I just started playing again after a little break (gots to play those other games, ya know?) and the first thing that hit me was how horrible the UI is in this game. I know it’s always been bad, but it stuck out like a sore thumb coming back from a lot of Overwatch. Then I thought back and realized that basically every UI that 343i have created has been really clunky and difficult to use.
First off, STOP WITH THE -Yoinking!- HORIZONTAL MENUS! They are the most infuriating part of 343i’s UI design, and after the criticism of them in Halo 4 it seems like they quadrupled down on them in this game. GRIDS, 343i, GRIDS! Plus, if you’re going to put over 300 items in a category, put a search bar in for Christ’s sake, but really, about 60% of the emblems suck, so remove them, or better yet let us make our own emblems and stop going backwards (gots to make that $ somehow though, keep filling that REQ pool with useless -Yoink-, its really satisfying to unlock, trust me).
I don’t understand why 343i feels like they need to change literally every single thing about their games. Reach’s UI was as perfect as a game UI can get. It’s maybe the best thing about that game TBH. To go from that to Halo 4, then to Halo 5 shows that they are either not trying or horrible at their jobs, simple as that.