Halo Infinite’s campaign left the most abhorrent taste in my mouth. Where is Blue Team?! Where is the Arbiter?! Why do we have to remove so many beloved characters and replace them with totally forgettable new ones? And please do NOT even get me started on Escharum! And no, that’s not all. The overall horribly designed gameplay, extreme focus on grappleshots, lack of checkpoints if your shields go down with the Black Eye skull on, the terrible ending, I could go on and on. I was left totally angry with the campaign that I needed to start playing Serious Sam 4 to cancel out the abhorrent taste I ended up getting in my mouth.
And no, Infinite does NOT have a decent art style at all. It got quickly ruined by the worst cosmetics to ever exist, ranging from awful coatings to the Spartans just looking like anorexic Power Rangers and the overall excessive focus on nostalgia and fanservice (whose idea was it to make a GEN3 Mark VI that looks like it came from Halo Legends, which isn’t even that good to begin with?!). And please DO NOT even get me started on the cat ears! I cannot be the only one who enjoyed Halo 5’s art style - the abrupt, fanservice/nostalgia-driven art style change between 5 and Infinite irks me to no end especially considering all of the over-the-top silly cosmetics that Infinite eventually would add, like the ones I mentioned above. GEN3 Mjolnir is a DOWNGRADE from GEN2 and GEN1. That is all I have to say.
think the dumbest part about this game was to say atriox died off screen and then have the big reveal at the end be that he didnt
yeah nice reveal guys, really great writin
I actually thought that was well done. Whole campaign I was reeling that they dropped Atriox, but since I managed to avoid spoilers, his being revealed to not be dead was awesome, IMO. Especially since we all knew we were going to end up fighting Escharum. I hope they do keep Atriox alive for a long time, it’s good to not be swapping out antagonists constantly at that level.
But it didn’t piss me off though. It made me wonder who they were going to replace him with, since I thought he was gone and I knew Escharum would be as well. I also think it’s good writing to have appearances be deceiving, to foster mystery and questions. A good story doesn’t necessarily have to answer questions, it can pose new ones.
pretendin to kill off a char people like and then say “pranked ya” aint makin mysteries or questions. the only questions that it makes are “how did he die?” which is not a good question
I thought it was a fun mystery, trying to figure out how Atriox took down Chief and then trying to figure out what happened to him as it gets revealed that he was dead too, and it was tied to something they were trying to unleash on the ring. Almost like how Tolkien had readers believing Gandalf was dead when he fought the Balrog, only to have him come back later, having actually survived. However, since Atriox is the primary antagonist, that reveal suddenly brings the player back to an important question - what is he unleashing, and why?
Gandalf didn’t die though, to be more precise. But, you as the reader think he did, and that’s the important part - the belief that the character is dead, and then the reveal that they aren’t. In the case of Infinite, you do see why people believe he’s dead though .During the Cortana flashbacks, she explodes the ring section after asking Atriox what he would do different if he knew he was going to die, while she is stuck with Atriox. So they do reveal his “death” on screen, alongside Cortana’s.