Finally completed Halo Infinite Campaign - my 2 STARS (out of five) review

[ShinoKeiyakusha]

@HBNDonut

This is no excuse for the price tag. The campaign is definitley not worth $60 as a standalone product. It’s really not.

I agree.
It’s $60, doesn’t unlock armor, doesn’t have much variety, didn’t have co-op or replayable missions at launch, has features that aren’t fleshed out enough, and has unfairly difficult bosses.

@HBNDonut

Recently I’ve been aiming for 100% in GTA San Andreas, which is an old game but a huge open world packed with 3 fully detailed cities which are full of almost entirely unique features on every single street.

I’ve tried playing games in that series a few times to see if I might like it, but it never has anything for me to like about it.
There are other open-world games I liked though that had more worthwhile content on their maps than Infinite.

@HBNDonut

The hexagons are so lazy looking when you think that people made thousands of shops signs, dozens of vehicles, dozens of weapons, all sorts of toys, designed 100 hours of unique missions with scripting and plotted routes and dialogue and everything else, tonnes of things to do and see in the open world

Well, the hexagon thing was in Halo 3 sort of, but I do think the map in Infinite is really empty.
It’s somewhat of a waste of a map, since the map does look nice aside from lacking some variety.

@HBNDonut

its amazing that 343 tried to do too much and still produced so little… like what happened… how did so much go unfinished?

A lack of good management, I think.
The game ended up having scope creep, but Microsoft wanted it to be released at the same time as the Xbox Series.
It ended up getting panned when it was first shown, so the cinematic director from Bungie (Joseph Staten) joined the development of Infinite and got Microsoft to give more time for the game to be created, but I guess it wasn’t enough.

[Sparhawk122]

Reportedly they cut 2/3rds of campaign content. My guess is to drip feed it to us in small content drops throughout the “10 year life cycle” per live service standard of business.

So withholding content to sell at a later date as DLC.