I was in the mood for more FPS games after I played through FEAR 2 last week. Thought I'd try out Halo Infinite, and well they've ruined another franchise as far as I'm concerned. I've played about 4 hours of the campaign and I'm not sure I will even bother to finish. Prior to this I've played every Halo campaign at least twice, most of them three or four times.
The SJW stuff I could have even managed to overlook, because I don't care about the story that much. Still, it's noticeable that it's all women except you as Master Chief and one really pussy man that's like a ship's pilot. New Cortana is not only uglier, but she's just fucking annoying. It's a totally different personality and not in a good way.
Open world, no thanks. If I wanted to play FarCry I'd play FarCry.
The weapons suck. Feels like a bunch of slow BB guns and water pistols. I want the Covenant Carbine back. The Promethean weapons were fun in Halo 4, but these "Banished" weapons are terrible. You can't avoid them that much either because in the campaign you have to pick stuff up and they seem to be what's available. Honestly it feels like a game that took all the fun out of the weapons for the sake of some competitive balance that I couldn't give a shit less about for a campaign. I don't want my favorite weapon to be a Plasma Pistol in a Halo game, and I'm pretty sure that's what I've held on to the most.
I haven't tried multiplayer because I'm not interested anymore. I went into the customization and well it's very much constantly trying to separate me from my credit card. Expected I guess.
So that's my rant at least. Glad I didn't buy it and it won't join my collection going all the way back to Halo 1. At least I can still play those if I want.
In my headcanon chief and cortana died in eachother's arms at the end of 3 (makes the whole "we'll make it" thing at the end more impactful), or this is simply a dream he's having in the cryotube.
I liked 4 and Reach too, but 5 was already kinda downhill. They pretty much did with 5 and Infinite what Gears 4 and 5 did to that series.
4 felt like a tipping point but it was playable. The campaign ui drove me insane though, a pretty divisive installment but I understand the appeal. Reach was alright, I enjoyed it and place it up there with ODST.
5 just didn't do it for me.
reach wasnt good for gameplay, it was a good story to wrap up the series and had fun co op. odst of c. wasnt 5 also released without co op? 343 faggy spark is a lazy studio.