I want to start by saying a lot of people are coming down on 343 and Halo Infinite and I’m not trying to nitpick and jump on the bandwagon for no reason.
Still, am I the only one who feels confused by the campaign or like I’m missing critical information or something? Should I have read the books? Played additional games? I don’t know. I did play HW 1 and 2.
Idk. I’m trying to avoid spoilers. I first started the campaign and I felt like I already had no idea what was going on since Halo 5. Probably because I didn’t read the books. Midway through the campaign, some things are starting to come together but there’s a constant itch in the back of my head that I am missing crucial information to the storyline to help me understand everything. Skip forward to the final boss and very few of my questions have been answered. While I am enjoying the campaign and think 343 did a good job (there’s a positive uplifting comment), I just feel confused and misinformed on the timeliness and events between 5 and Infinite.
Does anyone else feel this way or is it just me?
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A main problem with the campaign is that it lacks a lot of context. You had that one minute cutscene with the Chief and Atriox with the Infinity and BOOM, here we are six months later with Atriox seemingly dead and being held up like a deity in the Banished, Zeta Halo somehow teleported elsewhere, members like Lasky and Locke and Blue Team off somewhere with no sign of since then amongst the UNSC survivors you collect, and a lot of this you only learn from audio logs or comments from NPCs.
Even the Infinity’s destruction remains more ambiguous than it should be. It sounds like its been destroyed but like…is it? Never really got full confirmation of that or anything, I just know that when Escharum said that “It took four minutes to destroy Infinity” or something along those lines, I was thinking, “Yeah…wish I kind of saw that four minutes.”
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I have not read any of the newer books but to me the story made sense…
I think this campaign is more about the Chief, Pilot, and the Weapon. You learn bits a pieces of what’s going on around you and what the enemies are doing bit by bit as each of these characters learns things that either new to them or new to us.
Like Master chief learning about what happened to Cortana and the effect her betrayal had on him as he goes shooting from point A to point B without pause because that is what he does. To the weapon learning about the Chief’s and Cortanas history and understanding why he does not trust her while we the player get bits of new info about what she did between 5 and infinite. To the pilot learning about why chief does what he does no matter how hopeless the situation is and growing from a cowardly who strongly dislikes Chief due to his selfishness to a friend that help strengthen Chief relation to the Weapon.
The enemies are there to push the each character to their breaking points and to set up the big bad at the end. Since this is planned to be a 10 year game I believe they wanted old and new players to be caught up and familiar with these 3 characters. In a way this serves as a soft reboot. Considering that and how Halo CE starts, you learn about the same amount of information about the world you have popped into.
That is my take at least.