pass and a million unlocks so fuck it.

 

[Fatal Chuck Yeager]

Halo 3 was on top of the world, and 16 years later Halo Infinite has become increasingly finite.

 

[Codes 208]

Against better judgement i updated infinite to try the new infection mode, but, on steam, i had to uninstall the campaign just to keep the game from crashing.

343i cant even update their game properly.

 

[ZehDon]

Lmfao, remember when halo was good? Halo 1-4 are legitimatley great. It’s a shame that 343’s incompetence killed this franchise. At least we will always have the master chief collection

Er... you won't find many who think Halo 4 is "great". Having replayed them all in order for Halo Infinite, you can feel the step down as soon as you start playing 4, and everything gets worse after that.

 

[Codes 208]

Er... you won't find many who think Halo 4 is "great". Having replayed them all in order for Halo Infinite, you can feel the step down as soon as you start playing 4, and everything gets worse after that.

The multiplayer was a cod clone (but tbf it did have some admittedly fun maps like haven) and the campaign was fine. Its actually quite the shame that 343i swept everything about it under the rug to bring cortana back in 5

…just to sweep her under the rug in time for infinite.

 

[ResilientBanana]

I remember a time when a MP game could exist without being GaaS.

DLC maps, weapon balancing, and updates have been around since Halo 2. They just add more stuff now.

 

[ZehDon]

The multiplayer was a cod clone (but tbf it did have some admittedly fun maps like haven) and the campaign was fine. Its actually quite the shame that 343i swept everything about it under the rug to bring cortana back in 5

…just to sweep her under the rug in time for infinite.

The multiplayer was pretty awful - light pistol meta was trash - and the campaigns plays terribly thanks to 343s design mistakes. It did try to tell a good story, though - and Chief and Cortana's goodbye is still my favourite moment in the entire Halo universe. But yeah - Halo 5's writer was fired for a reason, and Infinite tried to undo it in a pretty not-smart way.

 

[FireFly]

No opinions on season 4, which launched yesterday?

 

[German Hops]

They sure did a number on conditioning the masses of Nu gamers. They were right when those psychological papers leaked from EA and the like several years ago. That they had to dig their feet in and take short term bad press and criticisms from us gaming dinosaurs, that eventually you keep pushing something in attractive packages, the populace would eventually fall in line. Especially if you condition the new generation of gamers to grow up with that, who never experienced how gaming was prior.

 

[March Climber]

who cares about the story? the Leveldesign was ass, the enemy behaviour was annoying as hell, the final boss was a QTE, and the Multiplayer was trying to be call of duty.

I agree with this take on Halo 4, which is why I don’t understand how anyone would say Infinite was worse:

Halo Infinite is probably the worst Halo game campaign wise. It's just so shallow. Soulless.

The only bad part about Infinite’s campaign IMO were the boss fights(especially on harder difficulties), because most of them were confined to tiny open rooms which is anti-Halo design.

Other than that, I’ve had way more memorable moments within the world design, enemy encounters, and the toolkit you’re given in Infinite, than I had playing the entirety of 4.

 

[scoobidoo112]

I used to love Halo, I even (still) have the helmet and statue editions of 3 and Reach, but ever since 343 got their hands on the franchise the whole thing has gone to shit.

MCC is the only thing I'm even remotely interested in playing nowadays.

10 year plan my ass...

 

[Gudji]

Them chopping the 10 year plan slowly.

 

[FireFly]

Them chopping the 10 year plan slowly.

The rumours and staffing changes indicate that the 10 year plan has been abandoned and 343 will work on the multiplayer side of Infinite while future SP content will come from other studios working with 343.

 

[DevilHunterX0]

Their own console mascot, who single-handedly turned the tide of the console war, now just a victim of the Suits.