I dont understand how anyone can take 343 seriously anymore. Look at how they have treated us fans and this franchise in general. Looking at the last 3 mainline Halo games how has 343 not learnt anything? We just want a game that is HALO. How hard is that for you to do 343? I thought they were listening to the feedback and to be honest Halo Infinite had me fooled for a good month until I realized that we are suffering under 343’s incompetence yet again. I uninstalled the game in January and haven’t even touched it since but I have been keeping myself updated with the game still because I want it to succeed, but nothing has changed.
On social media the only posts/updates I see from 343 is the occasional patches/fixes and of course telling us what’s on the store this week, which is the same sets of armor etc. over and over again. They have no intention of giving the player some incentive to play the game. Maybe take the armor off the store and have it already available in the game by leveling up outside of the BattlePass or earning credits. Why is 343 so afraid to just stick with ideas from previous Halo titles that made the games successful? All they had to do was copypaste the system from Reach.
At its core Halo Infinite is a strong game. Gameplay mechanics, movement, weapons, artstyle, audio and sound design are all excellent as they should be. But we’re also missing all the things that make Halo rewarding, something to play for, something to show off and something to keep us coming back for more.
Where is the Spartan rank/levels? Where is the unrestrictive spartan customization? Where is the file browser? Where is Forge? Where is a PVE mode like firefight? These are just the foundations of a good Halo game and we don’t have any of them yet, nor do we have a clear insight into when we ACTUALLY get them. The game should not have launched without these features.
Isn’t it rewarding looking at your Spartan Record and your stats with your Spartan that you customized with armour that you EARNED, not bought?
Its sad because I feel like 343 is making a joke of this franchise now. Does Master Chief/Halo even feel like the poster child for Xbox anymore? And now look at what they are doing with the Halo TV series. A couple more days and we are going to see that yet again we cant trust them with this franchise.
Please all of us players are going nuts and I think Infinite has been the last straw for many. I thought Infinite was going to be the game that brought Halo back into the spotlight but after a month we all realized thats not the case. It sucks that I cant enjoy my favorite franchise anymore
They don’t have the intelligent people that Bungie had. They obviously have the flunkies that Bungie won’t hire. They tried hiding behind the whole pandemic thing but that excuse is no more. They’ve had plenty of time to fix this CRAP…
Reach? Not particularly, considering the acquisition path was pretty straight forward for everyone. Personally, I was incredibly proud of my legendary edition flames.
4? I suppose.
5? Could go either way depending on how you acquired the req packs, it was fairly random for the most part regardless of paid/earned acquisition.
Infinite? Honestly depends. I’m less concerned about what the look stands for and more interested in the specific look I want.
At the beginning they had some pretty high profile ex-Bungie devs, and even now they have Joseph Staten who’s proven to be a heavyweight in the positions he’s been in. I don’t know any of the names off the top of my head, but there was some pretty high profile talent that had been part of Bungie for years across several titles going back to CE.
Hell, years after Staten left Bungie, Destiny is back on track and thriving with many of his original story concepts front and center that Activision originally cancelled. Crow, Osiris’ “betrayal”, Fallen alliances, and now the truth of the Traveler and reveal of the Darkness, among many more plot points were all part of Staten’s original story.
“Bungie flunkies” most likely isn’t accurate when ex-Bungie devs probably made up a very small portion of the company. There’s a very good possibility that their talent got ratio’d when the higher ups pushed for radical shifts early on in 343’s development of the Reclaimer Saga. Not too sure how many are left in 343 at this point though, even Bungie doesn’t resemble Bungie anymore.
Halo Infinite has GREAT mechanics… Infinite can still be a great game the question is can 343 get it there before most have given up on it like what happened to MCC…MCC was a busted mess, it took them YEARS but now MCC is one of the best Halo games ever, sadly ignored by to much of the player base. Infinite really just needs, a better progression system (how about like MCC that is medal xp based and challenges are bonus), a way to earn in game credits, and way better multiplayer maps. Also a social match composer that let’s you pick stuff similar to what MCC has… Odds are it will be a few years before we get stuff like that.
They should of just copy and pasted the system from halo 3 mcc. Same matchmaking, playlists, ranking, armor unlocks and challenges but modernized the ui and sold the game for $60. They should of waited a little longer so forge and co op launched with the game. And just 2-3 more maps would of been great. Campaign could of been way better too.
The gameplay is halo but thats it. Outside of the gameplay, they changed all of the things that made halo great.