Results of their work pretty much show how they feel about making a Halo game. From rating perspective, I’d say the Arena maps are pretty amateur compared to what we got in the past. I know part of that is to blame sprint. I just really miss maps like Prisoner, etc, etc classic inspired maps we don’t see maps much anymore. Truth for example looks fine, but way too big to even be considered a remake. It plays nothing like the classics. Fathom, overgrowth, plaza, etc could just be thrown into Cod and I wouldn’t know the difference, because there isn’t a single map in Halo 5 that stands out. 0 noteworthy maps, and even Halo 4 managed with Haven, while the rest all being better than H5.
Why is this the 1st Halo game where we get purely forged BTB maps? They aren’t really true btb maps. Moving on to the Campaign, the Kraken was really well thought out (sarcasm). It was just as underwhelming as Jul Mdama’s death. I would’ve liked a little mini boss battle with him, being the leader of Covenant and all. An offscreen death is lame for the build up he got and made Jul look like a non threat. He didn’t have much of anything protecting him. The Guardians do jack -Yoink-, but burst out waves and runaway. TbH, Warzone holds more creativity than their entire game, and you obviously see how much time they spent on it.
The lore in H5 was not expansive as they hyped it up to be. No Oni, no insurrectionists, and Chief vs Locke was a wet Napkin. We used to be able to truthfully get an idea of what to expect in Campaign, but 343 were just blatantly lying and I do find it disrespectful. Oh n Kelly, Linda, and Fred, did not talk and do much like y’all said they would. Pretty much the entire interaction was, “Let’s keep moving (Chief)” and "Ok (Rest of Blue Team).
Needed rant as I feel very empty about the greatly anticipated H5. I want to like 343, but they won’t let me and it’s getting tiresome.