How Infinite Should be Released

Games Halo Infinite
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Hear me out…

I spend a lot of my time on YouTube due to its diverse and current content, and after I watched a Halo video, its simple algorithm took me prisoner and I binged many suggested Halo videos, and I rolled into a deep snowball of Infinite content. One of the videos I watched was from a well known man in the community, HiddenXperia, and his video discussing “Why Halo Infinite Being the Last Halo for 10 Years Is So Exciting… And Worrying…”. It got my brain juices flowing and a neat idea came into mind. Note, this follows with my knowledge that Infinite is still delayed into 2021 with no official release date so if I managed to miss something as major as that please don’t flame me.

Imagine you turn on your Xbox and you see in a block on the news feed “Infinite delayed again?” and you prepare your salty self to see what this is all about and you tab over and select it and you screen goes black…

You hear Halo 2’s Return to Sender soundtrack and out of the darkness a cinematic starts playing. Now this cinematic can be either events after Halo 5, Shadows of Reach, or even a foreshadowing to Infinite (not to take away from any actually in-game introductory prologue). Similar to the Halo 4’s Prologue as soon as you start playing the game, to put it in perspective. It would be new content we haven’t seen in trailers or gameplay, hell even a new trailer entirely, 60 seconds would be enough. Now I’m no game designer and its just an idea but stick with me. As you’re trying to comprehend how this is relative to the game’s delay, your mood shifts and you get excited. To a similar level when Halo 2 was being announced at E3 or something of that nature. And at the end, you see the words “Available Now”. You’re turn pale in shock and just freeze in awe. You go to game pass and there it is. You let the community snowball and spread like wildfire in its release. For all the people that don’t turn on their Xbox or have GamePass, 343 could make an official announcement 24 hours later on Twitter, commercials, etc. Probably even as a YouTube advertisement. Primarily, take the gaming community by surprise. Even along the lines of trolling, or an easter egg fashion.

Another way that would be more impressive, but seems out of capability, if you turn on your Xbox and before you get into your homepage this cinematic plays and at the end of it you arrive to your homepage. More people would see it and would be a more “official” announcement but like I said, seems a little impossible.

Given how 2020 has been so far it seems like a good opportunity to do something innovative and outside the box, especially if Infinite will be the prime Halo game for the next decade.

What do you guys think? What you would add, change, or even your own ideas?

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Sounds cool

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I want it to release with enough content. I don’t want a MCC broken launch and halo 5’s lack of content.

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I think the cinematic should played you go to infinite in the Microsoft store, cause people that don’t know what Halo is would be more than a little confused. This would also allow it to play on PC, or if your Xbox isn’t connected to the internet

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Given how 343i has thoroughly established a negative track record for releasing games in a complete state (H4 not having traditional Firefight and instead having the slow drip of SpOps, Halo 5 basically releasing with a crap campaign as the only offline offering, and MCC initially being extremely janky on the MP side of things and bare minimum on the PvE side), I think the biggest consideration for how Infinite needs to release is: Finished.

That’s not to say the entire “ten year plan,” needs to come out at once, but it is to say that they have had ample time and opportunity to address the common refrain of fan feedback from their prior releases by releasing something that feels well-rounded and robust for both PvE and PvP fans. Especially considering that the delay may make the ultimate wait for Infinite six rather than five years, they’d better have something substantial to deliver when it comes out.

If we get the same thing we did with H5 in playing an ~8hr campaign only to find out that there’s nothing else for PvE players in the entire game (Warzone FF is a joke, people are so busy trying to steal everyone else’s kills that it basically ends up a PvPvE experience), that’ll be extremely disappointing. Hoping for an all around better campaign in Infinite that I can force myself to play more than once, but also for the return of some actual Firefight proxy.

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I really like the one where it plays a video when you start up the console, man that would be dope.

My idea would go like this, and only work if it’s not coming out holiday 2021. From now till release, they slowly but consistently give us content drops, but every single content drop they don’t give us a release date, or even a window. They leave us completely in the dark about when it’s coming out, all we know is 2021 (like now). E3 roles around and at this point, because they haven’t even given us a more specific window, everyone just assumes it’s gonna be holiday or even pushed back to 2022. They have a big Infinite showing at the end of the show and the last thing you see is “available now”. You get on your Xbox and see it right there ready to download. THAT would be hype.

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> Hear me out…
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> I spend a lot of my time on YouTube due to its diverse and current content, and after I watched a Halo video, its simple algorithm took me prisoner and I binged many suggested Halo videos, and I rolled into a deep snowball of Infinite content. One of the videos I watched was from a well known man in the community, HiddenXperia, and his video discussing “Why Halo Infinite Being the Last Halo for 10 Years Is So Exciting… And Worrying…”. It got my brain juices flowing and a neat idea came into mind. Note, this follows with my knowledge that Infinite is still delayed into 2021 with no official release date so if I managed to miss something as major as that please don’t flame me.
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> Imagine you turn on your Xbox and you see in a block on the news feed “Infinite delayed again?” and you prepare your salty self to see what this is all about and you tab over and select it and you screen goes black…
>
> You hear Halo 2’s Return to Sender soundtrack and out of the darkness a cinematic starts playing. Now this cinematic can be either events after Halo 5, Shadows of Reach, or even a foreshadowing to Infinite (not to take away from any actually in-game introductory prologue). Similar to the Halo 4’s Prologue as soon as you start playing the game, to put it in perspective. It would be new content we haven’t seen in trailers or gameplay, hell even a new trailer entirely, 60 seconds would be enough. Now I’m no game designer and its just an idea but stick with me. As you’re trying to comprehend how this is relative to the game’s delay, your mood shifts and you get excited. To a similar level when Halo 2 was being announced at E3 or something of that nature. And at the end, you see the words “Available Now”. You’re turn pale in shock and just freeze in awe. You go to game pass and there it is. You let the community snowball and spread like wildfire in its release. For all the people that don’t turn on their Xbox or have GamePass, 343 could make an official announcement 24 hours later on Twitter, commercials, etc. Probably even as a YouTube advertisement. Primarily, take the gaming community by surprise. Even along the lines of trolling, or an easter egg fashion.
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> Another way that would be more impressive, but seems out of capability, if you turn on your Xbox and before you get into your homepage this cinematic plays and at the end of it you arrive to your homepage. More people would see it and would be a more “official” announcement but like I said, seems a little impossible.
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> Given how 2020 has been so far it seems like a good opportunity to do something innovative and outside the box, especially if Infinite will be the prime Halo game for the next decade.
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> What do you guys think? What you would add, change, or even your own ideas?

That’s an awesome idea.

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Sounds like a cool idea, but the devs will always want a really strong opening. Which means they need to market the crap out of the game to build the hype and anticipation leading up to the release. Your release plan above assumes that everyone logs on to their x-box at least daily, and has their $60 just sitting waiting for the games release. This strategy neglects those that don’t play Xbox daily (like myself, not much going on in Xbox world for me personally), it neglects those that need to ask mom and dad to get the game for them, and perhaps most detrimental to Microsoft, this does not encourage people to buy the latest and greatest Xbox console.