Oh, me too. I figured the narrative was going to be better utilized but right now it just feels like a cutscene that explains why we’ll be completing orange challenges along with our blue challenges for a week or two. Iratus was apparently trapped months ago by all of us playing the LSS event and Dihn has made a full recovery. A lot has happened off screen again… which I think is kind of annoying.
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I have a feeling they will do a few Master Chief centric campaign expansions, before reaching the end of his Infinite story (and probably the end of his story in the franchise) and giving the reigns of main character to our own multiplayer Spartan.
343i has been trying to shift the main character of the franchise for a while, with Spartan Thorne and Locke. But if those two characters proved anything it’s that the community is not ready to accept a Master Chief replacement that isn’t a faceless, mostly silent protagonist. The Rookie, and Noble Six worked so much better because they were even more extreme versions of the “character that is a vehicle for the player” than Master Chief was. The Rookie being an entirely silent, nameless, faceless ODST. And Noble Six actually being our custom multiplayer Spartan represented in-universe, again nameless and with a very mysterious past.
This time it feels like we are building a new character from the ground up. A freshly augmented Spartan undergoing training that will one day be a major player in the galaxy.
Misrepestentation to defend your position.
A wheel is overdoing it, since its essential. But infinite is definitely missing its passenger seats (co-op), and has a busted up, inefficient engine to go along with it among other things.
You admit you’re wrong by resorting to insults to try and prop up your own statements.
First of all, you misquote him. He said ONE of the least capable developers.
Secondly, Infinite is not polished. Its weapon balance is poor, its menus slow and laggy (albeit fixed), its UI has proven multiple times to be a hiderence to the developers doing basic things like providing options. Its loading screen is a random image they threw up. Its bots prove that crosscore is easy. Stuff like "bonobo’ and ‘moochers of reach’ get viewed by the public. Desync runs rampant. Its matchmaking is malicious.
Sure, it looks and plays like the bare minimum to be halo, but thats it.
Secondly, 343 has rountinely overpromised and undelivered for a decade. Producing buggy, inferior products to what came before. Features often left out, to be reminded of on steams. Constantly making random decisions despite the community making it clear what they want. They apparently thought 4 playlists was all that were needed, like this is their first halo game or something.
343 is lucky Bungie did such a good job so that they can coast on the success that was handed to them.
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Lets all just agree that 343 absolutely bonked this game. Everything that could go wrong did go.
Everything they decided to do (talking about not having the stuff at launch), well not do, at launch was absolutely atrocious. Launching a game with like 70% content missing is the biggest middle finger and scummish thing to do.
But what can you do, money comes over quality. Thats how gaming industry mostly works now.
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