A. You’re assuming I’m white. I am not.
B. You use terms like “you people”
C. I can’t tell your race, you simply had a bad take and assumed people did not like Locke because he was Black. Where in reality they did not like him because he was cardboard paper.
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typical response man. I didn’t assume you were anything. you showcased your beliefs instantly…
again, enjoy the future.
Okay neither of the reasons why Locke was hated included race so lets drop that theory entirely.
He was hated because he was a featured character in one of Halo’s worst campaigns to date.
In fact a few people are asking for Locke dlc after hearing he got slapped by Hyperius and his partner.
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Engaging his nonsense will just increase the likelihood of this thread getting locked. Everyone who can read can see what’s happening here, just move on from it.
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I think its less about “worst” and more about “different”. If we’re being honest people are way more in tune with what they enjoy than they are objective game design. Literally every Halo sequel has been hated at one point or another, even the ones that are now on pedestals.
I agree and said something similar about Locke and his team.
To that, other guy went full racist and started laughing at birthrates of people and using charged terms like “you people.”
Sorry for derailing the convo. I’m done
You’re right.
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Dude he’s talking on what you said not anything else cool your jets
It’s the classic cycle for every game community.
New game baaaaaad. Old game gooooooood.
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It’s not those reasons why people didn’t like Locke. Locke wasn’t liked because he was a poorly written and poorly developed character.
Playing as arbiter was fine because he was actually developed as a character and ended up becoming one of the most beloved characters in the franchise.
But about the OP - I only see the same 3 people praising halo 5 MP. It was a solid game overall, but it didn’t play too much like that classic halo experience most of the fanbase wanted. While I can appreciate the intense skill ceiling that H5’s game design creates, I just didn’t (and still don’t) enjoy it as much as a more traditional halo experience. Infinite is more similar to the classic experience than 5,and I like it more, despite having less content.
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The biggest issue I have with Halo Infinite’s store is the complete lack of in-game earnable currency.
The store is superior to H5’s RNG loot boxes, but you literally cannot buy anything unless you spend real world money. The prices are also way too high for me to spend real money.
Another issue I have is basically the complete opposite of FOMO. For me, it comes down to the opportunity cost of buying an item. If I spend $10 on something, I am essentially foregoing buying something else that costs the same amount. I really don’t want to spend my money only to have an item appear two weeks down the road that I like more.
I would be much more likely to spend money if we had a catalog of all the available items, and if we could buy items individually. I am NOT going to buy a bundle of 10 items for $10 or $20 if I only want one or two of the things in the bundle.
yeah and that is the point bruh…ahahah you guys can all lie all you want but they could have actually given him a real role…get it?
you guys pretend like you dont get that the black guy is given the sidekick role etc.
so now take that role and make him the main player.
get the issue?
Why even start is intro into the game franchise under such circumstances?
get it?
you guys can deny all you want but we know what we are saying…
That was basically set up to fail.
Why? why even do that and expect it to work? get it?
We dont even want characters/depictions like that, we would rather be left out of the game/movie…it’s old.
again…you guys can flip your crap all day long. you are still wrong…all of you.
we aren’t crazy.
we are simply written in poor taste all the time.
I can give numerous examples from current games. previous games etc.
The black character that was clearly a side character gets to be written respectful…but the guy they supposedly wanted to take over the franchise gets the crappy end of the writting stick.
get it?
you guys can name drop arbiter all day but he was given a real story…why not locke?
figure it out or stay bias and telling us we are wrong.
good day
I get that you’ve got a chip on your shoulder but I’m not a writer for the character. I can only react to what I was presented and that was a poorly written and developed character (in a poorly written story). It’s not as if Locke was the only poorly written part of H5 - it all was. So yea you can view it as some intentional choice to write Locke badly as some race issue but it simply isn’t - it’s a badly written character amongst a crew of badly written characters.
You can go ahead and make it into a bigger issue than it is though - it’s you that has to live your life, not me.
P. S.
What do you think is more likely?
Halo 5 just wasn’t well written overall due to confounding factors (budget, change of direction, internal conflict in the studio, etc. )
OR
a conspiracy spanning multiple teams that intentionally made Locke a main character, just so he could be poorly written, as some convoluted statement about his background knowing full well that it would lower the sentiment toward the studio further, and potentially cost millions of dollars over the lifetime of the game in lost sales and continued player MTX?
Which REALLY seems more likely?
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Who the hell is saying Halo 5 was good. There is no accounting for poor taste.
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You’re not seeing that at all.
Okay pal this is wasaaaahyyy off topic like can we try to stay on topic please
Bro Imma be pissed if this thread gets locked over this.
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Any help in defusing this mess would welcomed
Considering I have every piece of cosmetic from the REQ system without having to spend a dime, yes I would. Even a few hours into H5 you will have more armor customization than a months worth of Halo Infinite content. I’m not saying the REQ system is a good system by any means, but it’s telling how bad this shop is to say that H5’s REQ system is a better system.
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I played a lot of Halos except for 5 because I didn’t have an Xbox. Played MCC PC again after that released, then I played Halo 5 for the very first time at a friend and I thought it was a fun game. I didn’t think it was bad in any way, just felt like Halo to me. I also played a fiesta mode with the weird knife smgs and that was pretty cool too.
Infinite feels like a meld of Reach and 5, the only H3 elements in Infinite are equipment pickup, hell most of the equipment feels more like armor abilites than H3 equipment.