Its crazy how easy it woulda been to actually make infinites story way more interesting

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infinite probably has the most lame story out of every halo game, yeah that includes 5. i think 5 and infinite are basically on par in terms of how interesting they are, but at least 5 sorta had a cool idea. there aint anything cool about chief just runnin around a ring watchin flashbacks the whole game
but the funniest part to me is how easy it woulda been to actually use those 6 years of development to make something cool

im not gonna dump a while fan rewrite here cause i mean, im lazy, but heres just some stuff that woulda been cool

-just start the game up with some kinda recap on at least halo 4 through shadows of reach. as far as i know the things that happened on shadow of reach were never even mentioned, instead we just start off in a battle with basically no explanation

-brand new enemy type in the form of cortanas own guardian foot soldiers or something. either that, or actually make the banished something special like in halo wars 2 insteada just the covenant again

-no open world, just missions on different parts of zeta halo like ce but better. hell make the attack on the infinity cutscene actually playable

-have blue team be there and actually let people who dont read the books or whatever know who they are

-have the arbiter and chief actually talk after so many years

-mendicant bias is something i dunno that much about but from what ive heard, he sounds pretty cool and would be way more fun than some new alien species nobody cares about

-the flood, i mean duh

-have some old faces return, even if theyre just cameos. i dont think anyone would complain about seein rtas, lord hood, hell even jun show up for even just a minute or something

-the spirit of fire, i mean how are you gonna have the banished and atriox there but not have those guys actually meet up with the unsc. infinite was meant to be at least some sorta sequel to halo wars 2, right?

guess my point is is that if they just looked at what they had insteada makin new stuff like the endless or the dull weapon cutscenes, infinite coulda been something cool. sure as hell wouldnt be as special as 3, but it could at least have the same scale

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Huge agree here.

I personally prefer the Halo Infinite story over 4 or 5 because they were both stuck in the cringey “save your AI girlfriend” thing that bungie started. I was already so sour about the art direction etc. with 5 that the evil cortana plot was not what I wanted to see.

That said, at least Halo 5 actually took us places, and had more than three human characters.

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Im hoping now that the cortana arc (that was uneccesarily dragged out) is over we can finally get some epic storytelling in the game.

Theres a concept art of arby and kelly, hopefully future dlc adds some better story.

The endless isnt a terrible idea especially if they are connected to the precursors but we’ll see how that plays out. We don’t really have much info to go with.

On the mention of Mendicant bias,

The ai created to destroy him “Offensive Bias” was mentioned in the legendary ending

Also not sure if Mendicant will be brought as a villain since he seemed to be helping Chief and very repentant of his crimes in Halo 3 terminals. Would be nice if we got some video terminals on Mendicant Bias, the primordial and their palace of pain as introduction terminal to the flood returning

I think the banished are a good concept but they definitely could be fleshed out more. The audio logs being audio instead of video did not help with this.

All audio logs should have been video logs. Would be cool if they went back and fixed it.

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We are talking about a company that has failed to complete a narrative yet.

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I’m totally agree about the Infinity , it would have bee better to start the game in the Infinity and live the defeat by ourself rather than in a little cutscene, the biggest UNSC ship didn’t deserve so much disinterest ! (I speak about this in another topic : https://forums.halowaypoint.com/t/343-biggest-errors-in-the-story/494712)

All of your idea were good, but 343 had that fool idea to make a spirit reboot to atract young player, so that mean no complicated story and just MC, weapon and pilot traveling the ring. Seriously, Halo is a big universe, it’s riddicul to don’t assume that and of course this don’t work ! Even Halo CE is a more complicated game

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