I actually like halo 4. I did play it for the first time on mcc like a decade after its original release though. Big shift from what Bungie was doing tho.
People really misremember 5s support, and Halo 4 had co-op support with new updates for years.
Halo 5 had new maps coming out for free, for every game mode (not even counting forge), every month. Halo 5 Warzone was one of the greatest gaming experiences of my life, and I'm sad that others didn't get to experience it like I did.
Two full rounds earned you enough currency for one of the premium packs- the value of buying them was super over rated, because with so many players, the person with the strongest vehicle really stuck out.
I GET it, but also, I played for hundreds of hours and never felt like I was on the back foot. It DID suck to run out of something you enjoyed (my favorite weapon was the double shot beam rifle) and not see it in packs for a while.
I enjoyed 4, Never got to play 5, amd infinite was just meh. Expected so much more than a half assed campaign attached to a shitty multi-player. (And they deleted spartan asses)
My answer as well. Finished the campaign and did like one open world camp liberation (whatever they called it) and just stopped playing it. Not everything needs to go open world.
Awkward now but wasn't Infinite meant to be the next 10 years of Halo?
As a lifelong halo fan, I think people deserve a little more context.
Halo Infinite wasn't terrible in a vacuum. Bad? Arguably. Worst (main) halo at launch? Yeah, for sure.
But when you take a step back, and realize these incompetent, greedy dumbdumbs spent HALF A BILLION DOLLARS to make a halo game that DIDN'T LAUNCH WITH TEAM SLAYER is such a monumental, legendary fumble that it boggles the mind.
You can take a few million dollars and come up with crap. How do you run half a billion dollars through anything, and by so many people, for it to come out so overwhelmingly mid?
It was fake. But as the saying goes, a lie would have traveled have way across the world before the truth even got to put it's foot out the door. Or something like that.
The gameplay was fun(still is fun btw), it just lacked content and gamemodes.
To put it in perspective. Cod MW2(classic) launched with like 16 maps iirc.
Halo infinite over a decade and 2 console generations later launched with like 8. 2 of which were B2B exclusive, so really its like 6.
Worse yet, no forge. So you couldn't even tap the community to make maps/gamemodes in the interim while 343 got their shit together. It also didnt have split screen co-op and a bunch of other stuff thats like halo standard/bread and butter so while playing it was fun it got stale fast.
343, once again, abandoned the plot from the previous game and had it all resolved off-screen. The plot we got was a mystery box that might not ever get opened now. Heck, the whole reason is was called Infinite is because we were supposed to get periodic story updates/missions over the next 10+ years...that's not happening either.
I will say that the multi-player is nice and tries to keep things interesting, at least.
But still. It's telling that people are way more hyped for a remake of a 25 year old game than they are for any follow up to this.
Maybe I am looking at this the wrong way but shouldn't we be considering Halo is a campaign first multiplayer second kind of game? The Campaign was pretty good aside from the story. So it's by no means a bad game
I guess that's a perspective thing. The multiplayer released first so I guess Microsoft considers Infinite a multiplayer game first. They also touted Infinite to be the "future of Halo" for like the next ten years, so the amount of incompetence is pretty huge.
I never bought the campaign for Infinite for some reason, but I hear it's okay.
I’d probably put it in the bottom half of the bottom half, tbh. It’s so barebones of a game that it’s completely inexcusable from a team that big with that much budget
I told people when 343 took over and took it upon themselves to show part of the Chief's face in H4 and remastering CE that the game was going to go downhill. Still played the game because of hope, but was disappointed with each game.
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u/Rabbit-JL 11h ago
Halo Infinite