Blarg “me” Boi

the cgi was poor, most scenes were incredibly boring and mundane, the story predictable. had it not ben riding the coattails of the halo franchise it would be career death for anyone involved in its production

I wish I could say I enjoyed this game but the campaign was literally just 10 hours to address why chief has mommy issues. And then why he is now horny for his new kid mom daughter. The majority of the plot leading up to this game wasn’t even addressed anywhere except for in voice recordings you get for mindlessly clearing out npc controlled bases like in far cry. In fact the only narrative in the “side quests” involves clearing bases and listening to audio logs that has no bearing on you clearing the next base. The only content in the audio logs is just an answer to what chief slept through for 6 months which should have been in a cutscene or somehow affect the narrative. Atriox is dead for some reason but no one knows why, all for him to actually be alive and just decide to unseat himself to escharum who has heart problems. Cortana is dead no one really knows why. There is this random new race of aliens that fought the forerunners no one knows why. The infinity got shot down no one knows why (or it’s whereabouts). Especially concerning as it’s pretty much as big as the tiny empty map you get to play on. Where is Anders who was trapped on the ring who had figured out how to operate it. No one knows. Where is the spirit of fire who literally defeated the banished in open combat w/ one ship and 30yo gear no one knows. The entire game is literally an after party the main story event and feels like the 3rd season of a tv show where everyone gets into their feels and dates eachother and that’s the whole plot. Multiplayer has 3 lanes just like before except for now all the lanes are closed off and 10-20 percent smaller than before turning it into a grenade spam fest. And it’s a variation of this on every map. You literally can’t escape or shoot across the lanes. The game launched with 5 maps for stuff that is not btb and btb has 3 maps. People raised hell when halo 4 had only 10. But not this game because it looks like older games. This brings me to my next point how toxically dense the halo infinte community is(only infinte not the other games). What’s that there’s now only 1/4 of the guns that were in other games “it’s simple and elegant”. What’s that the campaign has no change of pace, cutscenes that is just the master chief talking to his mom daughter girlfriend. “It’s a small confined more emotional story” Lastly halo infinte is so high on its own bs that it’s skins are worth 20 dollars a piece, and that you need to progress to level 99/100 to unlock the color black. And for you to even have gotten into that stupid battle pass was 10 dollars to unlock in the first place to literally get a 1/2 of the reach armor and color customization you should have had from the start.